lie, and is to be one of the chief railway stations on the road now being constructed. It is expected that rail cars will be running through here between Charlotte Town and Summerside some time next summer.

. Mr. Cox describes St. Mark’s Church, Kensington, as “a small buildlng, quite plain, without chancel or vestry, and will seat about

one hundred.” His almost photographic descriptions of the other two churches in the C. & C.C.S. report of 1872 are as follows:

I will begin with the old Church of St. Thomas’s, which adjoins the Parsonage. . . It is one of the oldest on the Island of Prince Edward, and upon it Father Time has stamped his uncomely mark of decay. Its appearance both within and without is very unattractive; a plain wooden structure, the front boarded without shingles,—-the square turret cut down with a slope, mid-way, to prevent it from falling, and roughly covered over so as to exclude only a portion of the snow and rain. No trace of paint is any- where to be seen on the exterior, and but very little on the inside. It has no proper chancel and no vestry. There is a small rough porch from which a rickety stairway ascends to the gallery which contains some half a dozen pews. The pews or sittings are of unpainted wood, with straight high backs, and so narrow as to render it almost impossible to kneel without turning round. The reading-pew is within the mock—chancel rail, and a high pulpit on the opposite side. It is imperfectly heated by one stove in the centre aisle, the only one in the church. There is no bell, no font, no blinds to the square, old-fashioned windows.

Next comes St. Stephen’s Church at Burlington. It is also a plain wooden building, Without a spire, bell, or a chancel proper, but since the improvements made upon it since last year, it presents quite a respectable appearance, both within and without. Its dimensions are nearly the same as that of St. Thomas’s, and it is too small for its increasing congregation. . . Of late, confirmation has been held in this church only.

The confirmation held by Bishop Binney, September 2, 1872, is then described. Twenty-four candidates were presented, four being 65 and over, the oldest 73. Ten were heads of families, one a churchwarden, another a warden’s wife and a mother of five. A further account of this episcopal Visit is printed in the Halifax Church Chronicle, October 10, 1872. It is there related that the Bishop was met at Kensington by the Church warden, Mr. Thomas Millman, who drove His Lordship to St. Stephen’s Church. Among the candidates there were four women from Cavendish. In his address, as well as in an after-meeting held to discuss the necessity of replacing the old church, the Bishop alluded to the difficulties and privations formerly suffered by the parish. The Confirmation and the meeting must have been protracted, for we are told that “At three o’clock His Lordship was conveyed to Mr. Millman’s

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