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 martyrs, have been held forth as worthy of the grateful
regard of posterity, and commended to their imitation and adoption. The
Bicentenary of the SANQUHAR DECLARATION was commemorated with
appropriate services,--upwards of 4000 persons of different religious
denominations convening at the ancient burgh of Sanquhar for this
purpose. The addresses delivered on the occasion by ministers and
others, ably displayed and vindicated the position assumed by Richard
Cameron, and his followers, and commended to public approval their
testimony. Some three years ago, a like public commemoration of
Renwick's birth and martyrdom was celebrated, at the place of his
nativity near MONIAIVE, in the south of Scotland,--ministers and people
of the Free, United, and Reformed Presbyterian Churches manifesting the
deepest interest in the proceedings. Besides the ministers and large