LAST WORDS.
Mrs. A. R. Cousin, wife of Rev. W. Cousin, Free Church minister of Melrose, has woven into a delightful poem many of Samuel Rutherford's most remarkable utterances. This piece has become almost a household hymn, known over all our country, and in America no less. It is entitled sometimes by its first line, "The sands of time are sinking," and sometimes, "The Last Words of S. R.," though it takes in many of his sayings, besides his deathbed words.
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MEMOIR AND REMAINS
OF
Rev. ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE,
MINISTER OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH, DUNDEE.
By Rev. ANDREW A. BONAR, D.D.
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A Cloud of Witnesses: For the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ; being the Last Speeches and Testimonies of those who have suffered for the Truth in Scotland since the year 1680. Reprinted from the Original Editions, with Explanatory and Historical Notes. By the Rev. John H. Thomson.
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"The well-known house or Messrs Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, of Edinburgh, has republished the Rev. W. H. Carslaw's edition of the Scots Worthies, and, in so doing, has put within the reach of everybody one of the most interesting and useful books in Scottish literature. More than one hundred years have elapsed since John Howie issued the first edition of the famous book. No man was better fitted for the task of embalming the worthies of the Scottish Covenant in the memories of his fellow-men, for he was a staunch Cameronian; his ancestors had suffered in the interests of the Church of Christ in Scotland; his home was the centre of the district in which many of the most tragic scenes of Scottish martyrology occurred; and, besides strict adherence to truth, he had a literary power which awakes surprise and admiration. The book was a household one in the Presbyterian homes in Scotland in its quaint early garb. An edition was issued with notes by the late William M'Gavin. author of 'The Protestant;' and other editions have followed. Mr. Carslaw's has already established itself in public favour, and well it may. It has all the quaintness of the original volume in a condensed form. It abounds in illustrations of well-executed views of Covenanter localities, from the Communion stones of Irongray to Dunnottar; of Scottish palaces, Falkland, Holyrood, etc.; of Scottish abbeys and churches—indeed it might almost be called an illustrated Gazetteer of Scotland. It likewise contains views of places in England, Ireland, and the Continent connected with Covenanting story, such as Westminster, Rotterdam, and Londonderry. It gives, moreover, a gallery of portraits, from George Wishart to Robert Traill; from Mary Queen of Scots to William III.; and from Archbishop Sharpe to Claverhouse. It is in every way elegantly and quaintly got up, the illustrations having old-fashioned elaborately-decorated borders. We know of no book more calculated to quicken the pulse of modern Protestantism, or to give in an attractively biographical form the history of the Church of Scotland through the lives, and doings, and deaths of her noblest sons. We therefore commend it to all who wish to remember the days of former generations, or to understand the glorious work done for Scotland in his chief book by the old farmer of Lochgoin."—Christian Leader.
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