The Synod appointed the Collection for the Foreign Mission Fund to be taken by book in August, and, therefore, we again turn to our loyal people for their help, so generously and ungrudgingly given in the past. Matters, on the whole, in our Foreign Mission are encouraging, and the Lord has b’een pleased to give tokens of His favour. There are now eight Europeans on the staff and this is the largest number since the Mission began. New opportunities of usefulness are opening up on account of many natives being removed by the Government to the vicinity of our station at Mbuma, many of whom have never been under the influence of a Missionary Society or heard the Gospel. The number of pupils in our schools this year is three thousand one hundred and Secondary Education, which is an invaluable asset to the work of the Mission, has been begun in January of this year. Rev. James S. Fraser and Mr. Norman Miller, with their families, are due back to Scotland this year for a much-needed and well-deserved furlough. This, along with the running expenses of the Mission, involves a heavy outlay, but, being confident that the Cause is the Lord’s, we leave it to our people to give their support as liberally as He will lap to their hands. “Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first-fruits of all thine increase.” (Prov. iii. 9.)
JOHN COLQUHOUN, Convener.