Communions.
November—First Sabbath, Oban; second, Glasgow; third, Edinburgh, Dornoch, and Helmsdale; fourth, Halkirk. January—Last Sabbath, Inverness. February—First Sabbath, Dingwall.
Theological Classes.
The classes in Hebrew and Systematic Theology will begin (D.V.) on Tuesday, 2nd December. The prayers of the Lord’s people are solicited for tutor and students.
Church’s Deputy in Detroit.
As intimated in our last issue, the Rev. M. Morrison will (D.V.) preach in Detroit the first Sabbath of November, and for the three Sabbaths following. The services are to be held in the Hall, Eastern Temple Building, 69 Edmund Place. Mr Morrison hopes to preach in New York on the last Sabbath of November. The place of meeting and hours of service may be ascertained from Mr F. Macleod, 219 West 83rd Street, New York.
Death of Mr Duncan Gillies, Elder.
It is with sorrow we record the removal by death of Mr Duncan Gillies, elder of St Jude’s congregation, Glasgow, on the 4th day of September, after a short illness. He died at Sandwick, Stornoway, Lewis. A longer notice will appear in a later issue. The following tribute to his memory, recorded in the Kirk Session Records of St Jude’s Glasgow, has been sent us for publication:—Inter alia—”The Kirk Session of St Jude’s resolve to place upon their permanent records the sincere sorrow they feel, and also their sense of the great loss sustained by the cause of Christ, through the removal from time to eternity of their beloved brother and fellow-elder, Mr Duncan Gillies, who fell asleep in Jesus at Sandwick, Stornoway, Lewis, on the 4th day of September 1924. Mr Duncan Gillies held the office of an elder in the St Jude’s congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland for many years with fidelity in his attention to all the duties of his office; he acted also as a Christian and as a gentleman towards all his fellow office-bearers, and all the members and adherents in the congregation. (The Deacons’ Court desire to express their concurrence in this statement of the Session.) The Moderator was instructed to forward a copy of this statement to Mrs Gillies, with whom and with her family the Session express their deepest sympathy, and would pray that the Lord would comfort and sustain her and them in their sorrow, and that He would sanctify this painful bereavement to them, and to all in St Jude’s congregation.”
—Extracted by Norman Mackay, Session Clerk, from the Kirk-Session minutes.