History of Presbyteriant'sm

lums, McMillans, Scotts, Martins, etc.; and on St. Peters Road and to be found the Robertsons, the Cairns, the Scotts, the McLeods, the McBeaths, the McLaughlins, the T hompsons, the Gibsons, etc. Some of these people originally worshipped at Cove Head, and some of them in Charlottetown. Rev. James Allan, acting under instructions from the Presbytery of Prince Edward Island, of the Presby— terian church of Nova Scotia, opened a preaching station on St. Peters Road in March, 1854. This place was also supplied with preaching by the Kirk of Scotland and by the Free Presbytery of Prince Edward Island. The first church built in this settle- ment was in connection with the Church of Scotland, and the people received an occasional sermon from the late Rev. Donald McDonald. This church hav- ing been blown down by a severe gale, those ad- hering to the Church of Scotland erected another church near the site of the first church, which is about six miles from the city and is'the building now occupied by the united church. About this time the Free church, the Presbyterian church of Nova Scotia and the Baptists built a union church just across the road from the Kirk (in the year 1864), so that from these four different sources the station must have been tolerably well supplied, though in this and similar cases there is a great waste of ma- terial. Rev. William McLaren of the Church of Scotland was appointed to St. Peters and Brackley Point Roads for a term commencing December, 1857. At the expiration of his appointment the late

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