BY the Induction of the Rev. Donald Campbell at Raasay all the vacant changes in the Western Presbytery have now been filled up. The Presbytery met on Tuesday the 20th October in the Free Presbyterian Church, Raasay for the purpose of ordaining and inducting the Rev. Donald Campbell to that charge. The Rev. John Colquhoun, Moderator, presided and preached an appropriate sermon from I. Timothy, vi. 20. After divine worship the clerk gave a brief narrative of the steps leading to the ordination and Mr. Campbell having satisfactorily answered the questions put to him and, having signed the formula, was ordained to the office of the ministry by prayer and the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, and thereafter inducted to the pastoral charge of the congregation.
Afterwards the newly ordained minister was addressed in suitable terms by the Rev. A. F. Mackay and the congregation by the Rev. Archibald Beaton. The Call was signed by 270 members and adherants. There was a large congregation present and at the end of the solemn service an opportunity was given to the people to shake hands with their pastor at the door of the church. May the ministry now begun be richly blessed by the Lord of the harvest and may the Holy Spirit be poured in rich measure on both pastor and people! D. M. Macdonald, Clerk of Presbytery.