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The Aberdeen Pulpit and Universities: A Series of Sketches of the Aberdeen Clergy, and of the Professors in the Aberdeen Colleges [By J. Bruce].
The Aberdeen Pulpit and Universities A Series of Sketches of the Aberdeen Clergy and of the Professors in the Aberdeen Colleges - By J. Bruce Author:James Bruce General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 11 THE BEV. JAMES FOOTE. The Rev. James Foote has been Minister of the East Church for a considerable number of years- The congregation attending his ministry is considerable, and comprehends a great many of the wealthier of our citizens. Of this circumstance, we rather suspect that Mr. Foote himself is a little vain, as, in giving his evidence before the Church Commissioners, as well as on other occasions, he appeared to be anxious that the amount of the collections made at the doors of the East Church should be known. It is but fair to add, that this anxiety might have arisen from a desire to show that the church was not a burden on the town's funds, as others of the churches are -- though some of the enlightened clergy of the present day contend, that it is irreligious in the Town Council to keep any account of debtor and creditor in church matters. Mr. Foote used great exertions in raising subscriptions for building the new East Church, a very beautiful edifice, in which the fine taste of our ingenious townsman, Mr. Archibald Simpson, who was the architect, is conspicuously displayed. The church is elegantly fitted up in the inside, and whenever there is any public meeting -- on nonintrusion, or revivals, or such like -- Mr. Foote requests the assemblage not to destroy the seats by standing upon them. For this care of the public property he is entitled to the thanks of the Magistrates. Mr. Foote, who is a man of wealth, contributed liberally to the erection of the new church, as indeed he does to all objects in which he takes an interest. We have heard ignorant and fanatical persons state it as ...« less