cial service for servants on Sunday afternoons; on Fridays
and Saturdays he also holds Bible classes. On Sundays the service itself
is conducted very simply, much as it was in old-fashioned Dissenting
chapels before the introduction of chants and anthems. To the stranger
the principal novelty is the vast preponderance of young men in the
congregation, and the use of that somewhat inelegant version of the
Psalms compared with which, in Scotch--not English ears,

"Italian thrills are tame."

And now what further shall the writer say of Dr. Edmond? Personally he
does not come up to the English idea of a successor of one of the old
grand Presbyterians who died gladly for God and His covenant in troubled
times, and to whom, humanly speaking, as Mr. Froude has well shown,
England owes the civil and religious liberty she enjoys. Even with his
gown on he does not strike you as being a big man. His features are
small, and when he is reading or looking down his very dark eyebrows
completely shadow and eclipse his eyes. For his age he is very bald, but
his face is apparently that of a man of hardy constitution and active
out-door life. His voice is excellent, and every syllable he says can be
distinctly heard. He preaches apparently from notes, and as he goes on
his way rejoicing the fire burns; he leaves his desk, now retreating
behind, now walking a few steps on one side, and a smile lights up his
face as he talks of what the Gospel has done, and of the brighter
triumphs it has yet to achieve. At other times he comes forward,
reaching his right arm as far as he can over the desk, as if anxious to
individualize his appeal, and to force it home to every heart. As a
preacher he hammers at his text with true Scotch pertinacity, and will
not give it up till in the way of spiritual truth he has wrung from it
all it can be made to yield. There can be no question about his
orthodoxy, or his knowledge of Scripture, or of the firm foundations of
his faith, or of the ample preparation he makes for his Sunday services.
No hearer need go empty away from Park Church. It must be his own fault
exclusively if he does. The preacher understands his vocation, and to it
conscientiously devotes his every power.

The English have never taken kindly to Presbyterianism; the simplicity of
its worship, the sternness of its Calvinistic creed--that of the
Westminster Assembly of Divines--have repelled our English sympathies.
Of late it ha