Communions.—Inverness, last Sabbath of January; Dingwall, first Sabbath of February.
Resolution Against Sabbath Desecration.—The Northern Presbytery, at its last meeting, passed a resolution asking our people to use all diligence in opposing in their respective places and spheres the ever-increasing attempts that are being made by men in high positions in the State, and by magistrates of cities and towns, to break down the sanctity of the Lord’s Day. The Presbytery view with the deepest concern the rapid progress the enemies of the Lord’s Day have made in recent years, and pray that the Lord Himself would arise and plead the cause that is His own.
Resolution re Addresses of Young People from the North to be sent to our Ministers in Cities, etc.—The Presbytery also passed a resolution desiring that ministers, office-bearers, and others responsible, would send the names and addresses of young people leaving their homes for the South to the ministers or missionaries of our congregations in the towns or cities to which they had gone. This is a matter which we are sure will be realised by all concerned is their bounden duty, and especially so in regard to young people going to London, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, where there are regular services, the places and hours of which are published monthly in the magazine. The names of those conducting the services in these cities are given on the third page of the cover of the Magazine.
London Mission.—We would direct the attention of Free Presbyterians in London to the services held regularly in Conference Hall, Eccleston Street, Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, S.W. The hours of the English services on the Sabbath are:—11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. There is also a Gaelic service at 3.45 p.m. Mr Angus Fraser, who has already acted as missionary in London, and who is favourably known to our people there, has again taken up duties, and we sincerely trust the meetings will be well attended. Those of our people who have relatives or acquaintances in London should direct their attention to these meetings, and send their addresses to Mr Fraser or Mr Robert R. Sinclair, 37 Albert Palace Mansions, London, S.W. 11.
Assurance is like the sunflower, which opens with the day and shuts with the night. It follows the motion of God’s face: if that looks smilingly on the soul, it lives: if that frowns or hides itself, it dies. But Faith is a plant that can grow in the shade—a grace that can find the way to heaven in a dark night. It can “walk in darkness” and yet “trust in the name of the Lord.”—Gurnall.