Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . the Disruption cameround, and created the necessity of taking mea-sures of provision. This financial scheme of support, communi-cated at first only to a few friends, was for along time unknown to the general body ofEvangelical ministers. They were going for-ward, maintaining their principles, and wagingtheir warfare, so long as there was an inch ofterritory left to fight upon, without casting athought upon their future fate. If a thoughtcrossed their minds at all, it probably took thisshape, that they would be supported as the NEW ERA OF FREE CHURCHES.
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . the Disruption cameround, and created the necessity of taking mea-sures of provision. This financial scheme of support, communi-cated at first only to a few friends, was for along time unknown to the general body ofEvangelical ministers. They were going for-ward, maintaining their principles, and wagingtheir warfare, so long as there was an inch ofterritory left to fight upon, without casting athought upon their future fate. If a thoughtcrossed their minds at all, it probably took thisshape, that they would be supported as the NEW ERA OF FREE CHURCHES. 259 ministers of the previous Scottish Secessions hadbeen, by voluntary stipends from their respec-tive congregations. But, as we have alreadymentioned, there is the concurrent testimony ofmany observant and honourable persons, whoknew them and mixed largely amongst them,that thought or care for the future was quiteremarkably absent from their minds; and thatsuch considerations had not the weight of afeather in swaying their XX. THE FIVE HUNDRED.
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