A special committee of the Glasgow Presbytery of the Church of Scotland presented its Report on the Bishop question to the Presbytery at the end of last November. Apart from some statements indicating the wider outlook of the Church of Scotland on Church relations, the committee made some very clear and acceptable statements on the Presbyterian side of the matter. They asserted: “Statements in the Lambeth Report of 1938 offered clear evidence that real unity between the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, involving effective intercommunion, was ‘impossible’ from the Anglican point of view, except on the basis of episcopacy. The recognition of the pre-eminence of the Bishop appeared to constitute the radical difficulty in the attainment of any effective unity between the two Churches.” It seems that the Church of Scotland men are only now aware of the completely one-sided nature of these Inter Church discussions and as to their real purpose from the Anglican point of view. The Committee also stated, that what exactly was meant by “Apostolic succession” in the Church of England had never been made clear in the Joint Report. Even if unbroken historic continuity could be proved, which was very debatable, that would not in itself be a guarantee that an Episcopate was truly apostolic, said the Committee. Another part of their special Report is worth quoting as follows:—”Whatever the precise theory, the implication was that only those on whom a bishop’s hands were laid in confirmation were full members of the Church Catholic, and only men on whom his hands were laid in ordination were valid and regular ministers within the Church’s apostolic ministry.” The Committee also stated that “they could not agree to any adaptation or plan of Church Union which in any degree explicitly or implicitly, invalidated or cast any doubt on the full, apostolic validity of the ordination they had already received at the hands of the Presbytery.” This Committee recommended to the Glasgow Presbytery, (the largest in the Church of Scotland) the rejection of the proposals in the Joint Report on Inter-Church Relations. The fact is that if Church of Scotland Ministers and elders knew what has been going on in the Church of England for years, as to Romish Trends and practices, this would have been more than enough for any sensible and sincere Presbyterian to have nothing to do officially with the Church of England, not to speak of suggested bishops for the Church in Scotland. The Glasgow Presbytery on 25th November last discussed their Committees’ Report, and by a large majority supported the Committees’ proposals, and thus rejected the proposals contained in what is sometimes called the “Bishop’s Report.” It was again emphasised at the Presbytery: that they could not accept the imputation that they were not full members of the Church Catholic and that their ministry was not valid and regular without episcopacy. Although these notes refer to the Church of Scotland and their defence of Presbyterianism, as to the ministry and government thereof etc.,; yet the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland is deeply interested in these matters also, even from the point of view that the Church of England and Episcopal Church of Scotland consider our ministry, administration of the sacraments, and so on, invalid.