Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

there came such a rush of ideas into his mind, and
he felt so great a melting of the heart, that for a
whole hour longer he ran on in a strain of fervent
and solemn exhortation.[4]
Five hundred persons attributed their
conversion to that sermon, the vast majority of
whom, on the testimony of contemporary
witnesses, continued steadfastly to their lives' end
in the profession of the truth; and seed was
scattered throughout Clydesdale which bore much
good fruit in after-years.[5] In memory of this
event a thanksgiving service has ever since been
observed in Scotland on the Monday after a
Communion Sunday.
Thus the Scottish Vine, smitten by the tyranny
of the monarch who had now gone to the grave,
was visited and revived by a secret dew. From the
high places of the State came edicts to blight it;
from the chambers of the sky came a "plenteous
rain" to water it. It struck its roots deeper, and
spread its branches yet more widely over a land
which it did not as yet wholly cover. Other and
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