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Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times ERS FIFESHI-RK BIOGRAPHY. FAI their defi- carried threats into execution in was of ; antiquated turn of argument and ance of the military, had not J.)r ErsUine metapuor, but it only served to give zest apjieared, and by his jiresence ami exhorta- and peculiarity to the style of elocution. tions disriersed tliem. Ur Erskine's o|iiiiions The sermon was not read—a scrap of paper both in Climcll and State politics will Ijc best coutaioiug the lieails of his discourse was understood from the foUowiug short account occasionally referred to, and the enunciation, of the part which lie took on several of the which at first seemed imperfect and embar- im|iortant discussions which divided the rassed, became, as the preacher warmed in his life. country during In the year 1709, his progi-ess, animated and distinct ; and on the ocuasiou ,,f the lireacli with Auieric-a, althnugii the discourse could not be quoted as a. cunert spuiiinu of pulpit eloquence, ig tin yet MaiuM ring bad seldom heard so much test. lit Karuiug, metal ibysical acuteness, and energy > Can; of arguiiaut limuglit into the service of the liomau CathoUc religi.iiit.. b. rather too ('bristianity. ' Such,' he said, going out of nmch favoured. In 177s, wiien the attempt the eluiixli, ' must have been the preachers t.i whose uiifi-ariug uiinds and acute, though enactments against the Koman t'atlinhcs of sometimes rudely exercised talents, we own Great Britain, he siguified his aitpreheiisiini the reformation.' ' And yet that rev. gentle- of the consequences, in a correspondence man, wdiom I love for his father's sake and his between him and Mr Burke, which was own, has nothing of the sour or pharisaical published ; and tinaUy, we have already seen pride w-hich has been imputed to some of the that he took an active and prominent part early fathers of the Calvinistic Kirk of Scot- in support of constitutional principles when land. His colleague and he differ, and head threatened by the French Revolution. In diff'erent parties iu the Kirk about particular Ida temper Dr Erskine was ardent and points of church discipline, but without for benevolent, his affections were warm, his a moment losing personal regard or respect attachments lasting, and his piety constant for each other, or suffering malignity to and most sincere ; he was remarkable for the interfere in an opposition, steady, constant, siuiphcity of his manners, and for that and conscientious on both sides.'" Having genuine humihty which is frequently the attained to the eighty-second year of his concomitant and brightest ornament of age, Dr Erskine was suddenly struck with high talents. In his Ijcuuticeiice, which a mortal disease, and died at his house iu was great, but unostentatinus, lie rtliyiously Lauriston Lane, Edinburgh, on the 19th of observed the Scripture precupt in the distri- January 1S03, after a few hours' illness. bution of his charity, and in the performance He had been from his youth of a feeble of his many good and friendly offices. We constitution, and for many years previous cannot close this short sketch of Dr Erskine to his death his appearance had been that of more appropriately than in the graphic one in the last stage of existence ; and during words of our great novelist, who, in his many winters he had been unable to perform " (iuy Mannering," has presented us, as it his sacred duties with regularity. Before were, with a living picture of this eminent he was entirely mcapacitated for public divine. "The colleague of Dr Robertson duty, his voice had become too weak to be ascended the pulpit. His external ajipear- distinctly he.ard by his congregation. StiU, ance was not prepossessing ; a remarkablj' however, the vivacity of his look and the fair complexion strangely contrasted with energy of his manner bespoke the warmth a black wig, without a grain of |)owder ; a of his heart and the ^igou^ of liis mind. narrow chest and a stoojiing posture ; hands His mental faculties remauied unimpaired which, placed like props on either side of the to the last, and unaffected by his bodily pulpit, seemed necessary rather to support decay, his memory was as good, his judg- the person than to assist the gesticulation of ment as sound, his imagination as Uvely, the preacher ; no gown, not even that of and his inchnation for study as strong aa Geneva, a tumbled band, and a gesture during his most vigorous years, and to the which seemed scarcely voluntary, were the last he was actively engaged in those pur- first circumstances which struck a stranger. suits which had foi-med the business and ' The preacher seems a very ungainly per- pleasure of