The Rev. Donald Macdonald (1825–20 August 1901) was one of two ministers in the founding Presbytery of the

Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland ( gd, An Eaglais Shaor Chlèireach, ) was formed in 1893. The Church identifies itself as the spiritual descendant of the Scottish Reformation. The Church web-site states that it is 'the constitutional hei ...

, which separated in 1893 from the

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as the result of a Protest at the meeting of the General Assembly of the Free Church on 25 May 1893 by the Rev.

Donald Macfarlane Rev. Donald Macfarlane (1834–1926) was the founding father of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. It began as a separate denomination when he tabled a Protest against the Declaratory Act at 25 May 1893 meeting of the General Assembly of th ...

against the Declaratory Act passed by the General Assembly in 1892 modifying the church's adherence to the

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, believing that it thereby 'altered and vitiated' the constitution of the Free Church in law. Macdonald was born at Langash in the parish of

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in 1825. He became the Free Church of Scotland minister in

Shieldaig Shieldaig ( gd, Sìldeag; on, síld- vík, lit= herring bay)W. J. Watson''Place-names of Ross and Cromarty'' 1904, p. 208. is a village in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Geography ...

in 1872 but he was evicted from his church and manse in 1893. His biographer wrote: “The Assembly of 1877 presented them he minister and his congregationwith church and manse in consideration of their faithful adherence to the principles of the Free Church; the Assembly of 1893 deprived them of these gifts for ''the very same reason!''” After worshipping in the open air a new church was opened in 1895 for the newly formed Shieldaig congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland and a new manse completed in 1897. He died on 20 August 1901 in his manse at Shieldaig and was buried in

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cemetery, followed by his wife Mary who died on 17 August 1909.

Works and Publications

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Creation and the Fall; A Defence and Exposition of the First Three Chapters of Genesis
' (1856)

References

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