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The responsibilities of Scottish Blood.

A. My father used to tell how, as a very young man, he wandered
into a religious meeting where, bench by bench, people were confessing
their sins. At last it came to the turn of an old Scotsman
with a shaven upper lip and a beard under his chin. He rose and
declared that he had been deeply interested in what he had heard,
and that he would only have been too glad himself to oblige in the
same way. "But," he added, "honesty compels me to admit that my own
life for the past three years has been, humanly speaking, pairfect."
We are all apt sometimes to claim - humanly speaking - perfection.

B. During the debates in the Presbyterys before Church union in Scotland
came about there was one elder who finally withdrew his opposition
in these words:- "I think the scheme of union is impracticable,
ill-considered, unjust, and indeed absolutely idiotic - but there is
no doubt it is God' s will."

C. There was an old shoemaker in Fife who when in theological argument
was confronted with a quotation from the Apostle Paul used to
declare that that was just where he and Paul differed.