_The Assembly recommends to Synodes to take account of the observation of these Overtures._ 2. That it were good to exhort all the Universities, to be careful to take account of all their Schollers on the Sabbathday of the Sermons, and of their lessons or the Catechisme. _The Assembly approves this Overture, and recommends accordingly._ 3. That all the Universities bee exhorted to send their commissioners instructed with answers to the Overtures agreed upon by the Commissioners of Universities, and which from this meeting or their Commissioners shall bee communicate to them, and this to bee when their Commissioners come in Februar or March to the Commission of the Kirk. _The Assemblie reccommends to Universities to bee carefull hereof._ 4. That the Overtures concerning the providing of Bursars for Divinity be recommended to Presbyteries and Synodes, and that they report their diligence to the next Assembly. _The Assembly allowes this Article, and recommends accordingly._ _Edinburgh 1. September 1647._ Sess. Ult. _The Assemblies Letter to their Countreymen in_ Poleland, Swedland, Denmarke, _and_ Hungarie. _Unto the Scots Merchants and others our Countrey People scattered in_ Poleland, Swedland, Denmark, _and_ Hungary; _The General Assembly of the Kirk of_ Scotland _wisheth Grace Mercy & Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ._ Although this Kirk of _Scotland_, whiles spoiled of her Liberties under the Prelatical tyrannie, had much difficultie and wrestling to preserve the true reformed Religion from being quite extinguished among ourselves; yet since the mighty & out-stretched arme of the Lord our God hath brought us out of that _Egypt_, and hath restored to us well constituted and free national Synods, It hath been our desire and endeavour to set forward the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and the purity of his Ordinances, not only throughout this Nation, but in other parts also so far as God gave us a call and opportunity and opened a way unto us. And among other things of this nature we have more particularly taken into our serious thoughts the sad and lamentable condition of many thousands of you our Country-men who are scattered abroad as sheepe having no shepherd, and are through the want of the meanes of knowledge grace and salvation, exposed to the greatest spirituall dangers, whether through ignorance or through manifold tentations to errors and false Religions, or through the occasions and snares of sinne.