| Other Donations | | 8,990.00 | 164.56 | 168.72 | 148.73 | 149.29 | 200.00 | 5,912.65 | 10.00 | 15,743.95 |
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| SPECIAL COLLECTIONS TOTALS | | 337,051.66 | 15,880.95 | 25,744.23 | 9,824.46 | 8,360.57 | 10,103.39 | 81,337.55 | 11,143.18 | 499,445.99 |
| Eastern Europe Fund Donations | | | | | | | | | | 12,232.63 |
| GRAND TOTAL | | | | | | | | | | 511,678.62 |
*These sums were contributed to the local Australia & New Zealand Sustentation Funds. They do not appear in any of the totals here.
Brechin Cathedral
The Church of Scotland has announced that Brechin Cathedral, the parish church of Brechin, is to be closed and sold. Brechin was one of the pre-Reformation dioceses of Scotland, and the round tower attached to the building is thought to date from 1100 AD or earlier. William Guthrie (1620-1665), the author of The Christian’s Great Interest was buried there, and former ministers include John Willison (1680-1750) and Robert Coutts (1772-1803), a later Evangelical whose widow was a friend and correspondent of Thomas Chalmers. One of Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s letters from Palestine in 1839 was addressed to her. A more recent minister, however, was the sodomite Scott Rennie, now at Queen’s Cross, Aberdeen.
Under the heading “Recent and forthcoming events”, the church website advertises a carol service, a Burns supper, an “Angel Tree”, an event involving witches, and “Palm Sunday” and Easter-day. Obviously these events fail to bring in the people and the money. Between them, the secularists and the liberal/superstitious Church of Scotland are driving the Christian religion out of Scotland. “I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent” (Rev 2:5). DWBS
Church Information
Synod Business and Reports
Clerks of Presbyteries, Conveners and Clerks of Committees, and all interested parties, should note that all reports and items of business intended to be placed on the Synod agenda must be in the hands of the Clerk of Synod by Tuesday, 7 April 2020. Committee reports should contain information about the work of the Committees during the year; recommendations and proposals should be sent as separate items for the Synod agenda.
(Rev) K M Watkins, Clerk of Synod
Jewish and Foreign Missions Fund
By appointment of Synod, the first of the year’s two special collections for the Jewish and Foreign Missions Fund is due to be taken in congregations during March.
W Campbell, General Treasurer
Acknowledgement of Donations
Congregational Treasurers acknowledge with sincere thanks the following donations:
Perth: RM, £100.
Portree: TBS: Anon, £2000, £300.
Staffin: Family of late Rev Donald A K Macdonald, £1000.