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F^vhe first steps toward the building of what is now
known as Zion Church (Presbyterian), originally
called Queen Square Church, were taken by a
company of devoted men and women, under the leadership
nominally of men ; but really, as we are told, the moving
power was Mrs. Douglas, the widow of the late Rev. Robert
Douglas, formerly pastor of St. Peter's Bay congregation.
This lady, with her family, moved into Charlottetown after
the death of her husband ; and by her indomitable push and
energy, her solicitations amongst her co-religionists, her
agitation amongst the clergy of the Presbyterian Churches
of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, finally succeeded
in creating a desire for a church, which grew to fruition
1 ' after not many days." Sometime in the fifties, probably
about 1857, the land was selected, and purchased from the
Masonic Hall Company (formerly part of the Fanning estate) ;
contracts and agreements were entered into, financial re-
sponsibilities assumed, and a beginning made to* 'arise and
build." A number of godly men and women formed a nucleus
of a Presbyterian congregation ; they first assembled in Adam
r istory of Zion Church
Murray's Hall, and undertook to cover the expenses of the
site and foundation. One of the master builders of that day
(Heartz Brothers) was their contractor. The superstructure
was in the charge, and mostly at the cost, of the Presbytery
of Pictou and the body financially known as the "Hunter
Fund," of Halifax. The contractors were the brothers David
and William Fraser, of Pictou, Nova Scotia, and Mr. Murray.
The frame of the wooden building- was hewn out of the Nova
Scotia forests ; there it was put in frame, then taken apart,
carefully marked and numbered, shipped over to Charlotte-
town, and raised up on the prepared foundation. The building
was finished and ready for the pews about the year i860 or
thereabouts. Benches were used for seating accommodation
until the congregation was in a position to pay for the placing
of the pews (which remain the same) as well as other inside
finishings. In addition to the numerically weak state of the
worshippers, the already established churches Free and Kirk
gathering in city and country, Presbyterians, lessened the
new Church's chances. But the seed sown in Zion continued
to grow, and now the increase is there many hundred-fold.
Zion Church flourished from the very beginning, through
fire, death and desertion, until it stands to-day a power for
good and against evil. In these early years the pulpit was
occupied for the first service by Rev. Robert Laird, afterwards
by Rev. Mr. McGillivray, for about six months ; both of these
clergymen are living at this writing. Various other ministers
succeeded, until a call was extended to, and accepted by, Rev.
Alexander Falconer, then a young man, who became the first
regular pastor in 1862. Mr. Falconer is now a Doctor of
Divinity, and is still living and settled in Pictou, Nova Scotia,
after forty-six years of active service at home and abroad.
He conducted the spiritual affairs of the congregation until
its union with the Free Church in 1870, when he sent in his
demission ; the union seeming to be the result rather than
the cause thereof.
Rev. Alexander Falconer
History of Zion Church
During his pastorate, Mr. Falconer married a daughter
of the late Rev. Robert Douglas. Two sons originally in
the ministry, of whom one is now at the head of Toronto
University, and the other Professor of New Testament
Greek in Pine Hill Theological College, Halifax, N. S.,
attest the strain of the Douglas blood in the Presbyterian
faith and knowledge. Rev. A. Falconer, D.D., retired from
the active ministry on March, 1908.
A vacancy occurring caused a long supply to ensue, prin-
cipally filled by Rev. Mr. Stirling and Rev. T. Cumming ; finally
a call, hearty, cordial and unanimous was extended to the
Rev. John M. McLeod, then of New Glasgow, N. S. This
call was accepted in 1871, and after the usual presbyterial
steps had been taken, Mr. McLeod became pastor of Zion
Church ; and for the space of twenty years at least, he
preached grand and faithful messages. He was of an ex-
ceedingly genial and gracious disposition, of a fine presence
and commanding figure, of a handsome, manly countenance,
of a character beyond all cavil, and greatly beloved the whole
Island over ; wherever he preached, young couples, and old
ones also, came to him from far and near, or sent for him if
necessary, scores, in some instances hundreds, of miles that
he might unite them in the holy bonds of matrimony.
He was a fine classical scholar, and always took a promi-
nent part in the examination of young candidates for the
ministry ; his clerical bon homie and camaraderie made
him a universal favorite with all creeds and churches. His
excellent preaching made the congregation enlarge the
Church's accommodation and widen her walls, to receive the
crowd thronging to her doors. Two very celebrated revivals,
one in 1874, and another some years later, occurred under his
ministry, when nearly three hundred men and women pro-
fessed conversion, and their names were added to the com-
munion roll. The Church building was raised about eight
feet, and two wings were added ; the completion of the out-
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side, with most of the inside finishing ; the new basement
and rooms in connection therewith; the church desk, platform
and organ, are all among the material results of Mr.McLeod's
effectual labors. In almost the earliest year of his pastorate
a fire occurred on a Sabbath day between services, in the south
end of the Church, and much damage was done. The greatest
loss, up to this time, had been the Minister's silk gown,
which was stolen in Mr. Falconer's time, and had never been
replaced, forcing all preachers to preach "in their clothes,"
until the arrival of the present incumbent, Rev. George E.
Ross, B.D. Very many changes took place in the personnel
of the Church officials during the years of Mr. McLeod's long
pastorate, and finally, somewhere in the nineties, the spirit of
change came to himself; he demitted his charge, received and
accepted a call to another Zion Church, in Vancouver, B.C.,
where, indeed, many of his old congregation had preceded
him, and many more in the after years went out and gathered
around him.
Zion Church was now without a pastor for some months,
the congregation receiving supply regularly and of grand
quality, through the efforts of her session, until midwinter
almost, 1890-1891, when a most unanimous call was extended
to the Rev. David Sutherland, of Grove Church, Richmond,
Nova Scotia, which he accepted, and in due time arrived in
our city and was duly inducted and installed in the pastorate
of Zion congregation. Our new pastor was Scottish born
and educated, his closing studies having been conducted at
Pine Hill College, Halifax, N. S. His first charge was
Grove Church, of that city, where he was greatly beloved, and
during his incumbency there, he married Miss Minnie Weather-
bie of that place. Shortly after his marriage the call to Zion
came to him, and amidst the deepest regret of his people,
who "yet would not say him nay," and with their heartiest
good wishes and " God speeds," he came to his new people
at Cbarlottetown.
History of Zion Church 7
Assuming a new pastorate under such favorable circum-
stances, prospects and auspices, as a new wife, a new con-
gregation, a new community, new surroundings and larger
environment, blessed with health and the vigor of an athlete,
suited with figure and face attractions, with the heart charged
with hunger love for the souls of men and women, and
a mind student trained, with a brain stored with messages
of love, peace and goodwill to men, the vista of the coming
years opened up before Zion Church and Pastor, with the
richest promise of golden seed and the garnering of precious
fruit.
For scarcely a decade, but eight years and a half (Ah,
God! how short they seem now in retrospect!), the congregation
flourished almost beyond its former days. Mr. Sutherland's
preaching seemed like an inspired eloquence, an impassioned
earnestness, charged with a stern directness ; then with pe-
culiarly winning pleadings, always sound and true, manly and
pure, holding his hearers, old and young in closest attention ;
he charmed them with heart sympathy, he and they being
en rapport, and made people come again Iwho were not
of his own congregation, whenever they found themselves
within his reach. 1 1 is remarkably true that his grand doctrinal
sermons in their setting forth, language and divisions, though
profound and stately, with " strong meat for strong men,"
were also and always concise and lucid, and within the com-
prehensions of the scores of students, young men and young
women, " babes in grace, " who filled the galleryand crowded
among the pews below. But it was in the Gospel sermons
on tender themes that this 'Moving servant of God beloved "
shone so strongly, reaping a beautiful harvest. It was on
such topics as grace, love, humility, the Saviour's life, death
and the resurrection that the pastor drew large drafts on that
hidden wealth, stored up in mind and brain, and poured it
out on his hearers from a tender heart and sympathetic soul.
