ed another minister to compose a sermon in his sleep.
Mr. James Guthrie, at Stirling, 'had his house haunted by the devil,
which was a great exercise to worthy Mr. Guthrie,' and, indeed,
would have been a great exercise to almost any gentleman. Details
are wanting, and as Mr. Guthrie had now been hanged for sixty years
(1723), the facts are 'remote'. Mr. Guthrie, it seems, was
unpopular at Stirling, and was once mobbed there. The devil may
have been his political opponent in disguise. Mr. John Anderson is
responsible for the story of a great light seen, and a melodious
sound heard over the house of 'a most singular Christian of the old
sort,' at the moment of her death. Her name, unluckily, is
uncertain.

A case of 'telepathy' we have, at first hand, from Mrs. Luke. When
in bed 'a horror of darknes' came upon her about her daughter
Martha, who was in Edinburgh. 'Sometimes she began to think that
her daughter was dead, or had run away with some person.' She
remained in this anxiety till six in the morning, when the cloud
lifted. It turned out that Martha had been in some peril at sea,
but got safe into Leith Roads at six in the morning. A clairvoyant
dream was also vouchsafed to Dr. Pitcairn, though 'a Jacobite, and a
person of considerable sense,' as Wodrow quaintly remarks about
another individual.

The doctor was at Paris when a friend of his, 'David' (surname
unknown), died in Edinburgh. The doctor dreamed for several nights
running that David came to him, and that they tried to enter several
taverns, which were shut. David then went away in a ship. As the
doctor was in the habit of frequenting taverns with David, the
dreams do not appear to deserve our serious consideration. To be
sure David 'said he was dead'. 'Strange vouchsafments of Providence
to a person of the doctor's temper and sense,' moralises Wodrow.

Curiously enough, a different version of Dr. Pitcairn's dream is in
existence. Several anecdotes about the doctor are prefixed, in
manuscript, to a volume of his Latin poems, which was shown to Dr.
Hibbert by Mr. David Laing, the well-known historian and
antiquarian. Dr. Hibbert says: 'The anecdotes are from some one
obviously on terms of intimacy with Pitcairn'. According to this
note Robert Lindsay, a descendant of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount,
was at college with the doctor. They made the covenant that
'whoever dyed first should give account of his condition if
possible'. This