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He was first assistant, and afterwards minister, of St G-eorge’s, 
Glasgow, and was about the year 1822 removed to the New G-rey- 
friars’ Church, Edinburgh. On the erection of the parish of St 
Stephen’s in 1828, he was appointed to that charge, which he 
continued to hold till his death on 23d June last. 
In every situation in which Dr Muir was placed as a minister 
he discharged his parochial duties in the most exemplary and effi- 
cient manner; in particular in St Stephen’s parish, of which he 
was the pastor for forty years, not only his ministrations in the 
pulpit, but his diligence in personal attention to his flock, his care 
of the young, his kindness to the sick and suffering, and his 
organisation for the promotion of education, and the diffusion of 
sound Christian faith and active Christian practice, were such as 
to call forth the strongest feelings of gratitude and admiration in 
his congregation and parishioners. His elders, embracing among 
them some of the most eminent and respectable of our citizens, 
concurred in looking upon his pastoral services as invaluable, and 
omitted no opportunity of testifying their confidence in his char- 
acter and their sense of his worth. Documents have been placed 
in my hands, by some of their number, which enable me to make 
these statements with a perfect conviction that they are in no 
respect exaggerated, and that Dr Muir was, in all his parochial 
relations, the model of a Christian minister. I have read with 
peculiar interest the proceedings of his congregation in 1862, when, 
on occasion of his completing the fiftieth year of his ministry, they 
placed at his disposal the fruits of a liberal subscription among 
them, but which he declined to receive personally, and insisted on 
forming into a sinking fund, of which the proceeds were to be 
annually applied to pious and charitable uses, parochial or congre- 
gational. I have also read, with a perfect persuasion of its sincerity 
and truth, the address which the late excellent Dr Hunter delivered 
in 1864, on occasion of Dr Muir being compelled to withdraw from 
active duty in consequence of a failure of eye-sight, with which 
he was visited. That address was obviously from the heart of the 
speaker, as it must have gone to the hearts of those who heard 
him, and bears unequivocal testimony to the high character of the 
man who was the subject of it. 
This is not the place to speak of Dr Muir’s career or opinions, 
