Thomas Hog

Thomas Hog became minister at Kiltearn in 1654. He had a glorious ministry in that town with many converts to the gospel. But in 1662 he was a victim of the Great Ejectment in which Episcopacy was restored to Scotland and non-conforming ministers were thrown out of their pulpits. Hog fled to Holland, but later after the "bloodless and glorious Revolution" in 1688 the spiritual independence of the Scottish church was restored. Hog returned to pastor his church in Kiltearn in 1691 . . . almost thirty years after he had been ejected. He died in January, 1692. He was buried near the main entrance to the church in Kiltearn; a flat stone marks the place, and there is an inscription on the grave marker that reads:

This stone shall bear witness against the parishioners of Kiltearn if they
bring an ungodly minister in here.

This is a fitting memorial, indeed!