1. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1855, p.191.
2. Angus
Galbraith (1827-1901), cf. McNaughton, William D. The Scottish Congregational Ministry 1794-1993, Glasgow, 1993, p.50.
3. Smith,
George. The Life of William Carey, D.D.
Shoemaker and Missionary, Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali and Marathi in the
College of Fort William, Calcutta, 2nd Edition, 1887, p.48.
4. cf.
Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1796,
p.45.
5. Drummond,
Andrew L. & Bulloch, James. The Scottish
Church, 1688-1843, Edinburgh, 1973, p.152.
6. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1796, Title-page.
7. cf.
(Heron, Robert.) An Account of the Proceedings
and Debate in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 27th May, 1796,
on the Overtures from the Provincial Synods of Fife and Moray, Respecting the
Propagation of the Gospel Among the Heathen, Edinburgh, 1796.
8. James
Alexander Haldane (1768-1851), cf. McNaughton
1993, op.cit., p.60.
9. John
Aikman (1770-1834), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.4.
10. Joseph
Rate (d.1846), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.131.
11. cf.
Haldane, James Alex., Aikman, John & Rate, Joseph. Journal of a Tour Through the Northern Counties of Scotland and the Orkney
Isles in Autumn 1797. Undertaken with a View to Promote the Knowledge of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, Edinburgh, 1798.
12. Gray,
Nelson. Greville Ewing Architect of Scottish
Congregationalism, Ph.D. Thesis, Edinburgh, 1961, Vol. 1, p.136.
13. cf.
Haldane, Alexander. Memoirs of the Lives
of Robert Haldane of Airthrey, and of His Brother, James Alexander Haldane,
London, 1852, p.188.
14. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1796, p.285.
15. Neil
Douglas, M.A. (1750-1823), cf. Small, Rev. Robert, D.D. History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church from 1733
to 1900, Edinburgh, 1904, Vol. I, p.296.
16. Daniel
McNaught (d.1808), cf. Ibid., p.228.
17. cf.
Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1797,
pp.286-289.
cp.
Douglas, Niel. Journal of a Mission to
part of the Highlands of Scotland, in Summer and Harvest 1797, by appointment
of The Relief Synod, in a Series of Letters to a Friend, designed to shew The State of Religion in
that Country, and the claim the inhabitants have on the compassion of fellow
Christians, Edinburgh, 1799.
18. cf.
Struthers, Rev. Gavin, D.D. The History
of the Rise, Progress, and Principles of the Relief Church, Glasgow, MDCCCXLIII,
p.399.
19. Douglas,
Niel. Journal of a Mission to part of
the Highlands of Scotland, in Summer and Harvest 1797, by appointment of The
Relief Synod, in a Series of Letters to a Friend, designed to shew The State of Religion in that Country, and the claim
the inhabitants have on the compassion of fellow Christians, Edinburgh,
1799, p.90.
20. George
Buchanan, cf. Small 1904, op.cit.,
Vol. I, p.205.
21. John
McDermid, cf. Small 1904, op.cit.,
Vol. I, p.124.
22. cf.
Struthers 1843, op.cit., p.400.
NB.
In September, 1798, it was reported that "Mr McDiarmid of Banff is just
returned from a Missionary tour through the Highlands, in which he has been
engaged for about two months. He went round by Inverness, Fort Augustus, Fort
William, Nether Lorn, Lochawe, Glenorchy, Breadalbane, Glenlion, Rainneach,
Badenoch, and Strathspey", cf. Missionary
Magazine, Edinburgh, 1798, p.430.
23. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1798, p.237.
Eneas
McBean, cf. Small 1904, op.cit.,
Vol. I, p.642.
24. Ebenezer
Brown (d.1836), cf. Small 1904, op.cit.,
Vol. I, p.364.
25. John
King, cf. Small 1904, op.cit., Vol.
I, p.72.
26. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1799, p.231.
27. General Account of Congregationalism
in Scotland from 1798 to 1848 and Particular Accounts Referring to Separate
Counties, Typescript, no date (c.1848), Section 2, pp.5-6.
