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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation is a title given to books containing lists of ministers from the Church of Scotland. The original volumes covered all ministers of the Established Church of Scotland (before the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of ...
Copies of the series held in the National Library of Scotland are: Evangelism in the Modern World, [11] Modern Evangelistic Movements, [12] Winning the Children for Christ [13] and The Modern Evangelistic Address. [14] Thomson edited and/or wrote a substantial number of books and pamphlets on evangelism and on Scottish church history.
He was licensed to preach as a minister of the Church of Scotland by the Presbytery of Arbroath in 1828. [6] He was ordained as minister of the Scots Church at London Wall in 1832. [7] In 1836, Tweedie was appointed minister of Aberdeen South Parish [8] and later in 1842, the Tolbooth Church in Edinburgh, replacing Rev. Thomas Randall Davidson.
Map of St Kilda, from The History of St Kilda. Macaulay visited St Kilda in 1759, on behalf of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK), and published in 1764 The History of St Kilda, containing a Description of this Remarkable Island, the Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants, the Religious and Pagan Antiquities there found, with many other curious and interesting ...
Robert Wodrow was the youngest son of James Wodrow, Professor of Divinity, at the University of Glasgow. [3] He was born in the Trongate there, April (or September) 1679. At the very hour of his birth, soldiers under warrant of the Privy Council, were searching the house to seize his father, but the latter, having exchanged clothes with the physician's man-servant, succeeded in escaping.
Culross Parish Church, Fife St Giles' from Parliament Square. Alexander Webster (1707 – 25 January 1784) was a Scottish writer and minister of the Church of Scotland, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1753. After his service as Moderator he was addressed as Very Rev Dr Alexander Webster.
MacLeod was a distinguished minister of the Scottish Church, and studied at Edinburgh. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Mull in 1806. He became one of the most distinguished ministers, and most popular preachers of his Church, becoming Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1836.
David Calderwood was born at Dalkeith, Midlothian, and educated at the college of Edinburgh.In 1604 he was ordained minister of Crailing in Roxburghshire.It was the time when King James was attempting to introduce prelacy into the Church of Scotland, and Calderwood was one of the sturdiest opponents of the royal scheme.