By Rev. M. GILLIES.
THERE is little to report as to opportunities of activity on the part of this Committee, since the Synod met last year. We were discouraged from making provision in the way of sending supply to the fishing stations, by the accounts given in the public prints of the poor prospects and the unlikelihood of the fishing crews being sent from Lewis as in former years. We had no applications from the fishing people belonging to our Church for the usual supply.
In these circumstances, the Committee took no action, and though it turned out that some were sent to Yarmouth, yet not in such numbers as would justify incurring the financial burden which would fall on the few who would benefit and on the Church. The Committee hope that if matters will prove more favourable next season, they will be able to follow, with the Everlasting Gospel, those who harvest the fruits of the Great Deep, so that they may not be wanting in the fruits of the great End of the World Harvest.