Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

He waited on the Marchioness of Hamilton to
express his thanks, and to ask if there was anything
he could do by which he might testify his gratitude.
The marchioness asked only that she might be
permitted to name the ministers who should assist
him at the approaching celebration of the Lord's
Supper. Leave was joyfully given, and the
marchioness named some of the more eminent of
the ministers who had been sufferers, and for
whose character and cause she herself cherished a
deep sympathy. The first was the Venerable Robert
Bruce, of Kinnaird, a man of aristocratic birth,
majestic figure, and noble and fervid eloquence;
the second was Mr. David Dickson, of whom we
have already spoken; and the third was a young
man, whose name, then unknown, was destined to
be famous in the ecclesiastical annals of his
country -- Mr. John Livingstone. The rumor spread
that these men were to preach at the Kirk of Shorts
on occasion of the Communion, and when the day
came thousands flocked from the surrounding
country to hear them. So great was the impression
produced on Sunday that the strangers who had
assembled, instead of returning to their homes,
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