THE GUARDIAN.

CHARLOTTETOWN

" JANUARY 2o,

Imperial Life policyholders tell

[ILTII “By the service it giyes,” says the skilled A very important point, all of us will agree. And the 51st

of Tllc Imperial Ilife Assurance Company shows in ‘a very the measure of the Company's service. During I947 The Imperial Life pai

bcllelit payments of $172,000,000 have been made

[Eillﬂxy the safety it offers,” say wives and mother-g,

planned in the warmth alld peace of the home. In safekeeping now with The Imperial

held by thousands in the security of The Imperial Life.

“How cl measure my Life Assurance Company”

policyholders and beneﬁciaries 08,052,000. Over the past ﬁfty years .

To women in particular the security of the family's life assurance is of ﬁrst importance. It means not Just money when needed, but a guarantee that children will be brought up as

are assets amounting to $l-l6,559.000‘hcld in trust for the future care and protection of over 100.000 policyholders and their loved ones. These assets have been increased during the past year by S3,783.000-an indication of the continuing conﬁdence

lILrrlYfBy the type of man who calls on me,” says the professional man, Qualiﬁed, competent service is a tradition of Imperial Life co-workers, now

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numbering more than 1,200. Agents and ollice staffs undergo a thorough course of trainins. Many representatives hold the degree of Chartered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.), Onc hundred and twenty-ﬁve members have been with the Company a quarter-century

lllllfBy the progress the Company is making,” say oﬂiee workers.

All all-tlme record of $69,553,000 of assurance was purchased through The Imperial Life

In--1947. Policyholders take pride in the fact that the assurance now in force in their

Company—$486,2T9,000-is 1% times the total that existed in the whole of Canada m all l. pames at the time The Imperial Life was founded 50 years ago!

p. Would you like to learn lnorc about "the measurement" of The Inlpcrial Life? The figures quoted were taken from the Annual Report of the Company for I917. A copy of lllc complete

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his Loyalist grant in Lot 26, a men-ts on his property as Lord of Tryon River and settled on a farm in the older community near her father's, where some land was cleared and the ‘comfortable farm home had a large room left without partitions for frolics- and dances. To this Tryon house in 1792 cams Rev'd.

spoke powerful. disturbing \\'0l‘Cl5 and repentance, justification and adoption. until many were uneasy.

yc-ung couple, Nattle and

at Wrights with doc doctrines of prcdestin

Being but slightly grounded in his of his relatives went to Nova Scoti

Bedeque United Church

fhs History oi a Methodist illroult ‘ lll Prints Edward Island -

Tracing its Roots in tho Cultural, Educational and Commercial Fields of the Community.

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tiioyle Children, Tlgllish iielabrate Same Birthday

CHAPTER TWO

John which became Prince Edward Island in 1799 had but little organized religion in the 18th century. The parish of St, Paul's in Charlottetown had for some time the only clergy of any denomination on the Island. whose natives were described by o pious visitor as being for the most part “profane and unaavedlt In Becleque the stats of religion among the early settlers was probably but little different from anywhere else. One authentic note comes from the account book of William Schurman, Bedeque‘; first merch- ant. who on April i, 1786, sold williaun Wright, one cow for four pounds ($16.00), and one "Bibel" for one pound three shillings ($4.60), which in present day cattle values would be around $25.00 for s. Bible. The price suggests not only a high value placed on the Word of Cod by storekeeper and purchaser alike but also a big Book for public wor- ship. Wllllam Wright was a Quaker. but. having married a Presbyterian and having fought in the Revolutionary war, he would no longer be considered a memlber of the Society of Friends, Bedequek early settlers. excluding a sprinkling of Quakers and Anglicans and two Roman Oath- olic MacDonald tzl-lnllles, were Presbyterian, so it was to be expected that the first sermon preached in the community would be Presby- terian. Dr. James MacGregor of Pictou, N5. the most famous Pres- byterian Divine in the Maritime colonies, came to the Island in tbs summer of 1794 on a missionary visit and supplied "several new places

including Bedcque and ‘IX-yon River with services.