At such times, his thoughts, beautiful with feeling, surged
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with musical sounds through the hearts of his people, and
gave his hearers such glimpses of Heaven, the home of the
redeemed, to which, even then he \vas hastening and we
knew it not. His memory will be always cherished for the
great tenderness he manifested for the salvation of souls.
Nowhere did his preaching attract larger crowds than in his
prayer meetings ; here it seemed as if he got closer to his
people spiritually as he did physically, as though this nearness
developed a closer fellowship with God and his hearers, of
which the people received the heavenly benefit. The beauty
of thought, of illustration; the application of incident, event
and story, brought out of memory's treasure house ; the
winning persuasions of loving appeals, shining and permeat-
ing through his addresses on these occasions, filled his hearers
with a wondering awe. Nothing so attested his prayer-meet-
ing power as the large and silent audiences that drank in his
life-giving utterances. It was a solemn thing to do, to lead
in prayer at the close of one of his Wednesday night sermons.
In disposition, Mr. Sutherland was friendly, not familiar,
cordial rather than genial, reticent but not reserved, brimming
over with human, helpful sympathy for human suffering, and
generous beyond ordinary ken. In his financial benevolences,
not letting his right hand witness against his left, and there-
fore in some notable instances being victimized as all philan-
thropists too frequently are; i( ready, aye ready " in every
good word and work, everywhere and anywhere. Self-denial
and self-sacrifice were ever his passionate justifications, for
risk of life, so often rare, at beds of sickness, fever and death,
and we sometimes grieve over the thought that in the mys-
terious providence of God, some such visit led to his own
fatal sickness and death. All the sadness of the early days
of his sickness, the creeping nearer day by day of the melan-
choly truth, are too fresh in our memories, and we calmly say
"he is not here, for God took him." Mr. Sutherland preached
his last sermon on the morning of June 12th, 1898, and his
Rev. J. M. McLeod
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final at St. James' in the evening. Since that fateful day
Zion congregation has had a variety of services from all
quarters, including some of the most gifted young men of
the Church of Canada's coming Presbyterian fathers. On
the evening of the 31st October, at a meeting of the congre-
gation, fully attended and most harmoniously conducted under
Moderator Rev.T. F. Fullerton, of St. James' Church, a cor-
dial and unanimous call was extended to Rev. A. L. Geggie,
of Truro, N. S. Mr. Geggie was a fellow countryman and
fellow student of the late Mr. Sutherland, and their souls
were knit in affection, even as those of Jonathan and David.
It seemed grandly fitting and spiritually proper, that he
should fill the vacant pulpit, and open the closed book. But
on the 20th November the congregation were notified by a
note from the moderator, read by Rev. Mr. Whiteside from
the pulpit, that Mr. Geggie had declined the call, so that
Zion Church was still without a pastor.
During the long vacancy that now ensued, such minis-
ters of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, as Mcintosh,
Laird, Johnson, Sutherland, Coffin, Smith, McGillivray,
McKenzie, Simpson, Stuart, and Whiteside have ministered
to the spiritual necessities of Zion Church congregation,
with varying power and results, yet reaping a grateful guer-
don of thanks and goodwill from this appreciative people.
We do not by any means undervalue or overlook the services
of those men of riper years and experience, who have blessed
their hearers during their waiting time, men in years and
service like Moderator Rev. T. F. Fullerton, D. McNeil, G.
Campbell, Brewer, Clark, Pollock and others, settled and
established themselves, who out of the abundance of their
varied and richest stores, have rejoiced the congregation's
hearts, since our "beloved pastor sleeps."
The foregoing sketch would scarcely be complete with-
out giving the names of some of the earliest and latest offi-
cials of this Zion of our fair city by the sea.
io History of Zion Church
The first session consisted of the late William Mutch of
Hopeton, Hon. David Laird, now of Winnipeg-, John Loch-
erby, Charlottetown's centenarian, now dead, William H.
Hyde, and Pastor Rev. A. Falconer, now of Pictou, N. S.
The first union session of Zion Church comprised William
Mutch, John Locherby, George Walker, George and Kenneth
Henderson all passed away Hon. David Laird, under Rev.
John M. McLeod, Pastor. The session at the close of Mr.
Sutherland's ministry comprised D. Laird, the late William
Mutch, Samuel C. Nash, now retired, Lemuel Miller, Henry
S. Coffin, John T. McKenzie, and Wm. T. Huggan. The
board of trustees was composed of David Schurman, chair-
man, now residing in St. John, N. B; J. E. Matthews, sec-
retary; John Scott, treasurer, now "neath the clods of the
valley;" Wallace Leitch, S. C. Moore, John McLeod, David
Mclnnis, and Murdoch Ross, now resident at Sydney, C. B.
The choir under the leadership of Miss Annie Fraser (now
Mrs. Esdale, of Halifax), daughter of Simon, deceased, ably
assisted by some of the best musical talent in the church,
formed one of the grand aids and attractions in Zion Church
services. We assert advisedly, that the choral services of
this congregation have always been, and are now, one of its
grandest features, and they are full of hallowed associations
and memories, connected with the gay wedding march, the
beauty of baptism, and the sad and gloomy funeral dirge.
The Christian Endeavour Society, the W. F. M. Society,
the Ladies' Aid and Mite Society, all attest the zeal and love
of union and friendship among the young people, as well as
the spirit of hearty and active Christian co-operation, among
the ladies of the church, in the Master's work. On the mem-
bers' roll are recorded such names as Hon. D. Farquharson,
Hon. Angus McMillan, Hon. A. B. McKenzie, all passed
away. D. J. McLeod, late Superintendent of Public Schools,
now in the United States, Rev. Donald McNeill (deceased),
Richard Smith, and Wm. C. White, representatives and
Histojy of Zion Church 1 1
officials of the local government, in Rev. David Suther-
land's time. Dr. R. B. Shaw, now dead, and R. McNeill,
Samuel C. Nash, William T. Huggan, John M. Campbell,
Henry S. Coffin, W. A. Poole, A. J. Houle, of the civil ser-
vice and railway employ, all of whom are still living and
connected with the congregation, during and since the pas-
torate of Mr. Sutherland.
Among the names on the communion roll, Scottish names
largely predominate, with a sprinkling of other nationalities,
just to show that all we are brethren, making a long list of
three hundred men and women, to whom and to whose
keeping have descended the honored traditions of Zion
Church. These names represent all the multifarious inter-
ests of a professional and mercantile community, and with
the members of the other religious bodies, form "the salt of
the earth" sound and sweet, pure and preservative, in our
city.
From the death of the Rev. David Sutherland, the con-
gregation waited patiently for a man, who should be a man
of God, like unto those who had preceded him ; who should
be a leader of men among men, who would lead the people
in righteousness and faith, as in the past years. The vacant
pulpit and empty chair, the closed book with the saddened
hearts of the congregation, all called for some servant of God,
to come and fill up the hollows, and till the fallow ground,
until the Great Master, in His own good time and way, an-
swered our prayers and appeals, by sending us a successor,
in the person of the Rev. D. B. McLeod.
One important change, among others, was the adoption
by the session, at the instance of R. M. Barratt, then an el-
der, but long since "gone up higher," of unfermented wine,
as one of the elements in church communion service, a mo-
nument to a man, whose consistent total abstinent principles
were well known throughout Canada, and more especially in
the Maritime Provinces.
