Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

monarch-conscience versus power. Disguised
under antiquated words and phrases, this was the
essence of the great struggle, and though Scotland
lost her people in that struggle she won her cause.
Her leaders have all fallen; the last of their
ministers has just expired on the scaffold; there is
but a mere handful of her people around her blue
banner as it still floats upon her mountains; but
there is an eye watching that flag from beyond the
sea ready whenever the hour shall strike to hasten
across and reap the victory of these twenty-eight
years of martyrdom, by grasping that flag and
planting it on the throne of Britain.
Footnotes:
1. Wodrow, History of Church of Scotland, book
ii., chapter 12. Aikman, History of Scotland,
vol. 4., p. 603.
2. Aikman, History of Scotland, vol. 4., p. 603.
3. Wodrow, History of Ch. of Scotland, book ii.,
ch. 13.
4. Kirkton, History, pp. 390, 391.
5. Aikman, History of Scotland, vol. 5., p. 5.
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