The year 1953 has left the Gairloch congregation poorer, as no less than five of its members in full communion were removed by death. Mrs. MacLennan was the fourth in the order in which they were called to inherit, we believe, the kingdom that is “incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away.” Mrs. MacLennan was born at Ormscaig, in the Aultbea district, in the year 1875, and her maiden name was Beaton, being the daughter of Duncan Beaton, a respectable and well-known man in the district.
We are not in a position to state what means the Lord used to bring our subject to a saving knowledge of Christ, but it was when she was in her youth. She lived a life of simple faith in her Redeemer and possessed a meek, quiet, peaceful and loving disposition. She was not ignorant, however, of Satan’s temptations, and of the depravity of her own heart, as she often indicated, but the Lord afforded her a taste of the “water of life” by the way and now she drinks abundantly at the fountain head and is done with complaints for ever.
It was through her marriage to Mr. Duncan MacLennan, a careful and inoffensive man, who predeceased her by nearly 20 years, that Mrs. MacLennan came into the Free Presbyterian Church, and she was a member in full communion for the long period of about 40 years in the Free Presbyterian Church. As stated already, she came under the influence of the truth when young, and she first sat at the Lord’s table when in her late teens, probably in the old Free Church.
She was diligent in waiting upon God in the public and private means of grace, and her presence is now much missed in the local meeting house. Latterly it was with a great effort she managed to walk the short distance to the house of God owing to the condition of her heart. Though failing for some time, her time on the sick-bed was but short, and the end came rather sudden on the 21st September, 1953. We extend our sympathy to her devoted son and daughter-in-law in their loss. “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”—A. B.