Free Kirk
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It was felt that after the action of the Free Kirk the Establisheds and the U. P.'s must show what they too were capable of.
From Auld Licht Idylls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
In this story, my chief character is a Scotch gentleman, of the most perfervid Calvinism, and the period of the story was the glorious ecclesiastical 429 “departure” of the Free Kirk.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It was celebrated in the Free Kirk school-room for girls! and with a congregation under twenty, most attentive though very small, and no one left the room when we came to the Holy Communion.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
Mrs. M'Collop herself is a pillar of the Free Kirk, but she has no prejudice in lodgers, and says so long as she "mak's her rent she doesna care aboot their releegious principles."
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Our place on the coach was shared with a Scot, who was the most truculent defender of the Free Kirk I have ever met.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
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