REV. DR. GUTHRIE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 211, 14 March 1873, Page 3

REV. DR. GUTHRIE.

The following short notice of the Eev. Dr. Guthrie, whose death is announced in our telegraphic columns, is taken from "Men of the Time":— The Eev. Thomas Guthrie, D.D., was the son of an influential merchant and banker in Brechin, Forfarshire, where he was born in 1803. He studied for the Church of Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and after ha/ving been licensed to prpach by the Presbytery of Brechin, proceeded to Paris, where he acquired a knowledge of medicine, with a view of be - ing able to give the poor medical advice when engagedin his pastoral duties. On | his return to Scotland he went for a time into his father's banking-house, and in 1830 was ordained minister of the parish of Arbirlot, in his native country, removed to the collegiate church of Old Greyfriars Edinburgh, and in 1840 to St. John's, a new church and parish in that city, erec- ; ted chiefly in consequence of his popularity. In conjunction with Drs. Chalmers, Cunningham, and Candlish, he took a prominent part in the non-intusion controversy, and in other ecclesiastical questions, which resulted in the formation of the Free Church in LS43. His fervent and heart-stirring appeals to the benevolent, on behalf of the destitute and homeless children ot the Scottish capital, led, in 1847, to the establishment of the Edinburgh Original Ragged or Industrial School, which has been productive of incalculable benefit to the poorer classes of that city. Dr. Guthrie was author of "Pleas for Eagged Schools," "Ezekiel the Inheritance of the Saints," and was also editor of the ' Sunday Magazine. 5