216 West Regent Street, Glasgow, 10th December, 1928. My dear Mrs. Mackay, Mr. John Grant, Inverness, informed me last Saturday that your beloved husband and my beloved friend has passed away to be
with Christ at 2.30 on Friday morning. So I write to express my deepest sympathy with you in your time of mourning, and to assure you that I am one of your fellow-mourners, and, therefore, can enter into your sense of a deep wound in your heart which none can bind up but the tender hand of the Lord. You will feel very lonely and desolate now in the world, and your mind will be often going to eternity as if time had become little or nothing to you. But you should consider that there is not one drop more in your cup than the Lord’s infinite and holy wisdom saw you required; and, therefore, albeit it is bitter, it is as nothing to the cup the Father gave to His own Son. When you will consider this and, what our Lord said: “The cup which my Father has given me, shall not I drink it,” should not you say the same. David did so when he said: “I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it.” May the Lord uphold you in your deep grief, comfort and strengthen you by making His grace sufficient for you and His strength perfect in your weakness. “The earth belongs unto the Lord and all that it contains.” He is the widow’s stay, and He enjoins: “Leave thy fatherless children to me, and let thy widows put their trust in me.”
There were not many men for whom I had a warmer place in my heart than I had for your late husband. I always found him a sincere, steadfast, and faithful follower of the Lamb; and a friend that could be trusted in every time of need. He was also a man to whom the Lord gave good discernment about men and also the concerns of Christ’s cause in our day. Such men are very rare in our day:—”Help Lord because the godly man doth daily fade away.” With the sincerest sympathy of my heart towards you in your sorrow. I remain, dear friend, Yours very Sincerely, Neil Cameron.