Excerpt from Original Letters Relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, Vol. 1
Church. This assertion, though somewhat plausible, is far from being correct: this expedient was obviously of a temporary nature; and the burden imposed upon the Superintendents was so onerous that one and all of them requested the Assembly to accept their resignations. The Superintendents and Commissioners may have received a larger stipend than the ordinary Ministers, yet this was no adequate compensation for their greater labours, or the expenses incurred in the course of their journeys from one parish to another.
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