Scottish divines 1505-1872 . rgotten onlyto our own irreparable loss,—we acknowledge that,although he yielded to temptations which ecclesiasticalleaders have seldom been able to resist, he exhibitsalso those qualities which clergy and laity alikewould for ever do well to ponder and to imitate. AUTHORITIES. Murrays Life of Kiiiherford, and Literary History of Galloway^ A. Bonar, Dr. Duff, R. B. Druinniond in Theological Revieio,October 1879, Peterkins Records of the Kirk, Baillies Letters, Living-stones Characteristics, Life of Robert Blair, Scots IVorthies, BurnetsOwn Time, Mitchell and
Scottish divines 1505-1872 . rgotten onlyto our own irreparable loss,—we acknowledge that,although he yielded to temptations which ecclesiasticalleaders have seldom been able to resist, he exhibitsalso those qualities which clergy and laity alikewould for ever do well to ponder and to imitate. AUTHORITIES. Murrays Life of Kiiiherford, and Literary History of Galloway^ A. Bonar, Dr. Duff, R. B. Druinniond in Theological Revieio,October 1879, Peterkins Records of the Kirk, Baillies Letters, Living-stones Characteristics, Life of Robert Blair, Scots IVorthies, BurnetsOwn Time, Mitchell and Struthers Minutes of IVestjninster Assembly,Schafts Creeds of Christendom, Msissons Milton, Hill Burtons i^/j/^rjof Scotland, Church Histories of Cook, Grub, Cunningham ; MCriesSketches of Church History, Stanle)s Lectures on Church of Scotland, History of St. A)idreivs,\io\ktx\ Cunningham L^ectures, SprottsWorship and Offices of the Church of Scotland, etc. etc. ^t dalles M^tttuxts. THIRD SERIES—SCOTTISH DIVINES,. LECTURE IV. ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON. By the Very Rev. JohnTulloch, , ,, Principal of St. MarysCollege, St. Andrews ; Dean of the Order of the Thistle ; and one ofHer Majestys Chaplains. T^HERE is no name in Scottish Church historythat combines so many attractions as that ofLeighton. He is of all our ecclesiastical men theone whom all parties acknowledge as a saint; andthere is no feature so rare in the heroic but ruggedand turbulent religious life of Scotland as that ofsaintliness. There is something lacking—an elementof sweetness—of suavity—in the best names thatotherwise claim our reverence. This is the pro-minent feature in Leightons character, and in him itis perfect—sweetness mingled with sincerity—thepure expression of a free and gentle and honest heart no A rch bishop L eight on. —without any of that subtle tincture of over sweet-ness and craft which colour it in some other saintlycharacters like St. Francis de Sales. I know of nocha
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