NEAR the beginning of last month (7th May) Prof. John R. Mackay, D.D., passed to his everlasting rest. Many of our older readers will remember Mr. Mackay in his Free Presbyterian days and will still retain happy memories of him as a preacher of the everlasting gospel. He was a scholar and theologian of outstanding ability. Mr. Mackay was a native of Strathy Point, Sutherland, and the son of God-fearing parents—William Mackay and Jane Robertson. He was the first student licensed in the Free Presbyterian Church and was one of the witnesses to the Deed of Separation. He was called to Gairloch and ordained and inducted there in 1893. His next charge was in Inverness where he was inducted in 1900. In 1918, Mr. Mackay, as he then was, joined the Free Church, a step which was strongly disapproved of by his warmest and best friends in the church of his first love. He acted as theological tutor in the Free Presbyterian Church from 1896-1918 and was appointed Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the Free Church College in 1919. The passing of Dr. Mackay has removed one who occupied a prominent place in the early history of the Free Presbyterian Church.