Scottish divines 1505-1872 . in her aims, she devotes herself to her greatcommission. And to the cradle of her faith she looksback over more than eighteen hundred years. Herapostolic origin, her historical continuity, are springsof strength to her. All that is true in the pastenriches her traditions, all that is spiritual quickensher impulses. In the historical gallery of her ownleading men she has many heroes, grand in figure andgreat in achievement. We place Dr. James Robert-son among them. He was raised up when his Churchneeded him, he saw the work God had given him todo, and he was not dis
Scottish divines 1505-1872 . in her aims, she devotes herself to her greatcommission. And to the cradle of her faith she looksback over more than eighteen hundred years. Herapostolic origin, her historical continuity, are springsof strength to her. All that is true in the pastenriches her traditions, all that is spiritual quickensher impulses. In the historical gallery of her ownleading men she has many heroes, grand in figure andgreat in achievement. We place Dr. James Robert-son among them. He was raised up when his Churchneeded him, he saw the work God had given him todo, and he was not disobedient to the heavenly lived a simple transparent Christian man, and hebowed himself to die like a shock of corn fully his work was not ended with his death. To theChurch of Scotland it has proved a living seed, grow-ing up into a goodly plant, and branching out overhis country, shedding fruit for the peoples food, andleaves for the nations healing. t)t, files JLectures. THIRD SERIES—SCOTTISH DIVINES,. LECTURE X, BISHOP EWING. By the Rev, James Cameron Lees, , Minister of St. GilesCathedral, one of Her Majeiitys Chaplains. T^HE Episcopal Church of Scotland has a distinct^ and well-defined position in the country. It isan ecclesiastical organisation which no impartial ob-server of the religious life of Scotland could possiblyignore. In estimating that position there is little tobe gained by stirring up the ashes of bygone con-troversies, by going over the oft-told story of the riseof Episcopacy in Scotland, by harking back upon thefrustrated attempt to introduce a liturgy differentfrom that in use by the Scottish people, and byarraying in detail the tragical incidents of thetempestuous time which followed—the persecutions ofthe Stewarts, Claverhouse and his dragoons on theone hand, the murder of Archbishop Sharp andthe rabbling of the curates on the other. There are, 2D 354 Bishop Eiving, sad to say, few religious communities the rise ofwhich has not
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