THE British Weekly gives a report of a speech by Principal Rainy at the annual congregational meeting of the Free College Church, Glasgow, on the evening of 22nd April. We make the following extract:—”He felt that God had been very good to the Free Church in many ways. There was one movement in connection with their Church which created a certain amount of tension. He meant the secession movement in the Highlands. They regretted that movement. He was very far indeed from having any unkind feeling to those who had committed themselves to that movement. He regretted that for their own sake. He respected the personal character of many of those who took part in that movement. At the same time there was no doubt at all that the effect of that movement was to disembarass a number of the Free Church congregations of impracticable elements—those elements which from conscientious conviction led men to set themselves against everything like the active and vigorous developments of Christian life in modern times. He must say that one effect in the Highlands was that they were all to a large extent in the Free Church pulling together, and not disposed to create difficulties for one another, or to throw stumbling blocks in one another’s way. That was a good thing. While they desired that the secessionists might do good work, he felt there had been a guiding hand in this matter which the Free Church would do well to recognise.”