A SHORT STUDY DISPELLING THE MYTH OF ORGANISED RELIGION WHICH SEEKS TO MAKE US BELIEVE THAT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH CAME TO BRITAIN WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE ROMISH `SAINT AUGUSTINE` IN 596 AD
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IN ST. MATTHEWS GOSPEL CHAPTER 28, YAHUSHUA TELLS HIS TALMIDIM,
The early Talmidim (Disciples) therefore, after receiving the Commissioning Anointing for Service at the Feast of Shavuot, whilst they all were gathered together at the Har Ha Beit (Temple-Mount House) on Mt. Moriah at Yahrushalayim, were sent forth by the Ruach HaKodesh to fulfil that which they were commanded to do by Yahushua, immediately prior to His ascension, and so, amazingly, before even 5 years had passed since those momentous days at Yarushalayim of 33AD, the Good News had found it`s way throughout all Europe and on into our Island Home here in `Ultima Thule`, the `Brittanic Isles`.
Ancient British records joyously tell us that even before 37AD had been reached, the Besorah (Gospel) of Yahushua HaMoshiach with it`s supernatural signs, wonders and miracles had been preached throughout the Ancient Island of Britain and that those early Britons and especially Celtic Druidary had astonishingly fully embraced the Message of Salvation through the Blood of the Lamb in a very few short years.......
Thus dispelling the Theory that the Gospel News was first brought to Britain in 596 AD when Pope Gregory the Great (590-604) sent the Romish Archbishop `St.` Augustine to England to `convert` the so-called `pagan` Britons to the Christian Faith.
And the truth is that the so called `paganism` Rome was trying to destroy was not a Celtic-Druid blood-thirsty religion but the True, Pure, Christian Faith with it`s abundance of miracles and healings which was received first-hand from the Apostles of our Mar Yah, Yahushua HaMoshiach, and which was deeply, deeply, `jewish` in it`s entire content, for it came from the very Torah-Observant Rabbi Paul who was the grandson of the most-revered Rabbi Hillel of Jewish history and this same Rabbi Paul (who sat under the ministry of Rabbi Gamaliel), whom we read of in Holy Writ and who as we shall see travelled westwards with The Message received it first-hand from the even-more Torah-Observant Moshiach of the Jews, on the Damascus Road, for He, Yahushua, of course was the Living Torah sent down from Heaven, (St John 1 vs 1);
And it is an undisputed fact of History both secular and Romish that this Romish religion hated the Jewish Faith and all things jewish so vehemently that as she marched in her ventures of conquest across the nations she would utterly and ruthlessly crush any true `Torah-Christians` who followed jewish customs, passovers and sabbaths, in every century, during her first 1500 years.
Her own written Historic Oracles at Rome declares it so.
I SAY THAT THAT IS AN UNDENIABLE FACT OF HISTORY!!
It is also an undeniable fact of our ancient British historical records, both secular and religious, that the True Christian Gospel of Salvation through Faith Alone, and trust in `Sola Scripture` and of a Gospel bringing Miracles, Healings, Supernatural Signs and Charismatic Gifts of Tongues and Prophecies was well-embedded in the Whole of these British Isles more than 5 Centuries before the Advent of the Romish religion in 596AD, and it is also a historical fact that the True Christian Gospel superseded the Old Celtic-Druid Faith between 37AD-190 AD., many long centuries before the Romish religion ever set foot on our blessed and ancient Island, and this `superseding` was not to replace, set aside or disregard something inferior but rather to build upon and amplify the previously Celtic/Druidic Faith..
Let us then in this short non-intensive study trace the footsteps of the early Apostles as they wound their way across Europe in their search for the `Lost Sheep of the House of Israel`.
And as we travel with them, first through Scripture, then through ancient British historical records, let us note that they went out exactly according to the blue-print Yahushua gave them in Acts 1 and verse 8.
It is also enlightening to know that the Early Apostles wherever they went across the ancient continents had one purpose in mind, and that was to first meet up with Jews and Israelites in diaspora and share the awesome, long awaited news that Yahuweh had, at long last, fulfilled the prophecy of Rav Moshe and sent Moshiach for the redemption and regathering of His scattered Flock.
