Dr Archibald Scott of St George's, Edinburgh, and his times . was arisingboth in the pulpit and in the pew. Looking back now withthe calm which distance permits to the position of theChurch immediately after the Disruption, there is no reasonto be ashamed of her work during the next quarter of acentury. In a pamphlet published shortly after the Dis-ruption, the ministers who remained in are described asthe Residuary Establishment. The expression wasmeant to be malicious, and was unjust; yet there was init a qualified measure of truth. Many pious men andefficient ministers remained in, but the
Dr Archibald Scott of St George's, Edinburgh, and his times . was arisingboth in the pulpit and in the pew. Looking back now withthe calm which distance permits to the position of theChurch immediately after the Disruption, there is no reasonto be ashamed of her work during the next quarter of acentury. In a pamphlet published shortly after the Dis-ruption, the ministers who remained in are described asthe Residuary Establishment. The expression wasmeant to be malicious, and was unjust; yet there was init a qualified measure of truth. Many pious men andefficient ministers remained in, but the residue alsoremained in. The Church had a dead weight to standard of efficiency too was lowered by the necessityof filling up more than 400 charges in one year from a bodyof probationers, the majority of whom had failed to commendthemselves to congregations until this opportunity of them, no doubt, were earnest well-meaning men,but most of them were dull, and lacking in popular Committees had lost many of their most active. MAXWELL CHURCH, GLASGOW, in 1865. (From Illustrated London News.) MAXWELL CHURCH, GLASGOW 33 members; the most liberal contributors to the Schemesof the Church had gone out. The men who set themselvesunder these conditions to restore the shattered walls had atruly hard and wearisome task. They had one advantage,however, which stood them in good stead. Within theChurch there was peace. There was no party strife. Therehas been little of that in the Church since the the many great and heroic qualities of the historicalparty in the Church who went out, their most fervid admirerscan hardly claim for them the ornament of a meek and quietspirit. From the days of the Covenants, of the Protestersand the Remonstrants, the party in the Church most dis-tinguished for zeal and enthusiasm was addicted to the dis-play of a certain truculence of temper and of an adjectivalferocity^ (from malignant in the seventeenth to recu
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