The new pastor at Zion was described as a happy combination of young life, scholarly tastes, personal gifts, and a very engaging personality; his classic diction, his originality of treatment of text themes, his drawing power of interesting his hearers, not only won the hearts and affections of his own people, but eventually won the attention of other congregations in other parts of Canada, as Zion was soon to discover.

Rev. Samuel Lyle, of Central Church, Hamilton, Ontario 'spirited' the young minister away. To quote S. C. Nash in his history of Zion: "In due time the Reverend S. Lyle, D.D., of Central Church, Hamilton, Ontario, made his appearance in our city. He preached in St. James‘ Church, and attended the evening service in Zion, and informed some of its members, informally, that he proposed to translate (move) the pastor. With all formal credentials he stood before the Presbytery, and, by the right of the stronger to impoverish the weaker, demanded that the young and newly settled pastor of Zion Church should be translated to Central Church, Hamilton; and thus, by the old riever's law of the Scottish borders in the days of his forefathers, Dr Lyle, who apparently recognized the law 'that they should take who had the power and they may keep who can', received his demand, and carried to pastures newer, greener and more nourishing, one of the coming lights of the Maritime Provinces, to an inland, cabined, cribbed and confined city." He left Zion September 30, I906.

William Sedgewick married Jessie McKenzie of River John, Nova Scotia, in I906, just before leaving for Hamilton. They had four children, Margaret(Mrs. Lazarus), Eleanor(Mrs. Stewart), McKenzie(named afler his mothers maiden name) and Mary(Mrs. Walter Joyce).

He was originally to be Dr. Samuel Lyle's replacement (Dr. Lyle was elected Moderator of the General Assembly in I909), but this did not take place until I9I0. Rev. Sedgewick received his doctorate from Knox College in I918. _

Dr. Sedgewick was a strong supporter of church union and made hlS views well known, preaching from many pul its and platforms across the country. He made it known In his own churc , that regardless of the vote, he would tender his resignation after the voting. His church, although apparently in unanimous favor of joining the union before the vote, voted 398 against and 38I for. His resignation was tabled, delayed and later accepted. .

In I925, he went to St. James Methodist Church in Montreal and In I926 to Metropolitan United Church in Toronto. This church sadly was destroyed by fire and rebuilt during his eight years there. After a_three years as lecturer at Victoria College, he became minister at Westminster Central United Church in Toronto in I937, remaining there until his retirement due to ill health in I944. He died on February I0, I945. HIS obituary referred to him as a man with a keen sense of humour, well- Iiked, personable and with "courteous and gracious manners". Although a United Church Minister at the time of his death, his funeral was conducted by Rev. J. B. Paulin of Rosedale Presbyterian Church.

Interim Moderator - Rev. Thomas F. Fullerton of St. James

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