HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

ALEXANDER CRAWFORD

He was the real founder of the Kingsboro Baptist Church. He was a student from the famous Haldane School in Scotland. This school was founded by Robert and James Haldane in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the instruction of young men desirous of devoting themselves to mission- ary labor. More than $150,000 was expended by these Christian phil- anthropists in this Christian enterprise, and more than three hundred young men were assisted generously for active missionary service. Two of these found their way to Prince Edward Island in the first decade of the nineteenth century. One of these was John Scott, who settled at North River near Charlottetown. The other was Alexander Crawford. He arrived in 1809, and for a time taught school and preached in Nova Scotia, but afterwards made his home in Prince Edward Island where he engaged in missionary work with zeal and success. It was he, that Mrs. MacDonald and Mrs. Kennedy discovered in their historic search for a gospel preacher, to bring the message of salvation to the early set- tlers at Kingsboro, who baptized the first candidates in that community and started the nucleus of a Baptist Church there. - Mr. Crawford died in May, 1828, at the age of forty-two, and is buried in the cemetery at Tryon, P. E. I. He was a young man of '

apostolic zeal and piety. /

REV. JOHN SHAW

Rev. John Shaw was the pioneer pastor of the Kingsboro Church, and it is safe to say that the Church never had, in all the one hundred years of its history a more "faithful and self-sacrificing pastor. He was not always diplomatic, perhaps, but he was always loyal and true to his people, to his convictions and his sense of duty. He lived at a time when theological lines were closely drawn and when men took their religion seriously, if not severely. In the pulpit he was no suave apologist, but a fearless warrior of the cross. As a pastor he was sym- pathetic and brotherly. He could weep with those who wept and re- joice with those who rejoiced. To meet his widely separated appoint- ment he braved wintry storms and summer tempests. He travelled through almost pathless forests and through dangers, seen and unseen, in the course of his early ministry. Once he lost his way and was compelled to spend the night in the forest. Next morning, cold and almost fam-

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