The Free Church of Scotland Her Origin Founders And Testimony
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" Scotland rang with agitation, the whole atmosphere quivering with an excitement so characteristic of Scot- land, so strange to other lands. In hall and in cottage, in mansion and farm, in street and at market, men spoke of the grand struggle going on. Guthrie's biographers tell us that seven hundred and eighty -two distinct pamphlets might be noted among the phenomena of the time. The wrestle between the Churchmen, who were also the people's men, and the Court of Session's tools, was raging w...ildly. In most places the feeling of the pastors and of the population was ardently expressed in favour of the Church, but throughout the Synod of Aberdeen the influence of Moderatism prevailed. The Court of Session, encouraged no doubt by the approbation and acquiescence of a party in the Church, carried matters with a high hand, and scrupled not to make fresh inroads upon the spiritual jurisdiction. Occurring with pathetic seasonableness as an illustra- 2G8 THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. tion of the completeness with which the Court of Session was divesting the Scottish Establishment of all legis- lative power in the spiritual province, there was delivered, on the 20th of January 1843, the judgment of the Court in the Stewarton case.
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