The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

For Edward Irving the Canadian geologist see Edward A. At once he welcomed the new powers with an unquestioning evidence that could be shaken by neither the remonstrances nor the desertions of his dearest friends the recantation of some of the principal agents of the gifts his own decent into a subordinate position the meagre and barren results of the manifestations nor their general rejection both by the church and the world. London

This half-success in a subordinate sphere was however so far from coinciding with his aspirations that he had again in the winter of 1821 begun to turn his attention towards missionary labour in the East when the possibility of fulfilling the dream of his life was suddenly revealed to him by an invitation from the Caledonian Church Hatton Garden London to make trial and proof of his gifts before the remnant of the congregation that held together.

Edward Irving (4 August 1792 – 7 December 1834) was a Scottish clergyman generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church. For Edward Irving the Canadian geologist see Edward A.