But this would never be again.
It was no small anxiety and grief to Mrs.Murray that Ranald, though he regularly attended the meetings, seemed to remain unmoved by the tide of religious feeling that was everywhere surging through the hearts of the people.

The minister advised letting him alone, but Mrs.Murray was anxiously waiting for the time when Ranald would come to her.

That time came, but not until long months of weary waiting on her part, and of painful struggle on his, had passed.
From the very first of the great movement his father threw himself into it with all the earnest intensity of his nature, but at the same time with a humility that gave token that the memory of the wild days of his youth and early manhood were never far away from him.

He was eager to serve in the work, and was a constant source of wonder to all who had known him in his youth and early manhood.

At all the different meetings he was present.