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122 EDIXBUKGHSHIKE.
1764. Sir John's fourth son, the Itight Honourahle William
Ewart Gladstone, after a distinguished, career as a statesman,
obtained the Premiership in 1868. Sir John Gladstone, as a
tribute of respect to his native town, erected and endowed at Leith
a church and school in connection with the Established Church.
The following Latin inscription celebrates the personal virtues
and ministerial fidelity of the Kev. James Lundie, minister of the
parish, who died on the 31st March, 1696 : —
" Siste gradum, viator. Hie jacet Dominus Jacobus Lundinus,
theologus admodum reverendus, & verbi divini minister eximius ;
prseclarum exemplar spectatte morum probitatis, verse pietatis.
Christians humilitatis, modestre gravitatis, certee amicitiai, &
humanae urbanitatis, perpetuse fidei, curse & vigilantia?, in
munere pastorali; quo, cum annos octodecem, in ecclesia Edin-
burgena, unum in JJalkethensi, summa cum laude & bonorum
favore functus esset, conscientise suae fide comniotus ab anno
MDCLXXXI. ad annum MDCLXXXVIJ. a publico ejusdem exer-
citio cessavit. Postea vero, mutato rerum statu, unanimi ecclesia^
Letliensis Septentrionalis suffragio, ad animanim curam ibidem
admotus eam tenuti annos VIII. menses V. Obijt prid cal. April,
anno Dom. MDCXCVI tetatis 56.
" Charissimo patri posuit filius natu maximus, Dominus Arclii-
baldus Lundinus, verbi divini minister, apud Saltoun. Volat
irrevocabile tempus."
Monteith supplies the following translation : —
" Stay, passenger. Here lieth Mr. James Lundie, a very reverend
divine, and a notable minister of God's word ; a most famous
pattern of a good life, true piety. Christian humility, modest
gravity, firm friendship, and courteous civility ; of constant faith-
fulness, care, and vigilance, in his ministerial function ; which
when he had discharged for the space of eighteen years in the
Church at Edinburgh, one year at Dalkeith, with great commenda-
tion, and the favour of good people, he all moved by a principle
of conscience, ceased from the public exercise of his ministry, from
the year 1681 to the year 1687. But afterwards the state of affairs
being altered, by the unanimous call of the Church at North Leith,
he was advanced to the cure there, in which he officiated for the space
of eight years and five months. He died the last day of JNJarch,
in the year of our Lord 1696. His age fifty-six.
" His eldest son, Mr. Archibald Lundie, minister of God's word at