congregation, their new minister possessed all these qualities in a marked degree. The building of their fine new church had left them burdened with a heavy debt, and what was even worse, division and disorganization which were most discouraging. But nothing daunted, Mr. Carruthers entered upon his diffith task, determined by God’s grace, to succeed, and succeed he did beyond the most sanguine ex- pectations of his friends. On May 2nd, 1892, he accepted a call from St. James’ Church, New Glasgow, and was duly translated to the Presbytery of Pictou from which he had come to the Island.

The Reverend Thomas Fraser Fullerton, M.A., was inducted as pastor on January 19th, 1893, and soon won for himself a unique place in the life of this congregation, this community, and province. En- listing as a chaplain, he gave-distinguished service with the Canadian troops in the South African War and, on return from overseas service, entered upon a rich and rewarding ministry to the people of the Kirk and the people of Charlottetown. His has been the longest pastorate, extending as it did for twenty-eight years. His memory is still cherished by the senior members of the Congregation; his ministry is commemo- rated in the beautiful memorial erected by his family who are still members of the Congregation.

Following the death of Dr. Fullerton in 1921, the Reverend William Orr Mulligan of Bedford, Nova Scotia, became Minister of the Kirk and served through the troublous years of the Church Union conflict until 1925. Accepting a call to Sydney Mines, later to Westmount, Quebec, and then to Aurora, Ontario, Dr. Mulligan won quite a place for himself in the field of Church Law. Retiring to live in Halifax, he passed away in February 1962. The Reverend W. Bruce Muir suc- ceeded Dr. Mulligan as Minister in 1925 and served until his death in 1930. The Kirk Session records that Mr. Muir “gave strenuous and faithful service to St. James and also to the Church at large; was an ardent champion of the rights and liberties of the Church of his fathers; expounded and preached the Work of God with zeal and power, and devoted his many gifts to the extension of Christ’s kingdom and to the welfare of the community.”

Reverend Robert Moorhead Legate assumed the pastorate in 1930 after a distinguished career in the Presbyterian Church in Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, in Suva in the Fiji Islands, in Saint John, New Brunswick, and in Burlington, Ontario. Dr. Legate had a fruitful ser- vice of eleven years in the Kirk. Known to many still in the Kirk were his gentle spirit, his loving heart, his understanding gifts and graces, and the depth and fidelity of his consecration to the offices of preacher, pastor, priest and presbyter. A native of Ballyclare, Ireland, he served the Church all his life far from his homeland. He died at “Penmarvian”, Paris, Ontario, December 27th, 1945.

On September 25th, 1941, the Reverend Thomas Henry Bussell Somers, M.A., S.T.M., D.D., was inducted as minister of the Kirk,

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