“THE righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance, and the memory of the just is blessed.” This benefit, blessing and honour the Lord Himself, independently of all His creatures, has been infallibly assured to all the redeemed. The unknown and the despised and forgotten, as well and as surely as the applauded and the revered, are alike to Him, and have their names inscribed in the book of life which God’s own hand has written. We need not fear that one of them through any conceivable cause whatsoever will be disregarded and left to perish in oblivion should it happen that nothing was said or written about them in this life. The late Mrs Angus Macdonald, whose maiden name was Margaret Maclean, was born at Letters, Lochbroom, about the year 1850, and died at Battery Terrace, Ullapool, on the 17th day of September 1927, having thus exceeded by a few years the allotted span. She married young and had a large family, most of whom survive her. Her husband predeceased her four years ago. During her last illness she was greatly comforted by the constant and affectionate attendance of her son, William, and her dutiful daughter, Mrs Mackenzie, who were very devoted to her, and deserve every praise for their kindness to their worthy mother. She was of a quiet and reserved disposition, and did not reveal much of her Christian experience to others. Consequently, we know nothing of the Holy Spirit’s dealings with her, either in conviction of sin or in leading her to a knowledge of the way of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. She amply proved in her tender, becoming Christian life that she knew the evil of sin, believed its desert, and took refuge in the crucified Redeemer, who was her only and precious hope. In meekness, patience and submission she followed her Lord to the end, and at no time in the midst of life’s troubles did she manifest more clearly and to so great a degree these graces than in the months of suffering she endured before death, relieved her, we believe, for ever. She loved the Scriptures, the Lord’s Day, and the house of God. She was often heard to mutter—”Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away,” and, “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency. And thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places.” For 32 years she was a respected and esteemed member of the Free Presbyterian Church, always faithful, and by God’s grace enabled to keep her garments unspotted from the world. A particular feature of her whole life was her regular attendance on the public means of grace. She never despised the day of small things, thereby declaring that she regarded the Lord and not man. “Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.”
—D. N. M.