' . preacher, but Tryon did not like him. " So he left them and joined the Presbyterians and left the Island. ‘ - ~ . ., » ,

- The Methodist people believed in good works and helping and feed- .ing the poor, and lovingeach other.. They hadgood rules in their chapel. These rules forbade: playing cards, drinking strong drinks, horse racing, - dancing, raffles, betting and .all kinds of gambling. They condemned plays and pleasuring on Sundays, and insisted-on keeping the Sabbath Day holy. ~ ~ .

' Methodists had their geod members all sit at the head of the chapel. They believed in prayer meetings and class meetings, and stood to sing and kneeled down on their knees on the bare floor facing the door, to pray. These good people, the-first'thing they did when entering the door, was to kneel on the bare floor in silent prayer. They had no organs or violins in their choir. They had good local singers. They carried Wes- ley’s hymnbook in their hands going to meeting with a picture on the front page. And when a good member died, on the first Sunday after, the minister would preach his funeral sermon, about his good works done in the church, and the chapel would be crowded.

They believed in revival meetings and had them every winter. They believed in conversion, got up through the church, and many a sinner was converted there. The sinners all had to go up to the rail and kneel on a bench in front of the Communion rail, night after night, seek- ing Salvation. 0 let him know that he that converts the sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul alive and 'hide a multitude of sins!

Now these good people wanted a change, so they gave away their chapel to DeSable for an Orange Hall, and then built a large new Church in Victoria, with a high steeple. This church would seat five hundred people. And now they united with the Bible Christians and called them- selves the United Methodist Church of Canada. It was the leading Church in Crapaud. Their pew rent was high — one pound ten for a square box pew close up to the pulpit. These pews got‘cheaper all the way down to the door. The box pew seats had doors and a fastening button on them, and the owner of the pew sat by his door; and if, by chance, a rich man came by, he would open his door and take them in.

Now these good people fell away from Methodism and got a longing for Presbyterianism. So they did away with their class meetings, and kneel—down meetings, and revivals, and love feasts, and gave their Methodist name away, and buried all the Methodists in Crapaud. And they have lost all their love for John Wesley. And we that knew them

once, shall know them no more.

THE ENGLISH CHURCH

The English Church was born in Crapaud in 1841. Lady Westmore- land was its mother. She built Saint John’s Church all herself. She then gave sixty acres of land to the Parish. Then the Church Missionary society in England sent out Parson Reid, a young man, to preach in it and paid him for his church services. Mr. Reid then went to work and built a church schoolhouse out of church money at Crapaud Corner. Mr.

William Lowther gave a lot to build it on.

At this time, Crapaud had no public school and the church let the School District have the use of it for an every-day school for twenty-five years, free of charge. And when Parson Panther came, he put in it a public library, a great lot of books all free. That library was open every winter on every Wednesday night. Oh, my!, I will never forget those- winter nights — a good lecture or a debate from ministers of all churches ;;

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