Download or read book The Religious Anecdotes of Scotland written by William Adamson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a collection of anecdotes and accounts relating to religious figures and events in Scotland's history. Insightful, interesting, and often entertaining, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in Scottish religious history and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Lord Hailes discovering Hidden Treasures", "Shirra of Kirkcaldy", "Josephus Utilised at Peebles", "Carlyle and his Mother", John Knox and Queen Mary", "Samuel Rutherford's Last Words", "Hearing the World-Ebenezer Erskine", "A Pedlar at Balmoral", "The Marrow of Modern Divinity", "The Good Bishop Leighton", "A Swearer Reproved", "A Prodigal's Return", "Jenny Geddes and her Stool", "'I Will be with you Always", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete the original artwork and text.

Download or read book The Religious Anecdotes of Scotland Classic Reprint written by William Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Religious Anecdotes of Scotland There has been of late a great desire to enter upon the study, more or less minutely, of the particulars of individual lives. This has risen, in the main, from a motive worthy of all praise. It has been said that the proper study of mankind is man, and in harmony -with this idea, the desire has been developed, to know the details of the lives of those who have really lived, and who have made an impression on the minds of their contemporaries. Hence the numerous biographies, and volumes similar to the present, which have made their appearance. It is somewhat difficult to define an Anecdote, and yet most people know it when it is placed before them. The word anecdote does not now bear its original significance, which was a secret history, something unedited and unpublished. On the contrary it means the reverse of this. It is not a story, nor a description, nor yet a connected series of stories. Taken, in its manifest and more correct form, as now understood, it is a particular, separated incident, of an interesting nature, which is a complete unity in itself. It thus presents a complete mental picture, and like pictures generally, is of a nature to arrest attention and instruct. Those who have a cultivated mind can at once discriminate an anecdote from what is like it, and will be able to appreciate what it makes known, while others do not trouble themselves about its nature, but seek to understand what it means. But all have a liking for the detached fact, which makes them feel that they can see deeper into the working of the human soul, and understand the emotions and motives which rule there. This gives the anecdote an attractive power, which culture does not destroy, but refine, and which is common to man as man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES OF SCOTLAN written by W. (William) Ed 1830-1910 Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Story of the Burning Bush written by J. C. Carrick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Burning Bush: A Simple Narrative of the Church of Scotland When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall let the children of Israel know. SO spake Joshua to the Hebrew children at Jordan. No matter how brilliant the event, or deed, or personage, the lapse of time will wear the remembrance out, as the rain wears the lettering Off a tombstone. A generation will arise that knew not Joseph, and if the memory of Joseph is to be preserved, the facts of Joseph's character and life must be repeated and lived over again. Every few miles in Scotland you come to a little pile Of gray, old, weather-beaten, rain-worn stones, from which springs a stone finger pointing heavenwards. It is the god's-place (the fine old Scottish word for a church) of the parish, and the green god's-acre spreads around it. It is the spiritual hearth-stone, where the earthly children meet the Great all-father it is there that you see the marks of where the heavenly ladder rests, by which man's stumbling soul can rise up on steeps of light to the Infinite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The History of Scotland Classic Reprint written by James Mackenzie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Scotland The religious element in Scottish History, from the Reformation to the Revolution, is well-nigh everything. It is hard to understand how any man not sympathizing with the religion of Scotland could write her history fairly. But some of our ablest historians have altogether lacked that sympathy; and the consequence is that their descriptions of' our religious struggles cannot be read without indignation. Scotland, to borrow the language of Defoe, has been represented to the world in so many monstrous shapes, and dressed up in so many devils' coats and fools' coats, that her own sons do not know their mother. There is a foolish, sentimental generation, whose only ideas of Scottish History are taken from novels, songs, and ballads. It is impossible to speak the truth about that bloody House which fell at the Revolution, and its minions, without giving offence to such persons. It is equally impossible to speak the truth about the great contendings of our glorious forefathers for their religious freedom, without offending the enemies of our Scottish Presbyterianism. The writer merely begs leave to repeat an anecdote of the greatest of Scottish historians, given by James Melville in his Diaryz - That September, in time of vacance, my uncle Mr. Andrew, Mr. Thomas Buchanan, and I, hearing that Mm George Buchanan was weak, and his History under the press, passed over to Edinburgh to visit him and see the work. We went from him to the printer's work-house, whom we found at the end of the seventeenth book of his Chronicle, at a place which we thought very hard for the time, which might be an occasion of staying the whole work - anent the burial of Davie. Therefore, staying the printer from proceeding, we came to Mr. George. Mr. Thomas, his cousin, shows him of the hardness of that part of his story, that the King would be offended with it, and it might stay all the work. 'tell me, man, ' says he, 'if I have told the truth 'yes, ' says Mr. Thomas, 'sir, I think so.' 'i will hide his feud and all his kin's, then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Lives of the Protestant Reformers in Scotland Classic Reprint written by James Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Lives of the Protestant Reformers in Scotland From the view which I have been enabled to give of the Protestant Reformers in Scotland, I hope it will be evident that they were not, what some of the enemies of our religion have repre sented them and the reformers in other countries to have been, fanatics and ignorant enthusiasts, but men of a sound understanding, who generally had received a most liberal education and who, by the lights both of reason and revelation, fully considered the importance of the truths for which they were contending. It has been my endeavour to write their histories in such a manner as might tend to impress a serious regard to true religion. And, surely, l scarcely need to make an apology for my having intermixed brief anecdotes of some pious protestants, who deserve to be remembered, who, though they were not of a clerical profession, encountered the dangers of persecution, and, in various ways, were promoters of the reformation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Story of the Church in Scotland written by John Macpherson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Story of the Church in Scotland: From the Earliest Times Down to the Present