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elders and other office—bearers of Zion church. I need not tell the people of this island, or indeed of the Dominion of Canada, of the Hon. David Laird, a man who is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and everywhere honored and esteemed, on account of his undoubted ability and sterling integrity; :1 man who has filled, with credit to himself, some of the highest positions in the gift of his country, and who, as an elder, as a worker in the Sabbath school and prayer meeting, has few superiors. He was, for some years, the efficient minister of the interior, in the Dominion Parliament; from this position he was appointed governor of the Northwest Terri— tories, a most difficult position, on account of the cosmopolitan character of the population. There were a great many Indians in the territories who regarded the white man as an intruder, and looked upon him with a jealous eye, and more than once have they risen up in rebellion. To govern these people successfully required a great deal of tact, ability, firmness and kindness. Mr. Laird proved himself to be just the right man in the right place. He is now chief Indian commissioner for the Do- minion. It is men of Mr. Laird’s stamp that, in these times, are needed in the administration both of the affairs of church and of state. I might also speak in highest terms of Mr. R. M. Barratt, known over the Dominion as an earnest and faithful temperance worker, of Mr. D. M. Fraser, the effi- cient superintendent of the Sabbath School, of W. T. Huggan, Lemuel Miller, Wm. Mutch and Pro-

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