The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ochurch courts wouldstrengthen the popularparty, more especially as a great increase ofsuch chapels was confidently anticipated. Thedemand was renewed at the Assembly of 1834,and with greater effect. It was evident in-deed that the new plan of church extension, atthe head of which was Dr. Chalmers, neededsuch encouragement and support : for while sixhundred dissenting chapels had been erected inScotland during the course of a century,
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ochurch courts wouldstrengthen the popularparty, more especially as a great increase ofsuch chapels was confidently anticipated. Thedemand was renewed at the Assembly of 1834,and with greater effect. It was evident in-deed that the new plan of church extension, atthe head of which was Dr. Chalmers, neededsuch encouragement and support : for while sixhundred dissenting chapels had been erected inScotland during the course of a century, onlysixty-three chapels of ease in connection withthe Establishment had been erected, whose con-gregations had no sessional courts or share inthe government of the church. The anomalousposition of such ministers in a church of Pres-byterian parity, and of congregations thus ex-cluded from the common rights of a worship-ping people, together with the urgent need ofmore churches, were so strongly enfoi-ced, thatthe admission of chapels of ease to the status ofparish churches was decreed by a large major-ity of 152 to 103. The beneficial effects of tliis411. 786 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. [Eeligiox. measure were quickly mauifested by the one year alone, after the passing of the act ofAssembly, sixty-four new churches were built orin the course of erection, being one more thanthe number that had been raised during theAvhole of the previous century. The veto act was now established; but wouldits merely negative character be sufficient toneutralize a positive evil ? And when it cameinto exercise, would the patrons themselves beready to submit to the authority by which it hadbeen passed? These inevitable questions weresoon to be answered in a very unwelcome 1834, the minister of Auchterarder, a parishin the south of Perthshire, died, and Mr. RobertYoung, a licentiate of the church, wfia jiresentedto the living by the Earl of KinnouU, its patron,lint where was the paro
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