A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh

Such was his public ministry. And they
Through life who loved him till his latest day,
Of many a noble, gentle trait can tell,
That as a man, friend, father, marked him well :
The frank simplicity; the cordial flow
Of kind affections; the enthusiast glow
That love of Nature or his Native Land
Would kindle in those eyes so bright and bland;
The unstudied eloquence, that from his tongue
Fell like the fresh dews by the breezes flung
From fragrant woodlands; the benignant look
That like a rainbow beamed through his rebuke-
Rebuke more dreaded than a despot's frown,
For sorrow more than anger called it down;
The winning way, the kindliness of speech,
With which he wont the little ones to teach,
As round his chair like clustering doves they clung
For, like his Master, much he loved the young.

These, and unnumbered traits like these, my verse
Could fondly dwell upon ; but o'er his hearse
A passing wreath I may but stop to cast,
Of love and grateful reverence the last
Poor earthly token. Weeping mourners here
Perchance may count such frail memorial dear,
Though vain and valueless it be to him
Who tunes his golden harp amidst the seraphim !

T. P.

1827.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE OF DR. WAUGH.

Parentage of Alexander Waugh. Character and mode of life of

Scottish husbandmen of olden times. Change of manners.

His parents and their family. Education of Alexander for

the ministry. His early days. Earlstoun. Parochial schools.

Stitchell. Rev. George Coventry. Course of University

education prescribed by the Secession church. Prosecution

of his studies at Edinburgh-at Haddington, under the Rev.

John Brown—and at Aberdeen, under Doctors Campbell

and Beattie. Misgivings respecting his fitness for the mi-

nistry. Receives license, and proves highly acceptable as a

preacher. Rise of Wells Street congregation, London. Rev.

Arch. Hall. Ordination and settlement of Mr. Waugh at

Newtown. Competing calls from London and Edinburgh,

and his final appointment to the charge of the Wells Street

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CHAPTER II.

HIS MINISTRY IN WELLS STREET.

Mr. Waugh's ministry in London. Visit to Scotland in 1783.

Private diary. His marriage, Ordination of Rev. Alexander

Easton. Intercourse with Rev. John Newton, Deliverance

from danger at sea. Address to the congregation on his ill-

ness. Visit to Scotland in 1806, for recovery of health.

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- anecdote. Letters

of her child — to a , widowed mournera friend on the death -to a friend dying. wnsend. To a friend 1. A good-humoured

miniscences of early escriptions of natural

Friendships with the

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us a husband. Letters to his matters to his daughters. Habits

lexander : notice of his death : widow. Paternal counsel to one , husband on their marriage, and wis daughter Jeane Neill, during her

is of her illness and death. Letters to .

w one of them on his entering the Uni

erings. Letter. Sketch of his domestic wits, by one of his daughters : kindness spitality — commissions and correspondence

duty-course of Sabbath duties - personal erfulness—miscellaneous notices. Sketch by sons: his nationality — description of a tent - Stitchell Brae — recollections of early scenes Is -- patriotism — poetical imagination ..... 396

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Memorial on the Psalmody. Congregational addresses.

Accident at Clapton in 1823. Increasing infirmities. Letters

to old friends — youthful reminiscences. Letters from Har-

rowgate. Funeral sermon on Rev. Dr. Bogue. Delight in

ministerial duties. Kindness and liberality of his congrega-

tion. Correspondence respecting an assistant. His last

public services. Character of his pulpit ministrations. His

lectures in Fetter Lane, &c. Congregational labours.

Anecdote. Non-interference in church secularities. Chris-

tian liberality.......

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