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The
Moderator
read
the
words
with
a
full
voice
and
with
relish
.
He
outlined
briefly
the
civil
consequences
attaching
to
excommunication
,
and
dwelt
terrifyingly
on
the
religious
state
of
one
cut
off
from
communion
with
Christ
and
His
Kirk
.
Then
he
proceeded
to
depose
the
minister
in
absentia
from
the
charge
and
to
declare
it
vacant
till
such
time
as
a
successor
was
appointed
.
The
appointment
would
be
in
the
free
gift
of
the
people
,
subject
to
confirmation
by
the
Presbytery
,
since
Nicholas
Hawkshaw
,
the
chief
,
indeed
the
sole
,
heritor
,
was
an
outlaw
and
a
fugitive
.
He
concluded
with
prayer
,
a
copious
outpouring
in
which
the
godly
in
Woodilee
were
lauded
for
their
zeal
,
condoled
with
in
their
sufferings
,
and
recommended
for
a
special
mark
of
the
Lord
’
s
favour
.
Then
he
drew
the
skirts
of
his
gown
delicately
around
him
,
and
gave
place
to
the
minister
of
Bold
.
Mr
.
Proudfoot
chose
for
his
text
second
Kings
the
tenth
chapter
,
the
twenty
-
fourth
verse
,
the
second
clause
of
the
verse
:
"
If
any
of
the
men
whom
I
have
brought
into
your
hands
escape
,
he
that
letteth
him
go
,
his
life
shall
be
for
the
life
of
him
.
"
It
was
a
theme
that
suited
his
genius
,
and
never
had
he
spoken
with
more
freedom
and
power
.
Scripture
was
heaped
upon
Scripture
to
show
the
guilt
of
half
-
heartedness
in
God
’
s
cause
(
"
Curse
ye
Meroz
,
said
the
angel
of
the
Lord
"
)
;
the
other
charges
against
David
he
neglected
,
and
concentrated
on
the
awful
guilt
of
unfaithfulness
to
the
Kirk
in
her
hour
of
trial
.
The
bulk
of
the
world
lay
prone
under
the
foot
of
Satan
,
but
in
Scotland
the
Lord
had
set
His
poor
people
erect
and
committed
His
cause
to
their
charge
,
and
woe
be
to
them
if
they
faltered
in
that
trust
.
At
this
point
Mr
.
Proudfoot
almost
attained
sublimity
.
There
was
a
crusading
zeal
in
his
voice
;
his
picture
of
the
stand
of
the
faithful
remnant
against
the
world
was
the
vision
of
a
stout
heart
.
He
passed
to
David
and
his
backslidings
.
He
drew
the
minister
as
a
weakling
,
beginning
no
doubt
with
an
honest
purpose
,
but
soon
seduced
from
the
narrow
path
by
the
lusts
of
the
eye
and
the
pride
of
life
.
"
Oh
,
is
it
not
pitiful
,
"
he
cried
,
"
in
this
short
and
perishing
world
,
with
the
Pit
yawning
by
the
roadside
and
the
fires
of
Hell
banked
beneath
us
-
-
is
it
not
pitiful
and
lamentable
that
the
soul
of
man
should
have
other
thoughts
than
its
hard
-
won
salvation
?
What
signify
profane
learning
and
the
delights
of
the
eye
and
the
comforts
of
the
body
,
and
even
good
intents
toward
your
fellows
,
if
at
the
hinder
end
the
Judge
of
all
will
ask
but
the
one
question
-
-
Have
you
your
title
in
Christ
?
"
In
especial
,
he
dealt
scornfully
with
the
plea
of
charity
.
There
could
be
no
charity
towards
sin
.
The
accursed
thing
must
be
destroyed
wherever
found
,
and
were
it
the
wife
of
a
man
’
s
bosom
or
the
son
of
the
same
mother
the
sinner
must
be
struck
down
.
The
congregation
listened
as
if
under
a
spell
.
So
intent
were
they
that
neither
the
people
on
their
stools
nor
the
Moderator
in
his
chair
nor
the
preacher
in
the
pulpit
noticed
that
in
the
dim
back
-
end
of
the
kirk
the
door
had
opened
and
some
one
had
entered
.
But
it
was
in
the
close
of
his
discourse
that
the
gale
came
upon
Mr
.
Proudfoot
’
s
spirit
.
Now
he
was
at
his
application
.
The
history
of
Israel
was
searched
to
show
how
Jehovah
the
merciful
was
yet
merciless
towards
error
.
Agag
was
hewn
in
pieces
-
-
the
priests
and
worshippers
of
Baal
were
slain
to
a
man
-
-
the
groves
were
cut
down
and
ploughed
up
and
sown
with
salt
.
.
.
.
So
rapt
were
preacher
and
people
that
they
did
not
observe
that
a
new
-
comer
was
among
them
moving
quietly
up
the
kirk
.
The
minister
of
Bold
concluded
in
a
whirl
of
eloquence
with
his
favourite
instance
of
Barak
the
son
of
Abinoam
-
-
how
with
ten
thousand
men
of
Naphtali
and
Zebulun
he
went
down
from
the
mount
Tabor
and
fell
upon
Sisera
,
the
captain
of
the
hosts
of
Canaan
,
so
that
not
a
man
was
left
.
He
likened
himself
in
all
humility
to
Deborah
the
prophetess
;
he
called
upon
the
people
of
the
Lord
,
even
as
she
had
called
upon
Barak
,
to
rise
and
destroy
the
Canaanites
without
questioning
and
without
respite
.
"
Let
us
smite
the
chariots
and
the
host
with
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
for
in
this
day
hath
the
Lord
delivered
Sisera
into
our
hand
,
and
let
us
pursue
after
the
remnant
even
to
Harosheth
of
the
Gentiles
!
"
"
Harosheth
of
your
grannie
!
"
