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During the year 1830 it is recorded in the records of Aberdeen Presbytery that supply sermon was being provided to both the rural parish of Kildrummie and also to Lumsden, service at one in the morning and the other during the afternoon. In 1833 however Lumsden, which had recently grown into a village of 200 inhabitants, became the center of worship for the area and additionally in that year a small church was built within Lumsden. During the following year the Synod gave Aberdeen Presbytery the authority to erect Lumsden into a regular congregation and the first minister of Lumsden United Presbyterian Church was inducted in 1838. In 1886 James Stark, the sixth minister of Lumsden United Presbyterian, announced to the Presbytery his intension to resign his post in order that he might leave the way clear for a union between Lumsden United Presbyterian and Lumsden Free church. Lumsden being a village small in size there was felt to be no need or room for two congregations. It was agreed that this union should be take place and that the united congregation should belong to the Free Church, the Free Church being the church of the majority. On Sunday 13th December 1886 the two congregations met in the Free Church and the united session was constituted. This union was the first between a Free Church and a United Presbyterian. |