Without the grief of parting with one minister there could not have been the transport of choosing another.

To have had a pastor always might have made them vainglorious.
They were seldom longer than twelve months in making a selection, and in their haste they would have passed over Mr.Dishart and mated with a monster.

Many years have elapsed since Providence flung Mr.Watts out of the Auld Licht kirk.

Mr.Watts was a probationer who was tried before Mr.Dishart, and, though not so young as might have been wished, he found favour in many eyes.

"Sluggard in the laft, awake!" he cried to Bell Whamond, who had forgotten herself, and it was felt that there must be good stuff in him.