PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 3W tion, of those who were brought into contact with them. They were brave and true as the day, full of all generous instincts, reso¬ lute and courageous in the face of difficulties, scornful of all baseness, yet simple, gentle and tender-hearted as children,—men in a word who revealed the spirit of the cross and kept themselves unspotted from the world. The names of some of the prominent actors in this great drama are even now re¬ corded in the annals of the province because of the brilliancy of their acts, but as has been well said: "The growing good of the world is de¬ pendent partly on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the num¬ ber who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." The unknown to us are known to Him with whom we have to do, and the true, un¬ selfish service they rendered in the establish¬ ment and continuation of the church in this province is estimated at its real worth by the founder of the universal church: All service ranks the same with God , With God , whose puppets best or worse Are we—there is no last or first. Small service is true service while it lasts, The daisy by the shadow which it casts Protects the lingering dewdrops from the sun. "One soweth and another1 reapeth, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together." The noble legacy which Presbyterianism has thus received should give to her mem¬ bers of today a forward impulse towards the one far-off divine event to which the whole creation moves, that they may find faith's highest culture, hope's most entranc¬ ing aim in that victory over sin, sorrow and death with which the religion of Jesus Christ must crown the strife of ages. In the light of past days, and with the star of hope shining so brilliantly, the church of today may well thank God , take courage and go forward. Literature: Rev. Doctor Paterson ; Life. of Doctor McGregor ; Brief Sketch of the Life and Labours of Doctor Keir ; Life of Doctor Geddie ; Rev. James Robertson 's History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ; Rev. John McLeod 's History of Presbyterianism on Prince Edward Island ; Campbell's History of Prince Edward Island ; Greeg's Short History of Presby¬ terianism in Canada ; Presbytery Records; Proceedings of the General Assembly : METHODISM ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. By Henry Smith . The story of a religion that is so full of worthy endeavors and noble purposes and that has so woven itself into the life and char¬ acter of "the people called Methodists," is by no means new in the history of Prince Edward Island . Among the earliest set¬ tlers of the Island of Saint John there were those who had adopted this profession of faith, and they were not slow, upon their arrival in the infant colony, to establish and maintain the public worship of Almighty God under the name of the Wesleyan Metho-