Excerpt from An Earnest Pastorate: Memorials of the Rev. Alexander Leitch, M.A., Minister of the South Church, StirlingOn Thursday, 7th November 1822, Dr. Muir writes to his young friend to say that he had the day before proposed in the Presbytery of Glasgow that he should be taken on trial for license, and, as it was necessary that he should ...
Excerpt from Thomas Chalmers: His Life and Its LessonsIndeed, genius has an odd habit of turning up where it is not looked for at all. When you want ¿owers of more than ordinary beauty, you seek them in the garden, of course 5 you know that such things are to be found, not on the common, where they are exposed ...
Excerpt from Robert Buchanan, D.D: An Ecclesiastical BiographyFrench Revolution - Time of excitement - Modern era begun - History of Reform Bill - Social movements - Stir in ecclesiastical circles - Chalmers - Campbel] of Row - Heresy trials - Literature - Is the wave spent - The Oxford Movement - Brea.king up of the Scottish Church..About the PublisherForgotten Books ...
Excerpt from Chapters From the History of the Free Church of ScotlandIn preparing the record of Contributions to Literaliim, I have been greatly indebted to the help of Mr. Kennedy, the Librarian of New College, Miss Rainy, the Rev. R. Logan, Dr. George Smith, the Rev. A. Simpson, b.sc., Glasgow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...
Excerpt from Religious Life in Scotland: From the Reformation to the Present DayThe ecclesiastical history of Scotland has been often written, but little has been done in the way of trac ing its religious life, or of showing, in anything like a systematic manner, how that life has told on the epoch-making movements of the past.This work does not profess ...