HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

REV. HORA'I‘IO ERNEST MORROW. 8A,. A\[) MRS. HORRUW. \I. 1).

There is room here for only a brief sketch of the life and work of these faithful servants of Jesus Christ.

Mr. Morrow was born at St. peter’s Bay, Prince Edward Island, April 24th, 1843. When about twenty years of age he taught school at South Lake. While teaching there he was converted under the ministry of Rev. John Shaw, by whom he was baptized and received into the East Point Baptist Church. He resembled Mr. Shaw in his high ideals of life and duty and views of Bible truth. He felt called to the gospel ministry and began his preparation for the work at Horton Academy. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Acadia College in 1871. While pursuing his regular course he took a course in Theol- ogy. The year he graduated he settled as pastor of the church at Sack- Ville, N. S. He was ordained there November 8th. In 1873 he went 10 Newton Theological Seminary and graduated, 1876. That autumn he married Miss Olive Jane Emmerson, M.D., of Rochester, Vermont, U. S. A. She was a woman of high culture and noble life. She was preceptress of Acadia Seminary for four years.

They were appointed missionaries to Burma by the American Bap-

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