GARDENER, INVERAN, POOLEWE.
THE death, on Sabbath, 8th December, 1918, aged sixty-four years, of Mr. Kenneth Macpherson, gardener, Inveran, Poolewe, has caused universal regret. He was a native of Opinan, Gairloch. From his early youth he was very much respected by the whole community. He was so exemplary in his daily life and conduct that from his early boyhood till the day of his death, no one could point to any act of inconsistency in his life. His was a blameless and unprovable life. From childhood onwards he had the greatest regard for the private and public means of grace. He was most diligent in his attendance in God’s house, and a most attentive hearer. He loved Zion’s gates, God’s people, and the faithful ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For ten years he, every Sabbath, in fair and foul weather, till laid aside by illness, travelled on foot between six and seven miles to Gairloch Free Presbyterian Church, and the same distance on his return journey. He thus, by his bright example from Sabbath to Sabbath, preached to many sermons of many miles in length. “He being dead, yet speaketh.”
He was for some time a gardener at Shieldaig, Gairloch. From there he was appointed gardener to Lord Lovelace at Annat, Loch Torridon. He was there for about eight years, when he received the Inveran appointment. From the head of Loch Torridon he walked every Sabbath to Shieldaig to hear the late Rev. D. MacDonald, for whom he had great respect. In attending church he walked twelve miles every Sabbath. At Annat his life spoke to others of the reality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In the Gairloch F.P. congregation he is greatly missed. He had no equal in the parish for his attendance on the public means of grace. He was most liberal with his means in supporting the funds of the Church. It is not in every generation that one comes across one like the deceased. Many took knowledge of him that he had been “with Jesus.” It is to be regretted that he never became a member in full communion.
We commend his sorrowing widow, and young daughter, to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
D. M’K.