 John Glas, the founder of the Glasite sect in the First Great Awakening, a Christian revitalisation movement that swept Protestant Europe in the 18th century, preached at Auchterhouse in 1721.He was the minister at nearby Tealing, where his preaching drew a large congregation.In "The Testimony of the King of Martyrs Concerning His Kingdom", published in 1729, he claimed that every national church established by the laws of earthly kingdoms was anti-Christian, and repudiated Presbyterianism.