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The first year after his induction a fine manse and barn were erected on a glebe of about sixty acres of excellent land in Springton. While Mr. Morrison occupied the manse it was always open to all classes of his congregation, especially to the young. The congregation, warmly attached to their young min— ister, looked forward to a long and prosperous set- tlement. But alas! their hopes were to be disap- pointed. In early life Mr. Morrison felt a deep in— terest in foreign missions, and cherished the hope that he might be sent to carry the message of salva- tion to the perishing heathen. In the year 1862, in answer to an urgent call for more laborers in the New Hebrides Islands, Rev. Mr.. Morrison offered his services to the Foreign Mission Committee as a missionary to the island of Efate. The offer was accepted and Mr. Morrison’s connection with the congregation of Strathalbyn was dissolved in March of the same year, amid the tears and regrets of a most warmly attached people. He reached his dis— tant destination in safety, entered with zeal upon his work and for six years labored with great success, when consumption, to which he was constitutionally predisposed, terminated his days and his labors amongst the natives of Efate. He left a widow and two children to mourn their loss. Mrs. Morrison lived only two years after the death of her husband.

During the summer of 1863 Strathalbyn was sup— plied by Rev. D. McDougall, and in the autumn of the same year Rev. Alexander Campbell of St. Mary’s, N. 8., was inducted pastor of this congrega-

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