28. Robert
Haldane (1764-1842), cf. Haldane 1852,
op.cit.
29. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1798, p.58.
30. An Account of the Proceedings of the
Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home, from their Commencement, Dec 28.
1797, to May 16. 1799, Edinburgh, 1799, p.2.
31. cf.
Ibid.
32. cf.
Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1797,
p.162.
33. Charles
Simeon (1759-1836), cf. Cross, F. L. & Livingstone, E. A. (Editors), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,
Oxford, 1988, p.1276.
34. cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.216.
35. cf.
Haldane, Robert. Address to the Public,
Concerning Political Opinions and Plans Lately Adopted to Promote Religion in
Scotland, &c. &c., Edinburgh, 1800, p.75.
At
this time, seat rents were the rule in Scottish churches and a system of payment
at the door was quite common, sometimes extending even to standing room.
36. cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.208.
37. cf.
Haldane 1800, op.cit., p.71.
38. The Edinburgh Quarterly Review,
Vol. I, 1798, p.315.
39. General Account, op.cit., Section
4, p.5.
The
individuals mentioned above were eventually admitted to the church worshipping
in the Circus, possibly among the thirty or so people received as occasional
communicants when the Circus was formally constituted as a church in January,
1799, cf. Ibid. and Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.235.
40. Greville
Ewing (1767-1841), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.43.
41. cf.
Ewing, Greville. Facts and Documents
Respecting the Connections which have Subsisted between Robert Haldane, Esq.
and Greville Ewing, Laid before the Public, in Consequence of Letters which
the Former had Addressed to the Latter, respecting the Tabernacle at Glasgow,
Glasgow, 1809, pp.8 & 16.
42. John
Campbell (1766-1840), cf. McNaughton
1993, op.cit., p.23.
43. John
Ritchie (1768-1843), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.135.
44. cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.232.
45. cf.
Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1799,
pp.76-80.
46. cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.233.
47. cf.
(1) McKerrow, Rev. John. History of the
Secession Church, Edinburgh, 1845, p.384.
(2)
An Adherence to the Missionary Society
of Glasgow, defended, at the expence of being cut off from the communion of
the Reformed Presbytery, with an Appendix, on Occasional Hearing, Compulsory
Measures in Matters of Religion, and Sketches on Terms of Communion, tending
to show, that all the Friends of our Lord Jesus Christ ought to unite on the
basis of Evangelical Truth, Glasgow, 1796. (cp. Struthers 1843, op.cit., p.403.)
(3)
Laing MSS., Edinburgh University,
La. II, 500, 24th January, 1797. cf. Ibid., 20th February, 1797.
(4)
Laing MSS., Edinburgh University,
La. II, 500, 21st February, 1798.
(5)
McKerrow 1845, op.cit., pp.393-394.
(6)
Struthers 1843, op.cit., p.405.
48. cf.
Acts of the General Assembly, 1799.
49. Pastoral Admonition, Addressed by the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, met at Edinburgh, May 23, 1799,
to all the people under their charge, Edinburgh, June 3, 1799.
50. cf.
Haldane 1800, op.cit., p.5 &
Appendix, pp.9,11,25.
51. An Account of the Proceedings of the
Society for Propagating The Gospel at Home, from their Commencement, Dec 28.
1787, to May 16. 1799, Edinburgh, 1799, p.79.
52. cf.
Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1799,
pp.480 & 527, for opinion of the three advocates consulted by the S.P.G.H.
53. cf.
General Account, op.cit., passim.
54. Struthers 1843, op.cit., p.402.
55. cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.230.
56. Haldane 1800, op.cit., p.84.
57. Haldane 1852, op.cit., pp.247-248.
58. cf.
Matheson, J. J. A Memoir of Greville
Ewing, Minister of the Gospel, By His Daughter, London, 1843, p.198 (footnote).
59. cf.
Ross, James. A History of Congregational
Independency in Scotland, 1900, Chapter VIII.
60. cf.
