All people that on earth do dwell....

......sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell.
Come ye before him and rejoice.


The first hymn this morning in Lyne Parish Church.    Since there was a group of people from Denmark that seemed appropriate. 


Mediaeval documents first refer to a chapel at Lyne in the 12th century.   But we know that there was a Christian community living in the area between the 5th and 8th centuries.   On nearby Abbey Knowe to the west of the church, three child sized graves were discovered in 1998 - probably part of the cemetery of that community.
 
By the 14th century, a church had been built to serve the local parish.    The present church was built between 1640 and 1644 by Lord Hay of Yester, who lived at nearby Neidpath Castle.   As this was after the Reformation, the kirk was built in plain Presbyterian style with walls more than a metre thick.


(This text is lifted straight from the internet - but since I wrote it in the first place, that's all right I think.)