Communions.—Stratherrick (Inverness), Ullapool (Ross), and Vatten (Skye), first Sabbath of September; Broadford (Skye), Finsbay (Harris), and Strathy (Sutherland), second; Applecross (Ross), Tarbert (Harris), and Stoer (Sutherland), third; Laide (Ross), fourth. John Knox’s, Glasgow (Hall, 2 Carlton Place, South-side), and Tolsta (Lewis), first Sabbath of October; Ness (Lewis), second; Scourie (Sutherland), third; Lochinver (Sutherland), fourth; Wick (Caithness), fifth.
Day of Humiliation and Prayer.—It has been conjointly agreed by the Presbyteries of this Church that Thursday the 28th day of September be (God willing) held as a Day of Humiliation and Prayer throughout the congregations of the Church.
Free Church Commission and the Free Presbyterian Church.—The F.P. Synod Clerk has received a communication from the Rev. Professor J. Kennedy Cameron, M.A., Assembly Clerk, to the effect that the Free Church Commission, at a meeting held in Edinburgh on the 8th August, appointed a Committee “to confer with any Committee which may be appointed by the Free Presbyterian Church on all matters that may at present be regarded as obstacles to co-operation or union between these Churches, and to report from time to time to the General Assembly or its Commission.” It is requested that the said resolution be laid before our Synod at their next meeting.
The late Mrs. Keith, Thurso.—It is the desire of friends in Thurso that notice should be taken in the Magazine of the death of Mrs. Jean Swanson or Keith, who passed away, at a ripe age, on the 26th May of last year. Mrs. Keith, who was the widow of Mr. Francis Keith, merchant, was a lover of “the old paths,” and an attached friend of the Free Presbyterian Church, and showed this in her lifetime by several substantial donations to the funds of the Church. In her last will and testament she left a legacy of £250 to the Thurso congregation for its general interests, failing said congregation, to the Free Presbyterian Church. Owing to present monetary conditions, the above sum has been realised at about £20 less. Beyond all this, we have pleasure in bearing testimony that Mrs. Keith was a humble, exercised, praying woman (the present writer often visited her in her dwelling), one who was deeply concerned to be found in Christ, not having her own righteousness, but the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ. Her removal is a loss. Many of the quiet, hidden, praying ones are being taken away, and the Church and the world are poorer.
The late Mrs. R. Maclean, Attadale, Strathcarron.—We are asked to state that the said Mrs. Maclean, who passed away suddenly some weeks ago, left a legacy of £30 to reduce the debt in connection with the Lochcarron Church, and another legacy of £10 for the General Sustentation Fund of the Free Presbyterian Church. We understand that Mrs. Maclean was a highly respectable person, whose death is much regretted, and we desire to express our deepest sympathy with her husband and other relatives.