pamphlet elicited a beautiful and sympathetic letter from Lord Jeffrey. A Ragged School was opened on the Castle Hill, which has been the parent of many similar institutions elsewhere, though Guthrie’s relation to the movement is best described as that of an apostle rather than a founder. He insisted on bringing up all the children in his school as Protestants; and he thus made his schools proselytizing as well as educational institutions. This interference with religious liberty led to some controversy; and ultimately those who differed from Guthrie founded the United Industrial School, giving combined secular and separate religious instruction. In April 1847 the degree of D.D. was conferred on Guthrie by the university of Edinburgh; and in 1850 William Hanna (1808–1882), the biographer and son-in-law of Thomas Chalmers, was inducted as his colleague in Free St John’s Church.
In 1850 Guthrie published A Plea on behalf of Drunkards and against Drunkenness, which was followed by The Gospel in Ezekiel (1855); The City: its Sins and Sorrows (1857); Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints (1858); Seedtime and Harvest of Ragged Schools (1860), consisting of his three Pleas for Ragged Schools. These works had an enormous sale, and portions of them were translated into French and Dutch. His advocacy of temperance had much to do with securing the passing of the Forbes Mackenzie Act, which secured Sunday closing and shortened hours of sale for Scotland. Mr Gladstone specially quoted him in support of the Light Wines Bill (1860). In 1862 he was moderator of the Free Church General Assembly; but he seldom took a prominent part in the business of the church courts. His remarkable oratorical talents, rich humour, genuine pathos and inimitable power of story-telling, enabled him to do good service to the total abstinence movement. He was one of the vice-presidents of the Evangelical Alliance. In 1864, his health being seriously impaired, he resigned public work as pastor of Free St John’s (May 17), although his nominal connexion with the congregation ceased only with his death. Guthrie had occasionally contributed papers to Good Words, and, about the time of his retirement from the ministry, he became first editor of the Sunday Magazine, himself contributing several series of papers which were afterwards published separately. In 1865 he was presented with £5000 as a mark of appreciation from the public. His closing years were spent mostly in retirement; and after an illness of several months’ duration he died at St Leonards-on-Sea on the 24th of February 1873.
In addition to the books mentioned above he published a number of books which had a remarkable circulation in England and America, such as Speaking to the Heart (1862); The Way to Life (1862); Man and the Gospel (1865); The Angel’s Song (1865); The Parables (1866); Our Father’s Business (1867); Out of Harness (1867); Early Piety (1868); Studies of Character from the Old Testament (1868–1870); Sundays Abroad (1871).
See Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie, D.D., and Memoir, by his sons (2 vols., London, 1874–1875).
GUTHRIE, THOMAS ANSTEY (1856– ), known by the
pseudonym of F. Anstey, English novelist, was born in Kensington,
London, on the 8th of August 1856. He was educated at
King’s College, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was
called to the bar in 1880. But the popular success of his story
Vice-Versa (1882) with its topsy-turvy substitution of a father
for his schoolboy son, at once made his reputation as a humorist
of an original type. He published in 1883 a serious novel, The
Giant’s Robe; but, in spite of its excellence, he discovered (and
again in 1889 with The Pariah) that it was not as a serious novelist
but as a humorist that the public insisted on regarding him. As
such his reputation was further confirmed by The Black Poodle
(1884), The Tinted Venus (1885), A Fallen Idol (1886), and other
works. He became an important member of the staff of Punch,
in which his “Voces populi” and his humorous parodies of a
reciter’s stock-piece (“Burglar Bill,” &c.) represent his best
work. In 1901 his successful farce The Man from Blankley’s,
based on a story which originally appeared in Punch, was first
produced at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, in London.
GUTHRIE, the capital of Oklahoma, U.S.A., and the county-seat
of Logan county, extending on both sides of Cottonwood
creek, and lying one mile south of the Cimarron river. Pop.
