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It was in the middle of this compendious petition, 'the lang prayer, that rheumatic old Scottish dames used to make a practice of 'cheengin' the fit, as they stood devoutly through it. "When the meenister comes to the 'ingetherin' o' the Gentiles, I ken weel it's time to cheenge legs, for then the prayer is jist half dune," said a good sermon-taster of Fife.
She is thus a complete guide to the Edinburgh pulpit, and when she is making a bed in the morning she dispenses criticism in so large and impartial a manner that it would make the flesh of the 'meenistry' creep were it overheard. I used to think Ian Maclaren's sermon-taster a possible exaggeration of an existent type, but I now see that she is truth itself.
Over such lives the things of this world have no power. They are kept secretly from them all in His pavilion where there is no strife of tongues. If one were to ask any sermon-taster of our generation what is the prevailing type of discourse among the better-known preachers of the day, he would probably answer, "The expository."
God is Love; and it is the glory of the everlasting Gospel that it points the road by which the Father's wayward sons in whichever of the far countries they may have wandered may find a way back to the Father's house, and home to the Loving Heart. She was a sermon-taster and was extremely sensitive to any kind of heresy.
Help us to forgive ourselves so fully that we can even forget ourselves, remembering only Him! And so let His kingdom come; we ask it for the King's sake, Amen. M'Collop as a sermon-taster.
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