HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH pastor’s wife she filled her place with quiet dignity and never-failing tact and courtesy. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had a family of five boys all of whom attained high positions and conspicuous achievements. John P. is director and secretary-treasurer of Moore and McLeod Limited, Char- lottetown, P. E. 1., and a deacon of the Baptist church; Alvah H., M.D., is a professor of medicine in McGill University, Montreal, and consul- tant of the Montreal General Hospital. He is a deacon and superinten- dent of the Bible School of the First Baptist Church of that city; Peter William, M.A., and Major Herbert F. were born in the first parsonage at Kingsboro, P. E. 1. The latter and his youngest brother Walter, served with distinction in the Great War. Walter was commissioned a lieutenant on the field. He was killed in action, October 30th, 1916.

REV. ROBERT BRUCE KINLEY 1881-1885

Rev. Robert Bruce Kinley was born at Cape Wolfe, P. E. 1., on No- vember 14, 1847, the son of James F. Kinley and Mary Lidstone Kinley. He was brought up in a home of strong intelligence and Christian hos- pitality, and in the communion of the Bryanite Church, a branch of the Methodist order. He received his early education at home and in Char- lottetown, where he attended a private school, kept by Mr. Blake Irving, an English gentleman of learning and scholarly experience. In 1871 Mr. Kinley was married to Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Miminigash, P. E. 1., and settled on his father’s farm, but his heart continually turned towards the ministry as his life work. Later he became convinced of the scrip- tural authority of believers’ baptism by immersion, and was baptized in- to the fellowship of the Baptist Church at Cape Wolfe by the late Rev. E. N. Archibald.

Again his thoughts turned to the ministry. He was licensed to preach, he received a call from the East Point Baptist Church to become its pastor, and thither he moved in 1881 with his wife and four small children. In this church he had four years of fruitful ministry. Among the many he baptized at East Point were his wife and three of his chil- dren. He was ordained in 1882. In his later years Mr. Kinley always referred to the East Point Church with sincere affection. It was his first pastoral charge; it was the church where as a young man he dreamed his dreams. An idealist by nature, he yet struggled hard to find the im- pregnable foundations of his faith. In his work at East Point he tested

111856 foundations and found them good.

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