grave, where the dying are burying the dead.’  All this is the result of that gift of genius; to feel with the whole soul and utter with the whole soul.  The case of Gavazzi shows that tremendous energy can carry an audience away, without its understanding a syllable of what is said.  Inferior men think by loud roaring and frantic gesticulation to produce that impression which genius alone can produce.  But the counterfeit is wretched; and with all intelligent people the result is derision and disgust.

Many of our readers, we daresay, have never witnessed the service of the Scotch Church.  Its order is the simplest possible.  A psalm is sung, the congregation sitting.  A prayer of about a quarter of an hour in length is offered, the congregation standing.  A chapter of the Bible is read; another psalm sung; then comes the sermon.  A short prayer and a psalm follow; and the service is terminated by the benediction.  The entire service lasts about an hour and a half.  It is almost invariably conducted by a single clergyman.  In towns, the churches now approximate pretty much to the English, as regards architecture.  It is only in country places that one finds the true bareness of Presbytery.  The main difference is that there is no altar; the communion table being placed in the body of the church.  The pulpit occupies the altar end, and forms the most prominent object; symbolizing very accurately the relative estimation of the sermon in the Scotch service.  Whenever a new church is built, the recurrence to a true ecclesiastical style is marked; and vaulted roofs, stained glass, and dark oak, have, in large towns, in a great degree, supplanted the flat-roofed meetinghouses which were the Presbyterian ideal.  The preacher generally wears the English preaching gown.  The old Geneva gown covered with frogs is hardly ever seen; but the surplice would still stir up a revolution.  The service is performed with much propriety of demeanour; the singing is often so well done by a good choir, that the absence of the organ is hardly felt.  Educated Scotchmen have come to lament the intolerant zeal which led the first Reformers in their country to such extremes.  But in the country we still see the true genius of the Presbytery.  The rustics walk into church with their hats on; and replace them and hurry out the instant the service is over.  The decorous prayer before and after worship is unknown.  The minister, in many churches wears no gown.  The stupid bigotry of the people in some of the most covenanting districts is almost incredible.  There are parishes in which the people boast that they have never suffered so Romish a thing as a gown to appear in their pulpit; and the country people of Scotland generally regard Episcopacy as not a whit better than Popery.  It has sometimes struck us as curious, that the Scotch have always made such endeavours to have a voice in the selection of their clergy.  Almost all the dissenters from the Church of Scotland hold precisely