INDUCTION OF REV. JAMES MACLEOD TO GLENDALE CONGREGATION, SKYE.
THE Western Presbytery met in the Church at Glendale, Skye, on Tuesday the 7th September, with a view to the induction of the Rev. James Macleod to the pastoral charge of the congregation. Rev. D. M. Macdonald, Portree, presided and preached. After sermon he put the usual questions for ministers to Mr. Macleod, who answered the same satisfactorily, and signed the formula. Thereafter Mr. Macdonald engaged in prayer, and solemnly inducted Mr. Macleod to the pastoral charge of the Glendale congregation. (There was no laying-on of hands, as Mr. Macleod was ordained to the office of the ministry before he went as Synod deputy to Canada.) Mr. Macdonald then addressed Mr. Macleod as to his ministerial duties. Rev. D. Graham, Shielaig, next addressed the members and adherents of the congregation as to their particular responsibilities and obligations. The call was signed by 666 persons. There was a large attendance. The service was concluded with devotional exercises, and thereafter the members of the Presbytery were kindly and hospitably entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Murdo Macaskill. We trust that the ministry now begun at Glendale will be attended with the divine blessing in the conversion of sinners and the edification of God’s people.
LICENSE AND ORDINATION OF THE REV. MALCOLM GILLIES, DEPUTY TO CANADA.
The Southern Presbytery met at 216 West Regent Street, Glasgow, at 6.30 p.m., on 20th September, and, among other
business, licensed Mr. Malcolm Gillies, divinity student, as a preacher of the Gospel. The Presbytery then decided to proceed to his ordination according to Synod’s instructions, at a later meeting on the same evening. The Presbytery resumed sitting in St. Jude’s Hall at 8 p.m. Rev. Alexander Mackay, Oban (in absence of the Moderator, Rev. Neil Cameron, who was at Communions in the Highlands), acted as Moderator pro tem., and preached from Romans x. 13. After sermon, he constituted the Presbytery and proceeded to put the usual questions for ministers to Mr. Gillies, who answered the same satisfactorily and signed the formula. Thereafter, the Moderator engaged in the ordination prayer, with the laying-on of the hands of the Presbytery, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Head of the Church, did set apart and admit Mr. Malcolm Gillies, probationer, to the office of the holy ministry. Rev. J. S. Sinclair, John Knox’s, gave a short address to Mr. Gillies, on his duties and responsibilities as a minister of the gospel, and made special reference to the work he was sent to do as Synod Deputy to the Free Presbyterian Mission in Canada. He expressed the sincere desire and prayer of the court that Mr. Gillies would be carried in safety to the Canadian Mission field, and that the Lord would abundantly bless his labours. There was a large attendance, the hall being filled in every part.
Our readers in Canada and at home will understand that while Mr. Gillies is not inducted to any pastoral charge meantime, he is fully qualified as an ordained minister to dispense Church ordinances, and to perform the ceremony of marriage. Mr. Gillies left Liverpool on the 22nd September, by S.S. “Empress of France,” for Montreal.