by The Late Dr. Kennedy, of Dingwall.
Dr. Kennedy treated his subject under the following four heads, the first of which is given at large below:—
- What in relation to Establishment is the proper attitude and bounden duty of the Free Church? 2. That this Disestablishment movement, while inconsistent with our engagements as Free Churchmen, springs from no creditable source, and is accompanied with such symptoms of spiritual decline as make it very unlikely that it can be prompted and sanctioned by the Lord. 3. That our present duty is to hold our disruption ground, aloof as yet from the existing Establishment, but striving to secure for Scotland the blessing of a rightly constituted and healthily-conditioned Established Church. And 4. That this is very specially the duty of all in the Highlands who are connected with the Free Church. The first head he enforces as follows:—