It would be a great pity for the Assembly to be remembered as a one issue meeting of the Kirk. Saturday will come soon enough, but before that comes some of the pageantry the makes it a great gathering. The Lord High Commissioner (George Reid) will deliver the Queen’s message to the Assembly and it will be interesting to see what that contains. I suspect that the first couple of days may well be quite tame, but there are a lot of matters to be considered, not least of which is the Israel/Palestine issue, Zimbabwe, how ministers stipends are worked out (ie who actually does this) and loads of other stuff. Looks to be a tremendous week, providing the grace of God is evidenced in the debating.