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the life of the Church it may be fitting to note here the impression he made upon his contemporaries. The following is an ex- tract from a short sketch published at his death, thirty years later:

“During the last four years we missed the genial face of Louis Charles Jenkins, D. D., so well known for half a century on our streets. For sixty-four years he was a priest of the Church of England, twenty- eight of which he officiated as pastor of St. Paul’s Congregation in this city. He was a gentleman of pleasing and unassuming manners, but of firm conviction. Possessed of a clear intellect, high culture and broad sympathies, he was in advance of most of his contemporaries in regard to all that tended to elevate society and extend the privileges of the people. In religion he be- longed to the Evangelical school and though a strict churchman he recognized the good and true in whatever denominational fold it might be found. As a preacher he was noted for the purity and eloquence of his diction and the impressiveness of his manner of reading. His literary talents were of a high order and he excelled not only in prose, but in poetry. At one time he took a great in- terest in politics,* and he was invariably found on the side of the people contending boldly for wider liberty and better laws.”

Mr. Lloyd’s occupancy of the rectorship of St. Paul’s was a brief one, as owing to the illness of some members of his family he resigned in the autumn of I85 7 and returned to England. The Rev. David Fitzgerald, having for ten years faithfully fulfilled the duties of assistant minister, there was a feeling on the part of the congregation

' One of the chief factors in bringing about his resignation was his having voted for Dennis Reddin. hquire a gentleman universally respected, but whose candidature was not favourably received by “staunch Protestants." in as much as he was a. mem- ber of the Roman Catholic church.

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generally that he had strong claims upon the rectorship, and though a number of influ- ential members, objecting to the stand he had taken with reference to some political questions, opposed his presentation, they only succeeded in delaying matters for a few months. He was duly inducted March 26. 1858, and entered upon a charge the duties of which he performed with un— flinching integrity for more than twenty- seven years.

The Rev. J. H. Read, Rector of St. Elea- nor's, had, on Mr. Lloyd’s resignation, been appointed .Ecclesiastical Commissary. He now (1860) was elevated to the dignity of Archdeacon of Prince Edward Island, to which office the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel attached a stipend of £200 sterling to enable him to fulfill his duties to the state in a fitting manner. we are prone to look with disfavour upon this identifica- tion of the civil and religious functions, but the final word has not yet been said on this point. Undoubtedly somewhat later the lib- erality of the English societies was abused and their ideals had to be remodeled. Yet

there was much that was wholesome, somewhat of patriarchal relationship in the ties which bound these clergy-

men of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to their flocks. Their recognized status and the fact that they were not de- pendent upon their congregations for their stipends gave them an assured position of influence and authority. Gentlemen by birth and education, they undoubtedly had their limitations. They were prone to accept without question the conventional standards of their class, but they were sufficiently in advance of those over whom they were called to minister to constitute them true leaders. And they strived to live up to their