Wherever they went in their long journeys they were always, but always found in the Synagogues and market places seeking out the Lost Sheep of the Diaspora and spreading the Good News.
Here then, let us trace their steps as they fulfil this Commission of going to...
"Yahrushalayim, Yahudah, Shomron, and unto the uttermost part of the Earth (the 4 Corners of the Olam)".
And as we do so, it would be a most helpful tool if we laid a map of Europe and the Middle-East on the table along with our precious Bible so that we can view more clearly and easily the footsteps of these beloved Messengers as they came our way:
YAHRUSHALAYIM ACTS CH. 2 vs. 14-47
YAHUDAH ACTS CH. 8 vs. 1
SHOMRON ACTS CH. 8 vs. 4-8
UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART ...PAS KOSMOS...THE ENTIRE WORLD................
COLOSSIANS CH. 1 vs. 5-6
SYRIA (ANTIOCH) ACTS CH. 11 vs. 25-30
TURKEY (LYSTRA) ACTS CH. 14 vs. 1-10
GREECE (PHILIPI) ACTS CH. 16 vs. 11-40
CYPRUS AND CRETE ACTS CH. 27 vs. 1-7
MALTA AND SICILY ACTS CH. 28 vs. 1-13
ITALY (ROME) ACTS CH. 28 vs. 16-31
YUGOSLAVIA (ILLYRICUM) ROMANS CH. 15 vs. 15-20
PAUL SAID,
"FROM YAHRUSHALAYIM AND ROUND ABOUT UNTO ILLIRYCUM (MODERN YUGOSLAVIA)" ..
`AND ROUND ABOUT` ...IE `KUKLOO` TO ENCIRCLE....
THAT THEN MUST INCLUDE ...
MODERN.....ALBANIA, ROMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY, AUSTRIA, GERMANY....ETC
SPAIN ROMANS CH.15.vs. 24-29
`THE REGIONS BEYOND` 2nd. CORINTHIANS CH. 15 vs. 16
`THE REGIONS BEYOND`....IE.. `HUPERKEINA`...
`THE FURTHEST OUTPOSTS` ...EXTREMITY...
THE BRITISH ISLES .....ANCIENT HISTORICAL RECORDS CALLS IT....
ULTIMA THULE..
UTTERMOST POINT...`BEYOND THE SEAS`.
Yahushua said,
"UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH"
SO, THEN, NOW THAT WE HAVE BIBLICALLY TRACED THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL AND THE EARLY APOSTLES FROM ISRAEL INTO EUROPE, LET US NOW PONDER IN AWE AT SOME OF THE HISTORICAL RECORDS AVAILABLE TO US THAT SHOW THESE SAME APOSTLES TRAVELLED A FEW MILES FURTHER...
EVEN TO OUR ANCIENT NATION, THUS FULFILLING TO THE VERY LETTER, THE COMMAND OF YAHUSHUA....
"UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH",
FOR, TO THESE ANCIENT TRAVELLERS ON THEIR JOURNEYS WEST-WARD FROM ISRAEL AND NORTHWARDS FROM SPAIN,
THEY WOULD FIND NO PLACE AS BEING MORE "UTTERMOST" THAN ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IT`S SURROUNDING ISLES,
AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT THAT THESE ANCIENT MISSIONAIRES WOULD NOT REST UNTIL THEY HAD FULFILLED THEIR MASTER`S COMMAND TO THE VERY LETTER.
UNDISPUTED HISTORICAL FACTS:
The following 10 historical facts have been Edited from:
`The Trumpet Sounds For Britain` vol.3: pp 97-101:
Author: David E Gardiner;
Forewards by
General Sir Walter Walker, KCB, CBE, DSO,
(Former Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Northern Europe)
and
Dr. T.R.V. Gurney, MB, ChB,
(Former Medical Missionary and Army Surgeon).
1. BRITISH HISTORICAL RECORDS TELL US THAT WITHIN THE PERIOD OF THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF ENGLAND, BETWEEN AD 43 AND AD 407, THE ALREADY-STRONGLY ESTABLISHED `BRITISH CHRISTIAN CHURCH` SENT IT`S LEADERS TO THE EARLY APOSTOLIC COUNCILS OF JERUSALEM, NICEA AND EPHESUS, WHICH WERE ALL TORAH-OBSERVANT BODIES.
