Twenty-Five Years of St. Andrews Volume 1; Sept. 1865 to Sept. 1890 (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.1893 Excerpt: ... 298 CHAPTER XIV JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1878 DR. CROMBIE, Professor of Biblical Criticism in the University, was Baird Lecturer this year. He gave the lectures in Glasgow, in the beautiful Blythswood Church. On Saturday February 16 I heard him deliver one. Crombie was one of the most eminent scholars ever formed by a purely Scotch training; and he was a very graceful lecturer. His fluency of extemporaneous speech was marvellous. He spoke extempore in a written style. Very often it appeared that he had got into such an involved sentence that he must break down, or get through by some breach of grammar. He always came out triumphantly, every word falling in its proper place. The lecture was given at 2 P.M. The congregation was very small. Crombie went to the pulpit, and after the Lord's Prayer he read his lecture: an hour. It went against the grain to hear him say Deliver us from the evil one: one of the many irritating alterations made by the Revision Committee. But the lecture, on the literary characteristics of St. John's Gospel, was perfect, both in matter and manner. The lecture over, I went into the vestry, where some one in brief authority was informing the Professor that he had not heard a word of his lecture. It was put about that some one remarked that the lecture was perfectly audible to any one with cars of the ordinary length. But my impression is that the sentence was not quite in these words. I had gone to Glasgow to preach on Sunday in the University Chapel. The services there are very interesting. The music was very impressive, the great Choir being vested: the men in scarlet, the boys in purple. Dr. Peace was organist, and of course played magnificently. I had written a sermon specially for the students: and when I saw the multitude of bright at...