chamber had been improved. At St. Thomas’s a new ceiling was built, a new east window and ‘Communion Panel’ were installed,— the gift of the Rector,—and new hangings were presented by the Rector’s wife. In 1903 St. Stephen’s Church people decided to build a chancel. Some gave money, some lumber, some labour. A Tea Party held on the farm of William J. Paynter raised $300.00 for the project. Archdeacon Reagh preached at the reopening of the church in 1904. Mr. Winfield found the work of the parish too strenuous and remOved to St. Stephen, N.B., but a few years later he undertook equally arduous labour for a short while at Alberton.

The Reverend A. W. Nicholls came in August, 1905. He too mentioned the bad roads and the isolation. One winter there was a twelve foot bank of snow at the rectory gate. But he wrote:

It is a blessed privilege to carry the story of salvation to those who know it not, to watch the unfolding of the new life under the Holy Spirit’s influence, and amid all the hardships and discouragements to know that in doing His will, obeying His commands, we have the promise, “L0, I am with you alway.”

In Mr. Nicholls’ incumbency the parish hall at New London was built, use being made of some of the lumber from the old rectory which had been remodelled into a hall and which was pulled down at the time. A two manual reed organ was bought for St. Mark’s Church. The Gleaners’ Union was active, and a branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary was organized. Mr. Nicholls visited England in 1908 and attended meetings of the great Pan-Anglican Congress. As Rural Dean he visited other parishes, and he had an assistant for a time. He was a man of ability, and after a five year’s stay he went first to Nova Scotia and then to Arizona.

The Reverend A. W. Watson succeeded Mr. Nicholls in the fall of 1910. He found the parish in good condition and he maintained it so. The W.A. and the Mite Societies were useful adjuncts to the Church’s work, and Sunday Schools were active. Armand Thomp- son was a reliable Sunday School worker at Kensington. James Millman, a Burlington paris-hioner, was secretary-treasurer of the Sunday-School Association of the Archdeaconry of P.E.I. A New London parish room was furnished in the Summerside Hospital. A new metal ceiling was added to St. Mark’s Church, and the building was. wired for electric light. In October, 1916, the Rev- erend H. W. Cunningham of Halifax conducted a parish mission. Archdeacon Watson became Rector of Pictou in 1917.

Charles Wiswell Neish, with his wife and family, came from the Parish of Grenville, N.S., in 1917, for a five year ministry. New London affairs proceeded smoothly in his time, and the people responded to his labours. In 1920 he was presented with a fur coat, and Mrs. Neish was given a muff. He was the last incumbent to use a horse exclusively for travelling, hence he was also the last to receive gifts of oats and hay for his horse. The W.A. comes in for mention in his reports to the DOS, and praise is given to a Junior W.A. under Mrs. J. A. Doughart of Kensington. The For-' ward Movement was a financial success, $1,317.00 being subscribed

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