-7° PAST AND PRESENT OF especially solicited to do so, resolved to contribute £200 towards the rector's stipend. A copy of this resolution was sent to the bishop coupled with an expression of opinion on the part of the congregation that inas¬ much as the Colonial Church and School So¬ ciety had intimated its willingness to send one or more of its missionaries to Prince Edward Island , and as a great need existed in many of the country districts for the min¬ istrations of the church, which need the Venerable S. P. G . was unable to supply, such offer on the part of the C. C . and S. S . should be accepted. Up to this the bishop had not sanctioned the entrance of tht C. C . and S. S . to Prince Edward Island , probably because this society was identified with the low church party and its ideas and methods did not wholly commend themselves to him. Now, however, as the S. P. G . was unable to cope with the situation he permitted it under certain restrictions to enter the field. It first undertook to defray the greater portion of the expense of maintaining a travelling missionary, St. Paul's supplying the remainder. The missionary arrived but instead of being used as intended was sta¬ tioned by the bishop at Har¬ bour. Later it stationed missionaries at New London and Cascumpec . Meanwhile however, it actively entered upon its dis¬ tinctive sphere of labour. It established a Catechist and school master at White Sands and Murray Harbour who conducted two Sunday schools and a day school. An¬ other catechist and school master at New who conducted a day school, held two week night religious services and superintended a Sunday school. Another ( Mr. James Easton ) at George¬ town, conducted an infant school and acted as catechist and Sunday school superintend¬ ent. Others were stationed at Stanhope , at Road and at the , be¬ side Mr. Richardson , the society's general agent for British , who re¬ sided at Charlottetown . This last was instru¬ mental in establishing a day school in the "Bog," to which he devoted much of his time. This Bog school in the course of some forty years educated and reformed the chil¬ dren of the negroes and debased whites who at that time inhabited this section of the town (Note 13). During this period (from 1842-52) the growth of the Church throughout the Col¬ ony was most marked. In 1845, it was found necessary to enlarge St. Paul's. In 1846 the increased work falling upon the Rector, whose health at that time gave way, led him to tender his resignation; but the congre¬ gation having undertaken to provide an as¬ sistant clergyman he withdrew it. The re¬ quired amount for his stipend having been subscribed by the parishioners, the Rev. David Fitzgerald was appointed assistant minister by the Bishop. He landed from Ireland June 3d, preached his first sermon June 6, 1847, and thus entered upon a con¬ nection with St. Paul's which was to extend over the whole of a long and well spent life in which he earned the respect of all who knew him. In 1853 a clergyman was stationed at New London and in the following year Cas¬ cumpec enjoyed for the first time the privi¬ lege of having a resident minister, both these missionaries having been supplied by the Colonial Church and School Society. NOTE 13 This school was established April 11, 1848, In what was then "a thoroughly wicked and degraded neigh¬ bourhood." Miss Harvle , to whose conscientious work the success of the institution was mainly due. In the course of fifty years of arduous labour taught and trained over 1,600 childr.-n. and to the healthy moral Influence exercised by this school the present good character of the locality is largely due.