It was well-known that Rev. MacLeod opposed any use of tobacco, liquor or cards. Whenever he saw these used, he would stop and lecture the people regarding their sinful ways. In one house, Rev. MacLeod saw several boxes of chewing tobac- co. He studied the advertisement on the box that boasted, “Does Not Bite the

Tongue”. Rev. MacLeod added, “But it does bite the pocket”.

These anecdotes were supplied by Robert Shaw of Bloomfield, P.E.I. on July 2, 1981.

REV. JOHN VALENTINE 1895 - 1896

Rev. John Valentine was a native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, having been born at Barthol Chapel on May 28th, 1847. He was converted in Edinburgh during the famous Moody and Sankey revival of 1873, and when Dr. Livingstone’s body was brought home from Africa in 1874, he decided to give his life to mission work, and became for a number of years a colporteur for the Religious Book and Tract Society in the cities of the Old Land. Led by the coming of Rev. Wm. Dawson to New Brunswick, he accepted an invitation to work in some of the mission fields of the Saint John Presbytery. He was graduated from Pine Hill College in 1887, was ordained by the Presbytery of Saint John and appointed as missionary to Riverside in that Presbytery. He was next settled in Upper Musquodoboit, then at Clyde and Barrington, West Point, P.E.I., and Grand Falls, N.B. In 1909 he came to the Presbytery of Miramichi where he laboured until his retirement in 1917. He passed away at the Dunn Hospital in Bathurst on July 11th, 1927.

His experience as colporteur in the old country stood him in good stead as a Home Missionary in this new land, and there are hundreds of homes in New Brunswick where his name is mentioned with reverence, and where the news of his passing was received with genuine sorrow.

REV. DONALD MacLEAN 1897 - 1906

REV. WILLIAM A. MacKay 1907 - 1908

Rev. William A. MacKay entered into rest on June 27th, 1944, at Toronto General Hospital. Owing to ill health he retired from the active work in June, 1935. His health having improved, he supplied the Lakeview Charge for nearly five years. For two weeks prior to his death he was again prostrated but failed to respond to

treatment and answered the call to the heavenly sphere one day after his sixty-ninth birthday.

Rev. MacKay was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia on June 26, 1875. Graduating from Pictou Academy, he taught school for two years, after which he attended Dalhousie University, from which he graduated with the degree of Master of Arts. His training in theology was taken at Princeton University where he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1906.

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