2. THE CELTIC HISTORIAN AND HIGH PRIEST GILDAS RECORDS THAT BRITAIN RECEIVED THE GOSPEL IN THE `LATTER-PART OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR TIBERIAS`.
THIS IS THE SAME `EMPEROR TIBERIAS CAESAR ` THAT WE READ OF IN ST. LUKE`S GOSPEL. IT IS A HISTORICAL FACT THAT THIS TIBERIAS CAESAR REIGNED AS EMPEROR FROM AD14 TO AD 37.
IF BRITAIN THEREFORE `RECEIVED THE GOSPEL IN THE LATTER-PART OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIAS`, IT MUST HAVE BEEN SHORTLY AFTER THE DEATH, RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE OUTPOURING OF THE RUACH HAKODESH ON THE `FEAST OF PENTECOST/SHAVUOT, IF NOT BEFORE.
WE CERTAINLY KNOW THAT YAH`SHUA BEGAN AND CONCLUDED HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY FROM AD 27 TO AD 30, SO, IF AS THE HISTORIAN GILDAS TESTIFIES, `THAT BRITAIN RECEIVED THE GOSPEL IN THE LATTER-PART OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR TIBERIAS` THEN IT WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE TO BE BEFORE HIS REIGN ENDED IN AD 37.
3. THE VENERABLE BEDE ENGLISH HISTORIAN AND THEOLOGIAN (AD 673- 735) RECORDS AN EARLY APOSTOLIC MISSION TO BRITAIN, DATING FROM AD 37 AND WROTE THAT THE CHRISTIAN CELTS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN (EARLY SCOTS) `HAVE BEEN CELEBRATING THE JEWISH PASSOVER ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE JEWISH MONTH OF NISAN FOR OVER 600 YEARS`. ....(IE: SINCE AD 42).
BEDE ALSO STATED THAT: "THE BRITONS PRESERVED THE FAITH WHICH THEY HAD NATIONALLY RECEIVED UNDER KING LUCIUS (CIRCA AD180) UNCORRUPTED AND ENTIRE, AND CONTINUED IN PEACE AND TRANQUILITY UNTIL THE PERSECUTION UNDER EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN IN AD 303"
4. EUSEBIUS (AD 264-349) BISHOP AND HISTORIAN OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND WHO ATTENDED THE COUNCIL OF NICEA IN AD 325 AND WHO MET AND CONFERRED WITH BISHOPS FROM BRITAIN RECORDS THAT ..`THE APOSTLES PASSED BEYOND THE OCEAN TO THE ISLES CALLED THE BRITTANIC ISLES`
NOTE, THE APOSTLES DID, AND SINCE THIS IS SO, THEN THE GOSPEL WHICH THEY BROUGHT MUST HAVE BEEN, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF DOUBT, THE APOSTOLIC/PENTECOSTAL GOSPEL AS RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
IT CERTAINLY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE ROMISH RELIGION WITH ALL IT`S FALSE-NESS WHICH CAME 600 YEARS LATER.
5. TERTULLIAN A TRAINED ADVOCATE OF LAW WRITING AROUND AD 190 RECORDS THAT `THE EXTREMITIES OF SPAIN, VARIOUS PARTS OF FRANCE, `THE REGIONS OF BRITAIN WHICH THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS FAILED TO PENETRATE`, (IE SCOTLAND) HAVE RECEIVED THE `CHRISTIAN FAITH`
6. THEODORETUS, BISHOP OF CYRRHUS FROM AD 393-466 AND WHO ATTENDED THE GENERAL CHURCH COUNCILS OF EPHESUS AND CHALCEDON, WROTE IN AD 435: `PAUL, LIBERATED FROM HIS FIRST IMPRISONMENT AT ROME, PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO THE BRITONS AND OTHERS IN THE WEST`.
7. SOPHRONIUS, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM, IN AD 600 WRITES: ` PAUL, DOCTOR OF THE GOYIM, (GENTILES) PASSED OVER THE OCEAN TO THE ISLAND THAT MAKES A HAVEN ON THE OTHER SIDE, EVEN TO THE LANDS OF THE BRITONS`.
