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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

REV. AND MRS. HENRY GEORGE MELLICK

Henry George Mellick was born at Portage, now named Elmira, Prince Edward Island, August 11th, 1857. His father was John Mel- lick and his mother Ann Rose. Horatio Ernest Morrow was his first school teacher. He was converted in the great revival of 1874. About two years later he was called to the gospel ministry. He began his pre- paration in the district schools. The last winter John A. Ford was his teacher. In the fall of 1880 he went to Horton Academy and matricu- lated the following spring, when he was appointed missionary to Mur- ray River, P. E. I., for the summer and licensed to preach. In that aut- umn he entered Acadia College and the next summer was missionary at Musquash, N. B. He returned to Acadia and the next spring settled as pastor at Alberton and O’Leary, P. E. I. The fall of 1884 he went to McMaster College, Toronto, and graduated the next spring, when he went as a missionary to Manitoba. He reached the country in the midst of the great rebellion. He was ordained at Brandon, 1886. The fol- .lowing spring he came east and married Miss Frances Elizabeth Wal- lace, daughter of Rev. Isaiah Wallace, D.D. He was called to the pas— torate of Brussels St. Church, St. John, N. B., at that time. In 1889 the church granted him leave to take post graduate studies at Morgan

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