THE LATE DR. MACLEOD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 240, 5 September 1872, Page 6

THE LATE DR. MACLEOD.

General regret has been felt in Victoria at the death of the Rev Dr Norman Macleod. His writings had secured for him the admiration and esteem of many, while to some he had in former years been personally known. His admirable qualities have been glowingly described by the Rev P. S. Menzies, of Scots' Church, who, in an eloquent eulogium delivered at the close of the ordinary services of that church, said:— "lt is with a feeling of inexpressible regret, indeed of acute personal loss, chastened only by remembrance of the glory to which he has entered, that I have to mention act the clo&e of these exercises the name of one whose genius, whose piety, whose beautiful humanity, whose large loving sympathies, whose eminent as well as versatile abilities, were an ornament to his country, and gave him a hold over the family and the religious life of Scotland which will sensibly affect the whole coming generation. Nay, not of Scotland only, but of the entire world that can speak or read the English tongue." He further said of the deceased writer and preacher :—": — " Norman Maclend was beyond all contradiction the greatest churchman whom Scotland has produced since I »r. Chalmers, and with the solitary exception of Thomas Carlyle, the greatest Scotchman of the last quarter of a century.'