sentences:  Intending to begin an exposition in the Book of Exodus, Dr Parker declared "I can no longer continue in connection with an establishment which has virtually denied the Kingly office of Christ".Dr Parker, five elders and eight hundred communicants left the Church of Scotland and the Parish Church at the formation of the Free Church of Scotland.A plot of land was obtained, opposite the Glebe fields, from the Duke of Hamilton, and the foundation stone was laid in August 1843.