MRS. C. HENDERSON, AND MRS. J. MORRISON, ONTARIO.
IT is with sincere sorrow, and as desiring to condole with bereaved friends beyond the Atlantic, that we record the death of two very highly-esteemed Christian women who were in connection with the Free Presbyterian Mission in Canada.
(1) Mrs. Charles Henderson, Lobo, Ontario: She was a very attractive personality, and the Free Presbyterian cause had scarcely a more warm-hearted friend in Canada. She was not known as distinctly holding with those people in Ontario who some thirteen years ago craved the Free Presbyterian Synod to take them under their care, until in 1902 the first of our deputies visited that Province. It was her own confession that she heard the word of God through that deputy as she had not heard the word of God before, and from that day, until she breathed her last, her chiefest concern in the world seemed to be the glory of God, and the advancement of the kingdom of His dear Son in the salvation of her own soul and that of others. When the Church deputy was in Canada last year, she seemed in her ordinary health, and was most assiduous in her waiting upon the means of grace. In the course of the winter, however, a form of internal trouble developed which induced her to enter a surgical hospital in London, Ontario. But her malady proved incurable, and so, after having been repeatedly operated upon, she returned to her own home in Lobo, where she finished her course here below about the middle of May of this year. We are pleased to know that Rev. Donald M. MacDonald, our missionary in Canada for this year, arrived just in time to be present at her funeral. With the sorrowing widowed husband, and with the sorrowing Free Presbyterian cause in Canada, we feel the deepest sympathy.
(2) Mrs. Ann Morrison, who died at Kincardine on 27th May of this year: She was the widow of the late eminently worthy Mr. John Morrison, who died 31st March, 1912, of whom some account was given in this Magazine shortly after his death. It is much to have to say of Mrs. Morrison that she was his worthy helpmeet. Mrs. Morrison’s parents, we take it, emigrated from Assynt to Canada about the same time that Rev. Norman Macleod of St. Ann’s, Cape Breton (afterwards of Waipu, New Zealand), went over to Canada. Mrs. Morrison was herself, we think, born in Cape Breton, and brought up under Rev. Norman MacLeod’s ministry. We are not able to give many details concerning Mrs. Morrison, but she impressed us as being a worthy woman, of a retiring disposition. She seemed, to the writer, to have been much and favourably impressed by Rev. Norman MacLeod’s ministrations, and she took pleasure in telling illustrative anecdotes of Mr. MacLeod’s stern ways with his people, of his hospitality too, and sometimes of his eccentricities. With her sorrowing stepdaughter and stepsons we feel the sincerest sympathy.
J. R. M.