long route to Malpeque , to visit the little knot of families in that direction, who, though poor and unpretending, always give me a cordial reception. The entire day was pleasantly occupied, in getting from one distant house to another, where Scripture was read, prayer offered, and tracts were left for each family to read during their un¬ avoidably frequent solitary Sabbaths. Irishtown Church is four or five miles distant, and New London ten to eleven. In the evening a numerous congregation, Presby- _ terians and others, assembled in the schoolroom. It was pleasant to see the summer evening sun shining on so many come from the field and to hear them all sing "Come, let us join our cheerful songs." I preached to them from "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel, &c," and rode five or six miles homeward and walked the rest. In 1861 he tells that two Church folk came from Malpeque to New London to help him dig his potatoes, and brought him two geese. In the late 1850's he began services in Long River school, but success was not marked there. Other causes led him over the same road: February 3, 1859. Dragged my wife through the drift to a case of sickness in Long River , she remarking that people would say it was one of the parson's mad freaks, and they .. . were sufficiently surprised. But I believe she has, instrumentally, saved the child's life. The Presbyterian majority in New London sometimes depressed his Anglican soul, but not for long. The following anecdote typifies his relations with his neighbours: The wife of the Presbyterian elder was supposed to be dying, and I was hastily summoned to a solemn and privileged scene, to hear from her feeble lips her full testimony to her believing and her entire repose on her Saviour's atonement. She retained my hand while with her family around I commended her to God , and felt that the difference between her creed and mine was annihilated at such an" hour. Again, after a hurricane in October, 1860, he wrote: Rarely have I had a more solemn day of visiting; for although the news has arrived that one of the absent vessels is safe, being thrown up on the shore, yet, alas! the second is gone with all on board. ... I went from house to house, Presbyterians as well as Church, for all, it seems, expected me, and read and prayed and sym¬ pathized with all; but it is a heavy blow to many. Sunday, October 16. A numerous congregation attended at the old Church in the morning, as many Presbyterians as Churchmen all under the influences produced by the 23