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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 20
Index
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Index.
| Proceedings of last Assembly, | Page 3 |
| Motions anent Union, | 4 |
| Protests, | 5 |
| All modification of Free Church principles disavowed by the Assembly of 1864, | 7 |
| Repeated assurances given as to no hurrying. | 8 |
| Such assurances specially pledged by Dr Buchanan, | 29 |
| These assurances violated at last Assembly, | 8 |
| Meeting of the protesting minority, | 8 |
| Declaration agreed on and signed, | 8 |
| Our position as a minority, | 9 |
| Our attitude defensive and conservative, | 9 |
| Preservation of our historical identity, | 10 |
| Are our convictions to be respected? | 30 |
| We are not acting hastily or rashly, | 10 |
| We are the maintainers of Free Church principles, | 10 |
| The rights of a minority sacred, | 11 |
| Cases in which a minority must continue its action, | 11 |
| Claims of minorities, ecclesiastical and civil, | 11 |
| What will the majority do with us? | 11,12 |
| Solemn protestations that not a hoof should be left, | 12,29 |
| Present case demands the continued resistance of the minority, | 12 |
| Proposed union, if carried, irreversible, | 12 |
| Injustice of union without unanimity, | 13 |
| Violation of principle implied, | 13 |
| Discovery by the majority that certain things are outside the Confession, | 13 |
| We refuse to be voted out of the Free Church, | 13 |
| Ecclesiastical junction is not union, | 13 |
| Difference between the inner and outer oneness, | 14 |
| The majority's imperfect and inconsistent theory of union, | 14 |
| U. P. brethren fraternise with the Establishment, | 14 |
| The magnitude of the changes involved in the present scheme, | 15 |
| Open questions, | 15 |
| Disunion the certain result of the present union scheme, | Page 16 |
| Open questions formerly repudiated, | 16 |
| Creation of open questions full of danger, | 17 |
| Endowments not outside the Confession, | 17 |
| Our desire is to be the successors of the Reformation Church, | 17 |
| Alteration of Disruption principles by some, | 18 |
| The distinctive position of the Free Church, | 18 |
| Treachery threatened to our people, | 18 |
| Have we raised money under false pretences? | 19 |
| Let us abide by the principles of 1843, | 19 |
| The so-called paltry question of money, | 19 |
| Establishment question sacred so long as it suited a purpose, | 20 |
| Endowments the recognised exponents of certain truths, | 21 |
| Endowments not despised by Knox and his fellows, | 22 |
| Practical ambiguities of the late formula of union, | 22 |
| Ambiguity a bar to union, | 23 |
| No surrender of Free Church principle possible, | 23 |
| Ecclesiastical property, | 23 |
| Argument from expected political strength, | 23 |
| Reservation of certain questions for future controversy, | 24 |
| Dissolution of the Free Church contemplated, | 24 |
| Unanimity absolutely necessary, | 25 |
| Must be no precipitation, | 25 |
| What is to become of those of us who will not leave the Free Church for the new body? | 26 |
| We are not enemies to union, | 26 |
| Union cannot be forced, | 27 |
| We are prepared for the responsibility of arresting the present union scheme, | 27 |
| Is the majority prepared to rend the Free Church, | 27,40 |
| Misrepresentations of our position, | 28 |
| Our hopes and fears, | 28 |
| Hurry and hard driving, | 29 |
| Confession of Faith and Endowments, | 30 |
| Dr R. Buchanan's opinion of Voluntaryism and its origin, | 33,34 |
| Dr Candlish on Voluntaryism, | 34 |
| Right union principles, | 35 |
| Law of property, | 35 |
| Disruption principles stated by Dr Candlish, | 35 |
| Sin proposed to be made an open question, | 38 |
| Homage to Christ to be made an open question, | 38 |
| Irish Presbyterians, | 38 |
| Organ question, | 39 |
| Present state of the union question, and policy of its advocates, | 40 |