ary, nor be
discouraged in maintaining their testimony. Let them not quit or forego
one of these despised truths. Let them keep their ground; and the Lord
will provide them churches and ministers. And _when He comes, He will
make these despised truths glorious in the earth._"

In the close of his testimony, written in prison, the day before his
execution, there are those sublime and affecting expressions, which were
designed to be his last words from the scaffold--"Farewell, beloved
sufferers, and followers of the Lamb. Farewell, Christian and
comfortable mother and sisters. Farewell, sweet societies and desirable
general meetings. Farewell! night wanderings in all seasons for Christ,
and all sublunary things. Farewell! conflicts with a body of sin and
death. Welcome, scaffold, for precious Christ. Welcome, heavenly
Jerusalem. Welcome, innumerable company of angels. Welcome, crown of
glory. Welcome, above all, O Thou blessed Trinity and one God. O Eternal
One, I commit my soul into thy eternal rest."

The relentless persecutors of our Presbyterian forefathers were not
content with removing this eminent servant of God, by a violent death;
as if to throw upon him the utmost indignity, his body was buried in the
common grave of felons, at the lower entrance of the Greyfriars
Church-yard, a plain slab of stone erected over the spot, stating that
the dust of the Rev. James Renwick lies interred with that of eight
other martyrs, and with the remains of a hundred common felons. The
emblem and inscription on the stone point, however, to the glory
reserved for faithful servants of Christ, when the sufferings of the
Church shall have been completed, and antichristian power shall have
been overthrown. The emblem is an open Bible, with the words in
Revelation vi. 9, 10, 11, inserted underneath.

Though enemies thus did their utmost to pour dishonour on the name and
memory of Renwick, and to extinguish the cause for which he suffered,
yet the Redeemer whom he intensely loved, and faithfully served, has in
his providence, vindicated the one, as He has preserved, and will yet
more extensively and gloriously display the other. Not only have eminent
historians and other distinguished writers, in recent times, done
justice to the character and labours of Renwick, and the contendings of
the Society people; but within the last few years, by several public
Commemorative services in Scotland, the spirit and testimony of the
later Scottish