settlements when he commenced to labour in this island, and the fact that extraordinary means are sometimes justifiable under extraordinary circumstances. While we admit that his congregations do at times exhibit a degree of fervour and excitment, to which we are not in all our congregations accustomed, yet we generally find that it is those who are most cold and dead to all vital religion that have most to say against them. This fact leads many pious persons to say that a little more zeal like that of Mr. McDonald and a little more excitement like that of his hearers would in many cases be a great improvement.[Letter signed " Y ] (Presbyterian Witness, Halifax, June 30, 1855, p. 102)