September 17: Lady Baille
A Post You Can Tell Your Children Her name was Grisell. Yes, I know that is a strange sounding name, but it was a Scottish name. She was born on December 25,…
September 5: Covenanter Slaves
A Final Covenant Twenty-eight Presbyterians signed a final covenant on the eve of their departure from Leith, Scotland in early September, 1685. It said in part, "That, now to leave their…
September 4: Death of Beatrix Umpherston, lead writer of Children’s Covenant (1686)
Children's Covenant Our post today is set in the context of the small devotional groups which arose in central and southern Scotland after the death of Richard Cameron and Donald…
September 2: Andrew Melville’s Two-Kingdom Speech
The day is lost to church history. We know the month and the year of the Two Kingdom Speech of Andrew Melville. That month and year was September 1596. But the exact day…
August 27: Church of Scotland Adopts WCF (1647)
Westminster Confession Approved by Church of Scotland You may ask upon reading the title of this contribution, why are we thinking about adoption of the Westminster Confession of Faith, when the whole This Day in…
