a noble family had adopted those views, and carried them out regardless of expense.  The lady who had been instrumental in getting up these musical services was very anxious that a favourite female servant of the family—­a Presbyterian of the old school—­should have an opportunity of hearing them; accordingly, she very kindly took her down to church in the carriage, and on returning asked her what she thought of the music, etc.  “Ou, it’s verra bonny, verra bonny; but oh, my lady, it’s an awfu’ way of spending the Sabbath.”  The good woman could only look upon the whole thing as a musical performance.  The organ was a great mark of distinction between Episcopalian and Presbyterian places of worship.  I have heard of an old lady describing an Episcopalian clergyman, without any idea of disrespect, in these terms:—­“Oh, he is a whistle-kirk minister.”  From an Australian correspondent I have an account of the difference between an Episcopal minister and a Presbyterian minister, as remarked by an old Scottish lady of his acquaintance.  Being asked in what the difference was supposed to consist, after some consideration she replied, “Weel, ye see, the Presbyterian minister wears his sark under his coat, the Episcopal minister wears his sark aboon his coat.”  Of late years, however, a spirit of greater tolerance of such things has been growing up amongst us,—­a greater tolerance, I suspect, even of organs and liturgies.  In fact, we may say a new era has begun in Scotland as to church architecture and church ornaments.  The use of stained glass in churches—­forming memorial windows for the departed[19], a free use of crosses as architectural ornaments, and restoration of ancient edifices, indicate a revolution of feeling regarding this question.  Beautiful and expensive churches are rising everywhere, in connection with various denominations.  It is not long since the building or repairing a new church, or the repairing and adapting an old church, implied in Scotland simply a production of the greatest possible degree of ugliness and bad taste at the least possible expense, and certainly never included any notion of ornament in the details.  Now, large sums are expended on places of worship, without reference to creed.  First-rate architects are employed.  Fine Gothic structures are produced.  The rebuilding of the Greyfriars’ Church, the restoration of South Leith Church and of Glasgow Cathedral, the very bold experiment of adopting a style little known amongst us, the pure Lombard, in a church for Dr. W.L.  Alexander, on George IV.  Bridge, Edinburgh; the really splendid Free Churches, St. Mary’s, in Albany Street, and the Barclay Church, Bruntsfield, and many similar cases, mark the spirit of the times regarding the application of what is beautiful in art to the service of religion.  One might hope that changes such as these in the feelings, tastes, and associations, would have a beneficial effect in bringing the worshippers themselves into a more genial spirit of forbearance with each other.