Age seems to have no more dulling effect on you than it had on Sir David Brewster, who retained, after he had turned the threescore and ten, all the greenery, foliage, and flowers of youth--presenting at once the freshness of Spring, and the flowers of Summer, and the precious fruits of Autumn.
May your bow long abide in strength! and the evening of your days be calm and peaceful, bright with the sure and certain hope of that better world, where, I hope, we shall meet to be for ever with the Lord! With the greatest respect and affectionate regards, yours ever, THOMAS GUTHRIE.
I cannot fix the date of the following anecdote, nor does the date much matter:--Some years ago a child, the son of the U.P.minister of Dunblane, was so dangerously ill, that a neighbouring lady, the wife of the Episcopal clergyman, who was much interested in the little boy, asked her husband if it might be permitted to beg the prayers of the congregation for his recovery.

The clergyman readily assented; and when the facts came to the knowledge of Dean Ramsay, and that it was a suggestion of a dear friend of his, he sent the lady a copy of his _Reminiscences_, with a letter to her husband, in which he says--"I was greatly charmed with your account of prayers offered up for poor little Blair.

Tell your Mary I love her more than ever.

It has quite affected me, her proposing it." The husband is the Rev.Mr.Malcolm; the lady his wife, daughter of the Dean's dear friend, Bishop Terrot.
But the end was approaching.

In December 1872 it was noticed with sorrow that for the first time since the commencement of the Church Society (1838), of which Ramsay was really the founder, the Dean was absent from the annual meeting of the general committee.