“Terror Over Yugoslavia.”
This is the title of a book by Avro Manhattan, and published this year by Watts and Co., Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. The title is justified by the shocking revelations given in the book. In his preface, the author referring to the Roman Catholic Church’s goal, states that it is the total Catholicization of Europe, of the West and of the world. This he writes would be “the most ruthless annihilation of all the basic liberties of modern man.” In the book itself he traces with historical care and facts the part played by the Papacy in promoting the First World War in 1914. Then there is a chapter dealing with Poland and Papal Fascist tyranny in that country, which “crumbled before the legions of Hitler and Stalin. The persecutors had become the persecuted.” This was in 1939. In another part of the world, back in 1918, a new independent kingdom had come into being, including the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, viz., Yugoslavia. This was welcomed by the Allies, but was unwelcome to the Vatican. “Orthodoxy, with the birth of Yugoslavia, had now become paramount in a country the population of which was more than one-third Roman Catholic. Worse still, in addition to permitting Orthodoxy to rule Roman Catholics, Yugoslavia was preventing the latter from setting up a wholly independent R.C. community.” This situation led to the formation, under the Catholic Hierarchy of Croatia, of an illegal Nationalist Army composed of bands of Catholic terrorists called the Ustashi, led by Ante Pavelic. In April, 1941, Hitler attacked the Yugoslav Kingdom and Pavelic supported the Nazi invaders. The design was to break up Yugoslavia and establish a Roman Catholic State of Croatia. Members of R.C. religious organisations were active
in sabotage, acts of terrorism, and in helping to disarm the Yugoslav army, following the German attack. The author gives names, e.g., Father Radoslav Glavas, a Franciscan monk, who on April 10 and 11, 1941, disarmed local gendarmerie, captured a post office, and drew plans to prevent the mobilisation of the Yugoslav Army. This is only one name among many given in this connection. On the above date April 10th, 1941, when the German Army entered the capital of Croatia, one Ustashi leader, Kvaternik, proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia. And while fighting between the Germans and Yugoslav Army continued, Archbishop Stepinac called on the leader of the Ustashi and urged all Croats to support the new Catholic State. Then announcements were published that Serbian Orthodox residents of the new Catholic capital must vacate the city within twelve hours, and that anyone found harbouring an Orthodox would immediately be executed. Then the man Anti Pavelic arrived on the scene. On April 14th Archbishop Stepinac met him and congratulated him on his life-work. The author states that this work was “the creation of the most ruthless Fascist tyranny ever to dishonour Europe.” Now, our Magazine readers will remember the loud condemnation appearing in the press from R.C. quarters, of the present Yugoslav government’s action in sending Archbishop Stepinac to prison after this last war for war crimes. It is provable that they had good cause to do so. Further, on June 28th, 1941, Stepinac, with other bishops, blessed Pavelic as the leader of the Croatian people. Pavelic was the same man who had been sentenced to death in connection with the murders of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and the French Foreign Minister, Barthou. Later, in 1941, the Pope Pius XII. blessed Pavelic. Then began a ruthless government with the object in view of eliminating whoever was not a Catholic Croat. Out of a population of 6,700,000, only 3,300,000 were Croats. The rest were Moslems, Jews and others. Over 2,000,000 were Orthodox Church Serbs. The Orthodox Church being originally a breakaway body from Rome. On June 2, 1941, Dr. Milovan Zanitsch, Minister of Justice, declared: “… There are no ways and means which we Croats will not use to make our country truly ours and to clean it of all Orthodox Serbs.” On August 4th and 5th, 1941, one bench alone, at Zagreb, sentenced to death 185 persons. “In March, 1943, the inmates of the Djakovo Camp were purposely infected with typhus, causing the deaths of 567 persons…; in the camp of Stara Gradiska, 1,000 women were killed… From December, 1941, to February, 1942, at Velika Kosutarica, at Jasenovac, over 40,000 Orthodox Serbs were massacred, while in the Jasenovac Camp, in the summer of 1942, about 66,000 Orthodox Serbs, brought from the villages of Bosnian Marches, were slaughtered, including 2,000 children. To support the terrible facts regarding the children, the author gives an eye-witness’s account. These are only a few instances of the slaughter carried on and recorded in this revealing book. As to details
of diabolical cruelty, we refrain from quoting them here. Avro Manhattan asserts on page 64 that the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church not only knew of such horrors; not a few of them were authorities in these same concentration camps, and had even been decorated by Pavelic—e.g., Father Zvonko Brekalo, of the concentration camp of Jasenovac, who was decorated in 1944; and there were others whose names are given. There are many pages in this book dealing with numerous cases of massacre and utmost barbarity by this Roman Catholic sponsored organisation—the Ustashi—and all in the name of religion to establish a Papal State in Croatia. There is a clear photograph opposite page 68 of Franciscan Bozidar Brajle making a speech at Zemun, 12th July, 1942, escorted by armed Ustashi. A large letter U is fixed in front of the Franciscan. The author declares, “The magnitude of the butchery can best be gauged by the fact that within the first three months, from April to June, 1941, 120,000 people perished thus.” The Ustashi were compared to Christ, as seen in a quotation from Nedelja, in its issue of June 6, 1941, “Christ and the Ustashi and Christ and the Croatians march together through history . . .” And Catholic leaders, priests and indeed bishops were given positions in the Ustashi State, declares Manhattan in this astounding book of his. He gives more than sufficient evidence to prove that “numerous Roman Catholic priests and monks, some of whom were not even attached to the Ustashi formations, carried out indiscriminate executions with their own hands.” All this was done in the name of the Roman Catholic religion, in these modern times, being a complete repetition of bloody persecution perpetrated by the Papacy in days long ago against those stigmatised by the Vatican as heretics because outside the fold of the Roman Church and daring to challenge the authority of the Pope, the Man of Sin, and the doctrines of devils imposed upon his deceived and priest-ridden adherents. From these terrible revelations it is easy to conclude that Rome has not changed as to its basic policy and agreed methods to obtain domination for the Roman Catholic faith, where and when that policy of persecution of Protestants and others can be put in operation. Probably even many Roman Catholics to-day, in this country and America, are unaware of these facts, being deceived by the modern propaganda of their Church, amid the liberties enjoyed by all in Britain and America. And many Protestants and non-Catholics are uninformed and ignorant of the evil principles still held by the real rulers of the R.C. Church at the Vatican. The recent history of Croatia, as disclosed in this book, Terror Over Yugoslavia, reveals the truth. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes in the power of His Holy Spirit, through the gospel, to bring all nations to do Him service, then one obstacle to this will be swept away in His own way and time—that is, the whole system and power of Papal Rome.
Notes and Comments.
Armistice in Korea.
After prolonged negotiations an armistice was signed at Panmunjom, Korea, by Lieut.-General Harrison of the United States, on behalf of the United Nations Forces, and by General Nam Il for the Chinese Communists. This took place on Monday, 27th July, 1953, and thus brought the war in Korea to an end. This event is a welcome relief to many who have been actually concerned with the fighting to resist and restrain unwarranted aggression on the part of the Communists seeking the extension of their power and the diffusion of their ideology throughout the world. All surviving prisoners of war belonging to the United Nations whether sick, wounded or in health will now be back among friends and allies or at home with their own families. Liberty will be precious to these men. There are many who will never return from Korea, having died in the course of this prolonged and peculiar conflict. And on this account the cessation of the war will but afflict sorrowing relatives with a renewal of their grief. For such there ought to be tender sympathy and prayer that the God of all comfort would bind up their broken hearts with the consolations that are in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Men who originate and launch out on war activities without any just or righteous cause whatsoever are indeed most wicked and irresponsible, and shall carry to the Judgment Seat of Christ at last an intolerable burden of guilt if repentance in individual cases be not given ere they enter eternity. War, of course, has been, and is, a permitted dispensation in the divine providence to make evident to men and nations the just anger of the God of heaven against them because of their ungodliness and idolatry. To contemplate the end of wars on this earth we must of necessity have regard to the universal subjection of nations to the King of Kings as a fruit of the abundant and world-wide outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh in connection with the word of the truth of the Gospel of Christ. Yet, at this present time, there is outstanding reason why the Church of Christ should seek to bless and magnify the Lord for so ordering matters in Korea that war has been turned into peace, whatever political problems and controversies follow as an aftermath.
A Scottish Nationalist and Scottish History.
On the 15th of July last Mr. Oliver Brown, the Scottish Nationalist, addressed the Workers’ Educational Association at St. Andrews. Among somewhat reckless and meaningless statements about St. Andrews University and the town of St. Andrews, Mr. Brown is reported as saying—”Our national history had been falsified by its Presbyterian, anti-Papist and pro-English bias.” It is not clear to us whether Mr. Brown meant the Presbyterian (etc.) bias of St. Andrews University or the town of St. Andrews. But this by the way. How our Scottish National History can be falsified by an
attachment on the part of our people to Presbyterianism, by their being opposed to the evil system of Roman Catholicism, and by friendship to those who live in England, is rather beyond our comprehension. If in St. Andrews the aforesaid has been true in the past from Reformation times, and is still true, then this is part of the history of Scotland, and not a falsifying of history. In order to falsify the national history of Scotland someone would require to lecture or write giving as historical facts pure conjecture and actual untruths, purporting to be Scottish history. At any rate Mr. Brown, as a Scottish Nationalist, appears to have a strong bias against Presbyterianism which has, in part, made Scotland strong religiously and ecclesiastically in the past. He also seems to be favourably disposed toward the Pope and all that this Italian potentate stands for. Mr. Oliver Brown may be a Roman Catholic. But this is a Protestant land, which needs to be warned against men who favour the Pope and priest, who would bring us back to spiritual darkness and bondage again if they could. And we thus think that our readers will need to watch carefully against Scottish Nationalism. Further, Mr. Brown seems to disagree with any pro-English bias. He would, of course, as a Scottish Nationalist. But this is not the attitude of heart conducive to peace in this troubled world among men, and it is not consistent with the great commandment—to love your neighbour as yourself.
Roman Catholic Propaganda Leaflets.
We have recently received from a Roman Catholic source several leaflets intended for propaganda purposes among Protestants and those now called non-Catholics by the R.C. Church. One leaflet of four pages, entitled St. Peter in Rome, sets out to give so-called facts and quotations from the writings of the ancient fathers to prove that the Apostle Peter lived and died in Rome; and that this is the verdict of history and archaeology. Of course, there are reasons why the Papacy desires to establish this claim regarding Peter. But what of it? Even had all the Apostles lived and died in Rome, this would not in itself constitute a fact fitted to honour the Lord Jesus Christ, redeem one sinner, or establish the New Testament and Christian Church on earth. It would be more to the point if the Catholic Truth Society began to issue the truth regarding Peter as being a married man (see Mark i. 30); and that the celibacy of the Popes and priests of Rome as an unnatural, uncalled for and dangerous principle and practice, is entirely contrary to the fact of the Apostle Peter being a married man. Another leaflet on Is One Religion as Good as Another contains the outworn and arrogant claim that the Roman Catholic Church teaches the one true religion. The Protestant Christian with an open Bible finds no Pope, no mass, no purgatory, no Assumption of Mary, no monasteries, no convents, no indulgences, etc., etc., in its inspired and infallible pages. But all these and multitudes of other deceptions and deceits are included in the “true” religion of poor
deluded Roman Catholics. This leaflet goes on to state that R.C.s are so positive about their religion being the true one that thousands of them have at all times in history suffered tortures and death rather than give up their religion. Will readers refer to our sketch of the book, Terror Over Yugoslavia, in this issue to get an astounding view of another dark feature of the real activities of the Roman Catholic Church, viz., dealing out torture and death to all others standing in their way. Further, this leaflet refers to “extreme unction” as a wonderful “pick-me-up” to help R.C.s for the final spurt up the last steep climb to death that leads to God. What a lie and deception, even in the light of Papal doctrine and teaching. Death leads to the fires of purgatory even for a Pope—and not directly to God or heaven. Albeit there is no such place as purgatory, it being but one of the many R.C. fictions to draw money into the coffers of the Pope. In yet another two-page leaflet, dealing with Why Catholic Schools? the effrontery of Jesuitical propaganda goes on. The R.C. Church in this Protestant nation is demanding £50 million to keep their denominational and sectarian schools in operation, as required by the 1944 Education Act. They bluntly declare in this leaflet that it is an impossible task for their Church to find this money. They need this cash to carry out their obligations. The Government financial commitments have been already decided, and the Roman Church is demanding this extra £50 million. In this leaflet the argument that religious truth must be the first purpose of their children’s education and that therefore R.C.s must have their own schools is an argument to deceive the ignorant only, as to Roman Catholic methods and outlook. Why not Government financed schools for the Church of England children only, and other separate schools for Presbyterian children and for Presbyterians only, etc.? All Education Acts and schools under them provide for the secular education of the children first and foremost, although an essential part of instruction carried on is of a religious nature, and true Christians would not have it otherwise. The Church and the home are the spheres where religious education ought to be first and foremost. “To train children,” says this leaflet, “merely to become coal miners, engineers, doctors, etc., is not to educate them to become full and proper men.” How true! But how plausible in view of the extra demand for £50 million for schools which concentrate on Papal religion! And much of this money to come out of Protestant taxpayers’ pockets to afford Roman Catholics the privilege of purely R.C. schools in a Protestant realm. These leaflets will deceive none but the ignorant.
A poor man told Rowland Hill that the way to heaven was short and simple; comprising only three steps—out of self, unto Christ, into glory.
Church Notes.
Communions.
January—Fourth Sabbath, Inverness. February—First Sabbath, Dingwall; third, Stornoway; fourth, North Uist. March—First Sabbath, Ullapool; second, Ness and Portree; third, Finsbay and Lochinver; fourth, Kinlochbervie; fifth, North Tolsta. April—First Sabbath, London, Portnalong and Breasclete; second, Fort William; third, Greenock; fourth, Glasgow and Wick. May—First Sabbath, Kames and Oban; second, Scourie and Broadford; third, Edinburgh. June—First Sabbath, Tarbert, Applecross, Coigach; second, Shieldaig; third, Lochcarron, Glendale, Helmsdale, Dornoch and Uig; fourth, Inverness and Gairloch. July—First Sabbath, Lairg, Raasay and Bealy; second, Staffin, Tomatin and Tain; third, Halkirk, Rogart, Flashadder and Daviot; fourth, Achmore, Bracadale, North Uist and Plocken. August—First Sabbath, Dingwall; second, Portree and Stratherrick; third, Bonar, Finsbay and Laide; fourth, Vatten and Thurso; fifth, Stornoway. September—First Sabbath, Ullapool and Breasclete; second, Strathy; third, Tarbert and Stoer. October—First Sabbath, Tolsta and Lochcarron; second, Gairloch and Ness; third, Applecross; fourth, Greenock, Lochinver and Wick. November—First Sabbath, Oban and Raasay; second, Glasgow; third, *Halkirk, Edinburgh, Dornoch and Uig. December—First Sabbath, London.
We have published above all the Communion dates for the year, 1953. Will ministers kindly check the list and forward a note of omissions or corrections to the Editor.
Appointment of a Day of Prayer.
The Synod, at its meeting in May, appointed a Day of Prayer as follows:—”That Wednesday or Thursday before the last Sabbath of September, namely, 23rd or 24th September, 1953, be appointed a Day of Humiliation and Prayer to be observed throughout the Church on account of our manifold departures from the Word of God as a people and the low state of religion throughout the Nation.”
Ordination and Induction of Rev. Lachlan MacLeod at Uig, Lewis.
On 29th July, 1953, the Outer Isles Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland met at Miavaig Church, Lewis, and was constituted by the Moderator, Rev. J. A. Tallach. It was agreed that Revs. W. Grant, Halkirk, and J. A. Macdonald, Applecross, be associated with the Presbytery. After the minute was read and approved, as there were many present who were English speaking, Mr. Tallach preached in English on II Cor. v. 20, the preliminaries having been conducted in Gaelic. His heads of doctrine were (1) The office of the ministry; (2) The authority which Paul lays claim to; (3) The work of the ministry; (4) The value of the ministry. After sermon
* Owing to local church circumstances the date for this year is changed from second to third Sabbath.—W. G.
the report on the edict was given by Rev. W. Maclean, M.A., Interim Moderator for Uig. Mr. D. Matheson was appointed Officer of Court, who was asked to read the proclamation in terms of the edict at the most patent door of the Church. This was done in Gaelic three times, and explained in English by the Moderator. There being no objection offered to the life or doctrine of Rev. Lachlan MacLeod, a narrative was read by the Clerk re the usual steps taken to fill up the vacancy. The usual questions were then put and the formula signed. Whereupon the candidate for ordination knelt, and the Presbytery laid their hands upon him, while the Moderator by solemn prayer ordained him and inducted him to the pastoral charge of Uig congregation in the name of the Presbytery and by the authority of the Great Head of the Church, in token thereof giving the right hand of fellowship, as did the other members of Presbytery. Rev. F. Macdonald, M.A., gave the charge to the Minister, saying that slothfulness was to be avoided as a danger, for there was plenty to do in the ministry.
Rev. W. Maclean, M.A., gave the charge to the congregation. He spoke from Hebrews xiii. 17: “Be mindful of those who have the rule over you,” referring to Stephen and John as those they were to remember. He said that long before 1893 there had been a witness at Uig against Voluntaryism in the Free Church, when 1,000 left the Free Church on this account, and joined Balnakill Parish Church, which was vacant, seeing that patronage had been repealed in the preceding year. It seems that Dr. Rainy got 400 votes on the floor of the Assembly for Voluntaryism and Dr. Begg only got 80 votes against it in 1878. It was argued that the Protestant Reformers had allowed a Popish Queen to ascend the Throne, and that the Protestant Coronation Oath should not be made binding. After Dr. Begg and Dr. Kennedy were taken away, things went from bad to worse, till the Constitution was changed by an overwhelming majority in 1892.
In 1893 a Deed of Separation was drawn up at Portree, and in it a witness was raised against Voluntaryism, Arminianism and Modernism, or Higher Criticism, which says that the Bible is only a collection of Jewish history and legends, not the inspired and infallible Word of God. In 1928, when the Established Church departed from her moorings and sought union with the Voluntaries in the U.F. Church, the Uig people sought admission to the Free Presbyterian Church. Mr. Maclean said he heard of a minister who said he would preach Christ and Him crucified, but not the Confession of Faith nor the Shorter Catechism, which showed that he did not know what Christ and Him crucified really meant. He ended by saying his period as Interim Moderator of Uig was one of the happiest in his life, and he thanked the people for their kindness to him during his period of office among them.
Rev. W. Grant referred to the eminent ministry of Rev. A. MacLeod in Uig, and also to Revs. Finlay Cook, “Big Macrae,” and Mr. Finlayson, who had laboured in Lewis and whose work had been richly blessed. He was glad to be associated with the Presbytery on such a solemn occasion, and conveyed the good wishes of the Northern Presbytery and of friends on the mainland to Rev. Mr. MacLeod, hoping that the cause of Christ would flourish in the Outer Isles, and he was also glad that Harris was about to have a minister also in the providence of God.
Rev. J. A. Macdonald, Applecross, the former minister of the congregation, spoke in Gaelic, saying none was happier than he that Uig was to have a minister, who would feed the people “with knowledge and understanding,” and who was a true ambassador of Christ. The newly ordained minister was then welcomed at the door by the huge concourse of people, who had come from Ness, Tolsta, Stornoway and Harris, including some from Inverness and friends from New Zealand. The praise of God was led by Rev. F. Macdonald and Dr. Peter A. MacLeod. It is to be hoped that the ministry thus favourably inaugurated will prove a blessing to the people of Uig and the Outer Isles generally. The call was signed by 211.—D. J. MACASKILL, Clerk of Presbytery.
Appeal from Plockton Congregation.
This small congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church has been without a building of their own since 1893, and the difficulties connected with such a situation have considerably increased within recent years. An effort is being made to erect a suitable building, but as the congregation is numerically small they are not able to face the burden alone, without the help of friends throughout the Church. A site was repeatedly refused by the former landholder, and the congregation had to be content to worship in the school. Now with these lands being in the possession of the National Trust for Scotland the congregation had no difficulty in procuring a site: their only difficulty was in choosing a suitable one. The Building Committee is now waiting for offers to come in from the different building contractors approached by the architect, and hope that work will soon begin. Contributions, however small, will be thankfully acknowledged in the Church Magazine, and can be forwarded to Mr. John Gollan, Laurel Bank, Cooper Street, Plockton, Ross-shire, or Rev. A. Beaton, F.P. Manse, Gairloch, Ross-shire.
(Sgd.) A. BEATON, Interim Moderator of Session.
This appeal is cordially endorsed by the Western Presbytery.
(Sgd.) DONALD R. MACDONALD, Moderator.
„ JOHN COLQUHOUN, Clerk.
Acknowledgment of Donations.
Mr. J. Grant, 4 Millburn Road, Inverness, General Treasurer, acknowledges with grateful thanks the following donations:—
Sustentation Fund.—R. and A. McL., Muirbank, Dingwall, o/a Lochbroom Congregation, per Rev. D. N. MacLeod, £3; Miss C. McL., Montrose Road, Auchterarder, £3; Mr. J. C., 48 St. John’s Road, Wembley, Middlesex, £2.
Home Mission Fund.—Mr. J. C., 48 St. John’s Road, Wembley, £1.
Aged and Infirm Ministers’ and Widows’ and Orphans Fund.—Two Friends of the Cause, Applecross, £1.
Organisation Fund.—Two Friends of the Cause, Applecross, £1; Stornoway Friend, £1 1/-.
Publication Fund.—A Friend of the Cause, Drimnin, Oban, 10/-; Mr. R. H. C., Glencairn Street, Stevenston, £1.
Magazine Free Distribution Fund.—Two Friends of the Cause, Applecross, £1.
Dominions and Colonial Missions.—Mrs. Murray, Waternish (Australian £5 note) as acknowledged in May Magazine, should read as from Mrs. Murray, Edinburgh.
Legacy Fund.—Received with grateful thanks from the Executors of the late John McIver, Gairloch, the sum of £150 bequeathed to the funds of the Church per Mr. James MacIver.
Jewish and Foreign Missions.—Winnipeg Congregation per Mr. M. M. Gillies, 549 Lipton Street, £46 1/-; A Friend of the Cause, Eston, Sask., Canada, £10; A. McL., Glasgow, o/a Lochbroom Congregation, per Rev. D. N. MacLeod, £3; Mrs. Canty, Aria, Te-Kuiti, New Zealand, £4 10/-; Miss C. McL., Montrose Road, Auchterarder, £2; Mr. R. H. C., Glencairn Street, Stevenston, £1; Mr. J. C., 48 St. John’s Street, Wembley, £1. The following received o/a Shangani Teacher Training Fund:—Anon., Inverness postmark, £20; Swordale, Stornoway Congregation, per Mr. D. G. Mackenzie, £9 10/-; Mrs. C. M., Larrichmore, Birnam, Dunkeld, £3; Mr. N. McL., Kyles, Bayhead, N. Uist, £2 16/-; Mrs. M., Portree, £2; Stornoway Friend, £1 1/-; Mrs. C., Knightswood, £1; Mr. H. McL., 10 Wells Street, Inverness, £1; Two Friends of the Cause, Applecross, £5; Rev. Jas. F. Fraser acknowledges with sincere thanks the following on behalf of Shangani Teacher Training Fund:—Wick Congregation, £14 13/-; Halkirk Congregation, £40; Tain and Fearn Congregation, £18 16/3; Friend, Lewis, £1; Friend, Nairn, £2 10/-; Friend, Helmsdale, £1; Friend, Inverness, £1; Anon., Crewe postmark, £1.
The following lists sent in for publication:—
Bayhead Church and Manse Repair Fund.—Rev. D. J. MacAskill acknowledges with grateful thanks 8/- from Mrs. J. MacD., Sponish, Lochmaddy.
