Communions.
Oban, and Kames, first Sabbath of May; Dumbarton, second; Edinburgh, and Glendale (Skye), third.
Change of Dates of Lairg and Bonar Communions.
Rev. Ewen Macqueen desires us to intimate that the Communions will (God willing) be held in future in Lairg congregation on the first Sabbath of July (instead of third of August), and in Bonar (Creich) on the third Sabbath of August (instead of first of June). Dornoch and Rogart will continue as formerly—the third Sabbath of June, and the third Sabbath of July respectively.
Protest against the New Royal Protestant Declaration.
A Committee was appointed by the last Free Presbyterian Synod, held in November, to draw up a brief protest against the change recently made in the King’s Protestant Declaration, said protest to be recorded in the Synod records. The following has been drawn up by the Committee:—
“This Synod strongly protests against the policy of bartering away, one after another, the Protestant safeguards set up by our forefathers against the Papacy, and desires to record its special protest against the change recently made in the form and substance of the King’s Protestant Declaration, which change consists in the substituting for the ancient Declaration, that served well the purpose of its framers, and was never more needed in all its details than at present, a Declaration which is of no real value to avert the intrigues of the Roman hierarchy against the Protestantism of the Throne, or to assure Protestants that the person making it is not a Papist at heart. The Synod states the following reasons for its protest :—
“(1) The Church of Rome has never given up her claim to Temporal Power, and is bent upon restoring it upon the ruins of the Protestant Throne of Great Britain. (2) The alarming number of Jesuits banished from France, Portugal, etc., that are plotting daily for the overthrow of all our Protestant liberties, both civil and religious, calls loudly to us, not to weaken, but to strengthen our safeguards, and to put the laws on our Statute Book in force against those enemies of our Throne and Nation.”
Deputy to Canada.
It has been arranged that the Rev. Neil Macintyre, Stornoway, go to Canada this summer as Deputy from the Free Presbyterian Church. Mr. Macintyre expects (God willing) to sail on Saturday, the 6th May. We may assuredly bespeak the earnest prayers of all our praying people on his behalf—that he may be carried in safety to the field of his mission, and that an abundant blessing may attend his labours among our friends across the Atlantic.
The Southern Presbytery
has adopted a deliverance protesting against the imposition of the Papal marriage law Ne Temere within the bounds of the United Kingdom, and calling upon the Government to take steps to prevent Roman Catholic interference with marriages celebrated in accordance with our Protestant laws. Deliverance in full next month.
Acknowledgments.
Mr. Angus Clunas, Treasurer, 18 Ardconnel Terrace, Inverness, acknowledges, with thanks, the following donations:—For Foreign Missions—5/- from “Lady,” Glasgow, and 30/- from “Lady and Gentleman,” per Rev. N. Cameron; 10/- from Mr. and Mrs. M’Iver, Nairn, per Mr. F. M’Iver; 5/- from Miss Finlayson, Balvaire, Muir-of-Ord; 5/- from “Friend,” Kincardineshire. For Kaffir Psalms—8/- from “Lady Friend,” Canada, and 2/6 from “Lady,” Greenock, per Rev. N. Cameron. For Sustentation Fund, etc.—£4 2/1 from Messrs. K. Mackenzie & Co., Detroit, U.S.A., half for Sustentation Fund and remainder for Mr. Radasi, for his own and his child’s personal use. Rev. J. S. Sinclair acknowledges, with thanks, from “Nemine,” £1 for John Knox’s Sustentation Fund, and 10/- for poor of Congregation, and 5 dollars from Mr. A. Macfarlane, Tyneside, Ontario, for General Sustentation Fund. Mr. L. A. Ross, 633 Corydon Ave., Fort Rouge, Winnipeg, acknowledges, with thanks, 10/- from “A Friend,” Garelochhead, for Church Building Fund in Winnipeg.