On Prince Edivard Island roads or bridges, and it is said there was not a horse from Wood Islands until within a mile or two of Charlottetown . About the year 1823 Rev. John McLennon , a minister of the Church of Scotland, was ordained and settled in Belfast . He had charge not only of Belfast , but of Wood Islands , Cherry Valley , Mur¬ ray Harbor and other adjoining settlements. At the time of the disruption in 1843, while Belfast still adhered firmly to the church of their fathers, Wood Islands , , Brown's Creek and other outlying posts declared themselves in sympathy with the Free Church party in Scotland . Accord¬ ingly, from that date Wood Islands was supplied with preaching by ministers and probationers of the Free Church, with the exception of a small party who still claimed adherence to the Church of Scot¬ land, and who were supplied by Mr. McLennon and afterwards by Rev. William McLaren , an ordained missionary of the Church of Scotland. While the congregation of Wood Islands was much indebted to the ministers and missionaries of the Free Church for fanning the sparks of religious life that existed amongst them, they were perhaps even more indebted to the faithful efforts of a few pious laymen among themselves who had received a good religious training in the homes of their youth in the fatherland. Their influence, if less intense than that wielded by the few itinerant missionaries, was more continuous. What it lacked in depth, it supplied in breadth and persistency. 99