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the ministry of Rev. John McKinnon. Mr. Munro’s labors were now wholly confined to Brown’s Creek, Valleyfield and Caledonia. Here he continued to minister to a warmly attached and appreciative peo- ple until the autumn of 1884, when, on account of age and infirmity, he was under the necessity of re- signing his charge. Mrs. Munro, a woman of rare accomplishments, having been called to her rest some years before, he, soon after his resignation, went to Musquodoboit to live with his eldest daugh— ter, the wife of Rev. Ernest Bayne, the minister of Musquodoboit. Here, in less than one year after his resignation, this aged and faithful servant of the Lord fell asleep in Jesus. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.” Two of Mr. Munro’s sons are in the ministry. One, I. R. Munro, B. A., is the esteemed pastor of the Presbyterian congrega- tion in Antigonish, N. S.; the other, Christopher Munro, B. A., is pastor of the Presbyterian Congre— gation at Oxford, Nova Scotia.

This congregation (Valleyfield) having remained vacant for a little over one year, Mr. Roderick Mc— Lean, who had been sent out by the colonial com- mittee of the Free Church of Scotland, was or— dained and inducted as their pastor on 17th Novem- ber, 1885. Mr. McLean entered upon the work of the congregation with earnestness and zeal, and by the blessing of God the harvest was great; hundreds were added to the communion roll during the first three years of his ministry. The good seed which had for many years been faithfully sown by the late

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