JUNE 27. 1949

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(By JLM.) .

In an enchanting secluded spot, surrounded by trees st the inter- section of two roads in West Cove- head, is a quaint little church, which was erected over one hun- dred and twenty years ago. as far as can be learned. lt is the St. James United Church of Canada. and the plaque on the outside wall near the entrance reads, "The First Established Presbyterian Church on Prince Edward Island,

06." mThis is the second building. The first one was built on the farm of Mr. Donald MacMillan on the shore of Covehead Bay and a number of years later moved one mile south to the farm of Mr. Ste- phen Higgins. The present church is located on the west end of Mr. Hi ins‘ property.

rfigrecord, not excelled in many churches in the Province, is that ten ministers were able to carry on continuous service in this con- gregation for one hundred and forty-three years-

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The history of this parish is in- teresting, dating back to i791. when Rev. James McGregor. D., Presbyterian missionary. on his first visit to Prince Edward Island spent two weeks preaching a! Covehead. He had landed at Charlottetown. where he hired l hoi-se to ride to this community. fifteen miles away. on the only road on the Island at that time.

He was entertained at the home of Mr. John Miller. In 1770 sever- n families had migrated w "W section. but there will n0 I611"! minister, so a number of these pious and intelligent men, Maser!- David Lawson, William D. law- son. John Auld, Robert Auld. Du"- can MacCallum with his sons James and Nell. 301m A- 13°“? 1s”, James. Charles and Pete!‘ Gregor. associated with Mr. Miller.

and conducted religious service as well as visiting the sick.

Dr. McGresor lslln villi-Ki m“ district in 1802. w? la 15°F W11" he assisted in the induction of Rev. Peter Gordon. the first Pres- byterian minister to settle "on Prince Edward Island. llli-O u" pastoral charge of Covehead. Sl- Peters and Fortune. The ministry

was of short duration due to ill-health.

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the death of Mr. Gordon. from Dr. McGregons diary l! 9! 59ml‘ mental interest: “In 1809 Mr. Gor- don died and I went to comfort his widow and. as Mrs. McGrc5°P had also passed away. the expres- sion of mutual sympathy in W? bcrcavcd condition rendered such visits a solace to m? 9W" 59k“- end in I812 we were married."

The induction service of the lucceedjng minister. Rev. Edwlfd Pidgeon, was in charts °1 D“ John Keir and Dr. McGrcsflri "l9 next pastor placed over this con- gregatlon was Rev. Robert DouB- lass, whose induction took pile! in October. 182i.

On this occasion the first Prea- bytery of Prince Edward ‘Island was constituted. accordinl W ' Deed of Synod. During his in- eumbency the congreistien ex- panded so that it was necessary to make two divisions - West St.

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pulpit chairs of oak were present- ed in memo y of Mrs. John Mac- Donald by her sister, Mrs. Mur- ray; the, matching communion table was dedicated in 1944 in memory of Mrs. T. A. Wilson by her hus- band and sister; and a beautiful memorial window to Mr. Frank Beer Auld. Elder. was presented by his wife in i945 and dedicated by Rev. T. A. Wilson.

The singing of praise for many years was led by a precentor and eventually an organ was purchas- ed. the same one being still in use. Miss Florence Shaw. the late Mrs. J’. W. Shaw. was the first or- ganist. the present one. Mrs. Al- bert Reid. .

On August 22. 1806 a Centenary was held at this church to cele- brate the anniversary of the first Presbyterian minister to that con- gregation, descendants of Rev. Peter Gordon's parishioners. His Honor. Lieutenant-Governor Mac- Kinnon. presided and delivered the opening address. l-fe contrast- ed the present condition of the Island with what it was one hun- dred years ago, the present being a time of great prosperity.

A prominent feature of the day was the unveiling of tablets to the memory of Reverends Gordon. Douglass and Allan. One was un- veiled by Dr. Bsxter to his grand- father. Rev. Peter Gordon. Addres- ses were delivered by Reverends George Miller, W. H. Spencer. T. ll‘. Fullerton. Dr. Falconer. the Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. and James McG. Baxter, M.D. The elders in I906 were Messrs. James G. Mac- Callum, David H. Auld. George Matheson. Alex MacCallum and Ralph Carr.

