30 MAY 1931, Page 1

Scotland We have tried to make this issue of the

Spectator of especial interest to Scotsmen and - Scotsivomen, in the fullest confidence that we could not pOSSIbly make it thereby of less interest to humbler folk. Here let us chronicle the meeting of the General Assembly of the Church; the Second Assembly since the Unioncrowned the work of the late Lord Balfour of Burleigh and other Presbyterian leaders. Mr. Brown is • again Lord High Commissioner, as he was in 1924, and he has with .Mrs. Brown carried out the ceremonial duties with a dignity enhanced by the pageantry of His Majesty's horse and foot, and supported by his fellow member of Parliament, Lord Clydesdale, by the head of the family of Kennedy, his neighbours in Ayrshire, and others • representing the youth and age of Scotland. The Moderator of last • year, Dr. Bogle, moved the election of his successor, Dr. Graham, whose ministry has been devoted to India hitherto.