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Publications either by or about a minister are generally included under his name in Ewing’s Annals, in the case of Free Church ministers, or, in the case of others, in the General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers. However, in some cases the list is so extensive that it is not convenient to burden a relatively short biographical article with a long list of publications. In these cases, his publications are found here.
NICOLSON, WILLIAM
NIXON, WILLIAM
PARKER, GAVIN
PATERSON, HUGH SINCLAIR
PATERSON, NATHANIEL
PATTERSON, ALEXANDER SIMPSON
PHILIP, ALEXANDER
PHILIP, JOHN
PORTEOUS, JAMES MOIR
ROBERTS, ALEXANDER
ROSS, WILLIAM, Aberdour
ROXBURGH, JOHN
SCHWARTZ, CARL
SHANKS, ROBERT
SIMPSON, DAVID, Burghead
SKINNER, JOHN
SMEATON, GEORGE
SMELLIE, ALEXANDER
SMITH, JAMES, Tarland
SMITH, THOMAS
SMYTH, JOHN
SOMERVILLE, ALEXANDER NEILL
STARK, JAMES
STEEL, ROBERT
STUART, ALEXANDER MOODY
STURROCK, DAVID
TAYLOR, JAMES WILLIAM
THOMSON, EDWARD ANDERSON
THOMSON, JOHN, Yester
THOMSON, JOHN EBENEZER HONEYMAN
THOMSON, WILLIAM AIRD
THORBURN, DAVID
THORBURN, JOSEPH
TRAIL, WILLIAM
TWEEDIE, WILLIAM KING
WALKER, JAMES E.
WALLACE, JOHN AIKMAN
WATSON, JOHN, Logiealmond
WELSH, DAVID
WHITE, WILLIAM
WILLIS, MICHAEL
WILSON, JAMES HOOD
WILSON, JOHN, India
WILSON, WILLIAM, Carmyllie
WOOD, JAMES JULIUS
WOOD, WALTER
WYLIE, JAMES AITKEN
YOUNG, GEORGE PAXTON
NICOLL, SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON
Publications – by him
Alfred Tennyson, his life and works, Walter E. Wace [i.e. Sir William Robertson Nicoll], Edinburgh, MacNiven and Wallace, 1881
The Lamb of God, expositions in the writings of st. John, Edinburgh, MacNiven and Wallace, 1883
Bunyan, in The evangelical succession, a course of lectures delivered in Free St. George’s Church, Edinburgh, 1883-84, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1884
Songs of Rest, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1886
James Macdonell, Journalist, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1890
Professor W.G. Elmslie, D.D., memoir and sermons, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll and A.N. Macnicoll, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1890
The key of the grave, New York, A.D.F. Randolph and Co., 1894
Literary anecdotes of the nineteenth century: contributions towards a literary history of the period, edited by Sir William Robertson Nicoll and Thomas James Wise, Hodder and Stoughton, 1895-1896: Vol.1 and Vol.2
The religious opinions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as expressed in three letters addressed to William Merry, esq., J. P., edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, LL. D., search only, London, privately printed, 1896
The return to the cross, New York, Hodder and Stoughton, 1897?
The ideal life, addresses hitherto unpublished, Henry Drummond, with memorial sketches by Ian Maclaren and W. Robertson Nicoll, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1898, c1897
The seven words from the cross, search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1897
Sunday afternoon verses collected from the ‘British Weekly’, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1897
The Incarnate Saviour: A Life of Jesus Christ, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1899
The old gospel for the new age, and other sermons, H. C. G. Moule, with a biographical notice by W. Robertson Nicoll, Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Co., c.1901
Letters on life by Claudius Clear [i.e. W. Robertson Nicoll, search only, Toronto, F.H. Revell, 1901
The Church’s One Foundation: Christ and Recent Criticism, New York, A.C. Armstrong, 1901
Indexes to the expositor, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1900
Journal of a tour in the Netherlands in the autumn of 1815, Robert Southey, with an introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, London, Heinemann, 1903
Journalism as a profession, Arthur Lawrence, with a preface by W. Robertson Nicoll, search only, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1903
John Clifford, free church leader and preacher, Charles T. Bateman, with introduction by William Robertson Nicoll, London, Thomas Law, 1904
The lost art of reading, New York, T. Y. Crowell & co., c.1904
The practical commentary on the New Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, New York, A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1904-06, four volumes: Vol.3 and Vol.4
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7fq9w944 The day book of Claudius Clear, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905
Friendship, Hugh Black, M.A., with an introductory note by W. Robertson Nicoll, D.D., New York, F. H. Revell Co., 1905
The Key of the Blue Closet, New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906
Robert Louis Stevenson, by William Robertson Nicoll and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1906
The professor at the breakfast-table, Oliver Wendell Holmes, with an introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, London, Oxford University Press, 1906
A history of English literature, Thomas Seccombe and Sir William Robertson Nicoll, New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907, 3 volumes: Vol.1; Vol.2 and Vol.3
The Lamp of Sacrifice, sermons preached on special occasions, New York, A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1907
Memoirs of the late Dr. Barnardo, by Mrs. Barnardo and James Marchant, with an introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1907
Stevensoniana; an anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited from the writings of J. M. Barrie, W. Robertson Nicoll, etc., search only, Edinburgh, J. Grant, 1907
“Ian Maclaren”: The Life of the Rev. John Watson, D. D., London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908
The mill on the floss, George Eliot, introduction by W. Robertson Nicol, London, J. M. Dent & co., 1908
My Father (Harry Nicoll), an Aberdeenshire Minister, 1812-1891, William Robertson Nicoll, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908
One fight more, the best and the last, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909
A gallery of literary portraits, George Gilfillan, edited with introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, London, J. M. Dent, 1909
Against the referendum, Jane T. Stoddart, with an introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
The round of the clock; “the story of our lives from year to year” , search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
Sunday evening: fifty-two short sermons for home reading, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
The expositor’s dictionary of texts, containing outlines, expositions and illustrations of Bible texts, with full references to the best homiletic literature, edited by the Rev. Sir W. Robertson Nicoll and Jane T. Stoddart, with the co-operation of the Rev. James Moffatt, search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911
Complete index to The Expositor’s Bible, topical and textual, by S. G. Ayres. General preface to The Expositor’s Bible by the editor W. Robertson Nicoll, New York, Hodder and Stoughton, G.H. Doran, 1911?
The problem of “Edwin Drood”, a study in the methods of Dickens, search only, New York, Hodder and Stoughton, 1912
A bookman’s letters, search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913
James Boswell in Famous Edinburgh students, Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1914
The difference Christ is making, London, Hodder, 1914
Prayer in war time, New York, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916?
A library for five pounds, Claudius Clear [i.e. William Robertson Nicoll, London, New York, 1917
Reunion in eternity, New York, George H. Doran, c.1919
When love flies out o’ the window, Leonard Merrick, with an introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll, New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., c.1919
The masterpiece library of short stories, the thousand best complete tales of all times and all countries, selected by an international board of eminent critics: Sir William Robertson Nicoll and others, London, Educational Book Company, 1920?, 20 volumes – for example, Vol.17
Princes of the church, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921
Crashie Howe, a hill parish, Bertram Smith, with introduction by Sir William Robertson Nicoll, London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1921
Dickens’s own story: side-lights on his life and personality, search only, London, Chapman and Hall, 1923
The garden of nuts, mystical expositions with an essay on Christian mysticism, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1923
The Seen and the Unseen, from the Religious Writings of W. Robertson Nicoll, New York, George H. Doran, 192-?
Memories of Mark Rutherford, London, T. F. Unwin, 1924
God signs his name: gleanings from the devotional writings of William Robertson Nicoll, London, Epworth, 1940
He edited The Expositor’s Bible. For example, see here, one of an edition in 25 volumes published by Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1900.
He was editor of The British Weekly” and of The Bookman.
He edited The Expositor. See, for example, Vol.8, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908
He edited The Expositor’s Greek Testament. For example, see Vol.3, one in a set of five volumes published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1903.
Publications – about him
Appeal to Nonconformists, at the great Free Church demonstration held at the City Temple on Tuesday, November 10th, 1914, by the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, M.P.; in the chair, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1914
Letters of Principal James Denney to W. Robertson Nicoll, 1893-1917, search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1920
William Robertson Nicoll. Life and letters, Thomas Herbert Darlow, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1925
Valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts, autograph letters and historical documents. 1924 Dec. 15-17, including some of W.R. Nicoll’s, London, Sotheby’s, 1924
Doctoral Thesis, Author: Lawrence, George William; Awarding Body: University of Edinburgh; Awarded: 1954: William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923) and religious journalism in the nineteenth century
William Robertson Nicoll and the Liberal Nonconformist press, 1886-1923, Roisin Higgins, St Andrews, 1996
William Robertson Nicoll, the Kailyard novel and the question of popular culture, Andrew Nash, 2009
Voice of Nonconformity: William Robertson Nicoll and The British Weekly, Keith A. Ives, Cambridge, The Lutterworth Press, 2010
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NICOLSON, WILLIAM
Publications – by him
The Christian’s refuge under the shadow of Christ, Edinburgh, printed for the author, 1827
Reasons for humiliation at the present time, two discourses on Joel 2:15-17, preached on July 23, 1835, being the day appointed for a Fast, Dundee, Archibald Allardice, 1835
New Statistical Account, March, 1836, Ferry Port-On-Craig, Vol.9, Fife, p. 81
Popery makes void the law of God, Dundee, W. Middleton, between 1840 and 1849?
A warning to the rulers of this land, specially addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, with reference to the proposed endowment of Popery, London, J. Nisbet, 1845
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Grant to Maynooth, 28 March, 1845, NRS GD112/51/169
Christian Courtesy and Consideration, an address delivered at the Monthly Meeting of the Evangelical Union of Hobart Town, Hobart Town, 1856
The Living Bread; or the only true sustenance of the spiritual life in the souls of Believers, Hobart Town, Burnet, 1857
A Specimen of Roman Catholic Teaching; tested by the Word of God. An answer to a Pastoral Letter of Dr. Hall, 1865, Hobart Town, George Rolwegan, 1865
Protestant Truth asserted, and Popish Error exposed, being a reply to a letter by “a Catholic Layman” J. Roper, Hobart Town, 1865
A Parting Word [to a “Catholic Layman,” J. Roper, on his defence of Dr. Hall’s Pastoral Letter, 1865, Hobart Town, 1865
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.193, The omnipresence of God, Philippians 4:5.
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.1, p.497, Thoughts on Mortality; Vol.2, p.353, Conversion, whether it is an effect of human or divine power?; p.616, A Contrast between the Unrenewed and the Renewed Man
Publications – about him
Charles Ramsay, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.139 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 1, p.16; Appendix 1, Table 1, p.34; Appendix 1, Table 3, p.4 and Appendix 2, p.7
Statement of R. McClean in refutation of an alleged narrative of facts by the Rev. W. Nicolson, etc, Hobart Town, 1853
A Letter to W. Nicolson on his tract entitled, “Protestant Truth asserted”, by a Catholic Layman (J. Roper), Hobart Town, 1865
A Letter to W. Nicolson on his tract entitled: “A Parting Word”, by a Catholic Layman (J. Roper), Hobart Town, 1866
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NIXON, WILLIAM
Publications – by him
Qualifications for the Christian Ministry, a sermon on Luke 12:42, preached at the ordination of the Rev. A. Foote, Edinburgh, W. Whyte and Co., 1834
A brief explication of the Assembly’s shorter catechism, Alexander Mair, with an introductory essay by William Nixon, Montrose, Smith, 1837
Christian missions, the duty of every professing christian to aid in spreading the gospel, Montrose, J. & D. Nichol, 1837
Remarks on Christian education, or, The union of church and school, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1838
Reply to anti-endowment speakers, and defence of the church extension scheme, Glasgow, William Collins, 1839
Civil and spiritual jurisdiction, a sermon, preached on Tuesday, April 28, 1840, before the Synod of Angus and Mearns, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1840
Anti-patronage, Aberdeen, 1841
Addresses to the people, on the Church question, Montrose, Published by request of the Church Defence Association, 1842
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth endowment, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176; Sites, 15th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/212
Relation of the Free Church to the American churches, speech delivered in the Free Synod of Angus and Mearns, 28th April, 1846, Dundee, 1846
Intercommunion of the United Secession, Independent, Baptist, and other dissenting churches, with the churches in the slaveholding states of America, and vindication of the Free Church, being a speech delivered at the free synod of Angus and Mearns, on Tuesday, 28th April, Belfast, Wm. McComb, 1846
Morrisonianism, or, The new theology, a speech delivered in the Synod of Angus and Mearns, on 27th April 1847, Dundee, William Middleton, 1847
Sixty-one pleas for Sabbath-breaking answered and an appeal to various classes regarding the santification of the Lord’s day, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
Speeches on the education question, delivered in their respective presbyteries, with others, Perth, James Dewar & Son, 1850
Our duty to the young, an address to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, (met in conference on Tuesday 27th May 1851), Edinburgh, John Greig, 1851
Seven remedies for intemperance, being the substance of a report on that subject given in the Free Synod of Angus and Mearns on April 22, 1851, and now published at the request of the Synod, Dundee, McCosh, Park and Dewars, 1851?
Scottish Episcopacy identified with Popery in seventeen particulars, the substance of an address delivered on 28th December, 1851, Montrose, 1851
Thorough anti-Pelagian and anti-popish character of the Scottish Reformation in Communications to the members and friends of the Free Church of Scotland on the principles of the Church. No. VI, September 1854, Edinburgh, Johnstone & Hunter, 1854
The Way to be wise unto Salvation, a minister’s address to the young of his flock, Montrose, 1858
The following speech by the Rev. William Nixon, delivered in the Free Presbytery of Brechin, on 20th December, 1858 …, Brechin, Advertiser Office, 1858?
Free Church principles as opposed to voluntaryism, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1858
An account of the late work of God at Ferryden, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1860
Hints on the duty of the office-bearers and members of the Free Church in reference to the work of God in Scotland, Montrose, George Walker, 1860
The doctrine of election, a sermon, preached in Free St. John’s, Montrose, on Sabbath evening, April 28, 1861, Montrose, George Walker, 1861
The doctrines of scripture and Morisonianism contrasted, Montrose, George Walker, 1861
The King of nations and the duty of their rulers to His truth and kingdom, a sermon preached before the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant, 1869
The two meanings, or, The hollow and deceptive character of “The articles of agreement” as at present adjusted, a speech in the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, on 25th May, 1869, (with additions), Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1869
The King of nations and the duty of their rulers to His truth and kingdom, a sermon preached before the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant, 1869
Gaelic: Righ nan uile chinneach agus dleasdanas luchd-riaghlaidh na talmahinn d’a fhirinn, agusd’a rioghachd-sa [The King of nations and the duty of their rulers to His truth and kingdom], Edinburgh, 1869
A forewarning of the troubles before us, from the present movement for the union of the churches, furnished by the proceedings in the Free Presbytery of Brechin (at their meeting on 5th April), in connection with Mr Nixon’s defence of himself from the attacks of the Rev. Andrew Cameron, of Maryton, Montrose?, 1870?
Gaelic: Aobhairean as leth am bheil sinn ‘s an Eaglais Shaoir, agus a’ cur romhainn fantuinn innte [Reasons why we are in the Free Church and intend to remain there], Edinburgh, Sanson and Co., c. 1870
The present crisis in the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, Johnston, Hunter & Co., 1870
Report of the Education Committee on the Education (Scotland) Bill, 1871, ordered to be presented to the Commission of the General Assembly at their meeting on 1st March 1871, signed: William Nixon, Edinburgh, John Greig & Son, 1871
National education: Shall we allow the Bible to be banished from our schools, and education secularised?, speech at the Free Church Commission, on 15th November 1871, Edinburgh, printed for and circulated by the Scottish Educational Association, 1871
Report of the Education Committee on the Education Bills, ordered to be presented to the Commission of the General Assembly, March, 1872, signed at end: William Nixon, convener, Edinburgh?, 1872?
The secret “Statement and appeal”, Edinburgh, between 1870 and 1879?
All and in all, the relations of Christ, as God: Creator; and Redeemer, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter and Co., 1881
The Free Church hymn book, weighed in the balance and found wanting, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1883
Instrumental music in the public worship of our church unwarranted, a speech delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church, on Thursday, 24th May 1883, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1883
The rise and fall of the Free Church, being the summary of a few lectures delivered by M. Mackay, in Edinburgh, 1894, with prefatory note by the Rev. William Nixon, D.D., late of Montrose, upon the subject of national presbyterianism, Inverness?, Thomas McLaren, 1894?
Autobiographical notes of William Nixon, D.D., formerly of St. John’s, Montrose, Perth, Munro Press, 1929
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.517, The invitations of the gospel, Revelation 22:17
The Modern Scottish Pulpit, Christians a Royal Priesthood, Revelation 1:6, p.211
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Nixon
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/4/1900, D.D., 10 Bentfield, Burntisland, d. 24/01/1900 at Newton-Stewart, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/81; Will, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/82
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Nixon or Craig, Janet 10/1/1893, wife of Rev. William Nixon, D.D., 3 Seton Place, Edinburgh, d. 04/12/1892 at 10 Bentfield, Burntisland, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/314; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/264
25th October, 1836, Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.458 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
Proceedings of the Free Presbytery of Brechin, in the case of St. George’s, Montrose, G. W. Laird, 1846
An exposure of the Rev. William Nixon’s misstatements and exaggerations as to moderatism, by a friend to truth, Montrose, J. & D. Nichol, 1842
A warning anent the Rev. W. Nixon’s ‘Forewarning’, Andrew Cameron, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1870
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PARKER, GAVIN
Publications – by him
A sermon on the profanation of the Sabbath, preached in St. Andrew’s Church, Dundee, on Sabbath evening, 8th September 1822, Dundee, R. S. Rintoul, 1822
Sermons, Aberdeen, Cobban, 1830
A sermon on Matthew 25:10, Aberdeen, R. Cobban & Co., 1830
Memoirs of the life and experience of Marion Laird of Greenock, to which is subjoined, an appendix of forty-seven letters, written during her thirteen years’ affliction, with a recommendatory preface by the Rev. Gavin Parker, Aberdeen, George King, 1836
A discourse on the internal evidence of Christianity, Aberdeen, George Cornwall, 1839
A sermon on Acts 20:32, Aberdeen?, R. Cobban & Co., between 1830 and 1839?
A discourse on the doctrine of the Trinity, Aberdeen, G. Cornwall 1839
A discourse on the work and character of the ministers of the Gospel, preached on Thursday, the 14th of May, 1840 at the ordination of the Reverend Alexander Mann, Aberdeen, G. Cornwall, 1840
Clavis Cantici, Or, an Exposition of the Song of Solomon, James Durham, with a Preface by Gavin Parker, Aberdeen, George King, 1840
On the Sabbath, Aberdeen, 1846
Selected portions from the diary and manuscripts of the Rev. Gavin Parker, Aberdeen, D. Wyllie, 1848
An example of ‘the life of God in the soul of man’, a diary kept by the wife of the rev. Gavin Parker, edited by her daughter and son, G. and J. Parker, Aberdeen, 1881
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.3, p.145, Of Godliness
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/9/1845m, sometime minister of the gospel in Aberdeen, and Susan Watt, Extract Contract of Marriage, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/22; T. Misc. Papers incl. Susan Watt 17/09/1845 NRS SC1/, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/22
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Parker or Watt, Susan, 11/11/1880, Mrs, sometime residing at 52 Skene Terrace, Aberdeen, widow of Revd Gavin Parker a minister of the Gospel in Aberdeen, d. 12/06/1880 at Aberdeen, testate, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/87; 15/11/1880, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/86; 19/11/1880, Extract Additional Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/87
The Aberdeen pulpit and universities, a series of sketches of the Aberdeen clergy, and of the professors in the Aberdeen colleges, James Bruce, Aberdeen, Strachan, 1844
David Black, schoolmaster, Mary Well Street, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.2 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
12th October, 1837, Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.402 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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PATERSON, HUGH SINCLAIR
Publications – by him
Stimulants and strength, an address, London, W. Tweedie, 1873
Evolution: an exposition and critique, in Disputed Questions of Belief, J. Oswald Dykes (J. O.), London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1874
Disputed questions of belief, being lectures to young men, delivered at the English Presbyterian College, London, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1874
Is Total Abstinence safe? Medical and physiological arguments in support of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks, London, W. Tweedie and Co., 1875
To the Rescue! An appeal to Christians, a temperance sermon on Galatians 6:1-5, London, W. Tweedie and Co., 1876
Speech on moderate drinking, in Moderate drinking, Sir Henry Thompson, pp.80-90, 1877
Deliverance, London, 1878
Sound-mindedness in relation to christian life and practice, London, Morgan and Scott, 1879
Sin self-destructive, London, Morgan and Scott, 1879
Studies in life, lectures, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1880
The human body and its functions, lectures, London, 1880
Health studies, lectures, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1880
In defence: the earlier Scriptures, lectures on the Pentateuch, London, 1882
‘A ribband of blue’, London, 1882
Christ and criticism, the witnesses examined, London, 1883
The Christian: who and what is he?, addresses, London, John F. Shaw and Co., 1883
The Harvest of the City, and the workers of to-day, Pearl Fisher (1.e. Thomas Paul), with an introduction by H. S. Paterson, New York, R. Carter & Bros, 1884?
