He had the whine and sough in his voice that our sectaries prized, and I could shut my eyes and imagine I was back in the little kirk of Lesmahagow on a hot summer morn.

On the scaffold, he maintained the uprightness of his conduct, praised the character of the present king, and appealed from the censures of the kirk to the justice of Heaven.

And here these wretched squatters have lain down to their long sleep, after barring each of the two doorways of the kirk with an iron grate!

He laugheda real laugh, and swept Kirk into warm, familiar arms.

You could see the proud fellows walking the streets in brave clothes, and marching into the kirk on Sabbath with a couple of servants carrying cushions and Bibles.

But Thomas Thorl received me kindly, and said that this early visitation was a symptom of grace, and that not to condemn me without trial he and some neighbours would be at the kirk at the next Lord's day, so that I would not have to preach just to the bare walls and the laird's family.

" He recollected that the landing was no darker for Kirk than any other place, and added: "You're apt to be stepped on hereI nearly smashed you.

To do him justice he was not worse than his word, for I have aye attended the kirk as usual, standing, when it came to my rotation, at the plate, and nobody, gentle or simple, ever spoke to me on the subject of the playhouse, or minted the matter of the rebuke from that day to this.

Yet she had no clear recollection of seeing Kirk between the time when she saw him drop the hand of the tall, strange man and run up the steps, and when they all were standing around her in the library, looking a little grave.

Ken lurched, bewildered, to his feet, and seeing his foe stretched by some miracle upon the ground, he bundled Kirk over the wall and followed giddily.

In his passionately whispered confidence the old gentleman must have found solace, for he presently smiled,a real smile,and then still keeping Kirk beside him, began playing a sonata.

More than one thousand individuals were accused before them of adultery, incest, and other offences, which they had been obliged to confess in the kirk during the last twenty or thirty years.

"I'm not Kirk by any means," he reflected, "and this sort of thing is altogether out of my line.

He writes to the General Assembly of the Kirk in protest against a declaration of theirs.