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The late Rev. David Sutherland died on the 8th of July,
1898, after a few weeks of agony and pain, despite all that
skill and care and nursing could do to save that precious
young life, in the very prime of useful service and work, for
God and humanity; a reference to the newspapers of Canada
of that sad event, will show how the dead man's work and
labor were appreciated, and how his name and personality
were regarded. Eulogistic comments from friends of every
denomination and society wherever his fame had reached,
came spontaneously from the hearts and minds and pens of
men and women, who recorded in loving mournful senti-
ments, their thoughts of him who was away. At 1 o'clock on
Friday morning, in the presence of his family, his co-workers
in the Lord, Rev. T. F. Fullerton of St. James' Church and
other professional friends, the "tired body" yielded up the
ghost to God who gave it. At 10 a. m. the members of the
Church Session and of the Board of Trustees, met in the
ladies' parlor of Zion Church, and all arrangements for em-
balming the body, and for interment in the People's Ceme-
tery on the succeeding Sabbath at 3 p. m. were made. A
more beautiful summer Sabbath never dawned in Charlotte-
town, as we followed our beloved pastor's remains from his
home to his church that lovely afternoon.
The Elders bore all that was mortal from the hearse to
the stair-rails in front of the vacant pulpit. On the platform,
mingled with the choir, were gathered ministers of every city
church, under the Rev. T. F. Fullerton, interim moderator;
not a pew nor a place in the church was unoccupied.
Mourning men and women filled every available position, as
the body was borne up the western aisle ; heavy black dra-
peries, banks of funeral flowers, festooned crape, covering
platform, walls and gallery, testified to the loss felt by every
member and adherent of the congregation, whom he had so
faithfully loved and served, and whose love and loyalty to
him had been so faithful and helpful. The Moderator acted
Rev. David Sutherland
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as master of ceremonies, assisted by the Rev. G. M. Camp-
bell, Rev. Mr. Hamlyn, and others of the city clergy, in a
service so solemn in its sentiment, so mournful in its music,
and so affecting- in its emotional effects upon the vast assem-
blage of humanity present, that, even at this distance of
years, no man nor woman privileged to be there has for-
gotten those feelings which filled all eyes with tears, and
overwhelmed all hearts with sorrow. In the peroration of
Rev. G. M. Campbell's address, leaning forward over the
reading desk, and looking down with streaming eyes into the
face he loved so well, he cried "Good bye, dear friend and
brother; good bye, friend of God and humanity." Not an eye
was dry, not a heart was cold. The great congregation then
rose up and filed round with the sun, each one taking a last
look, that gaze on the dead which ever afterwards lives in
memory, and so passed out of the church to form one of the
largest corteges, that ever marched through our city streets.
A mighty procession, four deep in rank, composed of
mourners, elders, Sabbath school and church members, and
adherents, friends and citizens, representing every class and
creed, fell in behind the hearse, and proceeded to the People's
Cemetery, through an avenue of thousands of women and
children who lined the streets, from city and province, from
the church to the grave ; there amidst the tears and prayers
and benedictions, the funeral burial service was spoken over
the remains of him who was once the Rev. David Sutherland,
the grave was filled up, and we laid him to rest awaiting
the last roll-call.
Subsequently, a beautiful monument, a token of affec-
tionate remembrance, was erected at the head of his early
grave, and the hands of loving friends have kept his memory
green with offerings of flowers, year after year, to show their
fealty and love to him who sleeps there. The passing
months, under the touch of the great healer time, softened
and hallowed our memories of the past, the work went on,
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Sabbath after Sabbath, until April 9th, 1899, when, after the
usual formalities of induction, the Rev. D. B. McLeod, late
of Orwell, Prince Edward Island, was declared pastor of
Zion Church congregation, midst the good wishes and
hearty welcomes of the people.
Eighty services had been held during the preceding
months, "twixt life and death"; many candidates for the
pastorate had won the esteem and affection of the people ;
but still their hearts had not recovered from the disappoint-
ment caused by a rejected call, that had been very cordially
extended to one who was a countryman, companion and
friend of him who now "slept after service."
Our new pastor entered upon his duties, with a diffi-
dence, a humility and desire to do right, that endeared him
to the manly and womanly element of the congregation, per-
haps more especially to that Gaelic strain which so strongly
flows through the veins, and steadies the spiritual pulse of
Zion's people.
Mr. McLeod conducted the services, attended to the
visitations, and fulfilled the duties of his pastorate faithfully
and earnestly, until November 8th, 1903, when increasing
ill-health, under the burden of work and responsibility laid
upon him, compelled his demission. Subsequently, when
somewhat restored to his wonted health, he received a call
to Somerville, Mass., where he now resides, and is so
strongly attached to the hearts of the people and Presbytery,
that they have declined to entertain a call sent him from his
former home at Orwell.*
Among other changes during the ministry of Mr. McLeod,
and perhaps the greatest and most notable, was the change
in the service of the communion, from general to individual
cups, which is now the order of the day in Zion Church. A
* The Rev. D. B. McLeod has since received his demission from the
Presbytery of Somerville, and is now pastor of his former charge at
Orwell, Prince Edward Island.
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very strong feeling and opposition were evoked, prejudicial
to pastor and session, among some twenty families and
individuals, by that event; but, happily, time, which tries all
things, has blotted out those dissensions with one minister-
ial exception, so that all the affected ones have returned to
the bosom of their beloved Zion, their hearts have been pu-
rified from bitterness, and their faith increased in the solemn -
essentialities, whilst their liberality in things non-essential
to Presbyterianism, has been more firmly established.
At the close of Mr. McLeod's pastorate the session con-
sisted of Pastor; William Mutch; Lemuel Miller; Henry S.
Coffin; John T. McKenzie; Donald A. Bruce; David Mcln-
nis; David Schurman ; Murdoch Ross; and William T. Hug-
gan, clerk. The board of trustees consisted of Samuel A.
McDonald, chairman; A. G. Putnam, secretary; Mrs. (Rev.)
D. Sutherland, treasurer; D. A. Bruce; Neil McKenzie;
David Mclnnis; Edward Carson, and Andrew W. Robb
(secretary of the Y.M.C.A.).
The various societies, Benevolent, Missionary, Ladies'
Aid, Young People's Christian Endeavour, and Sabbath
School, all continued to do grand work under their respec-
tive leaders and officers, w T ith grand results for the congre-
gation, the community and humanity. The Choir, under
efficient leadership and teaching, was one of the forceful in-
fluences for good, during the pastorate of the outgoing min-
ister. The annual report for that last year, 1903, is a splen-
did official document, but amongst its very gratifying state-
ments we must not forget that one, the cause of many tears
and sadness, the roll of Zion's dead :
The Hon. Donald Farquharson, an honored statesman
of his native province, whose wise counsel, helping hand,
Christian benevolence and charity, whose constant faithful
attendance at the house of God with his family, were all sti-
mulus and example to all with whom he associated in church
and state.
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Dr. R. B. Shaw, whose early connection with the church,
whose auspicious professional career gave such promise
of success, was yet destined to early bereavement and death
almost in the beginning- of years.
David Chappelle, a "shock of wheat," fully ripe for the
garner.
Peter MacDonald, that kindly, sincere soul, whose
voice of music was so soon lost, whose manhood barely
reached the years of understanding and failed the stature of
man.
Amongst the mothers in Israel we remember and regret
Mrs. W. A. Stewart, Mrs. Sarah Beaton, Mrs. George Har-
per, all good and earnest in their work and service for the
Lord's house. And then amidst the daughters of Zion, the
early fading flowers, blossoming here a while and now
blooming in the Paradise of God, are : Miss Effie MacMillan,
Florrie MacLean ; nine souls, all good and true and gentle,
who have left in many memories that sad yet hopeful refrain,
" 'Tis not all of life to live, nor end of life to die."
