"We have today to record the death, at St. Andrews, under peculiarly melancholy circumstances, of the venerable second minister of the Established Church there, the Reverend George Buist, D.D., at the advanced age of eighty-four years...Dr. Buist was one of the oldest ordained ministers of the Church of Scotland...held the rank of Moderator of the Assembly of the Church. He was attentive minister, sincere in the performance of his duties, a thorough business man and his loss will be greatly felt..." Thus ran the front page of the Dundee Advertiser Newspaper for 20 April 1860 giving a small glimpse of the accomplished life of the Very Reverend Doctor George Buist.