44 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES Honduras by a trader, sent there by Captain Scott specially for that purpose. Mr. Gordon Gilchrist was in charge of the work, in the construction of the pulpit. This wonderful structure was completed almost entire¬ ly without the use of nails or metal of any kind, the hinges of the doors and the screws that fasten them on, being the only hardware employed in its building. The cost of the pulpit was Five Hundred Pounds Sterling, and two of the most skilled workmen spent the greater part of two years in its completion. The design was obtained by Captain Scott from Greenock, Scotland , the place of his birth, and after which town the church took its name. On the tablet on the front wall we read these words — Rev. John Cassilis , first minister to conduct services in St . Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Greenock), also Rev. Alexander MacLean, first pastor of the church, 1824 to 1844." We felt real rest and peace as we sat in one of the old time box-like seats with doors, in this historic "kirk." On the outside of the large tower facing the harbour, at a high elevation, was placed a carved representation of an oak tree in full leaf, which, by the use of the painter's brush, has ever been kept a verdant hue, and beneath the tree was placed, in large letters, the name of the church and the date of its being finished. Captain Scott was so loyal to his native land and the home of his childhood, and so loved the memory of his early associations, that it was his desire, when the work of completing, at his own expense, this magnificent structure had been accomplished, in some way to make it suggestive of the town of his birth, and accordingly he placed on the spire the green tree, and named the sacred edifice "Greenock Church" which is a slight modification of Green Oak.