When Rev. Mr. Wilson had completed twenty-five years of his ministry. he was presented with a beautiful silver tea service by the congregation. and an An- niversary cake by the Sunday School pupils. The ministers who took part in this Anniversary Celebration were: Reverends, John Stirling, W. A. MacQuarrle, A. S. Weir. with Hugh Miller presiding;

The present session is compos- ed of Messrs. Wendell MacMillan. Gregor MacCallum, David Mac- Donald and Vernon Proude.

In the adjoining cemetery. in- teresting epitephs are recorded on the headstone , which mark the last resting place of many of the pioneers of the settlement. who in their religious instruction and conscientious discharge of their duties did much to advance the cause of Christianity.

“MONSTBOSITY" TONED DOWN

BLAKIINEY, Norfolk. England- (Olfi-Inliaibitants of this fishing village. proud of their flint cot- tages, won their battle asalnst a "monstrosity" of pink bricks which "grew up suddenly" in their midst. The new house now will be painted with cream wash and its asbestos roof replaced with tiles.

IN ME_M_ORIAM

In loving memory of BRUCE BURNS Died lune 27th. 1M7.

Peters and Cove Head bclnl dis‘ p joined from East St. Peters and Bay Iortune.

In 1846 Rev. James Allan wal ordained and inducted. So rapid- ly did the number of worship- pers increase that it was compul- sory to separate West St. Peters from Cove Head. leaving Mr. Al- lan in charge of the latter place- After a ministry of forty-four yurs. Mr. Allan was succeeded by Rev. George B. MaeLeod. Rev- rrcnds Joseph Johnston and W. '1‘. l). Moss served but one year each. fine next minister was Rev. Ja- cob K. Layton. who was followed by Rev. William If. Spencer. In. 1e11, Rev. '1'. A. Wilson. we! 1n- rlucted and continues in the Ill!‘ iorate to the presept time.

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Across one end of the church ll a gallery. Many years IIB m‘ high pulpit was remodelled: MW pews replaced the boxed-in eiiel: and the walls have been redecor- ated from time to time. The three

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Whca fliey leld our darling Bruce Juet two Wire ego today.

Never Forgotten by Ills Wife and finally.

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EEMEMBER your annual school S°h°°1 méellns and Dian to attend Tuesday. June 28.

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CIVIC TAXES - Interest at the "we of 14% per month will be Charged 0n City of Charlottetown second installment of taxes l1 rm paid by June 30th..

CAVENDISH — A Missionary, Miss Mattie Curry, from Tunl, In- dia, will speak ill the Baptist Church on Tuesday, June 28th, at 8 P.M. Cordial invitation to every- body.

JAGK CAMERON-Men's Wear. a choice selection of Suits, Sports Jackets, Slacks, etc. Moved to teni. ggrary quarters over Toombs Music

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LEAVING FOR MONTREAL - Mr. and Mrs. Manning Bagnall are leaving this morning for Mon- treal to attend a Convention of the "25 Grand Club" of Investment Distributors Limited. They will also visit in Ottawa for a few days before returning.

D0 YOU KNOW that 600 blood donors are needed at the Clinics to be held in Summorslde, Charlotte- WW") Mollliglle and Sourls on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs- day of this week in order to main- tain the supply required for trans- fuslorss in this province during the next three months? Be a Blood Donor this week.

GRADE VIII CERTIFICATES- The following pupils of Hunter River School were successful in passing the Grade VIII government test, making high marks. In order of merit: Harold Bernard, June Spence. Wlnnifred Newman, Bon- ai- Nicholson, Ross Matheson. DJ... Calms, teacher

FUNERAL FRIDAY — The fun- eral of Ens. Mae Smith was held from the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Smith. Pleasant Valley on Friday afternoon. June 24th. The service at the house and grave was conducted by Rev. W. B. MacPhall. The pallbearers were: Freeman MacLennan. Lloyd MacLennan. Donald MacLeod and Murdock Buchanan. Interment in Pleasant Valley cemetery.