Life, function, health, lectures, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1884
Crosses and crowns, London, John F. Shaw and Co., 1884
The fourfold life: its antecedents and consequences, lectures, London, 1884
Faith and unfaith: their claims and conflicts, London, 1886
The bottle-imp, Glasgow, Scottish Permissive Bill & Temperance Association, between 1890 and 1899?
The Music Hall Conspiracy, King Jute and his 64 per cent of Loss. How to arrest and cure drunkenness
He edited the British and Foreign Evangelical Review. See for example, Vol.32, London, James Nisbet, 1883
Publication – about him
Court of Session: Unextracted processes: Hugh Sinclair Paterson and others, Trustees of Free St Mark’s Church, Glasgow v Taylor and others: Advocation, 1868, NRS CS246/1578
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PATERSON, NATHANIEL
Publications – by him
Lecture XIII, on the evidences of revealed religion, Glasgow?, Collins, 1828
New Statistical Account, September, 1833, Galashiels, Vol.3, Selkirk, p.11; and Selkirkshire, Vol.3, Selkirk, p.79
Scottish pulpit, Saturday 23d August, 1834, Glasgow, 1834?
Lectures on the church establishment controversy and subjects connected with it, delivered in Glasgow, at the request of “The Glasgow Association for Promoting the Interests of the Church of Scotland”, Glasgow, William Collins, 1835
Who would gain by the destruction of the established church?, Glasgow, 1835
The dangerous nature of Popery, being the substance of a speech, delivered at the meeting of the Glasgow Protestant Association, on Tuesday, October 6, 1835, Glasgow, William Collins, 1836
The manse garden, Glasgow, W. Collins, 1836
Popery accommodated to human corruption, and accommodating the word of God to itself, Glasgow?, William Collins?, 1836
Popery the enemy of the souls of men, in Lectures on popery, Glasgow, William Collins, 1836
Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Louisa Taylor, or, an illustration of the work of the Holy Spirit, in awakening, renewing, and sanctifying the heart, Lot Jones, with an introductory essay by Nathaniel Paterson, Glasgow, W. Collins, 1839
The Church of Scotland a witness for Christ’s headship: in her history from 1660 to 1690, Glasgow, W. Collins?, 1840
Practical addresses and counsels, pointing out the immediate duty of Christians and others in connection with the revival of religion, and the advantages of expecting, seeking, and labouring for it, Glasgow, W. Collins, 1840
Family worship, a series of prayers with doctrinal and practical remarks on passages of Sacred Scripture for every morning and evening throughout the war; adapted to the services of domestic worship, by one hundred and eighty clergymen of the Church of Scotland, namely J. Smyth, N. Paterson, and others, Glasgow, 1841
On the peculiar dangers to which young men are exposed in A course of lectures to young men on science, literature and religion, Glasgow, William Collins, 1842
Sermon delivered at the opening of the New College, Edinburgh?, 1850?
Address, signed at end: Nathaniel Paterson, moderator, Edinburgh, Free Church of Scotland, 1850
Inauguration of the New College of the Free Church, Edinburgh, November MDCCCL, Discourse, p.3 and Address to the Professors and Students, p.23
Moderatism and patronage in Communications to the members and friends of the Free Church of Scotland on the principles of the Church. No. II, May 1854, Edinburgh?, Johnstone and Hunter?, 1854
Letters to his family, with brief memoir by Alexander Anderson, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1874
Practical Addresses and Counsels in connection with the Revival of Religion, lecture on Psalm 85:4-7
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.3, p.451, Self Denial; Vol.4, p.61, The Duty and Blessing of waiting on the Lord; Vol.4, p.455, The Necessity of Repentance; Vol.4, p.484, The Gospel Preached to the Poor
The Scottish Christian Herald, 2nd series, Vol.1, p.121, God’s Presence Promised to his People in their Journey to Heaven; The Necessity of Holiness to Peace on Earth and Happiness in Heaven, pp. 728 and 745
Publications – about him
Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Vol.44, William George Black, Paterson, Nathaniel
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Lionel Alexander Ritchie, Paterson, Nathaniel (1787–1871), Free Church of Scotland minister and author
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 2/11/1871, Minister of Free Saint Andrews church, Glasgow, died at Newark Villa, Helensburgh, Dunbarton County, Dumbarton Sheriff Court, NRS SC65/34/17
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.80 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]; Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.245
Those ministers of Galashiels!: Dr. Douglas, Dr. Paterson, Dr. Phin, Dr. Gloag, D. P. Thomson, 1947?
Image: see here for a picture of early Free Church Moderators.
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PATTERSON, ALEXANDER SIMPSON
Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, 1836, Innerwick, Vol.2, Haddington, p.233
Lectures on the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Chapters of St. John’s Gospel, John B. Patterson, edited by A. S. Patterson, Glasgow, A. Fullarton & Co, 1840
A brief commentary on the first Epistle of St. John, Edinburgh, 1842
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments according to the authorized version; with marginal references and illustrations etc by the Rev. John Brown, and numerous additional critical and explanatory notes by the Rev. J.B. Patterson, and the Rev. A.S. Patterson, Coldstream, Robert Kerr, 1846
A Brief Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1846
Select works of the late Rev. Thomas Boston, minister of Ettrick, with a memoir of his life and writings, edited by the Rev. Alexander S. Patterson, Edinburgh, 1847
Sketch of the scripture doctrine respecting good angels, Glasgow, David Bryce, 1848
A Commentary, expository and practical, on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1856
Commentaries: expository and practical, on the first Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, the Epistle of James, and the first Epistle of John, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1857
Relics of early life: being verses composed in youth, Glasgow, 1858
The cradle and the cross of Jesus, two discourses, Glasgow, David Bryce, 1859
Poets and preachers of the nineteenth century, four lectures biographical and critical on Wordsworth, Montgomery, Hall, and Chalmers, Glasgow, Thomas Murray and Son, 1862
Discourses, Duncan MacNab, edited by A. S. Patterson, Glasgow, 1864
The Redeemer and the Redemption, discourses & addresses, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter and Co., 1865
The redeemer and the redemption, sacramental discourses and addresses, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, and Co., 1865
Sketches, in verse, of a recent continental tour, Glasgow, 1866
Speech on the proposal for an incorporating union between the Free Church of Scotland and certain other churches, delivered in the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, 8th November 1870, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, & Co., 1870
Joshua intimating his own Departure, and the Favour of God toward Israel; Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.361, The ministry of the apostle Paul
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.1, p.208, Sacred Poetry: “A Mountain Hymn”; Sacred Poetry: “Metrical Version of Hebrews 12, 18–29”
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/3/1885, D.D., senior Minister, Hutchesontown, F.C., Glasgow, residing at 3 Walmer Crescent, Paisley Road there, d. 28/01/1885 at 3 Walmer Crescent aforesaid, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/109; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/90
Memoir of Alexander S. Patterson, D.D., with selections from his unpublished writings, J.J. Bonar, Edinburgh, 1886
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PHILIP, ALEXANDER
Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, 1840, Cruden, Vol.12, p.978
The practical works of John Bunyan, with a preliminary essay on his character and writings, 6 vols., edited by the Rev. Alexander Philip, Aberdeen, George King, 1841-1842: Vol.2; Vol.3; Vol.4 and Vol.5
The hope of the righteous in death, a sermon preached on the occasion of the death of John Russell, one of the magistrates of Dunfermline, Dunfermline, T. &T. Clark, 1847
The Sabbath question, Dunfermline, 1848
Letter addressed to Mr Alexander Philip, Minister of the Free Abbey Church, Dunfermline, by Joseph N. Paton, Sen., Dunfermline, J. Miller and Son, 1848
The Pharisees’ Sabbath exposed, in reply to Mr. Philip, minister, Joseph N. Paton, Dunfermline, Miller, 1848
The Sabbath question: answer to the letter of Mr. J. N. Paton addressed to Mr. Alexander Philip, Dunfermline, W. Clark, 1848
“The Lord’s people brought through the fire”, being the substance of a discourse preached in the Free Church, Portobello, on Sabbath, the 26th October 1851, being the Sabbath immediately following the funeral of Mrs. Francis Robson, wife of the Rev. Alexander Philip, Portobello, Edinburgh, 1851
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/5/1861, Minister of the Free Chruch at Portobello, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/108; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/76
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Philip or Reddie, Janet, 25/2/1904, 76 Polwarth Gardens, Edinburgh, widow, d. 28/01/1904 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/432; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/354
John McKenzie, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.9 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.54
10th October, 1837, Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.386 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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PHILIP, JOHN
Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sunday trains and Maynooth grant, 23rd April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/182; Sites, 16th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/213
Earth’s care and heaven’s cure, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1865
Who is the bravest and the best?, Edinburgh : A. Elliot, 1866
The pulpit at the bar, or, the foolishness of preaching, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliott, 1868
Yea or nay?, or, The union question tried and tested, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant, 1870
Rays of light, or, Church-themes and life-problems, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter & Co., 1871
A reply to the private circular on the union question (with some notes), Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, & Co. 1872
Earth’s work and heaven’s rest, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1881
Lights and shadows of human life, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1886
A plea for one’s creed, Montrose, Walker, 1889
Why am I a Protestant?, Montrose, G. Walker, 1889
Why am I a Christian?, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, c.1890
The Bible: its trial and triumph, London, Marshall Brothers, 1900
The old gospel and its new law (pulpit and press: capital and labour), London, Stockwell, 1902
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.3, p.119, Glorying in the cross of Christ
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/7/1905, Doctor of Divinity, Fordoun, County of Kincardine, 9 Mount Street, Aberdeen, d. 15/05/1905 at Aberdeen, testate, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/152; Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/126
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Philip or Littlejohn, Janet Morison 27/8/1895, F.C. Manse, Auchinblae, Parish of Fordoun, County of Kincardine, wife of Rev. John Philip, residing there, d. 19/06/1895 at Auchinblae aforesaid, testate, Stonehaven Sheriff Court, NRS SC5/41/36
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PORTEOUS, JAMES MOIR
Publications – by him
Subscribers for prize essay on the government of the Church of Christ, Glasgow?, publisher not identified, 1869?
The message and its reception: a sermon preached on the anniversary of his ordination, Glasgow, Thomas Murray & Son, 1869?
What is the system of popery?, a tract for Bible classes, London, The Protestant Educational Institute, 1872
The government of the Kingdom of Christ, an inquiry as to the scriptural, invincible, and historical position of Presbytery, a prize essay, with preface by the Rev. Horatius Bonar, D.D., Edinburgh, 1872
What is Plymouthism or Brethrenism?, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1873
The mutual eligibility scheme, being a speech delivered in the Free Church Presbytery of Penpont, Dumfries, 1873
What Scotch fowk think: Brethren in the Keelhowes, or, Questionings as the Christian doctrine and Plymouthism, London, 1874
The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P., and the papacy snowed up at Ballintarn, Edinburgh, 1875
The Eastern question: Turkey, its mission and doom, London, 1876
‘God’s treasure-house in Scotland’; a history of times, mines, and lands in the southern highlands , London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1876
“The morning star”, or, Where was the Protestant religion before Luther?, a treatise repudiating the errors of popery advocated by the Abbot of “Sweetheart” Abbey, issued in 1602 by John Welsh of Kirkcudbright and Ayr, with a sketch of the life and times of John Welsh by J. Moir Porteous, London, J. Nisbet, 1878
The covenanting struggle: its tombstone memorials, and scenes of faithful contending, suffering, and repose in Scotland, London, 1880
The Scottish Patmos: a standing testimony to patriotic Christian devotion, Paisley, J. and R. Parlane, 1881
Theatres and Christians: the revived question viewed in the most brilliant lights, Edinburgh, 1883
Gaelic: Gairm do Phrostanaich dhuthchasach a tha `n an luchd-tagnaidh air Cuill parlamaid, le co-chomunn Pròstanach na Rìoghachd, Edinburgh, H. Armour & Co., 1885
The Presbyterian Church: its world-wide history and extent, with the most recent statistics of peoples and churches, London, J. Nisbet, 1888
Jesus Christ, King of the Church, Port Dinorwic, James Begg Society, c.1999
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/3/1892, D.D., F.C. Minister, sometime at Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, thereafter at Cowgatehead, Edinburgh, and latterly residing at 10 North Mansionhouse Road there, d. 29/11/1891 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/305; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/258
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ROBERTS, ALEXANDER
Publications – by him and his wife
The Threefold Life; or, Faith, Hope and Love in their nature and development, London, 1858
Inquiry into the original language of St. Matthew’s gospel, with relative discussions on the language of Palestine in the time of Christ and on the origin of the Gospels, London, Samuel Bagster, 1859?
Discussions on the Gospels, in two parts, part I, on the language employed by our Lord and his disciples, part II, on the original language of St. Matthew’s Gospel, and on the origin and authenticity of the Gospels, Cambridge, Macmillan, 1864
Ante-Nicene Christian library, translations of the writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 / edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, 24 vols., Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1867-72: see volumes available online here.
The words of the New Testament, as altered by transmission and ascertained by modern criticism, William Milligan, Alexander Roberts, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1873
The Bible of Christ and his apostles, London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1879
Old Testament revision, a handbook for English readers, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1883
Greek, the language of Christ and His apostles, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888
Companion to the Revised Version of the New Testament, Explaining the Reasons for the Changes Made on the Authorized Version, New York, Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co.
The Christian’s armour, an oratorio, text compiled and arranged by Mrs. Alexander Roberts, London, Hutchins & Romer, 1886?
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/6/1901, of St Andrews, Mitcham Park, Mitcham, County of Surrey (formerly of College Gate, St Andrews, Fife), d. 08/03/1901 at St Andrews aforesaid, testate, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/7/3
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ROSS, WILLIAM, Aberdour
Publications – by him
Letters to David Laing written from Aberdour, Fife, dated 1858 Sept. 30; 1858 Oct. 7; 1858 Oct. 14; and 1862 Dec. 5
Burgh life in Dunfermline in the olden time, a lecture, Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1864
The evil effects of Sabbath travelling, proved by an appeal to facts, in a series of letters to the editor of the “Daily review”, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1865
The Sabbath made for man, a sermon, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1865
Glimpses of pastoral work in the Covenanting times, a record of the labours of Andrew Donaldson, A.M., minister at Dalgety, Fifeshire, 1644-1662, London, James Nisbet, 1877
Busby and its neighbourhood, including the parishes of Carmunnock, East Kilbride, Mearns, and Cathcart, being historical notices, in four lectures, Glasgow, David Bryce and Son, 1883
The happiness of heaven, a sermon preached in Kilmadock Free Church on Sabbath, 20th January, 1884, with reference to the death of the Rev. John Archibald Anderson, senior minister of the congregation, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1884
Aberdour and Inchcolme, being historical notices of the parish and monastery, Edinburgh, D. Douglas, 1885
The grace of charity, and other sermons, the late Rev. James Freer, Dumfries, with biographical sketch by Rev. William Ross, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1888
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Ross
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/1/1896, LL.D., Senior Minister, Free Church, Bridge of Allan, residing at 7 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 28/11/1895 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/345; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/287
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Ross or Bryce, Barbara Anne, 12/3/1910, 7 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. William Ross, LL.D., d. 11/02/1910 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/500; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/414
Review of William Ross’s The Sabbath made for man, London, Weekly Review Office, 1865?
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ROXBURGH, JOHN
Publications – by him
The nature and design of God’s judgments, a discourse, preached in St. David’s Church, Glasgow, on Thursday, 22nd March, 1832, the day appointed for a national fast, Glasgow, Maurice Ogle, and David Robertson, 1832
Cruelty to animals, a sermon preached in the Steeple Church, Dundee, on Sunday, March 30, 1834, Dundee, Frederick Shaw, 1834
An address to “Several ministers of the presbytery of Dundee” occasioned by their “Address to their parishioners”, Dundee?, 1841?
The walk and triumph of the saints, a sermon preached in St Peter’s Church, Dundee, on Sabbath 2nd April 1843, on occasion of the lamented death of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, Dundee, William Middleton, 1843
The glory of the latter house, or, The encouragements, prospects, and duties of the Free Church of Scotland, a discourse preached before the Dundee Young Men’s Church Society, and published at their request, Dundee, W. Middleton, 1843
The Saviour’s suffering and his satisfaction in the fruit of them, Perth, James Dewar and Son, 1845
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 14h May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/211
The building of the tabernacle, or, The duty and privilege of contributing to the support and spread of the gospel, a sermon, preached in obedience to the injunction of the last General Assembly of the Free Church, requiring ministers specially to direct the attention of their people to the claims of the Sustentation Fund, Glasgow, Blackie and Son, 1847
The Six Days’ Bill, or, The sanctification of the Sabbath, being a speech delivered by the Rev. John Roxburgh at a public meeting in Dundee, Dundee?, 1847?
Pastoral address, to the members of Free St John’s congregation and to the seat-holders in the church, Glasgow, W.G. Blackie and Co., 1849?
The retributive Providence of God, manifested in connection with the crime and punishment of Dr. Pritchard, Glasgow, Thomas Murray & Son, 1865
In memoriam, Rev. Robert Buchanan D.D., sermons preached in the Free College Church, Glasgow on Sabbath, 18th April, 1875, John Roxburgh D.D., and Sir Henry W. Moncreiff , Glasgow, David Bryce, 1875
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.2, p.25, Annual Sermon against the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome; Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.23, The saviour’s sufferings, and his satisfaction in the fruit of them, Isaiah 53:11
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 24 . (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Roxburgh
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 19/2/1881, D.D., Minister of the Free Church of Scotland, residing at 122 Hill Street, Glasgow, d. 02/11/1880 at Weston Super Mare, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/9; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/81
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Roxburgh, Catherine, 18/8/1899, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, widow, Letters of administration, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/6/76
Address to the Rev. Dr. Roxburgh on the occasion of his retiring from the active duties of the ministry: Ministerial reminiscences, Glasgow, Thomas Murray & Son, 1875
Memorials of John Roxburgh D.D., minister of St. John’s Free Church, Glasgow, edited by George G. Cameron, Glasgow, David Bryce & Son, 1881
How are the masses to be educated and evangelized?, a letter addressed to the Rev. John Roxburgh, D.D. Convener of the Free Church General Assembly’s Committee on Glasgow Evangelization, George Troup, Glasgow, Griffin, 1857?
