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Church in Cambridge Street, Glasgow. His ordination took place on the 24th of December, 1835. The church rapidly filled under his ministry. The congregation consisted at first of some sixty members, but before many years passed its more than thousand sittings were fully occupied. It is still one of the largest congregations in Glasgow.

The pastoral care of a metropolitan congregation, in most cases, taxes the energies of the incumbent to such an extent as to leave him little time for the systematic study of subjects not directly required in his weekly work. But Mr. Eadie found time for study in circumstances where the attempt to do so would have seemed hopeless to a man of any but the highest powers of application. His industry was unwearied. ministry began at a time when German scholarship was giving a new impulse to Biblical study, and his acquaintance with the German language, then far from a common accomplishment in Scotland, enabled him to master the exegetical works of the German commentators long before English translations of their commentaries existed. Concurrently with this he prosecuted his study of Oriental languages and history; and his repute as a Biblical scholar was soon firmly established in Scotland.

Mr. Eadie's publications during this period of his life were exceedingly useful and popular, though by no means ambitious. One of his first volumes was "A New and Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, on the basis of Cruden;" a work entailing enormous labour, and labour, too, of a kind which few otherwise hard-worked men would like to undergo. It is long since Scaliger said of lexicon-making,

"Omnes

Pænarum facies hic labor unus habet;"

and concordance-making seems to us to be still more dreary and monotomous work than lexicon-making. "Eadie's Concordance" is now in its thirty-ninth edition. It was followed by a "Biblical Cyclopædia," a *Biblical Dictionary," an "Ecclesiastical Cyclopædia," and other similar works, all of which had a rapid and extensive sale, which is yet mainained.

In May, 1843, Mr. Eadie was elected Professor of Biblical Literature n the Divinity Hall of the Church to which he belonged-an honour eldom conferred on men so youthful as he then was, but one fully berited, and which was bestowed by a unanimous vote of the Synod of lectors. His success as a teacher was great. Himself an enthusiastic tudent, he had a singular power of awakening enthusiasm among the cholars under his care. But he had many difficulties to contend with in e discharge of his duties of Professor.

The system of theological education in the United Secession Church as radically defective. Students preparing for the ministry were, as

A GOLDEN WEDDING.

BY THE REV. DR. MACILWAINE.

"TWAS on a calm and sun-lit Autumn-eve

I sat beside the margin of the bay,

And mused. Still was the hour, and all around
Seemed as an infant's sleep. No ripple stirr'd

The waters at my feet, while overhead

The air hung breathless; save when through the boughs
That topp'd the hill-side came a gentle sigh,
Like a leave-taking of the setting sun.

Just then, out in the offing, landward steered
Two ships, fann'd by the favouring breeze that filled
Their sails outspread; and as they neared the port
Their forms, dim seen at first, grew on my sight.
They proved no warrior craft. No thunderous sound
Told their arrival. No war-ensign floated

Aloft, their warlike mission to proclaim;

And, graceful was the sight as, side by side,
They walk'd the sunny waters of the haven
And dropped their anchors in safe harbourage,
Their voyage ended. Up the hill-side stole

The sailors' mellow'd voices, chorusing

The mirth that closed their evening toil: thus borne,

It seemed like evening hymn. Down dropped each sail,

While mast and yard, reflected in the tide
That slept beneath, seemed all to tell a tale
Of deep and calm repose; the haven gain'd
After a voyage, long and mark'd, withal,
By many a change; but ended thus at last,
'Neath the calm sunset of this Autumn-tide.

Homeward, half-lingering, though my footsteps turned Still westward, o'er the waters of the bay

I backward gazed, to where his last bright gleam
The sun at parting gave. O'erhead there hung
Two clouds, that in the day-god's wake slow moved,

Together sinking. Rainbow-like the hues
That clothed their sides, purple and amethyst,
Golden and crimson, fading to the tint
Of softest sapphire-light, as each appeared
Like billow of molten pearl stooping to kiss
The western wave that peaceful lay beneath.
Thus journeyed they along their path of light,
"Till, in the veiling shade of evening wrapp'd,
In dream-like guise they melted from my view.

My walk resumed, I reach'd the hill-side height And paused again; the balmy breath of eve Inviting rest. One struggling streak of light Which, resting on the western wave proclaimed Night's silent hour begun, distant appeared: A twilight feeling wrapped my spirit round, And, seated once again, I yielded up

To thoughts that crowding came unbridled sway.

Still hour! how dear to every musing heart! How fraught with tenderest dreaming of the past, With reachings of the spirit to the unknown And dimly-vision'd future! Such the power That then enthralled my spirit, as I mused Till darkness drew its veil o'er earth and sky And slumbrous sea, unbroken by a sound, Save when some far-off surge impelled a wave And sent it throbbing to the strand beneath.

Once more I rose, awaking from a trance, As though spell-bound, and with instinctive gaze My view bent upward to the dim-seen vault Above. The twinkling stars were stealing forth From out that hidden depth where lie their paths, Unmeasured by the utmost power of thought, Yet known and guided by the mind and hand Of Him who from Eternity's abyss,

Came forth to speed them on their wondrous way
Rejoicing, at creation's early dawn.

In that vast canopy which darker grew
Each moment, I beheld each orb appear,
And pondering adored. Who ever viewed
That star-fraught canopy, even for an hour,
A moment, and then turned to earth untaught
The lesson which the Hebrew prophet sang,
When Heaven he called to praise creation's King?

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

SECOND SERIES.-No. 32.

THE REV. JOHN EADIE, D.D., LL.D., &c.

Professor of Biblical Literature and Exegesis in the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Ir is with a regret which will be very widely shared, both at home and abroad, that we are obliged to introduce our biographical notice of Professor Eadie with a reference to his death, which occurred, after a brief illness, on the 3rd of June last.

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John Eadie was born in the village of Alva, in Stirlingshire, 9th May, 1813. So far as worldly wealth is concerned, his parentage humble. At the time of his birth his father was in advanced was his mother's only child; and he had the advantage of careful early training both under her and under his first teachers.

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The rudiments of education he received at the parish school of Alva and he afterwards became a pupil in the academy of the Rev. M Browning, of Tillicoultry, a village about two miles east from Alva. M Browning was a noted disciplinarian, but his stern severity was accou panied with high teaching powers and far more than average scholarshi He spared not the rod, but he spoiled not the child. He has been apt described as a man "of great, though irregularly-developed and i balanced powers, of extensive but rather confused information, and inflexible strength of will;" a stern disciplinarian, who "had all t faith of Solomon in the wholesome efficacy of the rod;" and w regarded the general tendency of the teaching profession at that ti to abandon corporal punishment as foolishly and injuriously sentiment and was never slow to give practical effect to his views.”

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It would have been interesting to have brought Mr. Browning Dr. Thomas Arnold into contact with each other. The great K schoolmaster worked on principles very different from those adopted the pedagogue of Tillicoultry. But both were successful teac Probably Dr. Eadie was the most distinguished among Mr. Brown

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