Diary of a Country Clergyman 1848-1851

A crusty yet diffident Scot, James Reid began his career as a sectarian evangelical missionary. The diary finds him thirty years later as a moderate, if conservative, Anglican clergyman. Through this remarkable document, village routines and intrigues, as well as Reid''s circle of friends and his clerical colleagues, come vividly to life. His private reflections on the tensions and growing pains e...