Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . tor, and there are manyin the East Church who still cherish thememory of his ministrations in times oftrouble. The congregation did a bold thing whenthey came to select their next fixed on a young student who hadthen barely completed his theologicalcourse, and, in calling one so inexperiencedto the sole responsibility of so important acharge, they showed remarkable audacity was, however, amply justi-fied by the subsequent course of events, 112 THE CHURCHES OF ABERDEEN for the man of their choice was Rev. G. M
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . tor, and there are manyin the East Church who still cherish thememory of his ministrations in times oftrouble. The congregation did a bold thing whenthey came to select their next fixed on a young student who hadthen barely completed his theologicalcourse, and, in calling one so inexperiencedto the sole responsibility of so important acharge, they showed remarkable audacity was, however, amply justi-fied by the subsequent course of events, 112 THE CHURCHES OF ABERDEEN for the man of their choice was Rev. G. Macgregor, , whose name after-wards became so well known not only inAberdeen, bnt throughout the kingdom,and even in America. The circumstancesconnected with Mr. Macgregors call to thechurch were rather interesting. MNeill had mentioned his name toMr. James Murray Garden as that of amost promising young preacher, and theresult was that, through Mr. MNeill, aninvitation was sent to Mr. Macgregor togive a Sundays supply. In entire ignor-. Principal Lumsden. aonce of the vacancy, Mr. Macgregor came to Aberdeen, preaching twice, and address-ing a crowded Bible Class meeting, and allwith so great acceptance that in a weekstime it was unanimously resolved to offerhim a call. Almost at the same time, hewas offered a call to Burntisland to suc-ceed Rev. T. B. Kilpatrick, who had thenbeen translated to Ferryhill, Aberdeen,but he preferred the East Church, and hewas formally ordained to the charge on28th June, 1888. Then began a memor-able ministry, many fruits of which re-main until to-day. The state of matters at the date of settlement have been fullyand fairly described in his biography. • The East Church, says the biographer, seemed by the year 1888 to have passedits meridian. In Aberdeen, as in otherlarge cities, there was a steady exodu6 ofthe wealthier people towards the churches in the west and north-westdistricts were attracting many famil
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