Thomas Guthrie Blossoms

This statue of Thomas Guthrie looks across Prince's Street in Edinburgh. Most people, myself included, know little or nothing of Guthrie. The inscription on the monument reads;

"An eloquent preacher of the gospel. Founder of the Edinburgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools, and by tongue and pen, the apostle of the movement elsewhere. One of the earliest temperance reformers. A friend of the poor and of the oppressed."

Thomas Guthrie