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Welcome to Thomas Guthrie.org.  This website has been set up so that you can easily access information, sermons, quotes and articles on Dr Thomas Guthrie (1803 – 1873).  My interest in Dr Guthrie began many years ago but I have been actively writing on his life an legacy since 2012.  You have perhaps never heard of Thomas Guthrie, and even if you have, you are perhaps wondering why a whole website should be devoted to him and his work.  I believe that Thomas Guthrie was a remarkable leader, an incredible preacher, an innovative social reformer and his reach and influence did much to change 19th Century Scotland into a better, more compassionate nation.

The country Guthrie was born into was Scotland that rapidly changing.  People were moving from the country to the city, as the 19th century gathered pace industrialisation  traditional industries.  With industrialisation came mass immigration and with it overcrowding and poverty in Scotland’s major cities.