Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

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nominated Hotels, and their occupant s, Inn¬
keepers. Those in this district however can
not be fairly charged with extortion,
p. 23,1. 4?.
disjointed..
This occurred sometime about the close
of last century. The Killin minister, worthy
man, was passing at the time, and his cler¬
ical mind naturally reverting to the Day
of Judgment, he was found shortly after¬
wards by the roadside, nearly dead from the
combined effects of pious emotion and ex¬
cess of terror. Thus we see that all Pres¬
byterian ministers do not regard the Se¬
cond Advent with such feelings of equan¬
imity as did Dr Candlish and a brother
divine, on witnessing an unusually bright
Aurora, from the hills of Glenelg, about the
time of the Disruption. This adventure is
related with such child-like faith and sim¬
plicity that one yields to the temptation to
give the passage in extenso, as it may be
found in pages 80—81 of “A tour in the
Highlands with Dr Candlish” by the Rev.
Dr Beith of Stirling. The following is quo¬
ted verbatim.
“By his calculations he had made
out, as other commentators of great