14 satisfaction and scarcely know whether to admire more the lucidity and vigor of his argument or the force and clearness of his style. It is truly refreshing to find the views of our church on so important a subject defended with such ability by a colonial minister, one of that class whose qualities are generally supposed to be more in the direction of the field than the cabinet because the opportunities of "learned leisure" are so much less than those possessed by the more favored brethern at home. (Monthly Record. September 1856, "Report of Rev. George Harper to the Presbytery of Pictou", p. 183 r2