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 THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 291

Cotterill himself. They are few in number and are not character ized by any distinguishing excellence. Montgomery has fixed the authorship of two. In his &quot; Christian Psalmist &quot; he assigns to Cotterill the authorship of :

&quot; O er the realms of pagan darkness.&quot; And he also attributes to Cotterill :

&quot; Let songs of praises fill the sky.&quot;

It is hymn 291 in his &quot; Christian Psalmist,&quot; seventh edition, 1832, 229 in Cotterill s eighth edition, 1819, and No. 428 in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book ; &quot; but Montgomery gives it in a different metre, with these lines added to each verse:

&quot; All hail the day of Pentecost, The coming of the Holy Ghost,&quot;

and verse three is slightly altered from the original. &quot; Jesus, exalted far on high.&quot; Xo. 352.

This is given without name in the &quot; New Congregational. It is by T. Cotterill.

��RALPH WARDLAW, D.D. 17791853.

THIS eminent nonconformist divine was born at Dalkeith. His father, who was a merchant, removed to Glasgow during his son s infancy, and was a magistrate there for some years. His mother was a descendant of the illustrious Ebenezer Erskine, the father of the Secession Church. Young Wardlaw, having studied from his boyhood in the university of Glasgow, entered the Theological Seminary of the Secession Church, intending to be a minister of that church ; but when the Revs. Ewing and Innes left the Established Church to become Congregationalists, the young

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