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GUTHRIK. AND CHARLES J. GtJTIIRIE, M.a. SOLD EXCLUSIVKLY BY SUBSCKII'TION JAS. CLARKE .V' CO., General Aoents, Toronto, TORONTO : BELFORD BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, MDCCCLXXVII. A-i 2088 HH OTTIi MOTIfKU, WITH HEVKKKNcji, AITLICTIOV av.. <.„ •-, Aiii^triON, AND GRATITUDE. ri?KFAOE. I^- 1-is Will. Dr. Outl.rf,. ,llnr(,.l tl slu.uM Ik' pliK'od in tl... iKMl.l liiH fiiinilv wl •^ of the t '■'' iill 111-; piipors wo incinbcrH of K.so lunnes ..pjK,,.- „„ this vol usod for pul)lici,ti„n ^f tht.ir d uino — to 1)0 .n lis sDii-iii-liiw, tin. ]j iscntioii, with tho adv ICC I'v. Willi.nn WcUh. Tl included !.M unfinished Autol,io;r,,,pl it'HO papers of omincnl men whom ho had k 'V, .several .skefel I OS pcnoral correspondence. iiown, and a nias.s of () wo la I "^' "l)viou8 difRcuItv nnd disad )our in fr oonij)il vanlaf,^^ under which •US' fx nirinoir of our fatl "'' ^""' <-nnection with him. A biographer wl i(>r ari.ses f noar relative— like a d llO 18 )l)ject 1 le would raujrhfsman placed too near the fal. represent — is doublk Kl "^' a one-sided view of the subject. ■^•s in dan<'er of Thcr ■0 is, however, this counterbal our cise : we babits. the tastes, tl Gutl iiicinq- advanfaire m were of necessity familiar with tl "•"" "1 Ji way that lo 10 personal . "'<> (.pinions, and everyday life of J)r. bo. And beside ly.ii) o our 1 ntside his familv could xismess is not to attempt an esi, ■s'Tviees- mate of .,ur father's o.if,,,,„,] tionship to him would totally unfit us-but -for 1 lis, our rela- to ])reseiit Vlll PREFACE. a iiarnitivo of his life and labours, so that those who knew him may recognise the portrait, and those who did not may thereby gain sonic conception of the man he was. Our first care was naturally with tlie Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a tjuestion whether it should be published separately and as a frag- ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convnience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended ; but no alterations liave been made in the text save such as .eemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. G .thrie was prevented from revising it himself, and that it is given to the world during t'le lifetime of various persons to whom he alludes in the course of his narrative. Our next care was as to the Memoir needful to continue the record of our father's life. On reading the Auto- biography, it seemed that there were some points wholly omitted, and others merely glanced at by him, on .ybicli the public would desire information. This might have been given by adding cumbrous notes to the Autobio- graphy itself, or by subjoining a lengthened Appendix ; but we judged it better to incorporate such material in the earlier chapters of the Memoir proper, while the sketches written by Dr. Guthrie will be embodied in their proper place in the course of our narrative. In the construction of the Memoir we shall not con- fine ourselves to the strictly chronological order, but arrange the narrative under leading subjects, such as the PREFACE. IX following :— Karly Life in Brocliin ; College Life to ♦Ordination ; Arbirlot ; Settlement in Edinburgh-state ..f his parish there ; The Disruption ; The Manse Fund ; The Ministry; 1 Jagged' Schools ; Interest in Foreign rhurches and Countries; Domestic and Social Life; Latest Views on Lending Questions ; Closing Days. The ain^ whicli the Editors propose to themselves throughout the :yremoir is to preserve, as much as it is possible, the autol,'iographical form— that is, to lot Dr. Guthrie