28 History of Zion Charo/z

fact, to recall the many great divines who have preached in Zion Church, either as pastors, candidates, visitors or guests. Passing over her regularly inducted pastors, we remember the Rev. Cummings (brothers), Pollock, Carruthers, Carson, Scott, Fisher, Mahon, Dickie, Simpson, Mosseau, Moss, Coffin, Geggie, Gunn, Frasers, Coflins, Archibalds, Mac- Leods, MacKenzies, Laing, Dill, Noble, Falconer, Maclnnis, Whiteside, MacAskill, Gilmour, Smiths, Thompsons, besides the Wesleyan brethren officiating in the city during the past half century, among whom were Brewer, Shenton, Lathern, Lodge, Kirby, MacConnell, Reid, Pascoe, Dobson, etc.; among the Baptist, we recall Gordon, Corey, White, Whit- man, MacDonald, Stephenson, Whiston, etc.; among the missionaries and evangelists, Sir Hector, the Black Knight, Vans, Meikle, Gerrior, Dr. Grant, Patten, Grierson, Mac- Laren, Crossley, Brice, Sankey and Hudson.

What a magnificent scroll of fame has unrolled its glory and scattered its seed pearls, and left its undying impress, on the passing generations of worshippers in our Zion.

Time and space and want of statistics all along the years, prevent a full list, which can only be given since January ISt, 1891, and which would include every evangelist and minister, nearly, of this city and of the province of Prince Edward Island, and scores of preachers from the other provinces of our Dominion, and many from other parts of Christendom.

Zion Church congregation has been blessed, indeed, with a variety and plethora of richness, on every conceivable theme emanating from Scripture texts. It has been favored with associations with almost every human character enter— . ing into the make-up of a preacher, lay and professional, and has been served with a multifarious treatment of Bibli- cal lore, tradition, and interpretation, second to no church in our city by the sea. '

Finally, whilst we we debit Zion with the cypress and the yew, the mourning and the weeping, forget we not to