among the hills in the Highland parish of Rogart, in Sutherlandshire. A minister was preaching from a wooden pulpit to several hundred people sitting under the shade of trees in the glen. Though Mackay could never remember what was said, he was quickened that halcyon day and knew he was called to preach. For the rest of the summer he lived in the pages of a tiny New Testament which he had purchased for a penny. Most of his time was spent in Paul’s letters — especially Ephesians, which became his