History of Presbyta‘iantism

house to house, in health and in sickness, and was careful and conscientious in his pulpit preparations, as was clearly indicated both by the style and by the matter of his sermons. While in Charlottetown he published a geography of Prince Edward Island which contained a great many historical facts of interest which had hitherto been unwritten. Mr. Sutherland also took an active part in the Union movement between the Free Church and Presby— terian Church of Nova Scotia, the basis of which was unanimously adopted by the Free Presbytery on 26th October, 1859. When this union was accomplished an attempt was made to unite the Free Church congregation in Charlottetown and the Queen’s Square congregation into one charge, but they did not love each other well enough at that time to acquiesce in that proposal. Having grown up side by side, and both congregations being weak, and struggling for an existence, there naturally sprang up a good deal of jealousy between them, which for the time prevented the amalgamation. At this time Queen’s Square had not yet secured their first settled pastor, and probably, it a minister of Mr. Sutherland’s ability had appeared before them as a disinterested party, they would eagerly have grasped at the prize. But from feelings which those acquainted with the early history of those two con- gregations can easily understand, the negotiations for union for the time being failed. Soon Queen’s Square congregation obtained a minister, and the two congregations worked along side by side. The

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