KINLOCHBERVIE, SUTHERLANDSHIRE.
THE subject of this notice passed away at Drummond, Oldshore, Kinlochbervie, on the fourth day of January last—the first Sabbath of the year—at the age of seventy-one. He was in ailing health for the last two years through heart disease. His death has made a great blank in the Kinlochbervie congregation. I have no doubt but the ministry of the late esteemed Rev. Donald Corbet was spiritually beneficial to him, as we seldom met but some reference was made to Mr. Corbet, with much delight. But Robert’s anchor of hope was in the Rock of Ages, Isaiah xlv. 25, “In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.” His retentive memory was often a matter of wonder, in quoting texts and remarks from various ministers. This ability was kept with him to the end, though he was in great suffering for the last fortnight or more. His wife (who is a member of our Church) asked him shortly before the end, “Is your hope sustained?” He replied, “Yes, and much need.”
“Help, Lord, because the godly man
Doth daily fade away;
And from among the sons of men
The faithful do decay.”—Ps. xii. I.
H. M.
Martyred Korea.
Korea is a large island off the coast of Japan. It appears that the Japanese, who “acquired complete control of the country in 1910,” have been carrying on a policy of oppression and persecution against the native Christians who form a considerable part of the population. Japanese troops have been treating the people with great severity and cruelty, there being many instances of this of the most brutal and terrible kind. Mr. F. A. Mackenzie, who writes in the May number of the Quarterly Register (organ of Alliance of Reformed Churches, holding the Presbyterian system), says that “the only hope of checking the Japanese campaign against the Christians of Korea is by agitation and protests from the Christians of the West.”