Davit proposed him.
Every few years, as one might say, the Auld Licht kirk gave way and burled its minister.

The congregation turned their empty pockets inside out, and the minister departed in a farmer's cart.

The scene was not an amusing one to those who looked on at it.

To the Auld Lichts was then the humiliation of seeing their pulpit "supplied" on alternate Sabbaths by itinerant probationers or stickit ministers.
When they were not starving themselves to support a pastor the Auld Lichts were saving up for a stipend.

They retired with compressed lips to their looms, and weaved and weaved till they weaved another minister.