BULLER.
I wish I were better read than I am, in the history of Scotland, civil and ecclesiastical.
NORTH.
I wish you were. I say, then, my excellent friend, that the Ritual and whole Ordering of the Scottish Church is moulded upon, or issues out of, the human spirit kindling in conscious communication of the Divine Spirit. The power of the Infinite—that is, the Sense of Infinitude, of Eternity—reigns there; and the Sense in the inmost soul of the sustaining contact with Omnipotence, and self-consciousness intense, and elation of Divine favour personally vouchsafed, and joy of anticipated everlasting bliss, and triumph over Satan, death, and hell, and immeasurable desire to win souls to the King of the Worlds.
BULLER.
In England we are, I am ashamed to say it, ill informed on——
NORTH.
In Scotland we are, I am ashamed to say it, ill informed on——
BULLER.
But go on, sir.