Dictionary of Scottish Church History
& Theology, Edinburgh, 1993, pp.61 & 70.
61. cf.
Ibid., p.428.
62. John
Glas (1695-1773), cf. Ibid., p.364.
63. Robert
Sandeman (1718-1771), cf. Ibid., p.744
64. cf.
Ewing 1809, op.cit., p.82.
65. Mutual exhortation involved the
exhortation of one another by members of the church in the course of worship.
In the Glasite tradition, exhortations consisted of "scriptural phrases connected together by a theme, concluding without
any application", cf. Murray, D. B. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, Vol. XXII, 1986, pp.50
& 53-54.
66. cf.
Haldane, James Alex. A View of the Social
Worship and Ordinances observed by the First Christians, drawn from the Sacred
Scriptures Alone: being an Attempt to Enforce Their Divine Obligation; and to
represent the guilt and evil consequences of neglecting them, Second Edition,
corrected, Edinburgh, 1806.
67. (Orme,
William.) The London Christian Instructor,
London. 1819, p.781.
68. William
Ballantine (d.1836), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.10.
69. Ballantine,
William. A Treatise on the Elder's Office:
showing the Qualifications of Elders, and how the First Churches obtained them;
also, their Appointment, Duties and Maintenance; the Necessity of a Presbytery
in every Church, and Exhortation, and the Observance of every Church Ordinance
on the Lord's Day, in order, amongst other ends, to the obtaining of Elders,
Edinburgh, 1807.
70. Matheson, op.cit., pp.327-328.
71. General Account, Section 10, p.11.
72. Ewing,
Greville. An Attempt Towards a Statement
of the Doctrine of Scriptures on Some Disputed Points Respecting the Constitution,
Governments, Worship and Discipline of the Church of Christ, Glasgow, 1807,
(Preface).
73. Ibid.,
p.4.
74. cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., p.357.
75. cf.
Yuille, George (Editor). History of the
Baptists in Scotland, Glasgow, 1926, p.58.
cp.
(Orme, William.) The London Christian
Instructor, London. 1819, p.783.
76. cf.
Escott, Harry. A History of Scottish
Congregationalism, Glasgow, 1960, p.286.
cf.
Haldane 1852, op.cit., pp.357-359.
77. General Account, op.cit., Section
1, p.27.
78. cf.
Yuille, op.cit., p.59.
79. cf.
(Orme, William.) The London Christian
Instructor, London. 1819, p.784.
80. General Account, op.cit., Section
1, pp.27-28.
81. Struthers 1843, op.cit., p.407.
82. Ewing 1809, op.cit., 1809, p.93.
83. cf.
Ibid., p.112.
84. cf.
General Account, op.cit., Section
1, pp.18-19, 27.
85. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1808, p.211.
The Aberdeenshire Association later known as The Aberdeen and Banff Shires' Itinerant Society.
86. James
Dewar (1780-1842), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.35.
87. William
McKay, cf. McNaughton 1993, op.cit.,
p.93.
88. Alexander
Dewar (1785-1849), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.35.
89. John
Martin (1772-1834), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.105.
90. Neil
McNeil (1782-1855), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.101.
91. William
McWilliam, cf. McNaughton 1993, op.cit.,
p.103.
92. John
Munro (c.1774-1853), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.116.
93. cf.
Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1811,
pp.65-67 & General Account, op.cit.,
Section 10, p.21.
94. Ewing 1809, op.cit., p.83, as quoted
by Nelson Gray in his Ph.D. Thesis, op.cit.
95. cf.
The Glasgow Theological Academy Minutes,
1811-1842, with note on "Origin of the Institution" (Holograph).
96. Annual Report of the Committee of the
Congregational Union, Edinburgh, 1813, p.4.
97. cf.
Annual Reports of the Committee of the
Congregational Union, from 1813 onwards.
98. Between
1798 and 1807, around 85 churches were formed in Scotland on New Testament principles
and had pastors ordained over them (cf. General
Account, Section 1, p.26). 55 churches joined the Union at its inception
and by 1824 the Union consisted of 78 churches. Over the years the number increased,
always remaining around 100 until 1896.
