The Moderator for the year was Rev. Professor D. S. Cairns, Aberdeen. In his moderatorial address he raised the question—”What is wrong with our Home Christendom, and what can the Christian Church do to set it right?” and suggested that a common council of the Scottish Churches should be formed with Chalmers’ ideal—”The Christian good of Scotland”—as the ruling principle.
On Wednesday the Assembly received a deputation from the Original Secession Synod, the Moderator of which, on being received, said he trusted that the close ties which united the two Churches—close ties not of doctrine or dogma, nor yet of history, but rather the close ties of that missionary spirit and love to the Master might be confirmed more and more. This coquetting of this old protesting, Covenanting Church with the down-grade United Free Church is not a sign for good. Professor Morton also expressed the hope that the ties which bound them together would become stronger and stronger.
On Thursday (25th May), Dr Mackintosh Mackay gave in the report of the Education Committee, and
thereafter an overture was submitted from the Glasgow Presbytery, praying the Assembly to appoint a Committee to abridge the present Shorter Catechism. The Junior Clerk (Rev. James G. Sutherland, Galston) said as an honest man he wished to say that the day for the form of teaching given in the Catechism had gone. Perhaps it might not be out of place to remind the Junior Clerk and those like-minded with him of the message sent to the Asiatic Church which had a name that it was living and was dead:—”Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.” The overture was rejected, on Mr Sutherland’s amendment, not, it would seem, because the majority of the Assembly objected to tampering with the Catechism, but because they were in sympathy with Mr Sutherland’s views.
On Friday (25th May), Dr Robert Drummond moved a resolution welcoming the Haldane Departmental Committee’s report “as marking an important further stage in the removal of the main obstacles keeping the Churches apart.” This resolution was carried by a large majority, but an amendment brought forward by Dr Young, reserving a definite expression of opinion meantime on the matter was supported by 121. Dr Young’s supporters, it is needless to say, are strong Voluntaries.
On Tuesday (29th May) Professor Mackintosh gave in the report of the Committee on the Testimony of the Church, in which he explained some of the changes to be made in the questions and formula to soothe the troubled elastic consciences of many in that Church who had received no rest through Declaratory Acts. One wonders how those who are so apprehensive of hurting the consciences of men should have such untender consciences regarding the truths of God.
On the motion of Principal Martin, a Committee of 30 ministers and 12 elders was appointed to deal with the question of the overture from Dundee Presbytery asking the Assembly to take up the consideration of framing a new Confession of Faith. In speaking to his motion, Dr Martin said that the conviction of the modern mind was widespread that the venerable document, the Confession of Faith, had ceased to be suitable for the needs of to-day. Principal Martin may soon find that there is much more than the Confession that is not suitable for to-day, according to the modern mind.
Free Church General Assembly.
The Rev. George Mackay, Fearn (formerly Free Presbyterian minister of Stornoway), was Moderator for the year, and gave an address on the Christian Ministry (1) as a Divine Institution: not a mere human expedi-
ency; (2) its scope and end: the purposes which it serves in this world.
At the close of the Moderator’s address, when the appointment of a Committee to draw up a Loyal Address to the King was moved, the Rev. Kenneth Macrae, Lochalsh, asked if they were justified in doing so. Could they send a loyal address to the King? he asked. If they did so they were in danger of being partakers of his evil deed. It was an evil deed to visit the Pope of Rome. It was an insult to Protestant Britain, and he for one dissented from sending a loyal address to the King this year. The Committee was, notwithstanding this dissent, appointed, and Mr Lightbody, of the Y.M.C.A., then addressed the Assembly on the aims this Association. The Rev. John MacNeilage, at a later stage of the Assembly’s proceedings, sounded a warning note as to the Church’s relation to the Y.M.C.A. He said he foresaw a time when they would have to quarrel with that organisation. They must wrench themselves asunder, and quarrel with the spirit of the age.
The report on the Sustentation Fund showed an increase of £1250, due principally to interest. Ministerial salaries were raised to £246, exclusive of the annual premium of £7 payable to the Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund. A sum of £440 was set apart to augment the salaries of ministers settled under special arrangements.
The Rev. Alexander Stewart submitted the report of the Foreign Mission Jewish, Colonial, and Continental Committee, and made reference to the loss sustained by the Church in the death of Rev. William Murray. The question of re-baptism of converts from the Church of Rome was raised, and the Convener intimated that it was engaging the attention of the Committee.
