An Old Hearer at the Cromarty Firth

The Rev. John Campbell, when preaching in the North of Scotland and Orkney Islands, went down the Frith [sic] of Cromarty and to Drummond, where an old man who enjoyed his sermon told him of a scotch bishop who used to preach in that quarter. The bishop asked one of his old heares why he had forsaken him? “Because I get no good,” said Donald Munro. “But should you not wait at the pool, Donald?” “No, I expect no good at your pool.” “Oh, but did not the man at Bethesda get a cure at last?” “Yes, but he had some encouragement. He saw others cured now and then, but I never knew one who was cured at your pool.”
-Taken from ‘The Religious Anecdotes of Scotland’ by William Adamson (Second Edition, London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1898) P. 306.