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taking pastor and an indefatigable worker. Though he had for the lack of good roads to travel along shores, to cross creeks and rivers, and in the win— ter on different occasions to get help to dig his horse out of snow-drifts and to drag him out of the water into which he had plunged through broken ice, yet he was seldom known to fail in fulfilling an appoint- ment. The following extract from a minute placed on the Records of Presbytery at the time of his death shows the estimation in which he was held by his brethren, viz.: “The Presbytery record their deep sense of the loss sustained in the death of Rev. Robert Douglas, as a faithful, unwearied and perse— vering laborer in the Lord’s vineyard, as a brother with whom their intercourse had ever been both pleasant and profitable, as a true friend, and as a disciple of the Saviour, distinguished by sincere and unaffected piety and great Christian simplicity and humility.”

Cove Head and West St. Peters, after being dis— joined from East St. Peter’s and Bay Fortune, called Rev. John Cameron, now of Bridgewater, N. S., on November 8th, 1843. This call was declined. On October 30th, 1844, they called Rev. James Byers of Clifton, N. S. This call was also declined. The next minister called was Rev. James Allan, who had just arrived from Scotland. He was ordained and in— ducted on Ist July, 1846. The call was signed by one hundred and seventy-six members and ad- herents and the stipend guaranteed was one hundred and twenty pounds. So rapid was the

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