THE Church of Scotland has in Jamaica five Churches, four Clergymen, and between fourteen and fifteen hundred communicants, ten Day Schools, eight Sunday Schools with Scholars to the number of 900 and upwards. Its adherents are about 6,000.

The General Assembly of the Church which met at Edinburgh in May, 1890, gave its sanction and approval to the formation of a Presbytery the members of which shall be the ordained Ministers of the Church labouring in Jamaica and the island of Grenada, along with a representative Elder from each Kirk Session. The meetings take place bi-annually.

There is one Church in Kingston and there are four others situated in the Parishes of Manchester and St. Elizabeth-Medina, Accompong, Retirement and Giddy Hall. The Scotch Church in Kingston was opened for service in the year 1819. It is one of the finest buildings in Jamaica and cost over £12,000 sterling in its erection. It is octagonal in form, and while in an architectural point of view its external appearance is massive and somewhat heavy, its internal arrangements are graceful if not elegant. Its organ is one of the best in the City and it is well lighted. To this Church pertains the honor of being the first to establish a Sunday School in Jamaica. The Services of the Church are as follows:

SUNDAY SERVICES.

Public Worship: Forenoon at 11 a.m. : Evening at 7 p.m.
Sunday School: Morning at 9.30 a.m.

WEEK-DAY SERVICES.

Wednesdays, Public Worship at 7 p.m.

Fridays, Sunday School Teachers Class at 7 pm.

(1) Women's Guild, first Monday of each month at 4.30 p.m

(2) Dorcas Society Workers, second Tuesday of each month at 4.30 p.m.
(3) Penny Savings Bank, Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Zenana Mission Helpers, second Friday of each month at 4.30 p.m.
District Visitors will meet on last Monday of each month at 4.30 p.m.
Choir Practice, Thursdays at 7 p.m.

The Lord's Supper is dispensed on the first Sunday in January, Easter Sunday, first Sunday in July and first Sunday in October.

There is a Woman's Guild in connection with the congregation with a membership of seventy-four. The meetings of the Guild are monthly and take place in the Church. The general object of the Guild is to unite together all women who are engaged in the service of Christ in connection with the Church, or desire to give help to any practical Christian work in the congregation as well as all who are receiving Christian teaching and looking forward to Christian service.

The premises formerly known and occupied as the Collegiate School have been repaired-indeed it might be said replaced by a building which contains two halls -the upper and the lower. The lower is for the Sunday School, while the upper is for Congregational Meetings-for Literary Meetings-and for such Public Meetings as will be sanctioned by the Committee of the Church. The building, which has cost about a thousand pounds, is now known as The Collegiate.

The Church of Accompong, which is the Church of the Maroons, is almost within the Town of Accompong, and commands from its site a very fine view. It is designed to accommodate about 300 persons.

The Church of Retirement is situated some four miles lower than that of Accompong. This Church, not only in the quiet rapidity of its erection and in the whole of its arrangement, but also in the appearance and the industrious habits of its attendants, is an evidence of the progress that has been made and is still being made by the people in that neighbourhood. As illustrative of what has been done in a short time in this remote locality it may be stated that Mr. Stuart and Mr. Maxwell, the Ministers of the Maroons at Accompong, Retirement and Giddy Hall, have, amid other agencies at work, seven Sunday Schools, thirty-eight Teachers, and an average attendance of seven hundred Scholars. There are also ten Day Schools.

The Church of Giddy Hall is about seven miles north of the town of Black River. The ground and the materials and a certain amount of endowment were granted by the late J. S. Cooper; while the work that was necessary for the erection of the building was very cheerfully given by the large congregation that now assembles in the Church. The Church of Medina in Manchester was the gift of the late Mrs. Strachan of Medina. The temporary building is very soon to be superseded by one which from its outward aspect and its interior arrangements will be an ornament to the neighbourhood. This, like all the other Churches in connection with the Church of Scotland in Jamaica, has a flourishing Sunday School and has a congregation that is steadily on the increase.

STATIONS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND IN JAMAICA.