3 i 6a PAST AND PRESENT OF menced in Tryon at this time, was com¬ pleted during the pastorate of Mr. Fishpool . The Rev. John B . Strong was appointed to the Bedeque circuit in 1818, and the Rev. John Fishpool was transferred to Charlotter town. In this year Mr. Adam Clark Avard , a young man who had been educated for a lawyer, entered the Wesleyan ministry, as the first candidate from the Charlottetown circuit. In 1819 the Rev. Robert Aldar suc¬ ceeded the Rev. Mr. Fishpool in Charlotte - town, and the Rev. George Millar was ap¬ pointed to Bedeque . Mr. Aldar was an Englishman, who had been sent to Nova Scotia a few years previously by the Lon¬ don Missionary Society. He remained two years in Charlottetown , and under his min¬ istry preaching places were established at Little York , West River , Pownal and lerton's Marsh. The Rev. Stephen BamfOrd took charge of the Charlottetown circuit in 1821. He had come out to Halifax in 1802, as a pri¬ vate in His Majesty's Twenty-ninth Regi¬ ment, where he remained for four years. During all this time, as a local preacher, he had given the Methodists of Halifax an op¬ portunity to form a satisfactory estimate of "the man who so frequently stood before them in his military garb declaring the counsel of God ." In 1806 the London Mis¬ sionary Committee secured his discharge from the army, and he then entered upon the full work of the ministry. Among the Wesleyan preachers of his day, he was unique. His large form, military bearing, and powerful sermons usually created a marked impression upon his hearers. The Rev. T. Payne was appointed to Bedeque and Tryon in 1822, and the Rev. John Snowball was appointed to the Murray Harbour circuit, where he remained for two years. Mr. Snowball was an Englishman . from Yorkshire, who arrived in Halifax in 1817. He was, the following year, ordained to the Methodist ministry, and for upwards of fifty years occupied a prominent place among his brethren. He died in Sackville in 1871. Rev. Mr. Snowball was the father of Lieutenant - Governor Snowball of New Brunswick . In 1824 Rev. William Burt succeeded Rev. Mr. Bamford in the pastorate of the Charlottetown circuit. In November of this year, upon the arrival of Colonel John Ready as lieutenant-governor of Prince Ed ¬ ward Island, two of the three Wesleyan ministers then stationed in the colony— Rev. William Burt , of Charlottetown . and Rev. George Jackson , of Bedeque —waited upon His Excellency and presented him with an address of welcome, "acting as representa¬ tives and speaking the language of these so cieties to whom they administered the word of life." The Rev. Robert Crane was the minister at Murray Harbour at this time. In 1824 an auxiliary Wesleyan Missionary Society was formed in Charlottetown . This society was successfully carried on for up¬ ward of half a century and through the noble efforts put forth by its members, large sums of money were raised annually for the support of the work in foreign fields. At the inaugural meeting the chair was occu¬ pied by the high sheriff, William Pope , and the speakers were the Rev. Messrs. Burt and Jackson; Cecil Wray Townshend , Charles Binns and Isaac Smith . On the 6th of Jan¬ uary, 1825, Benjamin Chappell , the father of Methodism on Prince Edward Island , passed peacefully to his eternal reward, at the ad¬ vanced age of eighty-five years. Under the administration of Rev. Mr. Burt , a parson-