8. ARNOLDUS MIRMANNUS, EARLY CHURCH HISTORIAN, STATES THAT: `PAUL THE APOSTLE CROSSED TO BRITAIN IN THE 4TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EMPEROR NERO, AD 59, AND THERE PREACHED, AND AFTERWARDS RETURNED TO ITALY`
9. ELEUTHERIUS, BISHOP OF ROME AD 175-190, WROTE TO KING LUCIUS, AN EARLY TRIBAL KING IN ANCIENT BRITAIN, "YE HAVE RECEIVED OF LATE, THROUGH GOD`S MERCY, IN THE REALM OF BRITAIN, THE TORAH AND FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST. YE HAVE WITHIN YOUR REALM BOTH PARTS OF SCRIPTURE. OUT OF THEM, BY GOD`S GRACE, WITH THE COUNCIL OF YOUR REALM, TAKE YE A LAW THAT CAN, THROUGH GOD`S CONSENT, RULE YOUR KINGDOM OF BRITAIN".
10. METAPHRASTES, AN EARLY HISTORIAN AND WRITER, STATES THAT THE APOSTLE PETER WENT TO BRITAIN DURING THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM ROME UNDER EMPEROR CLAUDIUS IN AD 54 (Acts ch.18:1-2). ... PETER DID!!
HERE WE HAVE AT LEAST 10 UNDENIABLE WITNESSES WHO HAD ACCESS TO ANCIENT HISTORICAL RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS WHICH WE TODAY MAY NOT HAVE BECAUSE OF THEIR DESTRUCTION BY THE ROMISH RELIGION IN ORDER TO `ETHNICALLY CLEANSE` THE RECORDS OF ALL THEIR `JEWISHNESS`.
HISTORY`S OWN UNDENIABLE FACT !!!
AND FROM THOSE EARLY 1ST CENTURY APOSTOLIC SERVANTS OF YAH`SHUA WAS PASSED THAT SAME BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL, ENDURING, ANOINTED LIFE-CHANGING `JEWISH-FLAVOURED` GOSPEL TO ALL OUR ANCIENT CELTIC SAINTS,
AIDAN, PATRICK, COLUMBA, NINIAN, DROSTAN, MUNGO, SERF, FERGUS, FINBAR, MIRREN, DONNAN, MOLUAG, MODAN
AND OTHER PRECIOUS SAINTS
WHO ALL WERE TRUE TORAH-OBSERVANT SERVANTS OF THE JEWISH RABBI YAH`SHUA HA-MOSHIACH AND DEEPLY DEVOUT 7TH DAY (SATURDAY) SABBATH-KEEPERS THROUGHOUT THEIR DAYS.
And thus, even 400-500 years after the first appearances of the Apostles of Yah`shua in our Island Home had come those other missionary preachers St Patrick (AD 432) and St. Columba (AD 563) throughout Scotland, with the identical unchanged message as that first brought by the First Apostles and specifically mentioned by
that greatest of British Prime Ministers, the late,
Sir Winston Spenser Churchill,
historian, parliamentarian, author and inspiring defender of our Nation
who declared in his most entrancing volumes,
`A History of the English-Speaking Peoples`...
"...there was however a distinction in the form of Christianity which reached England through the mission of St Columba... it travelled...to it`s new home (England) without touching at any moment the Roman centre. The Celtic churches therefore.... was not in those early decisive periods associated with the universal organisation of the Papacy."
`A History of the English Speaking Peoples` vol:1 p:57; Winston S Churchill
Winston S. Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States)
NOW WE CAN FULLY UNDERSTAND WHY IT WAS THAT OUR ANCIENT FOREFATHERS FOUGHT LONG AND HARD AGAINST THE MESSAGE OF THE ROMISH RELIGION, FOR RABBI PAUL HAD DECLARED TO THE JEWISH BELIEVERS AT GALATIA (hebrew: Galut-Yah...ie Exiles Of Yahweh)....
"There be some that trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Moshiach, but though we, or an angel from Heaven PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed...."