COMMUNITY WELFARE PRE- SENTATION - On the evening of June 18th s. committee, represent- ing the settlements o! New Perth. Summerville, Union Road and Baldwin's Road, called on Mr. John T. Mellish, New Perth. mer- chant (who had been s. patient in the King's County Memorial Hos- pital, Montague. for several weeks last winter. and underwent a ma- jor operation) and presented him with a suitable address and s. well- fllled purse, subscribed by his neighbors and friends aocom- panied by their best wishes for his future success in business. The presentation was made by Mr. Wm. Minchln, treasurer of the éom- mlttee. Mr. Melllsh was com- pletely taken by siuprlse, but in his usual pleasant manner. thank- ed one and all for their generous

and much appreciated gift and friendly contact. He also thanked the committee for their time

spent on his behalf.

HUNTER RIVER SCHOOL PIC- NIC-Tlie pupils and teadherl and parents of l-l-unler River school district held their annual picnic at Cavendish beach on the afternoon of June 24th. The early part of nftemoon was spent in bathing and romping alone the beach. At 315

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“Dull students should be shut out of the university."

S0 said a noted scholar and teacher. Attention had been drawn to the numbers crowding into our educational institutions and this was one remedy suggested. It would be a colossal blunder.

Last week we drew attention to one reason for the gold-medalist’: success-lie concentrated on the task before him. There may have been other explanations. but this was to the fore. Others with equal ability had scattered their energies over a variety of interests but he made mastery of the task assigned as his objective. But there were many students who worked with similar diligence and determination who won no distinction. Perhaps they had been denied educational advantages in early years; perhaps they were slow in their develop- ment; more likely, they lacked the gifts of their more distinguished fellows. But not a few of those men who toiled earnestly with meagre success will be among the first in the end. Life is not a hundred-yard dash, but a mare- thon; many who start with a burst of speed will be unable to keep It up through life's long day; others who start slowly will have the endurance to quicken their pace to the end. And it is the one who “endures to the end" who

By Very Rev. George C. Pigeon

first Moderator of the United Church of Canada (Copyright)

mmlllllfl. the rather humdrum vir- tues that in their sum are desig- nated as character. If you have in public life men of good abilities, with character — and, gentlemen. you must include common sense as one of the most important elements of character-if you posse" gugh men, the government will go on very well."

For such encouragement we Can. adlens can thank God at this turn in our history.

Character Drivel

Once l visited a man so weak that he could not raise his head. He had been famous as the strong- est man and doughtiest fighter in the district, but his heart had glv- en out and those splendid ‘ s he couldnot use. Now. what a sound heart and good constitution are to muscles, character ls to our intellectual endowments the strength of mind and will that di- rects their use and drives them to their best. A two-talent man with character will outstrip the five- talent man without it. We know many cases in every sphere of ac- tion where men with brilliant gifts gave out and quit before they had passed the half-way mark.

There are also many who start with only two talents but develop unsuspected power as they pro-

wins the laurel crown. Diligence Rewarded

There is a New Testament par- able which deals with this sub- ject-the Talents in Matthew 25: 14-30, A man going on a long journey called his servants and en- trusted to them his possessions. To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another. one-—to each according to his ability. When he returned he found that the man with the five talents had made five more, and the man with the two talents two more. Hcre is the significant point-the men who out of two made two received the same commendation and the same re- ward as the man who with five tal- ents made five. As one has put it: "Unequal gifts with equal diligence was equally rewarded." It was dili- gence fhat counted.

“In God's clear light high work

we do

If .we but do our best."

Theodore Roosevelt once said: "There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to the man who has power to do what no one else has the pow- er to do. That is genius. . . . Only n very limited amount of the suc- cess of life comes to persons pos- sessing genius. The average man who is successfui—the average statesman, the average public ser- vant, the average soldier. who wins what we call great success-is not a genius. He is a man who has merely the ordinary qualities which he“ shares with his fellows, but who has developed those ordinary quali- ties to a more than ordinary de- gree. . . . In public life it is not genius. it is not extraordinary subtlety ofwaciiteness of intellect that is important. The things that are important are the rather com-

was keenly contested. the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners receiving ribbons on which were printed "Hunter River School Sports. June 24, 1049." This was followed by presentation of prlres lo the ones making the highest marks in each grade. to the ones having the neat- est exercise books. to the ones with the highest attendance. and the presentation of Grade Eight certificates. Humorous and skill- fully wrltten addresses were read to both teachers. Mr. D. Lester Cairns, principal. and Miss Lois Simpson. assistant. expressing sin- cere regrets at their leaving. ac- companied by the presentation of valuable gifts. In a few well chosen words the pupils were thanked for their thoughtfulness. and kindly words. A sumptuous lunch and s. generous treat of ice cream brought a very enjoyable afternoon to a. close.

