THE FREE CHURCH AND DISESTABLISHMENT. rye THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"]
SIR,—The letter from "A Scottish Churchman," in your issueof June 13th, professing to give the correct version of the FreeChurch Assembly's action regarding Disestablishment, has only added to the confusion. Your correspondent actually quotes. without correction, and by implication endorses as perfectly accurate, the most important mis-statement your account contained. I refer, of course, to that which attributed to the leader of the Assembly, Principal Rainy, a motion committing it "only to Disestablishment, and not to Disendowment."
In the interests of truth, may I be allowed to supply the correction your correspondent has unaccountably omitted? Themotion proposed by Principal Rainy, and adopted by the Assembly, expressly affirmed in its leading clause,—" That Disestablishment and Disendowment in Scotland are not only demanded by the principles of the Protest of 1843, but are urgently called for in the interests of justice and of the peace and welfare of the country."—I am, Sir, &c., M. N.
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