0n Prince Edward Island

CHAPTER XIX.

FREE CHURCH, CHARLOTTETOWN.

The first meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Prince Edward Island was, by deed of Synod, constituted in Charlottetown on 20th July, 1854, and was composed of the following clerical mem— bers, viz: Rev. Alexander Sutherland, moder- ator; Rev. Alexander Munro, clerk, and Rev. Neil Bethune. About the same time the Presbytery organized a preaching station in Charlottetown, which was supplied with preaching by Mr. Kenneth McKenzie, student, afterwards the settled pastor of Baddeck, Cape Breton; Mr. John McDonald, stu- dent, a young man of great promise, who was removed by death ere he had finished his theological curriculum; by the late Rev. Murdoch Sutherland of Pictou, N. 8.; by Rev. Alexander Ross, and by others. On 14th September, 1854, Hon. Kenneth Henderson, M. D., and Mr. George Henderson were ordained as elders of the Free Church preaching station, Charlottetown. In the spring of 1878 the former, and a few years later the latter, entered into their rest. They were both good men and good elders, who took heed to themselves and to the flock of whom God had made them overseers. This sta- tion, under the ministering care of Presbytery, was fast assuming the proportions of a self-sustaining congregation, but was still (one year after its organ-

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