| Location | Sustentation | Home Mission | Foreign Mission | College & Library | General Building | Dominions & Overseas | Publications | Bookroom | TOTAL |
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| NORTHERN PRESBYTERY | | | | | | | | | |
| Aberdeen | £ 1,001.66 | 110.66 | 382.00 | 69.83 | 34.00 | 107.66 | 50.50 | 40.00 | 1,796.31 |
| Creich, Dornoch, Lairg, Rogart, | | | | | | | | | |
| Fearn & Tain | 5,770.00 | 151.00 | 457.00 | 115.00 | 121.00 | 156.00 | 113.00 | 118.00 | 7,001.00 |
| Daviot, Tomatin & Stratherrick | 4,032.00 | 210.00 | 555.30 | 137.00 | 189.00 | 167.00 | 112.00 | 150.80 | 5,553.10 |
| Dingwall & Beauty | 10,340.00 | 410.00 | 780.00 | 356.00 | 360.00 | 455.00 | 404.00 | 323.00 | 17,458.00 |
| Halkirk, Strathy, Thurso & Wick | 1,537.00 | 241.00 | 183.00 | 50.00 | 50.00 | 63.00 | 38.00 | 43.00 | 2,205.00 |
| Inverness | 17,590.00 | 1,236.00 | 4,410.00 | 687.50 | 766.71 | 840.30 | 613.88 | 500.00 | 26,644.39 |
| Kinlochbervie & Scourie | 1,033.50 | 160.00 | 855.00 | 80.20 | 66.00 | 76.50 | 89.00 | 65.00 | 2,425.20 |
| | £ 41,304.16 | 2,518.66 | 7,622.30 | 1,495.53 | 1,586.71 | 1,865.46 | 1,420.38 | 1,239.80 | 63,083.00 |
| SOUTHERN PRESBYTERY | | | | | | | | | |
| Barnoldswick | £ 1,635.00 | 250.00 | 555.00 | 120.00 | 200.00 | 200.00 | 165.00 | 45.00 | 3,170.00 |
| Chesley | – | – | 58.29 | – | – | – | – | – | 58.29 |
| Dumbarton | 1,125.00 | 78.00 | 157.50 | 45.00 | 42.00 | 71.00 | 42.00 | 66.00 | 1,626.50 |
| Dundee, Perth & Stirling | 2,258.00 | 239.00 | 639.00 | 108.00 | 161.00 | 74.00 | 183.00 | 65.00 | 3,727.00 |
| Edinburgh | 3,240.00 | 105.00 | 385.00 | 75.00 | 90.00 | 120.00 | 95.00 | 60.00 | 4,170.00 |
| Ft. William & Oban | 738.00 | 49.00 | 54.00 | 18.00 | 12.00 | 35.00 | 17.00 | – | 923.00 |
| Glasgow | 19,865.32 | 1,993.64 | 3,710.86 | 1,203.22 | 1,104.32 | 1,380.82 | 1,104.28 | 1,301.86 | 31,664.32 |
| Greenock & Dunoon | 1,225.50 | 126.00 | 169.50 | 45.00 | 49.00 | 57.00 | 76.00 | 55.50 | 1,803.50 |
| Kames | 400.00 | – | 300.00 | – | – | – | – | 50.00 | 750.00 |
| Larne | 5,650.00 | 100.00 | 600.00 | 100.00 | 150.00 | 160.00 | 100.00 | 70.00 | 6,930.00 |
| London | 9,662.18 | 155.00 | 1,156.66 | 145.00 | 564.72 | 493.68 | 275.67 | 220.17 | 12,673.08 |
| Toronto | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Vancouver | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| | £ 45,799.00 | 3,095.64 | 7,785.81 | 1,859.22 | 2,373.04 | 2,591.50 | 2,057.95 | 1,933.53 | 67,495.69 |
| OUTER ISLES PRESBYTERY | | | | | | | | | |
| Achmore | £ 1,255.00 | 90.00 | 110.00 | 30.00 | 33.00 | 45.00 | 31.00 | – | 1,594.00 |
| Breascaite | 920.00 | 70.00 | 200.00 | 80.00 | 60.00 | 80.00 | 70.00 | 70.00 | 1,550.00 |
| Ness | 3,271.00 | 35.00 | 62.00 | 29.00 | 29.00 | 33.00 | 25.00 | – | 3,484.00 |
| North Harris | 7,795.32 | 301.00 | 453.50 | 157.77 | 168.50 | 249.00 | 211.50 | 188.50 | 9,525.09 |
| North Tolsta | 7,200.00 | 287.50 | 802.00 | 247.50 | – | 250.50 | 243.50 | 262.00 | 9,293.00 |
| North Uist | 3,530.00 | 93.00 | 155.00 | 66.00 | 52.00 | 73.00 | 83.00 | 76.00 | 4,128.00 |
| South Harris | 10,600.00 | 268.00 | 427.00 | 276.00 | 173.00 | 206.00 | 148.00 | 163.00 | 12,261.00 |
| Stornoway | 13,373.00 | 405.00 | 1,251.00 | 390.00 | 442.00 | 416.80 | 403.00 | 343.00 | 17,023.80 |
| Uig | 3,679.00 | 67.00 | 378.00 | 64.00 | – | – | 70.00 | – | 4,258.00 |
