I believe it to be very painful to Scotsmen generally, whether of the Established or the Episcopal Church, that the Presbyterian Church of Scotland should be spoken of in such terms as have lately been made use of.  Scotsmen feel towards it as to the Church of the country established by law, just as the Anglican Church is established in England.  They feel towards it as the Church whose ministrations are attended by our gracious Sovereign when she resides in the northern portion of her dominions, and in which public thanksgiving was offered to God in the royal presence for her Majesty’s recovery.  But more important still, they feel towards it as a church of which the members are behind no other communion in the tone and standard of their moral principle and integrity of conduct.  They feel towards it as a church which has nobly retained her adherence to the principles of the Reformation, and which has been spared the humiliation of exhibiting any of her clergy nominally members of a reformed church, and, at the same time, virtually and at heart adherents to the opinions and practices of the Church of Rome.  English people, in speaking of the Established Church of Scotland, seem to forget how much Episcopalians are mixed up with their Presbyterian fellow-countrymen in promoting common charitable and religious objects.  For example, take my own experience:  the administration of a very valuable charitable institution called the Paterson and Pape Fund, is vested jointly in the incumbent of St. John’s, Edinburgh (Episcopalian), and the two clergymen of St. Cuthbert’s (Established) Church.  Even in matters affecting the interests of our own Church we may find ourselves closely connected.  Take the administration of the late Miss Walker’s will, and the carrying out her munificent bequest to our Church, of which I am a trustee.  Of the nine trustees, two are Episcopalians residing in Scotland, one an Episcopalian residing in England, and six are Presbyterians residing in Scotland.  The primary object of Miss Walker’s settlement is to build and endow, for divine service, a cathedral church in Edinburgh; the edifice to cost not less than L40,000.  The income arising from the remainder of her property to be expended for the benefit of the Scottish Episcopal Church generally.  A meeting of trustees was held, November 25, 1871, and one of the first steps unanimously agreed upon was to appoint the Bishop-Coadjutor of Edinburgh, who is a trustee, to be chairman of the meeting.  There is no doubt or question of mutual good feeling in the work, and that our Church feels full and entire confidence in the fair, honourable, candid, and courteous conduct of the trustees to whom in this case will be committed weighty matters connected with her interests.