(1890) 5333, (1900) 10,006, (1907) 11,652 (2871 negroes); (1910)
11,654. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé,
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, the Fort Smith & Western, and the St Louis, El Reno
& Western railways. The city is situated about 940 ft. above
the sea, in a prairie region devoted largely to stock-raising and
the cultivation of Indian corn, wheat, cotton and various fruits,
particularly peaches. Guthrie is one of the headquarters of the
Federal courts in the state, the other being Muskogee. The
principal public buildings at Guthrie are the state Capitol,
the Federal building, the City hall, the Carnegie library, the
Methodist hospital and a large Masonic temple. Among the
schools are St Joseph’s Academy and a state school for the deaf
and dumb. Guthrie has a considerable trade with the surrounding
country and has cotton gins, a cotton compress, and foundries
and machine shops; among its manufactures are cotton-seed
oil, cotton goods, flour, cereals, lumber, cigars, brooms and
furniture. The total value of the factory product in 1905 was
$1,200,662. The municipality owns and operates the waterworks.
The city was founded in 1889, when Oklahoma was
opened for settlement; in 1890 it was made the capital of the
Territory, and in 1907 when Oklahoma was made a state, it
became the state capital.
GUTHRUM (Godrum) (d. 890), king of East Anglia, first
appears in the English Annals in the year 875, when he is
mentioned as one of three Danish kings who went with the host
to Cambridge. He was probably engaged in the campaigns of
the next three years, and after Alfred’s victory at Edington in
878, Guthrum met the king at Aller in Somersetshire and was
baptized there under the name of Æthelstan. He stayed there
for twelve days and was greatly honoured by his godfather
Alfred. In 890 Guthrum-Æthelstan died: he is then spoken
of as “se norðerna cyning” (probably) “the Norwegian king,”
referring to the ultimate origin of his family, and we are told
that he was the first (Scandinavian) to settle East Anglia.
Guthrum is perhaps to be identified with Gormr (= Guthrum)
hinn heimski or hinn riki of the Scandinavian sagas, the foster-father
of Hörðaknutr, the father of Gorm the old. There is a
treaty known as the peace of Alfred and Guthrum.
GUTSCHMID, ALFRED, Baron von (1835–1887), German
historian and Orientalist, was born on the 1st of July at Loschwitz
(Dresden). After holding chairs at Kiel (1866), Königsberg
(1873), and Jena (1876), he was finally appointed professor
of history at Tübingen, where he died on the 2nd of March 1887.
He devoted himself to the study of Eastern language and history
in its pre-Greek and Hellenistic periods and contributed largely
to the literature of the subject.
Works.—Über die Fragmente des Pompeius Trogus (supplementary vol. of Jahrbücher für klass. Phil., 1857); Die makedonische Anagraphe (1864); Beiträge zur Gesch. des alten Orients (Leipzig, 1858); Neue Beiträge zur Gesch. des alt. Or., vol. i., Die Assyriologie in Deutschland (Leipzig, 1876); Die Glaubwürdigkeit der armenischen Gesch. des Moses von Khoren (1877); Untersuchungen über die syrische Epitome des eusebischen Canones (1886); Untersuch. über die Gesch. des Königreichs Osraëne (1887); Gesch. Irans (Alexander the Great to the fall of the Arsacidae) (Tübingen, 1887). He wrote on Persia and Phoenicia in the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. A collection of minor works entitled Kleine Schriften was published by F. Rühl at Leipzig (1889–1894, 5 vols.), with complete list of his writings. See article by Rühl in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlix. (1904).
GUTS-MUTHS, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH (1759–1839),
German teacher and the principal founder of the German
school system of gymnastics, was born at Quedlinburg on the 9th
of August 1759. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native
town and at Halle University; and in 1785 he went to Schnepfenthal,
where he taught geography and gymnastics. His method
of teaching gymnastics was expounded by him in various
handbooks; and it was chiefly through them that gymnastics
very soon came to occupy such an important position in the
school system of Germany. He also did much to introduce a
better method of instruction in geography. He died on the
21st of May 1839.
