Charles Adamson Salmond (1853–1932) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and ecclesiastical author.
Life edit
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]
Family edit
In 1883 he was married to Margaret Hamersly Johnston (1862-1908).
Publications edit
- 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 edit
- ^ Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
- ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1885
- ^ "Edinburgh & Leith Places of Worship, Midlothian". GENUKI. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1895
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910
- ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly Dec 1901
- ^ "Charles Adamson Salmond (1853-1932) — Log College Press". Logcollegepress.com. Retrieved 26 February 2020.