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Gaelic i^auguagt
The following Letter on this interesting subject appeared
in the Perthshire Advertiser of last Thursday.
Sir, — Any man that has a forty, or even a
twenty, years' acquaintance with the Highlands
of Perthshire, cannot but perceive that the Gaelic
is fast losing ground, and must come to the con-
clusion, that should things go on for the next
sixty bears as they have gone on during the last
twenty years, the Gaelic will cease to be the
language of that large district of country. If
there was ever a machinery at work for produc-
ing a certain result, there is one at present in
active operation — a united and a determined
effort is put forth, perhaps not intentionally, to
banish the Gaelic entirely out of the country.
If all tliis was the effect of Christianity, I for one
ought to rejoice ; but I am certain it is not so,
that it has more of the horned antichrist in it
than of anything else.
I ask those who have the management of our
schools — and let their consciences answer the
question— Do you think, gentlemen, that Chris-
tianity would introduce the Latin rudiments and
the English grammar into our schools, have them
learned and taught, and at the same time exclude
the Gaelic New Testament without being either
read or taught at all ? What would the great
Author of Christianity think were He to attend
the examination of one of our Highland schools