besides these, a Mr. Stewart ordained, the date not marked. There were five ordained, and thirteen licensed; and I scarcely ever knew of one of these till I was in the chair; so that sonsie Dr. Gibb said, Scarcely a member of Presbytery could have addressed them at all; and not one so pertinently.

The sixth sermon, on Gen. v. 24, was prepared for Campsie winter communion, 5th December, 1824. It was immediately after the death of Mr. Lapslie. When Mr. Johnston, an admirer of Miss Jessie Crawford, afterwards Mrs. Dick, and Mr. Brown, fought eight years for Ruglen, from 1826 to 1834, there was no animosity, no bitterness in the Presbytery, Mr. Brown succeeded by a decree in absence, after Mr. Johnston had got the £800. President Hope contended with Mr. Whigham, that a decree in absence was the same as a decree in presence. The notice of Abd-el-Kader at page 125, it will be seen, could not be in the original. After Terra del Fuego, in page 121, or the Guevo Upes, or Valley of Poison of Java, near Batur, in 1830 or the Grotto del Cana, near Naples,-was neglected to be added; and many more places.

The seventh sermon, Heb. iii. 4, which is called an Oration, was delivered on a week-day, at the preparing of a seminary for youth. John Vary, Pettinain, should keep this discourse as religiously as Dr. Chalmers' relatives should have the charge to him framed and gilded; being, if not the only one preserved that was delivered to him, at least, being one of them. We wish we had those delivered in Kilmany and the Tron. Mr. Vary, Justice of Peace Assessor, was the cause of this Oration being prepared. It was enlarged; and a paragragh on geology was suggested and engrossed, which, to some, may appear too strong and personal to H. Miller, Esq.; but it was his geology, not himself, that was in my mind; and it is to his geology alone it can be legitimately applied. But I not only believe, but feel the Bible to be true; for what could have supported my mind in all my affliction; and what can I depend upon in the last agony, but Thou art with me. The Bible is my charter-my all. The Magna Charta of England-the deeds of all its property-were they mine, I would surrender for the Bible. Christ is my all; and where is He given, and offered, and to be found, but in the Bible? The moral law is the sum and substance of the Bible to go to heaven itself; for what is it but a transcript of the original holiness and purity of God's nature, and therefore must be dearer to Him than heaven and earth, or the whole material creation. Mr Miller, I think. will agree with me in this, and therefore we cannot differ; but I am positive he will give up his geology. I

wish it were to-morrow, Sabbath, 24th December, 1848, when he would fearlessly put down antibiblical, irrational geology. Saul of Tarsus was as hostile to Christ as he is hostile at present to the Bible, in the plain, simple, literal sense of Scripture; and how soon was he changed! With God all things are possible. The Veto came in my way at page 270, and, perhaps, some sentences in it may be offensive to some; but if they saw what I wrote at the Disruption, they would find no fault with me. But I wish the Free Church to redeem her pledges; and two ministers and elders from the vicinity of Selkirk, lately wished the same. Dr. Robert Burns, in the last volume of the Christian Instructor, says, If Dr. A. Thomson, who began that periodical, and wrote more severely on the Rev. Henry Grey and his learned spouse, than I have ever done against any geologist, had been alive, the Veto had never been passed. Had he and Sir Henry Moncrieff been alive, Drs. Candlish and Cunningham would never have got the reins into their hands. I am more afraid of Dr. P. Smith not turning than Mr. Miller; for he has gone farther, and continued longer; but hopes may be entertained of him also. Geology must fall; for the Lord reigneth.

