Scotland: cost of staying
    
    
    
         
            
            Patrick Smith
        
        
            Date posted: 1 Sep 2016
        
     
    
    
    
        Dear Sir,
 
In  recent  years,  en has  followed  closely
 the  ongoing 
 trouble 
 in 
 the  Church  of
 Scotland as a number of prominent evangelical  congregations  and  many 
 individual
 Christians have left. It has not been without
 much pain, both for those leaving and for
 those staying, with much acrimony on both
 sides. The  late  William  Still  said  at  Crieff
 years  ago:  ‘Evangelicals  love  to  condemn!’
 Alas, Scotland has learned the truth of these
 words in recent days.