Communions.
—November, First Sabbath, Oban; third, Edinburgh and Dornoch; fourth, Glasgow and Halkirk (note change of date). South African Mission.—The following dates of the Communions: last Sabbath of March, June, September, and December. NOTE.—Notice of any change, or alteration, of the above dates of the Communions should be sent to the Editor.
Change of Date of Communion.
—The attention of readers is called to the change of date of St. Jude’s Communion, which will (D.V.) be held this year on the Fourth Sabbath of November, and not on the second as usual.—R. M.
Student Licensed.
—At a meeting of the Southern Presbytery, held at Glasgow on the 3rd October, Mr. W. B. Nicolson, M.A., divinity student, was licensed to preach the gospel.
Ordination and Induction of Rev. J. A. Macdonald, Uig, Lewis.
—The Outer Isles Presbytery met within the Miavaig Church, Uig on the 12th September for the purpose of ordaining and inducting the Rev. John Angus Macdonald to the pastoral charge of our Uig, Lewis Congregation. The ordination sermon was preached from II Cor. xi. 2. “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” Public worship being ended, the Moderator, Rev. D. J. Macaskill, gave a narrative of the steps taken to fill the vacancy in the Uig Congregation. He afterwards put the questions to Mr. Macdonald which are usually put to probationers at their ordination and induction and which were answered satisfactorily. The minister-elect having signed the Formula, and having knelt, he was solemnly set apart to the pastorate of the Congregation by solemn prayer and by the imposition of the hands of the Presbytery. The Moderator afterwards gave him the right hand of fellowship in which he was joined by the other members of the Presbytery. Mr. Macdonald was suitably addressed as to life and duty by the Moderator; the address to the congregation was given by the Rev. D. R. Macdonald, Tarbert. The Call to the Rev. J. A. Macdonald was signed by all the office-bearers and members: it was subscribed by 230 in all. It is our earnest prayer that Mr. Macdonald’s ministry may be abundantly blessed, that the Lord’s people there may be edified and strengthened and that he may have many seals of his ministry which he now enters upon, encouraged by the goodwill and deep interest of the friends in Uig.
—Malcolm Gillies, Presbytery Clerk.