IT is with sorrow we announce the death of the above worthy member of Portree congregation. At the advanced age of 78, Mrs Macpherson went to Canada, to reside with one of her family, but missed the means of grace so much prized by her in Skye, and therefore she returned to this country last summer, after being about two years abroad.
She was a most loyal Free Presbyterian, and greatly interested in the progress of the Church at home and elsewhere. In proportion to her means few were more liberal to the Church funds. This was mentioned to her when near the end, but she remarked that liberality could do nothing for her, and then said, quoting the Psalmist, “Whom have I in the heavens but Thee, and whom in earth do I desire beside Thee!”
These were her last words, and shortly afterwards she departed, we believe, to her eternal rest. She took ill about the beginning of February and passed away on the 16th of March. We would express our deepest sympathy with her family in their great loss.
D. M. M.
While I was afflicted with the fears of my own damnation there were two things would make me wonder. One was, when I saw old people hunting after the things of this life as if they should live here always; the other was, when I found professors much distressed and cast down when they met with outward losses. Lord, thought I, what ado is here about such little things as these!—John Bunyan.