| | £ 51,623.32 | 1,616.50 | 3,838.50 | 1,340.27 | 957.50 | 1,353.30 | 1,285.00 | 1,102.50 | 63,116.89 |
| WESTERN PRESBYTRY | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Applecross | £ | 2,056.49 | 65.00 | 145.00 | 74.22 | 45.50 | 100.00 | 70.00 | 60.00 | 2,616.21 | | |
| Assynt | | 3,760.00 | 215.00 | 670.00 | 101.00 | 140.00 | 191.10 | 129.00 | 167.00 | 5,373.10 | | |
| Gairloch | | 4,805.00 | 136.00 | 260.00 | 105.00 | 115.00 | 131.00 | 124.00 | 90.00 | 5,766.00 | | |
| Kyle of Lochalsh & Plockton | | 629.00 | 18.00 | 37.00 | 15.00 | 13.00 | 19.00 | 28.00 | 16.00 | 775.00 | | |
| Laide | | 4,583.00 | 90.00 | 202.00 | 90.00 | 80.00 | 95.00 | 80.00 | 45.00 | 5,265.00 | | |
| Lochbroom | | 5,450.00 | 230.00 | 559.00 | 166.00 | 158.00 | 217.00 | 175.00 | 169.00 | 7,124.00 | | |
| Lochcarron | | 5,000.00 | 300.00 | 600.00 | 300.00 | 300.00 | 300.00 | 300.00 | 300.00 | 7,400.00 | | |
| Shieldaig | | 2,100.00 | 60.00 | 156.00 | 60.00 | 40.00 | 60.00 | 45.00 | 50.00 | 2,571.00 | | |
| | £ | 28,383.49 | 1,114.00 | 2,629.00 | 911.22 | 891.50 | 1,113.10 | 951.00 | 897.00 | 36,890.31 | | |
| SKYE PRESBYTERY | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bracadale & Strath | £ | 4,000.00 | 94.50 | 233.00 | 60.00 | 97.00 | 130.00 | 75.00 | 69.50 | 4,759.00 | | |
| Duirinish | | 3,187.00 | 257.00 | 401.00 | 141.00 | 190.00 | 229.00 | 122.00 | 149.00 | 4,676.00 | | |
| Portree & Flashadder | | 13,000.00 | 700.00 | 2,300.00 | 1,000.00 | 250.00 | 500.00 | 400.00 | 560.00 | 18,710.00 | | |
| Raasay | | 4,300.00 | 174.00 | 438.00 | 135.00 | 126.50 | 149.00 | 110.00 | 129.00 | 5,561.50 | | |
| Staffin | | 3,094.90 | 122.00 | 336.00 | 105.50 | 109.00 | 184.00 | 120.00 | 99.00 | 4,170.40 | | |
| | £ | 27,581.90 | 1,347.50 | 3,708.00 | 1,441.50 | 772.50 | 1,192.00 | 827.00 | 1,006.50 | 37,876.90 | | |
| AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND PRESBYTERY | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Auckland | £ | – | – | 394.28 | 50.00 | 50.00 | 302.78 | 50.00 | 50.00 | 897.06 | | |
| Gisborne | | – | 60.33 | 649.85 | 120.64 | 52.00 | 305.79 | 56.58 | 56.00 | 1,301.19 | | |
| Wellington | | – | – | 164.09 | – | – | 167.57 | – | – | 331.66 | | |
| Grafton | | – | – | 601.27 | – | – | 387.92 | – | – | 989.19 | | |
| Sydney | | – | – | 140.85 | 46.95 | 70.42 | 469.48 | 46.95 | – | 774.65 | | |
| | £ | (See below ) | 60.33 | 1,950.34 | 217.59 | 172.42 | 1,633.54 | 153.53 | 106.00 | 4,293.75 | | |
| SUMMARY | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Northern | £ | 41,304.16 | 2,518.66 | 7,622.30 | 1,495.53 | 1,586.71 | 1,865.46 | 1,420.38 | 1,239.80 | 59,053.00 | | |
| Southern | | 45,799.00 | 3,095.64 | 7,785.81 | 1,859.22 | 2,373.04 | 2,591.50 | 2,057.95 | 1,933.53 | 67,495.69 | | |
| Outer Isles | | 51,623.32 | 1,616.50 | 3,838.50 | 1,340.27 | 957.50 | 1,353.30 | 1,285.00 | 1,102.50 | 63,116.89 | | |
| Western | | 28,383.49 | 1,114.00 | 2,629.00 | 911.22 | 891.50 | 1,113.10 | 951.00 | 897.00 | 36,890.31 | | |
| Skye | | 27,581.90 | 1,347.50 | 3,708.00 | 1,441.50 | 772.50 | 1,192.00 | 827.00 | 1,006.50 | 37,876.90 | | |
| Australia & N.Z. | | (See below ) | 60.33 | 1,950.34 | 217.59 | 172.42 | 1,633.54 | 153.53 | 106.00 | 4,293.75 | | |
| SUB-TOTALS | £ | 194,691.87 | 9,752.63 | 27,533.95 | 7,265.33 | 6,753.67 | 9,748.90 | 6,694.86 | 6,285.33 | 268,726.54 | | |
