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numbers and in wealth that they were able to. min- ister to the comfort of their pastor. Though his stipend never was large, yet for many years he gave the one-tenth, and for the last few years of his min- istry the one-fifth, of his annual income for religious and benevolent purposes. Rev. Mr. Patterson seemed to be like the man of whom Bunyan wrote:

“There was a man and some did count him mad, The more he gave away the more he had."

Mr. Patterson continued to preach regularly until the Sabbath before his death, which took place in September, 1882, in the fifty-eighth year of his ministry. This was perhaps the longest unbroken pastorate in one congregation in the history of the Canadian church. His jubilee was celebrated in

1875.

Mr. Patterson was one of the first students edu- '

cated in the old Pictou Seminary, and he, together with the late John McLean and John L. Murdoch, was sent to Glasgow, Scotland, when, after the necessary examination, they each received from the university of that city the degree of M. A., and were licensed to preach the gospel. On their ar— rival in Scotland these three young men called upon a minister to whom they had letters of introduction. After a few minutes’ conversation he called his wife, Mrs. Brown, to come and see the three young preachers who had just come from America. On entering the room she lifted up her hands in aston- ishment, saying, “Aye, mon, they’re no.’ black.”

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