we had mass in our new church on Palm Sunday."

A few years passed by, the parish, financially, was better off and the priest was really af;aid that the temporary chapel had become insecure. So the plans and specifications for a new church were laid before the people who fell to work with a will. The parish was divided into three bands. who went to the woods and in ten 631s prepared twelve thousand feet of scantling. which was placed on the church grounds. ready for use. Each family in the mission was asked for one hundred feet of boards and a square of shingles, which were also put on the church goounds. The contract for building was let to John Kenny

and Robert Curran, who built what is generally acknowledged to be a beautiful - and substantial church and the cheapest in the diocese. It measures eighty

feet in length by forty in breadth. The nave which is clerestory is thirty

two feet in height. the aisles are sixteen feet from base to buttress.

The High altar. which is richly painted was made by Mr. Dempsey of Summerside. There is a side altar to the Sacred Heart, above which hangs a beautiful picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A gift from Bishop McIntyre tc Father McMillan. This altar is kept decorated with exquisitely blooming natural flowers, and its whole appearance gives evidence of loving care and refined taste on the part

of the secristun. There are in the Sanctuary Statues of St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin and two memorial windows bearing painted transparencies, one a_ picture of the Sacred Heart of our Lord, in memory of Kr. P.S. Hilligan, the other.

a picture of the Angelic doctor St. Thomas Agninns, in memory of Hon. Robert and

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l‘ll‘s , Mooney . Unlike most clerestory buildings, this one is furnished with galleries, which

however, do not mar the appearance of the interior.

The painting is chiefly in the shades of olive green. There is here one of the

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