History of Zion Church 25 thirty-five members, and its last report by secretary ( Mrs. W. T. Huggan ), is a very eminently satisfactory document. The Missionary has also a good report, perhaps not so much so as we hoped for, but sometimes it is well to leave room for improvement acting as a spur to future efforts, and when so many and large calls for financial aid were made upon Zion's people, the depletion of their coffers must of necessity cause some service to suffer. The home department still does its good work amongst the aged and infirm, whose years and circumstances prevent their entering into active work, which in former years en¬ deared itself to their hearts and minds—"they also serve who only stand and wait." Perhaps in consonance with this sentiment, it would not be amiss without prejudice to sub¬ mit that it is the one exuberance of our new pastor, that his superabundant capacity for service recognizes "no drones in the hive," whether waiting or working, but, Nelson-like, de¬ clares that Zion expects every man to do his duty. Yet, let it be kindly remembered by our young people, the age that impairs the body also lets the spirit live. In January, 1879, the writer drew a sketch plan of the ground floor of Zion Church, as it appeared after the re-open¬ ing. Among the six ministers who officiated on the 5th and 12th of that month, two Sabbaths dedicated to the open¬ ing services, five "have fallen asleep"—the Rev. Isaac Murray , D.D ., Rev. K. MacLennan , Ph. D ., Rev. R. Mac- Donald, Baptist, Rev. John Lathern and Rev. W. S. Pascoe , Methodist, and but one, Rev. John M . MacLeod, pastor at the time, still lives, and preaches, in the 55th year of a very active and acceptable ministry, and in the eighties of his life. Among the elders, office-bearers, workers in church, and choristers, but two elders— John A. Lawson , and Samuel C. Nash—remain , and but one Sabbath school worker, Samuel C. Nash , is still to the fore. Not a solitary chorister is left, and, of the workers, twenty-one good men and women have