Excerpt from Dr. Lee's Refutation of the Charges Brought Against Him by the Rev. Dr. Chalmers and Others, in Reference to the Questions on Church Extension and University Education, Vol. 1: With an Appendix, Containing the Evidence of Dr. Lee Before the Commissioners of Religious Instruction Chalmers in a late pamphlet, and in a previous letter publish ed in the newspapers, that for more than half a century the old Moderators have exercised the privilege of nominating or recommending to the Church. If this were true, Dr Chal mers himself did certainly, one year at least, support a can didate who, though highly deserving, was not the nominee of the old Moderators.' But, in point of fact, the nomina tion by the Old Moderators was first assumed, not fifty years ago, but about fifteen years ago, subsequently to the contest between the supporters of Dr Cook and those of Dr Lamont in 1822 and it is certainly within the last five years that the system of alternation has been introduced. With these mat ters I have never troubled myself; for since I have been one of the Clerks of the Church, the duties have 'been so much more laborious than formerly, that my time during every Assembly has been always so much engrossed as to al low me few opportunities of intercourse even with my oldest friends; and thus nobody could hear less of what was going on than I have done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.