CHURCH OF SC OTLAND.
o ■ " The Church of Scotland has an advocate in Di" Ofnhirighairi, an able scholar, who at-a ptthlic meeting lately. * said :— *ll toe Church of .Scotland, he thought he might 1 say; deserved well ottfeer people tit Scotland. Not going 1 back -beyond 'the Reformation, their Church «8» Protestant and Pfeebyterian Church, had "existed now tor tome 300 years and more, and during a 1 that time it had been the educator of th* people in religion and in morals. It had not only educated the people from the pulpit, but it was the originator of the parish school system, which had proved so ftreat a Messing to the country, which had made Scot* land what it was, and which had I made Scotchmen' what they were, so f that Scotchmen would be louud to be [ arthe head of almost everything in every quarter, of the world. These were not lightservices which the Church of Scotland had rendered to its people, and he thought it had not degener* . »ted from its ancient virtues, i c believed that at this day it was deserving of the love and honour of the people of Scotia- d as on auy previous day of it* bi>tory."
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 27, 16 September 1882, Page 3
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205CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 27, 16 September 1882, Page 3
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