In giving in the Canadian Mission report, part of the deliverance read:—”They declare that the Rev. Duncan Macdougall has authority to constitute a kirk-session in Vancouver, and to discharge all the other functions of the ministry.” A motion by Professor Maclean had as its purport the removing of ambiguity as to Mr Macdougall’s ministerial relation to the congregation at Vancouver and to the Church at home. Dr Maclean said he was sure if his amendment were carried that it would heal the sore of the man who considered himself to be suffering a grievance. Finally, the Committee’s deliverance, with an addendum by Colonel Brown, suggesting the appointment of a Commission (consisting of not more than two ministers and an elder) to visit the Canadian field and to report through the Foreign Missions Committee to next As-
sembly was agreed to, the said Commission being empowered to constitute, in conjunction with Mr Macdougall and one or more elders from the congregation at Vancouver, Fort-William, and Winnipeg, a Canadian Presbytery. The Convener, in replying to Dr Maclean’s motion, said that it had been asserted that the acceptance of this motion might heal a running sore in Canada. That was not his view. The trouble was much deeper than that, and Dr Maclean’s motion would be only a patching up of the matter. On a vote, Dr Maclean’s motion was defeated by 11 votes to 29.
The Convener of the Training of the Ministry reported that they had 41 students, who were embarked upon preparation for the ministry, the larger proportion of whom were at Secondary Schools or the Universities.
The Secretary of the Scottish Churches’ Campaign (Mr John MacBeath) wrote a letter acknowledging the value of the Free Church’s co-operation in the Missionary Campaign, and went on to say that the feeling was deepening that united service should not cease with the close of that campaign, but that it should find permanent form, and render larger service in connection with the formation of a Scottish Churches’ Council. Mr A. MacNeilage moved, seconded by Professor J. R. Mackay, that the Assembly do not feel warranted in taking part in the proposed Conference. Rev. A. Stewart moved, and Dr Maclean seconded that while reserving a final decision in the matter, that four representatives be appointed to confer with the representatives of the other Churches, to ascertain the details of the proposal, and to report to next General Assembly. When the vote was about to be taken, Mr Stewart withdrew his motion, and the motion of Mr MacNeilage became the finding of the Assembly.
The Report on Religion and Morals dealt with the religious conditions of Lewis, Church Attendance, Sabbath Observance, Romanism, Temperance, Pernicious Literature. A motion protesting against the proposed tax on betting was unanimously carried. In the report given in by the Claim of Right Committee reference was made to the recommendation made by Lord Haldane’s Committee. Mr D. M. Smith, W.S., said that they had vindicated their right to the title of the Church of Scotland Free in 1900, and he would not wonder if, on the same standards, they challenged the right of the Established Church to be the Church of Scotland they were to meet with the same success.
The Assembly concluded its business on Tuesday (29th May), when the Moderator delivered his closing Address on “Some Problems of the Christian Ministry and their Solution.”
Synod Sermon.
Preached at Opening of Synod, 22nd May 1923, by
REV. MALCOLM GILLIES, MODERATOR.
“Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait for the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.”—Isaiah viii. 16, 17.
WE see from the beginning of this book that it was the portion of the prophet Isaiah to prophecy in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Kings of Judah. In the opening chapters of this prophecy, and also in the Books of Hosea, Amos, and other portions of Scripture, we find that there was a general declension from the true worship of God, even in Judah. This departure was somewhat restrained by the piety of some of the Kings of David’s line, and by the faithfulness of God’s prophets. With the exception of Ahaz, the Kings of Judah in Isaiah’s time were God-fearing men. “Uzziah sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper” (II. Chron. xxvi. 5). Jotham also “did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,” and his ways were established. King Ahaz, however, was of a different character altogether. He was about the worst king that ever disgraced the throne of David. He set up an idolatrous altar in the very Temple of God, and burned his own children in the fire to Moloch. He was sorely chastised by the sword of Syria and Israel, but the more he was punished, the more hardened he became, so that he is said to have wearied men and God with his impiety (Is. vii. 13). This prophecy of which the text is a part was spoken against Ahaz, and those in Judah who looked to Assyria for succour from Syria and Ephraim. The Prophet was prepared for his duty by receiving a vision of the exalted Majesty of Heaven, and by the announcement that the people were and would be blinded and hardened in sin till they would be wasted and destroyed. He was assured, however, that there would be a tenth, a remnant who would cleave to the Lord, and who would be protected by Him in the evil day. He was given a message of comfort and direction to these. They were to rely upon the Lord, and He would be a sanctuary to them,
only let them not follow the multitude to do evil, but rather let them be more diligent than ever to walk in His ways. In the words before us, we shall notice as we may be helped:—