If the roll of membership increase, if the annual report
of financial trusteeship, if the records of increased members
and staff of the Sabbath School, are all true criterions of
church success, then these all give first place to Zion Church
congregational work, and clearly demonstrate that the Rev.
D. B. MacLeod's pastorate was a pronounced victory over
the forces of evil in our midst, 134 new communicants were
enrolled ; 1,116 members added to the Sabbath School roll ;
every society in the church fully organized, equipped and in
good operation ; and as the trustees' annual report reads
"the total amount [of money] collected for 1903 exceeds
that of any year in the history of Zion Church."
The congregation entered upon its fourth vacancy No-
vember 15th, 1903. The Sabbaths and their work succeeded
in unvarying sequence until September 4th, 1904, when the
Rev. W. H. Sedgewick, fresh from a post-graduate course
Rev. D. B. McLeod
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in Edinburgh, received and accepted a call to the pastorate,
and after due attention to presbyterial formula, was inducted
and preached his first sermon as pastor, on that date, to the
gratification of all who had the pleasure of hearing him. A
splendid social reception was given by the ladies of the con-
gregation, at which mutual acquaintanceship and social re-
lationships began and continued till his exit. The new pas-
tor came amongst us with the prestige of scholarship, a
gifted ancestry and the very grace of early manhood. He
had an uncle a judge in the Supreme Court of Canada ;
another, the very learned and reverend clerk of synod for
the provinces by the sea. His grandfather, the Rev. Dr.
Sedgevvick, late of Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, was a
mighty power and influence for good, in the days of yore,
whose hearers verily believed him to be an inspiration of
scripture ages, and of the time and type of Elijah and John
the Baptist. Sedgewick of Musquodoboit, MacCulloch of
Truro, and Smith of Stewiacke, were three divines who in
their day and generation laid broad and deep, not only the
foundations of Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia, who built
thereupon a superstructure against which the gates of evil
have not prevailed, but who also started into being those
educational facilities which have placed the province in the
front rank of our fair Dominion, scholastically. Verily,
there were giants in those brave days of old. Our new pas-
tor was a very happy combination of young life, scholarly
tastes, personal gifts, and a very engaging personality ; his
classical diction, his originality of treatment of text themes,
his erudition from old Scripture tomes, his drawing power
of interesting his hearers, not only won the hearts and affec-
tions of his own people, canny men and women as they were
in their hypercritical moments, but unfortunately won the
attention of other congregations in other parts of this Canada
of ours, as Zion Church was soon to discover. In due time
the Reverend S. Lyle, D. D., of Central Church, Hamilton,
History of Zion Church
Ontario, made his appearance in our city. He preached
St. James' Church, and attended the evening- service in Zion
Church, and he informed some of its members, informally,
that he proposed to translate 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
lig-hts of the Maritime Provinces, to an inland, cabined,
cribbed and confined city. Mr. Sedgewick was removed
vi el armis from the congregation*, who were learning- to love
him, to feel a pride in his scholarly attainments, his musical
ability, his force as a lecturer, and in his never-failing social
g-eniality qualities which made him at home with every
family, member and adherent of the church. Mr. Sedge-
wick was unmarried, and a most companionable addition to
the various societies, the Sabbath school and the choir of the
church. Indeed, it would not be too much to affirm, that his
voice was a leading tone in the service of praise at all meet-
ings, as well as at socials and entertainments and in all places
where the people of the church met together. All missed
the young pastor, for his brightness, his camaraderie, and
his ready amiability of manner in keeping in social touch
with all manner and conditions of people in the church and
in the community. Mr. Sedgewick's startlingly original way
of treating his themes, in his logic, illustration, argument
and story, whether in sermon, lecture or address ; the ten-
der, filial appeals in prayer ; the wonderfully graphic setting
of his subject texts, certainly have never been surpassed and
scarcely equalled by any of his predecessors, nor by few of
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the occasional divines who officiated in Zion Church pulpit
during the vacancies or in the regular services. From Sep-
tember 4th, 1904, until September 30th, 1906 (a little over
two years) lasted the pastorate of the Rev. W. H. Sedge-
wick, when a stronger, wealthier church than our beloved
Zion caught him away from us. The session roll remained
the same, with the exception of Elder William Mutch, whose
death removed him from the church militant to the church
triumphant. The board of trustees consisted of S. A. Mac-
Donald, chairman ; B. D. Rogers, secretary ; Mrs. (Rev.) D.
Sutherland, treasurer ; and W. S. Poole, J. E. Matthews,
Neil MacKenzie, E. Carson and J. M. Campbell, members.
The church's financial year had been a profitable one, with a
small surplus. All the various societies had flourished and
were in good shape. This year signalized itself for Zion
Church congregation, by the beginning of a scheme yet to be
carried to completion, for a new church building in a new
situation. The site was selected and an option obtained ;
it is situated on the north-west corner of Prince and Grafton
Streets ; the cost was placed at $4,500. The various com-
mittees, financial, building, furnishing, and others, were ap-
pointed to carry out the scheme to a finality. $2,800 were
raised and paid on the purchase price, $1,500 of which sum
was raised by the Ladies' Aid Society, to whom a generous
amount of credit is given as by far the largest contributor
of that year in our congregation. The annual death roll
consisted of seven men, good and true, amongst whom
William Mutch, Elder, of Hopeton, one of the original
twenty-seven founders, few and faithful, who originated and
carried to completion Zion Church ; whose calm Christian
life and deportment, whose grace of liberality, cannot soon
be forgotten in the traditions of the church ; a man respected
and beloved, not only in his own community and native place,
but in the whole Presbyterian Church of Canada, wherever
he was known : whose life was an influence for manliness,
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and whose example at home, in church or state, was ever
and always for good. William Turner and John Garnhum,
both of whom had served the congregation for over a gener-
ation each, in the responsible position of caretaker, janitor
and doorkeeper in the house of the Lord. Norman Mac-
Innis, and John MacPherson, one of our Island railroad pio-
neers, great of frame, large of heart, an elder whose long
day closed peacefully at eventide among his own. John N.
Robertson, a long-time sufferer, a valued member of the
civil service of Canada ; and William Shaw, an old veteran
farmer, who had come to spend life's evening in our city by
the sea, dying- in a good old age, respected and esteemed by
those who knew him. Amongst the little ones, the hand of
the Father reached down from Heaven to earth and took
John MacMillan and Edwin Stanley Wheatley, that they
might attain to a fuller stature in the mansions above. It is
a very remarkable circumstance to record that in the year
1905, in the first year of Mr. Sedgewick's ministry, the long-
est death-roll in the history of Zion Church congregation is
enshrouded in the annual report : nine men, seven married
women, seven young women, twenty-three all told, testify
to the persevering work of the grim reaper, Death.
Chief among- these, was that old Covenanter of Scotland,
John Lockerby, an elder of sixty years' standing, a school-
mate of Carlyle of Ecclefechan, and a centurion of years,
who died at the great age of 102 years. Mr. William M.
Coffin, one of our most faithful Sabbath school workers,
attendants at the house of God, and generous helper in every
good work of the church. Miss C. Annie Campbell, an ear-
nest soul, a good delegate, a busy reporter, a chair-woman
and Sabbath school teacher, and a "daughter of the manse."
