them with the meeting house at De Sable should they be inclined to preach in it. The Rev. Norman McLeod did preach in it next day to as full a congregation as could be collected in the time allowed to circulate notice. After preaching I had a lengthened private conference with the Rev‘nd gentleman who treated me with much affability and kindness. Towards the close of our conference he showed much concern with regard to the condition in which I might leave the people which are now under my ministry, His words were nearly as follows,“ You are now advanced in years. Have you seriously considered in the event of your being called from them, the condition in which three thousand people would be left?" To which l replied that it often gave me much concern. He then said, "It is a matter of much concern”. My remarks then were that he now knew that we were here and that I laid that upon him to consider, and if he should hear of my being called away from them, he should look after them. He latterly signified kindly, if i wished to correspond officially with the Church in Scotland i write to him, for which act of kindness, I expressed my obligation to him.

My meeting with the deputation on their arrival in Charlottetown and my not parting with them while Mr. McGillivray was on the Island are both incorrect statements, My voluntarily and cheerfully placing all my disciples, as it is ironically expressed, comprising ten congregations and ten places of worship into the hands of the deputation to be supplied with ministers of the establishment, l was not under the necessity to do, being myself under the ordination of the Church of Scotland these thirty years acting in virtue of her licence and ordination now twenty-one years in