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    wko will draw a good sum from their congregations at the Sunday collections , and thus save the pockets of the proprietors from assessments for the poor , and dimilar parish burdens . Sordid interest is thus made to

    advance the cause of religion ; and it is very evident , that if a similar spirit had displayed itself a century ago , there is little probability that we should ever have had any thing more than a very small handful indeed , of a nonulation separate from the

    communion of the National Church . What I have said of the education , the doctrine , the jurisdiction , and discipline of the clergymen of this Synod , applies equally to a small sect of Presbyterian Puritans , calling themselves the Reformed Presbytery , —to the

    Associate Synod , which , till very lately , was one with the United Associate Synod , —to the Original Burgher Associate Synod , —to the Constitutional Presbytery , and to the Synod of Relief . All these sects differ scarcely an atom from one another in any point , and all of them differ from the

    Established Church , substantially only in one point , the rejection of patronage , and in this other rather important respect also , that they derive their incomes solely from the people

    who attend their churches , without the power of compelling them to pay longer than Uiey choose to continue receiving the benefit of their instructions . The only other Dissenters from the Church of Scotland worth

    noticing " , are , 1 st , The members of the Scottish Episcopal Communion , some of whose ministers are graduates of the great English Universities , and are men , all of them possessing a high

    character for their attainments , their zeal , and their piety ; 2 dly , The Independents , or those belonging to the Congregational Union in Scotland ; and , 3 dly , Roman Catholics , the ministers of whose church , in this

    country , are , with scarcely a single exception , remarkable for the purity and simplicity of their lives and conduct , and the great moderation and liberality of their sentiments . Methodists ,

    whose clergy are generally very illeducated men , and who , to the shame of the Church of England , abound in such overpowering numbers in that country , are quite insignificant , in numbers or respectability , in Scot-

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    land . Quakers , Unitarians , Baptist ? , Jews , and a few other nondescript sort of sects of religionists , exist in small numbers in some of the larger towns in Scotland . In the numbers of congregation *

    and ministers , these sects respectively stand thus : Cong . Min . 1 . United Associate Synod of the Secession Church , 328 275 2 . Associate Synod .... 19 11 3 . Original Burgher Associate

    Synod 46 32 4 . Constitutional Presbytery . 16 10 5 . Synod of Relief .... 82 80 6 . Reformed Presbytery . . 27 IS 7 . Scotttsh Episcopal Union 66 70

    8 . Other Episcopalians , not of the Scottish Episcopal Union ...... 6 7 9 . Independents , or the Congregational Union of Scotland 72 68 10 . Roman Catholics * ... 58 46 11 . Other sects uncertain , but not probably exceeding . 50 40 760 657

    In this enumeration are included , however , thirty-five congregations and clergymen in England connected with the United Synod , and other five in . Ireland connected with the

    thirdnamed class of Dissenters . We shall therefore find , after making this deduction , that there are , as near as citu be calculated , ( and 1 vouch for the correctness of the ten first-mentioned classes of this list , / about 720 Dissenting congregations in Scotland , and

    nearly 620 Dissenting clergymen . The discrepancy between the numbers of congregations and clergymen arises from the circumstance of a good many of the congregations being unable to give full support to a regular clergyman , although the people keep together in the different places , and

    re-Cong . Miiu ? By the Roman Catholics , Scotland is divided into two districts—the Lowland and the Highland . In the Lowland District , there are one Bishop and one Bishop-coadjutor 37 28 Highland District , one Bishop 21 18

    Together , 58 46 The Episcopalians divide Scotland into six dioceses .

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    Established and Dissenting Churches in Scotland . 343

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/23/