The Record kindly ran a picture my family and me in the April People and Places, regarding the official announcement and presentation of a bequest from the estate of my late uncle, Allister Irwin MacDonald, former professor of English at Acadia University. His will contained a provision that the bequest, likely to top $200,000 once the estate is settled, be made to King's, New Minas, N.S., in memory of him, his late father and mother, Daniel and Ella MacDonald, and his five brothers, including the late Rev. Joseph R. MacDonald and the late Rev. Dr. Donald C. MacDonald, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

Andrew Faiz's C.S. Lewis quote in the May issue was very apposite about nature. My initial reaction when I saw March of the Penguins was, What if life is nothing but a trek to the breeding ground, back to the sea, back to the breeding ground, back to the sea, ad infinitum, until death do us part.

Using the word appointment ignores the months of work of a dedicated search committee under the care and guidance of a properly appointed Interim Moderator. Using the word appointment implies that some outside body placed Rev. Lewis with us and ignores the fact that over 1,500 members and adherents called him to minister among us.

I was shocked and dismayed to read about Rev. Mark Lewis being “appointed” to St. Andrew's, Kitchener, Ont. The Presbyterian Church in Canada does not appoint ministers unless it is an exceptional circumstance. The congregation of St. Andrew's called Rev. Mark Lewis in an extremely well supported call. To use the word appointed would suggest there was no call and the presbytery took unusual action.

Re Walking Together and New Agreement Limits Liability, May. The one article was about walking together with aboriginal people and the recommendations that go with it. There was $500,000 set aside for this along with a lot of work and time.