I. That to which the Church is directed—”The testimony” and “the law.”
II. Their duty in connection therewith—”Bind up,” “seal.”
III. The prayerful attitude enjoined—”And I will wait upon the Lord.”
I. The Church here is called upon to consider the testimony and the law.
(1) I shall notice that the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation is called His testimony, the testimony of Christ, of the Spirit. God Himself is the great Witness to the whole truth. The Spirit testified beforehand in the Old Testament Scriptures, declaring the end from the beginning, so that men might know that He is God. Hence the emphatic, “Thus saith the Lord,” so common in the writings of the prophets which is as forcibly implied throughout the rest of the Scripture. God, indeed, used human instruments to make known His witness to the truth, but nothing is clearer than that these were under the complete control of the Spirit of inspiration, and that what they said is the infallible Word of God. “There are three that bear witness in Heaven—the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are One,” and “If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater” (I. John v., 7, 9). We have then this solemn truth that in the Bible, God Himself is revealed as bearing testimony, and therefore, though men should turn their backs on any part or all the written Word, the truth of all Scripture will be fully admitted by all men either in time or in eternity.
The Bible contains the witness of God concerning His own Being and attributes. In it, He declares that He is Creator, Law-giver, Providential Ruler, Saviour, and Judge. Man’s state, nature, practice, needs are set forth. God solemnly declares that He created man perfect, that he is now defiled, lost, dead; that nothing can deliver him from being undone eternally but the exceeding riches of His grace in Christ. We have God’s testimony concerning His Son; who He is, and the work He accomplished in our nature, the efficacy of His
blood to atone, and His power to meet our utterly fallen and dead condition. All the doctrines of the Covenant of Grace are set forth in the witnessing of Him who cannot lie. All that pertains to the worship, government, and discipline of His Church under the Old and New dispensations are set down in the Oracles, God thus showing men what His Church must be to the end of time. He has also given us an account of the lives of the most eminent of His people, of the sojourn of His own Son among men in this world, so that by example, he would bear testimony as to the manner of persons we ought to be in all holy conversation and godliness. A witness sets forth the truth, so that credence might be given to it. God has spoken in the Scriptures, not that we might deal with them according to the dictates of unbelief and carnal reason, but that through the Spirit’s teaching, we might come to rest in faith on the Scriptures which cannot be broken.
The Bible is not only God’s testimony; it is also God’s law. As law, it sets forth the will of the King, Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, and binds every individual of Adam’s race to whom it comes to give obedience or else to incur the displeasure of Him Who will in no wise clear the guilty. It deals with man as under the Covenant of Works, and says:—”Thou shalt not,” and “the soul that sinneth it shall die.” It speaks to man in the terms of the Gospel Covenant, and commands—”Flee for thy life,” “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,” “Strive to enter in,” “Make your calling and election sure,” “Follow holiness,” etc. The Bible as law is binding on the conscience of the individual, the family, the nation, and the professing Church, and none of these can ignore the least command with impunity. The Saviour has said:—”Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. v. 19). Men excuse themselves for shortcomings by belittling sin. “Is it not a little one,” said Lot, but no sin is little, either as it is against the Majesty of Heaven or in its consequences to the creature.
- We notice that there were a special testimony and a law given to the Prophet and to the Church of God that they might be kept faithful when the forsaking of God was great in the land. He was told to take witnesses Zechariah, and Uriah the priest, who, it seems, aided Ahaz in setting up the Damascene altar in
the House of God, for God will make backsliders contradict themselves, and “their folly shall be manifest to all men.” The testimony was (1) that the people were forsaking God’s Word and worship and ways, and falling in with the ways of Ephraim and the idolators round about them.
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God would punish them by the very powers before which they bowed, and whose assistance they sought. If our nation bends to Prelacy and Popery, God will give us plenty of that bondage.
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They were great for uniting in confederacies to resist the common foe. They thought that this procedure would be their safety, but were told that no matter how they would be associated, they would be broken in pieces. It is our nature to look to an arm of flesh, forgetting that the sure and all-sufficient help is in Jehovah’s Name, and that “it is nothing with Him to help, whether with many or with them that have no power” (II. Chron. xiv. 11.)
