Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . d SundaySchool. Belmont Church to-day is feeling, like itsneighbours, the difficulty of its problem of the mid-town church is apressing one, and the introduction of Sun-day cars has not entirely solved it. Themembership of Belmont Church has beenwell maintained, but it is a striking factthat, with very few exceptions, the mem-bers are all resident outside a radius ofabout a mile from the church they continue their connection not-withstanding the distance is a proof oftheir loyalty and attachment. Belmont is the Ca
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . d SundaySchool. Belmont Church to-day is feeling, like itsneighbours, the difficulty of its problem of the mid-town church is apressing one, and the introduction of Sun-day cars has not entirely solved it. Themembership of Belmont Church has beenwell maintained, but it is a striking factthat, with very few exceptions, the mem-bers are all resident outside a radius ofabout a mile from the church they continue their connection not-withstanding the distance is a proof oftheir loyalty and attachment. Belmont is the Cathedral Church of Con-gregationalism in Aberdeen, but it boastsof no stately ritual or elaborate ecclesias-ticism. Its glory in the past was to beknown as the Missionar Kirk, and it isfelt that it is not in rigid respectability orconsistent conservatism of method, but inthe development of the old Missionar spirit of wise resourcefulness and aggres-sive zeal that its stability and prosperitydepend to-day. I L1X.—BON = ACCORD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Bon-Accord Congregational Church The founding of new churches is some-times the result of national movementssuch as the Secession of 1733, the Dis-ruption of 1843, or the rise of the Evange-lical Union. Local circumstances may besaid, however, to account for the origin ofthe great majority of congregations whichare born when no ecclesiastical storm issweeping the sky. Hiving off is theprocess most frequently seen in operation,and this hiving off is almost invariablythe result of one or other of two distinctcauses. One of these causes may be ageneral and pressing desire to further thework of Church extension by planting newchurches in some new or inadequately sup-plied district. The other cause may be adivision of opinion among the members ofsome existing church, which leads a sec-tion of them to withdraw and form a newchurch altogether. Both these causes havebeen in operation in Aberdeen, and bothhave helped in no small degree to inc
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