Communions.
January—Fifth Sabbath, Inverness. February—First Sabbath, Dingwall; third, Stornoway; fourth, North Uist. March—First Sabbath, Ullapool; second, Ness and Portree; third, Finsbay; fourth, Kinlochbervie and North Tolsta. April—First Sabbath, Achmore, Portnalong, and Stoer; second, Fort William; third, London and 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 Plockton. August—First Sabbath, Dingwall; second, Portree and Stratherrick; third, Bonar, Finsbay and Laide; fourth, Vatten and Thurso; fifth, Stornoway. September—First Sabbath, Ullapool and Breaselete; second, Strathy; third, Tarbert and Stoer. October—First Sabbath, Tolsta and Lochcarron; second, Gairloch and Ness; third, Applecross; fourth, Greenock, Lochinver; and fifth, Wick. November—First Sabbath, Oban and Raasay; second, Glasgow and Halkirk; third, Edinburgh, Dornoch and Uig. December—First Sabbath, London.
We have published above all the Communion dates for the year 1954. Will ministers kindly check the list and forward a note of omissions or corrections to the Editor.
London F.P. Communion Services.
The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, London congregation, Eccleston Hall, Eccleston Street, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W.1. In connection with the dispensation of the Lord’s Supper on Sabbath, 5th December, 1954, the following services have been arranged (D.V.), to be conducted by the Rev. James MacLeod, Greenock, and the Rev. Angus MacKay, Tarbert, Isle of Harris:—Thursday, 2nd December, 7 p.m.; Friday, 3rd December, 4 p.m. (Gaelic), and 7 p.m. (Fellowship Meeting); Saturday, 4th December, 3.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. (Prayer Meeting); Sabbath, 5th December, 11 a.m., 3.30 p.m. (Gaelic) (with a corresponding English service in downstairs hall simultaneously), and 7 p.m.; Monday, 6th December, 4 p.m. (Gaelic) and 7 p.m.
Services are held every Sabbath at 11 a.m., 3.45 p.m. (Gaelic), and 7 p.m. Weekly Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Communion at Winnipeg.
Rev. Alexander Murray, M.A., the Church’s deputy to Winnipeg, wishes to intimate that the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be dispensed in our Winnipeg congregation on the last Sabbath of October (i.e., the fifth Sabbath), the Lord willing. He expects Rev. Dr. MacDonald, Vancouver, to assist with the Communion services, which will begin as usual on Thursday, the 26th day of October (D.V.).
At the time of writing, at the end of August, Rev. Mr. Murray and his wife were on their way to Vancouver communion. Mr. Murray expected to be two Sabbaths in Vancouver, and on his way back to Winnipeg he expected to preach for two Sabbaths at Calgary. We wish for our two ministerial brethren in Canada that the anointing of the Holy Spirit will be granted to them in their gospel labours, and that those who fear the Lord under their ministry shall be fed with spiritual manna and others awakened and born again.
Australian Deputy.
Rev. Finlay MacLeod, Evelix, Dornoch, is the Church’s deputy to Australia and New Zealand. He will sail on 5th November (D.V.) on the P. and O. liner “Strathnaver” from Tilbury. Mrs. MacLeod is accompanying him to Australia.
Appeal—Winnipeg Church Repairs Fund.
Our Church building in Winnipeg has been in use for a good number of years, and it is now found necessary to do some repairs, including renewal of the heating plant. As the small congregation is already financially burdened to the limit in maintaining pulpit ministrations, it has been decided to make appeal to friends throughout Canada and the U.S.A. who may be willing to help defray this additional expense. Donations will be gratefully acknowledged by Mr. H. A. Kitchen, Honorary Treasurer, 758 Fleet Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
—ALLAN McLEOD, Clerk of Deacons’ Court.
This notice has been sent to the Magazine through Rev. F. MacLeod, Convener of Canadian and Colonial Committee. We would recommend this appeal to our readers in Canada and the U.S.A., and we are sure the Winnipeg congregation will appreciate even the smallest donation. Those who help will be assisting the Cause of Christ.
Northern Presbytery Address to the Queen.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY . . .
We, the Northern Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, met at Bonar Bridge on the 16th August, 1954, desire most respectfully to express to Your Majesty our profound grief at the reported action of Your Majesty the Queen in contributing gifts, stated to be “most generous,” to the rebuilding of the Southwark Roman Catholic Cathedral and the wide publicity which it received.
With all dutiful loyalty and respect we desire to represent to Your Majesty the inconsistency of such gifts with the oaths taken by Your Majesty under our constitution, specifying particularly the Coronation Oath made in Westminster Abbey on June 2nd, 1953, “to maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.” We feel that in view of the unscriptural and uncompromising claims to religious and civil supremacy and the restless ambition to overthrow the Protestantism of our Throne pursued by the Roman Catholic Church in this country—the papal head of which claims to be KING OF KINGS—Your Majesty’s action can only be characterised as inconsiderate and is to be deplored.
Since the Reformation the giving of such gifts by the occupant of our Protestant Throne to the support of an alien faith is a thing unprecedented and unknown; has given great offence to large numbers of Your Majesty’s most loyal and devoted subjects; and, we venture to say, tends to undermine and weaken our National Protestant Faith.
While the widest toleration and liberty to worship as they desire are granted to the Roman Catholic Church in this country, such as to-day are denied by that Church to other religious bodies in Colombia, Spain and other countries, our own Protestant Faith and liberties can only be secured and conserved, we firmly believe, by maintaining the wise and necessary safeguards surrounding our Throne and Constitution against the encroachments of the Roman Catholic Church.
WM. GRANT, Moderator.
This Protest has duly been acknowledged by Scottish Home Department, St. Andrew’s House, Edinburgh, as having been “duly laid before Her Majesty.”
A. F. MacKAY, Clerk.