Cross Kirk, Peebles

Cross Kirk in Peebles, Scotland, is a rather battered and ruinous old place, though one pleasant enough to mosey round. Originally built to house relics, it was a friary in the in 1470s. By the mid-seventeenth century, when the work of Reformation was at its most complete in the British Isles, further alterations were made. An inscription, now badly worn, was added:

FEIRE GOD 1656

This has been written upon a new stone lintel and inserted over an older doorway to hide or conceal the pointed arch, which would have been considered both old fashioned and a relic of popery by the reformed Kirk of Scotland.

Whatever the fashions, be they theological, architectural, ecclesiological or philosophical, fearing God is the key to life and the beginning of wisdom. Having due regard for His holiness, His judgement, His Son the Saviour and His rightful honour, are the right foundation blocks for churches, nations, families and lives.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 8:13, AV