Twenty-Five Years of St. Andrews, September 1865 to September 1890 Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...river, was enough for mortal man. With these were combined the reading of Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation; and of His Own Time. Every prospect, up and down the great water, and of the surrounding hills, was delightful. But on the Bishop's pages, man (for the most part) was vile. 211 CHAPTER XXV BISHOP THOROLD AT ST. ANDREWS: CHURCH DEFENCE We never had more welcome visitor than came to us on Saturday September 19, 1885. That evening, Bishop Thorold, then of Rochester, came to us, and beheld St. Andrews for the first time. He had had a tedious journey, and looked tired. But on Sunday morning, he was as bright and alert as might be. Often, on an evening at Selsdon, he came into chapel looking worn-out after confirming some hundreds: but next day he was always equal to the requirement. I had the parish church that morning. The Bishop sat beside Tulloch in the place of the St. Mary's Professors. He heard hymns quite familiar: among them of course 'The Church's One Foundation.' I said some words, closing my sermon, on our great loss in Principal Shairp, of whose death we had heard the day before: and the Bishop remarked that Tulloch was moved to tears by what was recalled to him. On the Saturday I had a kind letter from Bishop Wordsworth, who was absent, suggesting that the Bishop should preach at the parish church in the morning, and the Episcopal in the evening. I thought it far better he should rest: but I felt that Bishop Wordsworth's letter was a sign of the times. He p a would not have ventured to write it, twenty, or even ten, years before. It was pleasant to see the Prelate's face in that familiar church. Twenty-two years before, I had beheld it in St. Bernard's at Edinburgh. I had preached to him many times besides these two: but it was where...