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Secession Fathers was the Rev. James Fisher, during whose KIX- 

 CLAVEN ministry, 1725-1740, the old token of that name may 

 have been struck, and certainly was in use. The year of the 

 great revival is recalled by the date 1742 upon the token of 

 CAMBUSLANG Parish. It also bears the initials of the Rev. 

 William M'Culloch, whose name along with those of the Rev. 

 James Robe of Kilsyth, Thomas Gillespie of Dunfermline, and 

 the renowned George Whitefield will ever be associated with that 

 remarkable movement. To students of hymnology the BAL- 

 MAGHIE token, dated 1770, will have an interest as shewing the 

 initials of the Rev. Samuel Martin, hymn-writer and author of the 

 12th Paraphrase. Artistic pieces are found at RATHILLET 

 (.\.c. 1782) and KILMAXY of the same year. The name of the 

 one is that which will keep alive, in Scotland at least, the memory 

 of Hackston the Covenanter, "that great witness for Christ." 

 The Kilmany token will always have its name associated with that 

 of the Rev. Dr Thomas Chalmers, the leader of the Disruption in 

 1843, and would certainly be the token in use during Chalmers' 

 ministry there (1803-1815). Other tokens might easily be added 

 to the list of those already mentioned, but these will suffice to 

 show what avenues of interest are opened up to the intelligent and 

 studious collector of these little antiques which are fast becoming 

 articles of virtu. 



On the method of arranging and exhibiting tokens a good 

 deal might be said. Of course we are aware e\'ery collector is 

 apt to regard his own method preferable to or at least as good as 

 that of any other. It will Ije admitted, however, that the interest 

 and value of a collection largely depends on its arrangement and 

 method. One or two considerations may prove helpful to some 

 collectors who are not too far advanced and who may be in 

 difficulty on just such points as these. First of all, tokens, like 

 coins, should be kept from rubbing against each other. The 

 ]>osition of each token should be fixed, at least relatively, and 

 fixed in such a way that 'the token will be disfigured on neither 

 side. Further, tokens should be so exhibited as not to require 

 fingering. Whether arranged alphabetically or not it is a decided 

 advantage, almost a necessity, for each token to have under or 

 over it the name <if the parish or church to which it belongs. 

 Again, in the case of advanced collections inspection is made 

 easier, pleasanter, anrl more profitable if along with the designa- 



