expressed a profound respect for the majesty | them that it was expedient for him to go away and leave them. He allowed them, for some time, to meditate in secret on what he had thus darkly hinted to them. And when they were gradually prepared for hearing the whole truth, he told them, more plainly, that he was destined to suffer many indignities, and, at last, to undergo a violent death. The impression produced by such discoveries partook of the mixed nature of grief and fear. They could not bear the idea of losing a friend, whose omnipotent power was the safe-guard of their life,-whose directing wisdom was the security of their virtue, and whose tender benevolence was the foundation of their happiness. They had left all and followed him; and if he should leave them alone and unprotected, they must expect to find the world a wilderness, and its inhabitants their enemies. At the supper of the passover these gloomy ideas were not worn away from their minds by the festivities of the Jewish holiday; on the contrary they were more deeply imprinted on them by the institution of a more solemn and sig of heaven, and ever displayed that devout and virtuous resignation which would distinguish a creature possessed of our nature in a condition of perfect innocence. He acquiesced, with the most patient cheerfulness, in all the trials of our Mediator; and though, as God, he could clearly foresee and easily overcome them all, yet, as man, he felt it to be his duty, if not to decline, at least not to court them; and to pray either that they might be taken away from him, or that he might bear them with fortitude. If he had not prayed to his Father, during his agony in the garden, or during his passion on the cross, he would have failed in one of the duties of piety; and if he had not expressed, in his prayers, a wish, nay, a strong wish, for his sufferings to be alleviated or removed, he might have displayed, indeed, the greatness of the Deity, but he would have risen, at the same time, above the littleness of humanity. He might have shone in the infinite excellence of a God, but he would have failed in exemplifying the finite excellence of a man. His conduct, however, was perfect in itself, and suitable to his nature. While he mani-nificant service. The symbols of the Christian fested his divine power by the capacity of his endurance, he proved his human obedience by the character of his resignation. Hence, in the beginning of his agony in the garden, he poured forth his feelings in the pathetic words of human anxiety, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me ;" and hence, too, at the ninth hour, when he was still hanging on the cross, he cried out, in the broken accents of human despair, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" The last circumstance, of which it may be necessary to take a more special notice, is the conduct of the three apostles on this memorable occasion, as it is impartially described by the three first evangelists. If Peter, James, and John, had walked along with Jesus to the Mount of Olives, with the feelings of an ordinary day, we should have expected them to attend, with the most devout interest, to all the words and actions of a being whom they were accustomed to revere and obey. When they were invited by him to come down from the Mount, the fact of their being again selected from the twelve could hardly fail to suggest to their remembrance the august scene of the transfiguration, and prepare them for expecting the recurrence of some great and interesting event. With such a prospect before them, it was natural for them to be cheerful in spirit and animated with hope. But, alas! their condition at those two periods was widely different. At the time of the transfiguration their minds were enlivened with joy, but now they were depressed with sorrow. This saddening change was mainly produced by the altered behaviour of our Lord himself. For some time previous to his agony, he had been making some obscure allusions to the decease which he would accomplish at Jerusalem. With compassionate tenderness he had begun gently to insinuate to sacrament, which was then appointed, gave a present and a living form to the future events on the Mount of Calvary, and dissipated every remaining doubt, with respect to the truth of his mournful predictions. The prophecy, too, that " one of them would betray him, another deny him, and all forsake him," inspired so many various sentiments of shame, surprise, and unbelief, as helped to deepen their grief and heighten their alarm. On all these accounts we need not wonder that when they accompanied their Master to the garden of Gethsemane, all nature appeared to them to be veiled in a robe of the deepest mourning. The darkness or gloom that brooded only over their own souls, was made by the power of association to spread itself over every near and every distant object, and to eclipse the beauty of one of the fairest landscapes of the material universe. But while they were thus wearied and disturbed by distresses both ideal and real, sleep, the guardian of health and the softener of care, came to their relief. They soon forgot their Master and themselves in its sweet and unconscious slumbers. They saw not all the dropping blood of his agony. They heard not all the sad accents of his prayers. They felt not with him through the whole depth of his sorrows. But, surely, when we