Communions.—
August: First Sabbath, Dingwall (note date); second, Portree; third, Laide and Bonarbridge; fourth, Finsbay, Stornoway, Vatten. 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 alterations of, the above dates of the Communions should be sent to the Editor.]
Synod Proceedings.—
As intimated in our last issue, the Clerks of Synod have now the Proceedings and Reports of Standing Committees ready for the Glasgow and Inverness Synods. These proceedings are being issued in parcels to ministers and elders who, we are sure, will see to their distribution at the published price of 7d. per copy. May we be permitted to ask our people not to accept all that they read in the press concerning certain important happenings at our Synod. Some of these reports were grossly inaccurate and were fitted to mislead our people such as that Rev. E. Macqueen was deposed and that he was put out of the Church.
Meeting of Northern Presbytery.—
At a meeting of this Presbytery, held at Dingwall on 5th July, the name of Rev. Ewen Macqueen was removed from the roll of the Presbytery and the Presbytery instructed Rev. D. A. Macfarlane to declare the pulpit of the Inverness congregation vacant. This action of the Presbytery followed on Mr. Macqueen’s protest against the decision of the Synod in granting the prayer of Miss Grant’s petition (1) to be exonerated from the charges brought against her by Mr. Macqueen (2) to be restored to church privileges. Mr. Macqueen’s action, as it was pointed out to him at the Synod, in tabling a written protest against a decision of the Supreme Court meant that he was putting himself outwith the jurisdiction of that Court. The seriousness of the step taken by Mr. Macqueen was pointed out to him and though pleaded with by some members of the Synod to withdraw, he refused to do so.
Day of Humiliation and Prayer.—
At the Inverness Synod, Wednesday, the 14th day of September, was appointed as a day of humiliation and prayer.