Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excitement thus roused in the students, discontinued them. He was Dr. Thomas Chalmers, kindling and original personality, whose principal claim to fame is that he led a secession which split the established Church of Scotland, and presided over the founding of what is now known as the United Free Church of Scotland...
...General Assembly in 1843, therefore, the non-intrusion party presented its protest and withdrew, to organize as the Free Church of Scotland. Dr. Chalmers was chosen first moderator of the new Assembly, protestant within protestantism...
...signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment. To provide for them and to build churches was the enormous task Dr. Chalmers and his colleagues undertook. At the end of four years more than 700 churches had been provided. The Free Church, vigorous, evangelical, prospered. In 1900 it combined with the United Presbyterian Church...
From time to time tentative attempts toward reconciliation with the Establishment were made. Abuses by the secular authority having virtually ceased, and the leaders of the United Free Church having grown somewhat less stiff and proud, negotiations were resumed in earnest...
...organizations, which it is hoped will be effected next year, would unite practically the entire Presbyterian body in Scotland, comprising roughly two-thirds of the Christian membership of the country. The Church of Scotland had an enrollment of 761,946 at the beginning of 1927; the United Free Church...