Communions.
February—First Sabbath, Dingwall; third, Stornoway; fourth, Breaselete. March—First Sabbath, Ullapool; second, Portree and Ness; third, Finsbay and Lochinver; fourth, Kinlochbervie and North Tolsta. April—First Sabbath, Portnalong; second, Lochgilphead; third, Greenock; fourth, Glasgow and Wick. May—First Sabbath, Kames and Oban; second, Dumbarton; third, Edinburgh. South African Mission—The following are the dates of the Communions:—Last Sabbath of March, June, September and December. Note.—Notice of any additions to, or alteration of, the above dates of Communions should be sent to the Editor.
Collection for February.
The Collection for the Jewish and Foreign Missions’ Fund is to be taken up this month.
Letter in the “Northern Chronicle.”
Would “A. F. C.” whose letter appeared in the Northern Chronicle kindly take his courage in both hands and send us his name and address? The Irish method of shooting from behind a hedge, while having certain advantages for the assailant, is not generally recognized as the most honourable kind of attack. Hitherto resort to the public press by Free Presbyterians to expose the alleged shortcomings of our cause or matters connected with it was confined to those who, having forsaken their first love and having got out of sympathy with it, had left us or to those who were about to leave because we in their estimation, did not come up to their own high standard of fidelity to the truth. No loyal Free Presbyterian in the past ever dreamt of doing anything of the kind as long as he had liberty to make his complaints to the recognised courts and committees of the Church any more than he would, under cover of anonymity, expose the shortcomings of members of his own family circle to an audience which, if not almost wholly hostile, Gallio-like cared for none of these things. We trust that this honourable tradition of over forty years’ standing is not to be broken now.