Nor manhood fresh and green,
But blends the locks of eighty-five
With ringlets of sixteen."
The old Session Records of this church are full of references to the trembled times of the Covenant. Here are one or two entries, which I quote from the Rev. W. S. Crockett's "Scott Country."' Mr. Crockett is Minister of the Parish.—"No session kept by reason of the elders being all at conventicles."
"No public sermon, soldiers being sent to apprehend the minister, but he, receiving notification of their design, went away and retired."
"No meeting this day for fear of the enemy."
HERE LYES JOHN HUNTER MARTYR WHO WAS CRUELY MURDERED AT COREHEAD BY COL. JAMES DOUGLAS AND HIS PARTY FOR HIS ADHERANCE TO THE WORD OF GOD AND SCOTLAND'S COVENANTED WORK OF REFORMATION 1688 Erected in the year 1726.
"The collection this day to be given to a man for acting as watch during the time of sermon." And so on.—
