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of the prophets, was obliged, on account of failing health, to retire from the professorship. He was succeeded by Rev. Alexander McKnight, D. D., and Rev. John Currie, a graduate of the college, was chosen by the Synod as professor of Hebrew and exegetics.

In 1875 an event of great importance in the his- tory of Presbyterianism took place in Montreal, viz.: —the union of all the Presbyterians in the Dominion of Canada, with very few exceptions, into one church—the Presbyterian Church in Canada. About this time the established Church of Scotland, which had always manifested a warm interest in the Colo— nial Church, undertook to support a professor in the Theological College in Halifax. Now all the Pres— byterians in the Maritime Provinces were happily united in the support of this institution. The United Synod of the Maritime Provinces wisely chose Rev. Allan Pollok of New Glasgow, N. S., who was ap- pointed to the chair of church history and pastoral theology. In the year 1892 the Rev. A. Falconer, M. A., B. D., on the recommendation of the Col- lege Board, was, by the Synod, appointed to the chair of New Testament exegetics. The staff of the college then consisted of Rev. Alexander Mc- Knight, D. D., principal and professor of systematic theology, the Rev. Allan Pollok, D. D., professor of church history and pastoral theology, Rev. Dr. Cur- rie, professor of Hebrew and exegetics, and Rev. Alexander Falconer, M. A., B. D., lecturer on New Testament exegetics.

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