Excerpt from St. George's, Edinburgh: A History of St. George's Church 1814 to 1843 and of St. George's Free Church 1843 to 1873, Two Addresses Delivered to the Young Men's Association of the St. George's Free Church

The Young Men's Association of St. George's Free Church, of which I have long been an Honorary Office-Bearer, and in which I have always taken a warm interest, asked me to give them a Historical Sketch of St. Greorge's Congregation from its origin in 1814 to the death of Dr. Candlish in 1873. Being much burdened with work of different kinds, the task would certainly have been declined for any others. Having undertaken it, however, I tried, by research in Municipal and Ecclesiastical Records, in Newspaper files, in volumes of Pamphlets, and in the memories of those likely to retain facts and incidents on the subject, to give the Lectures some interest to the Association - and to the Congregation also, who were invited to be present on the occasion of their delivery. They were written under much pressure, and were not intended for any further service than as the closing Addresses of two Annual Sessions.

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