Excerpt from The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review: April, 1874 Holland, in England and Scotland, we search in vain for any traces of a disposition or tendency to withdraw from contact with the masses, or to become the petted faith of an elect class. Let us take Scotland as an illustration. The story of the pro longed struggle between the successors of Knox and Melville, on the one hand, with the people at their side, and an ambitious prelacy, backed by kingly influenceon the other, furnishes most decisive evidence of the true character and place of Presbyte rianism during that long interval, as the accepted and honored faith of the nation.' All efforts to supplant it by the introduc tion of a. More aristocratic polity, a more artistic style of wor ship, a less stern and thorough type of doctrine, signally failed during that struggle - failed signally because the heart of the people never swerved from its first and holiest love. All later attempts in the same direction, through moderatism ignoring essential as well as incidental things, through the implantation of erratic forms of belief, as through philosophic unbelief wearing the garb of religion, hence for the same reason came to naught. Presbyterianism has never forsaken the people of Scotland, and the people of Scotland have never forsaken Presbyterianism. All classes, all conditions, have alike adhered to it and alike re joiced in it. And if there be any section of Scotch society in which that Presbyterianlsm has found and is finding its firmest support, it is not the more aristocratic or affluent or cultured, but rather what may be termed the great middle class - that central body in whom the best life of the nation is flowing, and by whom the best interests of society are most strongly sus fained. 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.