Mrs. James Unsworth, a young wife, a member, and worker,
who loved God's house and people and ordinances. A. Mac-
Phail, Hector C. M. MacMillan, government engineer ;
James Offer ; John Coffin ; Lemuel MacKay, one of the ori-
Rev. W. H. Sedgewick
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ginal founders and we believe, a good church-man and citi-
zen ; others, mothers and wives, were Mrs. James Mac-
Eachern, Mrs. L. MacDonald, Mrs. W. M.Allen, Mrs. John
Coffin, Mrs. George C. Crawford, Miss Mary Curran ; then
in the list of young people "who went higher" were Edna B.
Crawford, Margaret Muriel Taylor, Annie H. Bruce, Lavinia
Boyce, Catherine MacKay, and Ellen Eunice Fowle ; the tire-
less sleeper surely and sadly remembered Zion's people in
that fateful year ; and gathered a harvest of souls for the
garner that is never full.
The death roll of Zion church for the year 1907, was un-
usually large, ranging from near the century mark, ninety-
one years, of Mr. James Patterson, down to a baby in arms
of just two weeks, blossoming to eternity ; wee Marjorie
Ross. New Year's Day summoned James Patterson, ninety-
one years old, before the bar of judgment, after a stay of
four score years and eleven on earth ; his last act was a gift
of $200, untrammeled with conditions, to the Zion he worship-
ped in ; William Wyatt, aged eighty years, a constant member,
attendant, and supporter of the church of God, within Zion's
walls; Mrs. Houle, the beloved wife of A. Houle, Esq., of
the P. E. I. R. ; Mrs. Houle was a tireless worker in all
church organizations, prayer meeting and Sabbath school,
and with her husband and son, never missed a service, save
through some sufficient cause ; she is much missed. Mrs.
Elizabeth Ferguson, a long-time, patient sufferer, laid her
burden down at seventy-four, folded the tired hands, stilled
the weary feet, and reposed on the merits of her Redeemer,
leaving many relatives and friends to mourn their loss.
George Walker, four score years and one, a member of the
civil service of Canada, and elder of many years ; a worker
in all church services, and up to three score years at least, a
busy actor in all the ordinances of the house of God. A long-
service medal attests the gratitude and esteem of the country
he served so well, for over thirty years. W. John Fraser,
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seventy-one, a member of the public works department,
and caretaker of the post office building-, for nearly a score
of years. Mrs. Emory, a mother in Israel, whose last days
were days of affliction, patiently borne, looking calmly for
the end. Edna Hartling, just a little girl of seven years,
whose outlook on life was all given her, during- her sojourn
on earth. John Ross, eig-hty-two, a sturdy son of Nova Scotia,
a man of varied attainments, a journalist of many years on
the Island ; a member of Canada's civil service, a father of
many daughters, beloved of his household, and respected as
a member of the church and community, a leader of Zion's
choir, with his girls as helpers, for many years in the long-
ago. "Anglo-Israel" was a favorite theme of John Ross,
and could he now return what wonders and tales could he re-
late of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Mrs. Jessie (Bruce) Stetson, daughter of one of Zion's
elders, married, lived, and died under a foreign flag at the
-early age of twenty-eight, greatly missed by home and other
friends, and whose sweet voice in her maidenhood, helped to
make melody in Zion Church choir. Marjorie Ross, a wee
one of a fortnight, loaned and taken near as soon as given.
Annie MacMillan, Jean E. W. Smith, Margaret M. MacLean,
and Minnie MacDougall, four young- women, whose united
ag-es scarcely summed up sixty-four years, whose averag-e
reached but sixteen years, called away in the blush and flush
of early womanhood, from the world's work, as well as from
the work of the church. Finally, Christina A. MacKenzie,
a long- life of four score years, well lived and calmly parted
with. The foregoing- list comprises seventeen gone out from
amongst us, crossing the river just ahead of us, and waiting
on that further shore, for those from whom they parted, and
who in God's own good time a'nd way, must follow after.
" These many souls have crossed the flood, and some are
From September 30th, 1906, until December 9th, in the
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same year, occurred the shortest vacancy in the history of
the congregation.
A succession of divines, few of whom could be called
candidates, occupied the pulpit, and superintended the
spiritual interests of the people, for the ten Sabbaths that
elapsed before a call was extended to, and accepted by, Rev.
George E. Ross, B. D., formerly missionary to Demerara,
and late of St. David's Church, Maitland, N.S. Mr. Ross re-
ceived a most hearty and unanimous call, accepted it in the
same cordial spirit, came over in mid-winter with his wife
and family, received a very affectionate congregational recep-
tion and welcome, and, after the usual formalities of induc-
tion, was duly installed, and entered upon his pastorate of
Zion Church congregation, preaching- his first sermon on the
16th of December, 1906. At this writing, it is a very grati-
fying- truth to state, that, with his entry, an infusion of energy,
an increase of liberality, an addition to membership, and
an added impetus to every organization of the church, has
been the good result of his appearance amongst us. All the
money has been contributed willingly and cheerfully to the
appeals of the building committee, enabling them to conclude
the purchase of the new church site, which now belongs to
the congregation, with a balance of funds on the right side
of the ledger, and a sum of rents coming in quarterly. There
is a "humming in the machinery," a filling up of vacant
places, a gathering of forces, a closing up of rank and file,
all pointing to a deep-down determined resolution, that the
time is at hand indeed is very near when Zion Church
congregation "shall lengthen her cords and strengthen her
stakes," arise and build, and give accommodation to her
steadily growing and increasing company of men and women of
the good old Presbyterian faith. Jehovah was the architect,
David and the people were the accumulators, Solomon was
the master builder and Hiram the master worker, so, with all
these forces, under the power of inspiration, the temple grew
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to completion, a house of God, a sanctuary of the people
and a wonder to the religious nation and heathen world.
There is a universally favorable opinion of our present
pastor expressed by all members and adherents ; his piety,
ability, energy and sociality ; his care and watchfulness for
new comers, his go-ahead-ativeness and his stick-at-it-ive-
ness, are all fascinating and not to be resisted. Caesar-like,
he may say, "vent, vidi, vici" Zion Church and its people,
every department and activity of the church have felt the
good influence that emanates from that compendium of force,
power and goodness ; the session has received additions to
its members, has manifested greater zeal and activity. The
Sabbath school excels all previous years in numerical, finan-
cial and spiritual numbering. The Young People's Society
of Christian Endeavor, has established itself more firmly on a
helpful basis ; the Ladies' Aid Society has attained to the
acme of ideal workers, with all liabilities paid and $500 in
the Dominion Savings Bank ; the Choir, under the direction
of Professor Watts, the instrumental guidance of Miss
Waterman, and the social leadership of Mrs. S. C. Moore,
and her staff of capable lady and gentleman assistants, is
now pronounced to be the equal of any in the city, by judges
whose musical knowledge and taste qualify them to give a
decision ; the grand volume of harmony, pealing and rolling
over the people at the Sabbath services, is grandly gratify-
ing and inspiring in its helpfulness to all hearers, who love
the Psalms of David and the Songs of Zion. Quite lately,
the talented leader, Mrs. Moore, was tendered a most hearty
reception, and presented with a most dainty testimonial, by
her co-workers in the choir, as a recognition of her worth
and an expression of the members' appreciation.
The Benevolent Society continues to flourish in its own
peaceful and charitable duty, under the wise and kindly ad-
ministration of Miss B. McLaurin.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society now contains
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thirty-five members, and its last report by secretary (Mrs.
W. T. Huggan), is a very eminently satisfactory document.
The Missionary has also a good report, perhaps not so much
so as we hoped for, but sometimes it is well to leave room
for improvement acting as a spur to future efforts, and when
so many and large calls for financial aid were made upon
Zion's people, the depletion of their coffers must of necessity
cause some service to suffer.
