HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

ACADIA UNIVERSITY

Acadia University founded 1838, the outgrowth of Horton Academy founded 1828. Sponsored by the Baptist churches of the Maritime Provinces of Canada as a protest against the exclusiveness of the exist— ing Universities. Presidents: John Pryor and E. A. Crawley 1839- 1851; J. M. Cramp, 1851-1869; A. W. Sawyer, 1869-1897; Thos. Trot- ter, 1897-1907; W. B. Hutchinson, 1907-1909; George B. Cutten, 1910- 1922; F. W. Patterson, 1923 From a school intended primarily to provide an education for ministers, it has become a University with faculties in Arts and Science, Applied Science, Household Science, Music and Theology. The Faculty has grown from three to fifty and registra- tion from fewer than ten to more than five hundred. Graduates occupy important places in pulpit and other professions.

Ideal location. Carefully selected faculty. Many fine buildings and beautiful campus.

The net registration for the year ending June, 1932, including the Academy, was eight hundred and eighty-six.

THE GREAT EASTERN LODGE

Among the local influences that assisted in the development of the social, moral and intellectual life of the Kingsboro community over half a century ago, the Great Eastern Temperance Lodge must be given a prominent place. It was organized at a period when there were but few restrictions placed on the sale of intoxicating liquor. The Lodge, or- ganized in 1868, not only furnished a strong barrier against intemper< ance, but became a valuable stimulus to the social and intellectual life of the community. It cultivated wholesome social contacts, and at the same time provided a suitable forum for ambitious young people to de— velop their speaking gifts, either in public readings or debate. This in turn called for a wider acquaintance with worth while literature, both in poetry and prose. The Lodge also supplied a favorable opportunity to hear popular outside speakers, on live topics of the day. All this reacted favorably on the young people and was discussed in the homes by both old and young. In this way the Lodge proved to be a mental spur to many a youth who, afterwards, won distinction on the platform or in the pulpit or the Legislature. 1t enabled them to find themselves, and gave them a glimpse of a broader life and fostered an ambition to test their powers in more prominent fields of activity.

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