Southern Presbytery Protest
The Southern Presbytery, met in Glasgow on Tuesday, 24 August 2021, resolve to place on record its firm protest against the continued recognition of the Papal See by the Government of the United Kingdom, witnessed by the intimated visit of Pope Francis to the city of Glasgow in November 2021.
The Presbytery unequivocally asserts its continued adherence to the terms and effects of the Act of the Scottish Parliament on 24 August 1560, subsequently approved by Act of Parliament in 1567 and enshrined in the Protestant constitution of this realm, which declares “that the jurisdiction and authority of the bishop of Rome called the Pope, used within this realm in times bypast, has been very hurtful and prejudicial to our sovereign’s authority and common weal of this realm” and “therefore . . . that the bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction or authority within this realm in times coming, and that none of our said sovereign’s subjects of this realm suit or desire in any time hereafter title or right by the said bishop of Rome or his seat to anything within this realm”.
The Presbytery maintains that the Pope of Rome has no right or claim to make or enforce civil or ecclesiastical edicts on matters affecting the interests of citizens in or the government of the United Kingdom or of any other nation. The Presbytery further calls on the government of the United Kingdom and those of other nations whose representatives court and flatter the see of Rome, to desist from further embroiling themselves and their people in the system of spiritual and civil tyranny which the Papacy involves.
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4).
Meeting of Synod
The Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland will meet in the Inverness church, on Tuesday, 26 October 2021, at 6.30 pm, DV, when the retiring Moderator, Rev J B Jardine, will conduct public worship.
(Rev) Keith M Watkins, Clerk of Synod
Meetings of Presbytery (DV)
Asia Pacific: At Gisborne, on Monday, October 25, at 11:15 am.
Western: At Lochcarron, on Tuesday, November 23, at 11 am.
Northern: At Dingwall, on Tuesday, November 30, at 2 pm.
Southern: At Glasgow, on Wednesday, December 1, at 4 pm.
Home Mission Fund
By appointment of Synod, the second of this year’s special collection for the Home Mission Fund is due to be taken in congregations during October.
W Campbell, General Treasurer
Acknowledgement of Donations
Congregational Treasurers acknowledge with sincere thanks the following donations:
Dingwall: Anon, for recording sermons, £50; Anon, for the poor, £10.
Duirinish & Bracadale-Strath: Anon, £500. Where Most Needed: Anon, £500.
Glasgow: Anon, £200, £81, £81, £142, £100, £130, £15, £100, £50; The family of the late Janet Daubney, £100; G Cameron, £120; Anon, in lieu of church door collections, £600; Anon, donation for audio services, £200. Eastern Europe Fund: Anon, Ps 60:4, £100; Anon, £245, £246, £400, £71, £80, £80, £80, £80, £80, £100, £60, £80, £60, £60, £60, £60, £60, £60, £60, £60, £60. Jewish & Foreign Mission Fund: Anon, Ps 60:4, £100; Anon, for Zimbabwe Mission, £100. Outreach Fund: Anon, £25, £225. Sustentation Fund: Anon, Ps 60:4, £300, £200, £40; Anon, in appreciation for live-streamed services, £200 per RML; Friend of the cause of Christ, £250 per RML. TBS: Anon, Ps 60:4, £40; Anon, £100.
Stornoway: Sustentation Fund: Anon, in appreciation for live-streamed services, £200.