Note 16 — MY FATHER’S MEMOIR. A LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D.

I believe this was the true though secret source of much of my father’s knowledge of the minute personal history of every one in his region, which,—to his people, knowing his reserved manner and his devotion to his studies, and his so rarely meeting them or speaking to them except from the pulpit, or at a diet of visitation, was a perpetual wonder, and of which he made great use in his dealings with his afflicted or erring “members.” Return