Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . with an impos-ing tower. The opening services were heldon 14th September, 1849. In the mean-time, however, there had been a changein the pastorate, Mr. Sutherland havingbeen succeeded in that year by Rev. JamesWallis. The ministry of Mr. Wallis con-tinued for nearly five years with nospecially outstanding feature. In 1854 Munro Ross, , was ordainedto the parish, and he proved an earnest anddevoted worker. Mr. Ross was a man ofmissionary zeal, and in 1859 he resignedhis charge in order to proceed to China asa missionary. The ne
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . with an impos-ing tower. The opening services were heldon 14th September, 1849. In the mean-time, however, there had been a changein the pastorate, Mr. Sutherland havingbeen succeeded in that year by Rev. JamesWallis. The ministry of Mr. Wallis con-tinued for nearly five years with nospecially outstanding feature. In 1854 Munro Ross, , was ordainedto the parish, and he proved an earnest anddevoted worker. Mr. Ross was a man ofmissionary zeal, and in 1859 he resignedhis charge in order to proceed to China asa missionary. The next minister. Murray Keay. laboured atWoodside for 14 years. That he was a manof excellent spirit may be inferred from thefact that he speedily won the high esteemof his predecessor and clerical Forbes. They became intimate friendsduring the few months they were neigh-bours, and on the Sunday after the suddendeath of Mr. Forbes Mr. Keay preached avery impressive sermon from the text, EX-BAILLIE JOHN COUTTS, The death took place suddenly on Tuesday ofMr John Coutts, , a former member of theTown Council and pji ex-Magistrate of the Coutts had been in ill-health for some time,suffering from breakdown, and onlyLast month he sent a letter of resignation tothe town clerk, and the vacancy caused therebyis to bo filled up at the- next meeting of theCouncil. Mr Coutts, who was 56 years of acre, was a,native of Lumphanan, where his father was ashoemaker, and he came to Aberdeen with hisparents when a boy. He served his apprentice-ship tc the grocery trade with Messrs JamesLittlcjohn and Sons, Green, and over twentyyears ago founded the business of John Coutts,wholesale merchant, Catherine Stroet. Byenere-y and enterprise, he built up a successful?grocery trade, particularly in Woodside he had practically a life-longconnection. His parents resided in the ward,and there he erected the villa of Cosey Knowe,Clift
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