rangement with Mr. George Lee, principal of Rounds Schook, to keep up his studious habits. His characteristic courageous and self-sacrificing spirit was early revealed in publicly identifying himself with the temperance reform movement

which at that time was a very unpopular cause.

He came to Canada in 1871, was received on trial in 1872, ordained in 1875 and served circuits in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. From 1871 to 1873, Rev. Lucas was in the Bay Fortune, Souris, P.E.I. Circuit and was in Cornwall,

P.E.I. as an assistant in 1873.

In 1874, Rev. Lucas with eleven other young men volunteered for work in the British American Conference. He and his companions were accepted and became known to the Church under the Gospel name of the Twelve Apostles.

In 1875, Rev. Lucas was assigned to the Alberton, P.E.I. Circuit where he stayed until 1878. It was on August 16, 1875, that the Quarterly Board in Alberton, P.E.I. agreed to pay Rev. Lucas $150.00 his three quarters salary and $66.00 for his board. Previously, Alberton had purchased a sleigh and a buffalo robe, but it was thought that the young minister could borrow a horse.

After ten years of successful ministry in RBI. and New Brunswick, he became a field secretary and organized the New Brunswick Sunday School Associaton. For this work he showed distinguished ability. In 1904 he returned to the pastorate, but

in 1906 the International Sunday School Association petitioned the Conference to release him for their work. The petition was granted. During eight laborious years,

he carried forward this very valuable department of Christian activity, extending his organizing mission to the West Indies, Central America, and the Northern part of South America.

In 1913, after forty-two years of valuable and diversified service in the Master’s Kingdom, Rev. Lucas removed to London, Ontario. In 1916, he was granted a superannuated relationship in the Methodist Church. During the ten years of his retired life he became well-known for his zeal in Sunday School work, pulpit abili- ty, vigilant advocacy of moral reforms, and his aggressive Christianity. Rev. Lucas was pastor of the Empress United Church, London, Ontario in 1926.

Rev. Aquila Lucas is worthy of a place in the honor of the pioneers and pathfinders of the Christian Church in Eastern Canada. Versatile and virile, he has left us a good example of the courages self-sacrificing abandon that has ever distin~

guished the heroes of the Gospel.

Mr. Lucas was survived by his devoted wife, Hattie J. Lucas, and by five sons and six dauthers. The members of this strong family were left with the precious memory of a home of prayer and Christian instruction. “The just man walketh in his intergrity and his children are blest after him.” His strong physical and mental energies were not easily overcome by disease, but eventually, after four months of suffering, “the earthly house was removed to the building of God, the house not made with hands,” on September 15th, 1926, in his 79th years.

Appropriate services were conducted in the home and afterwards at Empress

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