99. Annual Report, op.cit., 1813, p.18.
NB.
Thomas Low, Inverkip, received £10 from the Union, but as it was thought that
"he did not itinerate enough £5 of that was withheld" each year, cf.
General Account, Section 13, p.22.
100. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh, 1813,
p.100.
101. On
11th March, 1813, cf. Missionary Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1813, pp.312-314.
102. General Account, op.cit., Section
1, pp.33-34.
cp.
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1821,
p.90f.
John
Aikman was Chairman of the Edinburgh Itinerant Society and Robert Kinniburgh
was Secretary, cf. General Account,
op.cit., Section 1, p.34.
Robert
Kinniburgh (1780-1851), cf. McNaughton
1993, op.cit., p.78.
103. Also
known as The Edinburgh Association for
the diffusion of the Gospel in the more destitute parts of Scotland, cf.
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1820, p.429.
104. (John)
Malcolm Maclaurin (1785-1859), cf. McNaughton
1993, op.cit., p.98.
105. John
Campbell (c.1780-1853), cf. McNaughton
1993, op.cit., p.23.
106. Peter
McLaren (1777-1849), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.98.
107. James
Kennedy (1777-1863), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.76.
108. General Account, op.cit., Section
1, p.35.
cp.
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1818,
pp.393-396.
109. Annual Report, op.cit., 1818, p.17.
110. Ibid.,
p.14.
111. cf.
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1825,
pp.397-401.
112. cf.
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1826,
p.28.
113. ie.
Peter McLaren, cf. Annual Report,
op.cit., 1828, p.17.
114. Extracts from a Sketch of the Itinerant
Labours of some Ministers in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, supported
from the proceeds of a Sale of Ladies' Work in Edinburgh, April 1827, in
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1828, pp.278-280.
cf.
General Account, op.cit., Section
1, p.37.
115. Alexander
McKenzie, cf. McNaughton 1993, op.cit.,
p.94.
116. cf.
An Account of the Proceedings of the
Society for Propagating The Gospel at Home, from their Commencement, Dec 28.
1787, to May 16. 1799, Edinburgh, p.60.
In
July 1800, it was asserted that one of the S.P.G.H. catechists was stationed
in the Western Isles "by particular desire of one of the principal proprietors",
cf. Missionary Magazine, Edinburgh,
1800, p.309.
117. Alexander
McKay (1780-1856), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.92.
118. General Account, op.cit., Section
2, p.12.
119. Ibid.
120. cf.
Annual Report, op.cit., 1828, p.15.
cp.
Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1827,
p.171.
121. William
McGavin (1773-1832), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.90.
122. Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1822,p.167.
123. cf.
Annual Report, op.cit., 1821, pp.26-36.
cf.
McNaughton, William D. Early Congregational
Independency in the Highlands and North East Scotland, to be published in
1999, Part I, Chapter 13, The Highlands and Islands & Finance.
124. Christian Herald, Edinburgh, 1832,
pp.175-176.
125. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Glasgow, 1841, p.367.
126. Annual Report, op.cit., 1848, pp.26-27.
127. "In
the spring of 1839, a protracted revival meeting was held at Denholm, - the
first of the kind in Scotland" and the Protracted Meeting format appears
to have been readily adopted by the churches, resulting in a remarkable revival
of religion among many of the Congregational churches in Scotland, the spirit
of which continued for some years. cf. Scottish
Congregational Magazine, Glasgow, 1841, pp.32-33.
128. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Glasgow, 1842, pp.215-216.
129. George
Murray (1775-1862), McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.117.
130. Scottish Congregationalist, 1882,
p.115.
131. cf.
Annual Report, op.cit., 1850, pp.10
& 33.
cp.
Ibid., 1848, pp.10-11, 36; 1849, pp.10 & 27; 1851, pp.10-11 & 27.
Scottish Congregational Magazine, Edinburgh, 1852, p.145.
132. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1851, p.192.
133. cf.