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The Church was commanded to fear none or nothing, but the Lord, for He would be with her as her sanctuary, her sure refuge and sufficiency, when others would be driven to anguish and darkness. God spake to the Prophet with a strong hand, and that alone will keep any person in the ways of truth. Unless God will hold up one’s goings in the divine paths, his footsteps will certainly slide out of God’s ways. The Lord instructed him and the Church with him not to walk in the way of the people, but to serve Him with reverence and fear, taking the testimony and the law of Scripture as their rule.
II. The duty—”Bind up the testimony, seal the law.”
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By this command, looseness and laxity in connection with the Word of God is absolutely forbidden. We have to view the testimony and the law as bound up and sealed infallibly by the Spirit of God, and to hold it as such. We have not to add to His words, neither must we take any jot or tittle therefrom, lest we bring His curse upon us.
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We must receive His testimony with all our heart, and thus set to our seal that God is true. The Saviour must give us the Father’s word, before it will become the joy and rejoicing of our heart, and cause us rather to have the world’s hatred than to part with anything of revealed truth (John xvii. 14).
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We bind up and seal the truth when we through grace hide it in our hearts. The Spirit of God takes of the things of Christ, and reveals them to the souls
of His people. The word thus received will not be sold, but will be treasured and practised.
- The Jews were commanded to bind God’s words for a sign upon their hand and as frontlets between their eyes. Hence they took a carnal view of this injunction, and made broad their phylacteries. The command set before them and us, constant regard to, and continued perseverance in living and acting, according to Scripture revelation that “What saith the Scripture?” should be the first and last question we should ask in connection with every duty.
There is more need in our day than ever, that we should cleave to the Word of God. We are living in a day in which denial and disregard of Biblical truth is very prevalent. Like the Church of Rome, which sets up tradition on an equality with the Word, many set up expediency and false charity at the expense of the testimony and the law. Our duty as a Church is plain—”Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.” Let us “hold fast the form of sound words,” and “that good thing which was committed unto us, keep by the Holy Ghost.” “Be not ashamed of the testimony of the Lord” (II. Tim. i. 8). The outlook is very dark for the coming generation in Scotland. The rising generation to a great extent knows nothing of true godliness as it existed in this land. Whether the Lord will arise for the building up of His cause in our day or not, it is our duty to hand down that which we have, unimpaired and undefiled to the next generation. “That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children” (Psalm lxxviii. 6).
III. The prayerful attitude—”And I will wait upon the Lord.”
The Prophet hereby confesses that he is shut in to the Lord alone as the hope of Israel, the Saviour in the time of trouble. Unless He will arise and have mercy on Zion, all human efforts will be unavailing. But if He will cause His face to shine; if He will send the Rod of His Strength out of Zion and rule in the midst of His enemies, then the decayed face of the earth will be renewed, and the Church will once more put on her beautiful garments. He acknowledges the sovereignty of God, and that it becomes servants to wait their Master’s time, and to be faithful to their trust whether He smiles or frowns. He remembers that He has connected His glory with His purpose of salvation through the son of a virgin who shall be called Immanuel, God with us, and He knows that though the vision tarry, it
shall come, and that it behoves the Church to wait prayerfully and patiently for the accomplishment of the sure word of prophecy. The Prophet mourns the lamentable condition into which the people had brought themselves through sin. God was hiding His face, not so much from himself and the remnant, as from the house of Jacob, both Judah and Ephraim. They had forsaken Him, and He had left them to find out by bitter experience that “the way of transgressors is hard.” It is a mark of true piety in our day, as it has been from the beginning, for one to be grieved over the back-slidden condition of our nation from Reformation and Protestant principles, for the dishonour done to Christ and His Word, by false teaching, will-worship, and worldliness in the professing Church, and for the loose, sinful, carnal living in families and individuals. What need there is of fervent pleading at the Throne of Grace that the Lord would turn again and heal the hurt of His Cause in these Kingdoms. That He would turn to us as a people a pure language, that we might call upon the Name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent. To forsake in principle and practice the testimony and the law, and to deem these as no longer necessary and binding is to be guilty of making a dark day still darker. To cleave to our position and to every truth in faith and life, for which we take our stand as a Church; to be shut in to the Lord by patient waiting in prayer is the only hope that the Word of God and sound reason give, that the Sun of Righteousness will yet arise on Scotland, and that times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord.
