PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 307a pathized with me, but could find no one will¬ ing to come to my assistance." Occasional visits from Doctor McGreg ¬ or, who at one time or another visited all the settlements, was the only, supply re¬ ceived until 1800, at which time arrived the Reverend Mr. Urquhart , a minister of the church of Scotland . He was really the first to establish any organization. Making Princetown his headquarters, he was truly a missionary of the cross, ever going about doing good. In 1802 he removed to Mira- michi, where after a short ministry, he pre¬ maturely passed away, as the result of an accident. The next minister to make any protracted stay and the first to be ordained and inducted on the Island, was the Rev. Peter Gordon , a preacher from the General Associate Synod , in Scotland , who laboured for two years as the minister of Cove Head, St. Peters and Bay Fortune . Mr. Gordon , while nominally the minister of the afore¬ mentioned charge, was in reality a mission¬ ary in charge of the Presbyterian population of the province. ( oming to the country, as he did, in a tuberculous condition, it is little wonder that incessant labour and much exposure rapidly developed the disease and that in two years' time he entered into his rest. Those two young ministers of Christ, with consecrated lives and noble ideals, in conjunction with Doctor McGregor , pre¬ pared the way for the coming of the Rever¬ end Mr. Keir , whose settlement at Prince- town proved itself to be the permanent es¬ tablishment of the Presbyterian church in the province. In 1810 Mr. Keir was ordained to the pastoral charge of the people who had been under the spiritual supervision of Mr. Urqu ¬ hart, and in i 8ti Rev. Edward Pidgeon was duly inducted into the pastoral charge of the only other existing congregation—Cove Head, St. Peters and Bay Fortune . Mr. Pidgeon was succeeded by the Rey. Robert Douglas (grandfather of Doctor Falconer , principal of the Presbyterian College, Hali¬ fax), whose induction took place in 182*. In 1819, owing to the increase of the population, was disjoined from Princetown and erected into a sepa¬ rate charge, with the Rev. Andrew Nicoll as minister. A man of great energy and in¬ tense devotion, he was not long permitted to continue his labors. Only a year elapsed from the time of his settlement until he crossed to the other side of the river of time, there to receive the reward of his earthly la¬ bours. He was succeeded by the Rev. Wil ¬ liam McGregor in 1821, who, in addition to , took charge of the congre¬ gation of Bedeque . This year (1821) is a memorable one, marking clearly as k does, the growth of the church, for then the Synod of the Presbyte¬ rian church of Nova Scotia granted permis¬ sion for the formation of the Presbytery of Prince Edward Island . In October, 1821, in the house of Mr. Archibald Campbell , Lot 16 , the following met and constituted the first Presbytery: Rev. John Keir , modera¬ tor; Robert Douglass and William Mc ¬ Gregor, ministers; and Mr. Edward Ram ¬ say, ruling elder. In 1823 the Rev. John McLennan was sent out by the church of Scotland to minis¬ ter to the numerous immigrants who had come from* the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . Although Mr. Urquhart had been a minister of the national church, this was the first official recognition of the needs of the colonists on Prince Edward Island by that church. Mr. McLennan , who was a man of excellent culture, genial manner and