William Carstares [pp. 581-603]

THE
PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY
AND
PRINCETON REVIEW.
NEW SERIES, NO. 13. OCTOBER, 1874.
ART. I.-WILLIAM CARSTARES.
By Rev. THOMAS CROSQUERY, Derry, Ireland.
'Vq!;:t',tii ('r,ses,: A Chatacter Cnd Career of the Revolutionary Epoch. (1649 1715.) By ROBERT HERBERT STORY, Minister of Rosneath. London: Mac mnillan & Co., 1874. Pp. 385.
THOUGH it cannot be maintained that there are not spheres in
connection with the institutions of society in which Christian
ministers may not work with advantage, there is still some justilfication for the jealousy which restricts their activity to sacred
functions and forbids their engagement in secular concerns. It
would, for example, be hard to convince us that Dr. Forsythe
was quite within the line of his duty when he invented the percussion cap; or Dr. Bell, when he constructed the reaping
machine; or Dr. Cartright, when, in turning his energies to
machinery, he invented the power-loom. Public opinion usually
excludes ministers from judicial, military and parliamentary
life; yet emergencies have arisen in the commonwealth when
ministers with peculiar powers have placed in abeyance the peculiar duties of their office and merged the pastor in the statesman, the legislator, or the warrior. What shall we think of
Zuingle marching at the head of the heroic Swiss to the battlefield of Cappel against the enemies of the Reformation? or of
Governor Walker, in the brave garrison of Derry, shutting the
gate of Ulster in the face of the last Stuart king? Or what
shall we say of Dr. Wotherspoon, one of the most conscientious
of Scotch ecclesiastics, who was only second to Washington and
Franklin in laying the foundations of the great Republic, uniting the duties of pastor and president of the College of New
Jersey with those of a member of Congress? or of Dr. John Owen