AN IRREGULAR CANDIDATE:
Jackie Ross of Blythswood
By Irene Howat. Christian Focus. 201 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 85792 742 7
This is the story of how God took one young man with a gospel passion, in a very conservative Presbyterian church in the West Highlands, and used him in ways no one could have asked or imagined. Jackie was founder of the Blythswood Tract Society, now Blythswood Care.
His life is told through the words of himself and his wife Elma, their five children and a host of friends. From student days reaching Glasgow tenements in the 60s, through ministry in the FP Church in Lochcarron, to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the explosion in Blythswood's work, this reads almost as fast as Jackie's legendary driving.
