(Back) Instructions: Put on the other side of the card the amount you want to contribute each week during the next 6__12__months, sending $____________to all objects aided by this church, viz: Pastor's salary and current expenses___, Building Fund___, Home and Foreign Missions___, Acadia College___and Interim Ministries___. Please encourage EVERY MEMBER to give SOMETHING EACH WEEK. Put this card on the tray the 1st Lord's Day after you receive it, and place the amount promised in an envelope with your name attached. Place it on the tray weekly or monthly. This pledge effort would lead to the beginning of envelope giving at the Charlottetown Baptist Church, and the use of envelope contributions would continue on into the next century. The new pledge cards would be one of major financing efforts, and would raise close to 20% of the cost of the new church. Along with chairing the new Pledge Committee, Johnathan Metcalf became Church Clerk when James DesBrisay resigned to become Church Treasurer. D.G. McDonald well realized that the success or failure of this church expansion program would reflect on him forever, so he made a major personal decision and brought it before a general church meeting on May 1, 1879. He advised the meeting that he would be giving visiting pastors personal tours of the new church under construction, no doubt hoping that a contribution could be encouraged from their churches. He also advised that he was taking a one year leave of absence, effective immediately, to personally raise funds. Keeping his plan alive, he told the congregation that Rev. J. Herbert Foshay of the Montague Baptist Church had recently retired and would be available, if desired, to fill in for him. After due consideration, the meeting made a motion that was unanimously approved: ...That Pastor McDonald be allowed to conduct tours, that he pay himself and his travel expenses out of what he collects, and that we engage Rev. Mr. Foshay for a period of one year. It is also noted that Pastor Herbert Foshay would not receive less than $600, and anything he receives over that will be in proportion as the Lord prospers the church. At this meeting there was also an interesting clerk's note that read, " Sister Mary Seaman , a longtime member of this church since she was a little girl, died this week after a five minute illness." This possible heart attack may have been undiagnosed, in 1879. One of Pastor McDonald's unique personal efforts to raise money was a small card he had printed and sold throughout the city and wherever he traveled, for 10 cents each. The card had a concept drawing of the new church on it and said; "The Owner of This Card has Contributed 10 cents Toward this Building, and is hereby offered a cordial welcome and a FREE SEAT. D.G. McDonald , Pastor, 1878 - card courtesy Donna MacArthur • 0*»«m o» turn Card uxu Commuvkii TEN CENTS MACDOKJVLD, Pasloiv 18 78... 41