Communion Token - Penpont,1863
Penpont Reformed Presbyterian congregation (Auld Lichts)
1863
According to Whitelaw, this token was still being used in 1911
by "the small remnant of Penpont Reformed Presbyterians who, under
the influence of the Rev. Peter Carmichael, of Greenock, refused to
acquiesce in that Church's acceptance in 1863 of the new view of
the Oath of Allegiance".
In 1733, the First Secession or split from the Church of
Scotland created the Associate Presbytery over this issue of
patronage. In 1747 this group itself split over the Burgher Oath -
an issue of civil complusion in relgious affairs. The Burgher and
the Anti-Burgher factions then also both split into groups known as
Auld Lichts and New Lichts (Old and New Lights). Auld Lichts held
to the obligations of the solemn league and Covenant and were a
Convenanting or Cameronian remnant.
The Anti-Burgher, Auld Licht, Cameronian, Reformed Presbyterian
Church at Penpont closed in 1937.
Whitelaw 227
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DMTK026a-b
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Accession number :
DUMFM:1989.47.8
Copyright :
Dumfries and Galloway Council
