3-Ebenezer Erskine
The Rev. Principal D. S: CAIRNS, D.D.
(From Edinburgh)
Ebenezer Erskine (1680- 1754) was born in Berwickshire, educated at Edinburgh University, and became chaplain and tutor in the family of the Earl of Rothes in residence at Fife. Later, he was called to Portmoak, Kinross-shire, and ordained there by the Kirkcaldy presbytery.
He founded the Scottish secession church , and enjoyed remarkable popularity as a preacher. People came from all over the country to attend his homely, but majestic, sermons and communions. It is said that his elders had to provide for over two thousand communicants.