. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. ®!KAi CeiKlALlKSS i.®„l„L THOMAS CHALMERS. 329 bid liim farewell; and after this was ended, Thomasmounted the horse that was to carry him to theDundee ferry. But in accomplishing this feat, heput his right foot (the wrong one on this occasion)into the stirrup, and was in the saddle in a trice,with his face to the horses tail! When ready toapply for license as a preacher, an obstacle was inhis way; for as yet he had not completed his nine-teenth year, while the mles of the church requiredthat no student should be licensed before he hadreached the
. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. ®!KAi CeiKlALlKSS i.®„l„L THOMAS CHALMERS. 329 bid liim farewell; and after this was ended, Thomasmounted the horse that was to carry him to theDundee ferry. But in accomplishing this feat, heput his right foot (the wrong one on this occasion)into the stirrup, and was in the saddle in a trice,with his face to the horses tail! When ready toapply for license as a preacher, an obstacle was inhis way; for as yet he had not completed his nine-teenth year, while the mles of the church requiredthat no student should be licensed before he hadreached the age of twenty-one. This difficulty,however, was overruled by an exceptional clause infavour of those possessing rare and singular quali-ties; and it having been represented by the memberof presbytery who discovered this qualification in theold statute, that Thomas Chalmers was a lad opregnant pairts, the young applicant, after the usualtrials, was licensed as a preacher of the gospel onthe 31st of July, 1799. On entering the sacred offic
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