tell the story of his own life in his own words. Personal references, persoiial reminiscences, formed a marked characteristic of his style, both in speaking and M-riting; in fact, no one who has not had occasion to examine his sermons and speeches, can form any con- ception of how hugely his allusions and illustrations were drawn from incidents in the course of his own life. The Editors, in conjunction with Mr. "Welsh, desire to express special obligations to the Rev. Dr. Ilanna and (he Rev. Professor Blaikie, on whose kind counsel they have been permitted to draw in connection with their work. Many valued friends of Dr. Guthrie iiave contri- buted important matter in the shape of personal remi- niscences and of letters; and to all of them they desire to tender most grateful thanks. D. K. G. C. J. G. EmNHiRCH ; November, CONTENTS OF AUTOBIOGEAPnY. PART I. BlRTir, CriILDIIOOD AND SCIIOOL-DAYS. 1803—1814. "' L^^7feSl^SS.;^:-™-An a,ed states.an- bdlion of 17I5-WiuLoT,^nr! fr\\-^ri°'l'"ther and the Ro! paternal grandfath' a "d "ho rJi'ir '' ^^'"^'^rland-Ui.s and ".Sawnov"_rT;. V,„. ^^^ -liebellion ot 1745— "Mo-r" of charactJl^Ld "l^^^St^Sl!?'^^-"- <^--n courageous minister-Founder of S,hl n f '^V^parents-A I[i3 iather and n.other-I'\rK J^ • ^^'^^''-^'^''^O"!^ Brechin-The sSLh Sal .a™^^^^^ ■•" ~^^^c^i^^:i^St:^^^^^f a. a .;hooi:boo,: >n. at aoIdier.^iS.^!l^S;;:l-J- ^Sr ^^^^- FACE 1-4 5-6 7~U 14—18 19—21 21-29 21;— L'2 PART II. COLLEGE LIFE I.N EDINBURGH. 1815—1824. rreparing for colleoo— R^r tvt ^ u- masters-Contrast wi ^r. ? "i"* «>mpson-CJeneaI sch .ol- -Journey to EdSlJh-'' Svl """"V'''}?.^ illustrated ,, „ fifty years ago-The 4o„d H „v'"';^ ^^■'^'"''""■S'' «tudeius Cohere fun and tightinJ-S , jj '^ T'""r' "' "^^'^ ^\'ateiI.o ■-College fviends-^Sck tffic stuii s' 'V ^''- ''"^^'"'''^ Bro.n towns-" Raw youth" s'"^'es-Bangcrs ot univeisitv 33-3.3 30— 3'J 40-43 44—49 xu CONTENTS OF AUTODlOGRAPIir. PART III. FROIM LICENSE TO ORDINATION. 182.J-1S30. Liconscd to prrnch — Socond-hand sermons.— An Ensflish curate — His lirst sermon . • ...... Outlook for a ])aiish — llis father's inflnonro— rrinciiial Nicol of St. Andrew's — Loses a ]ircs(>ntati)Mker — ]{ev. Dr. W'auifh — Joseiili Iliiiiie, JI.l'. — Alderman Wo()d — The Dnko of Sussex — Lowland llill — Adam Clarke— The House of Commons — Brouiiham and CanniiiLr Calais — Arrives in I'aris — lu I'mu (haudc — JI. and ^Idme. Ptllerin — Pension in line Cassette — Freneh i)olitiness— Fellow- hoarders — JIadame St. JIarc — The fair Oreek — The Irish spinster- I'rench morals — Count Lohiano — Everett and liools — Adele — Fevrier ......... Ilutel de I'Etoile du Nord — John Riinyan in Paris — The family I'rtit in 1SJ7 and IS.JG — The .Moriruc — Professors in the Sorhonne — (lay-Lussae, Thenard, St. Ililaire, Lisfranc, DiijHiytren, Larry— Surgical ()]ierations— Say — Editor of the Ciinslitiiliounc! — A I'arisian ganihliiig-liouso Paris to IJrussels— Calvin and Funelon — Visits Waterloo — lielies of the dead — lietiirn to Scotland His ])atrnn — liOses u second pres(>ntation — '• Jliserahle estate of a preacher " — Novel sphere — Training in the hank, ami kimw- ledge of the world — .\ clerical iunorinms — Occasional scr- PACE 50—53 53—51 mous — The dying miuisler- -A midnight encounter •55— 6-3 G.3-71 71— fiO 80-83 84—91 PART IV. LIFE AT AIMSIRLOT. LS30— 1837. Vacinoyat Arhirlnt — " Moderate" interference— Piceives Crown prcsentatiun — Ordination "tiials" and oi(iinati(jn dinner — C'lerical eonvivialily and its results — Discipline in Church Coiirts — An unwilling witness ...... 