Restored Memorial to Founder of Life and Work Unveiled

                                                                                                                                    Thursday May 8 2014

RESTORED memorials marking the birthplace of the founder of Life and Work, the Church of Scotland Guild and the Diaconate, is to be unveiled this weekend.

The Moderator, the Rt Rev Lorna Hood will preach at a special service in the village of Wamphray in Dumfries-shire, where the Very Rev Professor Archibald Charteris was born in 1835, the son of the local 'maister' of the village school.

Charteris had a distinguished ministry within the Church, serving as professor of biblical criticism at the University of Edinburgh and founding many innovative projects within the Church of Scotland. Three survive today - Life and Work, the Church of Scotland Guild (founded originally for women) and the Diaconate.

A project to restore the gravestone of  Charteris and his wife Catherine at his birthplace - and a memorial stone to the Charteris family -  in the churchyard of Wamphray, was launched last year by the Guild, in partnership with the descendants of the distinguished churchman.

The renewed memorials will be rededicated at a special service on Sunday afternoon (May 11)  in the village that was his home during the early formative years of his life.

Marjorie Paton, National Convener of the Church of Scotland Guild said: "It is only fitting that the birthplace of this remarkable man, founder of so many of the institutions of the Church of Scotland today, should be highlighted in this way."

Charteris, who died in 1908, served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1892 and was the first Editor of Life and Work, following its launch in 1879.

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