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 The word anecdote does not now bear its original significance, which was a secret history, something unedited and unpublished.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 Religious Controversies of Scotland Classic Reprint written by Henry F. Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Religious Controversies of Scotland Delinquents brought before the ecclesiastical tribunal to answer for their opinions have usually been young men, unversed in the ways of the world and aglow with the ardour of inexperience. Simson, however, was an exception to the rule, having attained the mature age of sixty when the charge of still graver errors was preferred against him. Perhaps it was to his credit that at a time of life when the mind grows stationary, Simson was keeping himself abreast of learning, and bringing his mind under the influence of the most eminent philosophic thinker of his time. 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 Burning Bush written by J. C. Carrick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 122 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 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 A Story of the Church in Scotland written by John Macpherson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 472 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 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 2018-02-26 with total page 282 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 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 Narratives of Revivals of Religion in Scotland Ireland and Wales Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Narratives of Revivals of Religion in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales After middle desire of the people for religious instruction was so great, that Mr. Mcculloch found himself obliged to provide them a sermon almost daily; and after sermon, he had generally to spend some time with them in exhortation and prayer; and the blessing of God on these ordinances was so great, that by the beginning of May, the num ber of persons awakened to a deep concern about salvation exceeded three hundred. About this time, (june, Mr. Whitefield revisited Scotland, and in consequence of earnest invitations, he came to the west country, and to Cambuslang amongst other places, where, with his customary zeal, he preached three times on the very day of his arrival, to a vast body of people, although he had preached the same morning at Glasgow. The last of these exercises began at nine in the evening, and continued till eleven; and such was the relish for the word of life, that Mr. Mcculloch preached after him till past one in the morning, and even then the people could hardly be persuaded to depart. All night, in the fields, the voice of prayer and praise was to be heard. 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 Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Scottish Reformation This subject is merely adverted to now, but in due course it will be proved that the traitors in Scotland who calumniated the Catholic religion and rebelled against it on the specious plea of reforming it were also traitors to their country and calumnia tors of their lawful sovereign. Mr. Cosmo Innes refers to the enlightened monarch David I. Leading the Burghers of Scotland forward, and protecting their industry by laws and charters. 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 Covenants in Outline Classic Reprint written by D. Hay Fleming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Scottish Covenants in Outline This short sketch was written as an Introduction to the recent edition of the late Rev. J. H. Thomson's Martyr Graves of Scotland. The publishers having now resolved to issue my sketch separately as a convenient summary of the covenanting struggle, I have revised and considerably enlarged it. 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 Collections and Observations Vol 1 of 4 written by Walter Steuart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collections and Observations, Vol. 1 of 4: Concerning the Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Church of Scotland The fifth is, Brightman, our own countryman, joineth the churches of Helvetia, Swevia, Geneva, France, Holland, and Scotland, all together into one church, for the counter-pain of the church of Philadelphia. Becaufe faith he, they al molt live by one and the fame laws and manner of government. 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.

Download or read book The History of Scotland Vol 1 of 4 written by George Buchanan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 4: Translated From the Latin Our author concludes exactly at a time when the propriety of thus separating the two stories ceased, and when religion and politics became so intermingled, that to have separated, would have been to have hurt both. My plan in the continuation of course deviated materially in this respect, I combined the two to the utmost extent that I could go, without destroying the prominent features of a general history, and have incorporated the public political acts of the church, yet avoiding the details of her internal regulations, and those controversies and proceedings, which were strict ly religious. 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.