TWO CENTURIES OF BORDER CHURCH CHURCH LIFE: WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MEN AND SKETCHES OF THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE ON THE EASTERN BORDER. BY JAMES TAIT, FORMERLY EDITOR OF THE "KELSO CHRONICLE." Dolume Second. KELSO: J. & J. H. RUTHERFURD, 20, SQUARE. 1 8 9 1. PREFACE. ENCO NCOURAGED by the favourable reception accorded to his previous volume on "Two Centuries of Border Church Life," the author has ventured to make a second excursion in the same department of literary work. In this, as in the preceding volume, the chief place is given to certain congregations connected with the United Presbyterian Church, around which are gathered illustrations of rural and village life in the south-east of Scotland, principally in the 18th century. The congregation of Midlem, though not now connected with the denomination, was for many years a noted colony of zealous Anti-Burghers. All the congregations described in this volume, with the exception of Lauder, are situated in village or rural districts; to have included the larger towns would have unduly added to the size of the work. Some fresh historical and biographical information relating to the Established Church in different localities is included in the volume. To that Church belonged the Rev. Henry Erskine, whose life is sketched in the opening chapter. The biography of |