Communions.
January—Fifth Sabbath, Inverness. February—First Sabbath, Dingwall; third, Stornoway; fourth, North Uist. March—First Sabbath, Ullapool; second, Ness and Portree; third, Finsbay and Lochinver; fourth, Kinlochbervie and North Tolsta. April—First Sabbath, Breasclete and Portnalong; second, Fort William and London; third, Greenock; fourth, Glasgow and Wick. May—First Sabbath, Kames and Oban; second, Scourie and Broadford; third, Edinburgh. June—First Sabbath, Tarbert, Applecross, Coigach; second, Shieldaig; third, Lochearron, Glendale, Helmsdale, Dornoch and Uig; fourth, Inverness and Gairloch. July—First Sabbath, Lairg, Raasay and Bealy; second, Staffin, Tomatin and Tain; third, Halkirk, Rogart, Flashadder and Daviot; fourth, Achmore, Bracadale, North Uist and Plockton; fifth, Thurso. August—First Sabbath, Dingwall; second, Portree and Stratherrick; third, Bonar, Finsbay and Laide; fourth, Vatten and Stornoway. September—First Sabbath, Ullapool and Breasclete; second, Strathy; third, Tarbert and Stoer. October—First Sabbath, Tolsta and Lochearron; second, Gairloch and Ness; third, Applecross; fourth, Greenock, Lochinver; and fifth, Wick. November—First Sabbath, Oban and Raasay; second, Glasgow and Halkirk; third, Edinburgh, Dornoch and Uig. December—First Sabbath, London.
Special Notice.
We have published above all the Communion dates for the year 1955. Will ministers kindly check the list and forward a note of omissions or corrections to the Editor.
The Meeting of Synod.
The Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland will, God willing, meet in the Hall of St. Jude’s Church, Glasgow, on Tuesday, the 17th day of May, 1955, at 6.30 p.m. The retiring Moderator of Synod, the Rev. James MacLeod, Greenock, will (D.V.) conduct public worship at the above hour.—ROBERT R. SINCLAIR, Clerk of Synod.
The Deputy to Australia.
In a further letter which we have received from Rev. Finlay MacLeod, Australia, he tells us that the terrible floods with which New South Wales was recently afflicted did not come near Grafton, where he has been preaching during the last four months or so. As Mr. MacLeod says in his letter, “It is of the Lord’s mercies, however, that we were so far delivered.” He intends being in Grafton until the end of July (D.V.), and in August he is to give one Sabbath of services to Grafton or some other place before crossing over to Auckland, New Zealand, where he intends to visit our people for about two months. Mr. MacLeod tells of the death of Mr. Alex. Kidd, one of the elders at Grafton, who was a brother of the other elder, Mr. James Kidd. The late Mr. Alex. Kidd died soon after the Communion, held in Grafton on the fourth Sabbath of January, and was 84 years of age. We are sure he will be greatly missed by all who love the Lord’s Cause in our congregation at Grafton. But God’s people are taken to glory when ripened by grace for that everlasting habitation. An obituary will appear (D.V.) in the Magazine. Our praying people are indeed obliged to pray for all our ministers abroad, in Africa, Canada and Australia, that the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be blessed to precious souls by the power of the Holy Ghost.—Editor.
Church at Plockton to be Opened.
The new Church at Plockton will (D.V.) be opened on Thursday, 26th May, 1955, at 11.30 a.m. The Rev. A. F. Mackay, M.A., Inverness, will preach.—A. BEATON, Interim Moderator.
Shangani Teacher Training Centre—Appointment of New Teacher.
On 24th February Miss K. M. MacAulay, M.A., sailed on the “Pretoria Castle” for Capetown en route to our Mission Station at Mbuma, Shangani, Southern Rhodesia. Miss MacAulay, who is a native of Breasclete, Isle of Lewis, is to take up duty as assistant to Rev. J. S. Fraser, M.A., at the new Teacher Training Centre, which has as its principle aim the training of our own teachers to take their places in the various schools under our supervision in this Reserve. We have now learned that Miss MacAulay has arrived safely, for which we desire to praise Him who is the Disposer of all events. We ask our praying people to seek to bear this young woman, together with all the other members of our staff, upon their spirits at a Throne of Grace in view of the difficult task laid upon them in their labouring among the Africans for Christ’s sake.
JOHN COLQUHOUN, Convener.
DONALD MACLEAN, Clerk to the Foreign Mission Committee.