Biography of J. Coldstream, M.D. By John H. Balfour, M.A.,
M.D., with introduction by the Rev. James Lewis. (Nisbet.)—Dr. Coldstream was an Edinburgh physician, who died in 1868, at the age of 56. He
was connected with various philanthropic movements in that city, and especially with the establishment of a Medical Missionary Society. Notwithstanding the evidence of a most unprepossessing photograph, he
appears to have been a good man, who showed his religion by active benevolence, as well as by writing long passages in a diary couched in that peculiar phraseology which it is not given to the majority of man- kind to appreciate. There does not seem the least reason why his life
should have been written, and we are sorry for the young folks of Edin- burgh, upon whom it will fall heavily in the way of presents and prizes, on the score of the improving sentiments, to them of all people most unintelligible.
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