Scottish Characteristics (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Scottish CharacteristicsIn every estimate Scottish character and humor the old minister furnishes a singular variety of illustrations, marking a very distinct and individual type. Among ministers of all orders, and especially in a time not very far remote, there was much more of a brotherly resemblance than a brotherly difference, for they might belong to the Establishment, or not, they might belong to the "United Presbyterian, " the "Relief, " or the "Antiburgher" communions, but they were usually scholars and men of education, they were versed in their "humanities, " the framework of their theology was uniformly built up from the Confession of the Westminster Assembly, and their church government was uniformly Presbyterian. Thus they all resembled each other, and from their number it is very easy to distinguish many rich and rare originals, but the uniformity of the type holds even in circumstances which seem to differ.Nor was this national type Presbyterian only. Episcopacy and Prelacy have been supposed to be, until very recently, especially hateful to the Scottish mind, but John Skinner, the Episcopal clergyman of Longside, in Aberdeenshire, for sixty-four years during the last century, was as true to the type as any whose ecclesiastical relations we have indicated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.