The home department still does its good work amongst
the aged and infirm, whose years and circumstances prevent
their entering into active work, which in former years en-
deared itself to their hearts and minds "they also serve
who only stand and wait." Perhaps in consonance with this
sentiment, it would not be amiss without prejudice to sub-
mit that it is the one exuberance of our new pastor, that his
superabundant capacity for service recognizes "no drones in
the hive," whether waiting or working, but, Nelson-like, de-
clares that Zion expects every man to do his duty. Yet, let
it be kindly remembered by our young people, the age that
impairs the body also lets the spirit live.
In January, 1879, the writer drew a sketch plan of the
ground floor of Zion Church, as it appeared after the re-open-
ing. Among the six ministers who officiated on the 5th
and 1 2th of that month, two Sabbaths dedicated to the open-
ing services, five "have fallen asleep" the Rev. Isaac
Murray, D.D., Rev. K. MacLennan, Ph. D., Rev. R. Mac-
Donald, Baptist, Rev. John Lathern and Rev. W. S. Pascoe,
Methodist, and but one, Rev. John M. MacLeod, pastor at
the time, still lives, and preaches, in the 55th year of a very
active and acceptable ministry, and in the eighties of his life.
Among the elders, office-bearers, workers in church, and
choristers, but two elders John A. Lawson, and Samuel C.
Nash remain, and but one Sabbath school worker, Samuel
C. Nash, is still to the fore. Not a solitary chorister is left,
and, of the workers, twenty-one good men and women have
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gone hence, and thirty-five have removed from "out the
bounds." In the one hundred and four pews, forty-one heads
of families have departed to the Heavenly Zion, and twenty-
six heads of families have removed to other parts ; indeed
the face of the congregation is literally changed, whilst the
pews of 1908 contain a new congregation with a precious
small leaven of the old. There are just twelve pews occu-
pied now by at least some of the occupants of 1879 Henry
S. Coffin, Mrs. W. M. Coffin, John MacLeod, Mrs. J. M.
Sutherland, Mrs. D. Farquharson, Mrs. G. Webster, Cap-
tain John Gillis, Mrs. W. Wyatt, L. Miller, Miss B. Mac-
Laurin, and Miss MacKinnon.
Though we have not a detailed annual report for the year
1907, still we can give some statistics worthy of being
chronicled.
This year was a very successful financial period, ordinary
receipts, rents and contributions, making an exceedingly fa-
vorable shewing. The full amount received from all sources
exceeded $6,000.
The total membership of 294 members received many ad-
ditions during the year.
The Session, composed of Pastor, W. T. Huggan, clerk ;
L. Miller, H. S. Coffin, John T. MacKenzie, D. A. Bruce,
David Maclnnis ; also David Schurman and Murdoch Ross,
absentees, however, from the province. Additional elders,
John A. Lawson, J. E. Matthews and Murdoch MacKinnon,
were elected during the year.
Miss B. MacLaurin is still treasurer of the Benevolent So-
ciety. Mrs. J. Pickard, president, Mrs. H. S. Coffin, vice,
Mrs. Cairns, treasurer, and Mrs. W. T. Huggan, treasurer
of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society.
The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour con-
sisted of Colin N. McNevin, president, J. Horace Brodie,
secretary, and a goodly number of young men and women.
The Ladies' Aid and Mite Society, that financial power
History of Zion Church 27
in Zion, had as staff, Mrs. S. C. Moore, president, Mrs. D.
A. Bruce and Mrs. David Maclnnis, vice, Mrs. Samuel C.
Nash, treasurer, Mrs. Sanderson, secretary, and a large
number of the ladies of the congregation as members.
The Sewing Circle staff of officers were : Mrs. Bridges,
president, Mrs. D. A. Bruce, and Miss Rose Clark (since
married to Mr. Hill), vice, Mrs. S. Sanderson, secretary and
treasurer, and some forty members, whose beautiful fancy
work materially added to the finances of the year.
The Missionary Society moves steadily in its path of duty
under the leadership of the Pastor and the zealous acting of
its president, James D. Lawson.
The Sabbath school, perhaps the largest staff in the his-
tory of the church, was composed of seven members, of whom
Elder John T. MacKenzie is superintendent, B. D. Rogers,
assistant ; W. B. Robertson, secretary ; Colin N. MacNevin,
treasurer, George W. MacLeod, recorder, and John Dalziel,
assistant. Teachers and scholars attending to January, 1908,
numbered 8,812 persons, and the financial showing amounted
to $236 for the preceding year's work.
The Home Department is under the supervision of W. B.
Robertson, assisted by a staff of four or five lady district
visitors.
The Board of Trustees consists of W. S. Poole, chairman,
B. D. Rogers, secretary, Mrs. D. Sutherland, treasurer,
John MacLeod, Matthew Allen, Capt. John Gillis, John N.
Campbell, and A. MacWilliams, members for the year 1908.
These statistics include the various departments of the
church as they stood on January 1st, 1907, except the board
of trustees, last mentioned. The choir staff remains un-
changed, but not unimproved or unappreciated.
In concluding this fragmentary history of Zion Church,
which is, I am sorry to say, incomplete, owing to the want
of compilation during the passing years, and which cannot
possibly be now perfected, it is a pleasing and wonderful
28 History of Zion Church
fact, to recall the many great divines who have preached in
Zion Church, either as pastors, candidates, visitors or guests.
Passing over her regularly inducted pastors, we remember
the Rev. Cummings (brothers), Pollock, Carruthers, Carson,
Scott, Fisher, Mahon, Dickie, Simpson, Mosseau, Moss,
Coffin, Geggie, Gunn, Frasers, Coffins, Archibalds, Mac-
Leods, MacKenzies, Laing, Dill, Noble, Falconer, Maclnnis,
Whiteside, MacAskill, Gilmour, Smiths, Thompsons, besides
the Wesleyan brethren officiating in the city during the past
half century, among whom were Brewer, Shenton, Lathern,
Lodge, Kirby, MacConnell, Reid, Pascoe, Dobson, etc.;
among the Baptist, we recall Gordon, Corey, White, Whit-
man, MacDonald, Stephenson, Whiston, etc.; among the
missionaries and evangelists, Sir Hector, the Black Knight,
Vans, Meikle, Gerrior, Dr. Grant, Patten, Grierson, Mac-
Laren, Crossley, Brice, Sankey and Hudson.
What a magnificent scroll of fame has unrolled its glory
and scattered its seed pearls, and left its undying impress,
on the passing generations of worshippers in our Zion.
Time and space and want of statistics all along the years,
prevent a full list, which can only be given since January ist,
1 89 1, and which would include every evangelist and minister,
nearly, of this city and of the province of Prince Edward
Island, and scores of preachers from the other provinces of
our Dominion, and many from other parts of Christendom.
Zion Church congregation has been blessed, indeed, with
a variety and plethora of richness, on every conceivable
theme emanating from Scripture texts. It has been favored
with associations with almost every human character enter-
ing into the make-up of a preacher, lay and professional,
and has been served with a multifarious treatment of Bibli-
cal lore, tradition, and interpretation, second to no church
in our city by the sea.
Finally, whilst we we debit Zion with the cypress and
the yew, the mourning and the weeping, forget we not to
Rev. Geo. E. Ross, B. D.
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credit her with the orange blossom, the bridal wreath, the
laurel and the palm of happy victories.
An interesting document would be the compilation of the
deaths, the marriages and the baptisms, that have taken
place in the congregation during the last five decades.
