Is your place a small place? 
     
    

    
     Tend it with care; God set you there. 
     
     Is your place a large place? 
     
    

    
     Guard it with care; God set you there. 
     
     Whate’er your place, it is not 
     
    

    
     yours alone but God’s - 
     
    

    
     Who set you there. 
     
    
   
   
    
     John Oxenham 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sowing the Seed at Green's Shore 
     
     1853-1859 
     
    
   
   
    
     resbyterianism has strong, deep roots in the 
     
    

    
     Summerside area. Prior to the founding of 
     
    

    
     Summerside, formerly called Green’s Shore, 
     
     devout church members met at nearby St. Eleanor’s in 
     
     Anthony Craswell’s home. Rev. Robert Simms Patterson, 
     
     who settled at Bedeque Presbyterian Charge in 1826, 
     
     tried to elicit the support of Hon. James Muirhead, a 
     
     local politician and businessman, to establish a 
     
     Presbyterian church at St. Eleanor’s in the 18505. Hon. 
     
     Mr. Muirhead, a true visionary, realized that the fledgling 
     
     new seaside community at Green’s Shore to the east 
     
     was a more promising location and declined Rev. Mr. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Patterson’s request. 
     
     Early Presbyterian worship had begun at Green’s 
     
    
   
   
    
     Shore during 1853-1854, with Rev. John M. MacLeod, 
     
     of Richmond Bay Charge and Rev. Robert S. Patterson 
     
     conducting services on alternate Sabbaths. At this time 
     
     there were only twelve families at Green’s Shore with 
     
     no formal church or school in the settlement. Early 
     
    
   
   
    
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