An Old Scotch Baptist Church

Abstract

"Some time ago, a manuscript fell into the hands of the writer's father, then treasurer of Bristo Baptist Church, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh. Written in a fine hand, it is entitled, "Some Reminiscences of the Old Baptist Church, Pleasance," by James Williamson, and was found in the houses which he gives as his address about 1830. As his dates are about 1818-the 1890s, this find may be reckoned as providential. Like many such works, this one is badly dated and, apart from one or two outstanding occasions, describes personal memories rather than the factual material of historians. When, however, in an appreciation of his spiritual elders, the author declares his certainty of their apostolic calling as being as unquestionable as his knowledge, that" Queen Victoria succeeded William IV," we are taken into a strangely remote past."