August - the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland

Church Notes. 159
menace to the civil and religious liberties and peace of the three
kingdoms.
Synod's Loyal Address to the King.-The following
Loyal Address to His Majesty King George V. has been forwarded
by the Committee of Synod :-
" A Loyal Address from the Synod of the Free Presbyterian
Church of Scotland. To His Most Excellent Majesty
GEORGE V., King of Great Britain and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith, etc.
"May £t please your jl1ajesty,-We, the Synod of the Free
Presbyterian Church of Scotland, desire to renew our sincere
expressions of loyalty to your Majesty's person and throne, and
to declare our earnest prayer that your Majesty's reign may, by
the divine favour, be a long and truly prosperous one. Believing as
we do that devotion to the revealed will· of the King of kings, as
expressed in the Holy Scriptures, and loyalty to the principles of
the Reformed Faith, are the best guarantees of national prosperity,
we fervently hope that no far-reaching event may happen in the
near future which will seriously imperil the stability and peace of
the realm in these important respects, or weaken the enjoyment
throughout the three kingdoms of our highly-valued civil and
religious liberties..
" It is our most sincere desire that your Majesty and Queen Mary
may receive divine guidance and strength for the discharge of the
varied and onerous duties which devolve upon your Majesties.
(Signed) NEIL MACINTYRE, Moderator.
( ,,) JAMES S. SINCLAIR, Clerk."
Resolution re Sabbath Desecration.-The following
resolution on this subject has been drawn up by the Synod's
Committee :-"The Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of
Scotland view, with much grief, the widespread growth of Sabbath
profanation throughout the country, and regard it as one of the
most alarming features of a degenerate time. They consider that
such profanation of God's holy day means not only a deliberate
interference with its character as a sacred day of rest, but a studied
contempt for the ordinances of His house and the preaching of
His gospel, and that it thus inevitably opens the flood-gates for
the inrush of all manner of infidelity and immorality. They
perceive that God is withdrawing His restraints from the rising
generation, and would warn all and sundry of the numerous signs
that appear of His wrath against us.
"The Synod would, meantime, call particular attention to the
amount of Sabbath desecration perpetrated by large public
bodies such as Railway Companies, Municipal Corporations, and
Public Carriers, who provide facilities by trains, cars, buses, and
such like, to the careless public to roam from place to place, and
to degrade the honourable and sacred character of the Lord's Day
by all kinds of frivolity and dissipation.