Why we pray to the Saints, by MEM Donaldson

The following extract is from The Islesmen of Bride (1922), a semi-autobiographical novel about an unnamed island in the Hebrides by the remarkable Episcopalian, pioneer photographer, and traveller in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson (1876-1958). She recorded a vanishing way of life in lively books infused by a romantic Celticism, …