Excerpt from Memorials of Robert Smith Candlish, D.D., Minister of St. George's Free Church, and Principal of the New College, Edinburgh IN these Memorials I have put on record all the information I could gather regarding Dr. Candlish personally - his early training - his habits of life his correspondence - and his public transactions, Ecclesiastical and Philanthropic. It seemed suitable that a man who occupied such a prominent place, and who took such a large share in the transactions of a very critical period in the history of Scotland, should have his words, and actings in relation to them, embodied and preserved in this way'; for these are of abiding interest, and largely illustrate an epoch of Scottish history, pregnant with issues which are still in progress of development in this and in other lands. To understand fully the transactions of that period it is necessary to be acquainted with the part Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.