around St. Mark’s Church, also the erection of a horse shed. In 1893 attendances at church were large and 38 were confirmed. In 1892 the pulpit was lowered at St. Thomas’s, and the reading desk

and prayer desk were separated. During an illness of Mr. Lloyd in 1893 his son, the Reverend

F. J. E. Lloyd, in charge of St. Eleanors for a year, held services in the parish. Thomas Lloyd resigned in June, 1895, and another vacancy followed until the Reverend G. C. Wallis accepted the in- cumbency in May, 1896. In the interval, services were held by the Reverend T. B. Reagh and the Reverend Henry Harper.

Mr. Wallis started a branch of the Gleaners’ Union, an organi- zation first launched under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society in London in 1886. It was the parish’s first missionary en- deavour, and being new and somewhat strange it met at the begin- ning with opposition from older members of the congregation. Mr. Wallis also urged the need of a parish hall at Kensington. Accord- ingly a site was bought, and money was raised, some in England. It is presumed that the hall was built in 1896-97 as it was used for

an annual supper in 1898. Neither the DOS. nor the C. & C.C.S. reports contain much

information about the ministries of Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Wallis, 1890-97. The latter remained only about a year and was succeeded in the summer of 1897 by the Reverend H. C. Aylwin. Mr. Aylwin’s three year incumbency is well recorded, particularly in his auto- biography, a document presented by his son, H. J. Aylwin of Win- nipeg, to the General Synod Archives in Toronto.

The new Incumbent came to New London partly on the invita- tion of his friend the Rector of St. Paul’s, partly in the hope of improving the health of his young son. He first comments on the beauty of the countryside, and then describes the rectory property with its “roomy stable and carriage house, space for a flower and vegetable garden, and field for the horse.” He mentions the red- dish soil and its productivity, except where it had become exhausted by bad farming. The too free use of mussel mud, in his opinion,

was not good. He wrote:

On the other hand there are many progressive. farmers who to their great advantage had fallen under the in- struction of Government farm lecturers, themselves in turn spreading the leaven by simple force of example. When I lived on the Island this evolution of the farming industry had been going on for some time; creameries and cheese factories even then abounded, and I was told that the change for the better was very marked. At some of the Farmer’s Institute meetings it was most amazing to hear the sarcastic remarks made from time to time by some of the old and unprogressive men, but the mass of the audience seemed to appreciate what they were getting.

He approved of the rural school system, especially the ar- rangement whereby a “holiday” was given for potato planting and

picking. The annual Church Society meeting in Charlottetown is de-

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