The eighth sermon was written designedly to be delivered on the Sabbath succeeding the funeral of the Rev. John Dick, minister of Rutherglen, in 1826; and, except being re-read at Rutherglen during the long vacancy of eight years, was used no other where. He was an amiable and godly minister. Take him, all in all, his equal will scarcely ever appear in Rutherglen. Chryston Chapel was built in 1779. Mr. Provan was the first preacher in it; a Mr. Graham, the second, after 1793, when Mr. Provan was ordained in Cadder. Mr. Dick was the first ordained minister in it, in 1800. Mr. Somers succeeded him in 1807; Mr. Lockerby in 1811; and Mr. Young in 1819. Had Dr. Candlish carried his Aberdeen college, good Mrs. Brown, and her clever son and daughter, would not have thought it was done according to the mind of Christ. Though Mr. Dick would not do evil, he never challenged it in the Presbytery but in the case of Mr. Thom of Liverpool, urged on by Maurice Ogle, bookseller, a relative of his wife. The Rev. William Robertson, Monzievaird, and his wife, Charlotte Dick Robertson, if they copy the example of their fathers and mothers, will be honoured and useful in the Church. The Reign of Death is a theme equal to Paradise Lost, perhaps ; and in the hand of a poet like Milton, if he could be found, might furnish a solemn epic. Historically considered, of all

the poets, Cowper, Milton, Goldsmith, Thomson, Pope, Blair, Watts, Campbell, that we are familiar with, Young comes nearest it; and we had great selections from him,-many of which we never read in the delivery; they were too numerous. The sinner should exercise deep humiliation of heart, fervent prayer, confidence in the mercy of God, and firmly resolve to devote his soul and body to his Maker's service. He should neither do, nor undertake anything which he would abstain from doing if Jesus Christ were standing visibly before him, or anything of which he can think it possible that he shall repent in the uncertain hour of his certain death. Many things have escaped that were adverted to in the funeral sermon of this good man, who had been minister in the chapel; and, almost till his dying day, assisted at the sacrament in Cadder. Mr. Melville of Logie, now in the grave, adverted, in his funeral sermon for Dr. Chalmers at Morningside, to many things which he did in Kilmany, which, even yet, would be hurtful to his memory, and characterized him as singular for simplicity, as Dr. Singer of Kirkpatrick-juxta said, Of one born in his parish, Mr. Dick was also singular for simplicity; but not apt to be turned with every wind, like good Dr. Chalmers. The Doctor caught an idea, and hunted it down wheresoever it led, like his geology; not so Mr. Dick. His sermons were simpler, but more of his own, and closer to the text, and richer in spirituality, and hortatory practical theology. We knew them both, and, we think, could estimate their character, without panegyric or detraction, which we would not use toward them, or any of woman born. We may, and must be severe upon false, unscriptural geology; but not against those who ignorantly support it; for it must be by deception in all men who receive the truth. The late excellent Dr. M'Crie said once in our hearing, Man ought to have such regard for his fellow man, that he would not lift his hand against him; neither ought he untruly to use his tongue. Mr. Dick and Dr. Chalmers were once conjoined on earth, as they now are in heaven, in our opinion, else who shall enter there? But Mr. Melville was very cautious, rather exceedingly so, in speaking of Dr. Chalmers' future state. He was aged, experienced, and knew he was soon himself to go that only once trodden road by every saint or sinner.

The last sermon, on 2 Samuel i. 23, was composed mentally, going home from Auchengeich, 17th October, 1829, after witnessing the striking death of the two children of James and Ann Gray-she to follow them next year, and him the second. Long did I wander in the dangerous bog between Captain

