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VIS OF DR. MACKIE ' : A-- 4 & Hy The Cradle of the Scottish Church ~A Call to Scotchmen to Rear on the Spot An Eternal Memorial. By Rew. John Mackie, DB. "l am a man" i teacher ; nothing that is humg foreign 10 me," 'We ave Scotchumen, say thousands in the great Dominion of Canada, "nothing per w the dear old land is unintexest to us." Yea | things purely Scottish ever touch the heart more quickly when it is beating far away from Scenes, 1 Thou, we awifly and promptly oF I it out, swiftly or Next to oux birth spot in the ancient eh - name of which is better known, held more sacred, then the small rocky island of lona, on its western coast, Every one who knows the his tory of the national faith,--and that is every Scotchman,--for if there 1s anything in which he is more versed than another, it is religion, histori cally as well as doctrinally, knows that Jona was the cradle of the Scot- tish church, There St. Columba, head- ipg his apostolic band from Erin, un- furled in 583 the banner of the cross, and from it, as from headquarters, sent, Jaxth, bis associate missionarive highlands, and the low- of mainland, steeped in tition, end red with constant tribal war. Thie sanct] its soil; and makes many a vevout beart go plgrim to it as 0 the holy shrine. ; But this is not all, On that little lo island, the very history of Seo as a kingdom, bad its be ginnings, There, Aidan was crowned by St, Columbus, the first Christian king, not ol a tribe, but of a nation; al to him, in unbroken succession, con be traced after thirteen hundred years, Edward VII, the reigning mon- arch of the British empire. Un the very Stous of Fate on which Aidan sat in Jona, when St. Columba crown- ed blest him, in 574, Edward sat in Westminster Abbey, when the crown was placed on bis brow in 1902, Ilona was therefore the cradle of both church and state; and to it, in conse quence, as to no other spot in the world, save to the "Green hill out side the city wall," most holy Cal- vary, do Sops ofl Seotlend, turn with burning hearts. Ht was ao pilgrim's most precious privilege to visit 'the islaid, three years ogo, realising the dream of his tile, Mapy and many a time 'did he walk its shores in spirit; climb its b height; look out on the fret const mainland, with its tow- mountains behind; and on the 8 islands that dot the western horizon, and see the glorious sunsets that transfigure the Atlantic into a vast sheet of burnished gold, and the heavens jo. th gutguotiy grandeur of apocalytlic visions, spirit, he walked - its length, and breadth, in the fellowship of conse life, lowly in mind, simple in taste, lofty in aim, sell forgetful and God-reliant, given to. Him and the work of the Crucified Glosified. Many a time, when in con: tact with sordid selfishness; in a world with features hard and, tight, , Nving up to itp creed "Every man for himself"; and with empty vaunting profession, in a church at ease, in luxury, and power, with upturned eyes impiously jalking of sacrifice, had the vision 'of that lit- te "tule, in the far'off countries, with its men of God, holding in their hearts the word of life, and going forth into the wilds of paganism with steady foof, and souls fired with "the assurance of victory, delivered from shaking, failing faith 4 he de- pression of imism; and the inertia EF despair. You ! an inspiration like _ this has never failed, to rise from that sparkling fount of Christian re- ligion, and Scottish history, fanning into flame, both the faith and patriot- ism of generations of grateful, thoughtful men. Its very silence centuries has been the powerful elo quence of the unseen, uplifting, purify- * ing, energizing mortals coming and Song, ripping the national faith, and by service and gacrifice the lasting 'good of their native land. On the tion of summer days, be saw with his eyes in actual reality, the pictures of his mind, His feet stood on the sacred, historic shore of deep indentation, where the effigy of precious metal, --irresistible temptation to Norseman,--had lain, There, a lit tle to the north,' and bard by the pot where the alter of purest marble stood, is the tomb of Abbot Mackinnon, His effigy is in stone, and much defaced by ruthless hand, is easily adjudged the finest i of this class of work within walls, The recumbent figure is in full canonicals, and all the intrica- cigs of folds and lines and ornamenta- tion are most delicately traced. Around aye bass reliefs of exquisite workinanship, representing scripture Scenes, sermons in stones, --that im- press the mind, and linger in memory. verywhete are stones, large and small, covered with labyrinthine trac ery, and rich foliation, and all the 'exuberance Bnd variety of Celtic sym- bolic art, Above, are the lofty , mas- sive walls, looking to the open heay- ens, with here and there 'a broken space; here and there green patches of fern Juxuriating in the damp; and here and there on the lichen ridges, yel- low clumps of fragrant wall flower, In the hush of centuries, the pil- grim moved, and looked, and wor shipped, full of the heroic past--the steep ascent to heaven;--and of the glorious future;~the manifestation of a hammer fell on his ear. Following the gentle tapping. he discovered two men, cunningly putting together frag- ments of richly sculptured stone; ten- derly placing in their original the blocks that had fallen; skil- fully and faithfully reproducing the de- stroyed; 'smd steadily, reverently, though slowly erasing "Ichabod" from the venerable pile; and bringing back the past of Roly worship, and saintly life and work, into the pres- ent. The werd had gone forth: the deep silence of ages was broken: the ruing were to be reclaimed : and "Praise to the Holiest in the Height" was again to rise within the hallowed enclosure, from the spiritual children of those resting beneath the sculptur- ed slabs; in the nameless graves around; or beneath the tangled sea- weed; or in lovely muir, or mountain side; known only to heaven, and watched--sneer not incredulous age !