THOSE ANCIENT FOREFATHERS HAD RECEIVED THE MESSAGE, ....THE TRUE BLOOD-SPRINKLED MESSAGE...WITH ALL IT`S JEWISHNESS OF 7th DAY SABBATH INSTEAD OF SUNDAY OBSERVANCE, PASSOVER INSTEAD OF EASTER, THE TORAH/LAW AND THE MOEDS/FEASTS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL, DIRECTLY FROM THE MINISTRY AND TEACHINGS OF THE VERY APOSTLES OF OUR REDEEMER, AS EARLY AS 37 AD, AND AS A PATTERN TO WORSHIP YAHWEH, RATHER THAN THE CEREMONIES AND `MASS` OF THE ROMISH RELIGION...
And generation after generation of Celtic Preachers traversed the land of Ancient Britain preaching again and again that same unchanged message first brought by the Apostles themselves.
AND THEY KNEW THE LIFE-CHANGING DIFFERENCE...AND WERE NOT ABOUT TO EXCHANGE IT FOR A MESS/MASS OF POTTAGE.
MAY IT BE, THAT WE TOO IN THESE LAST TIMES, RETURN TO FULFIL THE PROPHETIC WORD OF MALACHI, "TURN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHERS" IE... WE CHILDREN, AT THESE END-TIMES MUST RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL `JEWISH-FLAVOURED` MESSAGE THAT THE APOSTLES BROUGHT TO OUR FOREFATHERS AND NOT FEAST ON A MESSED UP MIXTER-MAXTER VERSION OF A SOUL- DESTROYING GREEK/ROMISH HYBRID THING....
"LEST HE COME AND STRIKE THE LAND WITH A CURSE!"
THE HAND OF ELOHIM UPON THE NATION OF SCOTLAND
BUCHAN
(ABERDEENSHIRE)
BLESSED WITH GRACE
As has been mentioned earlier in this study, Scotland has, down through 20 Centuries, been blessed, almost beyond measure, with the ministries of multitudes of choice servants of Elohim, called to minister His Word of Grace, some for a season, some for a lifetime. Tertullian, a Law Advocate, writing in 190 AD said that the areas of Britain which had not been conquered by the Roman Empire (Northern Scotland) had embraced the `religion of Jesus of Nazareth.` The ancient English historian Bede wrote 1400 years ago that the `Christian Celts` of Northern Britain, ie, Scotland, "have been celebrating the Jewish Passover on the 14th. Day of Nisan for 600 years," ie, since 42 AD.
Every area and corner of Scotland has it`s historic tales of Heaven-Sent Revivals and Aberdeenshire in the North-East corner has it`s multitudious records. This area of Aberdeenshire, known locally as `Buchan` seems certainly to have been blessed above measure with men and women who have either come here to preach the Grace of Yahweh or sent it`s own sons and daughters to near and far-flung corners of the globe with Love`s Redeeming Message.
From the records of early British historians we are told of the coming of 1st. Century evangelists from Ancient Yisrael, then records of our own `home-grown` sons in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Centuries adorn our history. Preachers ablaze with that Message burning in their souls traversing the hills and glens of ancient Scotia and even crossing the wild North Sea (once known as the Germanic Sea) into Europe in centuries now long gone. As already mentioned, St Patrick, that world-known evangelist, who was born in the west of Scotland, carried captive to Ireland as a youth and returned to Scotland as a fervent, pentecostal preacher in the 5th Century, inspired others such as Columba and Drostan to carry his evangelistic Torch throughout the Land. How blessed have we been to have such dedictated saints of Elohim.
St. Columba who founded a teaching-monastery (Yeshiva) on the Island of Iona (Hebrew for `dove`) on the west-coast of Scotland had given up his right to the Throne of Ireland to be an Evangelist to Scotland. He and his companion preacher, St Drostan inspired by St. Patrick, landed at New Aberdour shores and went through-out the whole of the east-coast of Scotland founding bible-believing assemblies. St. Drostan himself, that great saint laboured many long years in Buchan and was laid to rest in the old grave-yard of New Aberdour, down near to the shoreline where he first landed on his mission, but there has, astonishingly, been a true Gospel-Faith burning in this north-east corner for far above 1600 years and the present day Church of Scotland in the locality is named `St. Drostan`s.`
St. Drostan`s `Church of Scotland In The Ancient Village Of New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Where St. Drostan The Disciple of St Columba, First Brought The Message of Salvation To North-East Scotland During His Mission Work In The 6th Century
Nevertheless, Satan has not been idle in trying to hinder and stop this Divine Work of Grace, for our ancient records declare that from the time of St Columba in the late 6th century, those disciples of his, in every following generation until the 12th. century, were under relentless pressure from the Romish religion to reject their First Love in favour of a hybrid Romish cult. Their refusal to submit is writ large in the annals of history, yet nevertheless the Romish Cult held power over most of Europe and parts of Scot-land for 1.000 years.
