Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie, D. D.; And Memoir

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...already named--and two grandsons, Colonel Guthrie and Dr. John Guthrie (the present Provost) having held the office in succession. yellow colours of the party, and shouted under his windows--every pane of glass in which they smashed--Hume for ever, Mitchell never! Nor was the riot quelled and order restored till the arrival of three companies of infantry from Perth and Aberdeen. But Provost Guthrie was more and better than an influential citizen and successful man of business. From a very early period of life he was known to be a man who feared God above many. His life-long consistency and signal honour in commercial transactions were sustained by a constant regard to a Heavenly Father's eye. Never did he allow the cares of the world outside to make him neglect either his own highest welfare or that of his children. In the best and truest sense, as well as in the more literal one, he was careful to provide for those of his own house. It is evident, from the language he employs in his Autobiography, that Dr. Guthrie had originally intended to tell us more than he has done of both his parents. This want, however, in regard to his father at least, is partly made up for by an instructive picture which he gives of a Sabbath-day in the house at Brechin, where the sire was both priest and king. Referring, in his Sundays Abroad, to the sneers in which ignorant and irreligious men have indulged on the matter of Scottish Sabbath observance, he says--Page 17. RELIGIOUS TRAINING. The best answer I can, perhaps, furnish to these libels affecting Scotland is to draw an honest and candid picture of the manner in which the Lord's-day was observed in the home of my youth. Conversation about the ordinary business of life was not engaged in, nor allowed....