History of Presbyferianism request from the session of Zion church, Messrs. Merkle and Gerriod, evangelists, visited Charlotte- town and held daily meetings in their tent, which would seat about two thousand people, and was always crowded to its utmost capacity. By the blessing of God a grand work was wrought in the city. All the churches were revived and had acces¬ sions to their numbers. In Zion church one hun¬ dred and twenty-six were added to the communion roll. The total number of communicants received into the church during the writer's pastorate of eighteen years was five hundred and ninety-six, which gives an annual average addition of thirty- three. This congregation has always been blessed with an excellent staff of elders and a most efficient board of managers, and to this fact must, in a great meas¬ ure, be attributed the reign of peace and prosperity by which it has, in so high a measure, been charac¬ terized. It can boast of having one of the oldest, if not the very oldest elder in the Dominion, who is now in the one hundred and first year of his age and the fifty-fifth year of his eldership. This patriarchal elder is still hale and hearty, steps with the elasticity of a man of sixty, and possesses almost unimpaired the use of his intellectual powers, which, those who know him can testify, are of a very high order. A man of extensive information, of sound judgment and of genuine piety, he is a noble specimen of the good old Scottish elder. A great deal might justly be written about the character and standing of the 148