In and around Peterhead, the largest halls quickly became crowded in an awakening that began at the start of 1868. 'The work here is something extraordinary’ said one worker. Upwards of 50 seamen, besides many others, was said to have been converted. On the tiny island of Keith Inch, opposite Peterhead Harbour, and constituting the Eastern point of mainland Scotland, the meeting kept up for years with apparent little fruit was now seeing whole families converted. A hitherto thinly attended cottage meeting in the Roanhead district was now able to contain the enquiries. The Cholera hospital was granted as a meeting place and many souls have been converted there. In Buchanhaven, just north of Peterhead, many were “crying out for mercy“. In Collieston, “the whiskey bottle has given place to the Bible and the hymn book“. Of the fishing community of Boddam to the south, long considered ‘barren as a desert… the whole village is moved “. The awakening in Peterhead was compared to that of 1863 in the town, except the natives of the district, rather than outside Evangelists, were now the chief agents of the work.
From, 'Scotland Ablaze' by Tom Lennie, page 452, published by Christian Focus.