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tion failed that they came from that Hebrew Bible 

 which he read in the house of his Evangelical father. 

 In Mr Ruskin's earliest, which many consider also his 

 greatest books, for their morning softness and depth of 

 glistening blue may be thought to have more enduring 

 loveliness than the perpetual sword-gleam of his later 

 writings, passage after passage, inferior in eloquence 

 to none in the English language, suggest the idea of an 

 Evangelical Bos suet or Jeremy Taylor. And has it been 

 enough considered that it was from the cottage of a 

 Scottish Old Light Seceder that Thomas Carlyle went 

 forth to write those books which, for good or for evil, 

 have changed the current of English and American, 

 possibly also of European, literature ? 



Hugh Miller saw with grief inexpressible that the 

 Evangelical party in England, with its Record news- 

 paper and its Dean Cockburns, Avas taking the fatally 

 wrong turn in the matter of science and religion. 

 In Scotland, during his lifetime, there was not much 

 cause for alarm. While Eleming, as Professor of Geo- 

 logy in the Eree Church College, sent out clergymen 

 to teach and preach that death and pain existed myr- 

 iads of ages before Adam, that the starry heavens 

 and the earth are of an antiquity to be measured by 

 millions of years, that the Noachian deluge was local, 

 and while the leading religionists of Scotland recog- 

 nized with gratitude and approval the importance of 

 Miller's own services in the cause of religious truth, 

 he had no occasion to fear. But the Evangelicals of 

 England never showed the courage and faithfulness in 

 this matter of the Evangelicals of Scotland, and the 

 lamentable exhibitions we have recently had have 

 painfully demonstrated that Hugh Miller's expostula- 

 tions, printed in his Impressions of England and its 



