Three Churchmen. By the Rev. William Walker, LL.D. (Grant and
Son, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Walker has adopted Dean Burgon's ad- mirable plan of putting sundry short biographies into one volume. There are many men whose lives are worth telling, though there is not material enough in them to furnish a full volume. The three are Bishop Dundee of Glasgow, Bishop Terrot of Edinburgh, and Dr. Grub, Professor of Law at Aberdeen. Hence we get a picture of life and thought in a body but little known on this side of the Border,—the Scottish Episcopal Church. Bishop Terrot is certainly the best to read about, for he was a humorist of no mean degree. Here are scene verses from his "Common Sense." (The original would seem to have been Dr. Candlish.)
"Listen ! for no fool Is this, or trifler of the modern school ; Nor, like Door Blair's, the banquet he affords A scrap of Ethics in a froth of words;
But from too plenteous store which ho unlocks Flows the pure stream of Calvin aud of Knox, Through the five points with cautious step he treads, Divides and subdivides his hydra heads; Be gives necessity a Christian name,
(Names matter little when the thing's the same). Till half his hearers are convinced that we, Do what we will, do just what was to hi."
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