A New Departure at the General Assemblies.—On Sabbath, the 27th May, the Assemblies were treated to a new feature, which we trust will not be repeated. This was the listening to speeches by prominent statesmen and politicians on the Lord’s Day in reference to the question of peace among the nations. Mr Lloyd George, who was the chief attraction, was advertised to give an address on “The Churches and International Peace.” He treated his subject with the skill of a politician, and with his usual eloquence. Crowds thronged to hear him, and thousands were turned away. The speech was much too frequently punctuated with applause to be in consonance with decorum of the Lord’s day. The Moderators of the three Churches—Dr Milligan, Dr Cairns, and Rev. George MacKay—were present at one or other of the meetings, and took part in the proceedings.
Tabular View of Sustentation Fund and Special Collections of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st MARCH 1923.
| PLACES. | MINISTERS, MISSIONARIES. | Sustentation Fund. | Home Mission Fund. | Jewish and Foreign Missions Fund. | Aged & Infirm Ministers’ and Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund. | College Fund. | Organisation Fund. | General Building Fund. | TOTAL. |
|—————————————|———————————-|——————–|——————–|———————————–|———————————————————|—————|——————–|————————|———-|
| | | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Northern Presbytery— | | | | | | | | | |
| 1. Daviot | A. Stewart, missionary | 29 3 0 | 6 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | .. | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 39 3 0 |
| 2. Dingwall | D. Macfarlane, minister | 73 9 4 | 4 1 8 | 3 10 0 | 2 0 0 | 2 18 3 | .. | 2 5 0 | 88 4 3 |
| 3. Lairg | Elders and Students | 39 0 0 | 10 2 0 | 2 10 0 | 4 18 0 | 2 4 0 | 3 11 0 | .. | 62 5 0 |
| 4. Dornoch | Do. do. | 80 1 6 | 8 7 0 | 8 12 0 | 2 14 0 | 3 12 0 | 3 6 0 | 2 14 6 | 109 7 0 |
| 5. Creich | Do. do. | 10 0 6 | 3 14 0 | 2 10 0 | 1 5 6 | 1 13 6 | 1 10 0 | .. | 20 13 6 |
| 6. Rogart | Do. do. | 36 2 0 | 3 19 6 | 2 15 6 | 0 15 0 | 1 0 0 | 0 10 0 | .. | 45 2 0 |
| 7. Duthil | .. | 2 17 0 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 17 0 |
| 8. Kingussie | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 9. Newtonmore | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 10. Farr | H. Munro, missionary | 9 10 0 | 2 6 0 | 0 15 0 | 0 15 6 | 0 15 0 | 1 0 3 | 0 13 10 | 15 15 7 |
| 11. Fearn | M. MacEwen, missionary | 10 12 0 | 2 0 0 | 0 10 0 | 0 10 0 | 1 10 0 | 0 12 0 | 0 10 0 | 16 4 0 |
| 12. Golspie | .. | 1 11 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 11 6 |
| 13. Halkirk | M. Gillies, minister | 89 13 1 | 7 17 6 | 3 1 6 | 3 18 6 | 5 4 0 | 3 7 8 | 3 1 0 | 116 3 3 |
| 14. Helmsdale | Do. | 20 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 2 2 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 23 12 1 |
| 15. Inverness | E. Macqueen, minister | 222 16 0 | 28 0 0 | 12 0 0 | 14 0 0 | 10 0 0 | 10 0 0 | 10 0 0 | 306 16 0 |
