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N May, 1881, the Presbyterian Churches of Britain were invited to appoint delegates to attend the Synods of the Reformed Church in Bohemia and Moravia. In compliance with this invitation the Established Church of Scotland commissioned Rev. Dr. Marshall Lang and Mr. John Neilson Cuthbertson, both of Glasgow. The Free Church, Rev. Dr. Laughton, Moderator of the last Assembly; Rev. James Pirie, missionary to the Jews at Prague; Rev. Andrew Moody, missionary at Pesth; Rev. Thomas Crerar, of North Leith, and myself; while the United Presbyterian Church sent Rev. Dr. Scott, their Home Mission Secretary. The English Presbyterian Synod was represented by the Rev. Robert Lundie and Mr. Samuel Smith, both of Liverpool. The Moravian Synod met on 19th September, the Bohemian on 13th October, 1881. The long interval between the two meetings rendered it difficult for delegates to attend both, only Dr. Scott and Mr. Pirie being able to do so.

Let me here say a word on the relation of Bohemia and Moravia, and of the two synods to each other. The dominions of the Bohemian Crown include Moravia and Silesia, so that, in a conventional sense, Bohemia covers the whole; just as in ordinary language, England