-- "Till the day break, and the shadows flee away.' What wrought the change? Iona, gifted to St. Columba, for sacred uses, by his an, Connal the king of the Scots, had in the vicissitudes of centuries, come into the possession of the Dukes of Argyll. The noble fath- er of the present duke, better known in Canada as the Marquis of Lorne, yenerating the ruins, with their holy precinets, and anxious for their sale custody," in suceseding - years, had, some time previous to his lamented death, restored them to the Church of Scotland. Not the island, but that which is everything of worth on the island, the roofless walls of the Abbey church; the "garth" or graveyard, of St. Oran, round the ruins of the tiny oratory, built, as is believed, by Queen Margaret, and if so, with her Chapel St. Margaret's, on the Castle Rock of Edinburgh, the oldest house of God, in the land; and the spaci- ous, beautilul remains of the scholas- tio institution, known as the nunnery, of convent, in active service, for over three hundred years, have been vested in trustees; the principals of the uni- vorsities and others; as the inalien- able possession of the Scottish church, while it, that is, while Scotland lasts. It was the pions wish of the illustri- ous duke, and worthy son of the church, that the Abbey ghurch should be restored, and divine worship cele brated within it. It was also his de- sire that when restored, the Church of Scotland should manifest the most catholic, spirit, and place the building at the disposal of any Christian de- nomination wishing to hold religious services in it. The church, and the people of Seotland, having gratefully received. the gift, are now carrying out the duke's desire, and their own: Already, have the choir and transepts been roofed in, and fitted wp; and during the summer and autumn months large congregations of parish- loners, and visitors; assemble to-wor- ship, on the sacred spot, the God of all the ages, and the Saviour of all. Moreover, the Scottish church is fully determined to make it the holy centre of Christian unity, for the whole cir- SHE PATIENTLY DISGRACE A Sad letter from a lady whese Husband was Dissipated. How Sho Cured Him with a Romedy. Vebeic THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1008, ™ -- PRINCESS cle of church organizations; and thus manifest to the world a waity of spin ity which is union, independent of uni- formity, which is the absence of vari: ety of method and manner. The work has been well begun, and the partial restoration has been ad- mirably carried out. It is a very joy to, think of it. But it is only begun. TBe nave is still broken walls, and bate to the sky; but loving bearts are determined that its dreary period of desolution shall speedily end; and that out of the debris, and clin ing pieces, shall rise in stateliness, p stability, and beauty, a complete cathedral to the glory of God; and a national monument, of the undying gratitude of Seotland's sons, to St. Columba, and bis apostolic band, of imperish- able memory, and Scotland's pre-em- inent "benefactors. # . With their hands at the work, they call to us, their brethres furth the country, to give them a lift. They in- vite us to share in the hallowed task; to associate ourselves with them, as beirs of the same rich heritage; as of oué mind and heart with them in ev- ory movement that illuminates and emphasizes the religion and nationali- ty of Scotland. To the larger Seot land across the waves, as much as to Scotland between the Pentland Firth and the Cheviot Hills, belongs the memories, rights, and privileges of Holy Iona. Without us, thousands of miles away, under the fringes of the flag that floats over fhe vast British empire, the restoration would not be national; would not stand out in bold relief as Scotland's testimony to the primitive faith, as the very palladium of national greatness; and the eternal worth she puts upon those, who lay lives upon the altar, that she may shine out, grand, and noble, among the nations of the earth. Yea ! not only so. lona belougs to a larger than Scotland, both at home and abroad, even to Christendom. Ire- land claims it and loves it as the adopted home of her noble son, Co- lumba, who, lighting his torch at the sacred fire, which Patrick, the Scotch- man, had carried to Ireland, made for Iona, from which, with a zeal that lasted till death, he bore it back into the fastness' of her mountain ranges; down into the recesses of her wooded straths, and bosky glens; upwards and downward; and onward to the waves that break on the links of St. An- drew's. Northern England claims it as the earliest school of her prophets and kings; as the mothet , of her own Lindisfarne of fragrant recollection; and as the headquarters of the whole- sonled pioneer missionaries, who evan- gelized the land from the Tweed even to the banks of the Thames. Scandinavia claims it, as once a part of her ancient ecclesiastical. domain; and the sacred acre of God, where rests till the resurrection morn, the dust of many of her royal dead. The whole continent of Furope claims it, as the Light that steadily shone in its pagan darkness; and the Life, that quickened its people into