Communions.
Dingwall, first Sabbath of February; Stornoway, third. Ullapool (Ross), first Sabbath of March; Portree, and Tarbert (Harris), second; Tolsta (Lewis), fifth. Ness (Lewis), and John Knox’s, Glasgow (Hall, 2 Carlton Place, South-side), first Sabbath of April.
Communion at London Mission.
The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will (God willing) be dispensed at the Conference Hall, Eccleston St., Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London, S.W., on the fourth Sabbath of March. Friends throughout the Church, who have friends in London, are kindly requested to call their attention to the above, and to the Services regularly conducted at the Conference Hall from Sabbath to Sabbath.
Rev. W. Scott’s Return to Canada.
Mr. Scott, as already reported in the Magazine, was inducted to his charge in Chesley, Ontario, on the 11th October, in Glasgow. He set sail on the 18th of the same month for Canada, accompanied by Mrs. Scott and her sister, Miss Macdonald. In letters received, Mr. Scott reports that they “had a very rough trip, encountering gales and heavy seas, which continued throughout the week. The presence of icebergs and fogs added to the anxiety, and delayed by such weather they had two Sabbaths at sea.” On each of these days he was asked to conduct service, but only on the second were the conditions at all suitable. It was with evident feeling, he remarks, mingled in the case of some it is hoped with true thankfulness to the Most High, that the assembled passengers on that Sabbath morning joined in singing Psalm 107, verses 23 to 31, including “The storm is changed into a calm.” Montreal was reached on the tenth day. The railway journey was broken at Toronto, where Mr. Scott held a service. When at length they reached Chesley the elders welcomed them at the station. Mr. Scott began his ministry at Chesley on the first Sabbath of November, and read the extract minute of his induction at the end of the services. He has had letters from various centres in our Canadian Mission, expressing pleasure at the commencement of his pastoral work and indicating that it is being followed with prayerful interest. As we go to press, we have received from Mr. Scott a sketch of the life of the late Mr. George Forrest, Brucefield, which will (D.V.) appear in next issue.
Canadian Mission.
It is hereby requested that all business communications from the Free Presbyterian Mission in Canada be sent to the Rev. Ewen Macqueen, Convener of the Canadian Mission Committee, at his address—Netherton, Kames, Kyles of Bute.
New Church near Bembesi, Rhodesia.
The Foreign Mission Committee desire respectfully to submit to the Church the following facts relative to the above-named building. As readers of the Magazine would have noticed, the Synod at its last meeting accepted Mr. MacKeurtan’s offer to construct the new church, authorised the Foreign Mission Committee to take immediate steps to see that this agreement was carried out, and as a result the Convener of the Foreign Mission Committee wrote to Mr. MacKeurtan to be so good as to carry out his contract without delay.
The building will cost about £300, but the Committee are confident that even from an economical point of view the cheaper way in the long run is to erect this new building. For on account of the destructiveness of white ants in that part of the world, a building, such as has been there, can last only for a few years.
The Foreign Mission Fund is, for the purposes for which it is being at present used, quite in a good way. But the Committee cannot without anxiety for the Fund contemplate the prospect of having to draw largely on the Fund in question for the purposes of this building, more especially as very shortly we shall have to meet with a considerable outlay on account of our being about to publish an edition of the Kafir Psalms in metre. A sum of about £70 has been already contributed by friends towards the new church cost, and the Committee are confident that when other friends will have heard how matters now stand, there will be a liberal response to meet present needs. Contributions may be sent either to the General Treasurer, Mr. Angus Clunas, 35 Ardconnel Terrace, E., Inverness, or to the Convener, by whom they will be thankfully acknowledged. (Signed) Neil Cameron, 4 Shaftesbury Terrace, Glasgow.
Acknowledgments.
Rev. Neil Macintyre, Stornoway, acknowledges with thanks, £6 6s. 6d. from “Friends” in Fort-William, Ontario, per Mr. Murdo Mackay, and £5 15s. from “Friends” in Calgary, Alberta, per Mr. Donald Macleod, for Stornoway Church Building Fund.—Rev. Neil Cameron, Convener of the Foreign Mission Committee, acknowledges with thanks, 10/- from “Lady Friend, S. K.,” for Kaffir Psalms; 10/- from “Lady Friend, S. K.,” 10/- from “A Friend,” Dumbarton, and £1 from Mr. D. Sutherland, Castletown, for the Bembesi Building Fund. [Correction re list of acknowledgments by Rev. N. Cameron in last issue: we regret we inserted “£1 donation” after name, “Friend,” Glasgow, instead of after name, “Friend,” Skye.]—Rev. J. S. Sinclair acknowledges with thanks, £1 from Mr. D. Sutherland, Castletown, and £1 from “January,” for John Knox’s Sustentation Fund.—Rev. D. Beaton, Wick, acknowledges with thanks, 5/- from “A Well-wisher,” Lybster, for Mr. Radasi’s Building Fund.—The Treasurer of the Dingwall Congregation acknowledges with thanks, P.O. for 2/6 from “Well-wisher,” Inverness, for Church Building Fund.
Mr. Angus Clunas, Treasurer, 35 Ardconnel Ter., E., Inverness, acknowledges with thanks the following donations:—For Sustentation Fund—£3 17/- from “A Friend,” Detroit, U.S.A., per Rev. J. S. Sinclair; £1 5/- from Mr. D. Cameron and family, Soay Island. For Missionaries and Catechists—4/- from Mr. A. Mackenzie, Laide, Aultbea. For Foreign Missions—20/- from “A Friend” (Inverness P.O.); 20/- from “A Friend,” London, per Rev. J. S. Sinclair; 1/6 from Mr. A. Mackenzie, Laide, Aultbea; 20/- from “A Friend,” Tarbert, Harris, for Psalms in Kaffir; 40/- from “A Friend,” Tarbert, Harris, for Matabele Church Building Fund. For Organisation Fund—10/- from Mrs. Macaskill, Polochar, South Uist; 10/- from Miss Macaskill, Lochboisdale School, South Uist; 1/6 from Mr. A. Mackenzie, Laide, Aultbea.