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These discourses were preached in Gaelic; and the late Rev. Alexander McKay, once minister of Bel— fast, said that these discourses were represented to him, by those who heard them, as being plain, faith- ful and powerful. On these occasions he also bap- tized a number of children. The people of Belfast applied to Dr. McGregor to procure them a minister from Scotland, but the supply of preachers at that time was so limited that it was impossible to obtain one for them. They, however, kept up regular Sab- bath services amongst themselves, as best they could, until the settlement of Rev. John McLennon, M. A., a young man who had been sent out by the Church of Scotland in 1823.

Mr. McLennon was educated in Aberdeen, Scot- land, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Aber- torf, Inverness—shire. Shortly after his arrival in this country he was ordained and inducted in Bel- fast. The ministers who took part in his ordination were Rev. Donald Allan Fraser of New Glasgow and Blue Mountains and Rev. Kenneth John Mc- Kenzie of Pictou, Nova Scotia. Having been so long without the regular dispensation of religious ordinances, and having been so often disappointed in their efforts to obtain the services of a minister, the people of this large and interesting field were greatly rejoiced at the settlement of their young minister. Mr. McLennon was the only minister in connection with the Church of Scotland on the is— land at that time; and besides his own congregation, which then embraced the whole of Belfast, Wood

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