Christian nations, changing the desert into the garden of the Lord. The whole world claims it to-day, for its untold mighty influences for good, never dying hike the human frames through, which they wrought, but living in ever increasing power, as they sweep the centuries, moulding ov- erywheve, on British and foreign shores, the best and noblest charac ters; the wisest and usefulest citizens; the manliest and saintliest men. So western and eastern hemispheres both close reverently round the rocky islet, as their very heart; the source of their life, and of their love--of their being, and their best. Yes, this is so! and we rladly re- cognise the claim of one anc all; yet are we, the sons of Scotland, in per- manent possession; proprietors--no not proprietors ! but the privileged cus- todians of the holy places, that all the world may have ita cordial wel come home, as it goes pilgrim to the sacred shrine; and have its equal share of blessing in the ancient Abbey church, perfected by generous, grate ful love; and glorified hy worship, in the beauty of holiness, to the God of Columba, the friend and benefactor of all, Stretch out your hands then, sons of Scotland, and place your stone in the old temple, arising from its ruins to be an eternal memorial. ' Apprecia- tion of worth is not awanting to you; patriotic energy is not unfelt in your hearts, turned towards the dear old land. You are éver in the right place 'win the front--when the fight has to be fought, and the graceful has to be done. But yesterday, you paid high tribute to the memory of the bravest Scottish soldier in Victoria's reign-- Hector Macdonald. Today you will do your generous part in rearing to the memory of Columba--the Man of ed as his own distinguished patronesses, and having an interesting face and an exceedingly long erick in the young man. Hahn claimed THE DUPE OF MUSICAL FRAUD. Protege of Archduchess Frederick Hoodwinked Two of His Royal Patrons. Vienna, March 21.--Fritz Hahn, the] protege of the Archduchess Frederick and of Princess Pauline Metternich has just been exposed as a. musical fraud, who, not only stole and pass- the compositions of reat masters, but even copied their ters in his correspondence with his Hithn camé here from Stuttgart; mane of hair, sopn female contingént that hailed him as a genius, He had a letter of introduction to' Princess Metternich, and so won her over that she interested the Archduchess Fred- attracted a it was as easy for him to compose classic as ragtime music, and in four months Hahn submitted to Princess Metternich no less than eleven sym- phonies which were produced with the utmost success at leading concert halls and at the palaces of the great, and the newspapers did not hesitate to pronouncg them "master works." Princess Metternich, elated at hav- ing: discovered this new genius, was so enthusiastic that she made up a purse, intending to publish Hahn's eleven symphonies in two editions, a de lux edition, and ome for the com- mon people. But, strange to say, the composer would pot hear of it; "his symphonies were for the select only," he "hated printed music," and "cared nothing for popular recognition." His refusal ta accept Princess Metternich's gene- rous offer roused the suspicion of several music publishers, and they ap pointed an expert to study Hahn's manuscripk symphonies, This was done and it was discovered that every one of Hahn's eleven symphonies were copied from the old masters, copied note for note, There wasn't an ori- ginal line in any of the works that had attracted critical and popular at- tention. DOG VARIATIONS, Pointers and Setters Are of the Canine Aristocracy. It is a mistake to suppose that dogs are anywhere near alike in character. Even those of the same breed vary, and about as much as men and wo- men of the sume nationality. As 1p the manners and the morals ol dogs, they arc to a great extent the result of their contact ' with man, and they develop along the same lines. Aud, on the other hand, it is impossible to make anything out of a mean-spirited dog, just as it is out of a mean-spirit- ed person. Dog instingt is about the same as human jastinet. A dog rea- sons, learns, judges by facts, exactly as a man reasons. He is quicker of observation, He has the keen sense of, smell, which makes up to him in Some measure, for the vicarious experience of human beings, The dog must ex- perience a thing to know it, and his faculties have heen traived by gene- rations of observation, of taking note, until they have reached their present perfection. A dog has not the power of speech with which to conceal his thoughts. Consequently he is franker than man, but quite unconsciously so. When he is a dependent, he has the faults of one, He is vain, jealous, suspicious and a snob, Pointers and setters are essentially of the aristocracy of the dog world, and they have gentlemanly qualities. They have the grand air. They will allow themselves to be admired by or- dinary people, but they never give their allegiance to any except the ac complished hunter. They are elegant of form and vigorous of muscle, like any athlete, and have a power of dis- crimination and thought. The well bred contempt of a fine dog of one of these breeds for a man who has not intelligence enough to understand his strategy in the field must be seen to be appreciated. There is a story told of a trained pointer that was taken out with a party of inexperienced hunters, She was seen to spring to the top of a wall and then fall back. It was supposed she had caught her foot, and they ran to release her. 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