History of Presbyierianism these men were active workers in the church, ever ready to take part in religious meetings with credit to themselves and with profit to those who heard them. All these men, having served their day and generation, have entered into their rest, and the places of some of them are now filled by their de¬ scendants, as for example:— Malcolm Matheson , Angus Bruce , Norman MacLeod , father of John P. MacLeod , B. A ., attorney at law in British Colum¬ bia, and Angus, Donald and John Bruce. The early settlers of this place having come to this country in the year 1840, just on the eve of the disruption in Scotland , and having in the old coun¬ try sympathized with the leaders of the disruption party, brought along with them to their Western home a strong antipathy to the patronage system, which so divided the church in Scotland at that time; and when, three years after their arrival in America, the disruption took place, they, having so recently come from the scene of strife, took as keen an interest in the struggle as if they had been listening to the eloquent speeches of Chalmers, and Guthrie, and Candlish, and had witnessed that grand procession of more than four hundred minis¬ ters marching out of St. Andrew's church, Edin¬ burgh, headed by Chalmers, Welsh and others, and for conscience sake giving up their living, their manses, their churches and many other advantages. Though the wisdom of importing these feelings and divisions to this side of the has been ques¬ tioned, yet we believe the Great Head of the Church H2