Communions.—Breasclete (Lewis), Stratherrick (Inverness), Ullapool (Ross), and Vatten (Skye), first Sabbath of September; Broadford (Skye), 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), fifth. Tolsta (Lewis), first Sabbath of October; Gairloch (Ross), and Ness (Lewis), second; Scourie (Sutherland), third; Lochinver (Sutherland), and Wick (Caithness), fourth.
Resolution on Opium Traffic.—”The Committee on Religion and Morals of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland deeply deplore the continued export of Morphia in non-medicinal quantities by ship and parcel post from Britain to Japan, whence it is smuggled into China, with demoralising results to hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants. They do not doubt the ‘good standing’ of the firms engaged, but neither do they doubt the evil of that part of their business in question. It is as ‘morally indefensible’ as the Opium Traffic was repeatedly declared by the House of Commons to be, and therefore it ought immediately to be brought to a similar end, as the Under Secretary for India in May, 1913, suggested should be done. The Committee therefore
urgently call on the Government to restrict and regulate the sale and export of Morphia for the sake of the victims in China, as they have recently dealt with Opium at the instance of the Shipping Companies, and with Cocaine, for the sake of the Soldiers.”
ALEX. MACRAE, Comtener.
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