reflect upon their fatigue and wretchedness, we may look upon their sleeping forms with an eye of pity, and go along with our Saviour in the considerate apology which he made for their seeming unkindness, "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." I shall conclude the whole of this interesting discussion with a few reflections naturally arising from the subject. How inconceivably bitter, how dreadfully intense must have been our Lord's spiritual conflict in the garden of Gethsemane! Surely none but a divine person could have entered the wine-press of the Father's wrath, and borne up under the pressure of such unutterable woe. Surely nothing less than a love that was infinite could have prompted a Being, infinitely exalted in rank, and absolutely perfect in character, to pass through a fiery trial, so indescribably severe, and for the sake of creatures so low and worthless. Oh! let us never forget the awful scene of the Redeemer's agony. Let it often engage all the attention of our reason; let it often awaken all the tenderness of our heart. And let us not only contemplate it with interest and compassion, but with reverence and fear. When we reflect upon the greatness of that misery which not only the body, but the soul, is capable of enduring, which every sinner who continues finally impenitent must endure, and which would have been our certain inevitable portion if our great Surety had not endured it in our room, let us be impressed with a strong and lively belief of the odious nature and mischievous operation of sin; and let us manifest our deeply grateful sense of all that the Redeemer has done and suffered for us, by hating and avoiding it in all its degrees, and under all its forms. Let us watch and pray without ceasing, lest, in an unguarded moment, we fall into temptation, and dishonour our Christian name by some sinful compliance or by immoral conduct. In an especial manner let us beware of slumbering on in a course of vicious indulgence, and deluding our souls with unwarranted hopes of the divine mercy; for it clearly appears, from the striking and impressive event of our Lord's agony, that the divine justice will compel the strict fulfilment of every tittle of the law, both in its letter and in its spirit, both in its precepts and in its sanctions. Happy are they who derive instruction from the warning lessons of Scripture, and are taught by them to forsake every unrighteous practice, to implore the renewing influence of the Holy Spirit, and to aim, with unceasing diligence, after the moral perfection of the Christian character. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GERHARD TERSTEEGEN. GERHARD TERSTEEGEN was born on the 25th November, 1697, in the chief town of the principality of Moers. He was the youngest of eight children, and his father having died shortly after his birth, the whole care and responsibility of his education devolved upon his mother. In carly life he made rapid progress in his studies, particularly in the acquisition of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages; but as the circumstances of the family could not admit of his entering upon a learned profession, he was bound apprentice, in his fifteenth year, to his brother-in-law, a merchant in Mülheim, on the Rhur. It was in the course of his apprenticeship that Gerhard's mind was first impressed with the importance of religion, and chiefly, it is supposed, from the intimate intercourse which he enjoyed with a pious tradesman, who lost no opportunity of turning his thoughts to the vital truths of Christianity. A sudden illness, too, with which he was seized, had a powerful effect in leading him to think of the necessity of "seeking the Lord while he was yet to be found;" and the kindness of the Almighty in again restoring him to health impressed him with the obligation under which he lay to live to the glory of that God who had so graciously prolonged his days. The bustle and engrossing occupations of a mercan→ tile life Gerhard felt to be a great obstruction to his spiritual progress, and at the close of his apprenticeship he resolved to make choice of a more retired employment. For a short time he tried the occupation of a weaver, but finding that the trade was injurious to his delicate constitution, he subsequently chose the art of ribbon making. In the pursuit of this humble calling the good man spent a great part of his life at Milheim. He was poor, often distressingly poor, but still he denied himself, that he might contribute to those around him who were in still poorer circumstances than he was. His apparel was coarse, his food was scanty. In the first years of his seclusion he took only one meal a day. Such abstemiousness was highly culpable, but when we think of the laudable motives by which the poor man was actuated, we cannot fail to acknowledge that, in this respect, "Even his failings leaned to virtue's side." In the dusk of the evening, when the labours of the day had come to a close, honest Gerhard might be seen wending his way to the house of some poor sick neighbour, and with the kindly feeling and tender sympathy of a Christian friend and brother, administering to his relief a portion of his earnings. So far, indeed, did he go in his liberality to the poor, that on the division of his father's property the legatees apportioned him a house to prevent him from giving all away. The restraint, however, proved