PRINTED BY MORRISON AND GIBB, TANFIELD, FOR T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH. LONDON SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO. LIMITED. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. TORONTO: PRESBYTERIAN NEWS CO. THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND HER ORIGIN, FOUNDERS AND TESTIMONY BY PETER BAYNE, LL.D. TAMEN CONSUMERATUR EDINBURGH T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET PREFACE. PROFESSOR GIBB and I have been friends since we were schoolfellows in Aberdeen in 1843, and it is in no small measure owing to his encouragement, and the sympathy and furtherance of Professor Salmond, that this volume sees the light. The authorities on which I rely are sufficiently indicated as I proceed, special acknowledgments being due to the standard work on I studied theology the Conflict by Dr. Robert Buchanan. in the New College in Cunningham's time, but never applied for licence, or was ordained. When Candlish was in summer quarters with his family at Kilcreggan in 1856, I became intimately acquainted with him. The book falls far short of what I hoped it might be, but I offer it to my brothers and sisters of the Free Church of Scotland as an expression, sincere though inadequate, of the interest taken by me in the Jubilee, and of the affection, pride, and gratitude with which I look upon this branch of the Reformed Catholic Church. Paul thought that he had been specially raised up |