27th November, 1837, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.106 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
For photo by Hill and Adamson see here
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SCHWARTZ, CARL
Publications – by him
Dutch: Een woord aan Joodsche en Christelijke ingezetenen van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Johannes Muller, 1849
Dutch: De Vrije Schotsche Kerk en hare zending in Nederland gehandhaafd tegen Dr. H. J. Spijker, predikant te Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Höveker, 1853
Dutch: Gij zijt de Christus, de zoon des levenden Gods, Amsterdam, G. van Peursen, 1853
Dutch: Gelooft gij de profeten?: leerrede over Handelingen XXVI: 27a, uitgesproken te Amsterdam bij gelegenheid van den doop van een Israëlitisch huisgezin, Amsterdam, H. de Hoogh, 1855
Dutch: Vrijlating en vrijmaking der slaven in de Kolonie Suriname, uitgesproken in de Kerk der Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam, Amsterdam, H. de Hoogh, 1862
Dutch: Wie was Calvijn? en wat heeft hij gedaan? Twee vragen, beantwoord naar Felix Bungener, en ter behartiging aangeboden aan alle Evangelische Christenen, Amsterdam, H. de Hoogh, 1864
Dutch: Woorden van afscheid: twee leerredenen over 2 Corinthe VI: 1 en Filippensen I: 27-28, Amsterdam, H. de Hoogh, 1864
Dutch: Onverschilligheid: een antwoord op Dr. Pierson’s “Onverdraagzaamheid”, Amsterdam, 1864
Dutch: Ter Herinnering aan Calvijn’s driehonderdjarigen Sterfdag, Schwartz and others, Amsterdam, H. Hoogh, 1864
Dutch: Zacharia, een der herauten van Israëls Koning, Amsterdam, 1866
The scattered nation, past, present & future, edited by C. Schwartz, London: 1866; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870 and 1871
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 9/2/1871 preacher at Trinity Chapel in London, thereafter residing in Kensington in County of Middlesex, Probate of W, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/130; Note of Probate only, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/151; Probate of Will, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/6/8
Dutch: Ter Gedachtenis aan Dr. Carl Schwartz, Abraham Capadose, Amsterdam, 1871
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SHANKS, ROBERT
Publications – by him
The anatomy of the Mass, Peter Du Moulin, translated from the French by Robert Shanks, Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes, 1833
Protestantism versus Catholicism, correspondence betwixt the Rev. John McLean, Presbyterian Minister, Achbreck, and the Rev. James Gordon, Tombae, Glenlivat, and a written challenge for public disputation on certain controversial subjects from the Rev. Robert Shanks, an itinerant minister of a Protestant Reformation Society, to the Rev. James Gordon, Roman Catholic clergyman, Glenlivat, with Mr. G.’s answer to the same, Aberdeen, printed at the Herald Office, 1835
The Glenlivat controversy, being a genuine copy of the letters of the Rev. Messrs. Maclean and Shanks, and Mr. Gordon, priest of Tombae, with an exposure of the ignorance and dishonesty in Mr. Gordon’s pamphlet, also the letters of Messrs. Carmichael and Maclachlan, priests at Tomintoul and Huntley, with remarks thereon, Aberdeen, P. Gray, 1835
Some causes of Protestant alarm stated, and the speeches of the Hon. Lord Moncreiff, and the Rev. Principal Dewar, delivered in the General Assembly, on Popery, dissected, in a letter to his Lordship, Edinburgh, Waugh & Innes, 1836
Free Church of Scotland – Buckie, 1849?
Breadalbane Muniments: Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 23rd April, 1850, Profanation of the Lord’s day by unnecessary labour in the Post Office, NRS GD112/74/834
The organ in the Church of Scotland, a letter to his grace the Duke of Richmond, London, 1875
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert Shanks
John Smith, Robert Shanks of Buckie (1798-1884), Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal, 2 (2012): 167-195
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/7/1884, sometime minister, Free Church, Buckie, thereafter residing in Aberdeen, d. 17/04/1884 at Aberdeen, testate, spouse of Mrs Mary Fulton or Shanks, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/95; 18/7/1884, sometime Minister, Free Church, Buckie, thereafter residing in Aberdeen, d. 17/04/1884 at Aberdeen, testate, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/94; Extract Additional Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/96
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Shanks or Fulton, Mary, 19/10/1889, Mrs, resided at 52 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, widow, d. 15/08/1889 at Aberdeen, testate, daughter of John Fulton, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/108; Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/104
A lecture intended to have been delivered in the Methodist Chapel Buckie, in answer to the lectures of the Rev. Robert Shanks, A.M. Missionary of the Reformation Society delivered in Buckie on the 1st 3rd and 4th days of July, 1834, D. Carmichael, Elgin, Grant, 1834
A letter to the Rev. Robert Shanks of the Reformation Society on his no-Popery mission to the Enzie, by a layman, Aberdeen, printed at the Herald Office, 1835
Letter to the Rev. Mr. Shanks, of the Reformation Society, on the connexion between Protestantism & infidelity, Aberdeen, printed at the Herald Office, 1835
Second letter to the Rev. R. Shanks, upon the rule of faith, the sacrifice of the Mass, and offering it for the dead, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Herald Office, 1835
Third letter to the Rev. R. Shanks on sin, and the means of pardon, Aberdeen, printed at the Aberdeen Herald Office, 1835
Court of Session: Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict: Rev. James MacKintosh & Others (Presbytery of Fordyce): Suspension & Interdict: Respondent: Rev. Robert Shanks & Others, 1844, NRS CS275/6/13; Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Decree of declarator: The Presbytery of Fordyce and others v The Reverend Robert Shanks and others, March 1851, NRS CS46/1851/3/122
23rd September, 1837, Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.148 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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SIMPSON, DAVID, Burghead
Publications – by him
National sins the cause of national judgments; or, A call to humiliation and repentance, under the present threatening aspects of divine providence towards this country, being the substance of a sermon preached in Trinity Chapel, Aberdeen, on Sabbath the 16th October, 1831, Aberdeen, D. Chalmers & Co., 1831
A sermon preached in Trinity Chapel, on the 15th April, 1832, being the Sabbath immediately after the funeral of the late Rev. William Leith, with an appendix containing the conclusion of a sermon preached in the same place on the death of the late Rev. William Lyon, Aberdeen, G. King, 1832
The plague is begun, or, God’s warning voice to all classes in the cholera, a sermon, preached in Trinity Chapel, on the 2nd and 3rd Sabbaths of January, 1832, Aberdeen, J. Davidson, 1832
God’s claims to the affection of the heart, a sermon preached to young men, in Trinity Chapel, Aberdeen, on New-Year’s-Day, 1833, Aberdeen, J. Davidson, 1833
“Watching for the souls of his people,” the grand duty of the Christian minister, a sermon preached at the admission of the Rev. A.D. Davidson to the West Church and parish, Aberdeen, on the 4th May, 1836; with the charge to the Pastor, and the address to the congregation, Aberdeen, J. Davidson, 1836
The Church’s lamentation over the death of eminently good men, a sermon, preached in Trinity Church, on the Sabbath after the decease of the late Bailie Harper, who died on the 14th March, 1838, with an appendix containing an interesting record of the deceased, Aberdeen, A. Mitchell, 1838
The Scriptural warrant for the election of office-bearers (ministers and elders), by the members of the church, an address, delivered in Trinity Church, November, 1840, to the Aberdeen Tradesmen’s Association, Aberdeen, P. Gray, 1840
A sermon preached on the occasion of taking farewell of Trinity Church, on Sabbath the 11th June, 1843, with an appendix containing the conclusion of a sermon preached in Trinity Church, on the 14th of May last, being the day appointed by the “Special Commission” for humiliation and prayer in reference to the approaching crisis in the Church of Scotland, Aberdeen, G. and R. King, 1843
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 14th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/174; Maynooth endowment and against Sunday trains, 22nd April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/181; Maynooth bill, 16th May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/194
Christ’s spiritual presence, the real glory of a place to worship, a sermon preached at the opening of Free Trinity Church, Crown Street, on Sabbath, the 31st March, 1844, Aberdeen, G. Cornwall, 1845
The weak confounding the mighty, Aberdeen, Davidson, 1845
Memoir and remains of the Rev. David Simpson, A.M., minister of Trinity Free Church, Aberdeen, W. Kinnaird Mitchell, Aberdeen, Milne, 1865
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.3, p.313, The Apostolic Injunction to Abstain from all appearance of evil considered as a Scriptural Warrant for Temperance ; Vol.4, p.217, Children urged to become the Lambs of Christ’s Flock
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 644 . (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: David Simpson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/11/1864, residing at Carden Place in Aberdeen, died at Free Church Manse in Cluny, T. Misc. Papers incl. Jane Kinnaird 12/11/1864 S, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/55; T. Misc. Papers incl. Jane Kinnaird 12/11/1864 S, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/54
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Simpson, Jane, Mrs, alias Kinnaird, 26/7/1872, residing at No.6 Carden Place in Aberdeen, relict of Rev. David Simpson, T. 26/07/1872 NRS SC1/37/70/p161, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/71
The Aberdeen pulpit and universities, a series of sketches of the Aberdeen clergy, and of the professors in the Aberdeen colleges, James Bruce, Aberdeen, Strachan, 1844
A letter to the Rev. D. Simpson, minister of Trinity parish, Aberdeen, on “The question of questions”, humbly submitted to the serious consideration of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, the Rev. Dr. McCrie, the Rev. Mr. Willis, and other evangelical supporters of church establishments, by Adelphos. Aberdeen, printed by John Davidson and Co., 1834
Anne Donald, schoolmistress, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.2 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
George Adam, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.2 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
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SKINNER, JOHN
Publications – by him
Historical connection between the Old and New Testaments, Edinburgh, T.& T. Clark, 1889
The book of Ezekiel, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1895
Kings, introduction, Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904?
A Critical and exegetical commentary on Genesis, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1910
The evolution of religion in the Old Testament, Letchworth, Garden City Press Ltd., Printers, 1910
Papers including Founders’ Statement, The evolution of religion in the Old Testament, Letchworth, Garden City Press Ltd., Printers, 1910
Isaiah, 1-39, edited by C. H. Thomson and John Skinner, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1910
Bengali: Yiśāiẏera pustakera ṭīkā, Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, based on that of the Rev. J. Skinner, D.D., by the Rev. J. M. B. Duncan, Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press, 1910
Divine names in Genesis, London, 1914.
The Pentateuchal Text, a reply to Dr. Skinner [i.e. to his articles in the “Expositor”], Harold Marcus Wiener, London, Elliot Stock, 1914
Isaiah 40-66, edited by Rev. W. A. L. Elmslie and Rev. John Skinner, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914
Prophecy & religion, studies in the life of Jeremiah, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1922
The book of Samuel, translated into colloquial English, search only, London, 1925
A critical and exegetical commentary on Hosea, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1930
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SMEATON, GEORGE
Publications – by him
The Lord’s jealousy against backsliders consistent with his unchanging love, Perth, James Dewar and Son, 1845
Sermon, a witnessing church – a church baptized with the Holy Ghost, Perth, James Dewar & Son, 1846?
The necessary harmony between doctrine and spiritual life, being an introductory lecture, delivered on the 9th November, 1853 to the Free Church students attending the Divinity Hall at Aberdeen, Aberdeen, A. Brown, 1853
Aberdeen Reformation Society, Introductory lecture, winter 1853-4, on the origin, objects, and necessity of the association, Aberdeen, Stevenson 1853
The basis of Christian doctrine in divine fact, with particular reference to the modern realistic development of theology, being an introductory lecture, delivered at the opening of the Free Church Divinity Hall, Aberdeen, on Tuesday, 7th Nov., 1854, Aberdeen, A. Brown & Co., 1854
The real presence of Christ in the midst of his people, the only attraction & glory of ordinances, Aberdeen, Davidson 1856
Outlines of discourses, doctrinal and expository, James Stewart, with a prefatory note, by Professor Smeaton. Second edition, with memoir of the author, Edinburgh, 1860
The Lord’s Day, J. Gossner, with prefatory note by George Smeaton, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1860
The means and methods to be adopted for a successful ministry, being an introduction to Dr. Spencer’s Pastor’s sketches, J. A. James, with prefatory note by Professor Smeaton, Birmingham, Hudson and Son, 1861
The doctrine of the atonement, as taught by Christ himself, or, the sayings of Jesus on the atonement, exegetically expounded and classified, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1868
The union question, speech of Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff, in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on the 26th of February, 1868, being a reply to Mr. Main, Professor Smeaton, Dr. Thomas Smith, and Dr. James Buchanan, Henry Wellwood Moncreiff, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1868
Memoir of Alexander Thomson of Banchory, Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1869
The doctrine of the atonement as taught by the Apostles, or, the sayings of the Apostles exegetically expounded, with historical appendix, Edinburgh, T. &. T. Clark, 1870
Great Anti-Union Meeting in Glasgow, 25th October, 1870, speech of Professor Smeaton, of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dunn and Wright, 1870
The improvement of a revival time, Edinburgh, James Taylor, 1870
The new scheme of incorporation, Edinburgh, between 1870 and 1879?
National Christianity and scriptural union, or, An exposition of the union-question, addressed to the office-bearers, members, and adherents of the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter & Co., 1871
Statement of the difference between the profession of the reformed church of Scotland, as adopted by seceders, and the profession contained in the new testimony and other acts, lately adopted by the general associate synod, published at the presbytery’s desire by the late Thomas McCrie, with a preface by George Smeaton, Edinburgh, C. F. Lyon, 1871
Sermons preached in the Free West Church, Aberdeen, on Sabbath 5th May, 1872, being the Sabbath after the funeral of the Rev. Alex. D. Davidson D.D., late minister of that church, George Smeaton and James Lumsden, Aberdeen, D. Wyllie & Son, 1872
The Scottish theory of ecclesiastical establishments and how far the theory is realised, an address to the Glasgow Conservative Association, April 13, 1875, Glasgow, Association’s Rooms, 1875
Correspondence with the Rev. George Smeaton, D.D. Professor, Free Church College, Edinburgh Rev. Robert Rainy, D.D. Principal, Free Church College, Edinburgh Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, D.D. Minister, Presbyterian Church, Regent Square, London, showing the bearing of creed-subscription, as at present enforced in the Presbyterian churches, on the proper investigation of the truth, and on the truthful expression of religious sentiment, D. Milne, London, Spottiswoode, 1877
On the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, a chapter from Thomas Chalmers, with introductory note by Professor Smeaton, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1879
The inspiration and circulation of the Bible, William Fergusson, with a prefatory note by George Smeaton, London, Elliot Stock, 1880
Sermons preached in Free St. Matthew’s Church, Bath Street, Glasgow, with special reference to the death of the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., Professor Smeaton and others, Glasgow, John N. Mackinlay, 1881
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1882
Memorials of the late Miss Agnes Aitken, with preface by Professor Smeaton, Edinburgh, James Taylor, 1882
Sermons preached in Newington Free Church, Edinburgh, on occasion of the death of James Begg, D.D., John Kennedy and George Smeaton, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1883
Instrumental music: a consideration for and against its introduction into the worship of the Free Church of Scotland, John McEwan, with a prefatory note by George Smeaton, Edinburgh, 1883
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.587, The Lord’s jealousy against backsliders consistent with his unchanging love, Psalm 39:30-33; Vol.3, p.23, A witnessing church – a church baptized with the Holy Ghost
The Scottish Christian Herald, 2nd series, Vol.2, p.617, Immanuel
He contributed to Fairbairn’s Imperial Bible Dictionary
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: George Smeaton
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/5/1889, D.D., 13 Mansion House Road, Professor of Exegetical Theology, New College, Edinburgh, d. 14/04/1889 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/274; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/237
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Smeaton or Goold, Janet Helen, 27/4/1893, 13 South Mansionhouse Road, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. George Smeaton, D.D., Professor of Exegetical Theology, New College there, d. 01/03/1893 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/318; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/267
Papers relating to Auchtermuchty Parish Church: Church vacancies, testimonials etc., 1844: Call to Mr [George] Smeaton to the Parish of Falkland [Fragile], NRS GD152/117/5
Sermons preached in Buccleuch Free Church on the death of the Rev. George Smeaton, D. D., Robert Gordon and Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1889
Some Free Church professors and Preachers in Some nineteenth century Scotsmen, being personal recollections, William Knight, p.103, Edinburgh, London, Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1903
The contribution of George Smeaton (1814-1889) to theological thought, Homer L. Goddard, Jr.
Atonement and pneumatology, a study in the theology of George Smeaton, Norman Paul Madsen, St Andrews, 1974
The federal pneumatology of George Smeaton (1814-89), Robert Mark Shillaker, Milton Keynes, Open University, 2002
George Smeaton, learned theologian and biblical scholar, John W. Keddie, Darlington, Evangelical Press, 2007
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SMELLIE, ALEXANDER
Publications – by him
The romances of King Arthur, and the development of an Arthurian tradition, an essay read before the University Philomathic Society, Edinburgh, J. Gemmell, 1877
The Sunday school teacher, edited by A. Smellie, London, 1893
The companions of Jesus, London, 1897
Books for the Heart, a series of reprints of religious works, edited by A. Smellie, London, A. Melrose, 1897, etc.
Confessions of St Augustine, London, A. Melrose, 1897
The journal of John Woolman, edited, with an introduction, by Alexander Smellie, London, 1898
In the hour of silence, a book of daily meditations for a year, London, Andrew Melrose, 1899
Torch-bearers of the faith, a book of Christian heroes, London, 1899
The Heidelberg Catechism, the German text, with a revised translation and introduction, edited by Alexander Smellie, London, 1900
The Christian’s great interest, William Guthrie, edited by A. Smellie, London, 1901
Why keep the Sabbath?, Stirling, published for the Scottish National Christian Endeavour Union, 1902?
Men of the Covenant, London, 1903
Service and inspiration, addresses, London, 1904
‘If ye love me’, London, 1905
The legacy of John Knox in John Knox, appreciations by United Original Seceders, addresses delivered at the Meeting of Synod held in Edinburgh on the 18th of May, 1905
Talks about Jesus, London, Andrew Melrose, 1906
The print of his shoe, forty years’ missionary experience in the southside of Edinburgh, James Goodfellow, with introductory note by Alexander Smellie, Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1906
Give me the Master, London, 1906
Selected poems of Christina G. Rossetti, with introduction by Alexander Smellie, London, Melrose, 1907
Songs of the heart, being short studies in twelve psalms, London, 1908
The daily walk, London, 1910
Andrew Melville, London, 1910
At the World Missionary Conference, a little narrative for friends who were not there, Dundee, J.B. Mathew, 1910
Robert Murray McCheyne, London, National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, 1913
Lift up your heart, four addresses on sanctification, London, Andrew Melrose, 1915
Polymerôs kaì polytrópos, by divers portions and in divers manners, an address spoken from the chair of the organisational synod, Dundee, James P. Mathew, 1917
Out of the desert a gift, a book of counsel and company for the Sabbath evening, London, A. Melrose, 1917
Luther, a word of admiration and defence, a lecture delivered to the Knox Club on the 26th of November, 1917, Edinburgh, The Knox Club, 1918
The well by the way, a second book of counsel and company for the sabbath evening, London, 1918
Evan Henry Hopkins, a memoir, London, Marshall Bros., 1920
Alexander Smellie, 1857-1923, appreciations of his life and work, 1923
Rev. Alexander Smellie, D.D in The Original Secession Magazine, July 1923, London, A. Melrose, 1923
Sunset glory, Sermons preached in Carluke Original Secession Church, London, Andrew Melrose, 1924
The Reformation in its literature, London, A. Melrose , 1925
Wayfarer’s daily message, London, 1933
A worthy vow, Edinburgh, United Free Church Temperance Publications Depots
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/9/1923, D.D., Original Secession Manse, Carluke, d. 23/05/1923 at Carluke, testate, Lanark Sheriff Court, SC38/42/24; Lanark Sheriff Court Wills, SC38/44/4
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Decree of declarator, The Reverend Alexander Smellie and others v John Reid Hobart (Miss Marion Millar’s trust), August 1906, CS46/1906/8/52; Related material: CS45/1013
Decree of declarator, The Reverend Alexander Smellie, and others v John Reid Hobart (Miss Janet Millar’s trust), August 1906, CS46/1906/8/53
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SMITH, JAMES, Tarland
Publications – by him
The Temperance reformation and its claims upon the Christian Church, a prize essay, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1875
Dancing, temperance and religion, a sermon preached in the Free Church, Tarland, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1876
Professor Smith on the Bible [i.e. his article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.] and Dr. Marcus Dods on inspiration, Edinburgh, J. Greig & Son, 1877
Professor Smith’s criticisms on the Pentateuch examined, Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 1878
Professor Smith’s new plea and the Presbytery’s procedure, being the substance of a speech delivered in the Free Synod of Aberdeen, 14th October, 1879, Edinburgh, James Gemmell … [etc.], 1879
The papal authority as affirmed by Pius IX. and the Vatican council, considered both as a theological doctrine and in its bearing on political liberty, a prize essay, Edinburgh, 1884
Memorials of the Rev. John Smith, late minister of the Free Church, Shettleston, Glasgow, and of Dr. Chalmers’ territorial church, West Port, Edinburgh
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Smith
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/3/1900, Free chuch minister, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, d. 22/01/1900 at Tarland, testate, spouse of Mrs Jemima Hunter or Smith, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/139; Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/121
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Smith or Hunter, Jemima, 1/9/1919, 64 Comiston Road, Edinburgh, then at 58 Comiston Road Edinburgh, afterwards 8 Lasswade Road, Liberton, afterwards 10 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh, afterwards Braid Hills Hotel Edinburgh, latterly 5 Rillbank Terrace Edinburgh, widow, d. 08/03/1919 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/636
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SMITH, THOMAS
Publications – by him
Missions, the end of the Christian Church, also the qualifications, duties and trials of an Indian missionary, being the substance of the services held at the ordination of the Rev. Thomas Smith, as one of the Church of Scotland’s missionaries to India, Alexander Duff, Edinburgh, J. Johnstone, 1839
The Christian’s patrimony, being the substance of five discourses delivered in the Scottish Church, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town 1842
Work of grace at Calcutta, being a narrative of the circumstances attending the recent conversions there, Alexander Duff and Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1845
Colonel Richard Baird Smith, C.B., in Good Words, p.559, 1862; see also p.766
An elementary treatise on plane geometry, according to the method of rectilineal co-ordinates, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1857
The future of India in Essays by ministers of the Free Church of Scotland, edited by William Hanna, Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1858
Studies on Pascal, Alexander Vinet ; translated from the French by Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1859
The Bible not inconsistent with science in Christianity and recent speculations, six lectures by ministers of the Free church, Edinburgh, J. Maclaren, 1866
Natural laws; creation, miracles, providence, prayer, a lecture delivered at the request of the Young Men’s Association in connexion with the U.P. Congregation, Broughton Place, Edinburgh
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, translations of the writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325: The writings of Tatian and Theophilus, and The Clementine recognitions, translated by Thomas Smith with others, Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark, 1867
The union question, in reply to Dr Rainy’s pamphlet, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1867?
