BY unintentional oversight we neglected to make reference to the passing away of an outstanding minister of the Original Secession Church and a good friend of the Free Presbyterian cause. Though somewhat belated, we feel it our duty to make a short reference to Mr Matthew’s faithful advocacy of Reformation doctrines. Mr Matthew was a man of prayer, and in a private paper drawn up by him he writes: “There seems to me to be a special call to fasting and prayer in order to a humbling of myself before God for these reasons: (1) My own spiritual coldness and want of freedom and fervour in public worship. (2) The weak and languishing condition of my congregation. (3) The alienation of others from us and our services. (4) The seeming want of interest in hearing the Word by my own people and others. (5) No appearance of conversions.” Mr Matthew took his ministerial work seriously as became a messenger of the King of heaven. He showed his fidelity in maintaining the truth and exposing error. The Original Secession Church lost in him one of its most noted ministers and the Church in general a true servant of Jesus Christ.