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| | Gleanings of the Covenant - No. 3. Peden's Farewell Sermon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | We believe there never was such a sad Sabbath witnessed as that upon which nearly four hundred of the established clergy of Scotland preached their farewell sermons and addresses to their several congregations. |
 | | It was a day, as the historians of that period express it, of "wailing, and of loud lamentation, as the weeping of Jazer, when the lords of the heathen had broken down her principal plants; and as the mourning of Rachel, who wept for her children, and would not be comforted." |
 | | The curate’s screams were heard from his bedroom window; and, by the assistance of the military, who had now arrived, he was relieved, by a rope, from his critical situation; and the young lovers were next morning discovered, safe and uninjured, in their own home, and in each other’s arms. |
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