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requires to secure their support. The price, should my 

 letter suit a publisher's views, may be very low; the 

 writer's interest in it will not add to the expense ; it is 

 an offering for the altar.' 



The circumstances which followed upon the arrival 

 of the Letter to Lord Brougham in Edinburgh will be 

 best conceived from an account of them given by Dr 

 Candlish in a letter to Mrs Miller, dated 3rd December, 

 1860. 



' I remember them,' he writes, ' as if they had 

 occurred yesterday. Walking along the streets one fore- 

 noon, I met quite accidentally Mr Robert Paul. After 

 conversing on general topics, and as I was leaving him, 

 he said to me, in a sort of casual, off-hand manner, " By- 

 the-by, I have a manuscript in my pocket which I wish 

 you w T ould read at your leisure. It is on the Church 

 question. The writer is a friend of mine in a bank in 

 the north." I suppose he mentioned Mr Miller's name, 

 but I had not heard of him before. I took the manu- 

 script home and laid it aside ; intending to give a cur- 

 sory glance over it in the course of a day or two, and 

 then return it ; certainly expecting to find nothing re- 

 markable in it, nothing beyond what might perhaps 

 be useful in the writer's own neighbourhood and circle. 

 That same evening, being alone, for I recollect that my 

 family were in the country, and being somewhat dull 

 and listless, I thought I might as well look at the manu- 

 script Mr Paul had given me. I began to read it in a 

 thoroughly indifferent mood. I never can forget the 

 rapture, for it was nothing short of that, into which 

 the first pages threw me. 1 finished the reading in a 

 state of great excitement ; so much so that, though it 

 was late, I could not rest till I had hastened with the 

 manuscript to Mr Dunlop, beseeching him to read it 



