Scottish divines 1505-1872 . f multitudes, in all churches and in alllands, who felt that in Thomas Chalmers they hadlost a leader and a friend. He rests in the Cemetery of the Grange, beneaththe shadow of Arthurs Seat and Salisbury Crags. And near where he lies is another grave, whichbears an inscription that reveals in language, touchingfrom its simplicity, the powder which Chalmers couldsway over young and generous souls. Bury me beside Chalmers had been the dying J 16 Thoiias Clialt)ic7S. request of Jolin Mackintosh, The Earnest StudentHe had sat at Chahnerss feet as a scholar, but likx-mo
Scottish divines 1505-1872 . f multitudes, in all churches and in alllands, who felt that in Thomas Chalmers they hadlost a leader and a friend. He rests in the Cemetery of the Grange, beneaththe shadow of Arthurs Seat and Salisbury Crags. And near where he lies is another grave, whichbears an inscription that reveals in language, touchingfrom its simplicity, the powder which Chalmers couldsway over young and generous souls. Bury me beside Chalmers had been the dying J 16 Thoiias Clialt)ic7S. request of Jolin Mackintosh, The Earnest StudentHe had sat at Chahnerss feet as a scholar, but likx-most of those who had come under the spell of thatburning enthusiasm, he felt towards his teacher thelove which a son bears to a father beloved. Thetwo graves, now so near, where teacher and taughtsleep in Jesus, are significant emblems of the kind ofinfluence which Chalmers exercised in life, and which,as many a noble career could testify, was not whollyquenched in death. ^t dalles ^Lectures;. THIRD SERIES—SCOTTISH LECTURE IX. JAMES ROBERTSON. By Rev. George Wilson, Minister of the Parish of Cramond. n^HE dates and places connected with the life of^ James Robertson may be run over in a fewsentences. He was born at Ardlaw, in the parish ofPitsligo, Aberdeenshire, on the 2d of January father was a farmer, in the humble ranks of hisclass,—his farm consisting of only fifty acres ofmoderately cultivated land. Honest toil, severefrugality, and a healthy home religion were thesurroundings of his cradle. At the age of six he wassent to the parish school of Tyrie, where for three yearshe was taught the * Proverbs of Solomon and theelements of Latin—a somewhat silent, sedate boy, butwith an unmistakeable look oi ^ thorough about 1812, at the age of nine, he was sent to Pitsligoschool, where, at the top of his class, he acquired such 2 A 3i8 yatnes Robertson, knowledge as fitted him for the University at the earlyage of twelve. Being the eldest son often chi
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