Princeton. New Jersy From his name. fellow in Scott and And with respectful kumuntrancete 17. Sef= 1829 THE TEN YEARS' CONFLICT. PREFA СЕ. THE object of this work is to explain the causes and to trace the history of the Disruption of the Established Church of Scotland. The principles involved in that ecclesiastical convulsion, have an immediate bearing both on the constitution and prerogatives of the Church of Christ, and on the great question of its relation to the civil power. The subject is therefore one of catholic importance, and it derives additional and peculiar interest from the character of the present times. In one form or another the points at issue in the "Ten Years' Conflict” are at this moment, in almost every nation of Europe, the questions of the day. The struggle, which terminated in the Disruption, lasted, as the title indicates, exactly ten years. The evangelical and reforming party in the Church of Scotland acquired the ascendency in its supreme Court, the General Assembly, in 1834, and maintained it till 1843. The reader, however, is not hurried at once into that exciting and eventful decade. It is necessary that he should first have formed some acquaintance with the matters about which, and the parties between whom the struggle is carried on. To have thrust him, without any such preparation, and |