Scotland/Scots > Reminiscences of a Highland parish

PASSING AWAY.
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both born on the glebe. And these clergymen
represented a few only of the descendants of the
old minister who were enjoying the manifold bless¬
ings of life. These facts are mentioned here in
order to connect such mercies with the anxiety
expressed sixty years ago by the poor parson
himself in the letter to his girls, which I have
quoted.
One event more remains for me to record con¬
nected with the old manse, and then the silence of
the hills, in which that lowly home reposes, will
no more be broken by any word of mine about its
inhabitants—except as they are necessarily asso¬
ciated with other “ reminiscences.” It is narrated
in the Memoir of Professor Wilson, that when the
eldest son of our manse came to Glasgow Col¬
lege, in the heyday of his youth, he was the only
one who could compete, in athletic exercises,
with Christopher North, who was his friend
and fellow-student. The physical strength, ac¬
quired in his early days by the manly training
of the sea and hills, sustained his body; while
a spiritual strength, more noble still, sustained his
soul, during a ministry, in three large and difficult