College and Moderator of the General Assembly I885. Another who he came under the inﬂuence of was George Munro Grant, future principal of Queen's University, and Moderator ofthe General Assembly I889.

On August I6, I87 I, he was Moderator of Synod and in I873, at age thirty live, Alex was made Clerk of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, the youngest man in Canada to hold such a position. In June I875, Alex joined the moderators and clerks of the four uniting synods in Montreal for the formation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. (The picture ofthe General Assembly, copy in our Sunday School “all, shows Alex seated on the Moderators right).

While some ministers, he noted, would be content to remain in comfortable parishes, it was not his way and he was secretly longing for a change, "to carry the cross to foreign parts." On October 25, I876, he informed the Session of St. James he had applied for an opening with Greyfriars Church in Trinidad, due to the death of its current pastor. Due in part to his education at New College, and his connections with church officials, he was accepted for this foreign mission post. (His resignation at St. James, Dartmouth took place on Christmas day. Records show a steady decline in members at St. James in the ten years following his leaving) Arriving St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, the family was clearly stimulated. The Sunday service at 8:00 am. was followed by a "love feast" where mere labourers placed $400. in the collection plates. By early January the family was on to Trinidad, which boasted 100,000 souls from all corners ofthe earth.

Accommodations were more than adequate, and the climate h but tolerable. But the moral atmosphere of Port of Spain depresse the family, and by 1884, he tendered his resignation. He agreed to stay on until a replacement could be found. Their hope came with the news that their son Robert placed ﬁrst among I,000 candidates for London Matriculation Examination. With a full scholarship in England for Robert, Alex scraped together sufﬁcient funds to enter James in college in England as well. Alex obtained temporary posting to churches in England and the family set sail on May 23, I885, for the Firth of Forth.

WMkmehMprmedewommmﬂnmmmmwdmme Winter of I885-86 and later preached in London in the Summer of I886. He returned to Canada, leaving on September l4 and was to stop in St. John's, Nfld. to preach at the Presbyterian Church in that city. He is reported (on Nov 4, I886) to have arrived in Halifax "by the last English steamer".

On November 24, I886, the congregation of Prince Street church, Pictou united in a unanimous call to Alex Falconer. Their son Robert took up a teaching post. In I892, Rev. A. Falconer M.A., 8.0., on the recommendation of the Dalhousie College Board, was appointed chair of New Testament exegetics (interpretation of the Bible) at Pine Hill. I-le wwauwnmmeMmmmSwwhﬂw&IwwwwwhEMyw

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