ineffectual, for having received the value of the property, in instalments, from his brother, he distributed a great portion of it likewise to the poor. This only incensed his relatives the more against him, and led them to decry him as a man of weak and deranged intellect. There can be little doubt that his generosity was, in many cases, far from being tempered by prudence, so that he was offen reduced to a state of painful destitution. In such cases he felt the utmost confidence in the goodness of the Almighty. Nor was he disappointed. Not only were his wants supplied, but a spirit of peace and contentment reigned in his bosom. It pleased the Lord, however, to withdraw from him for a time the light of his gracious countenance. And when God hid his face, poor Tersteegen was troubled. A season of spiritual darkness and perplexity ensued, which continued for the long period of five years. The cloud, at length, disappeared, and the day-spring from on high again visited him. For a number of years, Tersteegen had led the life of a recluse. He had spent his time in solitude, plying his humble trade, unnoticed and unknown. Now, however, in 1725, he was prevailed upon to receive into his lodgings a young man of the name of Sommer, who was desirous of being taught the art of ribbon making. In the society of this amiable and excellent companion, he laid aside much of that austerity in his mode of living which had exposed him, not perhaps without some reason, to ridicule and reproach. He and his young associate lived together in the utmost harmony for three years, active in the duties of their calling, and spending two hours at least every day in private prayer. Thus sanctified by frequent communion with God, the labour of these two pious tradesmen was blessed, and with worldly prosperity was combined high spiritual enjoyment. It is when religion thus enters into, and mingles with, the every-day business of life, that her hallowed influences are most certainly and most substantially enjoyed. To The unsocial spirit which Tersteegen had so long manifested, now gradually disappeared, and he felt it to be his duty to take a lively interest in the promotion of religion in Mülheim and its neighbourhood. this he was the more effectually roused in consequence of a general awakening which took place in the town. Many were led to inquire carnestly what they should do to be saved. Prayer meetings were formed in different districts, and the utmost activity was manifested by all classes on the subject of religion. On this occasion, Tersteegen exerted himself to the utmost. He attended the prayer meetings, and addressed those present at them with peculiar energy and unction. Numbers applied to him personally, as well as by letter, for advice in regard to the concerns of their souls. Thus busily engaged in a manner so congenial to his now subdued and sanctified spirit, he found it necessary to relinquish his trade. Unwilling to entangle himself with the cares and concerns of the world, he had hitherto refused many generous offers which had been made to him. A merchant once called upon him, and expressing his high regard for him, offered him an annuity for life; a pious lady, who had never seen him, appointed him, in her will, executor to her property, amounting to forty thousand florins, on condition that he would take from it whatever he needed; a Dutch gentleman offered him a bond for ten thousand florins, and begged his acceptance of it with tears. All these, and other similar offers he declined, determined to support himself by the labour of his own hands. At that period of Tersteegen's history, however, at which we have now arrived, he had become, from bodily weakness, incapable of manual labour, and was compelled, therefore, to avail himself of the kindness and generosity of his friends. rope. Finding himself now released from his laborious trade, Tersteegen spent much of his time in the translation and the composition of several valuable works, which soon spread his fame over various parts of EuChristians resorted to him from all quarters for advice and direction; and, from this circumstance, his house received the name of the Pilgrim's Cottage, which it bears to this day. Wherever he went, the people flocked in crowds to hear from his lips the glad tidings of salvation through a crucified Redeemer. About the year 1756, when Tersteegen's popularity was at its height, his health began to yield, in consequence of the sustained exertions which were required of him, and he was under the necessity of discontinuing public labours for a time. After a short interval, however, he so far recovered as to resume, partially at least, his exertions in the cause of his Lord and Master. But throughout the rest of his life he was never entirely free from ailments of one kind or another. These proved a salutary trial of the good man's faith and patience, and served more completely to wean him from this vain and fleeting scene. At length the hour of his departure approached, and he died as he had lived, a triumphant follower of Jesus. The account of his latter days is thus given by Mr Jackson, to whose interesting narrative of his life and character we are indebted for the materials of the present brief sketch : "His last illness appears to have been a kind of dropsy, which showed itself towards the end of March, 1769, and occasioned him much pain and shortness of