Four hundred years ago, Satan again tried to extinguish the holy Fire that burned in the hearts of Scottish saints, but godly men and women covenanted with Yahweh and with one another to live and die for the Truth once delivered to the Saints. Great persecutions arose and the hills and glens of Scotland ran deep and red with the blood of the martyred sons of Scotland. Who has not heard of those Covenanters of Scotland, Peden, Guthrie, MacKail, Cameron, the 2 Margarets, Renwick, Gordon, Cargill and Hill to name but a very few?
ALEXANDER (SANDY) PEDEN, SCOTTISH COVENANTER AND MARTYR (1626-1686)
Multitudes of Yahweh`s dearest and choicest saints, old and young, male and female, suffering tortures of burnings, hands chopped off, tongues ripped out, babies cut out of the womb, unimaginable wickedness perpetrated against their persons, drownings and beheadings for simply loving and adoring Yahushua rather than serving and bowing to a Pope. But Yah`weh be praised, .....The Fire could not be extinguished...The Faith Prevailed and yet does.
The Faith of Yah`shua has long been established in Buchan and as mentioned, every village and town has it`s wondrous tales of Revival. Fraserburgh`s oldest parish church in the town centre and known fondly, as `Old Zion` has been established on her present site since 1571, and has seen much of the blessings of Elohim down through the centuries, and, before being built, there had been a company of the Faithful from time immemorial in that community; Indeed, the town itself was formerly called `Faithlie`.
Mary M Slessor, that well-known Scot`s missionary to the former Nigerian Capital of Old Calabar, was born in Aberdeenshire, and inspired by Missionaries before her, undertook training at Edinburgh with the former United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and on the 5th. of August 1876 after completing training, sailed forth from Liverpool with a message of love burning in her bosom that changed the lives of tens of thousands of Africa`s beloved children by the time she was called Home to Glory in 1915.
Photo Below :
Mary Slessor, Missionary To Old Calabar Nigeria
(1848-1915)
The great American evangelist, Dr. D.L. Moody came to Aberdeenshire in the last half of the 19th. Century, during his wide-spread preaching tours of the United Kingdom and it is recorded that a great spiritual revival and awakening took place with untold hundreds of precious souls being won for the Kingdom of God. Farming communities as well as the fisher-folk were touched and inspired by his fervour and zeal as he carried the Message of Redemption to all he met. The Torch he carried lit the torches of many Buchan`s sons to go forth themselves with Salvation`s Message.
Dwight Lyman Moody, Evangelist
(1837-1899)
Hardly 30 years after Dr. D.L. Moody`s visit to Aberdeenshire, God spoke to another of his choice servants to come to Fraserburgh and do a work for him among the fisher-folk and in the surrounding districts. And so it was that Miss Gladwell of Guildford in Surrey, South-East England was `moved` to come to Fraserburgh. Born in 1862, and baptised by that great Prince of Preachers, the Baptist minister of London, Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, she began a work that continued until her death in 1937.
For almost 50 years, since she was around 25 years of age, Miss Gladwell ministered the Words of Life and Grace in Fraserburgh, throughout Aberdeenshire and in the counties beyond. Fisher-folk, the farming communities, the well-off and the poor, Miss Gladwell was known and loved by them all. She was joined in her Godly Labours by a companion in the Gospel, Miss Leech and together with a band of other faithful men and women, they ministered the Grace of God right up to just before the outbreak of the 2nd. World War. There are many in the community, yet alive, who knew and sat under her ministry, and still fondly speak of her today, over 70 years after her Home-Call.
