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The New Zealand Evangelist

Free Church

Free Church.

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, met in Edinburgh in May last; Dr. Clason, of Edinburgh, was chosen Moderator. It appeared from the various reports that were read, that the Sustentation Fund had amounted to about £80,000, being an increase of nearly £0,000 during the past year. The number of ministers on the fund was 693. The annual stipend paid to the ministers out of this fund for the last three years, has been page 213 £122 each, but a special effort is being made throughout the Church to raise this fund so that each minister may receive at least £150 a year, leaving each congregation as formerly, to supplement this sum to their minister as they may be able. The amount raised for Foreign, Colonial, Jewish, and Home Missions, and Educational purposes, was nearly £57,000. Ten years before, in 1838, the sum raised by the undivided Church of Scotland for all purposes, was under £14,000. It was resolved, after a long and animated discussion, to have a Theological College in Edinburgh alone, to be furnished with five Theological Professors, and the Students to attend four full Sessions. Dr. Candlish, at the request of his congregation and himself, was released from the office of Professor of Theology, to which he had been appointed in the room of Dr. Chalmers. At the meeting of the Commission of the Assembly in August, several candidates were brought forward, but to sccure greater unanimity in so important an appointment, it was agreed to dela till a subsequent meeting. Since that time it has been proposed to bring Dr. Duff from India, to fill the office.