By Rev. E. MACQUEEN.
THIS Report will be brief not because the Committee did not meet often enough and tried to do their best to get deputies to go to our people in the Colonies and to U.S.A. but we failed last year to get any one to go and perhaps, owing to the depression in all parts, it was as well. We feel for our people in the Colonies and would do our utmost for them but want of funds prevents us from doing what we would. Our Australian friends have been sending to the Colonial Fund every year but the distance between them and us causes ministers to hold back from such a journey; however, we trust, that soon some one will be found to go. This year we were thankful the Rev. Finlay Macleod, Dornoch, came forward to the help of the Committee. He sailed from Glasgow, as you know, on Friday the 14th day
of April. We tried to get one of our young men, who finished their theological course last session, but we failed to make any impression on them; however, the Lord came to our help for the Far West. We hope some one will come forward to go for a year to Winnipeg. May the Lord of the harvest send me unto His harvest.