Judge, however, what was brewing, when the same night Mr. ’Twixt the fore and afternoon’s worship, he took his check of dinner at the manse, and I could not but say that he seemed both discreet and sincere.
Finding that I would not be able to preach myself, I sent to him, and begged he would officiate for me, which he very pleasantly consented to do, being, like all the young clergy, thirsting to show his light to the world.
Heckletext, tutor in Sir Hugh Montgomerie’s family, and who had shortly before been licensed. There was, however, at that time, a young man, one Mr. I went with him to the door with the candle in my hand – it was a clear frosty night, with a sharp wind and the moment I opened the door, the blast blew out the candle, so that I heedlessly, with the candlestick in my hand, walked with him to the yett without my hat, by which I took a sore cold in my head, that brought on a dreadful toothache insomuch, that I was obligated to go into Irville to get the tooth drawn, and this caused my face to swell to such a fright, that, on the Sabbath-day, I could not preach to my people. One of the elders, who has long been dead and gone, came to the manse about a fact that was found out in the clachan, and after we had discoursed on it some time, he rose to take his departure. On New-Year’s night, this year, a thing happened, which, in its own nature, was a trifle but it turned out as a mustard-seed that grows into a great tree.
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