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an agency tea- party, Mr. Irving, who had just returned
from a tour in Ireland, related some amusing particulars
of his perambulations through the liberties of Dublin.
" I entered," he said, "a miserable cabin, in which an
old woman was smoking a pipe by the fire. Seeing three
Portraits on the wall, I asked her who they were ?
a St. Paul on the right.' And this ? Au'
sure, isn't that St. Peter ?' And he in the centre ? ' And
don't you know Pat Donnelly, the bruiser ?—sure every-
ody knows him.' " Mr. Irving proceeded to tell of his
'oimr, to the Roman Catholic chapel in Dublin to see high

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rformed, a ceremony which he had never wit

To escape observation, he ensconced himself behind

pillar, where he stood. Every now and then, however,
an old woman behind him pulled him by the skirts, say-
ing. " Sure you'll go down on your knees." " And did
you go down ?" said one of the St. John's elders. " I
went. down at last, both to please the old woman, and to

iving." The question as to whether he
should have done this or not was raised and keenly dis-
cussed. Doctor Chalmers said nothing. The dis-
cussion closed, aud conversation took another turn ;

abstraction. He was evidently still busy trying to
settle the quallio vexata satisfactorily to his own mind ;
nor w<ts it till some practical question had to be dc-
Such

instances of absence of mind would frequently occur.
'' Three members of session," says Mr. Aitken, " being
also patrons of the school, called on me, along with the

o pertect a certain rarrangenu _
3s. The doctor hrd introduced the subject whet

tattoo, and continued praying military airs. The dis-
cussion was maintained by the other gentlemen, but the

, was complete

grossed

lie music

They came to a decision during his mental absence, and
waited his hearing. That was only obtained when the
drums stopped. ' Weil, gentlemen,' he then said, ' what
do you propose?' The. question is settled, doctor.'

eed then I sur

pose we may go.' It

ad been of

hether the doctor bad- any tune

This I can-

ment as well as othere—of this the above is one moo-f,
his choice of Scarborough and Devizes as his favourite
tunes with all precentors is another.—Life of Dr.

Chalmers

DR. CHALMERS AND HIS ASSISTANT.— At the corn-
mencemEnt of his ministry in St. John's, he had secured
'he services of the Rev. Edward Irving, then a licentiate
the church, There were peculiarities both of thought
' utterance which made Mr. Irving unpopular as a
He had given up the prospect of a settlement
at home, and had resolved to leave his native land, full of
the chivalrous romance of christianity. His intention was
relying simply upon such resources as he could open up

for'him- self by the way, to go as a missionary to Persia,
Eller a preliminary wandering over Europe. To qualify
himself for the self-imposed office, he applied himself to

the study of the modern languages, and buried himself
among his books. " Rejected by the living," as he told a
friend, " I was conversing with the dead." In the midst
of his studies he was interrupted by a note from Dr.
Andrew Thomson, asking him to preach in St. George;s,
and telling him that he would have Dr. Chalmer,

,oking out for an assistant, as an auditor. He corn-
with the request, and preached as he had been
d, without. however, having seen or conversed with

Dr. Chalmers. Days and weeks elapsed without any indi-
cation of his preaching having made any favourable im
pression. His books were all packed up and despatched
to Annan, while he himself set off on a farewell tour
round the west coast of Ayrshire to see some friends ere
his departure for the east. Loitering on the
quay at Greenock, he stepped into a steamboat
which, was to carry him, as he thought, to Stan-
raer. It was only after her paddles had commenced to
move that he discovered that she was bound for the high-
lands. He leaped ashore, and treading in no pleasant
frame of mind the Greenock quay once more, he resolved

that, carry him where she might, he would embark in the
next boat that sailed. It so happened that the vessel was
hound for Belfast, and had just time to write to his father,
saying that if any letter came for him it should be ad.
dressed to Coleraine, he crossed the channel and wandered
for two or three weeks over the north of Ireland, sleeping
in the houses of the peasantry, and in all its lights and
shadows seeing Irish life; In due time he reached Cole-
raine, where there awaited him a letter from Annan, con-
taining an enclosure which his father told him he would
have copied if he could, but he could not decipher a single
word. it ;vas a letter from Dr. Chalmers requesting hisim-
mediate presence in Glasgow. He hurried there, arriving on
a Saturday, when he found that Dr. Chalmers had gone to
Fifeshire. As there was nothing definite in t•
weeks had r

sed since it was written, Mr. Irving was about
altogether when told by a friend that
„canners had just. returned. Ile saw him, and was
told that it was his desire that he should be his assistant.
" Wcll, Sir," said Mr. Irving, ear the unexpected tid-
ings had been communicated to " I am most grateful

I give up the matte

to you, but. I must be also somewhat acceptable to yonr
people. I uiil preach to them if you think fit, and if they
bear with my preaching they will bethe first people that
have borne with it." He did wench, proved acceptable,
and for the two years which followed—the busiest perhaps
in_all his busy life—Dr. Chalmers was refreshed and sus-

rained by the congenial fellowhip and effective co-opera-
tion of a like-roinded and noble-hearted associate.— Life
of Cladaera.