92 — 96 Lev. Richard Watson— The minister and the mendicant— An attentive cungregation — A ruinous manse — Sir Thomas Preston's dovecot — Dilapid.ited church .... 97 — 100 The farmers and the jioor — Ills parishioners — Suspected murder — Parish pests — Rattle for the Sahhath — The farmers of the parish — A druidiard's death — ^^'cavers, pioiis and political — The jiarish library— Sahhath-sehnols— Savings-hank — The common people — James Dundas' visicm .... 101 — 116 Choli rn and tyjihus- Prudential ]]r(>cantiiins — Prostrated hy the Inlluen/.a of 183" — Lady Carnegie and pre]iaration fitr death ■ — Psychological ])henomenon — Saves a life — A youth j>ar- boiled — An insane p.uishiouer^ 116 — 124 COXTI'JXTS OF AUTOniOGRAPHV. xiu PACK 50— 5:'^ 53—51 His pliin of Subhath services— The minister's class — Ili^i pulpit preparation — Value of elociiuon — No musical car — l'liL;;la of a precentor — Ill'istmtions in sermons — Secrets of his popu- larity . . 121— i;J(l His dog "I5ob"— Pardon of the culprit .... llil— 13'2 Rise of tho V'olimtary controversy — His share therein— Dr. Julin Ritchie and Dr. Peter Davidson — Moetinar i" Arbroath — The American almanack — Uout of tlic Voluntary " (joliath " — Dr. Robert Lee 133—139 Reform in the Church of Scotland — Abolition of patronage — The Veto Act 140-141 Prophecy of Dr. MeCrie — Church of Ureenside, Edinburgh — Vacancy in Old (.ircyfriars — Presentation thereto — Interview with Lord Puumurc— Leaves tor Edinburgh . 142—147 55-03 PART V. 03-71 . 71-8(^ s . 80—83 84—91 92— 9 G 197—100 EDINBURGH. 1837—1843. House in r>rown Square — Lord Glenlee — Ilis position in OM CJreyfriais a temporary one — Ilia colleague, Rov. John Syni -Jiaiidaleno Chapel— His preparation for the pulpit and style of preaching in Edinburgh 118—154 First winter — Severe destitution — A close fiat opened — Visitations in his parish — Decayed grandeur — Irish Catholics — Thieves — A drunken brawl — '• Excavating the heathen " . . 154 — 162 Dr. Erskine's pocket-handkerchief— Dr. Blair and an uncouth pupil— Dr. Anderson and John Kcmblo . . . 102 — 105 Leading Evangelicals of tho Edinburgh p'.ilpit in 1837 — Dr. jMuir of St. Stephen's, and his part in tho Disruption — Tho Dean of Faculty, Hope— Tho '• I'orty Thieves "—Lead- ing elders on tho Evangelical side — Mr. Alexander Dunlop — Slicrilf Spiers— Sher'lifMontcith— See u'l in Ragged School — 3Ir. Hog of Newliston — Mr. MaitlanJ-JIakgili-Orichton — Christmas at Rankeillour — Mr. Joliu Hamilton . . lOG — 171 Collision with Dr. Chalmeis — Dr. Chalmers and the Whisjs — Church Extension tour — Rev. Robert Murray ilcChcym; — Mr. AViUoa of Abernyto and gravitation — Church Extension and tho V^oluntarics — A riotous meeting. , . . 171 — 17'J Anti-Patronage and Dr. Andrew Thomson — Tho " Veto Act" — Its legality — Collision with tho Civil Courts — Question of spiritual independence — Opposition of patrons and projirietors — Appeal to the people — Private cont'erences — Rousing the country — Meeting at Moflfat ..... 17'J— ICl 01—116 10—124 ziv CONTENTS OF MEMOIR. CONTENTS OF MEMOIR. CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE IN BRECHIN. 1803—1814. PAO« His birthplace— frntch bnrgh towns — His lovn of Drechin — His reminiscences «t sixty years aj^o — Dcscrijition cf Hrcchin — Its ecclesiastical history — Cathedral and Round Tower — His description of them "* 19o — 190 The "I'renticc Neiik"— The "Defiance" — His jiarents — Brothers and sisters — His (aihor aiid the catechism— His mother — Her appearance — Her decision of character — Her influence on her son 200 — 200 His place at school — Surrounding influences — The fowling-piece at JMaisondieu — Leaving home for i.ollege — The minister and the aominie — Designation for the ministry — An un- derical family — A Guthrie of the teven'.eenth century — ResemLlance between thfmi 200 — 211 CHAPTER II. COLLEGE LIFE TO OUDINATIOX. 