The thanks of the congregation was also expressed to the Rev. D. H. Lodge for his valuable assistance in visitation among the congregation and in the services of worship, from time to time. The total expenditure for that year (1895) was $1,946.95, but with the pew rentals and other assets, the church ended the year with a balance of $255.92. The Poor Fund balance was $35.07. It was that year that Miss Mary White left the First Church to take charge of Kensington Hall School. The Sunday School collected $375.39.

In the Epworth League Report for that same year, Ida T. Full, states that there was an enrollment of forty-four members, with meetings every Monday evening, but during the winter they joined in the regular Wednesday night prayer service. She also mentions the Study Group as the “Literary Department”. This group had a series of most successful meetings, which were largely attended and gave the members a greater desire for reading the best literature of the day, under the leadership of Mrs. Henry Smith. In that year too, 1895, Kensington Hall Superintendent W. C. Turner reported “a marked improvement in every department” of their Sunday School, which then had a membership of 110 scholars and 11 officers and teachers.

There were two deaths recorded during the year, that of William Heard, at 88 years of age, and Henry Smith Sr. at 72. Mr. Heard was a Bible Class teacher and Henry Smith, a local preacher and Trustee. Mr. Heard’s name was one of those inscribed on the Corner Stone document and Mr. Smith Sr. was the uncle of Henry Smith, who later became Recording Steward and served for 50 years in that capacity. When he retired at eighty years of age he was presented with a beautiful gold—headed walking—stick, now a prized possession of his only son, Harry L. Smith of Victoria, BC.

In June, 1898, the fifteenth Annual Joint Session of the New Brunswick and P. E. Island Conference was held in Charlottetown, in the First Methodist Church. A beautifully printed descriptive book— let. a copy of which is cherished by Mr. and Mrs. John A. MacNair, commemorates this event. In it there is a short, historical sketch of the church and pictures of it and the adjoining parsonage. This old parsonage was a square, brick house, the front covered with Virginia Creeper, which stood on the place where the Heartz Hall now stands. It was a haven of hospitality during the years of its existence. Here it was, that the minister, Mr. Young, spent six weeks of isolation in the attic after a visit to the Marine Hospital at the mouth of the harbour where two sailors were dying of the dread disease, Smallpox. Incased in rubber, he went there to pray with them and administer the sacraments. Upon his arrival home, he had to go immediately into isolation until all chance of infection was over.

On another occasion, the wife of the church organist, Mrs. Harry Watts, was carried into the parsonage when she developed a severe

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