The immoralities of such men as the Beatouns, and the clerical caste in Scot-
land of which they stood at the head, are unhappily as well established as
any such facts can be.
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" The priest," said he, " whose duty and office it is to pray
for the people, stands up on Sunday and cries, ' Ane has
tint a spurtill ; there is a flail stoun beyond the burn ; the
gudewife of the other side of the gait has tint a horn-
spoon : God's malison and mine I give to those who know
of this gear and restores it not.' " And the appreciation
the people often had of this preaching is also well shown.