The union question, speech of Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff, Bart., D.D., in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on the 26th of February, 1868, being a reply to Mr. Main, Professor Smeaton, Dr. Thomas Smith and Dr. James Buchanan, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1868
The ministry of the teacher, an address delivered to the students of the Free Church Training College, Edinburgh, on 27th January 1870, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant, 1870
The complete works of Thomas Manton, D.D., General editor: Thomas Smith, London, James Nisbet & Co. 1870-75
Letters, 1639-1661, Samuel Rutherford, revised and edited by Thomas Smith, with a preface by the Rev. Alexander Duff, Edinburgh, D. Grant, 1876
In memoriam: Rev. Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D., Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1878
Christ’s constraining love in In memoriam, Rev. Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D., Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1878
Sound & earnest ministers the permanent want of the church, an address made in the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh, on Oct. 20th, 1880, on the occasion of the induction of Dr. Thomas Smith as Professor of Evangelistic Theology, James Begg, Edinburgh?, 1880?
Modern missions and culture, their mutual relations, Gustav Warneck, translated from the German by Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, J. Gemmell, 1883
Alexander Duff, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1883
Memorials of the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D, minister of St. Matthew’s Free Church, Glasgow, with a biographical sketch by Thomas Smith, Glasgow, David Bryce, 1883
Outline of the history of the Protestant missions from the Reformation to the present time, Gustav Warneck, translated by Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, 1884
Memoirs of James Begg, D.D., minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1885-1888: Vol.1. See here for access to the two volumes.
Proceedings and debates of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, held at Inverness, May 1888, edited by Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, Ballantyne, 1888
Sermons preached in Buccleuch Free Church, sabbath, April 21st, 1889, on the death of the Rev. George Smeaton, D. D., Robert Gordon and Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1889
“The true grace of God”, a sermon preached at the opening of the Free Church Assembly 1892, Edinburgh, R.W. Hunter, 1892
Jubilee celebrations: Rev. W. Whyte Smith, and Rev. Thomas Smith, D.D., Edinburgh, 1899
Life of Lal Behari Day, convert, pastor, professor, and author, G. Macpherson, search only, with an introduction by Thomas Smith, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1900
Euclid, his life and system, New York, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1902
The Modern Scottish Pulpit, The Tower in Siloam, Luke 13:4-5, p.144
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/7/1906, D.D., LL.D., 23 Hatton Place, Edinburgh, d. 26/05/1906 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/459; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/378
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Smith or Whytt, Grace, 16/7/1886, wife of Rev. Thomas Smith, D.D., Professor of Evangelistic Theology, New College, Edinburgh, residing at 23 Hatton Place there, d. 02/11/1885 at Edinburgh, intestate, Confn ad omissa granted 05/02/1924, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/251; 6/2/1888, Eik, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/26; 5/2/1924, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/707
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SMYTH, JOHN
Publications – by him
A discourse on the duties of mankind, as subjects of civil authority, Glasgow, John Cunninghame, 1829
A treatise on the forgiveness of sins as the privilege of the redeemed, in opposition to the doctrine of universal pardon, founded on Ephesians 1:7, Glasgow, Thomas Ogilvie, 1830
A brief memoir of Lieut. J*** E******, Lieut., of the Bengal Army, with an introduction by John Smyth, Glasgow, 1833
Lectures on church establishments, on the scriptural argument for civil establishments of religion, proving the lawfulness and the duty of the civil magistrate’s supporting the true religion in his official capacity, and refuting the objections that have been urged from scripture, the iniquity of endowing all sects of religion, with a reference especially to the endowment of Popery. Lecture 2, Glasgow, William Collins, 1835
Popery the enemy of the domestic and social affections. Confessional, in Lectures on popery, Glasgow, William Collins, 1836
On Christian beneficence, a sermon preached before the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge at the anniversary meeting in the High Church of Edinburgh on Thursday, June 4, 1840, Edinburgh, Printed for the Society, 1840
The effects of a due observance of the Sabbath in A course of lectures to young men, with others, Glasgow, William Collins 1841
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth grant, 8 April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/171; Sites, 16th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/213; Against marriage affinity bill, 23rd July, 1850, NRS GD112/51/222
Sermons preached by Patrick McFarlan and John Smyth in Free St. John’s Church, Glasgow, Jan. 31st 1847, after the funeral of Dr. Thomas Brown, Glasgow, 1847
The popish antichrist, his character and doom, as delivered in 2 Thess. 2:1-12, Glasgow, David Bryce, 1848
A sermon preached in the Free West Church, Greenock, 15th November, 1849, being the first Sabbath after the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Patrick McFarlan, minister of that church, Greenock, J. McKelvie, 1850
Anniversary and other discourses on special occasions, Glasgow, W. R. McPhun, 1857
Sermon 68, Bible truth the only basis and directory of sound instruction, 1800s
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.171, Bible truth the only basis and directory of sound instruction
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.3, p.53, Scriptural religion, the one thing needful; Vol.4, p.301, On justifying Righteousness in Connexion with true Faith; Vol.5, p.13, The Duties of Mankind, as Subjects of Civil Authority
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.1, p.617, The Divine Interposition in behalf of Samuel; 2nd series, Vol.1, The Duties of the Christian as a Father, pp. 89 and 104
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Smyth or Lockhart, Violet Isabella, Mrs, 20/10/1875, died at Bridge of Allan, widow of Revd John Smyth D.D., minister of Free Saint George’s Church, Glasgow, mother of Violet Isabella Smyth, Inventory; Mutual Settlement with daughter, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/66
Sermons preached on occasion of the death of the rev. John Smyth, J. Henderson and R.S. Candlish, Glasgow, 1860
Passages of scripture and remarks on the universal pardon from the first condemnation, with an appendix containing particular answers to the several texts contained in “A treatise upon the forgiveness of sins, in opposition to the doctrine of universal pardon” by the Rev. John Smyth, A.M. Minister of St. George’s, Glasgow, Archibald Paterson, Glasgow, printed for the author and sold by G.Gallie , 1830
The doctrine of universal atonement vindicated in seven letters to the Rev. John Smyth, D.D., John Kennedy, Paisley, 1830
William Barr, schoolmaster, Brown Street, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.211 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.64 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]; Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.199
Image: see here for a picture of early Free Church Moderators.
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SOMERVILLE, ALEXANDER NEILL
Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth endowment, 17th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/177
Sacred Triads, doctrinal and practical, chiefly for the use of young persons, London, 1859
A Day in Laodicea, London, J. Nisbet, 1861
Love which passeth knowledge, a sermon delivered in the Free West Church, Helensburgh, Glasgow, David Bryce & Co., 1865
In memoriam: Notices of the Rev. James Henderson, D.D., given in Free St. Enoch’s Church, September 1874, with others, Glasgow, 1874
The cross of Christ, Glasgow, Charles Glass, 1874
Variety, unity, activity, an address, London, Morgan and Scott, 1876?
Regions beyond, report of the proceedings before the Free Presbytery of Glasgow in connection with the mission of the Rev. A. N. Somerville to other lands, 7th February, 1877, Glasgow, Glasgow United Evangelistic Association, 1877
The churches in Asia, extracts from the home letters of Rev. A. N. Somerville, D.D., from the region of the seven Churches, Paisley, Parlane, 1885
Evangelization for the world, addresses delivered at the opening and closing of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, on the 20th of May and 1st of June, 1886, Glasgow, David Bryce & Son, 1886
Speech delivered by the Rev. A. N. Somerville in the Free Church General Assembly, on May 26, 1887, in connection with his mission to the Highlands and Islands during the year of his moderatorship, 1886-87, Glasgow, Bell & Bain, 1887
The ingathering of Israel, speech, Glasgow, Bell & Bain, 1889
Precious seed sown in many lands, sermons, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1890
Lecture at Christian Convention, Glasgow, Scotland
The Bible for the World, a lecture, London, Morgan & Scott, 1904
History of the Jews, viewed in connection with prophecy from the Babylonish captivity to the coming of Christ, and destruction of Jerusalem, a lecture on Matt. 23:37-38
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander N. Somerville
Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Vol.53, Edward Irving Carlyle, Somerville, Alexander Neil
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, E. I. Carlyle, revised by Lionel Alexander Ritchie, Somerville, Alexander Neil (1813–1889), Free Church of Scotland minister and evangelist
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 22/10/1889, D.D., Minister, Free Anderston Church, Glasgow, residing at 11 Southpark Terrace, Hillhead there, d. 18/09/1889 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/126; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/99
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Somerville or Ewing, Isabella Mirrlees, 5/10/1900, 11 Southpark Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, widow, d. 03/07/1900 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/172; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/126
A modern apostle, Alexander N. Somerville, D.D. 1813-1889, George Smith, London, John Murray, 1890
Correspondence (1856-1859) in the archives of the Scottish Association for Marine Science to the Rev. A.N. Somerville and Alexander Somerville on entomological matters, P.G. Moore
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STARK, JAMES
Publications – by him
Speech of the Rev. James Stark of Greenock, delivered at the first public meeting of the “Paisley Young Men’s Society for promoting the interests of the Church of Scotland,” 1st April, 1835, Paisley, Joseph Murray, 1835
Correspondence in reference to the discussion at Kirkintilloch, on ecclesiastical establishments, between the Rev. John Ritchie, D.D., Edinburgh, the Rev. James Stark, Greenock, and the editor of the Greenock advertiser, Glasgow, W.R. McPhun, 1836
The shortness and the uncertainty of human life, a sermon occasioned by the late visitation of divine providence, addressed to the associate congregation, Crawfordsdyke, on sabbath, 6th December 1835, Greenock, J. Hislop, 1836
Love to Christ, a sermon preached at Paisley on Tuesday the 12th Dec. 1837, at the ordination of the Rev. James Falconer, Greenock, A. McIver, 1837
Re-union of seceders with the Church of Scotland defended, in speeches delivered at the meeting of the Associate Synod in Glasgow, September, 1837, with others, Greenock, A. M’Iver, 1837
Two discourses occasioned by the death of the Rev. George Moscrip, preached on 31st September, 1838, James Stark and John Anderson, Greenock, A. McIver, 1838
Fermented wine, its use in the sacrament, right and scriptural, in reply to the novelties of the Rev. Mr. Gilmour, Greenock, A. M’Iver, between 1830 and 1839?
The church question briefly considered, with special reference to the “Church politics” of the Rev. Mr. Morren, and the “Address” of the Rev. Dr. Barr, Greenock, J.G. Bankier, 1843
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.3, p.397, The Christian’s Citizenship in Heaven; The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.5, p.37, Justification by Works, and not by Faith only
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Stark
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/1/1890, senior Minister of Wellpark Free Church, Greenock, d. 05/01/1890 at Gourock, testate, Greenock Sheriff Court, NRS SC53/41/3; Will, Greenock Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC53/47/2
Dialogues on the church question, dialogue III, Mr. Stark, “The Covenanter”, “The non-Erastian churchman”, and Mr. Morren, by N. Morren, Greenock, Glasgow, W.G. Blackie and Co., 1843?
A parting word for the Rev. James Stark, Greenock, Greenock, John Hislop, 1843
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STEEL, ROBERT
Publications – by him
Nehemiah, or, Prayer and effort, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1852?
Neglect of ordinances, 1855?
The Literature of Labour; or, the contributions to letters by working-men, a lecture, London, Daniel F. Oakey, 1856
Doing good, or, The Christian in walks of usefulness, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858
Samuel the Prophet, and the lessons of his life and times, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1860
Lives made sublime by faith and works, London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1861
Burning and shining lights; or, Memoirs of eminent ministers of Christ, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1864
The Christian teacher in Sunday schools, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1867
Australian capers, or, Christopher Cockle’s colonial experience, by Old Boomerang, with an introduction by Dr. Steel, Sydney, London, G. Routledge, 1867
The New Hebrides and Christian missions, with a sketch of the labour traffic, and notes of a cruise through the group in the mission vessel, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1880
The Shorter Catechism, London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1888
The achievements of youth, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1890
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STEWART, ROBERT WALTER
Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, April, 1842, Erskine, Vol.7, Renfrew, p.500
The tent and the Khan: a journey to Sinai and Palestine, Edinburgh, William Oliphant and Sons, 1857
“The fields white unto the harvest”, a statement of the Free Church of Scotland’s missionary labours among Jews and Gentiles, London, Mission board room, 1844
Government of the French Protestant church, revivals in France, 1845
Proposed subscription to raise 1000 pounds, to erect a Free Church and school in Leghorn, 1846
The religious condition of the centre and south of Europe, being an address, delivered at the close of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 2nd June, 1874, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Macniven, 1874
On the present condition and future prospects of the Waldensian Church
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.2, p.264, Introduction of the Rev Matthew Barclay to the Church and Parish of Old Kilpatrick
Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert Walter Stewart
Remarks addressed to the editor of “A voice from Italy,” concerning a letter from the Rev. Dr. R.W. Stewart, of Leghorn, Sheffield, Leader and Sons, 1865
Jubilee of Rev. R.W. Stewart, D.D., addresses given at Leghorn on the 16th March, 1887, Florence 1887
An Italian campaign; or, The evangelical movement in Italy, 1845-1887, from the letters of R. W. Stewart, by James Wood Brown
Il Reverendo Robert Walter Stewart ed il movimento evangelico in Italia, Thomas Noffke, 1976
William Duff, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.262 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.30
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STUART, ALEXANDER MOODY
Publications – by him
Letter to the inhabitants of St. Luke’s Parish, Edinburgh, from the minister and elders of that parish, with an appendix containing the constitution of the church, and minute of Presbytery, fixing the boundaries of the parish, Edinburgh, J. Johnstone, 1838
A pastoral letter on the present position of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1840
The work of the Holy Spirit in the revival of religion in The revival of religion, addresses by Scottish Evangelical Leaders delivered in Glasgow in 1840, Edinburgh, Banner of Truth, 1984
Connection between the principles already proved, and the real efficiency of the Church, Edinburgh?, J.Johnstone?, 1840?
Strathbogie, to the editor of The Witness, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1840
Letter from the Rev. A. Moody Stuart, to the elders and members of St. Luke’s Church, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1842
Death-bed scenes, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1843
A report of the whole proceedings of the late General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, relative to the state of religion in the land, containing the deliberations of Friday the 17th, of Tuesday the 21st, with the sermon of that day, and of Tuesday the 28th of May, with an introductory narrative by A. Moody Stuart, Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute, 1844
Ireland open to the Gospel, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
An inquiry into the character of the present educational connexion between the Free Church and the government, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1848
A memorial concerning personal and family fasting and humiliation, Thomas Boston, with prefatory remarks and appendix by Alexander Moody Stuart, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1849
The one day’s work of the Lord, London, J. Nisbet and Co., 1860
The three Marys, London, Nisbet, 1862
Capernaum, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1864
Life and letters of Elizabeth, last duchess of Gordon, London, James Nisbet, 1865
The spiritual condition of the ministry in its influence on the people, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1865
Letters of Ruth Bryan, with a preface by A. Moody Stuart, London, J. Nisbet & Co, 1865
The cup which the Father giveth us to drink, and, The wheat for the Lord’s garner, Edinburgh, T. Constable, 1866
Missionary life among the Jews in Moldavia, Galicia, and Silesia, memoir and letters of Mrs. Edward, with preface by Rev. A. Moody Stuart, London, 1867
Is the “Establishment of religion” outside of the Confession? , a speech delivered in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on the 25th November, 1868, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1868
A contribution toward the clearing of our terms, on religion and the church in the articles of union; the church settling the ordinances; toleration under a settlement, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1869
The Council at Rome for war with the Lamb, the plan of battle, and our preparation to meet it, London, Nisbet and Co., 1869
The union overture: is it wise, or right?, a speech delivered in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on 4th April, 1870, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1870
A visit to the land of Huss, London, J. Nisbet, 1870
Invitation from A. Moody Stuart and Robert Macdonald to ministers of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh to participate in prayer-meetings for the General Assembly, to be held on May 5 and May 16, 1870, Edinburgh?, John Maclaren, 1870
To the convener and to the members of the Free Church Committee on Union, Edinburgh?, 1872?
Recollections of the late John Duncan, LL.D., professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages, New College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1872
Recent awakenings and higher holiness, the opening and closing addresses in the Free Church General Assembly, 1875, Edinburgh, MacLaren & MacNiven, 1875
Jesus Christ the bond of the holy universe, a sermon preached at the opening of the Free Church General Assembly, on Thursday, 18th May 1876, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Macniven, 1876
The Fifty-First Psalm and the Encyclopædia Britannica, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Macniven, 1876
The Song of Songs, an exposition of the Song of Solomon, London, J. Nisbet, 1877
The Rev. A. Moody Stuart on “Brethren”, William Kelly, London, G. Morrish, 1878?
