Presbyterian Church

Her father, the Rev. William Cowie , was a minister in the Church of Scotland .

HMW was brought up by her mother, Helen Hay, who came from Naughton in Scotland, was known for her Presbyterian piety, and to a later observer was an old Scotch, high-blooded lady.

MS recalls that as a young child my mother taught me to read the Bible, and to say my prayers morning and evening; otherwise she allowed me to grow up a wild creature.

MS seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland . As an...

IB apparently told Sarah Tytler , however, that they were also motivated by interest in, and a desire to join, the Free Kirk which had recently separated from the Church of Scotland .

She grew up Anglican like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian , so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her...

She belonged to the established Church of Scotland (that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume , but not such...

At the Presbyterian religious gathering later called the communion of [or at] Shotts,EM retired to pray privately in the bed (a curtained alcove), but then consented to pray aloud, while thousands gathered...

EW , in Edinburgh on a fast day, first took the sacrament in the Church of Scotland .

EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...

Though little is known about her early religious experiences, she brought up her daughters as members of the Free Church of Scotland . According to her daughter Marie , CS raised them in the...

AB sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian (in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was...

Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan , more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian in religion. Eales and others have applied to her...

EW was a Scotswoman of the lower classes who became a godly, fervent Presbyterian , Covenanter and anti-Episcopalian. She writes that for some years she satisfied my self with the Pharisees Religion, until she...

Her family were Dissenters . When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect.