History of Presbyteriant'sm

I4 and I6. In each of these places there was a com— fortable church. In these two places, according to the custom of olden times, nothing less than two dis- courses with about fifteen minutes’ intermission would satisfy the people; and if a discourse did not occupy an hour in its delivery it was hardly worth going to hear. The other preaching stations were St. Eleanors, in the Court House; Summerside, or Green’s Shore, as it was then called, and Traveller’s Rest. On the east side of Grand river were Tyne Valley, Lot II and Egmont Bay. In order to give these stations as frequent supply as possible, the preacher, after giving two discourses of the ortho— dox length in the church at Lot I6, gave a third service at Summerside and a fourth in the Court House at St. Eleanors. On the west side of Grand River the services were the same as on the east, viz.: two sermons in the church near Port Hill, one at Tyne Valley and one at Lot II or at Egmont Bay. On every alternate Sabbath, Rev. R. S. Patterson preached at Summerside in the afternoon. At that time, 1854, there were only about one dozen dwell- ing houses in Summerside, and neither church nor schoolhouse. When the writer commenced holding services at Summerside a room in a private house about twelve feet square held all the church-going people in the place. Soon it was found necessary to move into a larger-building, a new school house which had just been built; that becoming over- crowded, a hall was provided. In 1859 the Rev. Mr. Patterson and the writer purchased the site of the

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