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Communion Tokens. 



1741, " by a respectable class of dissenting 

 ministers, Dr Doddridge acting as modera- 

 tor," Gillespie returned immediately to 

 Scotland and was presented to CARNOCK 

 in the following August. The token of this 

 parish, dated 1746, was therefore struck 

 during his ministry. We are told it was 

 through the instrumentality of Boston of 

 Ettrick (1707-1732) that "Gillespie was 

 brought to the saving knowledge of the truth, 

 tion in 1752 he removed to Dunfermline and preached in the barn 

 used by Ralph Erskine while Queen Anne Street Church whs 

 i)eing erected. The heart-shaped DUNFERMLINE token, 

 dated 1753, is thus commemorative of the beginning of Gillespie's 

 Relief ministry and of the Relief Church. Not far removed m 

 interest and of much greater scarcitv is the COLINSBURl".!-! 



DUNFERMLINE. 



After his deposi- 



COUHS&URGH. 



COUHSE>lAR.CH. 



Relief token, dated 1762. It is worthy of note that Gillespie had 

 for his earliest comrade Thomas Boston, the son of his spiritual 

 father, and who succeeded the famous divine in Ettrl-L in 1733. 

 Promoted to Oxnam parish in 1749, he demitted his charge in 

 1757, and severed his connection with the Establishment. He 

 then became minister of the Relief Church in Jedburgh. At the 

 ordination of the Rev. Thomas Colier at Colinsburgh, in October, 

 1761, Gillespie, Boston, and Colier, the three Thomases, formed 

 themselves into the first Presbytery of Relief. Of historical 

 interest, too, are the ABERNEThV Parish token, dated 1722, 

 and the ABERNETHY ASSOCIATE, of date 1748. Rev. 

 Alexander Moncrieff, M.A., was ordained to this parish in 1720. 

 Seceding with Erskine in 1733 he became Professor of Theology 

 in the Associate Theological College on the death of Wilson in 

 1741. His eldest son, Matthew Moncrieff, became his colleague 

 and successor in 1749 and he died in 1761. Another of the 