May Zion, in her prospective new dwelling of brick and
stone, in the coming generations, go on prospering and to
prosper, under the smile and blessing of God, never less than
in the old wooden walls, in the years and generations that
are away, with a pastor to whose qualities as a leader, guide
and man we have paid tribute, at the head of a people
whose hearts go out to him in love, and whose sympathies
are with him in all his works. It is not hoping for too
much, to hope for the realization of our hopes.
Zion's dead for the year 1898, comprise John Scott,
Donald MacLeod, Thomas Vessey, Rev. David Sutherland
(pastor), Mrs. William Mutch, Mrs. James MacLeod, and
Miss MacKay ; for the year 1902, Mr. Thomas B.Alchorn,
Sheldon A. MacLean, Lawson Clark, Charles Walker,
Henry Vanlderstine, Mrs. Henry Davidson, Miss Margaret
Morrison, Mrs. Hector MacDonald, Mrs. Charles Town-
shend, Mrs. Simon Fraser, Miss Catherine MacLeod, and
Miss Moila I. Garrett. The roll of dead since 1902, as it is
given in the annual reports issued, is already noted in the
foregoing pages, while some huudreds are now unknown,
save in the memories of those near and dear. Tempora
hominesque mutantur.
30 History of Zion Church
To Zioiis unknown, unrecorded ones fallen asleep.
It singeth low in every heart, we hear it each and all,
A song- of those who answer not, however we may call :
They throng- the silence of the breast, we see them as of yore,
The kind, the sweet, the brave, the true, who walk with us no more.
'Tis hard to take the burden up, where these have laid it down,
They brightened all the joy of life, they softened every frown ;
But, oh, 'tis g'ood to think of them, when we are troubled sore.
Thanks be to God, that such have been, although they are no more.
More home-like seems the vast unknown, since they have entered
there,
To follow them, were not so hard, wherever they may fare :
They cannot be where God is not on any sea or shore
Whate'er betides : Thy love abides, our God forever more.
History of Zion Church 31
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
^tstorp of Hton Cfjurcf)
The men and women, who have made Zion Church of
Charlottetown one of the bulwarks of Christianity, one of
the influences for good, and one of the exponents of Presby-
terian faith and doctrine in Prince Edward Island, are named
in this and succeeding - pages ; and, if any omissions occur,
they are to be considered without prejudice. Alphabetically
arranged.
Founders.
Douglas, Mrs. (Rev.) R. D., dead ; Hall, I. C, dead;
Morrell, Wm., dead ; Mutch, Wm., dead ; McKay, L., dead.
Ministers.
Falconer, Robert A., d.d., Pictou, N. S. ; McLeod, Rev.
J. M., Vancouver, B. C. ; McLeod, Rev. D. B., m.a., Somer-
ville, Mass. ; Ross, Rev. G. E., b.d., Charlottetown ;
Sutherland, Rev. D., dead ; Sedgewick, Rev. W. H., Hamil-
ton, Ont.
Elders.
Anderson, Alex., ll.d., Charlottetown ; Barratt, R. M.,
dead ; Bruce, D. A., Charlottetown ; Coffin, H. S., Char-
lottetown ; Davison, H., dead ; Fraser, W. H., dead ; Hyde,
W. H., dead ; Huggan, W. I., Charlottetown ; Laird, Hon.
32 History of Zion Church
D., Winnipeg, Man.; Locherby, John, dead; Lawson, John
A., Charlottetown ; Mutch, William, dead ; Miller, L.,Char-
lottetown ; Matthews, J. E., Charlottetown; McKenzie,
John T., Charlottetown ; Mclnnis, David, Charlottetown ;
McKinnon, Daniel, dead ; McKinnon, D., Charlottetown ;
Nash, Samuel C, Charlottetown; Ross, M., Sydney, C. B.;
Stronach, A., dead; Schurman, D., St. John, N. B.; Walker,
G., dead.
Trustees.
Alchorn, T. B., dead ; Allen, M., Charlottetown ; Bruce,
D. A., Charlottetown ; Carson, E., Charlottetown ; Coffin,
L., Charlottetown ; Campbell, J. M., Charlottetown ; Coffin,
W. M., dead; Campbell, J. N., Charlottetown ; Coffin, H.
S., Charlottetown ; Davison, H., dead ; Davison, G., dead ;
Davison, J. M., Charlottetown ; Fraser, D. M., Vancouver,
B. C. ; Fraser, W. H.,dead ; Fraser, S., dead; Farquharson,
Hon. D., dead ; Gillis, Capt. John, Charlottetown ; Huggan,
W. T., Charlottetown ; Locherby, George, dead ; Laird,
Hon. D., Winnipeg, Man.; Leitch, W., Charlottetown;
Mutch, William, dead ; Moore, S. C, Charlottetown ;
Mutch, W. A., Hopeton ; McLeod, John, Charlottetown ;
McKenzie, Neil, Charlottetown ; McDonald, S. A., Char-
lottetown ; McKenzie, Hon. A. B., dead ; McLeod, D. J.,
Chicago ; McLeod, Donald, dead ; McPhail, John, dead ;
McKenzie, John, North- West Territories ; Nash, Samuel C,
Charlottetown ; Putnam, A. G., Nova Scotia ; Poole, W. S.,
Charlottetown ; Robb, A. W. , Sydney, C.B.; Rogers, B. D.,
Charlottetown ; Schurman, D., St. John, N.B.; Stronach, A.,
dead ; Scott, John, dead; Shanks, W., dead ; Shaw, R. B.,
m.d., dead ; Wyatt, W., dead ; Webster, G., dead.
Organists.
Fraser, Miss A., Halifax, N.S.; McRae, Mrs., dead;
Mclsaac, Miss J., Toronto; Waterman, Miss, Charlotte-
town ; Logan, Mr., Halifax, N. S.
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Choir Leaders and Members.
Alchorn, Mrs. T. B., Chicago ; Bruce, Miss Jessie, dead \
Bruce, D. A., Charlottetown ; Binns, Miss E., Charlotte-
town ; Campbell, Miss A., dead ; Campbell, Miss M.,
Auburn, Mass.; Campbell, Miss I., Auburn, Mass.; Clarke,.
Miss R., Charlottetown; Coffin, H. S., Charlottetown;
Davies, Mrs. J. J., jr., Charlottetown ; Fraser, D. M., Van-
couver, B.C.; Fraser, W. H., dead; Inglis, Mrs. D., Char-
lottetown; Lawson, Miss L. , dead ; Lawson, Miss, Char-
lottetown ; Lawson, Miss, Charlottetown ; Johnstone, Miss
M., Charlottetown ; Moore, S. C, Charlottetown ; Moore,
Mrs. S. C, Charlottetown; Murley, C. B., Charlottetown ;
Murchison, John, Charlottetown ; McLeod, Miss Mamie,
Moncton ; McLeod, Miss Georgie, dead ; McLeod, G., Char-
lottetown ; McKinnon,D., Charlottetown; Nash, S. C, Char-
lottetown ; Rattray, Miss Ruby, Charlottetown ; Ross, M.,
Sydney, C. B.; Ross, John, dead; Ross, Miss B., George-
town.
Sabbath School.
Superintendents. Anderson, A., d.c.l., Charlottetown;
Coffin, H. S., Charlottetown ; Fraser, D. M., Vancouver,
B. C; Fraser, W. H., dead; Huggan, W. T., Charlotte-
town ; Lawson, Rev. S., Saskatoon ; Lawson, John A.,
Charlottetown ; Nash, Samuel C, Charlottetown ; McKen-
zie, John T., Charlottetown ; Stronach, A., dead.
