[4] He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1894, and its Principal Clerk from that year until his death on 13 January 1907.

John Anderson, the eighteenth-century pioneer of vocational education and Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow, was also born in Rosneath and the son of the minister of the parish church.

Story was a staunch supporter of the Church of Scotland, and had little sympathy for schemes of reunion with the other Presbyterian communities.

He vigorously opposed the action of Bishop Welldon, then metropolitan of Calcutta, in excluding Scottish chaplains and troops from the use of garrison churches in India because these had not received episcopal consecration.

He was characterized by an absolutely fearless honesty, which sometimes gave offence, but at the basis of his nature there was a warm, tender and sympathetic heart, incapable of meanness or intrigue.

[3] In addition to lives of his father (1862), Professor Robert Lee (1870) and William Carstares (1876), he published a devotional book Christ the Consoler; a volume of sermons, Creed and Conduct (1878); The Apostolic Ministry in the Scottish Church (Baird Lecture, 1897), and several pamphlets on church questions.