THE late Dr Kennedy, Dingwall, preached in 1881 at Fearn, Ross-shire, from Isaiah xxvi. 20—”Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers.” In applying the teaching of the text to his own time, he said that judgment was fallen on the Church in Scotland. It was a judgment within the Church, and would manifest itself in five ways:—(1) The Lord would remove most of His living witnesses, and great blanks would be left unfilled in the Church. (2) False teaching would take the place of the Gospel. (3) Spiritual discernment would leave the people, and under their darkened understanding they would swallow the new teaching as a blind man would a dish of water, whether clean or unclean. (4) A spirit of worldliness would fill the minds of the people, and they would forsake the means of grace. Where hundreds once attended they would soon be counted by tens. (5) The Lord would deny to Scotland the work of the Holy Spirit. Though He promised to leave a seed to serve Him, he did not promise that Scotland would continue to enjoy this favour. As in days of old, the worldliness entering in would grieve Him and cause His Holy Spirit to be withheld, and then His true servants and people would be few.