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The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, Scots: The Unitit Free Kirk o Scotland) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or UP) and the majority of the 19th-century Free Church of Scotland.
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 ...
The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism [1] [2] known as the Disruption of 1843. [3] In 1900, the vast majority of the Free Church of Scotland joined with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of ...
Salmond was the first minister of this spectacular church, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson. [4] [5] In Edinburgh he lived very close to the church at 9 Cluny Drive. [6] In 1900 he and his church joined the Union in creating the United Free Church of Scotland, usually just referred to as the UF Church. [7]
However, the Church Secretary, Mr Cochrane, received a written complaint from the elders stating he had overstepped his authority in allowing this. Nevertheless, music came to the church. [12] In October 1900 the United Presbyterian Church merged with part of the Free Church of Scotland creating the United Free Church of Scotland. The Union had ...
The critical Synod took place on 20 October 1900, creating the United Free Church of Scotland. However, not all ministers and congregations of the Free Church joined the Union. Taylor remained in the same role and same building, thereafter becoming the United Free (UF) Church of Kelvinside.
In 1900 he was one of the many members of the Free Church of Scotland who merged with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to create the United Free Church of Scotland and he served the latter for the final years of his life. [4] In 1912 he was living at Barclay manse in Old Kilpatrick. [5]
John Cairns (1857–1922) was a United Presbyterian Church minister, writer and biographer. He was born on 13 April 1857 at Stichill in Roxburghshire. He was the son of Rev. David Cairns, United Presbyterian Church minister at Stichill, and of Elizabeth Williamson Smith.