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service. Be sure that I
am very grateful to you.

Your opening chapters
are an astonishing achievement
of compressed learning and
pellucid statement. They
interested me the more as
I had been reflecting on
the profound differences which
marked off the course and
consequence of the Reformation
in Scotland from those of
the Reformation in England.

It is greatly creditable
to you as a true Scot to
exhibit so frankly the
repulsive features of the
early Presbyterians. I have
even thought that Scottish
Christianity in the xvii^th
century was the least
recognizable version of
Christ's Religion which
modern history presents.