DEAN STANLEY & DR. CAIRD.
Tu an introductory sermon preached by .Dean Stanley, the preacher thus explains his reasons iri requesting Dr. it'aircl ;t,o lecture in Westminster Ab,bey:—
•"And yet once move.. Foremost amongst :those wjio, being thus divided from us, yet ,are one with ! us, le,t us name the sister Church of Scotland; like our own, the .Church of the nation ; by our own Church recognised both in solemn prayer and legislative enactments ; like our own, if I may venture so to magnify ourselves, abounding in works of active charity, of enlightened faith, of Christian tolerance. s on this day, St. Andrew's Day, the day of national saint, :whose bones, to the ancient legend, were believed to have drifted without oar and sail to the rocky headland which now bears his name ; the cross of whose martyrdom ,on the shores of Achaia is emblazoned on the escutcheon of the northern kingdom ; on this day, which in both Churches is observed for the same sacred missionary .cause, I have thought that I should best be acting in accordance with the principle which I have endeavored to set forth, and with the exigencies of the times in which we live, by invoking the assistance of the wisdom and the' learning of, the chief of 'the greatest Scottish University, the first, preacher and theologian of the 'Scottish, •national Church. ' As last year we listened to the. voice of the distinguished , man scholar ; who had explored the depths pf heathen,.religions and of primaeval. lan-. Ijuage, so year t ,we shall hope ;tolisten; to the voice of our own countryman, * who i has explored as few else in this island, on the one hand, the. " Religion of Common Life," and' oti "the 1 other hand, the links which bind together Philosophy and Christianity in -that indissoluble , unity which alone win for the glad tidings' which we profess to carry throughout the world a solid basis and a permanent tri-umph—-the promise of the life that now.is' \ and that of which is to come."
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 320, 17 April 1875, Page 4
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337DEAN STANLEY & DR. CAIRD. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 320, 17 April 1875, Page 4
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