Obituary Notices. 
XXXIX 
While his talents and high professional standing secured for him 
well-merited honour and respect, his sincerity of heart, kindly and 
amiable disposition, and the vein of quiet humour which he possessed, 
greatly endeared him to all his professional brethren, and made him 
a most welcome guest at their social gatherings. His removal 
from the midst of us has left a great blank, and caused deep and 
sincere sorrow, and his memory will long be cherished with affec- 
tionate regard. 
Dr Keiller’s attention, however, was not limited by the things of 
time and sense, but extended to the higher and nobler objects 
beyond : as his minister, the Eev. Arthur Gordon, well said, “He 
had wisely cultivated the spiritual as well as the intellectual side of 
his nature.” He availed himself of the means of grace in, and was 
a respected elder of, St Andrew’s Parish Church. He held fast the 
old truths of the infallible Word of God, and had no sympathy with, 
but grieved over, that specious and pretentious, but really shallow 
rationalism and infidelity of the present day. Hor was he ashamed 
to own that he did so, as appears also in his remarks on Mr Lindsay, 
when, after speaking of his philological pursuits above referred to. 
Dr Keiller adds : “ It may be mentioned, as imparting greater value 
to these researches, that Mr Lindsay’s attention was originally 
riveted on philological studies, owing to doubts which he entertained 
as to the authenticity of Scripture history, more especially as 
regarded the origin of the human race from the primal pair ; but that 
the more he studied the different languages, dead and extant, the 
more his doubts gave way, and the stronger did his conviction of 
the truth of the literal exactness of the Scripture statements on this 
subject become.” 
Dr Keiller died at North Berwick, where his country residence 
was. The cause of his death was apoplexy. The shock occurred on 
September 18, 1892, and proved fatal on the 26th day of the month. 
He had reached the ripe age of 81 ; but till within a few days of his 
death his corporeal and mental vigour seemed so little impaired that 
his friends were joyfully anticipating that his sojourn on earth 
would still be considerably prolonged. A large and attached group 
of mourners assembled at St Andrew’s Church, and conveyed the 
remains of their beloved friend to their last resting-place in 
Warriston Cemetery. 
