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the State of Michigan in the United States. He died in Kalamazoo, Michigan, July 1965. at the age of 87.

There is just a note to add here. During his time on the Field, .\Ir. \Vatterwvtn'th suggested the use of the envelope system of giving as a way of raising the finances. Acting upon this suggestion the Church started this method of giving, which has continued to the present time.

THE THIRD PASTORATE OF REV. H. R. BELL 1941-1952

For the third time. Rev. H. R. Bell was called to serve this field. it is not often that a ministe; is recalled a third time to serve a pastorate, but this remarkable man returned to this Church for the third t:me and stayed for eleven years. If you add his three terms together, you get a total of twenty-one years, which is half of a man‘s life time of service. The records are quite scanty of this period of his minis:ry, but we know that Mr. Bell faithfully performed his duties.

There was considerable improvement in the church property during this time. In 1950 electric lights were installed in the Chle‘Ch and parsonage. The giving rose from around eleven hundred dolars to over thirty-five hundred dollars.

In June. 194-1. Mr. Bell combined the Baltic Sunday School with the Kingsboro Sunday School for the summer months. Mr. Charles Ching fitted out his truck with benches and gathered up the chilcren from Red Point and the Baltic. As a result of this union. the Sunlay School showed a large increase of enrolment under the superinien- dency of Earl Kennedy to ill pupils. Roddie Kidson succeeded Earl and continued for about four years when he was succeeded by Edison Rose.

Mr. Bell retired in 1952 to a home in Kingsboro which he iad purchased at the entrance of Snake Road. Mrs. Bell passed awa§ on November 28, 1958, and was laid to rest in the Kingsboro Cemetn‘y. Rev. F. W. Mollins. the pastor. conducted the service. Mr. Bell diel in the Reddy Memorial Hospital. Montreal, February 16. 1961. anc his remains were brought to Kingsboro. and laid beside his wife. Bhis service was also conducted by Mr. Mollins, who paid tribute to this man of God. who had served this pastorate for so long. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are kindly remembered by all who knew them.