The journal which I am now using has not hitherto spoken much of the differing opinions of his brother clergymen, although there is sometimes a clergyman noted as "very low," and elsewhere, one branded as a "concealed Papist." But in Edinburgh--it is vain to conceal it--every profession must be broken into parties.

He found Edinburgh, or rather I should say the Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, then theologically divided between the Evangelicals, headed by the Rev.
Edward Craig and the old-fashioned Churchmen, the rather moral school, of which Mr.Alison was the distinguished ornament.

Mr.Ramsay went to St.George's Chapel, York Place, as Mr.Shannon's curate, in the beginning of 1824, and remained doing that duty for two and a half years.

He then went to St.Paul's, Carrubber's Close, where he laboured for a year.
In 1825 Ramsay "toiled on" with sermons and wrote a series on the Articles.

"A great improvement," he says, "must have taken place in Edinburgh, for unquestionably the sermons I then got credit for we should all think little of now[9]." In 1826 he left Mr.Shannon's chapel, and took the single charge of the quaint old chapel of St.
Paul's, Carrubber's Close.