Scottish divines 1505-1872 . in theautumn of 1834. His destination was Glasgow, where 272 Edwa rd Irving. for a time he was able to go out and in, and even topreach, in the Lyceum, where the faithful met toworship. A prophetic message had announced thathe was to recover from his illness ; and though itdeepened, day by day, he still believed that he was tobe restored. * I desire to depart and to be withChrist broke once from his fevered lips. His wifereminded him of the prophecy. * I have expressedmy desire, he answered, * not my expectation. Butno prophets voice could stay the hand of
Scottish divines 1505-1872 . in theautumn of 1834. His destination was Glasgow, where 272 Edwa rd Irving. for a time he was able to go out and in, and even topreach, in the Lyceum, where the faithful met toworship. A prophetic message had announced thathe was to recover from his illness ; and though itdeepened, day by day, he still believed that he was tobe restored. * I desire to depart and to be withChrist broke once from his fevered lips. His wifereminded him of the prophecy. * I have expressedmy desire, he answered, * not my expectation. Butno prophets voice could stay the hand of the evening of Sunday the 8th December,those that watched beside him marked, amid themoanings of his pain, a last intelligible sentence: If I die, I die unto the Lord, Amen. Ere midnighthe had passed away, to * where beyond these voicesthere is Peace. • Vex not his ghost : O let him pass ! He hates himThat would upon the rack of this tough worldStretch him out lonfrer. ^t» dalles ^tttnxts, THIRD SERIES—SCOTTISH DIVIXES. LECTURE VIIT,THOMAS CHALMERS. 3y the Rev. Donald Macleod, , Minister of the Park Church,Glasgow, one of Her Majestys Chaplains. XT EVER was Scotland richer in great men thanduring the earUer half of this century. \Vchave but to recall the names of Sir Walter Scott, Hogg,Tannahill, Carlyle, Jeffrey, Mackintosh, Cockburn,and John Wilson to suggest more than one literarycircle of the greatest brilliancy. When the centuryopened it beheld the country engaged in the greatstruggle with Napoleon, and military and navalexploits, * whose echoes perish never, were stimu-lating the national life to the utmost. The Church,too, possessed among its clergy many ministers ofexceptional scholarship and intellectual power; butthe cold shadow of the eighteenth century Moderatesstill cast a chilling influence on its energies. Modcr-atism was cultured and tolerant, and some of its U 2 74 Thomas Chahuers. representatives were afterwards foremost in the pro-motion of Christia
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