24 The Monthly Record Notices the Death of the Rev. Donald McDonald February 25, 1867 We regret to observe the death of Mr. McDonald , long a missionary laboring among the people of Prince Edward Island . He was a man endowed with great natural ability, discernment of character and a strong physical constitution. His missionary labors for about fifty years have been most laborious and extensive. His learning was respectable and his mental ability never deserted him. Possessed of immense tact and knowledge of human nature combined with zeal and power as a preacher of the gospel, he gathered out of all classes of the population in Prince Edward Island a large number of Christian societies. His own people were deeply attached to him. The first deputation had interviews with him as to those peculiar views on which he placed particular stress. The late Principal Leitch had much confidential intercourse with him about five years ago. Not without failings - since like ourselves, he was a man- no one of us can deny that the late Mr. McDonald was a man of great zeal, talent and a rude sort of evangelical energy. A.P . (Monthly Record, March, 1867, p.57) At t e meeting of the Synod of Nova Scotia in connection with the Church of Scotland following McDonald's death, an elder from the Portage congregation among McDonald's churches asked for ministerial supply for his local congregation and a temporary arrangement was made. The Synod also passed a resolution of formal appreciation and a memorialization of McDonald's ministry. *