The weaned soul hoping in the Lord, a sermon, Edinburgh, 1880
The old Isaiah, Edinburgh, John Maclaren & Son, 1880
The fall of Babylon, its prediction not anonymous, Edinburgh, John MacLaren & Son, 1880
Our old Bible Moses on the plains of Moab, Edinburgh 1881
Sermons, Alexander Grierson, with a memoir by his daughter, and a preface by A. Moody Stuart, D.D., Edinburgh, 1882
Israel’s lawgiver, his narrative true and his laws genuine, London, Nisbet, 1882
The Bible true to itself, a treatise on the historical truth of the Old Testament, London, James Nisbet, 1884
The path of the redeemed, sermons, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1893
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.1, Death-Bed Scenes, pp. 45, 92 and 156; Vol.3, em>Revivals of Religion, pp. 315 and, 491; 2nd series, Vol.1, p.489, The Stone Rejected by the Builder; 2nd series, Vol.2, p.217, The Sixth of a Series of Lectures on the Jews
Publications – about him
Disruption Worthies on this website: Stuart, A. Moody
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/11/1898, D.D., Minister, Free St Luke’s, Edinburgh, sometime residing at Annat Cottage, Errol, thereafter at Ellerslie, Crieff, d. 31/07/1898 at Creiff, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/174
Alexander Moody Stuart, D.D., a memoir, partly autobiographical, Kenneth Moody Stuart, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1899
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STURROCK, DAVID
Publications – by him
A catechism for the times, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1843
The present differences in regard to the atonement of Christ not “a mere war of words”, by Calvinus Minor, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1844
Remarks on Rev. Dr. Wardlaw’s recently published pamphlet on the atonement, entitled “Reviewers reviewed”, by Calvinus Minor, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1844
A short and easy method with the Anabaptists and ultra-millenarians, Edinburgh, Dalrymple, 1845
The Duties of Secret Religion illustrated from Records of Christian Experience, Edinburgh, 1847
“The Mystery of Godliness” practically illustrated, Edinburgh, 1849
A catechism on Popery, Edinburgh, Johnstone & Hunter, 1851
The remembrancer; or, Essays on various religious subjects, Edinburgh, 1851
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/12/1853, Revd, residing at Midlem, Jedburgh Sheriff Court, SC62/44/22
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Sturrock or Gouinlock, Jessie, 23/3/1893, 12 Argyle Place, Edinburgh, d. 14/01/1893 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, SC70/1/317; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, SC70/4/266
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TAYLOR, JAMES WILLIAM
Publications – by him
Sanctuary service, Dunfermline, W. Clark, 1842
Considerations for the conscientious: can I remain in connection with the church presently established in Scotland?, Perth, J. Dewar, 1843
A few words to the parishioners of Flisk, in reply to the induction address which the Rev. Dr Anderson of Newburgh delivered in the church of Flisk, on Friday, April 14, 1843, Cupar, Fife, T. Armstrong, 1843
What shall be the end of these things?, an inquiry regarding the probable issues of the Scottish Free Church controversy, Perth, James Dewar, 1844
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 14th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/174
Plain persuasives for the peasantry, an address to ploughmen and farm-servants, Perth, James Dewar, 1846
The power and blessedness of a godly life, a brief memoir of George Waddel of Rashiehill, Esq., J.P., Comptroller of Customs, Grangemouth, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1846
The Sabbath considered as a testing question to individuals, to churches, to nations, Dundee, 1847
A month’s visit to Connaught and it’s mission stations, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1849
“Boys and girls playing in the streets of Jerusalem”, Manchester: John Turner, 1850
Some Historical Antiquities, chiefly ecclesiastical, connected with The North of Fife, Cupar, Fife, Whitehead & Burns, 1851
Biographical notices of the late Rev. William Taylor: minister of the Gospel, at Levenside, and at Perth, in which is embodied an historical sketch of some of the more important eras in the secession, Cupar, Fife, Whitehead & Burns, 1852
Memoir of David Maitland Makgill Crichton of Nether Rankeilour, Edinburgh, T. Constable, 1853
Some historical antiquities. chiefly ecclesiastical, connected with Falkland, Kettle, and Leslie, Cupar, Fife, John Cunningham Orr, 1861
Some historical antiquities, chiefly ecclesiastical, connected with the north, the east, and the centre of Fife, Cupar, Fife, William Robertson, 1868
Some historical notices; chiefly ecclesiastical, connected with Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy, 18–?
Some historical notices, chiefly ecclesiastical, connected with Dysart and Wemyss, Cupar, Fife, William Robertson, 1869
Some historical notices connected with Scoonie, Kennoway, and Markinch, Cupar, Fife, 1872
Some historical notices, chiefly ecclesiastical, connected with Kinghorn, Burntisland, Aberdour, Dalgetty, and the Loch-land of Fife, Cupar, Fife, W. Robertson, 1873
Historical antiquities of Fife chiefly ecclesiastical connected with some of its districts, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter & Co., 1875
Historical antiquities of Fife chiefly ecclesiastical connected with some of its districts, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter & Co., 1875
The religion of Scotland, the religion of the Bible, and of sanctified common sense, Edinburgh, MacNiven & Wallace, 1879
The late Rev. Michael Willis, D.D., LL.D., principal emeritus of Knox College, Toronto, a memorial sketch, Edinburgh, John Maclaren & Son, 1880
Scotland’s strength in the past, and Scotland’s hope in the future, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1886
In a country manse: reminiscences of life and work, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1890
Saint Andrews in the olden time, St Andrews, John & George Innes, 1897
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.414, The mortality of man and the eternity of tie word of God, 1 Peter 1:24-25; Vol.3, p. 472, The transfiguration
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.3, The Temporal Benefits which Christianity confers upon Mankind, pp.231, 231, 269 and 356; 2nd series, Vol.3, p.41, The Goodness of God in the late Harvest
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 2; 56; 88; 93; 115; 119; 157; 200; 261; 273 341; 465; 529; 604; 606; 620; 627; 630; 915 and 926. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James William Taylor
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/3/1895, DD, minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Flisk and Creich, residing at Fairlie House, Bridge of Allan, latterly on Grange Street, Grangemouth and at Lea Park there, d. 14/10/1894 at Lea Park aforesaid, testate, brother of John Taylor, Inventory; Extract Registered Holograph Will and Testament; Codicil, etc, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/105; 4/12/1895, Additional Inventory, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/107
Address to the minister & parishioners of Flisk, delivered on the occasion of the induction there on Friday, April 14, 1843, John Anderson, Newburgh, Cupar, Fife, John Gibson, 1843
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THOMSON, EDWARD ANDERSON
Publications – by him
Report of speeches delivered by the Rev. Edward A. Thomson, Dundee, and Mr. W. McCrie, Edinburgh, in support of an overture on union with the Free Church, before the synod of united original seceders, Edinburgh, May 1850, Edinburgh, Johnston & Hunter, 1850
The National covenants, considered in their bearing on the question of union between the Free Church and the Original Secession, Dundee, William Middleton, 1852
The last blessing of the Bible: A valedictory discourse to his flock, preached on Sabbath the 25th September 1859, Dundee, W. & J. Middleton, 1859
The saints’ epitaph, a sermon, preached on Sabbath, September 10, 1865, on occasion of the death of Major-General Anderson, R.A., Edinburgh, James Taylor, 1865
The union question: Free Presbytery of Edinburgh: reasons of dissent from the decision on Dr Begg’s overture, with others, Edinburgh?, 1867.
The union question, speech in favour of the union, delivered in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on the 2nd March 1868, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1868?
The four evangelists: with the distinctive characteristics of their Gospels, Edinburgh, printed for private circulation, by Ballantyne & Company, 1868?
Ought the question of establishments to be embraced in the terms of Church communion?, a speech delivered in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, Nov. 9. 1870, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1870
Revision of the Confession of Faith, a lecture in review of present-day discussions, Edinburgh: Maclaren & Macniven, 1878
The uncertain theology in the colleges of the Free Church, a speech delivered in the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, February 11th, 1880, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1880
Historical notices of Free St. Stephen’s Edinburgh, preface signed by Edward A. Thomson, Edinburgh, Turnbull & Spears, 1888
Memorials of a ministry, a selection from the discourses of Edward A. Thomson, with a biographical sketch by Professor Laidlaw, D.D., Edinburgh, 1891
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Edward Anderson Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 24/12/1890, Minister, Free St Stephen’s Church, Edinburgh, d. 14/10/1890 at 29 India Street, Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/290; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/249
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson or Logan, Helen Elizabeth, 8/2/1921, 17 Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh, Widow, d. 17/12/1920 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/659; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/545
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THOMSON, JOHN, Yester
Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, October, 1835, Yester, Vol.2, Haddington, p.153
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth & Sunday trains, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176
On the duties of members and office-bearers of the church, in reference to the sin of intemperance, Paisley, 1847?
A full report of the speech of the Rev. John Thomson, of Paisley in the Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, on Wednesday, the 10th April 1850, in regard to the conduct of five elders of Free St. George’s Church, with documents read in the court, and the speeches of the members of Synod in giving judgment, Paisley, Alex Gardner, 1850
Speech of Mr. Archibald Gardner in the Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, on Wednesday, 10th of April, 1850, in the appeal taken from a judgment of the Free Presbytery of Paisley by the Rev. John Thomson and the majority of Free St. George’s session, Paisley, with speeches of Mr. Muir, Elder, and the Rev. Dr. MacFarlane of Renfrew, Paisley, A. Gardner, 1850
The idolatry of the Church of Rome, in the worship of saints and images, Paisley, Alex. Gardner, 1851
Christian liberality: the duty, the rule, and the motive, as set forth in the case of the poor widow, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1852
An address to Sabbath school teachers on their privileges, duties and dangers, Paisley: Alex Gardner, 1852
Case of Free East Church, Pollokshaws, Rev. John C. Blake, A.M., Minister, with letter of elders, and reply by Rev. John Thomson, Paisley, Glasgow, Robert Munsie, 1854
Religious indifference in relation to doctrine, practice and personal piety, a lecture to young men delivered in Free St. George’s Church, Paisley, on Sabbath evening, 23d December, 1855, Paisley, Alex. Gardner, 1856
The Sabbath, the Sunday, and the Paisley coffee room, being controversial letters by the Rev. John Thomson, of Free St. George’s, Paisley, and Mr. James J. Lamb, Paisley, The “Paisley Herald” Office, 1858
The personality, divinity, and love of the Holy Spirit, Paisley, Alex. Gardner, 1859
The domestic circle: or, The relations, responsibilities, and duties of home life, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, 1866
The union right in principle, a report of the speeches delivered on this question in the Free Presbytery of Paisley, on Wednesday, 2nd November, 1870, Paisley, J. & J. Cook, 1870
Anti-Union Meeting in Paisley, Correspondence between the Rev. Dr. Begg and the Rev. Mr. Thomson, Scotland?, 1870?
United prayer in the present crisis of the union question, being the substance of an address delivered in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Paisley, on 2nd May, 1870, Paisley, Alex. Gardner, Steam Printer, 1870?
Free St. George’s Church, Paisley, statement by the Deacons’ Court regarding the Harvey bursaries, Paisley?, 1873?
A pastor’s counsels to his flock: in the prospect of a temporary separation, Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1875
The life of faith as illustrated by the example of the Apostle Paul, with brief notice of one of the grounds of faith, Johnstone, Hunter & Co., 1876
The domestic circle, or, The relations, responsibilities, and duties of home life, London, Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.278, On the duty of earnest and instant attention to the concerns of eternity
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.3, p.344, The Character and Dispositions of God; 2nd series, Vol.3, p.276, Divine Perfections Displayed in the Firmament; p.665, On the Improvement of our Talents
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 317; 430; 433; 501; 502; 785 and Footnote786 . (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/10/1883, D.D., Minister, Free St George’s Church, Paisley, d. 06/08/1883 at Paisley, intestate, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/50
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.8
Peter McKay, schoolmaster, Gifford, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.170 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
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THOMSON, JOHN EBENEZER HONEYMAN
Publications – by him
The present heresy case in the United Presbyterian Church, with statement by Rev. Fergus Ferguson, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1878
Memoir of George Thomson, Cameroons Mountains, West Africa, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1881
The Upland Tarm: a Village Idyll, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1881
Books which influenced Our Lord and His apostles:: being a critical review of Apocalyptic Jewish Literature, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1891
Daniel, with others, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897
Recent commentaries on Daniel, England?, 190-?
D. S. Margoliouth’s “Lines of defence of Biblical revelation”: a review, Stirling, James Hogg & Co., 1901
Studies on the Apostles and Monographs on Nicodemus, Barnabas, Stephen, Paul, etc.., Daniel Maclean, edited by James Wilson Harper and John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson, Edinburgh, J. Menzies & Co., 1904
Domestic Manners of Sir Walter Scott, Stirling, Eneas Mackay, 1909
The Temple dictionary of the Bible, written & edited by W. Ewing and Rev. J.E.H. Thomson and other scholars & divines, London: J. M. Dent & sons, 1910
Ninety Years in the Master’s Service, Reminiscences of a pioneer evangelist, Robert Henderson, edited by J. E. H. Thomson and J. B. Gillies, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1911
The diffidence of faith and other sermons and addresses, Thomas Dunlop, edited by J.E.H. Thomson, Edinburgh, 1916
In the steps of Bunyan’s pilgrim: and sketch of Bunyan’s life, Thomas Dunlop, edited by J.E.H. Thomson, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1917
The Samaritans: their testimony to the religion of Israel, being the Alexander Robertson Lectures delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1916, Edinburgh, 1919
Modern criticism examined, being a review of Professor G.A. Smith’s Lyman-Beecher Lecture at Yale University, 1899, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1902
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/8/1923, D.D., 170 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, d. 09/06/1923 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/700; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/570
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson or Gray, Margaret Dalgleish, 4/3/1925, 170 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, widow, d. 08/01/1925 at Edinburgh, testate Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/726; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/586
J. E. H. Thomson, D.D., scholar and missionary in the Holy Land, William Ewing, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1925
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THOMSON, WILLIAM AIRD
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A historical sketch of the translation and circulation of the scriptures, from the earliest period to the present time, including an account of the origin and progress of the British and Foreign Bible Society; and intended as an illustration of the principles and importance of Bible institutions, W.A. Thomson, and W. Orme, Perth, printed for the authors, and sold for the benefit of the parent institution, 1815
Memoirs of the late Rev. James Scott, one of the ministers of Perth, containing extracts from his diary, Edinburgh, Ogle, Allardice & Thomson, 1820
Preaching Christ crucified indispensible in a faithful minister of the gospel, a sermon, Edinburgh, 1823
Brief Statement of Reasons for Bible Societies in Scotland withdrawing their confidence in the British and Foreign Bible Society, Edinburgh, W. Whyte & Co., 1826
Reply to an anonymous pamphlet: circulated under the title of Apocrypha, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1826
A catechism on the Gospel according to St. Luke, intended chiefly for the use of Sabbath schools, Perth, J. Dewar, 1828
A compend of the charges and proofs of the delinquencies of the British and Foreign Bible Society, with remarks and inferences, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1829
Speeches of the Rev. Dr. Thomson of Perth, and the Rev. James Grierson of Errol, on the subject of patronage,delivered at the meeting of the Presbytery of Perth, on the 19th March 1834, Perth, J. Taylor, 1834
Questions for the use of young people, preparatory to their admission to the Holy Communion, Perth, 1835
New Statistical Account, March, 1837, Perth, Vol.10, p.1
The Episcopal Church of England and its Book of common prayer, briefly and catechetically examined, dedicated, with all becoming respect, to the Right Rev. Diocesan Bishops, Edinburgh, Charles Ziegler, 1849
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.553, The necessity of testifying repentance toward our Lord Jesus Christ, to the faithful preaching of the gospel, Acts 20:21
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Aird Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 24/10/1863, Dr, residing at Athole Crescent in Perth, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/76
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Decreet of preference and act and warrant for payment etc, the Rev William Aird Thomson and William Fraser, WS, trustees of the deceased Phineas Hall Esq v John Patten, WS, and others, Nov 1831, NRS CS46/1831/11/48
A letter to the Rev. W.A. Thomson: in answer to his “Reply”, James Esdaile, Perth, R. Morison, 1826
19th March, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.162 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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THORBURN, DAVID
Publications – by him
How to get rid of parliamentary grants to Rome: or, The means to be adopted towards procuring the reversal of a romanising, and the adoption of a thoroughly protestant line of policy on the part of the government of Great Britain, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1840
The divine origin and perpetual and universal obligation of Tithes, Edinburgh, Whyte & Co., 1841
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 8th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/208
The divinely prescribed method for the support of the clergy, the ordinances of religion, and the poor: written for, and partially read at, the monthly conference of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1846, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
The constitution of the Deacon’s Court, being the remarks read at a meeting of the Leith District Association of Brethren and published in compliance with the request of its members, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
Statement relative to the appropriation of st. Andrew’s chapel, and other property in Storey’s alley, Edinburgh, 1847
Revised report to Committe on Standing Committees, by Sub-Committee, 1857?
The Sustentation Fund of the Free Church of Scotland: being a plea for a return to the principles on which the Fund was established, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1852
Proposed alterations on the sustentation fund of the Free Church of Scotland, by an office-bearer [i.e. David Thorburn?.], Edinburgh, Johnstone & Hunter, 1852
Historical review of the legislation of the Free Church of Scotland: on the subject of the Sustentation Fund for the Christian ministry, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1855
Supplementary review of the legislation of the Free Church of Scotland: on the subject of the Sustentation Fund for the Christian ministry, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1855
Memorandum relative to tricentenary of the Reformation from popery in Scotland: respectfully submitted for the consideration of the Committee on Commemoration of that important national event, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1860
The endowment of the universities of Scotland an object of national importance, being the substance of a speech partially delivered at the meeting of the General Council of the University of Edinburgh, in Queen Street Hall, on Friday, 30th October 1863, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1863
Proposed National Association: Suggestions relative to the formation of a national association which shall have for its object the securing primarily for Scotland the full benefit of the reformation of the sixteenth century, Edinburgh, 1863
The university endowment movement: memorandum relative thereto: being a sequel to paper entitled “The endowment of the universities of Scotland, an object of national importance”, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1866
The union question, being the substance of two speeches partially delivered in the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh on 9th January and 27th March 1867, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1867
The Rev. D. Thorburn’s jubilee, account of proceedings at meeting in Free South Leith Church, on the evening of Wednesday, 14 March 1883, being the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. David Thorburn, M.A., as Minister in the Second Charge of the Parish of South Leith. Leith, printed at the ‘Leith Burghs Pilot’ Office, 1883
The crisis in Scotland; or, The Scottish church question no longer purely ecclesiastical or purely Scottish, Part first: The question of constitutional right, Edinburgh, 1887
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/1/1894, D.D., 1 John’s Place, Leith, d. 22/08/1893 at Moffat, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/325; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/272
Records of the Corporation of the Master and Assistants of the Trinity House of Leith: Petition to the kirk session of South Leith, magistrates and masters of the incorporations there by subscribing members of the congregation of South Leith recommending Rev. David Thorburn, assistant minister, as successor to late Rev. Dr. James Robertson, minister of the second charge, 1832, NRS GD226/18/329
In memoriam, 1846-1888, a memorial biography of William David Thorburn, by John Hay Thorburn, Leith: printed for private circulation, William Nimmo & Co., 1888?]
First Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.208 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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THORBURN, JOSEPH
Publications – by him
The Danger of forgetting God, a sermon, Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 1830
Remarks on the Rev. Charles Fraser’s reply to the second and third letters of the Rev. Joseph Thorburn, by Lucius, Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 1831
A letter to The Rev. Charles Fraser, officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 1831
A second letter to the Rev. Charles Fraser, officiating Priest in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 1831
A third letter to the Rev. Charles Fraser, officiating Priest in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Lewis Smith, 1831
Aberdeen Gratis Sabbath Evening School Society, including the intimation of a sermon by Rev. Joseph Thorburn, Aberdeen, 1832?
Sermons, and skeletons of sermons, selected from the MSS. of James Kidd, D.D., minister of Gilcomston Parish, and Professor of Oriental Languages in Marischal College, Aberdeen, by Joseph Thorburn, Aberdeen, Brown, 1835
New Statistical Account, July, 1836, Forglen, Vol.13, Banff, p.83
Death the believer’s gain, Aberdeen, 1837
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites & sabbath observance, 5th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/206
The position of the Free Church of Scotland; and the responsibilities and duties of its ministers, Elgin, Jeans and McGillivray, 1847
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.470, Sanctified affliction, Jeremiah 31:18
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.2, p.385, Take Heed what you Read
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/9/1854, Minister of the Free High Church of Inverness, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/9; 25/3/1867, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/13
Reply to the letter of Joseph Thorburn, Minister of Union Chapel, Aberdeen, Charles Fraser, Aberdeen, J. Davidson, 1831
Reply to the second and third letters of the Rev. Joseph Thorburn, Minister of Union Chapel, Aberdeen, Charles Fraser, Roman Catholic Priest, Aberdeen, John Davidson and Co., 1831
Court of Session: Unextracted processes: Rev Joseph Thorburn and others, Davidson and Lumsden’s Trustees: Petition, 1851, NRS CS233/T/6/9
John Webster, schoolmaster, Bogtown, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.71 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 2, p.36
For photo by Hill and Adamson see here
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TRAIL, WILLIAM
Publications – by him
Sabbath schools: their arrangement, superintendence, and practical working, being a report submitted to the Free Synod of Aberdeen, April 12, 1848, Aberdeen:, 1848?
