J. Douglas MacMillan has been held at that institution in his honour. According to Hywel Jones, MacMillan's preaching was marked by "powerful originality and strong orthodoxy". He is best known for his book "The Lord Our Shepherd" (). This is an exposition of Psalm 23, originally given to the Evangelical Movement of Wales in 1979. MacMillan drew on his 12 years of experience as a shepherd to argue that the shepherd theme pervades the entire psalm. MacMillan wrote a number of other books including "Wrestling with God" () consisting of addresses on the life of Jacob given to the Evangelical Movement of Wales
Psalm 42 Psalm 42 Psalm 42 is the 42nd psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God". The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 42 opens the second of the five books (divisions) of Psalms. In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 41 in a slightly