[Illustration: EDINBURGH FROM THE CASTLE]
In the morning we went to the High Church. Preacher, the Rev. C. Giffin,
M.A. Text. 2 Corinthians viii. 13 and to the end.
In the afternoon to the Tron Church. Preacher, the Rev. James McGregor,
D.D. Text: Isaiah lvii., the last three verses, and Ephesians ii. and
the first clause of verse 14.
In the evening to the Wesleyan Chapel, Nicolson Square. Preacher, the
Rev. Dr. James, President of the Wesleyan Conference. Text: I
Corinthians ii. 1, 2.
The excellence of the sermons, and the able way in which they had been
prepared and were delivered, gave us the impression that rivalry existed
between the ministers of the different churches as to which of them
could preach the best sermon. They were all fine orations, carefully
thought out and elaborated, especially that by Dr. James.
During the intervals between the services we walked about the city, and
again passed the splendid monument to Sir Walter Scott with the
following remarkable inscription, written by Lord Jeffery, beneath its
foundation stone:
_This Graven Plate, deposited in the base of a votive building on the
fifteenth day of August in the year of Christ 1840, and never likely
to see the light again till all the surrounding structures are
crumbled to dust by the decay of time, or by human or elemental
violence, may then testify to a distant posterity that his countrymen
began on that day to raise an effigy and architectural monument to
the memory of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
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