THIS gracious woman was born in Applecross in the year 1873. Her parents were from the Lochcarron district. After spending some years at work in Glasgow, she married early in life and settled in Ardineaskan, where she remained for the rest of her days.
At communions on the west, and in Dingwall and Inverness, she was a prominent figure for many years. We are not in a position to say when she was changed in her state and nature, or what means the Lord used to bring about this great change, but changed she was—an “epistle of Christ” that could be “known and read of all men.” For round about twenty years she was a member in full communion. She used to say that the words, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness,” were of great comfort to her, when she first professed her Lord publicly. She was not, however, a stranger to that “law” that wars against the “law” of the mind and brings “into captivity to the law of sin” which was in her members. This was often her complaint. But amidst it all she had her “blinks”—the promises of the gospel kept her head above water. At the 1948 summer communion at Applecross, she tasted much of the joy of her salvation, and though she was not sensible of any illness then, she said to someone that she would never be there again, and neither she was. Some time after, her trouble began, which lasted for about three months. The end came on the 23rd October, 1948. During her whole illness she submitted to the Lord’s dispensation, resting wholly on the finished work of Christ. The Lord Himself sustained her with His promises.
She left her aged husband, five sons and two daughters behind to mourn her loss. May the mother’s God and Saviour be their’s. “So he bringeth them into their desired haven.”—A. B.