times rudely exercised talents, we owe the Reformation."
"And yet that reverend gentleman," said Pleydell, "whom I love for his father's sake and his own, has nothing of the souring or pharasaical pride which has been imputed to some of the early fathers of the Calvinistic Kirk of Scotland. His colleague and he differ, and head different parties in the kirk, about particular points of church discipline; but without for a moment losing personal regard or respect for each other, or suffering malignity to interfere in an opposition steady, constant, and apparently conscientious on both sides."
"And you, Mr Pleydell, what do you think of their points of difference?"
"Why, I hope, Colonel, a plain man may go to heaven without thinking about them at all—besides, entre nous, I am a member of the suffering and episcopal church of Scotland—the shadow of a shade now, and fortunately so—but I love to pray where my fathers prayed before
