Shortly after the disruption of the Free Church of Scotland from the church paid by the State, a farmer going to church met another going in the opposite direction.
"Whaur are ye gaen?" said he. "To the Free Kirk?"
"Ou, ay, to the Free Kirk," cried the other in derision:
"The Free Kirk—
The wee kirk—
The kirk wi'out the steeple!"
"Ay, ay," replied the first, "an' ye'll be gaen till
"The auld kirk—
The cauld kirk—
The kirk wi'out the people!"
This ended the colloquy for that occasion.
Hume Canonized
Hume's house in Edinburgh stood at the corner of a new street which had not yet received any name. A witty young lady, a daughter of Baron Ord, chalked on the wall of the house the words, "St. David's Street." Hume's maid-servant read them, and apprehensive that some joke was intended against her master, went in great alarm to report the matter to him. "Never mind, my lass," said the philosopher; "many a better man has been made a saint of before."