Annual Report, op.cit., 1848, p.30.
134. cf.
Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1851, p.192.
135. Some
years later, James Stark wrote: "It is to the credit too, of Congregational
Churches throughout the country, that, while anyone with an eye in his head
could see that the formation of the Free Church would diminish the attendance
in all churches outside the Establishment, yet they felt and expressed a cordial
feeling of regard for those who were struggling to effect their emancipation.
A considerable proportion of the evening congregation, and not a few present
at the morning service, in many of our chapels, were drawn by spiritual affinity,
and for the sake of spiritual nutriment, rather from ecclesiastical identity,
the consequence being that, when a Church was formed after their own heart,
they, as Presbyterians, felt it, of course, to be their duty to stand by it
in every way. All the more honour to the ministers and members of dissenting
churches, who did not allow selfish and denominational considerations to interfere
with the enlightened judgement and generous sympathy", cf. Stark, James.
John Murker of Banff. A Picture of Religious
Life and Character in the North,London, 1887, pp.141-142.
136. Annual Report, op.cit., 1863, pp.15-16.
137. cf.
Ibid., 1855, p.34.
138. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1855, pp.40-41.
cp.
Ibid., 1856, p.137.
139. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1855, p.90.
140. James
Hall Wilson (1811-1897), cf. McNaughton
1993, op.cit., p.172.
141. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1852, p.161.
142. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1857, p.152.
143. cf.
Annual Report, op.cit., 1860, p.3.
cp.
Ibid., 1861, p.9.
144. cf.
Annual Report, op.cit., 1861, p.9.
145. cp.
Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1867, p.187.
146. David
Arthur (1806-1890), McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.9.
147. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1867, p.184.
148. Annual Report, op.cit., 1860, p.3.
149. cf.
Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Edinburgh, 1867, pp.181-183.
150. Ibid.,
pp.183-185.
151. Ibid.,
pp.190-191.
152. John
3, verse 16.
153. cf.
McNaughton, William D. Early Congregational
Independency in the Highlands and North East Scotland, to be published in
2003, passim.
154. cf.
Congregational Union of Scotland Statement of Belief and Syllabus, Glasgow,
1949.
155. John
Kirk (1813-1886), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.18.
156. John
Kirk. The Way of Life Made Plain: being
Twelve Lectures on Important Propositions, Glasgow, MDCCCXLII.
157. cf.
Ferguson, Fergus. A History of The Evangelical
Union, Glasgow, 1876, p.281.
158. cf.
Wardlaw, Ralph. Two Essays: I. On the
Assurance of Faith: II. On the Extent of the Atonement, and Universal Pardon,
Glasgow, 1830.
159. Ralph
Wardlaw (1779-1853), cf. McNaughton 1993,
op.cit., p.166.
160. Scottish Congregational Magazine,
Glasgow, 1844, p.269.
161. cf.
Ibid., pp.349-350.
162. cf.
The Entire Correspondence between The
Four Congregational Churches in Glasgow, and The Congregational Churches at
Hamilton, Bellshill, Bridgeton, Cambuslang, and Ardrossan: On the Doctrines
of Election and the Influence of the Holy Spirit in Conversion, Glasgow,
MDCCCXLV.
163. cf.
Letter from The Three Congregational
Churches in Aberdeen to the Congregational Church in Printfield, 21st February,
1845 (Concerning work of Holy Spirit and Election) (Manuscript)
Letter from the Three Congregational Churches in Aberdeen
to the Congregational Church in Printfield, 28th March, 1845 (Concerning
work of Holy Spirit and Election) and Copy
Answer from Church in Printfield, 23rd April, 1845 (Manuscript)
Letter from the Three Congregational Churches in Aberdeen
to the Congregational Church in Printfield, 13th May, 1845 (Concerning
work of Holy Spirit and Election) (Manuscript)
cp.
Correspondence between three Congregational
Churches in Aberdeen, and Congregational Churches at Blackhills and Printfield,
relative to their views of work of Holy Spirit, Aberdeen, 1845.
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