MRS. ALEXANDER MACKAY was born at Strathy Point, in July, 1860, and died there on the 12th day of January, 1943, aged 82 years. Her father, Mr. Murdo Mackay, was an elder in the old Free Church and was well known as a man of piety. We cannot tell when the good work of the Holy Spirit began in her case, but the Lord Jesus declares, “by their fruits ye shall know them.” For many years she publicly professed that all her hope and confidence was placed in the merit and preciousness of Jesus and His broken body and shed blood. Her profession was united to a life-long practice which was according to the gospel and quite clearly the fruit of abounding grace over abounding sin in her heart. She was a mother in Israel spiritually, and showed much affection for and warmth of attachment to everything connected with the Cause of Christ in our midst as a Church. The warm welcome she would give to the preachers of the Gospel and any of the Lord’s people who visited her hospitable home, cannot easily be forgotten by those who knew her. Until she was well nigh eighty years of age, she set an example to old and young by her regularity in the House of God, although having to walk quite a long distance from her home. Several years before she died she took seriously ill, and was thereafter confined to her home. During this period, she was at times very “broken in her heart and grieved in her mind,” fearing lack of preparation to meet God, along with other fears. But Christ was all her salvation. And in due course, we believe, she entered into that Kingdom on high where “there are pleasures for ever more.” May all the members of this gracious woman’s family be enabled to follow in “the footsteps of the flock.”
R. R. S.