for her. Pastor Miner personally arranged for her care and had the church take over her property and use the assets from it for that purpose. It is a practice common in senior's health care today, and in 1902 it caused some eyebrows to be raised - but it worked. The case was unique, and the example did not become a practice of the church, but other community social agencies picked up on the Baptist example and assisted many incapacitated, lonely and elderly folks in their latter years. Rev. Johnson Miner and his wife left Charlottetown in February of 1903. The Miner's case was unique, but there were some questions at the time among the trustees and officers as to why the church could not keep their pastors for a longer period of time. Was it the church, or were Baptist pastors more unsettled and transient than most? Over the years, Baptist pastors had stayed an average of only three years, and that included the 15 year tenure of Pastor John Davis . Rev. Edward Whitman stayed seven years, a few remained for five years, but the rest stayed for only one or two years. There was no question that Baptists operated more independently than most other denominations, and decisions to move were related to opportunity and God's calling. Pastors decided when they wanted to accept a new calling, and that system in itself might well have been the reason. Church officials felt satisfied that they had done everything possible to make their ministers happy and content. With this consideration behind them, they issued a call to Rev. George R . White, who was currently at Hantsport, Nova Scotia . Pastor White was a noted author and a governor of Acadia University. He accepted the call to Charlottetown and arrived on June 14,1903. One of his first efforts, with Deacon J.K. Ross , was to organize the assembly of new hymn books for the church, which they prepared and had bound by a local printer. The annual meeting in January of 1904 had a special significance, in that a number of milestones in the life of the church are noted by Clerk Edward Sterns . After Daniel Jenkins was extended "the right hand of fellowship" as a new member from Hazelbrook Baptist Church, the trustees announced, for the first time, that a board of six church stewards had been appointed. The initial group were R.Vanlderstine , John Gordon , Alfred Sterns , Edward Sterns , G.B. Norton and G.L. Simmons . The stewards' function would be the physical operation of the building, and to provide second thoughts to decisions of the trustees, although they did not have the power to overturn their decisions. Many of the stewards were trustees themselves, and Alfred Sterns was a deacon. For 1905, the Sunday School Superintendent would be John Gordon , Ross Bethune would lead the BYPU, Miss Wadman chaired the Women 's Missionary Aid Society and Mrs. George White , the pastor's wife, would direct the Mission Band. A new ladies' group, the "Thimble Club", was formed and although detailed information is limited, it appears to be a church sewing club that raised money for special projects. Alfred Sterns had been a deacon since 1881 and personally experienced the testing times, when within a decade two large churches had been built by Baptists on the corner of Prince and Fitzroy Streets. He resolved that this church should never forget those trying times and for the annual meeting he prepared a Short History of the Baptist Church of Charlottetown. Sterns had been a member for over half of its history and his thumbnail story was welcomed by members as an appreciation of the trials and tribulations of their Baptist forebears. Deacon Sterns would have listened to the history of Baptists outlined °y Rev. D.G. McDonald in his stirring remarks at the opening of the octagonal 65