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But to the second circumstance, namely, the position of the Free Church of Scotland, with the great Doctors Chalmers, Cunningham, and Candlish at its head. That church, with its leaders, put it out of the power of the Scotch people to ask the old question, which we in the north have often most wickedly asked "What have we to do with slavery?"
Chalmers deems equivalent to the assertion, that “things grow up from the dark womb of non-entity, which omnipotence did not summon into being, and which omniscience could not foretell.” And again, “At this rate, events would come forth uncaused from the womb of non-entity, to which omnipotence did not give birth, and which omniscience could not foresee.” Now all this is spoken, be it remembered, in relation to the volitions or acts of men.
Chalmers has just given you concerning myself is entirely confidential." Nigel nodded. "We three will have a little talk to ourselves afterwards," he suggested. "At eight o'clock Number 17, Belgrave Square." Jesson strolled away after a little desultory conversation. Chalmers looked after him thoughtfully. "Harmless-looking chap, isn't he?" he observed.
Might not even the Mahometan suppose in the Christian a similar necessity as it relates to the pretensions of the false prophet?’ If Joseph Gurney sent for W. Y. to converse with Dr. Chalmers as a genial spirit, surely the name of one so honourable and of one so friendly both to my father and myself should not be omitted. W. Y. loved a joke.
"I hate geography!" declared Lindsay Hepburn. "If we could be taken a picnic to each of the places, there'd be some sense in it; but to have to reel off a string of tiresome names that don't mean anything at all to you I call it stupid!" "It's such a fearfully long lesson, too!" agreed Cicely Chalmers dolefully. "Miss Frazer might have set us a shorter one for the first!
Agnes looked up at him in surprise. "Not applying for it?" "No," he declared, "I don't want it. I understand there is a provision that I can not use two of these portions in the same business." Both Chalmers and Agnes nodded.
The price of illumination and power, later, will soar! Watch it. They're a very bright crowd," and Mr. Chalmers paused to admire them. "In other words," said Bobby glumly. "I am what Biff Bates told me I would be the goat." "Precisely," agreed Chalmers. "Begin suit anyhow," directed Bobby, "and we'll see what comes of it."
Chalmers himself seems to prefer the Gothic derivation of Lin-lyth-gow, or the Lake of the Great Vale. In 1300 it was rebuilt or repaired by Edward I., and used as one of the citadels by which he hoped to maintain his usurped dominion in Scotland. It is described by Barbour as "meihle and stark and stuffed weel."
But in the notes of the books read during the year 1837 a change becomes evident. It can be seen that he took more and more to the study of theology and Christian evidences, and his note-books are full of references to Baxter and Jeremy Taylor, to Robert Hall, Chalmers, and Keith. At length in the summer a crisis was reached.
The fox hunts, the 'possum suppers, the hoe-downs and jubilees in the negro quarters, the banquets in the plantation-house hall, when invitations went for fifty miles around; the occasional feuds with the neighboring gentry; the Major's duel with Rathbone Culbertson about Kitty Chalmers, who afterward married a Thwaite of South Carolina; and private yacht races for fabulous sums on Mobile Bay; the quaint beliefs, improvident habits, and loyal virtues of the old slaves all these were subjects that held both the Major and Hargraves absorbed for hours at a time.
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