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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638 (revised edition, edited by D. E. R. Watt and A. L. Murray) was published by the Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 2003). Volume I, Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale and Volume II, Synods of Merse and Teviotdale Dumfries & Galloway are now on line at Scottish Ministers and History .
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, painting by John Henry Lorimer, 1891 Alexander Webster, minister of the Tolbooth Kirk in St. Giles, Edinburgh and moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1753, was responsible for providing the first reliable estimate of Scotland's population in modern times. Based on returns from parish ministers ...
The book set out a system of church order that included superintendents, ministers, doctors, elders and deacons. [8] It also contained a programme of parish-based reformation that would use the resources of the old church to pay a network of ministers, a parish based school system, university education and arrangements for poor relief.
In 1806 he was ordained minister of the Burgher congregation at Biggar, Lanarkshire, where he laboured for sixteen years. While there he had a controversy with Robert Owen the socialist. [2] Transferred in 1822 to the charge of Rose Street church, Edinburgh, he at once took a high rank as a preacher. In 1829 he succeeded James Hall at Broughton ...
The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption, [2] was a schism in 1843 [3] [4] in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland [5] to form the Free Church of Scotland. [6] The main conflict was over whether the Church of Scotland or the British Government had the power to control clerical positions and ...
Harper was born in the village of Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1872.He personally embraced his parents' Christian faith at age 14 and began preaching at 18. He supported himself in early adulthood by doing manual labor in a mill until Baptist pastor E.A. Carter of Baptist Pioneer Mission in London heard of his preaching and placed him in ministry work in Govan, Scotland.
David Dickson of Busby was born in Glasgow in 1583. He was the son of John Dickson, a wealthy local merchant with premises on the Trongate.He was at first intended for the mercantile profession, but instead studied for the Church.
Garden, a younger son of Rev Alexander Garden, minister of Forgue in Aberdeenshire, and his wife Isobell Middleton, was born at Forgue manse, and educated at King's College, Aberdeen, graduating MA in 1666 and by 1673, at the age of twenty-four, he was a "regent" (lecturer).