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Cap
outs, Lifters and Perth congregationalists
The Congregational Church in Perth has few written documents on its early
history, yet their claim is that some thinking men became Congregationalists as
early as 1794. They purchased Paul Street Chapel about that time. Having
called the preacher James Garie to their Church in that year, they were
forced into a situation which they would have preferred to avoid. Garie
wished to make the Chapel a Place of Ease * for those in the Church of
Scotland. This was not acceptable to the trustees of the building and, after
18 months, Garie left to take up ministry with the Church of Scotland. This,
however, was also unsuccessful. The chapel was put up for sale and was then
repurchased by some of the Church and was advertised for use with the
"returned Mr Garie and the congregation of Christian people" in
1798. They and the proprietors of the building not Garie, were keen to have
an independent church. Garie tried to be admitted to the Church of Scotland
but was refused. Shortly before this, in 1790, a schism arose among other Seceders.
It was based around the dispensing of the elements at the Lord's Supper.
The
new group were called "Cap outs" and they built a chapel at
Thimblerow. Their numbers reduced quickly, and the building was offered to
the Presbytery as a Chapel of Ease. This offer was rejected but the
Missionaries (Congregationalists) bought it. (Who are they?)
The
next minister of the “Garie’s church “was James Colquhoun, minister of the
Relief Church Campsie. He had been invited 9 years earlier to minister in Perth
at the East (Relief) Church and had declined.
The Church had grown and on “the better of the break-up of the “lifters”
in 1793”. This was in connection with the Communion where the lifters
required the minister to lift the bread and wine before serving to the
congregation. Colquhoun ministered till around October 1801 when he left to
take up a dissenting Presbyterian congregation in North Shields.
At
some point some of the congregation of Colquhoun’s Church (Old friends of
Garie!)invite Garie back to Perth. They bought Paul Street.
We do
not know much about the Congregational church post Garie indeed we do not
know where they worshipped but Garie’s friends were able to buy their former building.
1798
the now Garie group worshipping in the former Congregational church now owned
by “the friends” join the group in South Street at the tabernacle supported
by Robert Haldane.
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This
period was one of growth for the Congregational Church with many new Churches
developing from the work of the Haldane brothers. The Perth Congregational
Church has a plate with the inscription "Perth Union Church, 1798",
but whether this was the original name or not is unclear. (Uncertainty exists
also regarding the matter of the parties who became the "Union").
The title Congregational Church, Perth, was the new name taken in that same
year. Shortly before Garie's death he wrote to a prominent lady and in this
letter, he stated that "within two weeks back, I have received 17 out of
21 applicants for Church membership. Mostly young people and recently
awakened". He added "Last week a young man received his first
impressions under a sermon preached by James Haldane, in the mill at
Inver".
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* Places of Ease were commonplace throughout the country currently. By
1784 there were places in Perth. They were buildings designated for meetings
by Christians from different Churches and were originally instigated through
the Church of Scotland for the poor and needy. These buildings were used for
accommodation as well as for worship.
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