10 different parts of which he has nine places of worship with about eight hundred members. Some of these members are only about eight years of age being admitted to the sacrament of the supper because they had gone through the ordeal of convulsions and thereafter experienced sensible joy, however ignorant they are of the nature, object and end of the holy ordinance. Many of these persons came to hear me preach who declared that were ministers from the Free Church of Scotland to come to the Island they would gladly join their ministry. It is distressing to witness our poor countrymen led astray by such delusions who, if we had men to labour in the field, might easily be brought under the pastoral care of the Free Church (Guardian, Nov.7, 1845, p. 148) [It is interesting in view of the above letter to fin'1 that in 1859 the self-same Rev. John MacMillan of Cardross , Scotland , was censured by the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland for "drinking too freely and using unbecoming familiarities with a widow lady". When he protested the Assembly 's ruling over their heads to the civil courts, the Assembly was angrier still because this course of action flouted the very basis on which they had separated from the established church, that it, the perfect liberty of the church to rule itself by its own laws without civil interference] N.H.M.