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There was a moment's silence Gilbert Peden kneell that what his opponent said was good Marrow doctrine, for Allan Welsh had confessed to hio

Then, as with one voice, the two ainst each other the solemn sentence of deposition and deprivation: "In the name of God, and by virtue of the law of the Marrow Kirk, I solemnly depose you from the office of thethe lock hanging aith the despairing force of his charge

"Be merciful, oh, be merciful!" he cried; "let not the Philistines rejoice, nor the daughter of the uncircumcised triumph Let be! let be! Say that ye dinna mean it! Oh, say ye dinna mean it! Tak' it back--tak' it a' back!"

There was the silence of death between the twoat each other

John Bairdieson turned and ran down the stairs He ang awa'!" he cried "There's nae leecense for ye noo There's nae mair ony Marrow Kirk! There's nae mair heaven and earth! The Kirk o' the Marrow, precious and witnessing, is nae mair!"

And the tears burst fro whither he went

Half-way down the street a seller of sea-coal, great and griht The spirit of the Lord ca that a foe withstood hihty that the seller of coal, whose voice could rise like the grunting of a sea beast to the highest s of the New Exchange Buildings, dropped as an ox drops when it is felled And John Bairdieson ran on, crying out: "There's nae kirk o' God in puir Scotland ony mair!"