writer as he viewed a "beautifully arranged and artistically decorated crib" at St. Andrew's Church on Christmas Eve, 1889. 0 Sweetest Infant Jesus ! How helpless to behold Art Thou the Desired of Nations By prophet bards foretold Wouldst be born in David's City Of an humble Virgin mild, And wouldst redeem our fallen race By Adam's sin defiled, Art Thou whom the ancient prophets Desired so much to see, And all the holy patriarchs With loving ardency? Art Thou whom God the Father In 's Garden said, Wilt be born of a woman And shalt crush the serpent's head? St. John's United Church Until 1925, Mount Stewart Presbyterian Church What is now the village of Stewart was once part of the Pastoral Charge of Cove Head - St. Peter 's - Bay Fortune , the first Presbyterian congregation on the Island. The Charge was established in 1806 by the Presbytery of Nova Scotia , and its first minister was Rev. Peter Gordon . His induction took place at a little church at St. Peter 's Harbour, all traces of which have long since vanished. The cemetery alone remains, and it was there that Rev. Gordon found his last resting place after a ministry of only three years duration. During the time of Peter Gordon and of his successors, Edward Pidgeon , Robert Douglas and James Allen , there was no Presbyterian Church in Mount Stewart ; however, services were sometimes held there. In writing his History of Presbyterianism on Prince Edward Island in 1904, the Rev. John MacLeod recalled that in 1852, while yet a student, he had preached in the cook house of Mr. Kimble Coffin , a noted ship¬ builder. The cook house still exists and is presently located on the farm of Mr. Clarence MacDonald , . The nearest Presbyterian church in those days was located in what is now West St. Peter 's Cemetery. Built around the end of the 18th century, it served a very wide area, including Savage Harbour . The Presbyterians of that community travelled to church by boat during the summer and over the bay ice in winter. As the terrain between the point of landing and the church could be very rough and dusty on a summer's day, the thrifty parishioners regularly carried their shoes most of the way, replacing them only when the meeting place came into view. Some time after 1880, probably during the ministry of Rev. A. B. MacLeod , the old church was closed and a new one erected at Bristol . This edifice, the present Pentecostal Church, was built under the direction of Messrs. John McEwen and Erasmus Coffin . Mount Stewart Church, one of the oldest continuously used places of worship in the Province, was built in 1853 according to plans which had been used in the construction of the church at West River , Nova —85—