EBENEZER
========
Hic
EX TENEBRIS
LUX LUXIT
ERGO
PATER, FILIUS, ET
SPIRITUS SANCTUS
MEUS DEUS,
ET NOMEN
HUJUS LOCI
LUX[15]

Both as to size and shape the stone is similar to the quaint early 17th
century "head-stones" in the older portion of the graveyard around
Dunning Church.

Something must be written of the bells which have been connected, at one
time or another, with the Church of Dunning. One bell, no longer in the
Tower, came to sudden grief when discharging its duty on a certain happy
occasion. The Master of Rollo of the time, who was living at
Masterfield, having been blessed with four daughters, but no son and
heir, was met one evening by a messenger bringing the welcome news that a
son had just been born to him. "Go," he said, "and make the bell ring
till it crack." The order was literally obeyed--a broken bell being the
result. Its fragments having been taken to Duncrub, were, many years
after, re-cast into a bell, now used in connection with the private
chapel there. The inscription on the cracked bell, for a copy of which
the writer is indebted to the present Lord Rollo, was of a very
interesting and suggestive nature. Round the top were the words--"Soli
Deo Gloria. Joannes Oaderogge me fecit. Roterodami, 1681"; and on the
body of the bell, the following words placed thus:--

"HAEC AD EVANGELIUM
HOC AD CHRISTUM
HIC AD CAELUM
VOCAT PBCCATORES."[16]

His Lordship adds--"The bell, I believe, was in a vessel that was
captured in the American War, and it was brought here by my predecessor,
Andrew, fifth Lord Rollo.... It was broken in April, 1773, and I had it
re-cast by Mears in 1860, with the original inscription replaced."

Of much interest, also, are the two bells still in the Tower of Dunning
Church. The older and smaller bears the Dutch inscription:--"IC BEN
GHEGOTEN INE IAER ONS HEEREN MCCCCCXXVI."[17] But in addition to this,
the bell shows a two-fold representation that seems to give it a value
quite unique. What we have is--(1) a scallop-shell,[18] on which are
three figures--a central-seated figure, and two smaller figures kneeling
alongside. The central figure seems to hold something, which may be a
book, in the left hand close to the breast. The right hand is extended,
and seems to hold a staff and a garland. The figure has a _nimbus_, and
a curious triangular head-dress. (2) On the side op