Miss Gladwell now lies at rest in Fraserburgh`s Kirkton Cemetery, awaiting the Great Resurrection Morning that is soon to dawn.
On Sunday, March 23rd. 1879, General William Booth of the Salvation Army, declared...."The Salvation Army has crossed the border from England into Scotland" and with the great cry, "God Save Scotland" ....their began a tremendous Work of God in this Nation which has never yet been extinguished. A few years later the `Army` marched into Fraserburgh and fired their first Volley upon the Kingdom of Darkness in that Community, snatching multitudes from Satan`s power ....and enlisting them in the Army of God......Hallelujah!!.
In the early 1920`s, When Miss Gladwell was around 60 years of age, God again graciously sent another of His `fire-brand` preachers to Fraserburgh to do a work for Him which also, is yet fondly spoken of today, 90 years later.
Jock Troup was moving in a great Revival at Yarmouth in England in 1921 when God spoke to him to and said, " Go to Fraserburgh!"
Originally from the north-east of Scotland, a Cooper by trade and brought up in Wick in the very North of Scotland, Jock troup obeyed the Summons from Heaven, took a train and on his arrival in the town, began to preach `Christ Crucified` at the market-place.
JOCK TROUP (1896-1954)
He was seen by several Elders of the Fraserburgh Baptist Church who had just left a prayer-meeting where the people had cried out in prayer..."O God...send Jock Troup to Fraserburgh!" ....."Before they call I will answer" it is Written... and he had, Hallelujah!!
Jock Troup was immediately invited to the Baptist Church where a great Revival broke out, immediately on preaching the Gospel. The Baptist Church became so packed out that they had to move the `Revival` to the Congregational Church (now the United Reformed Church) in Mid Street. That too became so full of `seeking-souls` surrendering their lives to Jesus that they again moved, this time to Old Zion, the Old Parish Church of Scotland in the Town Square.
Revival broke out up and down the coast, town after town, village after village, men and women, boys and girls, fishers and farmers, traders and hawkers, the well-off and poor, were all experiencing the revival fires of God. Pubs closed, Fishing boats were left tied up in port, Men wanted God more than anything. Their souls were hungry for manna from heaven, and they were not disappointed, for God met every needy soul!
In the early 1960`s, the evangelistic Cameron Family from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, came into a such a `glorious move of the Holy Spirit` that their church was totally revolutionised.` The Family background was in the Apostolic Church (trinitarian) and on a visit to England came into contact with Henri and Connie Staples of Newark, England who were the Pioneers of a `new move of the Holy Spirit` and when the Cameron Family came into the `liberty of the Holy Ghost` at Henri`s Meetings their worship services in their home church took on a hue that was hitherto unknown in Scotland or indeed most of the United Kingdom.
Long before it was an acceptable and usual thing to `dance unto the Lord` in church services in the mainline pentecostal Assemblies, ie Assemblies of God, Elim Pentecostal, Apostolic Church, or in the Baptist and Charismatic churches , the Cameron Family became the `frontrunners` and pioneers in such liberty of Praise. But the hallmark of the `move` was not dancing but `an outpouring of Divine Love for all` that led them to such an intensity in evangelism. .... The Cameron Family and their Adherents became known locally as the `Love Family` because of their deep and abiding love for one another and for the `Lost` and indeed for all their opposers, of whom they had many, especially in the mainline pentecostal churches who vehemently opposed their `extreme and unbiblical mode of worship` as it was put.
Nevertheless in their `Street Meetings` crowds of up to 3.000-4.000 gathered every week to `watch them praise the Lord openly and unashamedly with exceeding joy`, and it was a `usual` happening that `drunkards` coming out of the pubs and saloons found themselves on their knees in the street, `weeping before God and being soundly converted` because of the `tangible Presence of Jesus`, unfortunately this angered the mainline pentecostals as they counted themselves fortunate to muster half a dozen listeners to their Street Services.
The Love Family believed absolutely that the Glory of the Lord had come down upon them and so they called their gatherings together `Glory Meetings`. It was a usual thing for their praise and worship services to last for many, many hours.
