As an incident of Christian liberality of sentiment
and of filial obedience in the middle of last century, it is pleasing to
record the following manifestation of both in the life of the galllant
Major-General Wolfe, the conqueror of Quebec, who as Lieutenant-Colonel
was stationed with his regiment at Glasgow, in the year 1749. In a
letter to his mother from Glasgow, dated 13th August, 1749, he writes:-
"I have obeyed your instructions so rigidly that
rather than want the Word I get the reputation of being a very good
Presbyterian, by frequenting the Kirk of Scotland till our chapel
opens."
It is probable that the chapel referred to in this
letter was St. Andrew’s Episcopal. In connection with its erection "the
firat meeting of the original subscribers and contributors called by
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