meetings starting with the earliest days of the first settlers and continuing through at 
     
     least a generation until their dreams of holding their worship services in their own 
     
     Methodist Church were realized in 1881. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Similar to any other organization or enterprise, some individuals are more 
     
     energetic or conscientious than others of their colleagues. Such is true of the 
     
     churches of Miminegash. The condition of the records have varied from the 
     
    
   
   
    
     beautifully written records of the Rev. Charles Wesley Dockrill, who left the first 
     
     records starting with 1867, probably written after long and arduous horseback rides 
     
     around parts of his circuit, to later ministers who seemed contented to annotate 
     
     older membership lists prepared by previous ministers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In one particular situation, the complete records of the Rev. Matthew Richey 
     
     Knight, 1883 - 1886, covering a three year period, are missing. While it may seem to 
     
     be an improbability, can it be possible that the Rev. Matthew Richey Knight hurried- 
     
     ly packed all his possessions including the records of the Miminegash Methodist 
     
     Church for the years 1883 - 1886, and they are now stored in the attic of his grand- 
     
     son or grand daughter? Needless to say, we would like to have these records returned 
     
     to add to the others which have been carefully preserved for one hundred and 
     
     twenty-six years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Missing records for other years are due to some ministers depending on an- 
     
     notated rolls or else privately kept notes which have long disappeared. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although the membership rolls have been printed rather completely through 
     
     1927 or for a short time following the establishment of the United Church of 
     
     Canada, one record from the Montrose Pastoral Church carries information 
     
     through 1960. It was thought, however, for the purpose of this history, that it would 
     
     not be very useful to continue lengthy rolls of membership which now can be easily 
     
     obtained because ministers have became much more conscious of the extreme value 
     
     of carefully kept church records. 
     
    
   
   
    
     33. FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS - MONTROSE PASTORAL CHARGE - 1938 
     
     MIMINEGASH 
     
    
   
   
    
     Burns, William 
     
     Burns, Roy 
     
     Costain, Mrs. Job 
     
     Costain, Raymond 
     
     Costain, Tennyson 
     
     Costain, John A. 
     
     Costain, Chester 
     
     Costain, Howard 
     
     Costain, Thursa 
     
     Green, William 
     
     Green, Stanford 
     
     Green, John 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mclnnis, Alexander 
     
     Mclnnis, Guy 
     
     Maclnnis, Robert 
     
     Palmer, Hedley 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rix , Burton Ministers and 
     
     Thomson, John Salary Missionaries 
     
     Rally Day Offering $ 4.75 
     
     Thankoffering 4.00 
     
     Y.P.U. 4.00 
     
     Plate Collections $ 37.58 — 
     
     Other Sources 55.92 — 
     
     Total Receipts $175.00 $24.75 
     
    
   
   
    
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