Drew's and Mr. Bogle's, owing to the excessive darkness of the night; and, after no little danger, was obliged to retrace my steps, and try to find my way between Burnbrae and Easter Auchinloch, which have both, since then, changed their proprietors. West Quarter and Glenhead, Glenbank, Millersneuck, Wester Muckcroft, Daviston, Gartferry, Chryston, Croftfoot, Auldyards, Slakiewood, Holms, Glaudhall, Adamswells, Millbrae, Cleddans, Myriemailing, Springfield, Bishopbrigs, Crawhill, Gartloch, Gartcoch, Brownknowes, Robroyston, and other properties, have passed into other hands since 1811. The many braw men and braw women, exceeding the braw lads of Gala Water, that William Angus admired and described, as well he could, being in many of the genteelest families around Glasgow, and Dumbarton, and Paisley, are all silent, and their gallant steeds in the grave. Well may we quote Young and Blair when we cast our eyes backward. To have seen fully twenty men, well mounted with whip and spur, set off to the election at Cadder, on the 5th September, 1811, besides all who accompanied them; and not one of the nearly seventy voters to be alive! But Charles King of Woodneuck,then a pupil, and James Jarvie, would throw a dark shade on the brightest picture; and when the indisputable worth of several of them is added to the account, we may fear it will be a while before their habitations are equally filled. Nor is there a single individual beside that can cast a glance upon them. Were this little volume to do nothing more but record their names, the labour would not be in vain; but could it be hoped, that it would open the eyes of H. Miller, Esq., alone, and cause him revert to the flood as the layer of all his fossils, with which he is so well acquainted, and which he can describe so well; and to him could we add all who are mentioned in it, the victory would shine more bright than Waterloo through endless ages. Of one thing they may rest assured, Moses is verbally and literally correct. It cannot be disputed that the first verse includes a part of the first day's work, no more than that Adam and Eve were made and married on the sixth, in such a way as none were ever since married. It is said, 800,000 slaves were carried yearly into the West Indies before the Act of Emancipation; and will any man doubt, that as many young women are yearly ruined, and, perhaps, as many young men, for the want or neglect of early and universal marriage? Could we expand our theory upon this topic, we could obviate every objection; but Mr. Sharon Turner, and Sheriff Alison, Glasgow, and many writers we could name, would bear us out against all its practical difficulties. Young men and

women must be trained for it from infancy from the Bible alone. Instead of disjoining education from religion, it must be religion alone, keeping as nearly to the articles of the Established Churches of England and Scotland as possible. Practical Calvinism, as Sir Henry Moncrieff said, is the religion of the Bible; but every family, as Dr. Begg said, must be a Sabbath school. Mankind must be compelled, by civil laws and penalties, to keep the Sabbath. No Sabbath trains, nor street coaches, nor Sabbath-walking, must be tolerated. If we could get no whisky distilled, nor strong beer brewed, it would mightily improve our nation, and promote our object.. Would our Chartists support these opinions, and our reformers; and if no pretended science were permitted to be taught that opposed the Bible; and if all our Protestant clergy were put upon an equal footing, or, at least, had all a Regium Donum of fully £70; and our Established clergy all reduced to £150, and in no city above £300, and made to do their duty; and if all sinecures were instantly abolished, and no useless places allowed; and if our nobility and gentry were caused to contribute thousands, and tens of thousands, to send the Gospel to every land, taught by able, faithful men, our kingdom might rise like the Phoenix, and our land be yet called Hephzibak, and Beulah. There would many more wrongs require to be redressed, before a virtuous population could be secured. (See Goldsmith's Deserted Village.) We may be a little severe; but we are, perhaps, right upon the whole. Not only our pulpits must sound more to convince and convert; but our press, our literature, must be purified. Some might act from hypocrisy; but others would do it of good will. And let any man calculate, if he can, what men like H. Miller could do when properly directed. Since I knew Cadder parish, there was scarcely a house in which there was not family worship morn and even; and on a Sacramental Fast, the day was observed as religiously as the Sabbath. I could mention other parishes, where I spent part of my youth, that rather excelled. Were the days to return that even I have seen, they may talk of Moderation as they please; but I wish we had some of our old Toryism back again, though I never supported it. Certain I am, if our good Queen could be told all these things, and her faithful Consort, they would strive to bring the good of former days and years back. The Lord will effect it in His time, when better than I have hinted will be accomplished. Mr. Park says, the Established Church will not stand long. If he, honest man, and all around, would pray, and preach for eternity, and all