Note.—At the last meeting of Synod it was recommended that brief reports of our Presbytery meetings should be published from time to time in the Magazine. This was suggested by Rev. J. R. Mackay, M.A., Inverness, in response to requests from friends in Canada for the publication of more news about the Church’s movements. We hope that clerks of Presbyteries will take note of this.
Communions.—The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will (D.V.) be held in Inverness on the fifth Sabbath of this month, and in Dingwall on the first Sabbath of February.
Northern Presbytery.—This Court met at Tain Church on Tuesday, 27th Nov. Rev. E. Macqueen was appointed moderator. The Synod’s sanction of Tain as a regular charge was intimated, but the recommendation of the addition of Fearn to the charge was not agreed to by the congregation. Rev. John Macleod, M.A., Kames, preached previous to the Presbytery meeting.
Southern Presbytery.—This Presbytery met at 110 Hill Street, Garnethill, Glasgow, on December 8th. The Rev. John Robertson, moderator, presided. The Court took up the remit from the Synod in reference to financial matters in John Knox’s congregation, and agreed to instruct their Deacon’s Court to pay the minister’s rent and taxes for the current year and henceforward instead of the less sum as supplement presently given, and to send up thereafter as much as possible to the Sustentation Fund. The Clerk (Rev. J. S. Sinclair) said that the Deacon’s Court of his congregation had shown much interest in the prosperity of the general Sustentation Fund in the past, on two occasions having sent up £20 more than was promised, and that in future, while attending to congregational requirements, they would certainly endeavour to do their best for the same fund. A member of Presbytery remarked that the interests of the Sustentation Fund would require to be laid more upon the consciences of several other congregations throughout the Church than it was at present. This sentiment was endorsed by the other members present. The court afterwards examined several annual financial statements of congregations. They appointed Thursday, 24th December, as a day of thanksgiving for the harvest within their bounds. The Presbytery adjourned, to meet again in Glasgow on January 14th, 1904.