Three young students gave him a call in order to have a little amusement at the elder's expense.

On approaching him, one of them saluted him, "Well, Father Abraham, how are you to-day ?" "You are wrong," said the other, "this is old Father Isaac." "Tuts," said the third, "you are both mistaken; this is old Father Jacob." David looked at the young men, and in his own way replied, "I am neither old Father Abraham, nor old Father Isaac, nor old Father Jacob; but I am Saul the son of Kish, seeking his father's asses, and lo! I've found three o' them." For many years the Baptist community of Dunfermline was presided over by brothers David Dewar and James Inglis, the latter of whom has just recently gone to his reward.

Brother David was a plain, honest, straightforward man, who never hesitated to express his convictions, however unpalatable they might be to others.

Being elected a member of the Prison Board, he was called upon to give his vote in the choice of a chaplain from the licentiates of the Established Kirk.

The party who had gained the confidence of the Board had proved rather an indifferent preacher in a charge to which he had previously been appointed; and on David being asked to signify his assent to the choice of the Board, he said, "Weel, I've no objections to the man, for I understand he has preached a kirk toom (empty) already, and if he be as successful in the jail, he'll maybe preach it vawcant as weel." From Mr.Inglis, clerk of the Court of Session, I have the following Scottish rejoinder:-- "I recollect my father relating a conversation between a Perthshire laird and one of his tenants.