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afternoon. The memory of the consecrated teachers, who gave so much thought and care to the responsible duties laid upon them in that important part of the church work, will never be forgoten by the men and women of the present generation, who were scholars in the old school. “Their memory is with us still; The form may waste as ore to rust,

The earth may claim her borrowed dust Their memory is with us still.”

On Monday, the 25th of May, 1863, a public holiday in honor of the birthday of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria—a large number of all classes and creeds of the com- munity assembled to witness the interesting ceremony of laying the comer—stone of the new Wesleyan chapel, as the First Metho- dist church was then called. The proceed- ings opened with singing by the choir and the Sabbath-school children, who were massed on a large platform near the south corner of the building, where the comer- stone was to be laid. The singing was un— der the direction of the venerable leader of the choir. the late Mr. James Moore, who for forty years had led the congregation in their service of sacred song. The singing was followed by prayer by the Rev. Sam— uel W'. Sprague, then chairman of the dis- trict of Prince Edward Island. A large block of Nova Scotia freestone, suspended some five feet high swung in readiness awaiting the moment when Lady Dundayc, the wife of His Excellency the lieutenant- govemor of the colony, was prepared to per- form the interesting ceremony. At three o’clock the stone was lowered and Lady Dunda“c, with a silver trowel presented to her on the occasion by the trustees, laid the comer-stone. A scroll containing the fol- lowing inscription was placed in a cavity:

PAST AND PRESENT OF

“The comer-stone of the Wesleyan Chapel was laid on the 25th day of May, A. D. 1863, in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, by Mrs. Dundat, the lady of His Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor of Prince Edward Island, in the presence of a large concourse of persons, the Rev. John Brewster being superintend- ent of the circuit and the following who have hereunto signed their names being trustees of the Methodist society at Char- lottetown: Robert Longworth, Richard Heartz, James Moore, Thomas Alley, Thomas Dawson, George Beer, Charles Young. Mark Butcher, William Heard, Ephesians 2nd, 20-21.”

During the summer of 1863, day after day the masons worked upon the walls of the building until the early part of October, when they were completed. Then the work of raising the principal rafters was begun. This required the utmost possible care and skill, on account of the width and space they had to span. Few buildings in Canada to— day have the proud distinction of a dome. with an unsupported span of sixty-nine feet. The roof was erected by Mr. Bertram Moore, who was at that time a well known citizen of Charlottetown and an honored member of the church. He is the father of Mr. John A. Moore, of the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Mrs. J. R. Davison, Char- lottetown. Mr. Moore is now living in Bay City, Michigan. The whole of this great work was accomplished without an accident of any kind, except that a little son of Mr. Bertram Moore had his leg broken by fall- ing from' the platform that was being built for the accommodation of the choir and Sabbath school, on the morning of the day that the comer-stone was laid.

_ The Rev. John Brewster closed his pas-