Friend Mac Donald

Rooms.-No one can serve two Masters.-How the Gospel Camel was able to pass through the Eye of a Needle.-Incense and Common Sense.-I understand, therefore I b

nglican, or Episcopal, Church in England and

iastical deputies elected by the towns and universities, and presided over by a Moderator, elected by the Assembly, and

hurch in 1662. The Revolution of 1688, followed by the accession of the Prince of Orange to the throne of

erned by seven bishops; but, by the irony of fate, sh

hbishops and four bishops watch over

ripture to have ministers appointed by the State, founded the Free Ch

ontributed by the faithful desirous of founding a Free Church. This Church has eleven hundred pastors, receiving salaries of abo

tivity. Besides these, there are, as in En

r the Devil has a hard

e companies live in perfect

of Scotland, I saw one arrive at Buckie station, on his way to inspect the church of the town. The clergyman had come to meet him. They took the road to the

s ministers, the priesthood is a vocation. In Protestant countries, where religion impo

d out. Outside, the roofs are more or less pointe

to the first

straight-backed benches, and a high desk or pulpit: it is a lecture-room. Not a single outer sign of fervour: no kne

oved faces belong to people who would d

ferent semi-tones of the chromatic scale; sermons full of t

uence, to the heart by tenderness and grace, or to the t

recite them, others give them ex tempore

audience who had to hear them in a sitting posture. But Scotland has not the monopoly of this kind of eloquence; from t

rid, like the soil of the country; angular, like the bodies of

text the passage from St. Matthew's Gospel commencing with "No man

ened unmoved to the diatribes of the worthy pastor, and were preparing, by a day of r

desert, preached by bishops with princely pay, or poor curates who treat

that Sunday in Glasgow, especia

ise, O P

ry waiti

be where

to see

ise, O

ly long

place my d

prepares

eing them in such a hurry, "it is better

souffrir

devise de

ecial place? Did I exaggerate when I told you the Scotch e

nce never to enter into theologi

n the worthlessness of riches. The minister had preached from the text, "And again I say unto you: it is ea

ion of riches-a condemnation without appeal, and looked upon the man who sought to be rich, and the

way home from church, as we French people discuss the merits of a new play that we have just seen at the t

without resistance theories which would make our children start with indignation. If Christ's phrase could be interpreted in your fashion, it would be neit

ssible for a camel to go th

arcastic. I foresaw that his explanatio

r's time, a gateway called the Needle's Eye. Although one of the principal entrances to the city, this

nce is terrible. I never felt

ng tone, "in Scotch churches there is n

w Testaments are submitted to the finest sifting. Every pass

y believe; they believe because th

cotchman, still more than the Engl

eet together, and discuss the most subtle questions of

. Reason ripens in the

this religion

e from the letter of a young S

to one; but seeing that the ground was damp and slippery, I chose Ph?bus, a heavier horse, backed at ten to one. I was lucky in my choice. On Thursday, after the work of the day, I went to see the Nautch girls dance. It is a little risqué; but I have often heard you say that a man should see everything, so as to be able to judge between good and evil. There was a regatta on Friday. I went in for one race, but only came in second. On Saturday, I had to make out

filled week. I thought the mixture o

not over afflicted with modesty, who believe that they were chosen by Heaven to go and convert

ject. They will attack you with the question, whether you are not too fond of

first water, "airing their self-righteousness at the corners of the streets." The monotony of their tunes, the commonpla

from their services. They are lively, and break the awful silence of the British Sabbath. Their s

no education, and I know very well I am not a gentleman; but that does not prevent me from accepting the mission that I have received from Heaven t

, is i

unco' guid, are charitable: they pray for their neighbours. There are, on the west of Scotland, two small islands inhabited by a race whose piety is rea

ety assured, and, in their cha

n Bull to the Lord! The scene i