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A marble tablet to his memory is built into the front wall of the 

 church. 



10. The next incumbent of Chirnside church was the Rev. 

 Thomas Logan, M.D., a native of Lanarkshire. He was or- 

 dained April 16, 1801. The Doctor was one of those who, in 

 conjunction with Brougham, Jeffrey, Sidney Smith, &c, esta- 

 blished a society out of which originated " The Edinburgh 

 Review." But it does not appear that he ever wrote anything 

 for its pages. His Medical Thesis is said to be a piece of very 

 elegant Latinity. The Doctor was evidently a man of superior 

 talent, but was not distinguished as a preacher of the gospel. 

 He died on the 30th January, 1838, aged 62 years. 



11. The present minister of Chirnside is the Rev. James 

 Wilson. 



The churchyard of Chirnside contains fully an acre of land, 

 and is clustered with an immense number of grave-stones, 

 most of which are of a very common-place character. A very 

 neat monument was recently erected by the Odd-Fellows Society 

 to the memory of J. Crosbie, surgeon in this village. There is a 

 small obelisk to the memory of Thos. Begbie, Esq. of Mains. 

 The only other worthy of notice is that to the memory of the 

 Rev. Henry Erskine mentioned above, raised by subscription in 

 1822. Near this obelisk, at the east side of the churchyard, 

 may be seen his original monument, which is supposed to have 

 been erected by his friend, the Rev. John Dysert, minister of 

 Coldingham. It is what is called in Scotland a thr ouch-stone, — 

 a broad horizontal stone placed on pedestals, and is inscribed 

 with the following epitaph : — 



" M. S. 



M. Henrici Areskine 



Pastoris Chirnsidis, 



Qui obiit 10 Augusti 1696, 



iEtatis suse 72. 



" Sanctus Areskinus, saxo qui conditor isto 

 Est lapis seterni vivus in iEde Dei, 

 Non astu lapis hie, technave volubilis ulla 

 Quippe fide, in Petra constabilitus erat. 



" Under this stone there lies a stone, 

 Living with God above ; 

 Built on a Rock was such a one, 



Whom force nor fraud could move." 



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