"Call upon me in the day of trouble
I will deliver you and you shall glorify me"

 " On the night of the Tay bridge disaster in December 1879 , my grandfather and grand-uncle in North Uist made fast their stack of corn and peat. Then they went into the house and read the Bible together and offered a prayer;: a prayer especially for those in danger at sea. A week or so later, the skipper of a steamer berthed at Lochmaddy saw my grand-uncle on the pier. He called him on board and told him that on the night of the great gale he had been in great mental and physical distress. Then suddenly, as he stood on the heaving bridge, he had seen my grand-uncle's face before him in the storm-filled dark and peace had come before him."

 This brief anecdote is taken from "Salt in my Porridge" by Angus MacVicar : © Jarrolds Publishers. 1971. The quotation from Psalm 50.:15 is not part of the original reading.