| 16. Kilmorack | A. Stewart, missionary | 55 9 0 | 9 17 0 | 2 12 0 | 3 1 0 | 2 11 4 | .. | 3 2 6 | 76 12 10 |
| 17. Moy | W. Macdonald, missionary | 39 11 6 | 7 17 0 | 2 18 9 | 3 7 0 | 3 2 9 | 3 3 6 | .. | 60 0 6 |
| 18. Stratherrick | R. Macleod, missionary | 21 4 0 | 6 0 0 | 4 10 0 | .. | 2 0 0 | 2 0 0 | .. | 35 14 0 |
| 19. Strathy | M. Mackay, missionary | 28 0 0 | 16 0 0 | 2 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 2 10 0 | 2 5 0 | 1 10 9 | 54 10 0 |
| 20. Tain | M. MacEwen, missionary | 32 0 0 | 4 2 0 | 2 10 0 | 2 0 0 | 2 0 0 | 2 10 0 | 2 2 0 | 47 4 0 |
| 21. Thurso | Students and Elders | 7 15 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 15 0 |
| 22. Wick | D. Beaton, minister | 84 11 9 | 4 0 0 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 88 11 9 |
| Southern Presbytery— | | | | | | | | | |
| 23. Clydebank | Ministers and Students | .. | 1 0 0 | .. | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | .. | .. | 3 0 0 |
| 24. Dumbarton | Do. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 25. Dunoon | Do. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 26. Edinburgh | Students, Missionaries | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 0 0 | 4 0 0 | 7 0 0 |
| 27. Glasgow St Jude’s Church | Neil Cameron, minister | 708 19 7 | 72 19 7 | 60 10 0 | 21 0 0 | 20 16 0 | 18 10 0 | 13 12 0 | 916 7 2 |
| 28. Greenock | Students and Missionaries | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 29. Kames | D. Mackenzie, minister | 160 0 0 | 10 10 0 | 4 10 0 | 4 0 0 | 5 15 0 | 4 10 0 | .. | 189 5 0 |
| 30. Lochgilphead | Students and Missionaries | .. | 1 0 0 | 1 2 0 | .. | 1 0 0 | 0 10 0 | .. | 3 12 0 |
| 31. Oban | D. A. Macfarlane, M.A., minister | 93 12 6 | 12 10 0 | 6 0 0 | .. | 6 0 0 | 4 10 0 | 4 0 0 | 126 12 6 |
| 32. Tarbert, Loch Fyne | Students and Missionaries | .. | 1 10 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 0 12 0 | 0 10 0 | 5 12 0 |
| 33. London Mission | A. Fraser, missionary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Western Presbytery— | | | | | | | | | |
| 34. Applecross | D. Maclean, missionary | 59 19 0 | 15 12 0 | 3 1 2 | 5 2 9 | 3 11 0 | 4 14 6 | .. | 92 0 5 |
| 35. Lochinver | M. Morrison, minister | 46 11 0 | 12 4 1 | 2 0 0 | 2 5 2 | 3 0 0 | 2 5 0 | 2 15 6 | 71 0 9 |
| 36. Stoer | Do. | 64 14 6 | 7 2 11 | 1 10 0 | 2 4 0 | 2 7 2 | 2 12 10 | 1 12 10 | 82 4 3 |
| 37. Bracadale | D. MacKinnon, missionary | 13 9 6 | 6 17 0 | 1 0 6 | .. | 1 10 0 | 1 6 6 | 1 1 0 | 25 4 6 |
| 38. Aultbea | D. Mackenzie, missionary | 48 12 0 | 8 9 0 | 1 19 0 | 1 10 0 | 2 10 6 | 2 16 0 | .. | 65 16 6 |
| 39. Struan | D. MacKinnon, missionary | 16 19 1 | 4 6 4 | 1 11 6 | .. | 0 17 2 | 0 18 3 | 0 14 7 | 25 6 11 |
| 40. Breasclete | A. MacKinnon, missionary | 24 0 0 | 6 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 1 5 0 | .. | 34 5 0 |
| 41. Luib | | A. Matheson, missionary | 11 9 0 | 1 11 6 | 0 13 6 | 0 15 0 | 0 10 0 | .. | .. | 11 9 0 |
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| 42. Elgoll | | Do. | 16 10 0 | 0 18 0 | 2 3 6 | 0 15 0 | 1 2 0 | 1 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 20 0 0 |
