MEMOIR OF THE REV. W. H. HEWITSON. LATE MINISTER OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, AT DIRLETON. BY THE REV. JOHN BAILLIE, FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, LONDON. "As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exac- And so the mind that was among us, in its writings is Sixth Edition. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO., BERNERS STREET. MDCCCLVI. PREFACE. THE following Memoir has been prepared for two reasons: the one, Mr Hewitson's character-the other, his work. The singular elevation of his Christian walk, so far surpassing what is ordinarily seen in this age of dwarfed spirituality, is fitted to stimulate the people of God to loftier attainments in holiness, and fitted also to arrest and win to Christ those who "have a name that they live, but are dead." It is no mere sentimentalist whose character we portray. Genius and high scholarship, dedicated to the service of Christ, and laid "a living sacrifice" at His feet, is the life The reader will discover with sketched in these pages. how fascinating a charm that element invests the man of God. The great work in Madeira, in which Mr Hewitson was privileged to bear so large a part, is here exhibited in its That movement was not a inner history, for the first time. mere intellectual revolt from the absurdities of Romish teaching, but a wide-spread and palpable conversion of heart unto God-a living scriptural Church called out of the very midst of Papal darkness-a noble band of confessors willingly forsaking houses, and lands, and country, for Christ's sake. A Papist may be detached intellectually from Romanism, without being attached spiritually to Christ. The converts of DUP. EXCH. 23 JAN 1903 REW THEOL SEM JIB |