History of Presbyterianism 14 and 16. 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 11 and . 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 16 , 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 , one at Tyne Valley and one at Lot 11 or at . 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 30