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Friday April 12
April 1959: Floating Parish at Aden
April 1969: Thank God for Karl Barth
March 1919: Are we Downhearted?
February 1909: Charteris Memorial
February 1959: The Children's Project
February 1969: Faith of the Fisherman
February 1959: Lesslie Newbigin on church growth in India
January 1939: Scots Kirk, Madeira
January 1879: Life and Work, issue one page one
December 1948: Christmas with Mary Slessor
December 1958: Princess Margaret at Eventide Home
November 1948: Manse Family Since Waterloo
November 1938: The Empire Exhibition
November 1918: Chaplains' Letters
October 1938: Christian Highway
October 1958: Could You Be A Missionary?
October 1968: Telstar the Spur
September 1958: The Wall Street Church
September 1928: Lunderston Bay Camp
September 1958: The Cross and the Atom at the Brussels International Exhibition
August 1978: Craigneuk Plastics
August 1938: The Scots Kirk, Bombay
August 1908: Scottish Navvy Mission
August 1928: The World Press Exhibition
August 1958: Discovery of Columba's Cell?
July 1948: When Christians Differ
July 1958: First Overseas Bishop was a Presbyterian
June 1948: A Play's Part in the Reformation
June 1938: Panjab Village Church
June 1948: Moderator in Palestine
June 1908: Tribute to Archibald Charteris
June 1958: Worship on the Ark Royal
May 1908: Fifty General Assemblies
May 1928: With the Fisher-Folk
April 1918: The Road to Emmaus Under Fire
April 1968: A Dog With a Bank Account
April 1938: The Grand Old Lady of the Church
March 1938: Saint Margaret of Scotland
March 1948: 'He is Still Bidding Men'
February 1968: Bound for Grand Bahama
February 1938: With the Territorials
January 1968: A Woman Minister from Germany
January 1888: Cave Worship in the Highlands
January 1958: The Tartan Pimpernel
December 1967: Harlequins, Holly and Robins
December 1957: A Call for a Stoppage of Nuclear Weapons
December 1917 - A Visit to the WAAC in France
November 1967 - Requiem for a Padre
November 1927 - Revised Church Hymnary
November 1937 - Camping with the Campers
October 1967 - A Light in the Darkness
October 1957 - Children's Church Is Opened
October 1937 - Worldwide ecumenical conference in Edinburgh
September 1957 - Schweitzer Film at Edinburgh Festival
September 1967 - Cameronians on Duty
October 1964 - The Opening of the Forth Road Bridge
August 1947 - Ministers or Monkeys?
August 1967 - The opening of an ecumenical chapel at Butlin's, Ayr
August 1937 - The 800th anniversary of 'the wonder and glory of the north'
July 1977 - The Queen addresses the General Assembly
July 1887 - The Founding of the Diaconate
July 1967 - A Cry from the Skerries
July 1957 - Kintyre Pilgrimage Led by Moderator
June 1967 - In New Housing Areas and Three Fife Churches Costing £160,000
June 1987 - Guild's right royal day of celebration
June 1927 - 'Red-Letter Day' for St Andrew's Jerusalem
April 1927 - The Road to Emmaus
March 1967 - "I felt compelled to go"
March 1957 - Before the Office Opens
March 1967 - Explosion in the Pacific
March 1947 - Church Arts Centre
February 1947 - Travelling Bookshop
February 1957 - Christmas for Hungarian Refugees
January 1947 - In Scottish POW camps
January 1957 - The Church on Wheels
December 1946 - The Man who cried "Why?"
December 1956 - The Church of Scotland in Malta
November 1946 - "I Was in Prison"
October 1966 - Five Buses to Sunday School
October 1956 - Repairing Highland Churches
September 1946 - At the Seaside
September 1946 - 'When on my Day of Life the Night is Falling' - What Then?
September 1936 - Etubom Cruickshank
August 1956 - Must Fair Isle Become Another St Kilda?