| Donations | | – | – | 5,539.96 | – | – | 102.81 | – | 182.00 | 5,824.77 | | |
| Eastern Europe Fund | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 20,300.22 | | |
| GRAND TOTALS | £ | 194,691.87 | 9,752.63 | 33,073.91 | 7,265.33 | 6,753.67 | 9,851.71 | 6,694.86 | 6,467.33 | 294,851.53 | | |
* Australia & New Zealand Sustentation Fund
Auckland NZ\$ 5,550 Grafton AU\$17,280
Gisborne NZ\$11,200 Sydney AU\$ 1,500
Hastings NZ\$ 1,500
Wellington NZ\$ 1,800
away, in his 77th year, to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. His empty place in the congregation and in the courts of the Church is deeply felt, but our loss, we believe, is his everlasting gain.
We extend our sincere sympathy to his widow and family. May the Lord comfort and uphold them, and reveal Himself as the Father of the fatherless, and the widow’s judge, in His holy habitation. To his sons we would address the words which David, King of Israel, addressed to his son, “Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth the imagination of all the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever,” (1 Chron. 28:9).
(Rev.) D. M., Glasgow
Light on the Fourth Commandment
(A comment on Luke, chapter 6, verses 1 to 5, which tell of the Saviour rebuking the Pharisees for criticising the disciples for plucking and eating ears of corn on the Sabbath).
WE should notice in these verses, the clear light which our Lord Jesus Christ throws on the real requirement of the Fourth Commandment. He tells the hypocritical Pharisees, who pretended to such strictness in their observance of the Sabbath, that the Sabbath was never intended to prevent works of necessity. He reminds them how David himself, when suffering from hunger, took and ate that shewbread, which ought only to be eaten by the priests, and how that act was evidently allowed by God, because it was an act of necessity. And He argues from David’s case, that He who permitted His own temple rules to be infringed in cases of necessity, would doubtless allow work to be done on His own Sabbath days, when it was work for which there was really a need.
We should weigh carefully the nature of Christ’s teaching about the observance of the Sabbath,… We must not allow ourselves to be carried away by the common notion that the Sabbath is a mere Jewish ordinance, and that it was abolished and done away by Christ. There is not a single passage of the Gospels which proves this. In every case where we find our Lord speaking upon it, He speaks against the false views of it which were taught by the Pharisees, but not against the day itself. He cleanses and purifies the Fourth Commandment from the man-made additions by which the Jews had defiled it, but never declares that it was not to bind Christians. He shows that the seventh day’s rest was not meant to prevent works of necessity and mercy, but He says nothing to imply that it was to pass away as a part of the ceremonial law.
We live in days when anything like strict Sabbath observance is loudly denounced, in some quarters, as a remnant of Jewish superstition. We are boldly told by some persons, that to keep the Sabbath holy is legal, and that to enforce the Fourth Commandment on Christians is going back to bondage. Let it suffice us to remember, when we hear such things, that assertions are not proofs, and that vague talk like this has no confirmation in the Word of God.
