God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears."

The last notice we have of this honest man is connected with a very wonderful deliverance he had from a violent death. He had heard that old Mr Peden was at Sorn, his native place, and he longed to see his esteemed and venerated minister, with whom he had often taken such sweet counsel. Accordingly, he set out from his residence among the wilds of Galloway, northward, to the abode of his friend. The journey was attended with great danger; but his heart was set on the adventure, perilous as it was. The ardour of true Christian affection is not easily subdued, and indeed the more it is opposed the stronger does it become. As he approached the place of his destination, he encountered a company of Claverhouse's troopers, who seized him on suspicion as a rebel, and carried him off as their captive. It appears to have been towards the evening, for they lodged during the night in the kirk of Sorn, with the plain intimation that he was to be executed without fail in the morning. In this prisonhouse he was kept during the lonely hours of the night; and we can easily imagine the manner in which he would be exercised in the house of prayer, having the immediate prospect of death before him. Many of his brethren enjoyed no such privilege; they were shot where they were found, with the shortest warning, and without permission even to pray. The hours of the night would be sedulously occupied in fervent supplication to Him "who was able to save him from death," or to sustain him with constancy to meet it as a witness for Jesus Christ in the day of general defection and of scorn. At length the morning dawned, and Clark expected it to be his last day on earth. But Providence had ordered it otherwise. A great tumult was heard outside of the church in the early morning; men were running to and fro in much confusion, and the soldiers were calling in haste to their fellows; but in a little the hubbub ceased, and all without was as still as the lonely graves that surrounded the solitary church. The report had reached the village that a conventicle was to be held in the moors at some distance, and all the military were hastily marched off to the place. The prisoner began to look about him, and seeing no soldiers guarding the church, he bethought himself of the propriety of attempting his escape; and he stole out either by a door or window, and fled with all speed into the mossy retreats in the neighbourhood, and completely eluded his enemies, who, in the confusion, seemed to have forgotten him.

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He went in quest of Mr Peden, and found him in a place near Muirkirk. Mr Peden delighted to wander in the wilds, not only to visit the cottages of the pious peasantry, but also the graves of the martyrs. It was interesting to see the devout old man, near the termination of his pilgrimage, sitting by the grave of Cameron, in the wilds of Airsmoss, and while he thought on the sufferings of the scattered remnant, and on the happiness of those who had got "honestly off the stage," lifting up his eyes and his hands to heaven, and exclaiming, "O to be wi' Ritchie !”

The two friends were happy at meeting, and they spent their time in religious converse and prayer. Having accomplished his object, he returned to the Galloway mountains, and never again had the pleasure of an interview with his beloved minister, who probably died shortly after this. Clark was often pursued among the hills, but he evaded his foes, hiding in the glens and caves of this sterile region. He survived the persecuting period many a long year, and at last died in peace in 1730.

[GLOSSARY.

GLOSSARY

OF

CELTIC NAMES THAT OCCUR IN THE “ TRADITIONS."

Ae, water.

Air, the clear or shallow stream.

Aird, high.

Al, water.

Arran, the heights.

Auchengrouth, the field of curds.

Auchengee, the goose field.

Auchensaugh, the field of willows.

Auchenbraith, the field of barley.

Auchengeith, the windy field.

Auchentagart, the field of the priest.

Auchlochan, the field of the little loch.

Airdoch, the little height.

Auchencairn, the field of the cairn.
Afton, a stream.

Auchan, the little field.

Anwoth, an water, wath a hawthorn.

Auchencloich, the field of stones.
Alwen, the clear stream.

Avon, a river.

Auchengower, the field of the goats.

Bennet, the church hill.

Benholt, the wooded hill.

Baraby, the top of the little cliff.

Barshimming, the great bend of the water
Ballagan, the dwelling in the hollow.
Blednock, the smooth hill.

Biggar, the little clear stream; or bogar, the boggy place

Beith, a birch tree.

Benbeach, the bee hill.

Ballachin, the head of the pass.

Binns, the hillocks.

Bar, an eminence.

Balmaclellan, M'Lellan's town.
Bodsberry, the gled's hill.

Bellybught, the bught beside the broom.
Bellopath, bel outrage, and au water.
Blogannach, the milking field.

Crawick, the habitation of crows.
Colliston, the town in the wood.
Clyde, the sheltered stream.
Colven, the hazel hill.

Cairntable, the chieftain's cairn.

Cronberry, the round hill.

Camlarg, the crooked larg or shank.

Cummerhead, cummer the water meeting.

Carran, the winding stream.

Carmacoup, Cormac's hope.

Crawford, the cattle shelter.

Cambus Nethan, camus the bend of a river.

Cumnock, the hollow of the hill.

Crossgelloch, the white cross.

Cog, a cuckoo.

Croglin, the rocky stream, or the cross by the stream.
Carrick, a rock.

Cairnsmore, the great cairn.

Craigdarroch, the rock of the oak.

Cessnock, the dark hill.

Carsefairn, carse swampy ground, and fearn an alder.

Crichope, the rocky hope.

Carco, or carcau, the winding hollow.

Caldon, the black wood.

Calder, the dark stream (dur water).

Carron, the winding stream.

Clachry, the red stone.

Craigturroch, the towering rock.

Cruffel, the crow height.

Caerlowrie, Lowrie's fort.
Caldow, the dark forest.
Colline, the wooded water.
Craighit, the rocky height.

Cree, the muddy stream.
Cairn, a heap of stones.

Dalquhairn, the field of the cairn.
Dalwick, the village in the dale.

Dunasken, the hill at the water head.
Dreva, a dwelling.

Dalricket, the field of the king's slaughter.
Drumore, the great ridge.

Dalgarnock, the field abounding in underwood.
Daljig, Dal of field, jig a ditch or marsh.
Drumlanrig, the ridge on the bank of the river.
Drummelzier, the dwelling on the ridge.
Douglas, the dark stream, or the grey vale.
Dalswinton, Swinton's vale.

Darmead, the oak wood.

Dar or dair, or deer, an oak.
Durisdeer, the door of the forest.

Dumfries, Dun a hill, freas brushwood.
Dumbarton, the fort of the Britons.
Drumclog, the ridge of the stone.
Dalhanna, the green or good field.
Dalzell, the white field.

Dee, dhu, the dark river.
Drumcloich, the stony ridge.
Dalry, the king's dale.

Dalveen, the white field.

Deuch, the dark stream.

Doon, the dark lake or stream.

Dalblair, the battle-field.

Daleccles, the field of the church.

Dalmellington, the field of mill, and ton a tower. Dalzier, the field of the daisy, or John's field.

Duneaton, the whinny height.

Enterkin, the head of the pass.

Enock, ae water, and knach a hillock.

Evan, a river.

Elliock, the little rock.

Earnsallach, ern a sloe, and sallach a willow.

Etterick, a wilderness.

Elven, the clear stream.

Fordonmullach, the fortlet on the hill.

Finglan, the white glen.