Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . urch wasopened on 10th November, 1880. After 34years work at Woodside, Mr. Moir wasfeeling the weight of advancing years, andin January, 1895, he retired from theactive pastorate, and was granted acolleague and successor. He then removedto Cults, where he afterwards resided, al-though still retaining a warm interest inthe affairs of his old congregation, andever ready to respond to any call for hisservices. He lived to celebrate hisministerial jubilee, and he became thefather of the Aberdeen Presbytery. Hisdeath occurred on 26th September, 10
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . urch wasopened on 10th November, 1880. After 34years work at Woodside, Mr. Moir wasfeeling the weight of advancing years, andin January, 1895, he retired from theactive pastorate, and was granted acolleague and successor. He then removedto Cults, where he afterwards resided, al-though still retaining a warm interest inthe affairs of his old congregation, andever ready to respond to any call for hisservices. He lived to celebrate hisministerial jubilee, and he became thefather of the Aberdeen Presbytery. Hisdeath occurred on 26th September, 1007, and with him there passed away one of theremaining links between the old order andthe new—between the Woodside which wasonce a burgh by itself, and the Woodsidewhich is now incorporated in the City ofAberdeen. He had seen all the develop-ments of the district —municipal and other-wise -and personally had come to be re-garded as one of the landmarks of theplace. Rev. Andrew Dickson, on whom fell thechoice of the congregation as successor to. Rev. Andrew Dickson. Mr. Moir, is a native of Berwickshire, anda student of Edinburgh University. Atthe close of his divinity course at the NewCollege, he acted for a short time asassistant to Rev. (afterwards Dr.) JohnKelman in St- Johns, Leith, and whileserving in that capacity he was called toGlencaple, Dumfries, where his ordinationtook place in December, 1892. Two yearssuccessful work in that rural chargefollowed, until he was translated to Wood-side and inducted to the pastorate therein January, 1895. On Mr. Dickson, whileMr. Moir survived, the entire responsi-bility and work of the church fell, andhe met all demands with a readyresourcefulness. An able and effective 142 THE CHURCHES OF ABERDEEN evangelical preacher and an earnestworker, he has exerted a helpful in-fluence in the community. The member-ship of the congregation has shown a steadyupward tendency. The various depart-ments of Christian activity in which thecongregat
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