AND R E ' MEL V ILL E CliAPTER I INTRODUCTORY VHILE Andrew :M~elvjne has other claims on the lasting honour of his countrymen than the part he took in securing for Scotland the ecclesiastical system which has been the most powerful factor in her historYJ it n1ay be held as certain that where this service which filled his life is disesteemed, his biography, if read at all, will be read with only a languid interest. It will be our first endeavour, therefore, to show that such a prejudice in regard to our subject is mistaken and misleading. l{elviIle, and all from first to last-who joined in the Scottish resist~nce to ~:piscopacYJ were persuaded that the controversy in which they were engaged was one not academic merely but vital, and that, as it was settled one way or the other, so would the people be left in a position in ,yhich they would be able to develop their religious life with freedom and effect, or in one which would incalculably cripple it. That is aTable of Contents CONTENTS;...

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