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     Mission House, Lot 7 West Cape, Bib/e Christian Parsonage Meacham Coll. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The second Cape Wolfe, Lot 7, Bible Christian Church was built in 1868 on 
     
     part of the sixty-six acre farm of Samuel Kinley, located on the west side of the 
     
     Shore Road, across from the Nauvoo Road. In its earliest history, the church was 
     
     called the Ebenezer Mission Church, and its first pastor in 1845 was the Rev. 
     
     William Harrissln 1868, the first pastor of the newly-built second church was 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Rev. John Chapple. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Since 1833, the Bible Christians have been active in the West Cape area and 
     
     along the shore wherever settlements could be found and especially from 1836 
     
     when the Rev. Francis Metherall began his historic missionary journeys to this 
     
     area. Preaching stations were established in Miminegash and surrounding areas, 
     
     followed by the building of the Mission House parsonage in Lot 7 in 1859. 
     
     Lake’s 1863 Map Shows that the previous parsonage had been located across 
     
    
   
   
    
     from the church on the east side, near the Nauvoo Road. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Bible Christian parsonage was located on three acres of land on the east 
     
     side of the farm of Horatio MacWilliams, between Cape Wolfe and West Cape. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rev. John Watson Butcher, 1859 - 1863, had been instrumental in the 
     
     erection of the parsonage in Lot 7 in 1859. On the west side of the farm of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Horatio MacWilliams, the Bible Christians established a cemetery. In 1984, the 
     
     United Church of Cape Wolfe, formerly the Bible Christian Church, maintains 
     
     the Cape Wolfe United Church Cemetery, formerly Methodist, and the West 
     
     Cape Cemetery, formerly Bible Christian. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The first Sunday School in this church was established in 1858. 
     
    
   
   
    
     DEED FOR CAPE WOLFE CHURCH AUG. 8, 1883 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Between Frederick Peters and Arthur Peters on the one part and James Farrar 
     
     Stewart, William Fish, Samuel Lidstone, John Durdan, Sr., and Edward Lidstone, 
     
     Trustees of the Bible Christian Church for $1.00. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bounded as follows: at a post fixed 12 feet from the corner of Cape Wolfe 
     
     school house, to the south east on the lower side of the Public Road, running north- 
     
     westerly on the line dividing the school grounds from the chapel grounds one 
     
    
   
   
    
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