In our Scottish cities the "sermon tasters" whose delight it was to sample the sermons of various ministers are a disappearing type, _yet I fancy many people would turn out of a Sunday to listen to a certain Highland divine if he comes South to the Lowlands. He was preaching recently on the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, and rose to a great height of fervour, in the course of which he exclaimed,—'Ah, my young men I ask you whether would you rather be in the light and the brightness wi' the five wise virgins, or oot in the dark wi' the five foolish wans?"
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