The messenger and the messiah, being lectures on portions of the Gospel according to St. John, London, James Nisbet, 1852
Have you read the Bible?, a pastor’s question to the young of his flock, London, James Nisbet and Co., 1853
The pastor and the people, a charge delivered to the minister, and an address to the congregation, at the induction of the Rev. James Breakey, to the pastoral care of the English Presbyterian Church at Sheffield, Sheffield, Ridge and Jackson, 1854
The Christian graces, a series of discourses on faith and its fruits, Glasgow, William Collins, 1859
Unseen realties; or, Glimpses into the world to come, Glasgow, William Collins, 1860
The literary characteristics and achievements of the Bible, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1863
Discourses, Duncan MacNab, edited by A. S. Patterson, with biographical sketch by W. Trail, Glasgow, 1864
The Decalogue not buried when Christ died, an examination of Dr. Norman Mcleod’s views on the Decalogue and the Sabbath, Glasgow, David Bryce & Co., 1865
The decalogue of Sinai: its characteristics as a law of morals; also, its relation to Christ and the christian life, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1867
From the Throne to the Cross; and the Reason why, London, 1876
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/7/1874, Minister of the Free Church in Elgin, Inventory, Elgin Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC26/39/12; Testament, Elgin Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC26/38/11
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TWEEDIE, WILLIAM KING
Publications – by him
The works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray, with a preface by William K. Tweedie, Aberdeen, George King, 1839
Heroes for the truth, Philadelphia, Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1840?
New Statistical Account, January, 1840, Aberdeen, Vol.12, p.1
The Gospel message, and The last assize, being two discourses preached in the South Parish Church, Aberdeen, on Sabbath, 6th March, 1842, Aberdeen, Smith, 1842.
Report of the Committee of Aberdeen Presbytery on intemperance, Aberdeen, King, 1842
The atonement of Christ, the hope of his people, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1845
The Sacrament of Baptism: its nature, design, and obligations, Edinburgh, 1845
Is thy soul safe?, an address to the congregation of Free Tolbooth church, Edinburgh, Charles Ziegler, 1845
Select Biographies edited by W. K. Tweedie, Wodrow Society (Edinburgh) 1845-47: Vol.1 and Vol.2
Extract minute of Sustentation Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, dated 23d February 1846, Edinburgh, 1846
Am I a Christian indeed?, an address to the congregation of Free Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, Charles Zeigler, 1846
Calvin and Servetus: the reformer’s share in the trial of M. Servetus historically ascertained, Albert Rilliet, with notes and additions by W.K. Tweedie, Edinburgh, 1846
The believer’s mortification of sin by the spirit, to which is added an essay on hypocrisy, Alexander Carmichael, with a preface by W.K. Tweedie, Edinburgh, 1846
“He being dead yet speaketh”, a sermon, preached in the Territorial Church, West Port, Edinburgh, on June 6, 1847, being the Sabbath immediately following the death of Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
The sinner guided to the Saviour, or, Directions for inquirers in the way to Zion, Solomon Stoddard, with a prefatory essay by W.K. Tweedie, Edinburgh, 1848
The life of the rev. John Macdonald, A.M., Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1849
A catechism of Scripture history, and of the condition of the Jews from the close of the Old Testament to the time of Christ, Isaac Watts, with an introductory notice by W.K. Tweedie, London, 1849
Man by nature and by grace, or, Lessons from the book of Jonah, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1850
Rationalism and Popery refuted, three discourses on the authority of the Scriptures, Merle D’Aubigne, translated from the French, with a preface, by W. K. Tweedie, London, 1851
Unto the Venerable the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, indicted to meet at Edinbugh on the 22d day of May 1851, the Petition of the Rev. William King Tweedie and Others, the Trustees of the Free Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, and of the Deacons’ Court of said Church, Edinburgh, John Grieg, 1851
The Jesuits, a lecture, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1851
Glad Tidings; or, the Gospel of Peace, a series of daily meditations for Christian Disciples, London, 1853
A lamp to the path: or, the Bible in the heart, the home, and the market-place, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1853
The Gospel of Other Days; or, Thoughts on Old and New Testament Scriptures, London, Thomas Hatchard, 1854
The Hand of God in War, London, 1854
Balm from Gilead, London, T. Nelson, 1854
You are all well aware of the fact, that the General Assembly has repeatedly recommended the formation of associations in the congregations of the Free Church for the support of foreign missions, Edinburgh, 1854
The early choice, a book for daughters, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1855
Man and his money: its use and abuse, London, James Nisbet, 1855
Daily duty, a book for girls, with recommendatory preface by W.K. Tweedie, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1855
Lights and Shadows in the Life of Faith, London, T. Nelson, 1857
Home: a book for the family, London, T. Nelson, 1857
The rivers and lakes of Scripture, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1857
Consolation; or, the Mourner Comforted, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1857
Seed-time and harvest; or, Sow well and reap well, a book for the young, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858
Ruined cities of the East, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1859
Jerusalem and Its Environs; Or, The Holy City as it was and is, Boston, American Tract Society, 1860
The parables of our Lord, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1861
The Life and Work of Earnest Men, Cincinnati, Poe & Hitchcock, 1864
The Psalms of David in metre, with notes, London, T. Nelson, 1865
Eastern Manners and Customs, London, T. Nelson, 1870
Jerusalem: pictorial and descriptive, London, T. Nelson, 1871
Youthful diligence and future greatness, a book for the young, London T. Nelson, 1872
Glad tidings: or, The gospel of peace, a series of daily meditations for Christian disciples, Boston, Scriptural Tract Repository, 1884
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William King Tweedie
Disruption Worthies on this website: Tweedie, William King
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Lionel Alexander Ritchie, Tweedie, William King (1803–1863), Free Church of Scotland minister and writer
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/6/1863, Doctor of Divinity residing in George Square of Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/116; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/87
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Tweedie or Bell, Margaret, 30/4/1885, 15 George Square, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Dr William King Tweedie, Minister, Free Tolbooth Church there, d. 03/03/1885 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/240; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/212
The mutual duties and responsibilities of pastor and people, a sermon, preached on Sunday, September 4, 1836, in the South Parish Church, Aberdeen, on occasion of the introduction of the Rev. W. K. Tweedie to the pastoral charge of that church and parish, Alexander Duff, Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes, 1836
The Aberdeen pulpit and universities, a series of sketches of the Aberdeen clergy, and of the professors in the Aberdeen colleges, James Bruce, Aberdeen, Strachan, 1844
A letter to the Rev. William K. Tweedie, Minister of the Free Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, respecting the Free Church catechism “on popery”, John S. McCorry, Perth, Morison, 1847
Brief review of the Madras Free Church Mission during 1857, substance of a letter to the Convener, Dr. Tweedie, dated Madra, 8th April, 1858, John Braidwood, 1858?
Indian missions: their modes of operation, a letter to the Rev. Dr. Tweedie, Alexander Bell Campbell, Edinburgh, Ogle & Murray 1861
12th October, 1837, Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.360 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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WALKER, JAMES E.
Publications – by him
“The groaning and deliverance of the creatures of God”, a sermon on the sin of cruelty to animals, Cheltenham, J. New, [1877?
The heart’s matin-song, a sermon, Cheltenham, J. New, 1882
The true Eucharist, London, 1894
The titles of the psalms, a sermon preached at the Church of Scotland, Cheltenham, Cheltenham, 1879
Sacerdotalia, the high priest of Israel robed in garments for glory and beauty, a type of Christ, being an abstract of sermons delivered in the Church of Scotland, Cheltenham, to which are added a sermon on the festival of the new moon and a meditation on Psalm 55:6, Oxford, Hall and Son, 1881?
The death of Aaron and the hidden grave of Moses, a sermon for the eve of the New Year (1887), London, Elliot Stock, 1887
Christ, the key of the psalter, with especial reference to the titles, by an Oxford graduate, London, 1888
The voices of the stars; or, The supernatural revealed in the natural science of the heavens, London, 1894
The blessed dead in paradise, with some reply to Canon Luckock’s ‘After death’, London, 1895
The story of Matthew and Mercy, being a third part to Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress, Stirling, Drummond’s Tract Depot, 1912?
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WALLACE, JOHN AIKMAN
Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, May, 1839, Hawick, Vol.3, Roxburgh, p.379
Reasons for concurring in the resolutions of the Convocation, an address, Edinburgh, 1842
The seven churches of Asia, London, James Nisbet and Co., 1842
Pastoral Recollections, to which is added, a discourse preached before the first General Assembly of the Protesting Church of Scotland, London, 1843
Testimonies in favour of the principles and procedure of the Free Church of Scotland, edited with an introductory notice by J.A. Wallace, Edinburgh, 1844
‘The chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof’ , a discourse, after the funeral of T. Chalmers, Edinburgh, 1847
Statistics having reference to the ravages of Cholera in the town and neighbourhood of Hawick in 1849, Hawick, J. Dalgleish, 1850
Pastoral Recollections , addressed to his Congregation at the close of the second ten years of his ministrations in Hawick, May 1853, Edinburgh, 1854
Case of Mr. Scott and the Kirk-Session of Hawick, Hawick, James Dalgleish, 1856?
Pastoral letter from the Rev. J.A. Wallace, to the Free Church congregation, Hawick, Hawick, 1858
Attitudes and aspects of the divine redeemer, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, and Co., 1864
Pastoral Recollections, third series, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, and Co., 1864
A Pastor’s Legacy, being extracts from the manuscripts of R. B. Nichol, with introductory notice by J. A. Wallace, Edinburgh, 1864
Communion Services according to the Presbyterian Form, Edinburgh, 1865
Waymarks for the guiding of little feet, Edinburgh, 1866
Lessons from the life of the late James Nisbet, publisher, London, a study for young men, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Huntert, 1867
Farewell addresses, Edinburgh, John MacLaren, 1870
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.2, p.445, Notes of a Farewell Address
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.201, Vineyards in the wilderness, Hosea 2:14-15
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John A. Wallace.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/12/1871, formerly of the Free Church in Hawick, thereafter at Forthland House in Trinity near Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/155; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/136
Speeches on the other side of the bar, in the case of Rev. J. A. Wallace, Hawick, and David Dundas Scott, Esq., Briery-Yards, Jedburgh, A. & W. Easton, 1856
Clerical despotism and Synod justice, or, True state of the case between the Rev. J. A. Wallace, Free Church, Hawick, and David D. Scott, Esq. Briery-yards, being the substance of a speech delivered in the Free Presbytery of Jedburgh on moving that the sentence of the Synod be recorded in their minutes by the Rev. John Purves, Jedburgh, A. & W. Easton, 1856
James Murray, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.282 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.14
15th September, 1836, Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.232 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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WATSON, JOHN, Logiealmond
Publications – by him
He wrote fiction under the name of Ian Maclaren.
Sermons preached in Free St. Matthew’s Church, Bath Street, Glasgow, with special reference to the death of the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., with others, Glasgow, John N. Mackinlay, 1881
A year in the fields, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1888
Perhaps he contributed to In memoriam Rev. Alexander MacLeod, born, 7th October, 1817, London, G. Philip & Son, 1891
A Doctor of the Old School, with Frederick C. Gordon, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1895
The Days of Auld Langsyne, London Hodder and Stoughton, 1895
Good news from a far country, London, 1895
The cure of souls, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1896
Kate Carnegie, New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1896
Montaigne and Ian Maclaren, John McLaren, McBryde, Modern Language Notes, 1897
The right and necessity of the popular veto, Manchester, United Kingdom Alliance, 1897
The Ian Maclaren yearbook, New York, Dodd, Mead & company 1897
The potter’s wheel, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1897
Ideals of strength, with a sketch of the author’s life, New York, Wilbur B. Ketcham, 1897
In answer to prayer, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1898
Companions of the sorrowful way, New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1898
The Ian Maclaren kalendar, 1898, London, Ephemerides, 1898
Dutch: Harten van goud [Hearts of Gold], W. van Nes, Rotterdam, Bredée, 1898
Rabbi Saunderson, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898
The great awakening by Herbert Schmalz: an interpretation by Ian Maclaren, London, Arthur Lucas, 1898
Afterwards, and other stories, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898
Sermons preached at Brighton, W.B. Robertson with an introduction by Ian Maclaren, London, Kegan Paul & Co, 1898
The clerical life: a series of letters to ministers, with others, London, 1898
In answer to prayer, with others. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1898
A wreath of laurel, being speeches on dramatic and kindred occasions, Ian Maclaren and others, New York, The Dunlap Society, 1898
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Elgin, Illinois, David C. Cook, 1899
In memoriam, sermons and addresses, J. Douglas Watters, with appreciations by Ian Maclaren and others, Swansea, Lewis Evans, 1899
The doctrines of grace, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1900
Church Folks, New York, Doubleday, 1900
Young Barbarians, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1901
The life of the master, London, 1901
His Majesty Baby, and Some Common People, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1902
Our Neighbors, New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903
Unsolved, The Windsor Magazine, 1902-3, London, Ward Lock and Co., 1903
The Ideal Life and other Unpublished Addresses by Henry Drummond, with Memorial Sketches by W. Robertson Nicoll and Ian Maclaren, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1903
The upper room, New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1903
The homely virtues, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1904
The inspiration of our faith and other sermons, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905
Welsh: Yr hen ddoctor [A Doctor of the Old School], translated by R.H. Jones, Wrexham, Hughes, 1905
Danish: Præsten i Glasgow og Andre Fortællinger [The Priest of Glasgow and Other Tales], translated by Sofie Bruun, København, H. Hagerups Forlag, 1906
The division of guilt, London, Ward, Lock, 1906?
God’s message to the human soul; the use of the Bible in the light of the new knowledge, New York, Fleming H. Revell company, c. 1907
Stevensonia, an anecotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited from the writings of J.M. Barrie, Ian Maclaren,etc., Edinburgh, John Grant, 1907
Graham of Claverhouse, New York, The Authors and Newspapers Association 1907
Records of the Episcopal Church of Scotland: Walpole Correspondence: Rev. John Watson (Ian Maclaren) to Mr Walpole. Liverpool, 5 Jan. 1907; Returns a story; urges recipient to `give yourself in the first instance to the work of the church and make literature a by product’, NRS CH12/28/31
St. Jude’s, Philadelphia, Sunday School Times Co., 1907
The wisdom of Sir Walter, criticisms and opinions collected from the Waverley novels and Lockhart’s life of Sir Walter, compiled by Owen Redfern, with an introduction by Ian Maclaren, London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907
Respectable sins, search only, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909
The mind of the Master, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
The Scot of the eighteenth century, his religion and his life, New York, A.C. Armstrongand Son, 1910
Partridge’s religious reciter, compiled and edited by J. Kennedy Maclean, containing recitations by J.M. Barrie, Ian Maclaren, etc., London, 1911
Children of the resurrection, New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1912
Books and bookmen, and other essays, New York, Hodder & Stoughton, George H. Doran, c. 1912
Christ, the answer to human need, Wellington, N.Z., National Executive of the Y.M.C.A., 1917?
Publications – about him
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Lionel Alexander Ritchie, Watson, John [pseud. Ian Maclaren] (1850–1907), minister of the Presbyterian Church of England and author
Rev John Watson DD (Ian Maclaren), 1904
“Ian Maclaren,” life of the Rev. John Watson, William Robertson, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909
Ian Maclaren as a Messenger of Peace and Good Will, The Advocate of Peace, 1896
Christ’s Word and Church: a reply to “The Mind of the Master,” by John Watson, D.D., William Kennedy Moore, London, T. French Downie, 1896?
The revealer and redeemer, a further reply to the “Mind of the master” by John Watson, D.D., W. Kennedy Moore, D.D., London, T.F. Downie, 1897?
My contemporaries in fiction, David Christie Murray, London, Chatto & Windus, 1897
The Second American tour of the Rev. John Watson, D.D. , under the direction of Major James B. Pond, Everett House, New York, 1899
The one great society: a book of recollections, Frederick Henry Lynch, New York, Fleming H. Revell, c.1919
British short-fiction writers, 1800-1914, the romantic tradition, edited by William F. Naufftus, Detroit, Gale Research, c. 1996
Kailyard and Scottish literature, Andrew Nash, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2007
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WELSH, DAVID
Publications – by him
The John MacGregor Collection: Rev. David Welsh, D.D., minister of Crossmichael, letter. dated Crossmichael 11 July 1827, NRS GD50/210/43
Papers of the Maule Family, Earls of Dalhousie: Letter to Fox Maule from Dr. David Welsh concerning the Scots Church at Buenos Ayres, 5 Dec 1840, NRS GD45/9/144; Letter to Fox Maule from Dr. David Welsh with 6 notes and extracts concerning the powers of the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly, 1 May 1841, NRS GD45/13/381
Account of the life and writings of Thomas Brown, M.D., late professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, W. & C. Tait, 1825
A sketch of the natural laws of man, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, with a ms. letter from the author to David Welsh, asking for his comments on the book, London, J. and R. Childs, 1825
Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind by the late Thomas Brown, with a memoir of the author by David Welsh, Edinburgh, W. Tait, 1828
Recourse recommended to God and his word, being the substance of a farewell discourse delivered in the parish church of Crossmichael, on sabbath, 23d September, 1827, Glasgow, printed for private circulation in the parish of Crossmichael, 1828
Letters to David Laing, written from Melville Street, Edinburgh: Dec. 28, 1833; Jan. 28, 1839; Aug. 12, 1841; and unknown date.
Sermons on practical subjects, Edinburgh, William Whyte, 1834
Letter to the author of a tract, entitled “State of Edinburgh churches, Tory church building scheme”, Edinburgh, J. Johnstone, 1835?. See State of the Edinburgh churches, Tory church building scheme, From the Scotsman of 11th March, 1835
Establishment of a library for the use of the General Assembly, overture; report of the Committee, Overture signed by John Lee; report by David Welsh, Edinburgh?, Neil and Co., 1837?
Pastoral address, Edinburgh?, Church of Scotland, 1842
The limits and extent of the right of private judgment, being the substance of a sermon, preached in the Church of St. Giles on Thursday, the 18th day of May, 1843, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1843
Free Church, Edinburgh, Board of missions and education, 1843
Elements of Church history, Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1844
A letter addressed to the ministers and elders of the Synod of Canada on the present duty of the Presbyterian Church, with others, 1844
Sermons, with a memoir by A. Dunlop, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1846
Address to emigrants, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, between 1840 and 1849?
Statement relative to the church lately erected in the village of Auchencairn in the parish of Rerrick, and Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh, The Author, 1855 [If this is indeed by this David Welsh, then it surely wasn’t written in 1855: Welsh was dead by then, and the church had been erected in 1844 – see Auchencairn.]
