These windows are a memorial to all the men of Callander who lost their lives in the 1914-18 war

The Rev. R. E. McIntyre conducted the unveiling ceremony and service of dedication of these windows on Sunday 15th May 1921.

Below, in the same window there is depicted that strange, primitive story of Abraham's offer to sacrifice Isaac, his son, long waited for, to a God to whom Abraham was only dimly beginning to comprehend.

Abraham came from a people who practised human sacrifice. He had renounced belief in the gods of his fathers and the crude cruelty which worship of these gods entailed. He had come out from among them, at the call and to the worship of the only true Almighty God. But, who was he, he thought, to withhold from that God what his fathers gave to gods of wood and stone? In the story depicted, we see the boy bound; the fire ready; the knife in Abraham's hand; Abraham prepared to bear all the anguish of the deed he was about to commit. But there is a ram, caught in the brambles and a voice that says 'NO - not that Abraham,' and we see in Abraham the first thankful understanding of an Almighty God of Love. Below the portrayal of Mary with the infant Jesus, and above the picture of the Abraham story, we have the words from Luke 2:35 - 'a sword shall pierce thy soul'. These words, spoken by Simeon to Mary are used to apply to all that this window seeks to communicate.

At the top, the symbol of the Lamb of God - inspired by the tremendous vision, a song of the servant God - brought as a lamb to the slaughter - despised and rejected of men - wounded for our transgressions. The religious authorities of the time in Jerusalem shut their eyes and their ears and their minds to any interpretation of Isaiah's vision that could point to Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth as the servant and the Son of God.

Below- an Old Testament story of David the King refusing to drink water from the well of his boyhood at Bethlehem. In love and loyalty, his warriors had risked their lives to get it, because David, their hero had, in a moment of weakness, expressed the desire for water from that well. At any moment of their expedition they could have been killed, killed for David's whimper. This is one of David's great moments; he could not feel himself worthy of such love and devotion. Only to God could such an offering be made. We see the water being poured out, before the Lord.

The central figure is John, the writer of the book of Revelation. He is the man who was given the vision. He wrote the words 'And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God'. In the vision he was told to write, and in the picture the quill is in his hand and the books represent his letters to the churches.

At the top we have the symbol of man's hope through Christ, the coming of God's Kingdom, the coming of the holy society, the holy city which Abraham longed for - a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God.