. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . ^ rode away into the hills from which they hadcome. This was a memorable scene, and great consequencesfollowed. It was the first organized defiance of theKing, and was, in effect, the beginning of that greatrevolution which, eight years afterwards, swept thewicked Stuarts from the thrones of England and Scot-land forever. On the spot where the Sanquhar Declaration wasmade now stands a monument to commemorate thatsignificant event. Richard Cameron knew thedanger of such a proceeding,and was prepared to accept
. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . ^ rode away into the hills from which they hadcome. This was a memorable scene, and great consequencesfollowed. It was the first organized defiance of theKing, and was, in effect, the beginning of that greatrevolution which, eight years afterwards, swept thewicked Stuarts from the thrones of England and Scot-land forever. On the spot where the Sanquhar Declaration wasmade now stands a monument to commemorate thatsignificant event. Richard Cameron knew thedanger of such a proceeding,and was prepared to accept theconsequences to himself, what-ever they might be. His imme-diate followers, and those whosympathized with him amongthe Covenanters, soon came tobe called the Cameronians,and until the end came, thev. Richard Cameron. henceforth led the struggle against the tyranny of the King. Cameron felt thatin making this Declaration his work was done, andliis own time remaining would be short. He also.• believed with absolute confidence that the hour of Scot-lands deliverance was not far off. But believinof thata violent death awaited him in the near future, he wascahii, and declared that he was safe under the over- shadowing wings of God until his appointed last sermon, preached in Avondale, not far from S2 THE BLUE FLAG. tlie battlefield of Druinclog, was on the text. **Be stilland know that I am God; I will be exalted among theheathen; 1 will be exalted in the earth. One writersays this sermon was like (/ ball of tire, though it con-tained passages of hymn-like sweetness and one passage he said, \\e are not withered leaves,blown about by the breath of chance, but are immortalspirits under the guidance of a Being all-wise and all-gracious. The last night of Richard Camer
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