History of Presbyteriantsm welcome home for the minister. His father, Wil ¬ liam Graham, Sr., deserves special mention. He was remarkable for his piety, his extensive acquaintance with the scriptures, his Christian deportment and his zeal for the advancement of God 's cause. For thirty-six years he conducted with efficiency a Sab¬ bath school in which many of the young people not only received valuable religious instruction, but in which not a few were taught to read; this was, of course, before they had any day school. The Shorter Catechism and the Scriptures were the books used, and prizes were given to those scholars who could repeat the whole Catechism correctly and an addi¬ tional prize to those who had committed to memory the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm. Besides keeping up the Sabbath school, these pious and de¬ voted elders, in the absence of a minister, regularly kept up the worship of God on each Sabbath. As many of the people had only Gaelic, the services had to be conducted in both languages. At the time of the disruption in 1843 this congre¬ gation went over to the Free Church and was visited and ministered to by Rev. Mr. Mclntyre , R.ev. Alex¬ ander Sutherland and others. About one year after the disruption, Mr. Murdoch McLeod , who had a short time before come out from Scotland , was ap¬ pointed by the Free Church committee to labor as a catechist within the bounds of the congregation. Mr. McLeod was a man of fair education and could speak fluently and correctly both in Gaelic and in English. He was a man of more than ordinary 42