Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character eBook

Edward Bannerman Ramsay
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 542 pages of information about Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character eBook

Edward Bannerman Ramsay
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 542 pages of information about Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.
my dear Mr. Malcolm, very faithfully and gratefully yours, A. SEDGWICK.

I have printed already more than one letter from the Rev. D.T.K.  Drummond, from admiration of their intrinsic merit, and because I wish here to collect proofs that no diversity of Church rites or Church policy could separate our Dean from brethren whom he regarded perhaps as erroneous, but recognised as teaching and leading by the same principles of freedom, which he himself revered and followed.

     Rev. D.T.K.  DRUMMOND to DEAN RAMSAY.

     Montpelier, Saturday.

My dear Friend—­Very many thanks for your most touching note, and for the extract from your book you so kindly sent me.  The more I look into it the more I like it, and thank God for the testimony you so unequivocally and fearlessly hear to the unity of the True Church of Christ of any age, however much the great army he made up of various sections, of diverse uniforms, and with special duties to perform.....
Again thanking you very warmly, and earnestly praying for all the precious consolations of the Great Head of the Church to be largely vouchsafed to you, believe me to be always most affectionately yours,

     D. T. K. DRUMMOND.

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The subject of the following letter cannot be overlooked by a biographer of Dean Ramsay:—­

     Rev. Dr. CANDLISH to DEAN RAMSAY.

     52 Melville Street, 18th March 1872.

My dear Dean Ramsay—­I have just read with most profound thankfulness and admiration your noble Christian letter in this day’s Scotsman.  I cannot deny myself the gratification of expressing my feelings to you in this feeble acknowledgment.  You have done a signal service to the cause of our Blessed Lord and common Master.  I am too infirm to write more fully all that is in my heart.  You will pardon all defects, and believe me, yours very truly,

     ROB.  S. CANDLISH.

The letter referred to by the distinguished divine arose out of what is known in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the cause celebre of the Bishop of Glasgow against the Bishop of Argyll.

The Rev. Dr. Caird, of the University of Glasgow, having invited the Bishop of Argyll to preach to a mixed Episcopalian and Presbyterian congregation, using his Church’s liturgy, from the University pulpit of Glasgow, the Bishop of Glasgow interposed to prevent it.

The interference of the Bishop of Glasgow with his brother prelate of Argyll called forth a letter from Dean Ramsay, which appeared in the Scottish Guardian on 15th March 1872, and in the Scotsman three days later.  In it the Dean in fact asserts a religious sympathy towards those who differ from him, comprehensive enough to include all his Protestant countrymen.

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