18 History of Zion Church Ontario, made his appearance in our city. He preached in St. James' Church, and attended the evening service in Zion Church, and he informed some of its members, informally, that he proposed to translate the pastor. With all formal credentials he stood before the Presbytery, and, by the right of the stronger to impoverish the weaker, demanded that the young and newly settled pastor of Zion Church should be translated to Central Church, Hamilton ; and thus, by the old riever's law of the Scottish borders in the days of his forefathers, Dr. Lyle , who apparently recognized the law "that they should take who had the power and they may keep who can," received his demand, and carried to pastures newer, greener and more nourishing, one of the coming lights of the Maritime Provinces, to an inland, cabined, cribbed and confined city. Mr. Sedgewick was removed vi el armis from the congregation, who were learning to love him, to feel a pride in his scholarly attainments, his musical ability, his force as a lecturer, and in his never-failing social geniality—qualities which made him at home with every family, member and adherent of the church. Mr. Sedge ¬ wick was unmarried, and a most companionable addition to the various societies, the Sabbath school and the choir of the church. Indeed, it would not be too much to affirm, that his voice was a leading tone in the service of praise at all meet¬ ings, as well as at socials and entertainments and in all places where the people of the church met together. All missed the young pastor, for his brightness, his camaraderie, and his ready amiability of manner in keeping in social touch with all manner and conditions of people in the church and in the community. Mr. Sedgewick 's startlingly original way of treating his themes, in his logic, illustration, argument and story, whether in sermon, lecture or address ; the ten¬ der, filial appeals in prayer ; the wonderfully graphic setting of his subject texts, certainly have never been surpassed and scarcely equalled by any of his predecessors, nor by few of