Communions.
—Inverness, fourth Sabbath of January. Dingwall, first Sabbath of February.
Northern Presbytery.
—At a meeting of the Northern Presbytery, held at Dingwall on the 6th December, the resignation of the Rev. J. R. Mackay, M.A., Inverness, was received and accepted. The Rev. Donald Macfarlane, Dingwall, was appointed interim-moderator of Inverness Kirk-Session, and also of those Kirk-Sessions that had the Rev. J. R. Mackay formerly as their interim-moderator.
Seceders from the Free Presbyterian Church.
—We have received, for insertion, the following letter from the Rev. E. Macqueen, Kames:—”F.P. Manse, Kames, 10th December, 1918.—Dear Sir,—There appears to be great rejoicing in the Free Church over the recent seceders from the Free Presbyterian Church. The said seceders maintain in their absurd ‘Declaration,’ adopted by the Free Church Commission, that they are taking all their former testimony with them into the Free Church. But every sensible person, who knows the former career of these ministers, knows very well that they have taken nothing with them into the Free Church but the perpetual earmark, the weaver’s shuttles.—I am, yours sincerely, EWEN MACQUEEN.”
The late Mr. D. Fraser, Carrbridge.
—It is with much sorrow that we record this month the death of Mr. Duncan Fraser, Ellan, Carrbridge, which took place on the 19th November. Mr. Fraser, who was eighty years of age, was highly esteemed as a man of God, of exceptional piety and worth. He was what some of the old writers would call “a close walker with God,” and, it may be truly added, a living epistle of Christ, known and read of all men. In the various parts of Inverness-shire he visited, he was regarded by young and old with respect and veneration, and his removal by death causes a marked blank in that county. He was an able catechist, and did the work of a missionary, until the frailty of old age came upon him. May the Lord heal the breach that has been made! We extend our deepest sympathy to his daughter who resided with him, and to the other members of his family at home and abroad.