1815—1830. The young student — Recollections of the Rev. Dr. ^Macfarlnne— Anecdote of an old tutor — Family worship in his lodgings — His landlady — The rheumatic milkman — The " Eklcrs' Pew " — Rev. James llartin — Letter to Mrs. Ogilvy — Visit to Martin's grave — Br'akfast party in the Canongate — Results of college training ......; His father's death in 1824 — His recollections of the scene — His inner life — Varieties in Christian experience — His views of the Christian ministry : Licensed to preach -His " Trial Discourses" — His first sermon — Describes it in a letter — Recollections of Rev. J. C. Burns — Brechin pulpit critics ......: Delay «.nd disappointment — The Moderator and the Chancellor — Letter on ecclesiastical tyranny — Five profitaMe years — Letter to a young preacher — Returns to Edinburgh — Dr. Knox's Anatomical Class — Medicine and the Gospel — His liking for doctors in 1826 — Joseph Hume, JI.P. — Canon Maule — Rev. Dr. Waugh — A I^ondon 212—217 217—220 220—223 223—227 Letter from London Riego— Hon. W. Sunday — Paris 227 — 229 JoruNAL jx Pakis 229 — 255 Bible Society meeting in London — Street adventure there — Returns to Brechin — First public speech — The Apocrypha in Brechin — The clerico-banker — A Brechin bank forty years ago — Snulfing and smoking — Knowledge of mankind — The world'i? money and the true riches— Field-preaching 253 — 250 CONTENTS OF MEMOIR, zv CHAPTER III. AllBIULOT, 1830—1837. PAOR Arbirlot — Name and diRtinctivo fcaturos — His dosrrlption of it — His prcdoce.isors there — Andrew Milville's fiieml . '260 — 201 His marriage — A " Levitical '" family — Ilia weddini' tri)! — The rural pastor — Keniiniscences of his village sermons — Ili.t aiidionee — Anecdote of Lord Cockburn .... 261 — 264 Recollections of President McCosh — " Bob " in church — "Adam's Private Tho\ig}its "—The lirst sarrament . 264—270 His elders — Letter of David Key — Testimony of a village patriarch — His sermon on a drunkard's death . . 270 — 277 The organization of the Scottish Church — His thorough Pres- byterianism — Lay Patronage, its working and results — Anti-Patronage and the Veto — His preference for the former — Discussions in Arbroath Presbytery — Descr'titivo letter — A Bi>iritualii-t — His part in the An'ti-Patronagisi-'ita- tion described by Dr. McUosh— Tlio foot of a dandy .md the cloven foot — His motion on Patronage in 18:j6 — Organi- zation of public meetings —Meeting in Arbirlol — Two unruly farmers 277—289 Life at Arbirlot — Hij farm — Visits of Provost Guthrie — His brother's weight and worth — The manse garden — Love of nature — The pastor on his rounds 289 — 291 Voluntary meeting in Arbroath — Its indirect results — Local reputation as a preacher — Dr. JIacfarlano's testimony — A higher sjihere — Sir. Alexander Dunlop — Overtures from Edinburgh — His life in danger — Reminiscences of his illness in JBrcchin — Returning health — Letter to i\Ir. Dunlop regarding Old Grcyiriars — Reluctance to leave Arbirlot — Letter from Dr. I5egg — App(jiutmcnt to an Kdiiibiirgh charge — Letter from Councillor Johnstone — Grief of his parishioners — Publiy Dundas— Congratulations of friends — Letter of Rev. T. Doig — His successor at Arbirlot— His reflections on journey to Edinburgh .... 