Free Kirk
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It was founded in 1848 by emigrants representing the Free Kirk of Scotland who left after the separation from the Established Church.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
The puir wanderers will get hungry and weary in their Free Kirk conventicles, and as the night comes on, they’ll come hame.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Four hundred clergymen threw up their livings one day and went out to begin a Free Kirk, where there are no patrons.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
“Dante had no more imagination,” said Phineas, “than a Free Kirk precentor in Kirkcudbright.”
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
Oh, indeed," she answered, "if my marriage is a sale, I prefer to be sold for a dukedom than a Free Kirk pulpit.
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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