Memoir of the Chisholm

216 HIS FEELINGS TOWARDS
foundation of others, the accomplishment of
which he was not permitted to see in this
world. Among the most prominent of these,
was the provision which he desired to make
for the Church which he had recently built at
his own expense, and which had been opened
for Divine Service a few months before. In
the course of the summer of 1838, the Sacra-
ment of the Lord's Supper was administered,
for the first time, beneath its roof, and the
Ohisholm then sat, as one of the communi-
cants, at the head of the communion table.
It was the opinion of some persons, — and ex-
pressed in a document which will hereafter be
referred to, — an opinion, which, the writer sup-
poses, was formed mainly upon the strength of
the fact just recorded, — that, had his valuable
life been prolonged, he would have soon for-
mally joined the Church of Scotland, and taken
his place as an Elder in its General Assembly.
This opinion, however, the writer has no he- ,
sitation in saying is erroneous. The asser-
tions, which, as the preceding pages will have
shown, the Chisholm so publicly and repeat-
edly made of his resolution to defend the pri-
vileges, spiritual and temporal, of that branch