Hz’stm'y of Zion Church [I

officials of the local government, in Rev. David Suther- land’s time. Dr. R. B. Shaw, now dead, and R. McNeill, Samuel C. Nash, William T. Huggan, John M. Campbell, Henry S. Coffin, W. A. Poole, A. J. Houle, of the civil ser- vice and railway employ, all of whom are still living and connected with the congregation, during and since the pas- torate of Mr. Sutherland.

Among the names on the communion roll, Scottish names largely predominate, with a sprinkling of other nationalities, just to show that all we are brethren, making a long list of three hundred men and women, to whom and to whose keeping have descended the honored traditions of Zion Church. These names represent all the multifarious inter- ests of a professional and mercantile community, and with the members of the other religious bodies, form “the salt of the earth” sound and sweet, pure and preservative, in our city.

From the death of the Rev. David Sutherland, the con- gregation waited patiently for a man, who should be a man of God, like unto those who had preceded him ; who should be a leader of men among men, who would lead the people in righteousness and faith, as in the past years. The vacant pulpit and empty chair, the closed book with the saddened hearts of the congregation, all called for some servant of God, to come and fill up the hollows, and till the fallow ground, until the Great Master, in His own good time and way, an- swered our prayers and appeals, by sending us a successor, in the person of the Rev. D. B. McLeod.

One important change, among others, was the adoption by the session, at the instance of R. M. Barratt, then an el- der, but long since “gone up higher,” of unfermented wine, as one of the elements in church communion service, a mo- nument to a man, whose consistent total abstinent principles were well known throughout Canada, and more especially in the Maritime Provinces.