The Kirk Session of the Brushgrove-Grafton Congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland record with regret the loss sustained by the congregation through the passing of Mr Aird Grant on the 23rd day of January, 1969, in his 81st year. Although leading a sober and unblemished life, Mr Grant was about middle age when he underwent a saving change. In due course he was admitted to the Lord’s Table, and in the year 1955 was ordained to the office of eldership in the congregation. As an elder he faithfully discharged the duties of his office, and adorned his profession by a life in keeping with the Saviour’s character of those who are His disciples indeed, in the world but not of it, pilgrims and strangers seeking a better country that is an heavenly.
Like his late worthy father, Mr Hugh Grant, who also had been an elder in the congregation, Aird Grant was steadfast and unmoveable in upholding the Testimony of the Reconstituted Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia now continued in the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, in defence of the divine inspiration, infallibility and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures against all the Satanic attacks on the same, of the unchanging doctrines of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, of purity of worship, the sanctity of the Lord’s Day against the wanton profanation of it in a godless age, of Church discipline, and the administration of the two divinely instituted sacraments of the New Testament, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, holding the two sacraments in general as seals of the covenant of grace, but not specifically sealing the same measure of privilege, that the qualifications for Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are not identical, and that many may be admitted to the former who are not prepared for the latter.
To Mrs Grant and the family and to Miss Margaret Grant the late Mr Grant’s Sister, the Kirk Session extend their sympathy in the loss of a devoted husband, father and brother, sincerely praying that they be made partakers of the blessing which David the sweet psalmist of Israel desired for his son Solomon, “And thou, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all imaginations of the thoughts; if thou seek Him He will be found of thee: but if thou forsake Him, he will cast thee off for ever”. (1 Chronicles 29.9).
— Wm. MacLean.