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See also:RAINY, See also:ROBERT (1826-1906) , Scotch Presbyterian divine, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:January 1826; his See also:father, Dr Harry Rainy, See also:professor of forensic See also:medicine in See also:Glasgow University, was the son of a See also:Sutherlandshire See also:minister. See also:Young Rainy was intended for his father's profession, but he was caught by the evangelical fervour of the Disruption See also:movement, and after studying for the See also:Free See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church he became a minister, first in See also:Aberdeenshire and then in See also:Edinburgh, till in 1862 he was elected professor of Church See also:history in the theological See also:seminary, New See also:College, a See also:post he only resigned in 1900. In 1874 he was made See also:principal of the college and was subsequently known as Principal Rainy. He had come to the front as a See also:champion of the liberal party in the See also:Union controversy within the Free Church, and in combating See also:Dean See also:Stanley's Broad Church views in the interests of Scotch evangelicism; and about 1875 he became the undisputed See also:leader of the Free Church. He guided it through the controversies-as to See also:Robertson See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's heresies, as to the use of See also:hymns and instrumental See also:music, and as to the Declaratory See also:Act, brought to a successful issue the union of the Free and See also:United Presbyterian Churches, and threw the See also:weight of the united church on the See also:side of freedom of Biblical See also:criticism. He was the first See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly of the United Free Church of See also:Scotland, having previously been moderator of the Free General Assembly. Though not a See also:great See also:scholar, he was eminent as an ecclesiastical statesman, and his See also:influence was far-reaching. After the See also:strain of the fight with the so-called " Wee Frees " in 1904-5 his See also:health See also:broke down, and he went to See also:Australia for recovery, but died at See also:Melbourne on the 22nd of See also:December 1906
See Lives by P. See also:Carnegie See also:Simpson (1909) and R. See also:Mackintosh (1907).
End of Article: RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)
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