breath. On the 30th of March, he was outwardly very weak, but inwardly overflowing with love, and resigned to the will and good pleasure of God. On the 31st, at one, P. M., he had a severe attack, which brought on convulsions in the limbs. From this time, he appeared to die gradually. He passed the following night, in an easy chair, in great pain, particularly on account of his shortness of breath; yet, when some of his dear friends, perceiving the indications of his approaching end, took leave of him for eternity, he spoke to each of them, according to their peculiar circumstances, in a manner so edifying, affecting, and consoling, that all were deeply moved, even to tears. He himself remained inwardly firm, and entirely resigned to God, and his most holy will. Amongst these friends and acquaintances, was also the Rev. Mr E****, who requested of the dying saint a blessing, upon which, he smilingly lifted up his hands, and said, Jesus Christ, our Great High Priest, who sitteth at the right hand of his heavenly Father, lift up his hands from his sanctuary, and bless you with love and peace in your heart, and give you grace and wisdom in your ministry!' preacher shortly afterwards followed Tersteegen into the eternal world. To another individual, who took leave of him, he said, 'O sister, the way is a good way; follow the Lamb with cheerfulness, whithersoever he leadeth you.' And to a third he spoke as follows: - I commend you through grace, to the love of Jesus! Let the present moment likewise serve to induce you to surrender yourself entirely to our dearest Saviour, and to entreat grace from him, like the woman of Cana. This grace must be solicited, without regard to temporal things, which are of less value than is generally supposed; and what a happiness will it be for us, when obliged to part with them, to have a gracious God in He spoke in this manner, to all who were Christ!' present, with much energy, affection, and divine unc tion. This "From the 1st to the 3d of April, he was obliged, on account of his asthma, to sit forty-seven hours together, in his arm chair, sometimes leaning backwards for a few minutes on the chair, and then again forwards, on a cushion, which lay on the table. He passed these forty-seven hours in great agony, yet was never heard and waking again, he generally said, O God! O to complain, except after having slept a few minutes, Jesus! O sweet Jesus!' "In all his extremely painful sufferings, there was not even the smallest expression of impatience visible on his countenance. This extraordinary patience and entire resignation to the divine will and pleasure, was most consoling to the bystanders, as also his filial confidence in God, whose will it was thus to perfect him through sufferings, and assimilate him with the Captain of his salvation. Without this consolation, it would have been impossible for them, as they themselves affirm, to have borne the sight of such acute sufferings, in one they so much loved. Towards noon, on the 2d of April, it was evident his dissolution was approaching; the fits of sleep became more powerful, and his wakings shorter. It was necessary to remind him constantly of what he had to take. At six and seven, he slept almost continually, and at nine, it was nearly impossible to awake him, to take what had been prescribed for him. His sleep became more and more pro founa, and at midnight he could be awakened no more. Thus he continued to sleep till two in the morning, when he breathed out his soul into the arms of his God and Saviour, on the 3d of April, 1769.” "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." And when, as is often the case, a life of extensive usefulness terminates in a death of happiness and peace, it reminds us of the glorious orb of day, when, after having risen as a strong man to run his race, and shed a flood of brilliancy and glory over the whole face of nature, he sinks in the western sky with a calmness and gentle stillness at once beautiful and sublime. SKETCHES OF THE PARISH. BY THE PASTOR OF THE PARISH OF E—K. [From an Address delivered on the beginning of "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you."EXODUS xii. 2.- "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh,"— LCCLES. i. 4. 1. One generation passeth away. OUT of eighty families consisting of five hundred and the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." The last among us who paid the last debt of nature was an aged Christian. He was not of us as a Church, but he appeared to be for us as a sincere follower of our Redeemer and common Lord. The recollection of labours of love in the Christian cause will not soon be him rises to my mind with affectionate regret, and his forgotten. Thus one generation passeth away...but, 2. Another generation cometh. In the course of the same bygone year four families have been united to us and to one another by the tie of marriage. Our prayer to our God for them is, that he who has made them one in family and one in interest, may make and continue them one in heart and one in Christ. Ten infants have also during the past year been born among us, and entered with us into the Church of our Redeemer; and one-half of that number still breathe the same breath of air with us, but have not yet been dedicated to God in baptism: our sincere and fervent prayer for these infants is, "that they may be of those little children of whom is the