Day IN this volume an endeavour has been made to render a comprehensive account of ecclesiastical and religious move ments in Scotland from the original planting of Christianity down to the close of the nineteenth century. Avoiding as far as possible details of civil history, attention has been given to Acts of Parliament and contrivances of statesmen only in so far as these have affected the interests of the Church in regard to its government and constitution. In so wide a field it is perhaps too much to expect that the attempt to maintain a fair proportion in the narrative, and strict impartiality of statement, has been altogether suc cessful. But the author has not intentionally passed over anything that should have been told to the credit of any of the denominations that have existed or may yet exist in the Scottish ecclesiastical world; and he has sought to deal faithfully and generously with the memories of the great men who in all the various divisions of the Church in Scot land have contributed to the theological literature and to the religious life of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Ancient Catholic Homes of Scotland Classic Reprint written by Odo Blundell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient Catholic Homes of Scotland I cannot but feel that no words of mine are needed to introduce Father Blundell's history of our old Scotch Catholic Homes. To us who belong to the Leal Northern Land everything connected with it is of supreme interest, and from others the story of the sufferings of the Catholics in Scotland for their faith, and the happy signs of the second spring, will, we feel sure, gain sym pathy and interest. This will be increased when we remember that the author speaks to us from the first Benedictine monastery founded in Scot land since the Reformation - in itself one of the most consoling evidences of the return of the Faith - and that he has himself visited each of the places described in his book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Devotional Literature of Scotland Classic Reprint written by Adam Philip and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Devotional Literature of Scotland When invited a year ago to give one of the Murtle Lectures at Aberdeen University, I chose for a theme "The Devotional Literature of Scotland." The subject has, for long, been a fascinating one. It has a literary interest. It appeals to our patriotism. It touches our deepest life. In Scotland, we are heirs of a splendid heritage, nobly born, as R. L. Stevenson puts it, and there is a grandeur in the Past that is appealing. The contribution of Scotland to the religious life of the world is second to none, and its devotional messages have their own distinction. I should like the young and the heads of homes to see it, and the men of Scottish blood everywhere to feel it, and together to honour the heritage that has come to us, and to pass it on undiminished, if not enriched. This volume makes no pretence to cover, adequately, the whole field. But it is an endeavour to show some of the paths where lie the goodly treasures. And, incidentally, the story discloses many a link with the life of England and America, and with honoured names in their annals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Theology and Theologians of Scotland written by James Walker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theology and Theologians of Scotland: Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Being One of the "Cunningham Lectures" The Trust-deed of the founder requires that each course of Cunningham Lectures shall be published within a year after their delivery. No doubt a law like that could not be meant to be enforced under exceptional circumstances. The illness of a lecturer would doubtless be accepted by the Trustees as a sufficient reason for an extension of time. Unfortunately in the case of Dr. Walker that excuse has existed. In the spring of last year, almost immediately after the delivery of the Lectures, he was laid aside from work of every kind, and has been obliged to spend the winter abroad. The interest produced by the Lectures, however, at the time of their delivery, was so great, that their speedy publication was earnestly pressed by many friends; and this, combined with other things, led to his being asked to consent to their publication in his absence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Men of the Covenant written by Alexander Smellie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men of the Covenant: The Story of the Scottish Church in the Years of the Persecution It is inevitable that we should make our initial pilgrimage to the churchyard of the Greyfriars, in Edinburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Story of the Scottish Reformation Classic Reprint written by Alexander Wilmot and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Scottish Reformation About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Celtic Church in Scotland written by John Dowden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Celtic Church in Scotland: Being an Introduction to the History of the Christian Church in Scotland Down to the Death of Saint Margaret It is hoped that the chapter on the archaeology of the Celtic Church may serve to interest some who may be impatient of the treatment of merely documentary evidence. The fact that the early chapters were delivered as Lectures may be offered as some excuse for the somewhat colloquial style in which they are cast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Scottish Church and Its Surroundings written by Robert Paton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scottish Church and Its Surroundings: In Early Times The following sketches contain, in a more or less connected form, a bird's-eye view of the rise and development of Christianity in Britain, especially North Britain, during the first seven centuries of our era. They were first delivered to the congregation and parishioners of Kirkinner, and formed a course of monthly lectures in the winters of 1881-1882, 1882-1883. The aim the writer had in view in their construction was, to exhibit in a popular form the rise and progress of the Church in connection with the general history of our country in these early times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Liturgy of John Knox written by John Knox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Liturgy of John Knox: Received by the Church of Scotland in 1564 I believe therfore and confesse one belye Churche, which (as members of Jesus Christe, th'onely heade therof) consent in faithe, hope, and charitie, usinge the giftes of God, whether they be temporall or spirituall, to the profite and furtherance of the same. Whiche Churche is not sene to man's eye, but onely knowen to God, who of the loste sonnes of Adam, hath ordeyned some, as vessels of wrathe, to damnation, and bathe chosen others, as vessels of his mercie, to be saved; the Whiche also, in due tyme, he callethe to integritie of lyfe and godly conversation, to make them a glorious church to him selfe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Church of Scotland Past and Present written by Robert Herbert Story and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Church of Scotland, Past and Present: Its History, Its Relation to the Law and the State, Its Doctrine, Ritual, Discipline, and Patrimony A brighter day had at length dawned upon Scotland. The ravages Of persecution were at an end. The inestimable bless ing of civil and religious liberty seemed once more within reach Of the suffering Presbyterians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.