Three minutes' walk brought us to the gate of the churchyard. The churchyard is singularly barren of tombstones of interest, but the church itself we found worthy of a journey from Edinburgh alone, and one which no one who has to wait for the train from Dundee should omit to visit. It is the church in which Alexander Henderson preached for the first eighteen years of his ministry; and to lovers of architecture it presents a very perfect specimen, though in miniature, of the architecture of the transition period in the thirteenth century, when the Romanesque style was beginning to pass into the Gothic.

RON is about two miles to the south of the Bridge of Earn station on the North British Railway, between Perth and Ladybank junction. The road to it runs almost for a mile in a straight line due south-east from the station, when a cross road leads away to the south-west. In another mile's walk, this cross and somewhat winding road brought us to Dron Church. The trees that surrounded the church hid it from view until we came quite near it. The churchyard lies round about it; and it stands on a kind of knoll that rises up from the strath, through which we had gone since we left the station. The church is a modern structure; but the churchyard bears the mark of antiquity, and seems to be little used. It does not contain more than twentyfive or twenty-six gravestones, and nearly all of them are of last century. The stone we were in search of we found in its south-east corner. It is three feet in

height by two in breadth. When we visited itAugust 1876-it was sloping half-way over. On the east side the letters are deeply cut, and had the appearance of being recently cleaned. On the west side they are shallower, and so filled in with moss that we had difficulty in making them out. The inscription on the east side is:

A FOLLOUER OF THE LAMB

THRO' MANY TRIBULATIONS CAME

FOR LONG TIME OF HIS CHRISTIAN

RACE WAS PERSECUTE FROM

PLACE TO PLACE A SCOTTISH

PROPHET HERE BEHOLD

JUDGEMENT & MERCY WHO FORETOLD
THE GOSPEL BANNER DID DISPLAY
CONDEMN'D THE SINS OF THAT SAD
DAY. AND VALIANTLY FOR

TRUTH CONTENDED UNTIL

BY DEATH HIS DAYS WERE ENDED.

John Howie has a life of Welwood in the "Scots Worthies." Its materials are taken from Patrick Walker's "Some Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of these three famous Worthies, signal for piety and zeal, whom the Lord helped and honoured to be faithful unto the death, viz., Mr John Semple, Mr John Welwood, Mr Richard Cameron, ministers of the Gospel, according as they were taken off the stage; who were all shining lights in this land, and who gave light to many, in which they rejoiced for a season."

His father, James Welwood, was chosen minister of Tundergarth in Annandale in 1659, but was deprived by the Act of Council, 1662. John had two brothers-Andrew, author of what was once a favourite book among good people in Scotland, "Meditations representing a Glimpse of Glory;" and James, a doctor of medicine in London, and a man of mark in his time. His "Memoirs of the most material transactions in England for the last hundred years preceding the Revolution in 1688" has been often reprinted.

Walker's "Passages" in Welwood's life are shorter than is usual with him, and are mainly occupied with prophecies not dissimilar to those he has recorded of Alexander Peden. Most of these prophecies are of evil, and do not sound very appropriately in the lips of servants of Him, who came not to destroy men's lives but to save them. But the probability is that