After the first psalm had been sung it was Hendry's part to lift up the plate and carry its tinkling contents to the session-house.

On the greatest occasions he remained so calm, so indifferent, so expressionless, that he might have been present the night before at a rehearsal.
When there was preaching at night the church was lit by tallow candles, which also gave out all the artificial heat provided.

Two candles stood on each side of the pulpit, and others were scattered over the church, some of them fixed into holes on rough brackets, and some merely sticking in their own grease on the pews.

Hendry superintended the lighting of the candles, and frequently hobbled through the church to snuff them.

Mr.Dishart was a man who could do anything except snuff a candle, but when he stopped in his sermon to do that he as often as not knocked the candle over.