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Charles Salmond

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South Morningside Free Church, Braid Road

Charles Adamson Salmond (1853–1932) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and ecclesiastical author.

Life

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He was born in Arbroath. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburghthen trained as a Free Church minister at New College, Edinburgh. He did a postgraduate year at Princeton University in America.[1]

He was ordained at the Free Church in Cults, Aberdeen in 1879. He was translated to St Matthew's Free church in Glasgow in 1881. He was then living at 4 Royal Crescent (West).[2] In 1887 he translated to the West Free Church in Rothesay and finally in 1890 he settled at the newly built South Morningside Free Church on Braid Road in Edinburgh.[3] Salmond was the first minister of this spectacular church, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson.[4][5]

In Edinburgh he lived very close to the church at 9 Cluny Drive.[6]

In 1900 he and his church joined the Union in creating the United Free Church of Scotland, usually just referred to as the UF Church.[7] In the same year he visited Princeton University again.[8]

He is buried in the Western Cemetery in Arbroath.[9]

Family

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In 1883 he was married to Margaret Hamersly Johnston (1862-1908).

Publications

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  • Vaticanism: An Exposition and Defence of Prince Bismarck's Anti-Ultramontane Policy (1876)
  • A Woman's Work: Memorials of Eliza Fletcher (1884)
  • Princetoniana: A Table Talk with Hodge the Younger (1888)
  • J A Wylie as I Knew Him (1890)
  • For Days of Youth (1896)
  • The Religious Question in France (1905)
  • The Protestant Institute of Scotland (1911)
  • The Romanising Movement in the Church of England (1917)
  • Pilgrims Towards Plymouth
  • Perfectionism: The False and the True
  • Sermonettes for the Young

References

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  1. ^ Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
  2. ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1885
  3. ^ "Edinburgh & Leith Places of Worship, Midlothian". GENUKI. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  4. ^ Morningside South UF Church, Braid Road, Edinburgh (17 July 2019). "Morningside South UF Church, Edinburgh, United Free Church of Scotland, Midlothian". GENUKI. Retrieved 26 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh; Gifford, John; McWilliam, Colin; Walker, David
  6. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1895
  7. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910
  8. ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly Dec 1901
  9. ^ "Charles Adamson Salmond (1853-1932) — Log College Press". Logcollegepress.com. Retrieved 26 February 2020.