‘congrsgaticn. ’Then the late Rev. 
     
     Bruce Muir cf Charlottetown was. Int- 
     
     erim Mcderator and Rev. WE Davies 
     
     now of Cardigan, was stated supply 
     
     till} he was appointed teacher in 
     
     Pictnu Academy. Rev. D V. O'Meaia 
     
     then a recent comer from the Old 
     
     Country was engaged fOr s’x~ 
     
     months as stated ounply 'to‘ 
     
     begin on May lst, 1927,."and he 
     
     appears to have duly fulfilled his; 
     
     contract and afurther extension of 
     
     the time appears to have been made 
     
     at the end of that term services or 
     
     Mr O’Meara to continue .till the end 
     
     of the year 1927 and some other 
     
     necessary matters settled at the 
     
     1111111211 Me sting. Mr. O‘Meara was 
     
     then engaged tor a further term on 
     
     condition that if any men eligible for‘ 
     
     a call could be found he would give; 
     
     :way for the same. ‘It would appeari 
     
     jthat excellent and .enduring work 
     
     was being done and we find many, 
     
     baptisms of whole families of child-t 
     
     ren being given at the'homes during 
     
     this period. Rev. Bruce Muir was 
     
     succeeded as Interim Moderatorbi' 
     
     Rev Quincy A MacDowell “ho in, 
     
     the meanwhile had been inducted as 
     
     the Minister of Caledonia and in 
     
     May-1929 George E Pring 1e,—a"stud-’ 
     
     ent of Princeton Un.versity and 
     
     Theological SeniirxaerbecanieAbe- 
     
     pastor for the summer monthsfPer-l 
     
     haps “mention ought to have been 
     
     {made earlier than this of the‘devoted 
     
     Eservices rendered a few summers' 
     
     previous by Mr. Batty, student Of; 
     
     McMaster College. Toronto, and to 
     
     whom much credit is due for excel— 
     
     ‘ilunt and enduring, service in thei 
     
     iiia'ELi 91; l'ziiilililll‘,’ given, ilifit 111: is 
     
     iciuli-i'ly i'eiz.1:1.'i‘1>ere'cii my all the peo- 
     
     ple of these congregations. Both ofi 
     
     these- young; workers were succesfiulfi 
     
     hi 111.111‘1taining the ordinances in the‘ 
     
     (0.1:: ”worm“ but as they Were? 
     
     mid“; only 1121’ the sun -ner and thei 
     
     field “as 1111 :iiit must of the year 
     
     and (lap «.i-‘r.i.1 " during: the \t'iiitei 
     
     ‘s’iiscn on other neighboring min- 
     
     isters it was felt necc s.» iry to obtain 
     
    
   
   
    
     the services of a settled minister,‘ 
     
     and it was also felt with so many 
     
     elderly people in the congregation a 
     
     greater measure of pastoral and 
     
     home _vis‘.ting was! required; the 
     
     extent of the territory being too" 
     
     great" for, a student to cover in the? 
     
     course of a few‘ months in the sumJ 
     
     mer. On the removal of Rev. Quincy: 
     
     A. MacDowell to Sydney Mines,i 
     
     Cape Breton. the Rev. Thos. A. 
     
     Rodger of Belfast was appointed by 
     
     Presbytery as Interim Moderator and; 
     
     ltentei'ed on his duties with all thei 
     
     energetic devotion of' his nature. “As 
     
     ithe congregations by resolution at 
     
     their annual meetings had expressedl 
     
     themselves in favor of abandoning 
     
    

    
     student supply Rev Mr. Rodger was 
     
     authorized by the session to secure 
     
     for :1 month the services of Rev. P 
     
     Vatson Currie with whom he .had 
     
     been formerly acquainted in the 
     
     work in Ontario, and who was then 
     
     Eiree to come and spend the sumnier' 
     
     i on the Island. After some confusion 
     
     {caused by the Home Mission Board 
     
     "and the late Superintendent of Mis- 
     
     sionsat Pictou who had appointed 
     
    
   
   
    
     another student to the field matters 
     
    
   
   
    
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     g were straightened out satisfactorily 
     
     1to all parties and Rev. Mr. Currie 
     
    
   
   
    
     began his duties as supply on May 
     
    
   
   
    
     _725t_h,_ 19310....me the first it was 
     
    
   
   
    
     felt that the right person had been 
     
     ectu ed and that experience in pulpit 
     
     and as toral work would. count for 
     
     much in strengthenmg the things 
     
     i::;;t imagined and in lengthening 
     
     €111: cords and strengthening the 
     
     staiaes of Presbyterianism in this 
     
    
   
   
    
     Arrangements were then entered: 
     
     1.90:1 at C11 to make out a call to‘ 
     
     * '. 2.331: Ciiirie and bend: sustained 
     
     L0,: :'l\-1bgtc1& and accepted at the 
     
     meeting by RCV.1‘~I1‘.C‘JY‘1‘18, the in- 
     
    
   
   
    
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