A Scotch letter could hardly finish without a reference to Kirk affairs. The most riotable ecclesiastical matter to report is the approaching union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches. The special committee of these two great bodies have been most thorough in all union arrangements, and in keeping all the ministers and churches of both denominations in touch with them, have done much in welding fraternal bonds. I have been specially interested in the work of the Glasgow United Evangelistic Association. The magnitude of their enterprise is partly seen in the fact that the total expenditure for last yeat was £27,383 5s, Ud. During " 26 Years this Association has spent £289,738 lls. 3d. In addition to the ordinary evangelistic work, there are free breakfasts for poor children every Sunday; day refuges; dispensaries; ten beautiful homes in connection with the fresh air fortnight scheme which arranges for 7,000 poor sickly children being sent to the sea-shore from the slums, Space, however, prevents give other details of this successful undertaking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.