Men of the knotted heart; a recollection and appreciation of Alexander Duncan Grant, and John Paterson Struthers . sical man, Grant, so difficult to comprehend, itmay be said, what he himself said of some oneelse, that if he did not care for recognition, hedid like that folk should understand him. Thepeople he liked were the people with whom hecould be ironical without fear, or whimsical with-out exciting criticism. I always have had the im-pression that he counted me among the men ofhis circle from the hour when, as I have alreadyrelated, I rose to his question about the MilkyWay. And, lookin
Men of the knotted heart; a recollection and appreciation of Alexander Duncan Grant, and John Paterson Struthers . sical man, Grant, so difficult to comprehend, itmay be said, what he himself said of some oneelse, that if he did not care for recognition, hedid like that folk should understand him. Thepeople he liked were the people with whom hecould be ironical without fear, or whimsical with-out exciting criticism. I always have had the im-pression that he counted me among the men ofhis circle from the hour when, as I have alreadyrelated, I rose to his question about the MilkyWay. And, looking through his letters, I see hereandtherein them sparklesof pleasure that, in spiteof all his whimsicality and reserve, people hadfound him congenial—as thus, when describinga cruise on the Midnight Sun, he writes: We have had two smoking the first the captain presided. At thesecond I did. I was not displeased to beasked, for it showed that under a some-what grave exterior he concealed, etc. etc Yes, he did like that folk should understandhim, and no man loved more to be loved, norloved more. 70. A i. ^7 The same keen, wise, patient face: the same penelrating glance: the sime cloudsof mystic solemnity trailing about him. VII IT is to the everlasting honour of his con-gregation of Mount Park that there of allplaces he was understood and loved. There,in his own pulpit and surrounded by people heknew, many of whom owed to him their under-standing of what religion is—their appreciationof earths greatest treasure—there Grant was agreat preacher. He used to say that in anyother pulpit he lost fifty per cent, of hiseffectiveness. Perhaps; but there in MountPark he was one of the three best preachersin Scotland. The author of a delightful bookcalled Pictures of Travel, an artist, givesthere his impression of Grant in the pulpit ofMount Park, as seen by him again after aninterval of years: In the preacher there was little same keen, wise, patient face, the s
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