Free Kirk
Americannoun
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“Dante had no more imagination,” said Phineas, “than a Free Kirk precentor in Kirkcudbright.”
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
The secession of Chalmers on the issue of State patronage resulted in the founding of the Free Kirk.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
To the local dominie I was an ignoramus, because I was not familiar with the smallest fact regarding the Great Disruption, and the founding 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
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
There were exactly ten Free Kirk families from Tochty Lodge eastwards, and some of these still speak with feeling of the attention they received, which exceeded all they had ever known before or since.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
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