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Scott’s Letters and Papers, pp. 307, 308. In another place he writes to a friend in the same spirit of fervid and habitual devotedness—‘My conscience is never quiet or joyful, except when I am busy in some Ministerial employment; not merely in acquiring, but in communicating, the knowledge of Divine things by my tongue and pen: not only endeavouring to affect my own heart by meditation, but by some method or other endeavouring to affect others, and stir them up to seek, trust, love, and serve the Lord. And after a multitude of thoughts about pride, ambition, etc. influencing me to be active (and they will insinuate themselves) I am persuaded Satan would have me while away my life in inactivity, under pretences of modesty, diffidence, and humility; and he never is deficient in furnishing me with excuses for delaying or shifting services.’—Life, p. 213.