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describe justly than the learned and eminent preacher . It is the more interesting from the biographical particulars which it contains , of which we shall lay the substance before our readers .
James Lindsay was the son of Mr . Win . Lindsay , of Pitcarity , in the county of Forfar ; he was born in the month of November or beginning of December in the year 1 / 53 , * in the
parish of Kirrimuir in that county , and educated in the grammar-school of that parish , under the tuition of Mr . IV ] owatt , an eminent classical scholar , who was afterwards elected master of
the grammar-school of St . Andrew ' s . In the year 1769 , he was removed from the grammar-school of Kirrimuir to that of Aberdeen , and in November of that year admitted a student of King ' s College . Having passed through the
regular course of education at that university , with the distinguished approbation of all the professors under whom he studied , he was admitted to the degree of M . A . in April 1773 , and soon after became domestic tutor
in the family of the Rev . Kenneth M ° Aulay , minister of the parish of Calder , near Inverness , and author of the History of St . Kilda . In this situation he continued five years ; during which period he attended for three sessions the Divinitv Halls both of
King ' s and of Marischal College , and delivered discourses on subjects pre- ^ scribed to him in each of these colleges , to the entire satisfaction of the celebrated professors of theology , Dr . .
Alexander A Gerard G of Kind K '' s College C lexander erard of ings ollege , and Dr . George Campbell of Marischal College . Having received ample testimonials from each of them to this effect , and submitted his testimonials
to the Presbytery of Nairn , the members of that Presbytery admitted him in April 1776 , on the probationary trials prescribed by the Church of Scotland to candidates for the
ministry . Having undergone these trials to their entire satisfaction , he was , on the 2 d day of September 1776 , licensed by that Presbytery to preach the gospel . When he had completed the education of the sons of Mr . M Aulay , he was
* . It thus appears that Dr . Lindsay was in his 68 th year , not liis 67 th as stated in our formei * Number *? , p . 123 and p . 183 .
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employed in a similar capacity in the family of Mr . Forbes of Schivas , in the county of Aberdeen , through the recommendation of the late Rev . Dr . Macleod , pr incipal of . King ' s College .
Finding that he had no prospect of speedy preferment in the Church of Scotland , and having received an invitation from his friend and former fellow-student , the Rev . Dr . Macleod , then curate of St . George , Middlesex , now rector of St . Anne ' s , Soho , to pass
some months in London , lie arrived in the metropolis in the spring of the year 1781 . Soon after his arrival , he was engaged by the Rev . William Smith , minister of Silver-street Chapel , in the City , to preach for him occasionally , and to assist him in conducting his respectable academy at Camberwell .
Having thus become known as a preacher , he received , on the resignation of the late Rev . Dr . James Fordyce , an invitation from the congregation of Monkwell Street to succeed that celebrated preacher . On the 21 st of
May , in the year 1 783 , he was ordained pastor of this Christian society *; Dr . Fordyce , Dr . Hunter , Dr . Kippis , Dr . Rees , and Mr . Worthington , bearing a part in the religious service of the day .
Soon after his settlement with this congregation , he undertook the charge of Mrs . Cockburn ' s academy at Newington-Green , which she , in a few years , resigned in his favour . During his residence there , he married Mrs . Cockburn ' s niece , who at her death left him with the charge of four daughters who survive him . At this time
he officiated as afternoon-preacher at Newington-Green Chapel , with the late Rev . Dr . Towers for his colleague , as morning preacher , for twelve years ; he also preached the Sunday-evening lecture at Salters' Hall Meeting-house , in connexion with Mr . Worthington , and Mr . ( now Dr . ) Morgan . During
the two last years of his life , he assisted Dr . Rees , as afternoon preacher , at the Old Jewry Chapel in Jewin Street . In the year 1805 , the University of K ing ' s College of Aberdeen conferred upon him the degree of D . D ., and never was this honour more properly
be-* He had , therefore , been nearly 38 years the minister of Monk well-street . The statement , p . 123 , of the duration oi his pastoral connexion is consequently incorrect .
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236 Review . —Dr . Rees ' s Sermon on the Death of Dr . Lindsay .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/44/
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