Communions.
Creich (Bonar) and Coigach, first Sabbath of June; Shieldaig (Lochcarron), second; Dornoch (Sutherland), and Bracadale (Skye), third; Inverness, and Gairloch (Ross-shire), fourth. Raasay and Beauly, first Sabbath of July; Moy (Tomatin), Tain and Lochcarron, second; Rogart (Sutherland), Halkirk (Caithness), and Daviot (Inverness-shire), third.
Summer Services at Fishing Stations.
Arrangements are being made with a view to have Gaelic services at Fraserburgh during part, at least, of the fishing season. These services will (d.v.) begin on the third Sabbath of July. Similar services will be conducted at Wick by Mr. Murdo Mackay, missionary.
Meeting of Synod.
The Free Presbyterian Synod will (God willing) meet at the Inverness Church on Tuesday after the first Sabbath of July. It is expected that the Moderator, the Rev. Alexander Macrae, Portree, will preach at 11 a.m.
Brief Obituaries.
A friend in Helmsdale has sent us two brief notices of persons in connection with the congregation there, who died within the last thirteen months. He expresses regret for the delay:—Mrs. A. M’Pherson, Upper Helmsdale.—Time brings many changes. The messenger of death comes, and there is a blank in the heart, and the home, and the congregation. On the 26th April, 1909, Margaret M’Lean, wife of Alexander M’Pherson, was called from time to eternity. Her illness was short and painful, but borne with a meek and patient spirit, and truly in her case the words of Psalm cvii. 29, 30 were fulfilled, “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still,” etc. In her youth she received from her parents a godly example which seems to have been truly blessed to her. Her mother is said to have been a God-fearing, meek, gentle woman. Much sympathy has been felt for her husband and two children in their sad bereavement. May the Lord be their protector and all in all!
John S. Murray, Portgower.—After six months’ illness, on the 4th November, 1909, Mr. John S. Murray was called away. He was a loyal Free Presbyterian, and a regular attender of the means of grace. He took a very hearty interest in the formation of the congregation in 1893, and was a willing and intelligent member of the Congregational Committee. His removal makes a blank in our midst. He got the allotted span of life, and has left a widow and grown-up family, two of whom are abroad. We extend to them our deepest sympathy in their great loss. May the Father of the fatherless be their upmaking portion!
We regret to notice the death on the 8th May, of Isabella Murchison (the well-known and esteemed Ishbel Buie) at Drumbuie, Plockton, Ross-shire; and also the death on the 12th of Mr. John Maclean, Senior, elder, St. Jude’s Congregation, Glasgow. Further notices will (d.v.) appear next month.
Acknowledgments.
Rev. J. S. Sinclair acknowledges with thanks:—£1 for Foreign Mission, from S. Porter, Esq., Pitnacree, East Maitland, N.S. Wales, per Rev. Walter Scott; 10/- for Kaffir Psalms, and 10/- for Kaffir Bibles, from “Well-wisher,” Lochalsh, Ontario; and 2/6 from “Anonymous,” for any F.P. Fund applied to Missionaries and Catechists. Mr. Murdo Mackay, missionary, Strathy Point, acknowledges with thanks 15 dollars towards new F.P. Church at Strathy, from M. M. (postmark, Ripley, Ontario); and 10/-, “Well-wisher,” Lochalsh, Ontario.
Notice to Subscribers.
We respectfully remind subscribers that April was the end of the Magazine year, and that payments for the past and future will now much oblige.—Address, Rev. J. S. Sinclair, 248 Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Subscribers, who change their addresses, are requested to notify the Editor without delay whenever these changes take place.
Correction.
In article on Instrumental Music in last issue, the word “not” was omitted in line 4, paragraph (2), between “would” and “be.”