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.1, p.181, The Happiness of the Redeemed; Vol.2, p.247, On the Prejudices of Professing Christians; Vol.1, p.253, The Glory of God in the Mission of Christ; Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.157, The blessedness of the believer; Vol.3, p.115, On the Bountifulness of God
Welsh, David All things are yours, 1 Cor. 3:21-23 in Precious seed, discourses by Scottish worthies, Birmingham, Alabama, Solid Ground Christian Books, 2007, originally published, Edinburgh, John Greig, 1877
Publications – about him
Disruption Worthies on this website: Welsh, David
Obituary notice on this web-site: David Welsh;.A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Vol.3, p. 515
Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Vol.60, George Stronach, Welsh, David
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, George Stronach, revised by H. C. G. Matthew, Welsh, David (1793–1845), Free Church of Scotland minister and author
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 27/11/1845, Dr, professor of Church History and Divinity in the New College of Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/66
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Welsh alias Hamilton, Mary Mrs, 10/10/1873, residing at No.2 Gloucester Place in Edinburgh, relict of Rev Dr David Welsh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories
NRS SC70/1/164; Holograph W or T, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/147
Plan of Kirkland of Crossmichael, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1 Jan 1821, NRS RHP141955
Court of Session: Unextracted processes: Rev Dr David Welsh v Sutherland: Petition and complaint, 1841, NRS CS230/W/9/38
Court of Session: Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict: Rev. Dr. David Welsh (Secretary to Board of H.M. Sole & Only Master Printers in Scotland): Suspension & Interdict.: Respondent: Richard Griffin & Co. & partners; 1841, NRS CS275/3/43; similarly Respondent: Francis Orr & Sons, 1841, NRS CS275/3/44; Respondent: Andrew Shortrede & another, 1841, NRS CS275/3/45; Respondent: Francis Orr & Sons & Thomas Muir, 1841, NRS CS275/3/50; Respondent: Duncan Campbell & another, 1841, NRS CS275/3/53; Respondent: John Morrison & Others, 1841, NRS CS275/3/85; Respondent: William Morrison, 1841, NRS CS275/3/110; Respondent: William Campbell, 1841, NRS CS275/3/218; Respondent: Hugh Crawford & Son & Partners, 1842, NRS CS275/4/136
Sinclair of Ulbster Letter Books: Correspondence of Sir George Sinclair concerning the Church of Scotland patronage controversy, NRS RH4/49/4 and NRS RH4/49/5
Court of Session: Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict: William Cuninghame & Others (Heritors of Parish of Stewarton): Note in Suspension & Interdict: Respondent: Rev. Dr. David Welsh & Others Commrs, 1842, NRS CS275/4/192; Rev. William Duguid & another: Note in Suspension & Interdict: Respondent: Rev. Dr. David Welsh & Others, 1842, NRS CS275/4/276 [Note: William Duguid was minister of the parish of Glass in the Presbytery of Strathbogie – see here]
Letter of Sir James Graham, embodying the decision of government in the Scottish church question, addressed to the Rev. Dr. Welsh, Edinburgh, Murray and Gibb, Printers, 1843
David Welsh, D.D., Edinburgh?, Issued by the Publication Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, 1847
Edinburgh, St George’s Free/United Free/West Church of Scotland, includes print of Portrait of Rev David Welsh, CH3/965/265
Neil Livingston, schoolmaster, Head of John Street, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.211 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
For photos by Hill and Adamson see here, here, here and here, 2nd from right
For a colourised photo, see David Welsh.
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WHITE, WILLIAM
Publications – by him
Three sermons on the Sabbath, Haddington, Neill & Sons, 1838
Lectures on the lawfulness and advantages of national establishments of religion, Haddington, Neill and Sons, 1839
What ought the Church and people of Scotland to do now?, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1840
An address on the position of the Church of Scotland, and the duty of seceders at the present time, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1841
Christ’s covenant the best defence of Christ’s crown, or, Our national covenants scriptural, catholic, and of permanent obligation, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1844
Providence, prophecy, and popery; as exhibited in the 1st 7 chapters of the book of Daniel, Edinburgh &c. 1845
Dialogues on the nature and extent of the atonement, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy and Charles Zeigler, 1849
Letter to the Rev. James Lumsden, containing remarks upon his speech on the covenants, delivered in the Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath, Edinbugh, Charles Ziegler, 1850
An historical view of the various settlements of the Church of Scotland, with special reference to the present position of the Free Church, showing, that while she rests on the Revolution Settlement alone, her testimony for the headship of Christ, and the independence of his Church, is both incomplete and inconsistent, Edinburgh, Charles Ziegler, 1850
The Morrisonian view of assurance unscriptural, Edinburgh, Charles Ziegler, 1850
Lecture on the objects and ends of study, delivered in the reading room at Haddington, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1851
Reply to a letter from the Rev. Mathew Murray, Glasgow, to the editor of the Original Secession magazine, on the question with the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1852. See Letter to the editor of the “Original Secession magazine”, containing an examination of an article entitled “Historical view of the grounds on which the secession from the established Church of Scotland were originally stated and defended”, which appeared in the “Original Secession magazine” for November, 1851, M. Murray, Glasgow, John Keith & Son, 1852
A dialogue on “Free Church door”, between the Rev. Archibald Brown and Nominis Umbra, Edinburgh, Johnstone & Hunter, 1852
Communications to the members and friends of the Free Church of Scotland on the principles of the Church. No. X, January, 1855, including The points of difference between the two Churches, Established and Free by William White, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1855
Remarks on Dr Hanna’s sermon on the principles of the Free Church, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1860.
The principles of Christian union as laid down in the word of God, Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1863
Scripture studies, or, things new and old, Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1866
The world, a school for Christ’s people, a sermon, preached before the Free Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant, 1867
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/7/1872, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/18
Inventories, Wills, etc.: White or Howden, Hannah Cassells, 29/9/1877, 7 Scotland Street, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. The Rev. Dr. M’Crie, including Address delivered at the ordination of the Rev. William White, Haddington, 1st July 1835, The Presbyterian magazine, 1835?
Review of the Act and Declaration of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Thomas Manson, Glasgow, John Keith & Son, 1852
Strictures on the Rev. William White’s Reply to the Letter of the Rev. M. Murray, on the question of union with the Free Church of Scotland, Matthew Murray, of the Original Secession, Glasgow, Glasgow, David Bryce, 1852
Review of the Rev. Mr.
4th January, 1838, Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.136 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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WILLIS, MICHAEL
Publications – by him
Walking with God and its happy issue, a sermon preached in Glasgow, on Sabbath 14th Oct. 1827, on occasion of the death of his father, the Rev. William Willis, Glasgow, Maurice Ogle, 1827
The religious question involved in the proposed concessions to Roman Catholics, considered in a discourse, the substance of which was delivered in Glasgow, on Sabbath, 22d February, Glasgow, Maurice Ogle, 1829
Temperance societies scriptural, from a sermon, Glasgow, W. Collins & Co., 1831?
A discourse on national establishments of Christianity, illustrating their consistency with the spiritual nature of Christ’s kingdom, their warrant from the word of God, and their necessity to the safety of states, Glasgow, Maurice Ogle, 1833
Specific application of the Scripture argument to the doctrine of national responsibility – the qualifications necessary in Christian rulers – the duty of national covenanting, Glasgow, William Collins, 1835
Popery the enemy of public morals, in Lectures on popery, Glasgow, William Collins, 1836
Remarks on the late union between the Church of Scotland and Associate Synod, in opposition to certain statements of the Dean of Faculty, with the documents pertaining to the union, Glasgow, William Collins, 1840
The revival of religion, addresses by Scottish Evangelical Leaders delivered in Glasgow in 1840, with others, Edinburgh, Banner of Truth, 1984
Speech of the Rev. Michael Willis, D.D., delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland on the 30th May, 1845, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Scott of St. Marks, Glasgow, Glasgow, William Collins, 1845
Slavery indefensible, showing that the relation of slave and slaveholder has no foundation either in the law of nature nor of Christianity, with remarks on communion with pro-slavery churches, Glasgow, 1847
Rest for the weary, a sermon delivered on Sunday afternoon, June 17, 1855, London, J. Paul, 1855
God’s decree of election no discouragement to faith, and no excuse for inaction, being an expository discourse on 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17, delivered in Montreal, on Sabbath, 14th June, 1868, Montréal?, 1868
Death made tributary to the glory of God, a sermon preached in Gould Street Presbyterian Church, Toronto, on Sabbath, 22nd August, 1869, on occasion of the death of the Rev. Dr. Burns, Toronto, Adam, Stevenson, 1869
Pulpit discourses, expository and practical, and college addresses, London, J. Nisbet, 1873
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.1, p.385, The Peculiar Privileges of Believers in Christ; Vol.3, p.65, The Privileges and Efficacy of the New Covenant; Vol.4, p.345, The Christian’s Communion with the Death and Life of Christ; Vol.4, p.440, The Christian’s Communion with the Death and Life of Christ
Publications – about him
.Obituary notice on this web-site: Michael Willis
The late Rev. Michael Willis, D.D., LL.D., principal emeritus of Knox College, Toronto, a memorial sketch, J.W. Taylor, Edinburgh, John Maclaren & Son, 1880
Michael Willis, missionary statesman social activist, Christian educator and reformed theologian, David R. Nicholson, Toronto, Toronto School of Theology, 1973
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Interim decree of ranking and preference in action of multiplepoinding, Robert Thomson and others, Crawford’s trustees v The Rev Dr Michael Willis and others, Feb 1878, NRS CS46/1878/2/48
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.148 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]; Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.464
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WILSON, JAMES HOOD
Publications – by him
Iona; or The early struggles of Christianity in Scotland, London, 1860
The Golden Fountain, or, Bible-Truth unfolded, a book for the young, London, 1861
Jesus passing by, London, 1861
Fountainbridge Church, to the inhabitants of Fountainbridge and surrounding district, Edinburgh, 1864?
The service of praise, a book of hymns and tunes, edited by J. H. Wilson, London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1865
Report of the proceedings of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, on receiving and adopting the report on home missions, on Tuesday, 29th May, 1866, with addresses by the Moderator, Rev. Dr. Islay Burns, Rev. J.H. Wilson, Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, Edinburgh, John MacLaren, 1866
A brief plea for home missions, an address delivered before the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, on the giving in of the report on home missions, on Tuesday evening, 29th May, 1866, Edinburgh, John MacLaren, 1866
Our Father in Heaven: The Lord’s Prayer explained and illustrated, a book for the young, London, 1869
Union of non-established churches in Scotland, a speech, Scotland, 1870?
The Gospel and its fruits, a book for the young, London, James Nisbet, 1874
Italian: L’Evangelo e i suoi frutti [The Gospel and its Fruits], Rome, 1875
Letters to inquirers and young converts by the Rev. Robert Murray M’Cheyne, with prefatory note by J. H. Wilson, Edinburgh, William Oliphant and Co., 1875
The dying priest and the Cleansing Blood, with prefatory note by J. H. Wilson, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1875
Paul sent to the Gentiles, a sermon, Edinburgh, 1876?
Modern missions, their trials and triumphs, Robert Young, with introduction by James H. Wilson, London, Marshall Japp & Co., 1881
John Wesley, 1884
The King’s message and other addresses, a book for the young, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1887
The pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan, with introductory notice by J. H. Wilson, Edinburgh, Stevenson, c.1887
Only for Jesus: Memorials of W. M. Macgregor, by L. Munro, with introductory note by J. H. Wilson
Echoes of two little voices, by G.M.S, with an introduction by J.H. Wilson, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1890
Hermann Warszawiak “The little Messianic prophet”, or, Two years labour among the refugee Jews of New York, by C.G. Douglas, with prefatory notices by Andrew Bonar and J. H. Wilson, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1892
In memoriam Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, sermons preached on 8th January, 1893, by J. Hood Wilson and David M. McIntyre, Glasgow, 1893
In memoriam, sermons preached in connection with the death of the Rev. Robert Macdonald, D.D., by J. Hood Wilson, D.D. and Thomas Crerar, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1893
“These forty years”, a brief record of congregational and mission work in connection with Fountainbridge Church and Barclay Church, Edinburgh, 1854 to 1894, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1894
Christian missions and Hindûism, a statement of facts which, sooner or later, must be faced by all interested in mission work in India, London, James Speirs, 1894
The great work of the Christian Church, a plea for home and foreign missions, being the opening and closing addresses at the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1895, London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1895
The Sea of Galilee Mission of the Free Church of Scotland, edited by James H. Wilson and James Wells, Edinburgh, 1895
Primitive revelation, Boston, 1899
John Brown, pioneer missionary to the blind in Scotland, by his daughter, with an introductory note by J. H. Wilson, Edinburgh, Andrew Stevenson & Co., 1904
Christ, the subsitute, Stirling, Drummond’s Tract Depot, 1908
The Modern Scottish Pulpit, Paul sent to the Gentiles, Acts 22:17-21, p.101
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/2/1904, D. D., 47 Braid Road, Edinburgh, d. 06/12/1903 at Edinburgh, testate, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/7/20; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/431; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/354
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Hood or Wilson, Margaret Chalmers, 28/8/1902, wife of Rev. James Hood Wilson, D.D., Barclay Church, Edinburgh, d. 24/07/1902 at Gullane, testate, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/7/11; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/416; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/341
The life of James Hood Wilson, D.D., of the Barclay Church, Edinburgh, James Wells, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1904
The Edinburgh converted priest and the Rev. J.H. Wilson, J. Lucas Miller, Edinburgh, J. Miller & Sons, 1875
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WILSON, JOHN, India
Publications – by him
Short address to a person under affliction, Edinburgh, W. Bayne, 1824
Observations on the motives and encouragements to active missionary exertions, being the substance of an address read before the Edinburgh Association of Theological Students, in aid of the diffusion of Christian knowledge, on Saturday, 6th January, 1827, Edinburgh, James Taylor Smith & Co., 1827
The life of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, Edinburgh, William Oliphant, 1828
The rudiments of Hebrew grammar, in Maráthí, with the points, Bombay, 1832
An exposure of the Hindu religion, in reply to Mora Bhatta Dandekara, to which is prefixed a translation of the Bhatta’s tract, Bombay, printed at the American Mission Press, 1832
A lecture on the Vendidád Sádè of the Pársis delivered at Bombay on the 19th and 26th June, 1883, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1833
A second exposure of the Hindu religion, in reply to Naráyana Ráo of Satárá, including strictures on the Vedanta, Bombay, J. Hutchinson at the Mission Press, Surat, 1834
Refutation of Muhammadism, in reply to Haji Muhammad Hashim, Bombay, India, printed for the Tract & Book Society, 1834
Narrative of a missionary journey in the northwest of India, Bombay?, 1835?
A sermon, preached at Bombay, on the 7th of May, 1835, on the occasion of the death of Mrs. Margaret Wilson, of the Scottish Mission, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1835
The British sovereignty in India, a sermon preached in behalf of the Bombay Scottish Missionary Society, in St. Andrew’s Church, on Sabbath, the 8th November, 1835, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1835
Address read before the monthly meeting of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society on the 27th, January, 1836, Bombay, printed for circulation among the members, 1836
A memoir of Mrs. Margaret Wilson, of the Scottish mission, Bombay, including extracts from her letters and journals, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1838.
Essays on the promotion of female education in India, submitted at the second annual examination of the General Assembly’s institution in Bombay, Hari Keshawajì and Tirmal Rá, with a preface by John Wilson, Edinburgh, printed by Alexander Colston, 1839
The doctrine of Jehovah addressed to the Pársís, a sermon preached on the occasion of the baptism of two youths of that tribe, May, 1839, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1839
Vākyāvalī, Iṅgrejī āṇi Marāṭhī = Idiomatical exercises, illustrative of the phraseology and structure of the English and Maraʹthiʹ languages, Bombay, 1839
Anti-conversion petition addressed to the Governor in Council of Bombay, Bombay?, 1840?
Musalmání dín ká Raddí: or Refutation of Muhammadism, in Hindustani, in reply to Hàjí Muhammad háshím, Bombay, 1840
The Pársí religion: as contained in the Zand-Avastá, Bombay, American mission press, 1843
Memorial respecting a mission from the Free Church of Scotland to Nagpur in Central India, Edinburgh?, Andrew Jack, 1844?
The Church glorious before its Lord, a sermon preached in behalf of the Free Church of Scotland in the New Road Chapel, Oxford, on the 17th of March, 1844, Oxford, Henry Cooke, 1844
The Papal Eastern Churches, in, Lectures on foreign churches, delivered in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1846
The lands of the Bible, visited and described, Edinburgh, William Whyte and Co., 1847: Vol.1 and Vol.2.
The evangelization of India, considered with reference to the duties of the Christian church at home and of its missionary agents abroad, in a brief series of discourses, addresses, Edinburgh, Whyte, 1849
Memoir on the cave-temples and monasteries and other ancient Buddhist, Bráhmanical and Jaina remains of Western India, Bombay?, 1850?
Justification by faith alone, a discourse, delivered before the Western Indian organization of the evangelical alliance, on the 15th September, 1851, Bombay, reprinted from the Oriental Christian Spectator, at the American Mission Press, 1851
Idiomatical exercises illustrative of the phraseology and structure of the English and Maráthí languages, Bombay, Govind Narayan, 1851
On the villages and towns named Hazar and Hazor in the scriptures, with the identification of the Hazor of Kedar, Bombay?, 1852?
The darkness and dawn in India, two missionary discourses, by Nárayan Sheshádri and John Wilson, Edinburgh, William Whyte and Co., 1853
The Bene-Israel of Bombay, an appeal for their Christian education, Bombay, Free General Assembly’s Institution, 1854
History of the suppression of infanticide in western India under the Government of Bombay, including notices of the provinces and tribes in which the practice has prevailed, Bombay, Smith, Taylor & Co., 1855
Review of the present state of oriental, antiquarian, and geographical research connected with the west of India and the adjoining countries, India,1855
Biographical sketch of the Rev. Robert Nesbit, of the Free Church of Scotland’s mission, Bombay, from the sermon preached on occasion of his death, Bombay, from the Oriental Christian Spectator, printed at L. M. Desouza’s Press, 1856
The star of Bethlehem and the magi from the East, a sermon preached on the occasion of the baptism of a Parsi youth, Bombay, Smith, Taylor and Co., 1856
The six schools of Indian philosophy, an outline of a lecture delivered at the request of the Bombay Dialectic Association, 18th March, 1856, Bombay, L.M. De Souza’s Press, 1856
The Indian military revolt viewed in its religious aspects, a lecture delivered in Bombay on the 14th and 16th August, 1867, Madras, 1857
India three thousand years ago or the social state of the Áryas on the banks of the Indus in the times of the Vedas, being the expansion of a lecture delivered in the Townhall of Bombay before the Mechanics’ Institution, 1858, Bombay, Smith, Taylor and Co., 1858
Jesus the resurrection and the life, a sermon preached in the Free Church, Bombay, on the 1st March, 1863, on the occasion of the death of Mrs. Mary Valentine, of the United Presbyterian Mission to Rajputana, Bombay, Tract and Book Society, 1863
Two addresses delivered at the opening and the close of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in May, 1870, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant, 1870
Free Church of Scotland, pastoral address on the duty of giving to the Lord, Edinburgh, John Greig & Son, 1870
Report of an address on Indian missions, Edinburgh, Ballantyne and Company, 1870?
The prayer of Christ and the mission of the church, a discourse delivered before the Aberdeen Free Church Students’ Association, January, 1871, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1871?
Address to India, in verse with illustrative notes, Bombay, Tract and Book Society, 1872
On preaching to the Hindus, London, C.J. Stewart, 1873
Lecture on the religious excavations of Western India, Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jaina, including the details of those of Elephanta and Karla, with descriptive and historical remarks, Bombay, Thacker, Vining & Co., 1875
Indian caste, Bombay, Times of India, 1877
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.2, The Apathy of the Hindus, pp. 782 and Vol.3, p. 104; p.93, A Missionary Tour to Goa and the North of Canara
… – and by his wife
The Scottish Christian Herald, 2nd series, Vol.1, p.67, Lines Addressed to her Little Boy
Publications – about him
Disruption Worthies on this website:Wilson, John
Doctoral Thesis, Author: Gabriel, Reuben Louis; Awarding Body: Oxford Centre for Mission Studies; Awarded: 2009: Missionary encounters in nineteenth-century Bombay : the life, work, and theology of John Wilson in critical perspective
The life and labours of the Rev. Dr. John Wilson, Lal Behari Day, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1876
The work of faith, a sermon preached in the Bombay Free Church, esplanade, on the 19th December, 1875, on behalf of the Free Church Mission of this city; containing a brief sketch of the missionary career of the late Rev. John Wilson, D.D., Dhanjibhai Nauroji, Bombay, Caxton Printing Works, 1876
The life of John Wilson, D.D., F.R.S., for fifty years philanthropist and scholar in the East, George Smith, London, John Murray, 1878
Two standard bearers in the East: sketches of Dr. Duff and Dr. Wilson, Jabez Marrat, London, T. Woolmer, 1882
Pen and pencil sketches, being reminiscences during eighteen years’ residence in Bengal, W. H. Florio Hutchisson, edited by John Wilson, London, 1883
John Wilson and his institution, M.D. David, Bombay, John Wilson Education Society, Wilson College, 1975
Leaders of men, a book of biographies specially written for youth, H.A. Page, London, Unwin, 19–?
