pain in her head, during choir practice, which proved to be a sudden attack of meningitis. She was a gracious and talented member of the choir, beloved of all who knew her. She didn’t recover from this sudden, tragic seizure and her death cast a gloom over the entire church. Mrs. Watts was practising a solo for the Sunday service, the words were Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”, when she was so suddenly stricken.

“Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark!

And may there be no sadness of farewell, when I embark; For, though from out this bourne of time and place

The flood may bear me far,

I hope to see my Pilot face to face

When I have crost the bar.”

Many incidents could be mentioned which stand out in the writer’s mind, as the 01d century gave place to the new. It was an annual event for several of the most beloved members of the con- grgation to make trips to the “Old Country” during the month of February, on buying missions for their firms. Often the ice boats would be caught in the Straits for days and even weeks at a time. Even trips to England in those times were perilous undertakings. During the weeks of their absence, it was the custom each Sunday to sing that lovely, impressive hymn No. 452.

“Eternal Father, strong to save,

Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep

Its own appointed limits keep:

011 hear us when we cry to Thee

For those in peril on the sea.”

With a prayer-hymn of such power, it’s not to be wondered at that through the years they all came back safely, in spite of the fact that they made many such voyages under such rugged conditions. Mr. Paton crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred times and Mr.

Stanley’s trips were just as numerous.

It is interesting to note from that booklet that the homes on the whole of the West side of Prince Street (from Fitzroy to Euston Streets) were all owned by members of the Brick Church. “Fair- holm” the Rogers’ home on the opposite corner, and the George E. Hughes home on Euston Street are pictured, as are many other Methodist homes including the MacNair’s present dwelling. There is a fine picture of Grace Church on Upper Prince and the Kinder- garten, both an outside and an inside view, in this booklet. The Baptismal Font now in use was presented by Mrs. Mary Trenaman Rogers 1903. The General Superintendent, Rev. Albert Carmen, D.D., Rev. R. W. Weddall, the Conference President, Rev. George

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