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* Jonathan took up an Aberdeen newspaper, wherein were 

 recorded certain of the proceedings of the Evangelical 

 ministers, who were visiting different parishes for the pur- 

 pose of holding meetings. First he put on his "specs," 

 and next he selected and read out several paragraphs, with 



such headings as "THE SCHISMATICS IN A ," "THE 



FIRE-RAISERS IN B ," and so on, winding up this part 



with the concluding words of one paragraph, which were 

 these : " So ended this compound of vain, false, and sedi- 

 tious statements on the position of the Church, and which 

 must have been most offensive to every friend of truth, 

 peace, or loyalty who heard it." 



* " I say Amen to ilka word o' that," said Dr. Drogem- 

 weal. "Sneevlin' hypocrites. That's your non-intrusion 

 meetin's. It concerns every loyal subject to see them pitten 

 doon." 



'" Here's fat the editor says, in a weel-reason't, and vera 

 calm an' temperate article," continued Jonathan "he's 

 speakin' o' the fire-raisers " : " How much reliance could be 

 placed on the kind of information communicated by these 

 reverend gentlemen will be readily imagined by such of our 

 readers as have read or listened to any of the harangues 

 which the schismatics are so liberally dealing forth. If 

 simple laymen, in pursuing objects of interest or of ambi- 

 tion, were to be guilty of half the misrepresentations of facts 

 and concealment of the truth which are now, it would seem, 

 thought not unbecoming on the part of Rvangelical mini- 

 sters, they would be justly scouted from society." " That's 

 fat I ca' sen'in the airrow straucht to the mark." 



'"Seerly," interposed Mains, who had been listening 

 with much gravity. 



* " A weel-feather't shaft, tae," said Dr. Drogemweal. 

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