Dingwall Church Building Fund.—Mr. D. Matheson, “Carminish,” Achuey Road, Dingwall, acknowledges with grateful thanks:—N. McL.,
Rosemarkie, £3; B. B. F., Kingussie, £2; Friend, Ross, £5; Mrs. C. Munroe, Toronto, 15/-; M. and M. L., Errina, £2; Two Beautiful Friends, £50; J. S., Fortrose, £5; A. MacL., Edinburgh, £1; Mr. T. MacD., Eston, Sask., £5.
Edinburgh Manse Purchase Fund.—The Treasurer has much pleasure in acknowledging the following contributions:—Well-Wisher per Mr. J. MacKay, £3; Friend, Edinburgh, per Mr. P. Anderson, £4.
Glendale Church Funds.—The Treasurer acknowledges with sincere thanks the following per Rev. J. Colquhoun:—A Friend of the Cause, 12/6, o/a Sustentation Fund; A Friend, N.S.W., £2, o/a Church Repairs Fund.
London Congregational Funds.—Rev. J. P. MacQueen acknowledges with sincere thanks the following:—Mr. J. R. MacKay-Munro, Hamilton, Canada, £2; A Friend, £2; A Former Adherent, £1; also £2 o/a Organisation Fund from Mr. J. R. M.-M., Hamilton.
Ness Manse Purchase Fund.—Mr. D. MacKay, Treasurer, 72 Cross Skigersta, acknowledges with grateful thanks the following:—Mr. A. MacL., jun., 17 P. of Ness, £2; Miss K. A. M., 11 Skigersta, £3; Mr. J. McL., Muirneag Villa, Tarbert, £2.
Dornoch Church Building Fund.—Rev. F. McLeod acknowledges with sincere thanks the following:—Friend, Inverness, £1; Mr. W. R., Dornoch, £1; Mrs. C., Gairloch, £1; Mr. S., Dornoch, £1; Mr. J. K., Wick, £2; Friend, Lairg, £1; From Clarence Street, Grafton, Australia, £10 7/2; Interested, Dornoch, £5; Mr. W. M., Dornoch, £1; Friends, Tain, £1; and Mrs. L., Errina, £2; Miss M., Golspie, £2; Friend, £5; Friend, Luib, per Mrs. J. Nicolson, £1; Mr. T. McD., Sask., Canada, per General Treasurer, £5.
St. Jude’s Congregation, Glasgow.—Mr. Alexander, 58 High Mains Ave., Dumbarton, desires to acknowledge receipt of the following:—Per Rev. D. J. M., Friend, Partick postmark, £5 for Sustentation Fund; £5 Home Mission Fund; £5 for Foreign Mission; £2 10/- Publication Fund; Mrs. Cormack, per K. McL., £4; Friend per J. G., 10/-; Miss Campbell, £1; M. McK., Paisley, 10/-; Nurse Ross, £1; J. W. R., £1.
Raasay Manse Building Fund.—Mr. Ewen MacRae, Treasurer, acknowledges with grateful thanks:—Friend, Glasgow, £1; Mrs. P., Glasgow, £1; D. M. L., Knock, £1.
Stratherrick Congregation.—Mr. John Fraser, Treasurer, acknowledges with sincere thanks the following donations on behalf of Communion Expenses:—Dr. A. Fraser, Manchester, £5; A. M. Fraser, Malta, £3.
Vatten Church Purchase Fund.—Rev. J. Colquhoun acknowledges with sincere thanks the following:—Friend, Portree, £5; F. F., £1; M. A. B., £2; A Friend, £1; Friends, £2; A Friend, N.S.W., £2.
Mr. John MacKay, Treasurer, thankfully acknowledges the following:—A Friend, 10/-; A Friend, £1; A Friend, Dunvegan, £5.
South African Mission Clothing Fund, Northern Section.—Mrs. MacKay, F.P. Manse, Inverness, acknowledges with sincere thanks:—Anon., Dornoch postmark, £1; A. Morrison, Kinlochbervie, £1; Anon., Inverness postmark, £20.