Communions.—Vatten (Skye), first Sabbath of September; Strathy (Sutherlandshire) and Finsbay (Harris), second; Tarbert (Harris), third; Laide (Ross-shire), fourth. John Knox’s, Glasgow (2 Carlton Place, South-side), first Sabbath of October; Scourie (Sutherlandshire), second; Lochinver, third; Wick, fifth.
Acknowledgments.—Mr. A. Clunas, General Treasurer, Inverness, acknowledges with thanks, £1 10/1, per Mr. John M’Donald, from the Sabbath School Children in Stornoway for the Foreign Mission in South Africa; £4 2/1, from Mr. Donald Macdonald, Rossland, County Nelson, Virginia, U.S.A., on behalf of the Sustentation Fund; also for same purpose, £2 1/1, per Mr. D. T. Mackenzie, Lochalsh, Ontario, from Friends in Detroit, U.S.A., and Wardsville, Ontario. The Treasurer of St. Jude’s Congregation, Glasgow, acknowledges with thanks, £1 1/1, from a “Friend” in Inverness, per Mr. Angus Macrae, in aid of St. Jude’s Church Building Fund. The Rev. Neil Cameron gratefully acknowledges 7/6 in aid of St. Jude’s Building Fund, and 7/6 in aid of our South African Mission, from “Inverness-shire.” Mr. Murdo Mackay, Strathy Point, acknowledges with thanks, the following donations towards the new Free Presbyterian Church at Strathy: (1) “To the Free Presbyterian Church Building Fund at Strathy,” 10/1, Tomatin Postmark, per Rev. John R. Mackay, Inverness; (2) a “Friend,” Carrbridge, 5/.
The Deputy to South Africa.—The Rev. John R. Mackay, M.A., Inverness, as deputy to our South African Mission, expects (God willing) to leave London by the S.S. “Wakool” of the Blue Anchor Line, on the 14th September, and to arrive, if all goes well, in Capetown about Friday the 8th of October. Thence he will leave by train for Bulawayo and the mission field on the following Tuesday, taking at least four days to reach his destination. He expects to be six Sabbaths altogether in South Africa, four of which will be on the Mission with the Rev. John B. Radasi, and he hopes to be back again in this country by the middle of December. We bespeak for Mr. Mackay the earnest prayers of all our praying people that the Lord may carry him safely to his destination, and make his services a great blessing to Mr. Radasi and the people under his charge. May he get souls as his reward on this arduous journey, and may he be brought back in safety and comfort to his home and congregation again!
Letter from Rev. W. Mackinnon, Gairloch.—We have received a letter from the Rev. W. Mackinnon, Free Church Minister of Gairloch, stating that he is not the “W. M.” who has been writing in the Free Church Record on the subject of the Constitution of the Free Presbyterian Church. Mr. Mackinnon makes reference to an article in the August Free Church Record, and concludes by stating that “whatever views may be held on other points,” he thinks “W. M.” “has thoroughly vindicated the constitutional action of the Free Church minority in their struggle during the eventful periods before and after the Union of 1900.” It appears from this that Mr. Mackinnon does not commit himself to all the views of “W. M.” in said article, and it is well. The vindication spoken of admits, however, of doubt in some particulars, and may be reviewed here at an early date.