June - the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland

GOFj'ee J'1'I'"h.'l1cr;an Magazine.The late Mr. Angus Fraser, Elder,St. ]ude's, Glasgow.ANGUS FRASER was b01'1I :11 'I'o!'c', Black Isle, Ross-shire, inApril, 18GO. His fath('r \\':I~ 11 1'1l1'll\('1' and a very orderlyand sober man, according to repo!'h, 111111 his mother was a trulygodly woman. She was a daugbin Ill' I.\I!' late eminently godlyman, Donald DuJr, who was well bllll\ 11 th!,(lughout the northernHighlands of Scotland, espceia.Ily at "Illlllllllllion seasons. Theinscription on his tombstone is as follll\\'s: "In memory ofDonald Duff, Free Church Catechist, lil'sl :11 i\lvie, latterly ofDingwall and Stmtbcrrick, and otherwis(' ill I hc' sf'l'vice of theChurch for 45 yea.rSj a living epistle of till' ~1:lstl'!' whom hedelighted to cormnend to others. He lived ]H·lov('d, rmd diedlamented, at Inverness on the 9th January 1S},!i," Wc haveinserted this inscription for two reasons-(l) hC"':llIS!' wc fullybelieve that it gives a true idea of Donald Duff ns :1 s('!'v-ant ofChrist and of the Church, ,and of the estimation in II'llil'h he Wl;lSheld by all friends of truth and righteousness; and (:2) !)('causeof the resemblance that existed between his chanwte!' :lIld i,hatof his daughter, N.Lrs. Fmser, Angus Fraser's mother.Sueh an eminmltly godly mother as she was would do all inher power to instil the doctrines and principles of God's law andgospel into the mind of her children, the fruits of whi(·11 1miningappeared after many days in several of them. But p;!'nee doesnot run in the blood j neither does godly upbringing l'hange thenature of the fallen and corrupt sons of men. It l'('