J 08 ST JAMES'S—ST JOHN'S [PKESB. OF adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland 1863 ; assistant at St Michael's, Dumfries ; ind. to Swallow Street, London, 1864, to Lugar 1867, to St Matthew's, Montreal, 1876, to Messer Street, Jersey City, U.S.A., 1878 ; returned to Scotland and took up work in Elder Street Mission Church, Edinburgh, 1881 ; adm. first min. of this charge, 3rd Sept. 1891 ; res. 17th Oct. 1898; died 10th Feb. 1911. He marr. 10th June 1890, F. Eleanor Gordon. Publications — Heartsease; Self-Education ; Hymns arid Meditations in Verse ; Budget of Holiday Letters ; Chinese Vieivs and Peoples ; Light in the Darkness. THOMAS PORTEOUS, born Edin- 1899 burgh, 3rd June 1861, son of James P. and Margaret Nicol ; educated at George Heriot's School and Univ. of Edin- burgh ; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18thMay 1883 ; assist- ant at St Ninians, Stirling, and Tron, Edinburgh ; ord. to Gordon 24th Sept. 1885 ; trans, and adm. 30th March 1899. ST JOHN'S. [In 1840 a part of Old Greyfriars Parish was disjoined and erected by the Court of Teinds into a new parish, which was called St John's, because certain of the lands within the area had belonged before the Reformation to the Knights Templars of St John of Jerusalem.] THOMAS GUTHRIE, born Brechin, 12th July 1803, sixth son of David G., banker, Provost of Brechin, and Clementina Cay ; educated at Brechin and Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Brechin 2nd Feb. 1825; ord. to Arbirlot 13th May 1830; trans, to Old Greyfriars 21st Sept. 1837 ; trans, and adm. 28th Oct. 1840. Joined the Free Church, and became min. of Free St John's 1843 ; D.D. (Edin- burgh, 9th April 1849) ; Moderator of Free Church General Assembly 1862 ; retired 1864 ; F.R.S.E. (1869) ; founder of the Edin- burgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools ; one of the earliest Temperance reformers ; an eloquent preacher, and writer of great popularity ; died 24th Feb. 1873. He marr. 6th Oct. 1830, Anne (died 2nd June 1899), daugh. of James Burns, one of the mins. of 1840 Brechin, and had issue—David Kelly, min. of the Free Church, Liberton, born 9th Aug. 1831, died 6th Sept. 1896; Christina, born 31st May 1833 (marr. 22nd March 1854, William Welsh of Mossfennan, D.D., min. of the Free Church, Broughton), died 17th Feb. 1895; James, banker, Brechin, born 15th Jan. 1835 ; Patrick, banker, Edin- burgh, born 1st Oct. 1836 ; Clementina, born 28th June 1839, died 22nd Jan. 1908 ; Annie, born 28th June 1841 (marr. 27th April 1859, Stephen Williamson, M.P.) ; Thomas, farmer, near Buenos Ayres, born 19th Nov. 1843, died 3rd Nov. 1900; Alex- ander, merchant, Liverpool, born 10th March 1846 ; Charles John, Senator of the College of Justice, born 4th April 1849 ; Helen, born 30th Nov. 1851 (marr. David Gray, Glasgow), died 9th July 1883 ; John, born 11th Dec. 1853, died 9th Aug. 1855. Publications — On the Intrusion of Ministers (Edinburgh, 1839); A Short Plea for the Public and Free Use of the Bible in Ragged Schools—A Plea for Bagged Schools—A Second Pleafor Bagged Schools (Edinburgh, 1847-9); A Plea on Behalf ofDrunkards and against Drunken- ness (Edinburgh, 1851); Lost and Found (Edinburgh, 1853) ; The Gospel in Ezekiel (Edinburgh, 1855); The City, its Sins and. Sorrotvs (Edinburgh, 1857) ; Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints (Edinburgh, 1858); A Word in Season: a Neiv Year Tract (1861); The Way to Life (Edin- burgh, 1862); The Disruption,: its Obliga- tions and, Responsibilities (Edinburgh, 1862) ; Bear Ye One Another's Burden* (London, 1863) ; Speaking to the Heart (London, 1863); Man and the Gospel (1865); The Angels' Song (1865); The Parables (1866 ; new edition, with memoir 1908); Our Father's Business (1867); Out of Harness (1867); Early Piety (1868); Studies of Character from the Old Testa- ment (1868-70) ; Sundays Abroad (1871). He edited The Street Preacher, or Auto- biography of Robert Flockhart (Edinburgh, 1858),and wrote a Memoirof the Rev. Robert Coutts, Coutts' Sermons (1848); editor of the Sunday Magazine (1864-73). — [Auto- biography and Memoir, by his sons, D. K. and C. J. Guthrie ; Diet. Xat. Biog.]