IN January of last year John Grant entered heaven, we believe, to enjoy the bliss of the ransomed. He was born at Opinan near Laide; where in the providence of the Most High he finished his pilgrimage. He reached a good old age, being, as far as we can ascertain, in his ninety-first year when he died. He made a public profession some fifteen or sixteen years ago. The love of Christ constrained him then. At that time he told a friend of the cause that he could not keep any longer from professing his Lord publicly. The late judicious James Maciver, Lairg, in writing to a friend at the time of John’s death said that he remembered that those who had the best discernment in the old Free Church concluded that he feared the Lord from the time he was a young man. He lived “soberly, righteously and godly” and so never belied that opinion.
He cast in his lot with those who formed the Free Presbyterian Church in 1893, and never wavered. He was naturally reserved and did not go much abroad but those who knew him intimately could discern that his Bible was his constant companion. Mr. Mackay, our missionary at Laide, says that as his end was drawing near that his mind was more and more on eternity, and that he was supported by the truth, the 130th Psalm being an overflowing well to him. He was a widower for fifty-one years. His wife having died eleven months after he was married.—A. B.