THE LATE DR. STUART

Evening Star, Issue 16994, 17 March 1919, Page 3

THE LATE DR. STUART

.1 imnniug and evening services at ilurch yesterday the'following re adopted by the Kirk Session in . .e-re to the recent centenary of tlic late Dr Stuart, was read to the congregation:— The Session, at this their first meeting since the sth February, which marks the centenary of the birth of Dr Stuart, the first minister of this church, welcome the opportunity of once more recalling to the minds and memories of the Session and the congregation the great debt they owe to the memory of their late beloved pastor. It is almost 25 years since Dr Stuart away, and, while many of the congregation are lelt who remember his gracious ministry, his unfailing kindness and sympathy, and his cheerv presence, their number must lessen with the passing years, and it is well that such an occasion as the centenary of his hirth should not be overlooked, giving, as it does, an occasion to again recall the privileges and advantages the congregation enjoyed for the long period of 34 years in the ministry of a man so rarely gifted as Donald M’Naughtan Stuart. The Session hope that not only will the memory of the congregation be stirred and stimulated by the circumstance of the . occasion of this centenary, but that some useful movement will be set afoot and carried to a successful conclusion which can bo associated with this data, and he an everlasting monument to and link between Dr „,tuart and the people he loved so well.