Free Kirk
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We have yet to see whether the Free Kirk can keep its present theological ground.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
As the respectable Free Kirk elder who sat next Mr. McGuffie did not respond to this friendly offer, Mr. McGuffie put a straw in his mouth and timed the arrival of the Provost.
From Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren
By the way, there will be one more to laugh at us, for I 've asked the Free Kirk minister to make a fourth for our table.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
Presbyterianism and the Free Kirk of Scotland, 404.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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
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