Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St Peter's Church, Dundee. Abridged from the larger work. Crown 8vo. Pp. viii. 151. Edinburgh: Wm. Oliphant & Co. 1865.

It is superfluous in us to commend a book that has become one of our Christian household classics. It may be enough to say, that this small volume contains the cream of the larger work, and is just such a book as may be put into the hands of those who, in this busy age, have no time for reading many pages, but are yet desirous to make or to renew acquaintance with the gifted and saintly M'Cheyne.

News of the Church.

PREACHERS LICENSED.

ON October 24th, by the United Presbyteries of Dumfries and NewtonStewart, Mr James Glendinning.

On October 31st, by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, Mr James M⭑Nair.

PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH.

This Presbytery met at Edinburgh on October 31st-Rev. Robert Naismith, moderator, pro tempore. Mr James M'Nair gave in his trials for license, which were cordially sustained. The Presbytery adjourned to 4.30 P.M.

The Presbytery met, according to adjournment,-Rev. Professor Goold, D.D., moderator, pro tempore. The questions of the formula were then put to Mr James M'Nair, the moderator offered prayer, licensed him to preach the Gospel, and addressed him on the duties and responsibilities of his new position. It was agreed that the trials for license be accepted as trials for ordination. It was further agreed to transfer Mr M'Nair to whatever Presbytery the Foreign Mission Committee may request to take charge of the ordination of the new missionaries.

GLASGOW PRESBYTERY SCHOLARSHIP.

This scholarship of £15 for one year, was offered for competition on October 31st, in the Session-House, Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow. One candidate only appeared,-Mr David Roddick. After a careful examination, oral and written, the examinators awarded him the bursary.

DEPARTURE OF REV. R. HUNTER.

Rev. Robert Hunter, with his wife, sailed from Liverpool on the 7th ult., in the "Prince Rupert," for Melbourne, Australia.

COMMUNICATIONS BY POST FOR THE NEW HEBRIDES.

All communications by post for the Missionaries in the New Hebrides to be addressed, "New Hebrides, via Sydney, N. S. W."

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEWLY ORDAINED MISSIONARIES. The January Number of the Magazine will contain a wellexecuted photograph, by Ralston, Argyll Street, Glasgow, of Revs. James Cosh, A.M., James M'Nair, and Thomas Neilson, the recently appointed missionaries to the New Hebrides. Friends desirous of extra copies are requested to make early application to the agents for the Magazine, as photographs cannot be quickly printed.

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