his Ufe. Dr Erskine was an son,' whispered Mannering to his friend. active popular preacher and leader, and ' Never fear, he is the son of an excellent voluminous writer, and the titles of his Scotch lawyer ; he'll show blood, I'll wan-ant books and pamphlets would fill a consider- him.' The learned counsellor predicted able space. truly. A lecture was delivered fraught with new, striking, and entertaiiung views of Scripture history ; a sermon in which the Calvinism of the Kirk of Scotland was ably supported, yet made the basis of a F A I R F U L, The Right Reverend sound system of practical morals, which Andrew, was the son of the Rev. John should neither shelter the sinner uuder the Faiii'oul, minister of the town of An- cloak of speculative faith, or of [leculiarity strutlier "\>' ester ; and had first been of opinion, nor leave him loose to the waves chaplain to the Earl of Rothes; next, of unbelief and schism. Something there minister at North Ijeith ; and afterwards 179 KAL FIFESHIEE BIOGBAPHY. FER pastor at Dunse. It is reported, on good them with great approbation. He therefore ground, that King Charles II., having accepted this affectionate call, as he also neaxd him preach several times when he accepted a similar one at the same time was in Scotland, in the year 1650, was bo from the clergy in the Presbytery of St well pleased that, upon his restoration, he Andrews, in which city he constantly re- enquired after Mr Fairfoul, and of his ow sided ; and accordingly, with the consent mere notion preferred him to the see of of his brethren, he acted in these two dis- Glasgow on the 14th November 1661. He tricts of Angus and Fife tUl 1723, when he waa consecrate<l in June next year ; but he died. did not long enjoy his new office, for he FERGUSON of Raith, The Family op. sickened the very day of riding to Parlia- —The Fergusons of Raith are of good stand- ment in November 1663, and, dying in a ing in the county of Fife, and have pos- few days, he was interred on the 11th of sessed the estate from which they derive the same month in the Abbey Church of their designation since the death of the Holyrood House. first Earl of Melville, to whom it belonged, FALCONER, The Eight Rev. John, at the opening of the eighteenth century. On the 28th of April 1709, Mr Falconer, WiUiam Ferguson of Raith, the fii-st pro- the deprived minister of Carnbee, in Fife, prietor, married Jane, daughter of Ranald and the Rev. Henry Christie, the deprived Crawford, Esq. of Eestalrig, and sister of minister of Kinross, were consecrated at Margaret, Countess of Dumfries, and waa Dundee—the consecration being performec succeeded by his eldest son, Robert Fer- by the old Bishops of Edinburgh and Dun guson of Raith. {Vide separate lives blane, assisted by the celebrated Bishop infra.) Sage. Bishop Falconer is said to havt FERGUSON, ROEEET, Esq. of Raith, been a man of learning aa well as of busi' M. P. , was born in 1767, and died at London ness. " He was (says Mr Skinner) an in- on the 3d Dec. 1840, and was consequently timate acquaintance and great favourite of in his seventy-third year. He was theeldest Bishop Rose, who pressed him most warmly. of a family of three sons and one daughter, for the good of the Church, to take the of whom General Sir Ronald Ferguson, M.P. burden of the episcopate upon him, in those for Nottingham, survived, and succeeded times of trial and difficulty ; and, ind him in the extensive and beautiful estates no man could have been fitter for it in any of Raith. Mr Ferguson's tutor was Pro- condition of the Church, as, from the many fessor Playfair, the elegant and scientific letters that remain of him, he appears to author of the " Illustrations of the Hutto- have been not only a man of great piety nian Theory of the Earth," and one of the »nd prudence, but likewise a consumj most distinguished of our Scottish philoso- divine, and deeply versed in the doctrines phers. To his early tutor he always gave and rites of the primitive Church." As a the credit of inspiring him with all the zeal proof that this eulogy is not altogether un- which he afterwards manifested for science founded, we are informe<l that he waa like- and literature. His earlier studies were wise very highly esteemed by the eminentand directed to the bar ; and after quahf^'mg in learned Henry Dodwell, with whom he cor- Edinburgh, he entered the Faculty of responded relative to a book which he had Advocates in 1791. Mr Ferguson never Intended to publish against "Deists and practised ; he acquired his legal knowledge other such Enemies of Christianity." Dod- simply as a requisite in the education of a well's opinion of Bishop Falconer may be gentleman.
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