A gifted pastor, preacher and evangelist, the Reverend Murdoch Campbell also won the esteem and deep appreciation of a wide public as author of around seventeen books. These include 'Memories of a Wayfaring Man' and 'In All Their Affliction', along with biography, sermons and pamphlets. Among more recent publications, edited by David Campbell, are his diary, 'The Suburbs of Heaven', and a collection of his Gaelic hymns with translations, entitled 'Tobraichean Solais' or 'Wells of Joy'.