People who heard Morrison often went away speaking of his style. No one ever troubled less about style, whether of language or of delivery. His style was the man -- the man with but one aim in his heart: to bring men close to God. It was his custom to read a sermon every day, however busy he might be. Newman, Spurgeon, Robertson, Maclaren were taken in rotation. He did this, not for the sake of learning style, but, as he said, for his own soul's good and to see how the great masters got their message home.

With all his activities in the pulpit and in the homes of his people -- for he was an assiduous visitor -- he was making his name known to a wider public by his pen. His articles in The British Weekly made every Sunday School teacher his debtor. They were written on Tuesday mornings. His first book of sermons, Flood Tide, came also from Dundee.

Morrison began his ministry at Wellington Church, Glasgow, on May 13, 1902 in his thirty-sixth year (and the eighth year of his ministry), and there he remained until his death in 1928.

Morrison was punctual and methodical in everything that he did. He would rise at 7:30 and, after breakfast, would deal with letters that required an immediate answer, then work in his study until 1:30. He bore always in mind the maxim of Dr. Whyte: "Mind your books and Satan cannot touch you." He visited every afternoon for several hours and kept an accurate record of every visit he paid. The last year he lived he paid 1200 calls; he had nearly two thousand members at Wellington Church.

His sermons were finished and written out by midday on Friday. He refused to answer telephone calls after 9:30 a.m. unless they were really urgent. It was only by keeping the morning hours sacred to study that he managed to go into the pulpit on Sundays with a fresh message well prepared.

Morrison turned down calls to preach or to be minister at many important churches and to lecture in America, Canada, and Australia. His one desire was to spend and be spent in the service of Christ so that he might be an influence for the highest in the civic and church life of the city he loved so well. As someone said, "He did not dig many channels, but the one he dug was very deep."

A favorite saying of his was, "Do it now." His study was a miracle of tidiness and neatness, indicative of his mind. Every book had its place and was returned to the shelf the moment he was through with it.

Morrison believed in preaching, believed it was worth his best and gave his best to it. There is about his published sermons a simplicity of language, a sincerity of feeling, a quiet and genial style, and a certain quality of timelessness. There is nothing elaborate or labored about them.

He had the gift, as James Denney (who was a member of his congregation) once said, of saying the things that we all would have said if it had occurred to us to say them; and he said those inevitable things as we could not, in English prose that had the effect of poetry on the heart.