SEEK NEW ALLOY

A search for substitutes for manganese, vital alloying metal in practically all steel, is being con- ducted hy the Canadian Bureau of Mines.

JAY — WHITE NUPTIALS

On the evening of June 16th st 730 p.m. a quiet wedding took place at the United Church, Char- lottetown. when Viola Mae. only daughter of Mrs. Melvin Jay and the late Melvin Jay. became the bride of Clifford Nelson. son of George White of Framlngham. Mass, and the late Mrs. While. Rev. Dr. Dudley was the officiat- ing clergyman and the double ring- coremony was used.

Mr. George Neshit took charge of the sports program. Each event

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Above is pictured the P. E. I. group of delegates to the annual meeting of the Maritime Branch of the Canadian

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ceed. In one college function we were told of case after case who could reach only second-class stand- ing or even lower in their first or second year, but who rose higher as they went on until they gradu- ated at the top. It would be un- fair to call them two-talent men when the other three talents were at first undeveloped and unknown, but they had only the two at the start.

Cultivate Talents

Use your talent whatever it may be. Claim your right to an oppor- tunlty for its use. The only un- pardonnble sin is burying your tai- ent in the earth. One such man had only a single talent to begin with, and he tried so hard to cultivate it that he nearly killed himself in his first year of prepar- ation; then he found a teacher who discerned in him powers hitherto - unsuspected and guided him in their development, He became one of the best scholars and most resourceful thinkers of his time. His start in life's long marathon was unpromlsing, but he finished his course with joy. This was his favorite quotation-and he repeated the first line just before the end: “Give me the day with its sun in

the west And hear what it has to say;

Give me the year as it neareth its rest

In the glow of the Autumn day:

Give me the life where the path

- is unrolied

To the shores of God's limitless sea-

For the end is the test; and the tale that is told,

Be it written in grayness of silver,

or gold. Is the tale of eternity."

a. street length pink morle with matching hat of mohair and roses. She wore a. corsege of pink roses. baby breath and a double string of pearls, a gift of the groom and carried a good luck horseshoe with flowers and white ribbon, a. gift from Mrs. J. N. Dell (nee Queenie Hudson), England. The bride was attended by Miss Ruth MacI-ean. gowned in a. blue crepe with na- tural straw hat and a corssge of pink roses. Mrs. Jay. mother of the bride wore black crepe with pink sheer and lace yolgg with matching hat and a corsage of pink roses.

Mr. Don Holden supported the groom.

The bride's gift to the bridesmaid was a gold compact and the grooms gift to the groomsmsn was a leather billfold.

Following the ceremony a re- ception was held at the Queen Hotel. The bride's table was cen- tred with a threetler wedding cake topped with a miniature bride and groom and the guest table with red roses. The toast to the bride was proposed by Elmer MacLauchln and responded to by the Broom. Mr. and Mrs. White left next morning by bu; gm- B05. ton, and Rhoda Island, Conn. Flor travelling the bride choose tomlm red suit with matching hat and white accessoies. On their re- turn they will reside in Charlotte- town.

Previous to their marriage the bride was guest of honour at sev- eral showers. Her lovely gifts in. cludcd a coffee table from the staff of S. A. MacDonald, where- she was onmloyed. also a lrilight lamp from the Atlantic Wholesalers

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Mount Allison Music Examinations

At the recent music examinat- ions for pianoforte playing. con- ducted by Dr. Alfred Whitehead. Dean of Music at Mount Allison. the following pupils were success- ful. Dr. Whitehead making special

mention of the high standard of,

playing.

‘ I Grade I Plano: Fay Hickox. d15-

tinction; Sandra Squarebriggs, 1st class honors; Janet Skinner, lst class honors; Florence Douglas. lst class honors: Janet Mingo, honors; Evelyn MacKay, honors.

Grade II Plano: Freddie HICROX. lst class honors; Carold Stavcrl. lssq class honors; Roddic l-lickox. lst class honors; Jenn lllacLcoci. lst class honors; Winnifred Mac- Phersomlst class honors; Barbara Jenkins, lst class honors; Brill’ Foster, lst class honors Frank Hayley, honors; Jean MacDonald. honors.