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with truly apostolic zeal, continued to supply them with preaching for about ten years, giving them, as a general rule, every fourth Sabbath. Considering the large and widely scattered field over which he was settled in Belfast, the task of supplying this dis— tant station so frequently, and for so long a time, must have been a very heavy drain on his energies, a drain which only a man of his grand physique could have endured. This extra labor was, on his part, largely a labor of love, his only tangible remunera- tion being the Sabbath collections, and it is probable that the coppersmith did him much harm in this department. Those still living who enjoyed Mr. McLennan’s ministrations in New London church have the warmest recollections of his memory and speak of him as a most devoted pastor and as an able and eloquent preacher of the gospel.

Once a year Mr. McLennan dispensed the sacra— ment of the Lord’s Supper in New London. On these occasions the parents usually brought their children for baptism on the Monday after commun- ion, and it was no uncommon thing to see as many as thirty children baptized at one service. The elders who took part with Mr. McLennan in spiritual oversight of the congregation were William White— head, Alexander Sutherland, William Graham, An- gus McIntyre and William McKay. The Mc- Kay here mentioned was the father of Dr. McKay, late of New London, to whom the writer is indebted for many of the facts of the early history of this congregation. Elder Graham’s house was always a

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