CHAPTER IV.

_THE TWO SIDES OF THE CHURCH QUESTION._

Coming Events—Bell and the Seed Potatoes—Her Idea of the Government—Knowe Park—Spunks—The Town-Clerk of Ephesus—Bell’s summing up—Daisy—The Eve of Battle—Sir John McLelland’s Opinions on the “Evangelicals”—Patronage—Preaching Competitions—Little Gab—Non-Intrusion and Voting, 58