to this day. Had these been obtaina would have exhibited the strongest possible in support of all that was necessary to question so long debated. It is quite evi circumstances were much against the ret old letters in the ordinary arrangements houses in the country. While those t Logan secured during his unexpected vis village of Kinnesswood almost completed destruction of Bruce's letters, still we have a us which clearly show the kind of person Bruce was, for in them we read the you inner feelings, his mild humour, and Heaven truthfulness towards all who knew him. they express his faith in God, and humble ture to His will. When these letters are c

rary be furnished.

Nisi obstat res angusta domi.

My lot forbids, nor circumscribes alone, My growing virtues, but my crimes confine.' Whether any virtues would have accompanied a more elevated station is uncertain, but that per of vices, of which my sphere is incapable, have its attendants, is unquestionable. The me Wisdom has seen this meet, and the Supreme m cannot err.—Yours ever,

"MICHAEL BRUCE."

"EDINBURGH, 27th March, dies natalis, 1765. DEAR SIR,-I am in great concern just now for ol. When I was over last there was a proposal y some people of these parts to keep one at y Bridge. What it may turn out I cannot tell." following letter was sent to another friend :

ast week I made a visit to Portmoak, the

A shepherd hunt his dogs among his flock "Run Collie, Battie, Venture." Not on Then rising, runs himself, and running sw

"In short, sir, as I have not time to grace is said, the drink goes round, the tol are lighted, and, from a cloud of smoke headed rustic addressed the company thus John' (i.e. the deceased), 'noo when he's { good sensible man, stout and healthy and had the best hand for cutting peats in thi side. Aweel, sirs, we maun a' dee. He I was struck with the speech of this ho especially with his heroic application of t dispelling the gloomy thoughts of death."

The following are copies of letters Michael Bruce from Edinburgh. The fir 12th April 1765, and is addressed to " Arnot of Portmoak" :

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n nation. When once they have discarded wel points they may give very different readnd consequently significations to many words. nat he was most famous for was that he ed a work in two volumes called, I think, ia Mosa, a kind of commentary on the Old ent, but particularly the Pentateuch and .The most part of the Old Testament, but lly those aforesaid, he holds [to be] symbolical, every sentence finds meanings which none but F and some of his followers can see. Every the Psalms, he says, refers to the Messiah, se the words of an honest enthusiast of him, nds the Saviour in every word.' The whole sa confused piece of absurdity (they say who ad it), filled with trifling allegories and farconceits. To give one instance: The flamord placed at the gate of Paradise (according was appointed to show the way to the tree