blood of thy witnesses to be the seed of the Church, and will return
again and be glorious in our land. And now, Lord, I am ready; the Bride,
the Lamb's wife, hath made herself ready." When the napkin was tied
about his face, he uttered a few affectionate words to the single friend
who was permitted to attend him on the scaffold; his last counsels then
spoken to the suffering remnant, show how much his heart was with them,
and the cause of truth in their hands. "As to the remnant I leave, I
have committed them to God. Tell them from me, not to weary, 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