'Time of Reflection and Peace' Ahead of Referendum

 Tuesday September 16 2014

As Scotland decides whether to leave the UK, a Glasgow Church with historical links to the 1707 Treaty of Union is offering residents 'a time of reflection and peace'.

Cathcart Old Parish Church will be open for an hour from 12 noon tomorrow (Wednesday September 17), with music, poems and readings in the form of a meditation.

Parish minister, the Rev Neil Galbraith, said: "Three hundred years ago in the manse of the Kirk in Cathcart, where the King's legal adviser was resident as a son of the manse, the Treaty of Union had its first texts written.

"The National Church played an important part in the Union, today we offer a time for stillness and consideration, reflection and peace as Scotland decides is future. Please come along; you will find a welcome."

Mr Galbraith also paid tribute to local politicians Tom Harris (Labour MP for Glasgow South) and James Dornan (SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart) for "the honourable and dignified way they have conducted their campaigns in the Cathcart Community over the period of preparation for the vote".

The existing Cathcart Old building dates to 1928, but the church can trace its history back over 800 years.

The picture on the home page shows the Scottish Exemplification (official copy) of the Treaty of Union.

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