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Miss Renwick's cheeks were flushed, and the dark eyes were filled with sudden pain, as she answered, "I did not know she was there. She was to have gone to the Lakes the same day we left." "She did go, Alice," said her mother, quietly, "but it was only for a brief visit, it seems." The colonel was not at their cottage when the omnibus reached the lake.
"I have always leaned on Armitage ever since I first came to the regiment and found him adjutant," said the colonel. "I always found his judgment clear; but since our last experience I have begun to look upon him as infallible." Alice Renwick's face took on a flood of crimson as she sat there by her brother's side, silent and attentive.
Considering Renwick's youth, being but nineteen years of age when he entered on his great work, he was endowed with singular qualifications as a preacher of the gospel. These remarkably fitted him for the great work to which he was called promoting the Redeemer's glory, in awakening and converting sinners, and in edifying and comforting the Church in a season of suffering and trial.
Francis on the 2d of November, and connected their work with that of Professor Renwick's division of the preceding year at the bridge near Fournier's house.
"A lot you were!" she retorted rudely. "Who was that girl you danced with?" He smiled wearily. "Tommy Renwick's cousin from the West." "She is pretty." "Very good goods." "Is she as nice as Tommy?" "No. There are not many girls as nearly right as Tommy." "Except me." "Well, perhaps, except you." "But then, I'm not many." "No, separate wrapper, only one in a box," he admitted handsomely.
She said nothing for twenty steps. Then: "Harry," she said quietly, "can't you take me away from Mrs. Renwick's this year?" "I don't know, Helen. I can't tell yet. Not just now, at any rate." "Harry," she cried, "you don't know what you're doing. I tell you I can't STAND Mrs. Renwick any longer." She calmed herself with an effort, and went on more quietly.
What a cluster of gems the Lord will find here, in the day when He makes up His jewels! When the Blue Banner fell from Renwick's lifeless hand, Alexander Shields grasped it. He was scarcely worthy. Though he had served well and suffered much in former years, yet once he had lapsed.
You thought that night that the light was turned up and afterwards turned out in her room, and that it was her figure you saw at the window. Didn't you?" "Yes. What then?" "Well, I believe her statement that she saw and heard nothing until reveille. I believe it was Mrs. Maynard who did the whole thing, without Miss Renwick's knowing anything about it." "Why?"
The following account of Renwick's manner of preaching, and of the impressions made on his hearers is taken from an unpublished MS. of Ebenezer Nesbit, son of Captain Nesbit of Hardhill, and may be regarded as descriptive of the way in which he proclaimed the gospel to the "flock in the wilderness," during his brief but singularly efficient ministry.
The record of the life, labours, and testimony, of James Renwick is fraught with practical lessons of the highest value to the Church in the present day; and ministers, theological students, and the rising youth of the Church generally have a special interest in pondering them deeply, and in seeking to reduce them to practice. From Renwick's personal history, we see 1.
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