| 43. Broadford | | Do. | 12 12 0 | 10 19 4 | 3 13 0 | 3 11 0 | 5 2 6 | 3 3 0 | 3 0 6 | 19 5 6 |
| 44. Glendale | | J. Macleod, minister | 85 15 0 | 2 16 6 | 1 2 0 | .. | 2 0 0 | 1 10 0 | 1 4 0 | 115 4 4 |
| 45. Vatten | | Do. | 36 8 6 | 2 14 6 | 1 2 6 | .. | 0 13 0 | 0 9 0 | .. | 45 1 0 |
| 46. Waternish | | Do. | 28 3 0 | 4 19 0 | 1 1 0 | 0 14 6 | 0 19 0 | .. | .. | 28 2 0 |
| 47. Flashadder | | F. Morrison, missionary | 32 15 0 | 32 12 2 | 5 12 0 | 6 3 6 | 7 9 6 | 5 4 3 | 4 17 0 | 40 8 6 |
| 48. Gairloch | | Students and missionaries | 40 0 0 | | | | | | | 101 18 5 |
| 49. Tarbert | | D. N. Macleod, minister | 123 8 6 | 12 3 10 | 3 16 8 | 3 2 3 | 3 17 4 | 3 16 3 | 3 9 3 | 153 14 1 |
| 50. Finsbay | | Do. | 78 19 6 | 7 3 0 | 1 11 0 | 1 9 0 | 1 6 0 | 1 3 0 | 2 3 0 | 98 14 6 |
| 51. Harris | | J. Macleod, missionary | 28 19 0 | 2 3 0 | 1 2 9 | 1 0 0 | 0 13 3 | 1 6 0 | 1 4 6 | 36 8 6 |
| Strond | | D. N. Macleod, minister | 40 1 6 | 11 0 0 | 1 0 0 | 0 16 6 | 1 0 0 | .. | 1 6 0 | 55 4 0 |
| 52. Northton | | A. Ross, W.C., missionary | 14 1 0 | | | | | | | 28 18 3 |
| 53. Scourie | | H. Morrison, missionary | 14 1 0 | 8 3 0 | 1 3 2 | 1 5 0 | 1 9 1 | 2 0 0 | 0 17 0 | 25 17 7 |
| 54. Kinlochbervie | | Do. | 17 5 0 | 4 5 0 | 0 7 3 | 1 1 0 | 1 3 10 | 1 4 6 | 0 11 0 | 37 6 6 |
| 55. Plockton | | A. Robertson, missionary | 25 0 0 | 5 4 6 | 1 5 0 | 1 8 0 | 2 10 0 | 0 13 0 | 1 5 0 | 46 7 6 |
| 56. Kyle of Lochalsh | | Do. | 29 16 6 | 6 6 6 | 1 15 0 | 2 4 0 | 2 10 0 | 1 15 6 | 2 0 0 | 61 17 10 |
| 57. Kilmuir | | A. Mackay, missionary | 47 12 2 | 8 10 0 | 1 15 0 | .. | 2 10 8 | 1 10 0 | .. | 92 3 10 |
| 58. Shieldaig | | D. Graham, minister | 69 11 6 | 12 14 6 | 2 14 4 | 3 0 0 | 1 14 3 | 2 9 3 | 1 0 0 | 74 8 6 |
| 59. Lochcarron | | Do. | 54 19 6 | 12 3 0 | 1 0 6 | 1 11 6 | 1 18 0 | 1 16 0 | 0 15 0 | 31 8 5 |
| 60. Kishorn | | Do. | 22 17 0 | 5 1 0 | 1 9 2 | .. | .. | 0 15 0 | 3 8 0 | 102 4 0 |
| 61. Lochbroom | | Students and Elders | 60 0 0 | 14 6 0 | 7 0 0 | 6 0 0 | 6 0 0 | 5 10 0 | .. | 41 16 10 |
| 62. Ness, Lewis | | M. Macleod, missionary | 21 18 0 | 11 6 0 | .. | 2 13 6 | 3 2 4 | 2 17 0 | .. | 209 9 9 |
| 63. Portree | | D. M. Macdonald, minister | 176 9 9 | 20 0 0 | 3 0 0 | 4 0 0 | 2 0 0 | 4 0 0 | .. | 150 15 10 |
| 64. Stornoway | | N. M’Intyre, minister | 129 15 10 | 8 0 0 | 6 0 0 | .. | 6 0 0 | 5 0 0 | 5 0 0 | 18 1 2 |
| 65. Achmore | | A. Macrae, missionary | 16 4 6 | 1 16 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 18 0 |
| 66. Lurebost | | Do. | 1 18 0 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 59 0 0 |
| 67. Tolsta, North | | Elders, &c. | 59 0 0 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 19 7 |
| 68. Bayhead | | Student | .. | 4 4 10 | 1 18 10 | 2 0 3 | 2 1 1 | 1 8 6 | 1 11 1 | 89 7 2 |
| 69. Raasay | | A. Tallach, missionary | 60 10 0 | 18 1 6 | 2 17 0 | 3 1 0 | 2 3 8 | 2 14 0 | .. | .. |
| | | M. Macleod, missionary | | | | | | | | |
| | | | 1611 4 10 | 289 14 8 | 67 0 4 | 58 7 11 | 74 11 4 | 67 8 4 | 41 1 6 | 2209 8 11 |