HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

ished. he reached a hospitable home where he was kindly treated and sent en his way refreshed. At another time he was travelling over a lonely wood-road on horseback, when he heard a wild, weird crv ringing through the forest. The cry was so strange and mysterious that his terrified horse ran away at full speed. He managed to cling to the horse until he stopped of his own accord. Some time after he learned that a group of half-drunken men had concealed themselves in a clump of trees near where he was to pass, with the purpose of doing him bodily harm; but the origin of the strange, unearthly cry that terrified his horse and defeated the purpose of the lawless men, was never explained.

For forty years l\/Ir. Shaw ministered to the spiritual welfare of the East Point Church; and only when age and enleebled health admon- ished him did he resign his charge. He stood by the Church in her in- fancy. His teaching and leadership reinforced her for struggle and achievement and then he gave her his benediction, and passed to his test and rewardw—vva Iaithl-ul and fearless soldier of th: Cross.

—j. A. F.

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Only a Iew items of the life and ministry of this remarkable man of God can be given here.

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