Oranmore was not in Mr. Lumsden's parish. Mr. Lumsden was, what in those days was called a "Highflyer," that is, a purely and earnestly evangelical minister--a man who dedicated his whole energies, not to any abstraction of merely beautiful morality--not to amiable respectability, nor temporal beneficence; but in the fullest sense of these solemn words, to the cause and service of Christ. In consequence, Mr. Lumsden was assailed with all the names peculiarly assigned to his class by common consent of the world: sour Presbyterian, gloomy Calvinist, narrow-minded bigot, illiberal Pharisee. The minister of Portoran, like his brethren in all ages, escaped thus the woe denounced by his Master against those of whom all men speak well. He was a thorough Presbyterian, a sound Calvinist. Men who know, and may rationally judge of these two stately systems of discipline and doctrine, can decide best whether the frank and open pleasantness of Mr. Lumsden's face belied his faith or no. He was a man of one idea--we confess to that; but the mightiness that filled his mind was great enough to overbrim a universe. It was the Gospel--the Gospel in its infinite breadth of lovingness--the Gospel no less in its restrictions and penalties. His hand did not willingly extend itself in fellowship to any man who dishonored the name of his Divine leader and King. His soul was not sufficiently indifferent to prophesy final blessedness to those who contemned and set at nought the everlasting love of God--so far he was narrow-minded and illiberal, a bigot and a Pharisee. But it happened that Mr. Lumsden's co-presbyters on every side were men called, in the emphatic ecclesiastical phraseology of Scotland, "Moderates;" men who wrote sermons and preached them because it was a necessity of their office, not because they had a definite message to deliver from a Lord and Master known and beloved; men who tolerated profanity, and hushed uncomfortable fears, and were themselves so very moderately religious, as to give no manner of offence to that most narrow-minded and illiberal of all bigots, the irreligious world. We mention this, in explanation of a foible of Mr. Lumsden's, particularly alluded to in the letter of Lord Gillravidge, and the cause of much skirmishing in the Presbytery of Strathoran. Mr. Lumsden had an especial knack of preaching in other people's parishes.