delivered and installed. It is indicated that perhaps the builder was skeptical of payment, but a unique plan guaranteed the cost. Under a new church program, pews could be rented quarterly. We have no idea of the configuration in the sanctuary but following are the costs and their description of the placement. ”... Center pews will cost £15 for the whole length. Single side pews are £25/6 and corner pews £35 per square.” There is no indication of what length, corners and squares refer to, but accurate controls were kept on who was sitting where, and it was unheard of to sit in someone else’s pew without their written permission.

Following up on a note from 1845, regarding Brother Broadwell and sister Lallard, we took special note of a book entry in February of 1847, ”...We are pleased to report that Brother Thomas Broadwell and Sister Jane Lallard had reconciled and with sister Broadwell were welcomed back into fellowship.” There is no further information on this relationship, and details are only speculative.

A few days following this note, on March 1, 1847, an example DrawingbyHenryPurdy of the tension between different denominations on Prince Edward Island manifested itself at a Provincial Election polling station in Belfast, a few miles east of Charlottetown. The area population consisted of recently settled Irish Catholics and Scottish Presbyterians. Poll tensions prevailed between the two factions, a riot broke out, fighting erupted, and before it was over it became one of the darkest days in Prince Edward Island history. It is locally known as the ’Belfast Riot’ and it raged the whole afternoon. At the time, there was snow on the ground and an eyewitness wrote, ”...The field was as if a number of butchers had been extensively at work”. A number were officially confirmed dead, but the total lives lost are not known, as many bodies were taken away and not counted. There were no Baptists involved but the shameful event did seem to be a turning point. There was noted improvement from that day forward, in the relationships between all denominations on Prince Edward Island.

The Charlottetown Baptist Church was having a bit of a problem with some young couples who were marrying with different biblical interpretations, so the church decided to produce its own guidelines. On April 30, 1847, a special committee of some brothers and trustees presented the following ”Rules of

Marriage”:

( 1) It is decidedly wrong, as a general rule, for Believers to marry Unbelievers.

(2) That any member who should marry an infidel, or one who is openly hostile to vital purity, or undecidedly irreligious, profane or worldly, will be subject to discipline and unless brought to repentance and acknowledgment shall be excluded from church worship.

(3) That, while the church would earnestly recommend and urge upon all of its members the propriety and necessity of separating themselves as

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