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     It isolways a pleasant task to re- 
     
     cord in permanent form the deeds of 
     
     iyour predecessors and i: is also a 
     
     heritage of no mean value. The duty 
     
     becomes lighter when one is following 
     
     the path blazed out by others for in 
     
     the earlier and formatie yearsno 
     
     records are generally kept andinthe 
     
     long period of 125 years the pioneers 
     
     of this place have passed on to their 
     
     rest. In many cases they labored on 
     
     as we do now and-never eXpected that 
     
    

    
     they would figure in the pages of his- '5 
     
     Lory nor were conscious that they? 
     
     were laying foundations broad and. 
     
     deep. We regret that many great 
     
    

    
     deals have been allowedtoperish un- 1 
     
     recorded and like the ‘Eiegy in the 
     
     Country Churchyard’ says of the 
     
     characters there, have left no great 
     
     traces of their presence or of their 
     
     passing. It has been the pleasant ex- 
     
     perience of the author to find that 
     
     the ground hasr‘already been in a 
     
     sense gone over up till about 30 years 
     
     Eago. The earlier pages. therefore Will 
     
     be only a review of the research of 
     
     Eothers for in the long period time 
     
    

    
     Elias efi’aced many of the landmarks. ; 
     
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     The author has tried to to ll only shat 
     
     he believes will be helpful and in the 
     
     necessarin (limited space alloted 
     
     :‘fill’l‘j great persons and events re; 
     
     we only a casual consideration. 
     
     “means he may confess that the 
     
     cf; iei’ motive is to presene or revive 
     
     the religious spirit of these brave 
     
     men and women now unknown to any 
     
     of us hid in some small niensufre.._t0 
     
     we: {live their efforts to‘m1iutain 
     
     ‘JL‘v’l attend the K rigdorc oi God 
     
     upon with occoicling to the best 0:1 
     
    
   
   
    
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     E‘Take the torch and wave it wee; 
     
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     land; L“;jir;t_on to the: 
     
     it ‘1 3 :::~. 3 Presbyterian; ‘Dioneers as 
     
     E1 6.1 9.: :0 Ch“ larger circle who may 
     
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     PREFACE 
     
    
   
   
    
     In cone action with the history or 
     
     four old Mother Church :1 312“! quote.- 
     
     Etions from the Church of Scotland in 
     
     connection with her .daughter the 
     
     Presbyterian Church in Canada may 
     
     :‘oe appropriately given a. place here. 
     
     Win revieWing the history and pres-- 
     
     ent position oi the Church ~siztei'ition 
     
     is first arrested by the advantages 
     
     that have been derived at various 
     
     ftimes from different sources and 
     
     chiefly through the connection with 
     
     th Bio her Church. The truth is, 
     
     that. e er since our Presbyterian 
     
    
   
   
    
     Churc min Canada. begamthe prayers 
     
     an practical sympathies oi the good 
     
     oi other Church have been un- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ce 2 3113 y waited across the broad 
     
     ocean. 
     
    

    
     I: is not for us to,boast or this 
     
     omection, nor these advantages, but 
     
     other to ndeavor to realize the great 
     
     ze:;onsibiiities arising from them. 
     
     iOther churches are setting us 3. wer- 
     
     Ithy example The rapid extension or 
     
     Ecnother sy stern of religion among st 
     
     .113 5:30 presents e. stimulus to Jerk 
     
     and we chiu iness. While we would 
     
    

    
     ‘ ’ itc Cheri ‘iobly 1nd judge of it 
     
     - .. we are bound to lesist its 
     
    
   
   
    
     iconic-ems. Never was there a