death of the awfulness of a pastor’s charge, and his early death sent home the lesson to many, with the warning that the pastor’s account of souls might be suddenly required of him. On the following Sabbath, Mr M‘Cheyne preached for the first time in Ruthwell Church, near Dumfries, on “the Pool of Bethesda;” and in the afternoon on “the Strait Gate.” He writes that evening in his diary: “Found it a more awfully solemn thing than I had imagined to announce Christ authoritatively; yet a glorious privilege!”