kingdom of heaven." Thus you see how, among us, in the short span of a year, "one generation passeth away and another generation cometh"...... There are still among us a few of the direct descendants of an old generation whose portraits have been sketched and given to the world. These portraits ye yourselves acknowledge to have been taken faithfully, and taken by one whose memory you revere,-whose writings you hold next principal books of your little domestic library. This to your Bible, and whose memoirs form one of the has induced us to look and to try whether there may be still found any similarity between the parents and their offspring, and to say, in brevity, wherein the similarity consists. Now after an observation and The next of our number was most unexpectedly to affirm both to your "praise and blame," that you experience of several years among you, we are prepared hurried to the bar of judgment. At night he retired shew yourselves to be the children of to rest nearly in his usual health; but the sober grey fathers,your "for the works of your fathers ye do.' On some of light of the Sabbath morn, when it crept through his dull dim window, found him a corpse. the very same spots mentioned nearly a hundred years He had been back you will find the very same kind of people-with poor and lonely, but independent! and at death he had none, neither needed he one, to sit by his bed to obthe very same dispositions and tempers-with the very same notions and opinions engaged in nearly the same serve the last struggles of departing nature. He had advanced far in human life-but of his Christian life generation who have long since "rested from their kind of works and workings, with those of the old we knew but little. We would in charity hope, how-labours and their works have followed them." But of ever, that as his Bible was found open on the morning after his death, and near his bed, that he was not a stranger to that blessed book, or at the throne of prayer; though we must say, if we were required to speak the whole truth, that he was a stranger here.... The father of a family who had long lingered on the bed of affliction was next called upon to lay down the weapons of his warfare. Oh! I remember some of the happy moments I have had at that bedside! and some of the comfortable words uttered by the lips of the dying man as he lay on it; and some of the prayers he presented for us who statedly meet together in this little sanctuary! Yes! He prayed that our labours in the Lord might be blessed abundantly, that on the last day-that great day of reckoning, we might all meet together at the right hand of our Judge; and that we might all hear together his approving sentence pro"well done, good and faithful ser nounced over us, vants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord." the few who still survive there is but little pro- Now, should a stranger ask of us how your life is kept awake amid your drowsy solitudes where the only to court you to sink into slumber, we would peace, and the calm, and the monotony of things seem answer for you that you have your incitements--your excitements and your devotional soothings, with a thousand little personal, family, and popular incidents blending with your worldly occupation, which serve ergies and to keep you ever vigorously active. A few not only to keep your life awake, but to rouse its enof these incidents we shall do little more than point at. 1. Incitement. The day of the examination of the youth in this place is now beginning to be looked forward to by many of you as to the day of an annually returning ration, softened, yet animated with parental affection, "treat." We have been pleased with your looks of venewhen, collected together, we have listened to your chil dren reading the Bible under the direction of their able, diligent, and faithful teacher, and have marked the simple and affectionate manner in which they are led by him into an accurate knowledge of its sacred contents. We have been much gratified, too, to see, even sometimes, something like the look of emulation among the parents, as well as among the children, when the stores of useful knowledge were in the act of drawing off in the exciting form of catechetical trial. We have been both amused and delighted with the excursions of the little travellers on the map; with their knowledge of the world in general, and with the history of their own country in particular. We have been most agreeably surprised, too, to hear them sometimes express their knowledge of the metals and minerals which lie dark and deep in the earth's cold bosom; and of the vegetable, animal, and rational kingdoms which have their life and sway on its more kindly surface. But we have observed that their computations, by numbers, quick as thought, have caused some of you, as by involuntary motion, to start to your feet and to say, "it was not so in the days of our fathers:" we are told there was a time in their history when there were only three Bibles to be seen in the house of God, and the sacred contents of the blessed book few of them could spell so as to take up its all-important meaning; "but one generation passeth away and another generation cometh." You are then, my Christian friends, a highly favoured people. You have had the Old and New Testaments in your possession all your days. You have been taught to read them from your early years. "And thus saith the Lord, thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." "Train up your child then in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it." And, "children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." "Honour thy father and thy mother: it is the first commandment with promise." 