History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

mission of Augustine to that country, A.D. 596,
were not in subjection to the bishop of Rome. They
were in an eminent degree Bible Christians. They
are thus described:--
"The Scottish church, when it first meets the
eye of civilization, is not Romish, nor even
prelatical. When the monk Augustine, with his
forty missionaries, in the time of the Saxon
Heptarchy, came over to Britain under the auspices
of Gregory, the bishop of Rome, to convert the
barbarian Saxons, he found the northern part of the
island already well-nigh filled with Christians and
Christian institutions. These Christians were the
Culdees, whose chief seat was the little island of Hi
or Iona, on the western coast of Scotland. An Irish
presbyter, Columba, feeling himself stirred with
missionary zeal, and doubtless knowing the
wretched condition of the savage Scots and Picts,
in the year 565, took with him twelve other
missionaries, and passed over to Scotland. They
fixed their settlement on the little island just
named, and from that point became the
missionaries of all Scotland, and even penetrated
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