Communions.—Laig, Beuly, and Raasay, first Sabbath of July; Tain, Bracadale (Skye), Tomatin (Moy), second; Daviot (Inverness), Halkirk (Caithness), and Rogart (Sutherland), third; Carrbridge (Inverness), fourth. Dingwall, first Sabbath of August; Portree and Flashadder, third; Plockton and North Uist, fourth.
NOTE.—It is hereby requested that all Moderators of congregations (or others in charge), who desire intimation of Communions in the Magazine, send timely notice to the Editor for this purpose.
Calling Light Darkness.—The protest which the Southern Presbytery raised against the increased running of trains on the Lord’s Day by the Caledonian Railway Company, and which was published in our last number, awakened considerable attention in the press. A copy of it was sent to the Glasgow Herald by the Clerk to the Presbytery, and the Herald was good enough to give it a very prominent place in its columns with the title, “A Remarkable Protest.” A correspondence arose partly in approval and partly in condemnation of the witness raised. One person, who wrote on the enemy’s side, was so maddened as to say that he never saw anything so heathenish for a long time. The sentence which seems to have stirred up the ire of the ungodly to its greatest pitch was, that “God would punish this form of iniquity either in this life or that which is to come.” The idea of God’s retributive justice seems to have faded from the minds of the present generation, and so when future punishment is spoken of, they regard it as heathenism, and so call light darkness. The perpetual obligation of all the commands of the moral law, the fourth as well as the rest, is deliberately ignored by many to their own and others’ serious injury. A desecrated Sabbath is one of the precursors of a lost eternity.
Acknowledgments.—Mr. A. Clunas, Treasurer, 35 Ardconnel Terrace, East, Inverness, begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the following donations:—For Sustentation Fund—20/- from “A Friend,” Detroit, U.S.A., per Rev. N. M’Intyre; 20/- from Mr. P. Campbell, dyer, Perth; 10/- from Mr. A. Macpherson, Strontian; 5/- from “A True Friend,” Strontian. For Foreign Missions
—£8 13/6 from Mr. Hugh Grant, Woodford, Leigh, Clarence River, N.S.W., per Rev. N. Cameron. For Matabele Church Building Fund—8/- from Nurse B. Macleod, Boston, U.S.A., per Rev. J. S. Sinclair; 5/- from “Friend,” Marrel, Helmsdale, per Mr. J. Adamson; 5/- from Mr. K. Macrae, postman, Lochcarron; 2/6 from “C. M.,” Staffin, per Mr. A. Mackay; 20/5 from Mr. S. Bannerman, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, and 5/- from “Anon,” Oldshore, Kinlochbervie, per Rev. J. S. Sinclair. For Kaffir Psalms—5/- from Mr. A. Mackenzie, Laide, Aultbea, per Rev. N. Cameron; 2/6 from the late Mrs. Fraser, Helmsdale, per Mr. J. Adamson (ought to have appeared in May Magazine). For Inverness Building Fund—20/- from Mrs. Maciver, Nairn, per Mr. F. Maciver.—The Treasurer of the Dingwall Congregation, begs to acknowledge, with thanks, per Rev. D. M’Farlane, 5/- received from an anonymous donor, for Manse Building Fund, in April last year (post mark “Ayr”), letter and Postal Order mislaid, and found lately.—Rev. J. S. Sinclair begs to acknowledge, with thanks, £1 from John Knox’s Sustentation Fund, and 10/- for Poor of Congregation from “April” (omitted to be acknowledged last month).
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