James Morison, the Scottish Finney. VII

Despite controversy, Rev. James Morison was ordained and inducted to the pastorate of Clerk's Lane Secession Church, Kilmarnock on 1st October 1840.
Morison took his ministry extemely seriously. His people appreciated that, and the previously disunited church drew together. Numbers were added to the Church, many were converted.
Morison's preaching was brilliant, but his preaching was not only on sensational topics. He began to preach through the Epistle to the Romans.
His preaching was Amyraldian; Morson declared that Jesus had died for all, and he called everyone to believe this. Those in trouble and in distress about their souls came to James Morison, and he counselled them.
But controversy was never far away. On 1st January 1841, Morison published his third publication, a short work on the doctrine of the atonement. He wrote what he believed, and Dr. John Brown, his old professor at the Secession Theological Hall, applauded it, declaring that most European and English evangelicals held Amyraut's view.
The Presbytery, who had suspected Morison from the beginning, once again considered investigating the young preacher. They decided to try him for his unorthodox views.
The trial was fixed to take place in Clerk's Lane Church on 2nd March 1841. The people of Kilmarnock looked forward with expectation to the trial, some hoping that Mr. Morison would be deposed, others that he would be cleared.

What happened we shall see, God willing, next time.