ONE of the most gracious of the Sutherland catechists was William Calder, a native of Croy, near Inverness. Dr Mackintosh Mackay paid the following beautiful tribute to his memory, and in doing so mentions the advice tendered to him by the venerable saint of God:—”There must be some here present,” said Dr Mackay, “this day who remember your venerable catechist, William Calder. A frequent visitor was I in his dwelling while attending your Parish School; and on the day I was called to leave it, when calling to take leave at that blessed house, I trust I shall never forget, while God spares me on earth, the parting words of William Calder. And if it please God to accept me in the great day as one of His own, redeemed by sovereign grace, I trust to carry the remembrance of what I now tell you into the Kingdom above. This memorable patriarch-like person, leaning upon his spade while he laboured in his harvest field (and full of chastened dignity was that person in stature and expression wherever he appeared), in solemn accents, and with loving looks of fatherly kindness, said—’My son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts and all the imaginations of the thoughts; if thou seek Him, He will be found of thee, but if thou forsake Him, He will cast thee off for ever.'”—Rev. Alex. Auld’s “Ministers and Men in the Far North.”