Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . Principal Lumsden. By Sir George licid, LL. D. LVI—ABERDEEN UNITED FREE CHURCH Aberdeen United Free Church College. The question of providing a theologicaltraining for its students at Aberdeen wasbefore the Free Church of Scotland fromthe days of the Disruption onwards. TheGeneral Assembly of May, 1843. declaredthat it was desirable that there shouldnot be less than three separate TheologicalColleges. Tlie Aberdeen Presbytery hadthe matter under consideration as earlyas 8th August, 1843. The situation thenexisting in the city regard
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . Principal Lumsden. By Sir George licid, LL. D. LVI—ABERDEEN UNITED FREE CHURCH Aberdeen United Free Church College. The question of providing a theologicaltraining for its students at Aberdeen wasbefore the Free Church of Scotland fromthe days of the Disruption onwards. TheGeneral Assembly of May, 1843. declaredthat it was desirable that there shouldnot be less than three separate TheologicalColleges. Tlie Aberdeen Presbytery hadthe matter under consideration as earlyas 8th August, 1843. The situation thenexisting in the city regarding the theo-logical education of the students of theChurch was. the practical outcome of theevents of the Disruption itself. Dr Black,who had been Professor of Divinity inMarisehal College, had come out withthe Free Church party, and on him therenaturally devolved the care of the studentsbelonging to the new body. In October,1843, the Committee for College mattersreported that Dr. Black had beenappointeda Professor of Divinity, with Aberdeen forthe sphere of his labours. The Presby-tery, however, urged that a further stepshould be ta
Size: 1293px × 1932px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidchurchesofaberde00gamm