Let us settle it in our minds, that the Fourth Commandment has never been repealed by Christ, and that we have no more right to break the Sabbath day, under the gospel, than we have to murder and to steal. The architect who repairs a building, and restores it to its proper use, is not the destroyer of it, but the preserver. The Saviour, who redeemed the Sabbath from Jewish traditions and frequently explained its true meaning, ought never to be regarded as the enemy of the Fourth Commandment. On the contrary, He has “magnified it, and made it honourable”.
Let us cling to our Sabbath, as the best safeguard of our country’s religion. Let us defend it against the assaults of ignorant and mistaken men, who would fain turn the day of God into a day of business and pleasure. Above all, let us each strive to keep the day holy ourselves. Much of our spiritual prosperity depends, under God, on the manner in which we employ our Sabbaths.
From Expository Thoughts on the Gospels by J.C. Ryle
Book Reviews
THE CAMBUSLANG REVIVAL by Arthur Fawcett.
Published by the Banner of Truth Trust, 256 pages, £6.95. Obtainable from the Free Presbyterian Bookroom, 133 Woodlands Road, Glasgow G3 6LE
THIS account of the Scottish Evangelical Revival of the 18th century is said by the publishers to have “thrilled readers when first published in 1971”. It is as interesting today as it was then, and we recommend it as enjoyable and most profitable reading.
The Cambuslang Revival is a well documented work and the author quotes freely from contemporary accounts of the remarkable events in Cambuslang, Kilsyth, and other centres of revival. Among these sources are the Kirk Session records of Cambuslang; a record of cases of conversions written by the Rev. William M’Culloch, minister at Cambuslang at the time of the revival; and A Faithful Narrative of the Extraordinary Work of the Spirit of God at Kilsyth by the Rev. James Robe of Kilsyth. Fawcett comments in the introduction, “I have
taken care to preserve quotations exactly with all the colourful variety of spelling, grammar, capital letters and so on.” This approach to the subject brings the reader nearer to the events and the people involved in them, and helps to bring the narrative alive.
Though our generation has not known such a work of the Holy Spirit which revived believers and awakened spiritually dead sinners in large numbers, it is heart warming to read an account of it. We would do well to remember that God is the same God still. One heartening aspect of this account of God’s sovereign work in the Cambuslang revival is that the author emphasises that it was effected by the use of the ordinary means of grace. “The work,” he says, “was no foreign importation but had issued from the faithful preaching and labours of a somewhat colourless parish minister.” The Scottish revivals of the 18th century were not the result of modern-style evangelistic planning and organising, but a display of the power of God, quickening whom He would. This is highlighted by the fact that the parish where the work began was not the most spiritually promising when Mr. M’Culloch came to it in 1731, and where he laboured for eleven years with little obvious fruit.
When we read that in July 1742 a crowd of about twenty thousand gathered at Cambuslang on the communion Sabbath, and an estimated 1,700 communicants sat at the Lord’s Table; and when we add to this the recorded experiences of sinners truly convinced of sin and then brought to joy and peace in believing; and the great and lasting changes in lives, congregations and communities, we can only say that it was the wondrous doing of the Lord.
The author brings out the care exercised by the ministers, who were the Lord’s instruments in the work, to avoid the extremes and excesses which at times accompanied and marred some revivals. He comments shrewdly, “Religious opinion in Scotland was inexorably bound up with the Bible, the Psalter and the Shorter Catechism. Devotees of the mystic way, hearers of the inaudible and those who saw great lights were regarded with suspicion. Everything had to be tested by and brought to the plain words of Holy Writ.” An indication of the searching nature of Mr. M’Culloch’s own preaching is seen in his saying that “they that had got a light within them and joy, and trusted therein more than in Christ’s righteousness, were free to shake hands with the Quakers”. The same discretion was used in assessing the abiding results of the revival. The low place the ministers took in the midst of the work is shown by Mr. Robe’s words: “Ministers are but instruments… no praise was due to the rams’ horns, though Jericho’s walls fell down at their blast.”
Dr. Fawcett has written a very readable and carefully researched account in which the details of the revival are well authenticated. Such a thorough examination is not only useful in its own right but serves to highlight the
hollowness and lightness of much of what has passed for revival since then.
The book deals not only with the work at Cambuslang but also that at Kilsyth, drawing largely on Rev. James Robe’s Faithful Narrative. Also referred to are smaller movements in such diverse places as Golspie, Nigg and Rosskeen.
What an untold blessing it would be if the reading of this book were the means of stirring up many to pray for another such outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon poor sin-darkened Scotland. It is recommended reading for all who long and pray for the reviving of the cause of Christ in Scotland.
(Rev.) D. J. MacDonald