Synods Of Fife And Of Angus And Mearns

Excerpt from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol. 5: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland From the Reformation; Synods of Fife, and of Angus and Mearns I desire to receive this sentence of the General Assembly of the Church of Scot land pronounced against me with real concern, and awful impressions of the divine conduct in it: but I rejoice that to me it is given on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake. It is said that G. Returned to Carnock late on the night of the Saturday of his deposition. His wife, not expecting his return, had gone to bed. When he knocked at the door for admittance, she rose, went to the window, and desired to know who was there. The deposed minister of Carnock, was the reply. On getting inside the house, he said, I am no longer minister of Carnock, and to that his wife answered, Well, if we must beg, I will carry the meal-poo The next day a vast crowd assembled at Carnock from all parts, but instead of preaching in the church, a service was held in the church yard, G. Taking for his text the words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A vivid portrait of a Scottish religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor. In Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina, the first published biography of Garden, Fred E. Witzig paints a vivid portrait of the religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape. Shortly after his arrival, Garden, a representative of the bishop of London, became the rector of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, the first Anglican parish in the colony. The ambitious clergyman quickly married into a Charleston slave-trading family and allied himself with the political and social elite. From the pulpit Garden reinforced the social norms and economic demands of the southern planters and merchants, and he disciplined recalcitrant missionaries who dared challenge the prevailing social order. As a way of defending the morality of southern slaveholders, he found himself having to establish the first large-scale school for slaves in Charles Town in the 1740s. Garden also led a spirited—and largely successful—resistance to the Great Awakening evangelical movement championed by the revivalist minister George Whitefield, whose message of personal salvation and a more democratic Christianity was anathema to the social fabric of the slaveholding South, which continually feared a slave rebellion. As a minister Garden helped make slavery morally defensible in the eyes of his peers, giving the appearance that the spiritual obligations of his slaveholding and slave-trading friends were met as they all became extraordinarily wealthy. Witzig's lively cultural history—bolstered by numerous primary sources, maps, and illustrations—helps illuminate both the roots of the Old South and the Church of England's role in sanctifying slavery in South Carolina.