Holding no permits to do so, four Scotch lay preachers marched defiantly out upon Glasgow Green not long ago and deliberately preached.
Promptly arrested and sentenced for this crime, they were still in jail last week —and Scotland's eye was on the House of Commons. In its boxlike wooden hall arose a Scotsman from the banks of Clyde, John McGovern. "The sentence on those four lay preachers," cried he, white-lipped, "was cowardly and brutal!" Turning upon William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. McGovern said: "I...
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