When the revivalist heard the Scottish-American sing

Will you go, Lassie, go

To the braes o' Balquhidder?

he evidently saw at once the possibilities of turning the text to his

own evangelistic purposes, and wasted little time in making it over

into 'Sinner's Invitation:'

Sinners go, will you go

To the highlands of heaven?

which he sang to the same tune.

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