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We announce with regret the death of Dr. Donald Fraser, minister of the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, which took place at his residence, 3, Cambridge Square on Friday night, after an illness which lasted only four days. Dr. Fraser was born at Inverness, where his father filled the office of Provost, on January 15, 1826. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards studied divinity at Knox College, Toronto, and the New College, Edinburgh. In 1851 he accepted the charge of a church at Montreal, becoming eight years later minister of the congregation of the Free High Church, Inverness. In 1870 he came to London on a call from the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, and has since taken a leading part in the Presbyterian Church of England, having been twice Moderator of the Synod. Yesterday morning, long before the beginning of the service, Marylebone Presbyterian Church, 'Upper George Street, Bryanston Square, was crowded in every part, the announcement in Saturday morning's papers that the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Donald Fraser, would occupy the pulpit tho following forenoon, and the report of his sudden death in the evening journals, being, no doubt, instrumental in attracting such immense attendance. Before the service began Mr. Cecil Robertson, one of the deacons, who was accompanied by Dr. Renton, MP., and other prominent members of the congregation, broke the intelligence of their minister's sudden and unexpected death, Dr. Fraser, he said, died en Friday night, at 10 o'clock, of pneumonia after an illness of only four days' duration. On Sunday last he occupied the pulpit in that church as usual, and no later than Monday he occupied the choir at the annual business meeting of the congregation. Dr. Fraser was for 23 years the minister of that church. His fame was in all the churches, and everywhere he was honoured and revered; but they who know him intimately and had constant intercourse with him regarded him with deep, warm, ardent affection. The funeral would take place at Inverness on Saturday next; the mortal remains of their beloved minister would be brought to that church on Thursday, when a memorial service would be held. An appropriate service then followed, with a short address from a Canadian clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton (who was a personal friend of the deceased minister nearly years ago in Montreal). In the evening the Rev. Dr. Matthews, of Toronto, and secretary of the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance, preached to a numerous congregation. The late Dr. Fraser was unanimously elected at tho last sederunt of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England to represent the London churches at the Great Synod to be held in Toronto this year.

At the close of his sermon in the City Temple yesterday morning, Dr. Parker spoke of the event as follows:- I have heard that Dr. Donald Fraser is dead. When will this ruthless sword, invisible, tremendous in action, cease, and give us rest awhile, lest our poverty become too painful? That sword has already wrought grievous desolation in the churches. Man after man has fallen, some go suddenly; especially in the last case for I hear that Dr. Fraser who was ill only some four days. Is it possible that some of us can only be four days off the grave? Can we be arrested, imprisoned, driven into the nameless darkness in four little days? Surely the lesson is: Work while it is called day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work. Dr. Donald Fraser has been long in London. He has been one of the most conspicuous ornaments of the Presbyterian Church in England. He was passionately devoted to the holy ministry. If now and again he came into other fields, they were collateral and not alien grounds into which he came that he might fight some battle for righteousness and liberty. In theology he was intensely orthodox; in preaching he was vigorous, varied, eloquent, practical, and most Useful. As a leader of his Church he was always to the front, wise, progressive without being rash, and strong in his very cautiousness. We cannot allow such a man to disappear in silence. We owe something to holy memories. Our recollections of this kind should be amongst our chief treasures. What a call we have had this year of desolation to the younger ministers to prepare themselves for filling great vacancies, to he baptised for the dead, to be ready to take the places of the standard-bearer. Yet of the future I have no fear. The Church is God's, not ours. He will find the leaders, the men of valour, the men needful for the present occasion and opportunity. Not one of us is indispensable to God. Yet, looking within narrow and social and fraternal lines, how poor we are made by same deaths; the air has changed its temperature, the earth has taken upon it a look of strangeness, the very ground once so familiar seems now not to care for our trespass. To outlive your generation, to become a stranger amongst the multiplied millions of earth - O this would be a penalty, this would be one of the cruel judgments of fate! I sympathize with our bereaved friends, men who gather around vacant pulpits and wonder when the familiar figure will be there. God help us to work, to love, to suffer, if need be! This is the day of splendid opportunity.^6,3

He was educated at the University of Aberdeen (M.A., 1842, D.D., 1872), and studied divinity at Knox College, Toronto, and New College, Edinburgh. He was ordained in 1851 a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and from 1851 to 1859 he was minister of the Coté St. Presbyterian Church in Montreal. He then accepted a charge in Inverness and in 1870 he became minister of Marylebone Presbyterian Church in London.⁶