crucified. So did the Jesuits
to the Chinese: and when they found the offence, they altered their
policy, and said the story of the crucifixion was an invention of
Christ's enemies. Did He?"

Angus made no answer: and breakfast being over, we separated to our
several work.

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Note 1. "Enthusiasm" was the term then usually applied to the doctrines
of grace, when the word was used in a religious sense.

Note 2. These sentences are not taken from any one of Whitefield's
sermons exclusively, but are gathered from the gems of thought scattered
through his works.

Note 3. Singular still meant alone in Whitefield's day.

Note 4. Articles twelve and thirteen. All the members of the Church of
England ought to be perfectly familiar with the Articles and Homilies,
as the Reformers intended them to be. How else can they know what they
profess to hold, when they call themselves members of the Church? If
they do not share her opinions, they have no right to use her name.

Note 5. He died at Newbury Port, in New England, in September 1770.
America has no nobler possession than the grave of George Whitefield.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

RUMOURS OF WAR.

"They've left their bonnie Highland hills,
Their wives and bairnies dear,
To draw the sword for Scotland's Lord,
The young Chevalier."

CAROLINE, LADY NAIRN.

Yesterday, when Flora and I sat at our sewing in the manse parlour,
something happened which has set everything in a turmoil. We had been
talking, but we were silent just then: and I was thinking over what my
Uncle Drummond and Mr Whitefield had said, when all at once we heard
the gate dashed open, and Angus came rushing up the path with his plaid
flying behind him. Flora sprang up and ran to meet him.

"What is the matter?" she said. "'Tis so unlike Angus to come dashing
up in that way. I do hope nothing is wrong with Father."

I dropped my sewing and ran after her.

"Angus, what is wrong?" she cried.

"Why should anything be wrong? Can't something be right?" cried Angus,
as he came up; and I saw that his cheeks were flushed and his eyes
flashing. "The Prince has landed, and the old flag is flying at
Glenfinnan. Hurrah!"

And Angus snatched off his cap, and flung it up so high that I wondered
if it would come down again.

"The Prince!" cried Flora; and looking at her, I saw that she had caught
the infection too. "