The images and text of Rev. Lawson's booklet - A FLIGHT TO ST. KILDA - contributed by Ewen McGee whose grandfather was captain of the SS Hebrides from 1899 to 1921.

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                          A FLIGHT TO ST. KILDA                       13

he had been there; while on each of the four days before and after the Communion, he had preached three times.  “How many attended the services?” I asked.  “Every man, woman and child on the island.”  “Did you preach in English at all?”  “Yes; once to the children, being the only time English had ever been preached there.”

I made my way next to the Cemetery, which displayed a luxuriant crop of Nettles, surrounded by a rough stone dike, with two or three small tombstones standing among them.  I called, too, on the oldest man on the island, Norman Gillies by name, 78 years of age, but he could only say in English God bless you! without understanding a single word we said to him.  As I walked along, I was