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Thomas Guthrie, Apostle To The Slums, F. R. Webber
Thomas Guthrie, Apostle To The Slums, F. R. Webber
Concordia Theological Monthly
Everybody is aware that Dr. Thomas Guthrie was one of the most noted pulpit orators of the nineteenth century, but the fact is often overlooked that most of his long life was devoted to congregational work in the worst of Edinburgh's slums. He built a spacious church there and a parochial school; and in that district his well-known sermons were preached. They fill most of the sixteen volumes of his collected works, and very few sermon books have enjoyed so large a circulation.