Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ter-Centenary of the Scottish Reformation, as Commemorated at Edinburgh August 1860
The materials furnished to the Editor for the composition of the present volume, consisted of the papers read, and the speeches delivered at the recent National Commemoration of the Scottish Reformation. These materials were so ample that the Editor would have found it a much easier task to compile from them two, or even three volumes of the present size than one. It was essential, however, to include all in one volume, and that a volume of moderate size.
Careful selection and rigorous condensation alone could enable the Editor to accomplish this. He foresaw that the task would be both difficult and invidious, and it was with some reluctance that he undertook it. Having undertaken it, how ever, he has discharged it to the best of his ability. The rule he laid down to himself in dealing with his materials, was that of preserving those facts and principles that bore upon the great object of the meeting, and of dropping what, though valuable in itself, might be regarded as only amplification and illustration. Almost every paper and speech has been abridged more or less. The same remark applies to the masterly and eloquent Sermons of Drs. Guthrie and Syming ton, also embraced in the volume. Notwithstanding this curtailment, the Editor believes that, by adherence to his rule, he has been able to preserve in the volume now in the hands of the reader, all that was of main or permanent value in what was said and done at the recent National, or perhaps he ought to say, Catholic Convention.
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