April 29, 1876. STUDENTS' AND BURSARY FUND. April 30, 1877. To Balance of Account, ... £71 15 9 By Mr. Alexander Smellie To Donations : Miss Ann Dick, A. Buchanan, Esq., New York, per Mr. James Rait, Rev. T. Hobart, A Friend, Midlem, per Rev. T. Hobart, £100 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 210 0 per 0 10 0 0 10 0 208 10 0 0 19 0 £281 4 9 To Interest on Bank Acc., 1st Bursary, By Mr. Duncan M'Kinnon, 2nd Bursary, By Expenses at Competition, By Balance to next year's account, £8 0 0 700 096 265 15 3 £281 4 9 W. F. Aitken, 1 0 0 To Donations- Edinburgh,... £100 0 0 Donald Munro, April 30, 1877, £38 17 3 By Mrs. Smellie, Edinburgh, £20 0 0 By Balance to next year's Account, 8 0 0 237 15 3 100 210 3 0 0 15 0 £257 15 3 £257 15 3 To Interest on Bank Acct., ABSTRACT STATEMENT OF THE SYNOD'S FUNDS. AS AT CLOSE OF THE ANNUAL ACCOUNT, 1876-77. Invested under Debenture Bonds of Clyde Navigation Trustees, Interest Foreign Mission Fund, Portion of Legacy of Mrs Grandison, Leith, Invested in Mission House Property, Seoni, India. £1,869 0 0 We have examined the various Accounts in the Treasurer's Books, for the year ending 30th April, 1877, with their relative vouchers, and found them correct, the Balances being as stated in the foregoing Abstract. GLASGOW, 30th April, 1877. H. HOWIE. W. WOOD ROGER. 14 14 5 200 0 0 539 0 0 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CONGREGATIONS TO THE SYNOD FUNDS, 1 10 0 1 13 94 Toberdoney, 1 4 5 106 16 1 90 5 5 130 10 7 189 16 3 233 10 10 229 10 15 63 8 3 1 6 10 6 0 10 60 0 1 7 250 089 1 17 5 1 14 0 10 0 200 080 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 4 1 2 266 360 1 17 0 4 4 0 3 19 8 0 090 3 5 10 100 26 16 3 13 7 4 2 16 88 19 3 94 11 9 9105 7 10 96 14 7 8 11 10 15 9 5 4 3 11 5 12 6 8 13 4 8 14 16 2 4 71 0 13 38 0 0 11 10 9 67 6 17 0 55 0 0 62 17 0 7 17 0 3 59 34 17 10 34 3 10 0 14 4 13 10 2 50 9 44 52 12 10 2 3 5 382 0 1 229 11 3 7 11 1 110 1 3 923 16 11 912 3 3 40 5 6 51 19 REPORT OF THE HALL COMMITTEE. PRESENTED TO SYNOD AT EDINBURGH, MAY, 1877. THE Hall was opened, as usual, on the Tuesday after the first Sabbath of June, and closed on the Tuesday after the last Sabbath of July last. According to the instructions of Synod, the Committee met with the Professor and Students, both at the beginning and at the end of the Session. Six students were in attendance, viz.:Messrs. David Gray and Alexander King, of the fourth year; Messrs. William Spiers and Robert Hutchison, of the third year; and Mr. Alexander Smellie, of the first year, with Mr. John Martin, a fourth year's student, of the Reformed Presbyterian Synod. The Rev. Professor Aitken, A.M., opened the Session with an able and instructive lecture, in which, after paying a graceful tribute to the late Professor Murray, D.D., he considered the duties and privileges of ministers as physicians of souls, as teachers of truth, and as defenders of the faith. Besides conducting his own class, Professor Aitken read Dr. Murray's lectures on "Systematic Divinity," and examined the students on their contents. Considering how important it is that the students should be thoroughly acquainted with the subjects studied in the Hall, the Committee announced at the beginning of the Session that the students, whose written examination papers did not amount to a certain value at its close, would not have their Session sustained. The Committee made this announcement, not because the students had been careless in their studies, for the opposite of this has, in general, been the case, but because they de sired to draw their special attention to the importance of the subject. The result has been, on the whole, satisfactory. The following is the Professor's report :— The students attending the Hall during the past Session have been as follow: -Messrs. Gray and King of the fourth year; Messrs. Hutchison and Spiers of the third year; and Mr. Alexander Smellie of the first year. Mr Martin, of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, who had attended three previous Sessions, was also present as a fourth year's student. All performed the usual exercises prescribed at their several stages of study, and these were sustained, and in some cases with approbation. I have endeavoured to the best of my ability to conduct both my own class and the class of Systematic Theology-the temporary charge of which was committed to me by the Synod. In the latter I have read about twenty-four of Dr. Murray's lectures, comprising the latter part of his course, and the students have read before me a large portion of the chapter in Calvin's Insti tutes, De Fide. In my own class, properly speaking, we have, on the days devoted to Greek, gone over minutely in the manner described in the last report, nearly the first three chapters of the Epistle to the Philippians. In teaching Hebrew I had to divide the students as formerly into two sections The junior division included Mr. Smellie, and, during a part of the course, Mr. King, and these I instructed in the elements of the Grammar. In the |