2. Excitement. When you have cast a stone into the centre of the calm unruffled pool you have seen a circle form, and enlarge, and enlarge, till it reached the brink-the grassy brink on which you had your footing. Within the circumference of such a circle you may see some of the agitations and fleeting movements of the by-past year, for even these agitations and movements have had some of their references to you. Yes! the year past has been eventful, and it will be long remembered in the annals of our country. The pestilence entered with it into our land; and mourning and lamentations were mingled with the first greetings and joy of the season. But, blessed be our God, his own word was made our confidence, and we humbly trust, that while it is expressive of our past experience, it speaks still the living language of the present gratitude of our heart: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor the destruction that wasteth at noon-day. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eves shalt thou behold......... Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation, there shall no evil befal thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.' Psalm xci. 1-10. You have seen the outmost rim of the circle, before its settling again into the smooth of the unruffled pool, raising sometimes a little muddy turbulence in the shallow at the extreme edge of the water; and in this you have seen, and may see indeed, with the eyes of your observation and reflection, all the little excitements you have had within the circle of the last twelve months, with their effects, their subsidings, and their preparations for a calm. There have been changes in states and kingdoms, as well as among individuals. We mention not this, my friends, to excite any new emotion, or to call up any old one, or even to ruffle in the least the calm of the mind, occupied in the peaceful exercise of devotion; but we do so for the purpose of rousing, as by a watch-cry, the attention which seems to begin to be drowsy, till we say, that the kingdom about which we discourse is the kingdom of heaven; and that its interests and yours, as connected with it, shall ever be the theme of our discourses and the ultimate end for which we labour,-convinced as we are, in our own mind, that the faithful subjects of the kingdom of God, on earth, will be the best, the very best subjects of every, and of all of the kingdoms of this world. Let us only further mention, and press on you here: that you are pledged to the Prince of Peace,-that you have vowed to be faithful to the Captain of your salvation; that you have declared before God, and men, and the elect angels, that you are for him and not for another; that you will follow him through good and through bad report cheerfully, constantly, and continually; and that while you are most willing to be subject and obedient to all his laws, you imitate him in all his imitable perfections; for "he has left us an example that we should follow his steps." 1 Peter ii. 21. 66 66 3. Devotion. While you have had your gentle incitements, and your stronger excitements, you have also had your times, your places, and your occasions of sincere, peaceful, and devotional soothing. Every evening and morning, we fondly hope, bears witness to this, in the private offering of many of you-oh, that we could say of all of you, in the holy exercises of reading, meditation, and prayer. The habitations of a few-oh, that we could say of all of you, seem consecrated as places of worship to our God; for we have frequently, while passing in the evening, heard the song of praise, and we have sometimes retarded our steps to listen for a moment to the low, solemn tones of the father's prayer. And, we earnestly hope, that the holy day is experienced to be, and spent by you throughout, as the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings." The house of the Lord is, on that day, thrown open to you, and you sing, or may sing, in heart as you enter, Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in." The house of the Lord! and how different this house from that in which your fathers worshipped! of this you may say, in the pious language of a devoted worshipper, "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!" while of that your fathers complained, "that by much slothfulness, the building decayed; and that, through idleness of the hands, the house dropped through.' The ordinances of religion are now dispensed to you. Oh, how different these days from those in which your fathers lived! when for four long years the voice of no spiritual watchman was lifted up in this place, and when those very fathers solicited again and again every proprietor of the soil "to do his utmost," that they might be supplied with the bread of life, and have it dispensed to them by "a stated Gospel minister." You have the Word of God in your hands, and you have been difficulty he could obteine heather, thack, and divots to keep the kirk and manse in repaire."-Parish Record. The complaint of the minister is, " that it was with the greatest † Parish Record. |