Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . r was selected, when,after trial of different preachers, the Doig was appointed. Mr. Doig had been licensed by the Pres-bytery of Dundee on 12th November, 1788,and he was ordained by the Presbytery ofArbroath on 3rd March, 1791, as assistantin that parish. His induction to TrinityChurch took place on 23rd October, 1794,and his ministry was one of marked pros-perity. Mr. Doig was a man of strongphysique and an untiring worker. Hisefforts soon began to tell in the steadygrowth of the congregation—a large pro-portion of the members be
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . r was selected, when,after trial of different preachers, the Doig was appointed. Mr. Doig had been licensed by the Pres-bytery of Dundee on 12th November, 1788,and he was ordained by the Presbytery ofArbroath on 3rd March, 1791, as assistantin that parish. His induction to TrinityChurch took place on 23rd October, 1794,and his ministry was one of marked pros-perity. Mr. Doig was a man of strongphysique and an untiring worker. Hisefforts soon began to tell in the steadygrowth of the congregation—a large pro-portion of the members being then drawnfrom the seafaring class. So conspicuouswas Mr. Doigs success in Trinity that whenthe East Church, from which the Trini-tarians had seceded, again became vacantin 1813, he was elected to the vacancy. Itwas surely by the irony of fate that theTrinity people found themselves in theposition of supplying a minister to the verycongregation from which their conscien-tious scruples had forced them to separate. 216 THE CHURCHES OF ABERDEEN. Old Trinity Church and Old Trades Hall. The next minister of Trinity was the Kirkland, who was at the timeassistant to the Rev. Alexander Macneil, ofSt. Andrews Chapel of Ease, Dundee. had been licensed by the Presby-tery of Glasgow on 1st May, 1811, and hisordination as minister of Trinity took placeon 13th May, 1813. From the first he gavepromise of a career of singular usefulness,but after two short years of earnest workhe was cut down in the flower of his earlymanhood at the age of 32. A man ofsimple manners, unaffected piety, and puremorals, his premature death was deeplymourned. It was the custom then to have threeChurch services every Sunday, two of thembeing taken by the regular minister andthe third by a specially-appointed was two years after the erection ofTrinity before the congregation were ableto afford an evening lecturer, but in 1796they appointed to that post one whose namewas de
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