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1. In Scotland, the most extensive country in which this presbyterian form of church government has ever been established, the rights of patronage were in effect abolished by the act which established presbytery in the beginning of the reign of William III
2. [55] As Aberdeen Presbytery subsequently discovered when they attempted to dislodge the incumbent of Saint Clement’s Footdee
3. In spite of my negativity, I never broke the tie with the Church of Scotland and even though I often worshipped elsewhere or nowhere, I hung on assiduously to my “status” as an ordained minister through the Presbytery of Aberdeen
4. Since coming to Hamilton in 2012, I have gladly linked up again with the Kirk in an active sense and I am a member of the Presbytery of Hamilton
5. I have received a couple of approaches from churches within Hamilton Presbytery to give holiday pulpit supply, which I have respectfully declined
6. Until I was given a seat in the Presbytery of Hamilton in 2012, my entire ministry had taken place in and around Aberdeen
7. When I look at the edition of the Aberdeen Presbytery calendar that was in use when I was Clerk in the mid-1970s and then compare it with today’s edition, I am shocked at just how much the visible church has shrunk in that city
8. To keep with the fire-related analogy, the huffing and puffing started in earnest almost as soon as the Presbytery of Aberdeen first sustained the call to Queen’s Cross
9. In fairness, neither the Presbytery of Glasgow nor the Kirk spokesmen in Edinburgh seemed to be in the mood to mend fences either
10. Gilcomston South held detailed and courteous discussions with Aberdeen Presbytery and, at least in the meantime, the recently formed independent congregation of Gilcomston Church will lease their Union Street building (on which they too have spent large amounts of money) from the Church of Scotland
11. The comments made through the Church of Scotland offices and the Presbytery of Glasgow have been generally milder, although tinged perhaps with more than a degree of complacency
12. This possibility was widely debated not just at General Assembly and Presbytery level but also by Kirk Sessions
13. Congregations do not always like to be told by the eldership what they should do, the eldership does not like being told by Presbytery what to do and Presbytery does not always appreciate being told by the General Assembly what to do
14. In general, they tend to be much less deferential towards Presbytery which is often commonly perceived as being an interfering “outside” body
15. I remember when I was Presbytery Clerk of Aberdeen being ordered to attend a conference on the Committee’s deliberations
16. Meredith had received innumerable hints from brother members of Presbytery and from many parishioners who could not be suspected of any ulterior motive, as well as from some who could, that he ought to marry again: But these hints never made any impression on him
17. Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery
18. of the Presbytery of Western North Carolina
19. Presbytery: An assembly of elders in a church
20. He had come for his umbrella, that he had forgotten the other day at the Ernemont convent, and after asking Madame Lefrancois to have it sent to him at the presbytery in the evening, he left for the church, from which the Angelus was ringing
21. And in fact the door of the presbytery grated; Abbe Bournisien appeared; the children, pell-mell, fled into the church
22. And where was the harm if, at the presbytery, they had a game with a pack of greasy cards in the early evening, before Don Pepe went his last rounds to see that all the watchmen of the mine—a body organized by himself—were at their posts? For that last duty before he slept Don Pepe did actually gird his old sword on the verandah of an unmistakable American white frame house, which Father Roman called the presbytery
23. The man rode off, and Don Pepe, striding slowly in the direction of a little wooden belfry, looked over a hedge into a little garden, and saw Father Roman sitting in a white hammock slung between two orange trees in front of the presbytery
24. In the early days, when Lord Marchmain first arrived, the parish priest since the chapel was shut there was a new church and presbytery in Mel stead - had come to call as a matter of politeness
25. And in fact the door of the presbytery grated; Abbe Bournisien
26. While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant