Rev. erlram Lawson 
     
    

    
     Greatly gifted in voice, intellect and personality, he became one of the 
     
     leading preachers in the province. Through fifty years of active ministry and after 
     
     superannuation, by radio messages, hospital, prison and home visitation, and 
     
     special sermons, he was a father in God to a multitude. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Alberton, P.E.I. Circuit was fortunate to have the Rev. William Lawson 
     
     as its pastor from 1890 to 1893. He returned to Alberton as a visitor and preach- 
     
     ed there on September 23, 1923, twenty-nine years after he had left this circuit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Our missionary society had no better friend. He was always talking about 
     
     missions, and his sermons abounded with references to home and foreign work 
     
     which had won his deepest interest. He gave two daughters to the mission field, 
     
     one to the home missionary field who pre-deceased him some years ago, and the 
     
     other to the foreign work in China where she had laboured with distinction with 
     
     the Rev. Walter Small, now on furlough. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We have secured a recent snapshot of the “dear, little, old minister” as he 
     
     was so often affectionately called by a host of friends. He is taken in the picture 
     
     with Arthur, the son of the Rev. Arthur W. Brown, of Hannon, Ontario. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the home of his daughter, Mrs. Walter Small, the Rev. William Lawson 
     
     passed away on January 12, 1938. 
     
    
   
   
    
     His body was laid to rest in St. John N.B., where rest his wife Charlotte M. 
     
     and daughter, who predeceased him. 
     
    
   
   
    
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