292 — 300 CHAPTER IV. SETTLEMENT IN EDINBURGH— CONDTriON OP HIS PARISH. The Old Town of Edinburgh — His allusion to its associations with the Covenanters— The Grassmarket and Greylriars Church- yard—The Old Grey friars— Signing of the Covenant— The Martyrs' Monument 301 — 30-1 XVI CONTEiYTS OF MEMOIR. rAoa Hie imliictioD to Itreyl'iiars in 18S7 — Ilis' colleague, lu;v. John Syiii Tumponuv niituro of his position — AiMrc'SS to the Kc\. i). J. Wood— Thi) pari.sh well and the parish churcli lontiasled — His beuu-iduiil ot the piirochiul sjstum in hirgo towns 306— 308 yeivit(! it, thi: Jlnj^dulini' Chapel witli ^Ir. Sym — IJi.s daily visiliitions anKjnu; the poor — A sham visitation of the olden lime — Views on a resident ministry — " rer]nridi( ulur streets" — A house with tho poi)ulution of a parish— The Lewi;ati; valley, its t-ins and sorrows— llo dcseribes a meeting with Dr. Chalmers— htirrini^ appeals— A starving family — A Buccessful east of tho net — Ilis note-hooks — jMeets an impostor — I'ainful experi(>ncc, but protital)le training — Jlaggcd School and Total Abstinence views in germ— llis te-timony on the jiiiint .... :i08— 317 The Church Extension Scheme— Dr. Chalmers rejoices in its application to the Cowgat(; — Jlr. Uuthrie's views in lS3i) as to State endowments, and incompetency of Voluntary Churches — licasons lor subsequent modifications of tlnsn views — Kidusal of endowments by Government — Success ot Free Church in Homo Blission Held — Illustrations from Edinburgh and Glasgow— Kstablisheiitliy of otlnr ''hmities in Ireimd, jjriglami, and abroad— Duron Bunsen's tostimuny . • • 3'J3— 390 CHAPTER VI. THE MANSE FUND. Contrast bitvvnrn tho piesont prosperity of tho Free Chiireh and the ililliiulties which siii'iei dcil the Disrujition — Triiil.s Itlt chiolly liy country miiiifcters, acl ehpecially in parishes of hostile jiropiietora -lUO— 104 Case of tite-refiisini? at Canobie — Mr. Guthrie's visit tlierc — Mr. lI')po'8 reminiscences — Similar casi'S elsewhere — Tho hardshi)) brought before Parliament by Lord broadalbane and Hon. Fox Maulc — Committee of Inquiry appointed 4lM- 408 Mr. Guthrie's examination by tho Conmiittee— Final result. 400 — 414 Domestic privations of country ministers after tho Disruption — Sir G. Harvey's picture — Tho neei sity for a fund to provide new Manses for outed ministeia and their families — Mr. Guthrio selected to raise it ..... 414-410 His mitural qualifications for the uniicrt;\king — Special acquaint- ance with the facts of the case — V'ibits to Cockburnspath and Sutherlandshiro — Tho Mackonzies of Tongue . . 417— I'Jl Plan of the scheme — His successful commencement in Glasgow 42'J— 424 His views of the Established Church at that date, indicated in two letters _ . 42.5—428 Edinburgh JIanso Fund meeting— Lord John Russell's interest awakeiud— Completion of tlio undert.iking . . . 42S — 432 Mr. Guthrie's own feelings, and the gratitude of his brelhieu 432 — 135 CHAPTER VH. \\\ RAGGED SCHOOLS. Object of th(.so institutions— Charles Dickens's advocacy— Their origin in Scotland— Shei ill' Watson and Dr. Guthrie . 43G — 437 Picture of John Pounds at Austruther— A "citv Arab " asleep— St. Anthony's Well . . . . ' . . . 438 — 441 Publication of the First " Pica "— Kespon.sc— Lord Jefl'rey . 442—444 Irish Ragged Children in Edinburgh— Controvcisy as to Con- etitution of the schools and religious instruction— Music xvm CONTENTS OF MEMOIR. PAOX Hull meeting in 1847 — Dr. Outhriu's position— Rosults of the Ediribiirj^h di8CU^8ion el.sL'wlitjro .... 4lo — lot' Dr. Outhrio's luilow-luLourerH— Deulha of Clialmors and Kptiis 467 — 4Ji' Workinf^ of tho Origiuul Uiiffj<<;d School— Diminution of juvenile crime, vnpruncy, and bu^ginj^f 459 — 401 Ai)p