FREE Presbyterian Manse, Raasay, 8th April, 1901.—Dear Miss MacRae,—As I may not be able to visit you at Rona so soon as I would wish I write you this note to express my deep sympathy with you and all the rest of your household in your recent bereavement; and my prayer is that the Lord would comfort and support you all in your sorrow. Finlay, your brother, was a Christian man for whom I had great regard, and his removal from our midst I consider a great blank in our congregation. I felt specially attached to him as we were together when we were little boys; and the renewal of my acquaintance with him since I came to Raasay intensified my love to him as I found that he was a man of God. It is a comfort in the midst of our sorrow to think that our departed friend is now past all tribulations, and enjoying his everlasting rest with Christ.
I pray that the dispensation may be blessed to you all, so that when death comes to remove you from time to eternity it may find you in Christ, the only refuge in which sinners are protected from the wrath which is to come. Then you will find that the separation which death made between you and your brother was but for a season; you will meet again to part no more for ever. With our kind regards and sympathy, Yours sincerely, D. Macfarlane.