Staff. Alchorn, Mrs. T. B., Chicago ; Anderson, A.,
d.c.l. , Charlottetown ; Bearisto, Miss M., Charlottetown ;
Bell, J. E., Charlottetown; Coffin, W. M., dead; Coffin,
Miss F. B., Charlottetown ; Dalziel, J., Charlottetown ;
Huggan, E. B., Charlottetown; Huggan, T., Montana;
McMillan, Miss Ina ; Mclsaac, Miss Mary ; Mclntyre, Miss
B., Charlottetown ; Mclnnis, Rev. John, Montrose ; Mclnnis,
Mrs. D., Charlottetown ; McMillan, James, Charlottetown ;
McLeod, D. E., Charlottetown ; McLeod, G., Charlotte-
34 History of Zion Church
town; Nash, C. H., Minneapolis; Nash, S. C, Charlotte-
town ; Putnam, A. G. ; Ross, M., Sydney, C.B.; Robertson,
W. B., Charlottetown; Rogers, B. D., Charlottetown;
Walker, James, Buffalo.
Teachers. Bruce, D. A., Charlottetown; Brodie, James,
Charlottetown; Crasswell, H., Charlottetown; Fraser, Miss
K., Charlottetown; Fraser, Miss M., Charlottetown; Gillis,
Miss M., Charlottetown ; Henderson, Miss I., Charlotte-
town ; Harvie, Miss L., Boston ; Huggan, Mrs. W. T., dead;
Johnstone, Mrs. M., Charlottetown ; Innis, P., Charlotte-
town ; Laird, Hon. D., Winnipeg; LePage, Thomas, dead;
Lawson, James D., Charlottetown ; Lawson, Miss Lily, dead;
McKenzie, Hon. A. B., dead; McLeod, D. J., Chicago;
McMillan, C. J.; McLaurin, Miss, Charlottetown; McKin-
non, D., Charlottetown; Mclsaac, C; McLeod, Miss Laura,
Charlottetown; McEvven, H., Charlottetown; McLeod, Miss
L., Charlottetown; McCalder, Miss K., Charlottetown;
McKay, Miss R., Charlottetown; McNevin, C, Charlotte-
town; McKinnon, Miss E., Charlottetown; McEachern,
Miss, Charlottetown; Mutch, Miss A. B., Vancouver, B.C.;
Matheson, W.; Murchison, I., Charlottetown; Pickard, Mrs.
J., Charlottetown ; Profit, Miss, Charlottetown ; Ross,Theo.,
Charlottetown; Robertson, S. N., Charlottetown ; Sander-
son, Mrs. S., Charlottetown ; Semple, Miss, Charlottetown ;
Walker, George, dead; Walker, James, Buffalo ; Wyatt,
Miss Tillie, dead.
Report of 1879.
Sewing Circle organized. Campbell, Miss Annie, Sec-
retary, dead; Stronach, Mrs. A., president, Winnipeg;
young ladies of the church, members.
Poor Committee. Alchorn, Mrs. T. B., president, Chi-
cago ; McRae, Mrs., Secretary, dead; McKay, Mrs. N.,
Treasurer, Chicago ; Mutch, Miss S., California.
Building Committee. Alchorn, T. B., member, dead;
Fowle, A., member, dead, Charlottetown ; Davison, George,
History of Zion Church 35
member, dead ; McPhail, John, chairman, Charlottetown ;
McLean, T. A., member, Frank; McLeod, J, D., member,
Chicago ; Nash, Samuel C, secretary, Charlottetown ; Stro-
riach, A., inspector, dead; Sutherland, J. M., treasurer,
St. Louis ; Farquharson, D-, secretary, dead ; McPhail, P.,
contractor, dead.
Trustees. Fraser, D. M., member, Vancouver, B.C.;
Mutch, W., chairman, dead ; Lawson, J. A., secretary, Char-
lottetown ; McLeod, J. D., member, Chicago ; Nash, S. C,
member, Charlottetown; Stronach, A., treasurer, dead;
Webster, G., member^ dead.
1882.
Ladies' Aid and Mite Society organized. Alchorn, Mrs.
T. B., treasurer, Chicago ; Farquharson, Mrs. D., vice-pre-
sident, Charlottetown ; Laird, Mrs. D., vice-president, dead ;
McPhail, Mrs, John, vice-president, Charlottetown ; San-
derson, Mrs. S., secretary, Charlottetown; Tidmarsh, Mrs.,
assistant secretary, Charlottetown. The ladies of the con-
gregation are members thereof. Successors in office are
given in preceding pages.
1882-3.
Young People's* Society of Christian Endeavour organized.
Senior Aitken', ,Miss E., recording secretary, Charlotte-
town; Fraser, Miss A., vice-president, Halifax; McKenzie,
John T., president, Charlottetown ; Matheson, Mrs. C
corresponding secretary, Windsor; Stewart, Miss M., trea-
surer. Junior Gillis, Thos., vice-president ; Huggan,
Thos., president, Montana ; Leitch, Roy-, treasurer, Char-
lottetown; Mclsaac, Alf., secretary. Young ladies and
gentlemen of the congregation comprised the membership.
Janitors.
Garnhum, John, dead; McRae, A., dead; McKinnon,
D., Charlottetown ; Turner, W., dead.
36 History of Zion Church
Ministers out of Zion.
McLarren, C, (of Siam), dead ; Maclnnis, John, Mont-
rose. Mr. Maclnnis married Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
W. M. Coffin, and is settled with his family in Montrose,
Pennsylvania, U. S. A.
Marriages in Zion Church.
Bruce, Miss, to N. MacPherson, Boston ; Coffin, Ida,
to Rev. J. Maclnnis, Montrose ; Farquharson, May, to H.
MacKenzie, Nova Scotia ; Gillis, Bertie, to S. C. Moore,
Charlottetown ; MacLeod, Mamie, to Charles Thompson,
Moncton ; MacLeod, Minnie, to A. Stewart, Charlottetown ;
MacLean, Katie, to Levi Ings, Orwell ; Mutch, Susan, to
Rev. A. W. MacLeod, New Glasgow ; Nash, Jean, to D.
Inglis, Dumfermline ; Nash, Daisy, to James R. Wood,
Halifax; Nash, E. Belle, to W. C. Laird, Winnipeg.
Death Obsequies in Zion Church.
Sutherland, Rev. D. (pastor), July, 1898.
Lawson, Miss Lily, 1893. On this occasion the choir
gallery was appropriately shrouded in crape, relieved by the
presence of floral emblems, wreaths and other beautiful de-
signs, beneath which the casket was nearly buried. The
choir, of which Miss Lawson was a leading member in alto,
gathered in full strength, to testify their affection for her
whose gentleness and goodness, combined with the graces
of Christianity, had endeared her to every member and to all
who had the pleasure of her acquaintance and friendship.
Miss Lawson had also been a teacher in the Sabbath school,
beloved by staff and scholars, who, with a large gathering
of the congregation, assembled to pay their last tribute of
love and respect to her, who died happily in full fellowship
with her Saviour, whom she loved and trusted and who
called her hence to be with Him whilst yet in the bloom and
beauty of maidenhood ; called her from the world's work,
History of Zion Church 37
and the church's services ; from the joys and cares of her
household, where home-love surrounded her, and made her
one of His children in the paradise of God where there is no
more going- out for ever.
The foregoing pages contain the events, incidents and
happenings of over half a century, together with the names
of the men and women therewith connected, in the history
of Zion Church, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Many of the individuals have removed without the bounds ;
many more have been gathered to the garner of God ; few
are left who saw the first stone laid of the old building; and
fewer still who heard the dedicatory sermon by the Rev.
Robert Laird. The writer hath "set down naught in malice,
nor aught extenuated." If any omissions have occurred of
names or events, and it is quite possible such may be the
case, they are due to lost records and the difficulty of obtain-
ing correct information. Submitted without prejudice.
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