By REV. D. BEATON.
THERE is nothing very important to report on the Magazine. Financially the Magazine is in a considerably better position this year than last showing a balance of £18 as compared with £5 last year. The amount contributed to the Free Distribution Fund is £39. For the benefit of members of Synod and others it may be stated that the Treasurer’s Magazine Financial Statement is audited by the Church’s auditors and thereafter submitted to the Magazine Committee for inspection. A copy of the Financial Statement may be had by members of Synod from members of the Magazine Committee. I have to thank all who in any way helped me in supplying articles and especially those who sent contributions which they had translated into Gaelic. They deserve every encouragement in this good work and it is to be hoped they will not soon grow weary in well doing.
It falls to me to report on a new venture this year—The Young People’s Magazine—the first issue of which I take for granted all members of Synod have seen. The Magazine Committee were anxious to bring out a Magazine at a penny monthly but financial considerations rendered this impossible and even at 2d. for 16 pages we are running financial risks.* If our people wish to encourage the continuance of this new Magazine, issued in the interests of the young, we trust they will remember us in their prayers and as far as in them lies bring the Magazine to the notice of those who may become subscribers.
We trust that the readers of both Magazines will remember us at a throne of grace. This, we believe, would be very helpful to us and materially lighten our editorial burdens.
*This sentence was written before the announcement of a donation of £50 to the Y.P. Magazine Fund was made.—Editor.