and speaking the language of these societies to whom they administered the word 
     
     of life’. The Rev. Robert Crane was the minister at Murray Harbour at this time. ” ” 
     
    
   
   
    
     17. 1824 - 1828 
     
     WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY FORMED 
     
     AND 
     
     NEW PARSONAGE BUILT 
     
    
   
   
    
     “In 1824 an auxiliary Wesleyan Missionary Society was formed in Charlot- 
     
     tetown. This society was successfully carried on for upward of half a century and 
     
     through the noble efforts put forth by its members, large sums of money were 
     
     raised annually for the support of the work in foreign fields. At the inaugural 
     
     meeting, the chair was occupied by the high sherriff, William Pope, and the 
     
     speakers were the Rev. Messrs. Burt, Jackson, Cecil Wray Townshend, Charles 
     
     Binns and Isaac Smith. On the 6th of January, 1825, Benjamin Chappell, the father 
     
     of Methodism in Prince Edward Island, passed peacefully to his eternal reward, at 
     
     the advanced age of eighty-five years. Under the administration of Rev. Burt, a par- 
     
     sonage was erected in connection with the chapel on Richmond Street, Charlot- 
     
     tetown, and at Little York, where preaching had been held in private houses for 
     
     some time, a neat chapel was built. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. Burt was followed by Rev. Henry Pope in 1826, and the Rev. 
     
     Thomas Davies was in that year sent to Murray Harbour. The Rev. Henry Pope 
     
     was one of the early English pioneer preachers of the upper Canada district, and 
     
     the first Wesleyan preacher in Fort York, now Toronto, then a place of fifteen 
     
     hundred inhabitants. He was an uncle of Hon. J.C. Pope and Judge Pope, both 
     
     of this province. In 1827 the Rev. William Smith was stationed in the Bedeque 
     
     and Tryon Circuit, and the following year the Rev. William Webb was sent to 
     
     Murray Harbour. In 1828 the Rev. William Temple succeeded Rev. Henry Pope 
     
     in the Charlottetown circuit. The Rev. Temple was one of the leaders among the 
     
     early Methodist preachers, and he occupied several of the most important 
     
     positions of trust and responsibility at the disposal of the conference. He died on 
     
     the 18th of May, 1873, in the eighty-third year of his age, and the fifty-third year 
     
     of his ministry. In this year, the Rev. John Shaw was stationed at Murray 
     
     Harbour.”12 
     
    
   
   
    
     18. 1829 - 1834 
     
     NEW CHAPEL ERECTED IN 
     
     CHARLOTTETOWN 
     
    
   
   
    
     “In 1829, the Rev. Matthew Richey was appointed to the Charlottetown 
     
     Circuit, but, owing to the illness of his wife, he remained only one year at that 
     
     time. The Rev. William McDonald, a young minister from the Canada district, 
     
     followed Rev. Dr. Richey in the Charlottetown pastorate for one year. He was 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     11 Ibid. p. 316A. 
     
     12 Ibid. pp. 316A-317A. 
     
    
   
   
    
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