Page:Biographical sketch of the life and labours of that eminent minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; the Rev. James Hall D. D. of the United Secession Church, Broughton-Place meeting-house, Edinburgh.pdf/3

 some great and faithful men, in consequence of the errors doctrine, remissness in discipline, and infringement,  patronage, of the liberty and rights of the Christian eople, which were then, and are still tolerated by the eneral assembly of the Scotch Established Church. His ther feued a site for the first secession church in Glasgow, and his mother, whose paternal property lay in the cinity of Kirkintilloch, presented to the Seceders at at place, the ground on which their church is erected. d it appears worthy of notice, that no fewer than three urches were built for Dr. Hall, during the course of ministry; one at Cumnock, and two in Edinburgh. had three sisters and two brothers, four of whom re older than himself. When he was about five years age, his father was removed to the better country, and  training of his mind devolved upon his mother,❊ ose instructions, prayers, and example, appear to have n eminently blessed to him, as well as to the rest of  family; for from his youth, he was well acquainted h the Scriptures, and exhibited a walk and conversa becoming a disciple of Christ.

At an early age he gave indications of a sprightly inct, and distinguished himself at school as a very apt lar. During his attending the grammar school of gow, he one year gained the second prize, and in of the three others, the first prize, in that eminent ical seminary. On leaving it, he entered the University of glasgow, where he studied for five sessions, and through a complete course of literary and philosol education, characterized by uncommon assiduity,