160 THE BANK ACCOUNTANT. 



proposed to transfer Dr Candlish from his pulpit to a 

 professorial chair, the common sentiment of the Free 

 Church settled upon Stewart as best fitted to succeed him 

 as pastor of the most influential and cultivated congrega- 

 tion in the Free Church. Stewart's profound conscientious- 

 ness, finding in the selection a providential indication of 

 duty, overpowered his reluctance to accept the call ; but 

 the thought of Edinburgh pressed on him, to use his own 

 phrase, like his gravestone, and one day, before proceed- 

 ing to the south, he was found dead in his bed. 



