John Macleod of Govan: a Distinctive High Churchman

Macleod was not concerned so much with the externals of worship as with the doctrinal truths which form its basis. He was one of the principal architects of the Scottish Church Society, who emphasised the ‘catholic’ tradition expressed, for example, in the Scots Confession. He was influenced also by John McLeod Campbell and Edward Irving and was also a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church. The paper gives a very complete account of the emphases of the Society. It also describes the work of the Church Reform Committee, set up by the Assembly in 1896 of which Macleod was made Convener.