The Scots in Germany : being a contribution towards the history of the Scots abroad . he British against a 1 Baron v. Janks, Leben Loudons. Mallison, Js. Grant. 2 John Murray Graham, Life of Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch. i34 THE SCOTS IN GERMANY. common foe, and spilling their blood, repaid for the manygood services rendered by their brethren-of-arms duringpast centuries on German soil. But of Scottish soldiersfighting for a German cause, we hear no Only the famous old Scottish names of the Hamiltons,Douglases, Leslies, Gordons, Campbells, Gaudis, John-stons, Spaldings, and others, sti
The Scots in Germany : being a contribution towards the history of the Scots abroad . he British against a 1 Baron v. Janks, Leben Loudons. Mallison, Js. Grant. 2 John Murray Graham, Life of Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch. i34 THE SCOTS IN GERMANY. common foe, and spilling their blood, repaid for the manygood services rendered by their brethren-of-arms duringpast centuries on German soil. But of Scottish soldiersfighting for a German cause, we hear no Only the famous old Scottish names of the Hamiltons,Douglases, Leslies, Gordons, Campbells, Gaudis, John-stons, Spaldings, and others, still occurring in GermanArmy lists, remind us of days long past, when the drumsof the recruiting officer awoke the echo of every glenof Scotland, and when the world-famed kings and heroesof battle in Germany attracted the scions of her nobilityunder their victorious banners; banners of all colours andemblems, but banners which they never disgraced. 1 Excepting only a battalion of Highlanders serving in the army ofGeneral Walmoden in the North of Germany in 1813. PART NINIAN W1NZET THE CHURCH. It is a remarkable fact that in the history of thedevelopment of the human mind the great spiritualmovements did not always proceed from the most famousand the most powerful nations or cities, the so-calledcentres of intelligence, but, similar to the mighty riversof the world, had their sources in localities small,hidden and unknown. Eisleben and Haddington werejoined to Nazareth, Marbach to Stratford, Ecclefechanto This being true, it need not excite our astonishmentwhen we observe how the ecclesiastical and religious lifeof the Vth, VIth and Vllth Centuries in Europe, fromIceland to Italy, from Paris to the Alps, was fanned byan almost unknown country, filled by half-savages— only was ecclesiastical art in the North of Ireland ata very early time in a remarkably flourishing condition,but the spirit of Christianity itself, combined with thefiery an
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