August 1916 - The Scottish Churches' Huts in France
August 1941 - A Minister in Orkney
August 1966 - This Man Barclay
July 1906 - The Old Schoolmaster
July 1956 - Church With a Bold Policy
July 1941 - St Columba's, Pont Street
July 1966 - A Counter to Emigration
June 1946 - News of Jane Haining
June 1956 - First Dock Chaplain
July 1966 - General Assembly admits women elders
May 1906 - Boys' Home in Glasgow
May 1946 - A Gallant Congregation
April 1946 - How Scotland helped Norway
April 1956 - Preparations and reports on 'Tell Scotland' rallies
April 1936 - The Moderator's visit to the Sudan and Egypt
March 1956 - Scotswoman Amongst the Chinese Poor
February 1916 - "It was Jess that saved me"
February 1966 - Sunday School Experiment in Alloa
January 1936 - The Old Sailor's Ark
January 1956 - The New St Columba's
January 1966 - Night Patrol Padre
November 1945 - Exploring the call to ministry in Libya
November 1965 - Edinburgh Church Builds Its Own Hall
November 1935 - Andrew Carnegie
October 1955 - Refugees Appeal
October 1940 - A Summer Play School
October 1965 - 320 Children Came to the 'Pi Club'
September 1970 - Sermons in Star Trek
August 1970 - Colour, cricket and calypso
August 1915 - Among Scots at Malta
August 1935 - At Home in the World
July 1900 - Children's Seaside Services
July 1970 - The Commonwealth Games
July 1915 - A Chaplain at the Dardanelles
July 1925 - Scots in Patagonia
June 1960 - A Dramatic Vote on Women Elders
May 1935 - Why the Fear of Science?
May 1935 - A Woman Organist's Adventure
April 1965 - Good New Ideas In Church Building
March 1965 - My Faith and My Job
March 1935 - Message from a Thousand Years Ago
February 1945 - The Career of the Woman's Guild "Mobile"
February 1940 - The mission to Palestine and the Presbytery of Jerusalem.
February 1950 - Scots History in a Bible
February 1965 - Ordained in his own 'tongue'
January 1915 - The Western Isles in pictures
January 1940 - An Unusual Form of Evangelism
January 1965 - "I Worked with Mary Slessor"
December 1949 - "She has eyes only for Him"
December 1949 - Fishermen sing 'Ye Gates, Lift Up Your Heads"
December 1944 - Service in a Cinema
November 1954 - Scots in Patagonia
November 1939 - The Church and the Evacuees
April 1916 - Funeral Amidst the Gunfire
November 1944 - A Link With Caen
October 1964 - Harvest of New Churches in Aberdeen, Ayr, East Kilbride, Kirkcaldy and Glasgow
October 1974 - The minister who set up the world's first savings bank
October 1954 - WCC Second Assembly in the US
September 1934 - Dr Robert Laws tribute
September 1939 - Christian youth meet in Amsterdam.
September 1974 - Barclay retires
August 1904: Impressions of Australia
August 1964 - Church in East Berlin
August 1939 - The Church on the Sands
August 1979 - Apart From "Religious" Television.... What About The Non "God-Slots"?
July 1954 - Lepers in Scotland - and in Nigeria
July 1969 - The incidental benefits of space travel
July 1964 - Nyasaland - Malawi Independence Day
June 1974 - Towards a Lay Tradition
June 1924 - Cyclones and smallpox: a medical missionary's letter from India
June 1879 - Miss Walker Arnott's School at Jaffa
June 1949 - Chaplain in a 'hydro' camp
May 1924 - John G Paton, Missionary to the South Seas
May 1954 - 50 Years of Social Service
Woman's Guild Supplement, 1934 - A Stormy Beginning
April 1939 - Why I am Joining the Church
April 1969 - Babies from the laboratory
March 1894 - The Church and Science
March 1919 - The National Mission
March 1954 - The Story of Margaret
February 1914 - Ba' Day in a Border Village
February 1934 - The "Codex Sinaiticus"
January 1954 - The Floating Church of Loch Sunart
January 1934 - "This Charterisian Foundling"
January 1914 - A Prayer for the New Year
December 1958 - The Chosen Hour
December 1953 - The Housing Crisis
November 1938 - A Ministry Begins
November 1903 - An Indian Elder
December 1918 - The End of the War
November 1943 - The Church in Industry
October 1948 - The First World Assembly
November 1953 - At the German Kirchentag
October 1938 - Lighthouse Life
October 1963: Space - Conquest or Exploration?
October 1933: Some Questions of Vital Importance
October 1938: A Moderator's Tour
October 1953: The Mobile Ministry
September 1943: The Church in the Desert, and a Bible lost at Dunkirk
September 1879: Harvest Thoughts
September 1973: The elder as pastor
August 1988: The Conflict in South Africa
August 1963: Shortage in ministry recruitment
July 1913: The Empire Exhibition in Glasgow
August 1913: Scotland's first church organ.
September 1905: The story of the Church of Scotland's first missionary
July 1943: a UN pledge on food, and thoughts on a minister's workload
October 1938: The Iona Community - What it is, and What it is not by George MacLeod
July 1913: The 1913 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
January 2008: Sir Alex Ferguson talks about the influence of the Boys' Brigade on his upbringing.
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