"When Zion's King was Robbed of his right His witnesses in Scotland put to flight When popish prelats and Indul- gancie Combin'd 'gainst Christ to Ruine Presbytrie All who would not unto their idols bow They socht them out and whom they found they slew For owning of Christ's cause I then did die My blood for vengeance on his en'mies did cry." And on a stone in another part of the churchyard--perhaps the grave of a grandfather and grandchild--are the quaint words: "Death pities not the aged head, Nor manhood fresh and green, But blends the locks of eighty-five With ringlets of sixteen." The old Session Records of this church are full of references to the trembled times of the Covenant. Here are one or two entries, which I quote from the Rev. W. S. Crockett's "Scott Country."' Mr. Crockett is Minister of the Parish.--"No session kept by reason of the elders being all at conventicles." "No public sermon, soldiers being sent to apprehend the minister, but he, receiving notification of their design, went away and retired." "No meeting this day for fear of the{363} enemy." HERE LYES JOHN HUNTER MARTYR WHO WAS CRUELY MURDERED AT COREHEAD BY COL. JAMES DOUGLAS AND HIS PARTY FOR HIS ADHERANCE TO THE WORD OF GOD AND SCOTLAND'S COVENANTED WORK OF REFORMATION 1688 Erected in the year 1726. "The collection this day to be given to a man for acting as watch during the time of sermon." And so on.-- [Illustration: 0383] Sometimes it strikes one as strange, that passion for listening to a sermon which is inherent in one's countrymen. It is but a sombre pleasure, as a rule.