MANY of our readers will hear, with regret, of the removal by death of Alexander Fraser, Kiltarlity, an event which took place at his home on the 19th February of this year. Mr. Fraser was in the habit of attending, often, we believe, at no little inconvenience to himself, Communion gatherings almost in all parts of the North, and in this way came to be looked upon as a welcome friend and visitor by many beyond his native parish. We are not in circumstances enabling us to give a detailed account of his spiritual history, but the evidences were not a few that the “root of the matter” was in him. In bringing up a large family he was not a stranger to being often in straitened circumstances, and for years before the end came he was suffering from an internal trouble which at length proved fatal. But we believe these were some of the ordained means in the hands of the Blessed Spirit to prepare him for the place he was to fill in the house above. At Friday fellowship meetings he proved often an edifying speaker. Much sympathy is felt for his widow and family in the loss of a beloved and honoured husband and father.
J. R. M.