A reply to Reverend Mr Wilson’s Exposure of Hinduism, 18–
Presentation of a testimonial to the Rev. John Wilson, D.D., FRS, held at a meeting of inhabitants of Bombay, 15th February, 1869, Bombay, Wilson Testimonial Committee, 1870
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WILSON, WILLIAM, Carmyllie
Publications – by him
Statement of the scriptural argument against patronage, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1842
Memoirs of the Church of Scotland, in four periods, Daniel De Foe, with a preface and notes by William Wilson, Perth, James Dewar, 1844
Reference by the Synod of Angus and Mearns anent the standing of English presbyterian congregations in the calling of ministers, Edinburgh, Miller & Fairly, 1845?
The presence of Christ in the meetings of the office-bearers of His church, a sermon preached before the Free Synod of Angus and Mearns, at its meeting, 27th April 1847, Dundee, William Middleton, 1847
The written word of God the only rule of faith, Dundee, W. Middleton, between 1840 and 1849?
Speeches on the education question, delivered in their respective presbyteries, with others, Perth, James Dewar & Son, 1850
Pestilence, the rod of God’s indignation, a sermon preached in St. Paul’s Free Church, on Wednesday the 23d November 1853, Dundee, W. Middleton, 1853
Remarks on contemplated changes in the Sustentation Fund, Dundee, M’Cosh, Park, and Dewar, 1854?
God’s controversy with us; and, Our plea with God, in reference to India, discourses preached on the forenoon and afternoon of the National Fast, in St. Paul’s Free Church, Dundee, Dundee, Park, Sinclair & Co., 1857
To the Reverend the Moderator and brethren of the Free Church Presbyterian Synod of Victoria, Edinburgh, November 14th, 1857, signed by William Wilson and others, Edinburgh, 1857
Christ’s gift to the church, and his authority over it, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1858
The kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a practical exposition of Matthew 16:13-28, etc., Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1859
Christ the King of Zion, a sermon preached on the third Sabbath of November, in St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1860
The measure and mode of Christian beneficence, a sermon preached in St. Paul’s Free Church on Sabbath the 12th May, 1861, Dundee, Robert Park, 1861
Sermon on the death of Mary Anne Miller, wife of the Rev. Malcolm McIntyre, preached at Monikie, August 10, 1862, Edinburgh, T. Nelson, 1862
Local home missions, Dundee, R. Park, 186-?
Redding the marches, or, The things of Caesar and the things of God, a sermon preached at the opening of the Free Synod of Angus and Mearns, 28th April 1863, Dundee, Robert Park, 1863
The use of a confession of faith; and, The evangelistic function of the Church, being addresses delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 1866, Edinburgh, J. MacLaren, 1866
Free Church of Scotland, suggestions for the evangelistic deputies appointed by the General Assembly, Edinburgh?, 1869?
The riches of the glory of Christ, a sermon, Dundee, William Smith, 1869
Sermons and addresses, delivered on the occcasion of the settlement of the Rev. Henry W. Bell as Minister of the Free High Church, Aberdeen, James S. Candlish and William Wilson, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1871?
Two sermons preached in the Free East Church, Aberdeen, on the 24th October, 1875, the Sabbath after the funeral of the Rev. Principal Lumsden, William Wilson and James Selkirk, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1875
The genesis and progress of the Sustentation Fund, an address delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church on May 25, 1875, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Macniven, 1875
The Sustentation Fund, nine years’ experience of a limited equal dividend and a surplus fund, an address delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church on May 24, 1876, Edinburgh, Thomas and Archibald Constable, 1876
The Sustentation Fund, an address delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church on May 30, 1877, Edinburgh, Thomas and Archibald Constable, 1877
Christ setting his face towards Jerusalem, being lectures on the gospel narrative immediately subsequent to the close of His Galilean ministry, Dundee, J. P. Mathew & Co., 1878
Memorials of Robert Smith Candlish, D.D., minister of St. George’s Free Church, and principal of the New College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, A. and C. Black, 1880
Address on the Sustentation Fund, delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church, May 1880, Edinburgh, Thomas and Archibald Constable, 1880
Address on the Sustentation Fund, delivered in the General Assembly of the Free Church, 1883, Edinburgh, Frank Murray, 1883
Free Church of Scotland, the members and adherents of the Free Church are respectfully requested to read and consider the following statement by the Sustentation Fund Committee, Edinburgh?, 1883?
Free church principles, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1887
Appeal for aid in supplying great spiritual destitution in our mining districts, Edinburgh?, between 1800 and 1899?
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.252, Believing prayer heard and answered, John 15:7; Vol.3, p.323, The sins of the scribes and Pharisees; Vol.3, p.594, Presence of Christ in the meetings of his people
The Modern Scottish Pulpit, Hearers of the Good Tidings are to tell them, Matthew 16:7-8, p.52
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 247; 282 and 356. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Wilson
Disruption Worthies on this website: Wilson, William
Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Vol.62, George Stronach, Wilson, William (1808-1888)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Lionel Alexander Ritchie, Wilson, William (1808–1888), Free Church of Scotland minister
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/4/1888, D.D., 28 Chalmers Street, Edinburgh, Secretary, F.C. Sustentation Fund, sometime F.C. Minister, St Paul’s, Dundee, d. 14/01/1888 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/265; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/230
William Scott, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.149 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
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WOOD, JAMES JULIUS
Publications – by him
A letter requesting the vote for Dr Makellar of Pencaitland as moderator of the 1840’s General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, signed by James Henderson, John Forbes and James Julius Wood, Edinburgh?, 1840?
The beginnings of wisdom, a sermon, preached on George Heriot’s day, June 7, 1841, Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute, 1841
Address to the congregation of the New Greyfriars’ Church, Edinburgh, on the occasion of his quitting the Establishment, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1843
“Help, Lord, for the Godly man ceaseth”, a sermon preached in the Territorial Church, West Port, Edinburgh on Thursday the 1st July 1847, on occasion of the ordination of the Rev. William Tasker as the pastor of that church, together with charges to minister and congregation, Edinburgh, John D. Lowe, 1847
Hear ye the rod, a tract for the times, Dumfries, 1849
The Spirit of life, or, The way and end of the Christian ministry, a closing address delivered to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, W. P. Kennedy, 1857
On the importance of knowledge when made subservient to man’s highest interests
Report on the state of religion, submitted to the General Assembly on 28th May 186l, Edinburgh, John Greig and son, 1861
Speeches delivered at a meeting of Free Church office-bearers, held on the evening of 3d March 1870, in the large hall of the Religious Institution Rooms, Glasgow, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1870
Doctrine and the union question, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1870?
Our father’s house of many mansions, a sermon preached in the Free Church, Corsock, on September 11, 1870, the Sabbath after the funeral of Alexander Colquhoun Stirling Murray Dunlop, Esq. of Corsock, Edinburgh, printed for private circulation, 1870
The question of doctrine in connexion with the negotiations for union, between the Free and United Presbyterian Churches, a tract for the circumstances, Edinburgh, Ballantyne & Co., 1870?
God’s own testimony to prayer, the prayers of the Holy Scriptures, and the answers thereto, Edinburgh, MacLaren & MacNiven, 1874
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.3, p.392, The Christian Warfare; The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.5, p.265, The Name of God Revealed by Himself
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.3, p.772, On the Sacrifice of Fools; p.456, The Danger of Associating with the Ungodly; p.697, The First Commandment of All
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/7/1877, D.D., Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Dumfries, d. 23/03/1877 at Dumfries, testate, Dumfries Sheriff Court, NRS SC15/41/16
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Wood or Henderson, Christian Inglis, 31/3/1886, 82 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, wife of Revd James Wood, d. 14/02/1886, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/248; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/217
Free Church of Scotland, the demission of Rev. James Julius Wood, London, Macintosh, 1843?
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.40
28th February, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.332 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
Image: see here for a picture of early Free Church Moderators.
For photo by Hill and Adamson see here
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WOOD, WALTER
Publications – by him
Letter to the Rev. William Blatch, occasioned by a sermon published by him on the subject of baptismal regeneration, Pittenweem, J. Scott, 18–?
Present duty, pastoral address to the parishioners of Westruther, Edinburgh, Charles Zeigler, 1843
What is tradition worth?, a sermon preached in the Free Church of Jedburgh, on Sabbath evening, 17th November, 1844, Kelso, Border Watch Office, 1844
A vast difference, Free Church contrasted with the Establishment, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1845
Presbyterial visitations, report of Committee on Presbyterial Visitations, Privy Censures, and Synodical Superintendence, report signed at end, Walter Wood, convener, Edinburgh?, 1845
An affirmative answer to the question, will the second advent of our Lord be pre-millennial?, consisting of four articles originally written for the Free Church magazine, in reply to a series by the Rev. David Brown, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1846
Appendix to An affirmative answer to the question, will the second advent of our Lord be pre-millennial?, containing strictures on Mr. Brown’s reply to the author’s arguments, in his recently published work on the second advent, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1846
The memoirs of Walter Pringle of Greenknow; or, some few of the free mercys of God to him, and his will to his children, left to them under his own hand, edited by Walter Wood, Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1847
The last things, an examination of the doctrine of Scripture concerning the resurrection, the second coming of Christ, and the millennium, with special reference to the second edition of the Rev. David Brown’s work on the second advent, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1851
No latter-day glory before the coming of the Lord, Edinburgh, James Taylor, 1855
The east Neuk of Fife, its history and antiquities, geology, botany, and natural history in general, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1862
Reply to Bishop Wordsworth’s charges for 1865 and 1866, in two speeches delivered at the meetings of the Free Church Synod of Fife, in April and October 1866, Edinburgh, Maclaren and Macniven, 1871?
The Free Church and the patronage act, Edinburgh, MacLaren & MacNiven, 1874
Lord Cockburn’s journal and Mr. Gladstone’s speech in Papers for our people by ministers and members of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1874, Edinburgh, Maclaren and Macniven, 1874
A course of three lectures on Free Church principles: considered in the light of Holy Scripture, history and recent legislation, Robert Elder, Walter Wood and John Adam, Glasgow, 1877
Communications on the case of Professor Robertson Smith, in the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, held at Glasgow in 1878, Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff and others, with a preface by Walter Wood, Edinburgh, John Maclaren & Son, 1879
Chronicles and canticles, an examination of the article under that title in the “Encyclopaedia Britannica”, Edinburgh, MacNiven & Wallace, 1880
“The Bible”, an examination of the article under that title in the Encylopaedia Britannica, Edinburgh, MacNiven and Wallace, 1880
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 41; 81; 365 and 897. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Walter Wood
Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife, Wood, Walter
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/5/1882, Minister, Free Church, Elie, d. 06/03/1882 at Elie, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/55; 30/1/1883, First Eik, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/56; 1/12/1886, Second Eik, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/59
The changeless Christ, a sermon preached at Elie, 12th March 1882, after the death of the Rev. Walter Wood, M.A., J. Mellis., Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1882
Records of Elie Free Kirk Session: Copy of title deeds of Robert Morgan, Mrs Margaret McDougall or Morgan and Rev Walter Wood relating to Free Church, with notes on title, 1851, NRS CH3/1617/11/8
“Scottish tracts for the times”, “No. 1 — ‘The Bible’ by the Rev. Walter Wood, A.M., Elie”; examined by Mnason, William Pirie Smith, Aberdeen, Alexander Murray, 1880
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WYLIE, JAMES AITKEN
Publications – by him
Lines on the death of Dr. M’Crie
The modern Judea, Ammon, Moab, and Edom, compared with ancient prophecy, with notes illustrative of Biblical subjects, Glasgow, 1841
The importance of character, with comparative estimates of the character of Paul, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Byron, Burns, Scott, Glasgow, 1842
Character – its paramount influence on the happiness of individuals in A Course of Lectures to young men, delivered in Glasgow, Glasgow, William Collins, 1842
The seventh vial, being an exposition of the Apolcalypse, and in particular of the pouring out of the seventh vial, with special reference to the present revolutions in Europe, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1848
Letters to the author of “The seventh vial”, relative particularly to the identification of the prophetic history of the two witnesses with that of the true church generally, during the apocalyptic period of 1260 years, and the completion of their history, Alexander Beith, Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1849
The papacy; its history, dogmas, genius and prospects, being the Evangelical Alliance first prize essay on popery, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1852
German: Geschichte, Lehren, Geist und Aussichten des Papstthums [The papacy; its history, dogmas, genius and prospects], Elberfeld, W. Hassel, 1853
Rome and the workings of Romanism in the papal states, a lecture, Edinburgh, J. Nichol, 1854
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber, or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, Edinburgh, Shepherd & Elliot, 1855
The Gospel ministry, duty and privilege of supporting it, London, James Nisbet and Co., 1857
Wanderings and musings in the valleys of the Waldenses, London, J. Nisbet, 1858
Why Scotland should commemorate the Reformation, 1860?
The principle of the reformation in its theological, political, scientific, and literary developments, a sermon [Psalm 68:35], Edinburgh, 1860
Ruins of Bible Lands, a journey over the region of fulfilled prophecy, Glasgow, Mcphun, 1860
The Pictorial Bible dictionary, new edition, with Biblical maps and engravings, Glasgow, W.R. McPhun & Son, 1860?
Ter-centenary of the Scottish Reformation, as commemorated at Edinburgh, August 1860, edited by J.A. Wylie, Edinburgh, J. Maclaren, 1860
Lecture on ‘the plan of the Jesuits to pervert Britain to the Romish faith, delivered in Free St. Paul’s Church, Dundee under the auspices of the local branch of the Scottish Reformation Society, Dundee, Park, Sinclair, & Co., 1860
Scenes from the Bible, Glasgow, William Collins, 1861
The great exodus, or `The time of the end’, how near are we to it?, London, 1862
Welsh: Traethawd arobryn ar weinidogaeth yr efengyl, y ddyledswydd a’r fraint o’i chynnal [The Gospel ministry, duty and privilege of supporting it], translated by Ebenezer Powell, Wrexham, R. Hughes and Son, 1863?
Rome and civil liberty, or the Papal aggression in its relation to the sovereignty of the queen and the independence of the nation, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1865
The awakening of Italy and the crisis of Rome, New York, American Tract Society, 1866
The road to Rome viâ Oxford, or, Ritualism identical with Romanism, London, S.W. Partridge, 1868
The establishment as now interpreted, a novelty to our reformers and subversives of Christ’s headship, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1870
Daybreak in Spain, or, sketches of Spain and its new reformation, a tour of two months, London; New York, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870
Which sovereign, Queen Victoria or the Pope?, Edinburgh, George McGibbon, 187-?
The impending crisis of the church and the world: or, The war in its relation to prophecy, embracing outline of entire Prophetic Scheme, London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1871
A sabbath in a ritualistic church in England, London, Baptist Tract Society, 18–
Life and missionary travels of the Rev. J. Furniss Ogle, from his letters, selected by his Sister and edited by J. A. Wylie, London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1873
The Scots Worthies, James Howie, edited by J. A. Wylie assisted by J. Anderson, with an introductory sketch of the history of the period, London, 1875-76
German: Fürst Bismarck und die Ultramontanen, Erläuterung der römischen Frage in ihrer gegenwärtigen Bedeutung für Deutschland und Grossbritannien, Charles Adamson Salmond, with a preface by J. A. Wylie, Berlin, 1876
Disruption worthies of the Highlands, another memorial of 1843, Edinburgh, Greig 1877
Popery in power, in the time of Queen Mary, London, Baptist Tract Society, 18–
The pope, the Jesuits and the United Kingdom, London, Tract Depository, 18-
The papal hierarchy, an exposure of the tactics of Rome for the overthrow of the liberty and Christianity of Great Britain, London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1878
Words to the Protestants of Scotland on the projected establishment of the popish hierarchy, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Macniven, 1878
History of Protestantism, London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1879?: Vol.1; Vol.2 and Vol.3
Dutch: De geschiedenis van het Protestantisme [History of Protestantism], edited by C. P. Hofstede De Groot. Amsterdam, Gebroeders Kraay. 1878, Vol.2
The story of the Covenant, and the services of the Covenanters to the Reformation in Christendom and the liberties of Great Britain, Edinburgh, James Gemmell, 1880
The Jesuits, their moral maxims, and plots against kings, nations, and churches, with dissertation on Ireland, London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1881
Disruption worthies, a memorial of 1843, with an historical sketch of the Free Church of Scotland from 1843 down to the present time, Edinburgh, Thomas C. Jack, 1881
Egypt and its future; a visit to the land of the Pharaohs, London, Hamilton, Adams & Co, 1882
Over the Holy Land, London, James Nisbet & Co., 1883
Luther; or, The Reformation worked out in the person of Luther before being worked out on the stage of Christendom, London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1883
Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy, whither does it lead?, extracts from a forthcoming volume, entitled “Ireland and the Vatican”, Edinburgh, 1886
History of the Scottish Nation, London, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1886-87: Vol.1; Vol.2 and Vol.3
The Papacy: its position, policy and prospects, London: Morgan and Scott, 1887
The Spanish Armada, 1588, being an account of the events preceding, and a concise narrative of the defeat of, the Spanish Armada, London, The Commemoration Council, Morgan & Scott, 1888?
The papacy in the Antichrist, a demonstration, Edinburgh, G. McGibbon, 1888
The revolution of 1688, a retrospect from John Wycliffe to William of Orange, London, Morgan & Scott, 18–
The atrocities of the Confessional, Edinburgh, Scottish Reformation Society, c. 1890
What the sixteenth century says to the nineteenth, Glasgow, 1891
The Protestant succession to the throne: an attack upon the last legal security, London, Church Association, 1901
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.2, p.294, On the Duty of Rulers to Promote the Sanctification of the Sabbath
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Aitken Wylie
Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Vol.63, George Stronach, Wylie, James Aitken;
w.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30135?rskey=sg0UyR&result=1997″> Wylie, James Aitken (1808–1890), Free Church of Scotland minister and author
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 19/7/1890, LL.D., Edinburgh, d. 01/05/1890 at 12 Archibald Place, Edinburgh, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/286
6th March, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.316 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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YOUNG, GEORGE PAXTON
Publications – by him
Protest and Appeal from Judgment of the Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, in the case of translation of Mr George Paxton Young, from Martyrs’ Congregation, Paisley, to Chadwell Street Congregation, Islington, London, Edinburgh, John Greig, 1849
Book review by George Paxton Young on the philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, New York; D. Appleton, 1853
Book review by George Paxton Young of Reid’s Works, 1854?
Miscellaneous discourses and expositions of scripture, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1854
A new proof of the existence of the roots of equations, 18–
A new proof of the parallelogram of forces, 1856?
On Sir David Brewster’s supposed law of visible direction, read before the Canadian Institute, March 7th, 1857, Canada?, 1857
Resolution of algebraical equations, Toronto, Lovell and Gibson, 1860
The relation which can be proved to subsist between the area of a plane triangle and the sum of the angles, on the hypothesis that Euclid’s 12th axiom is false, Canada?, 1860?
Notes on passages in the Platonic dialogues, Toronto, Lovell and Gibson, 1862
Remarks on Professor Boole’s mathematical theory of the laws of thought, 1865?
Resolution of algebraical equations: proof of the impossibility of representing in finite algebraical functions the roots of algebraical equations of degrees higher than the fourth, Toronto
The Chief Superintendent’s report on education in Ontario, for the year 1867, Toronto, Hunter, Rose & Co, 1868
Freedom and necessity, a lecture, delivered in Knox’ College on the 6th April, 1870, at the close of the College session, Toronto, Adams, Stevenson, 1870?
Principles of the solution of equations of the higher degrees, with applications, Toronto?, 1884
Forms, necessary and sufficient, of the roots of pure uni-serial abelian equations, Toronto?, 1886?
Solvable quintic equations with commensurable coefficients, 1887
The ethics of freedom, search only, by George Paxton Young, Notes selected and arranged by his pupil, James Gibson Hume, Toronto, University press, 1911
Publications – about him
Death abolished, a sermon preached in St. Andrew’s Church, Toronto, on Sunday, 3rd March, 1889, in connection with the death of George Paxton Young, D.J. MacDonnell, Toronto?, 1889
Review of Rev. D.J. Macdonnell’s sermon entitled Death abolished, Robert S. Weir, 1889?
Prof. Young’s doctrine of ‘freedom and necessity’ reviewed, Albert Carman, Belleville, 1873
Memorials of Chancellor W.H. Blake, Bishop John Strachan, Professor H. H. Croft and Professor G.P. Young, presented to the University of Toronto in the University Library, January 13th, 1894, Toronto?, 1894
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