THIS worthy woman was removed by death to join the company of those in heaven on 25th January of last year. She was born at First Coast 89 years ago, and died at Second Coast—places in the vicinity of Laide. Apart from deafness her health continued good to the end. Of the means used by the Most High to open her heart and lead her to Christ there is nothing known to us. Her claim to the hope of heaven was, however, the charter of the Word of God. She told one or two of her intimate friends that she found the last verse of the twelfth chapter of Isaiah: “Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee,” a rich mine to her soul. In her anxious times she used to dig here again and remembering the years of the right hand of the Most High. Thus “from strength to strength” she went through the wilderness until in Zion she appeared before God. She was well on in years before she made a public profession, and this profession she adorned, being one of “the salt of the earth.” She digested the promises of God’s Word and gave expression to her faith by her patient continuance in well doing: “He that receiveth His testimony has set to his seal that God is true.” Her fidelity to the truth and to the distinctive position of the Free Presbyterian Church was not easily moved. She had been a widow for a number of years. She left five sons to mourn her loss, two of whom are in America. Two daughters having pre-deceased her.
The loss of such pious people to the church below is great, and in that respect there is cause to mourn; but otherwise, in regard to them there is no such cause, but rather rejoicing; for they inhabit the place where the “Lamb is the light thereof.” “O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.”—A. B.