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Falconer’s services. The Presbytery accordingly did, on 14th October, 1862, grant their request, and Mr. Falconer, while he remained in Charlottetown, preached at Clyde River every alternate Sabbath afternoon.

As a pastor, Mr. Falconer was diligent and pains- taking, and as a preacher he held a high rank among his brethren. His sermons were thoroughly evangelical, full of thought and always carefully prepared. After the resignation of Mr. Sutherland, Mr. Falconer was chosen clerk of Presbytery, and being an excellent penman, the Presbytery Records, as kept by him, are specimens of neatness worthy of imitation. He always cheerfully took his full share of Presbytery work, which with his genial disposi- tion and gentlemanly manners caused him to be extensively known and highly esteemed throughout the island generally. Mr. Falconer having received and accepted a call from the congregation of Dart— mouth, Nova Scotia, was transferred to the Presby— tery of Halifax to be inducted into his new charge, on 28th September, 1869.

Both the Free and Queen’s Square churches being now vacant and each of the congregations being comparatively weak, they were, with their own con— sent, by act of Presbytery, united into one congrega- tion, to be henceforth known by the name of “Zion Church.” At the same time Clyde River was dis— joined from Charlottetown and united with West River and Brookfield, and placed under charge of Rev. S. C. Gunn, now Rev. Dr. Gunn of Boston.

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