HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

highest average in his class and won a prize for making the most rapid advancement of any student in the Academy.

He graduated from the Academy in the spring of 1924, and in the autumn of that year entered Acadia University, from which he graduat- ed in 1928, taking the degree of Bachelor of Theology. During the second year of his University work he won the Ralph M. Hunt Oratori- cal Prize, and also the Coleman Medal, for efficiency in public speaking. During the third year he was President of the B. Y. P. U. of the Wolf- Ville Baptist Church. In the fall of 1928 he again entered Acadia Uni- versity and graduated the next spring with the degree of BB.

In March, 1927, he was called to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Port Williams, N. S. He was ordained there September 6th, 1928. His pastorate there closed July 30th, 1929.

On August 2nd, 1929, he married Miss Marjorie Helen Mason, daughter of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Seymour Mason, of Wolfville, N. S. She was born and educated in Wolfville. She graduated BA. from Acadia University in 1926. They settled for a short time at Ma- hone Bay, N. S.; September 16th, 1929, they went to Newton Theologi- cal Institute, from which he graduated the following spring with the de- gree of BB. During this time his wife took studies in the Institute and taught at the Italian Mission in Boston. In June, 1930, he was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Grafton, Massachu- setts, U. S. A. July lst, 1932, he entered upon the pastorate of the

church at North Sydney, N. S. ——H. G. M.

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