Roy Turner, a newspaper journalist, joined the Glory People in England in the 1960`s, and became, as it were, another David the Psalmist, as the Holy Spirit gave him literally hundreds if not thousands of `new songs` to sing. One of the most famous, now sung in every church across the world is the much-loved, `All Over the World The Spirit Is Moving.` Indeed, when Pope John Paul 2 came to England in the late 1970`s, he said openly that his favourite hymn was this very `All over the world`, - which shows the effect that the `Glory Move` has had even on Roman Catholics and their Pope.
Roy Turner And Members Of The Cameron Family Who Spear-Headed A Wonderful Move Of The Holy-Spirit From The 1960`s
The preaching of the Word was a very important part of their services and they were blessed with `anointed preachers` coming to their Meetings and Conventions from all over the U.K., Europe and the USA. In their `house-meetings` their love of Bible-Study was amply seen as the Bible was continuously referred to and read. The `Glory Revival` lasted for over 25 years unabated and during that period the Church `Zion Tabernacle` of Peterhead, sent out many Evangelistic Teams to minister `Jesus` to all parts of the UK, Europe, the USA and other nations. One of the leading family members founded a Bible College in Aberdeenshire and others pioneered `Pentecostal Churches and Glory Meetings` in the UK and the USA.
An Orphanage is run by another member of the Cameron Family, Pastor Michael Cameron Jnr. Quezon City, The Philippines http://facebook.com/pastormichael.cameronjnr and other family members are even now, deeply involved in `rescue` missions` in former communist countries of Eastern- Europe making the hardships of life easier for these former `slaves of communism`.
Indeed, the work that began 50 years ago among the `Glory People` still continues among their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Aberdeenshire not only in Zion Tabernacle, but also now in local mainline Pentecostal churches and across the Globe.
It is nigh-impossible to write a record of every God-sent, Holy-Ghost Revival that has graced the lives of the Buchan Folk, for, generation after generation have without doubt, experienced in a measure, some great, some small, but all meaningful and eternal, the Redeeming Work of the Holy Ghost. Every generation of Preachers, especially in Buchan, have inspired a new `move` of God...Brethren Assemblies of different shades, Holiness Assemblies, Apostolic Churches, Pentecostal Assemblies, Independant Churches and Glory Meetings, Assemblies where only men were permitted to preach, Assemblies were women were the usual preachers, Buchan has been blessed with them all.
And now, in the early 21st Century, Buchan has yet many witnesses to the Grace of God; Indeed many local Assemblies of different Denominations have even now, young men and women, called from North-East towns, villages and secluded rural areas, out in far-flung parts of the Globe, as well as throughout Britain and Europe, ministering the Word of Life, just as their forefathers have done.
It is a very peculiar thing, that the God of Heaven continues, without hesitation to do, that is, inspire, raise up, anoint and send forth innumerable sons and daughters of Buchan to bring home His `Lost Sheep to the Fold.`
The seed (St Drostan) that was planted in ancient `Aberdour soil` continues to blossom forth with like seed bringing `New Life`.
God grant, that that Scarlet Cord of Redemption that has been seen in every generation in the North-East of Scotland from time immemorial, continues to be thrown from loving hands to many a lost and dying soul.
Indeed, one of Roy Turner`s songs born during the `Glory Revival` in the 1960`s was,
"It`s my Day, It`s your Day, It`s our Day,
To set the World on Fire for God,
It`s my Day, It`s your Day, It`s our Day,
To follow where the Saints have trod,
So let us live like those who`ve gone before,
And pray down the Power As in the days of Yore,
It`s my Day, It`s your Day, It`s our Day,
To set the World on Fire for God!"
ROY TURNER
Roy continues to be used by God by receiving anointed, Holy Spirit Songs that both Glorifies Jesus and blesses and encourages multitudes.
His Songs Can Be Had By Visiting The Web-Site :
http://www.glorypeople.org/store/cds/roy-turner-glory-singers-cds.html
THESE SONGS WILL BLESS AND ENCOURAGE EVEN THE MOST DESPONDENT !!!
Click on the links below for a for-taste of these Glory Songs
May we ever remain humble under His Hand, ready and willing to `Go` when the Call to minister comes, whether it be at home in our local workplaces or beyond the seas in foreign Lands.
As Yeshayahu the Navi, declared, "Here am I; Send me!"
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