The older community of Princetown in 179-1 erected a log bulld- ing, which. serving as church and school. was the first PIWbYl-efll" establishment on the Island. Bedeque Church may easily have been the second though no date of its erection has been preserved. Mbst accounts of the present North Bedeque United Church, slmessor t0 Bedeque Presbyterian church. fall to mention the earliest church of all, built on land owned by William Wright's sou-in-law. Jesse Strung. of which the present cemetery marks the site. and which as a. guess was built in the closing years of the eighteenth century, or the open- illg ones of the next.

The Island of Saint

The Wright Family

Of William Wright's family the oldest son Nathaniel. while taking nd perhaps even making some improve-

his lease demanded, in 1788 married Nancy

William Grandin. an itiner- nt Methodist missionary from Nova Scotia, who for several weeks

to‘ the assembled Tryon folk about sir. ntl a. few at least ready to adopt. a new way of life. This first rsvlva‘. n the Island left a marked impress on the rnlnds and souls of the Nancy Wright. Their conversion marked he beginning of the Methodist churches in 'I‘ryon and Bsdeque.

After Grandins departure other preachers came to the frolic room trincs that troubled tho newly-iron Methodists; ation and elect-ion which seemed to say that ives of virtue and good works were not necessary for the Christian life. new faith, Nathaniel Wright with one a in 1794 and brought back the saint-

Discovery that diet alone can cause

The fine-looking children of Mr. and Mrs. Hoivard Doyle, of Tl;- nish. pictured above, all were born on January 19th. They are How- ard (Jr.) 6 years. Helen Marie. 4 years, and Leonard, 5' years.

chickens and on dogs, Dogs much the same foods as men.

The Alabama discovery was not lznade by cancer researchers, but by n team of nutrition experts. They were not even looking for cancer. ‘Ilho malignant disease was some- tliilng entirely unexpected. Choline was one'of the last in a series of food studios that had been under way since 1922. Llka its predecessor it took several years.

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By Howard W. Blakesice Associated Press Science Editor AUBURN, Ala.. Jan 24 -— (AP) _.

cancer in rats, lmads two years ago at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. than brought on experiments with other animals.

ThLs brings a new angle into can- ccr, the fact the malignant growths can be caused by too little food as well as by too much. Too much is illustrated by more than 39 chetnl- cals wlhlch cause cancel‘ in animals. Always the cancers co-lne from too much and too long use.

Tile rats got cancer from too lit- tla of a necessary food. These are

tissues. Without choline fst stores up in the liver instead of moving. a5 it should, to other parts of the body. Choline is necessary for marl. It is com-men in egg yolk. liver, kidnsy._braina. glands and numer- our other foods.

The experiment began with s dlot completely lacking in choline, (that killed rats of one strain in one to two weeks. Rats strain lived longer, but all died.

Witlh just. a little choline tho m1- mals lived. Some of those living s.

the first and thus far only ex- ed, i ma, couples of too little. llivluerlllrnzlfloézﬁzgd; lghl: ‘ii m: The missing food was . choline. pathology‘ o! um Alabma noun

stxnetimes called a B vitamin, but identified by the Alabalma expert-s as an‘ organic base. Lacking choline, Ills got cancers ln muscles. blad- ders, lungs and livers. This stone

looked at the lumps under c mio roacope and found they were call- cers. A pathologist is an export '4 tissue cells no his Verdict. ll ﬁlls! in cancer. _

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lmperiailife lias Record Year In Business Production

l$600,000 Fire In iiuobeo Town

l (By Tho Canadian Press!

ST. MARIGUERHTE STATION. Que, Jan. fill-Three chimneys standingln the middle of still smouldering rubble were all that remained today of the $600,000 Roney Terrace resort development which was destroyed by a flash fire last night at this Laurentlan Mountain village located 60 miles north of Montreal.

Sixty five workmen, many of them bnrefooted, were forced to flee the blazing ﬁve-storey wood- en structure in scanty night. at-

llniering its second half-century of service, The Imperial Life As- surance Company of Canada ro- ports n record year in new business production and gain in insurance in force. Insurance paid for in the! year, as amounted by John (3.3 Parker, President of The Companyl at its Annual Meeting. amounted to ‘$563,000. Insurance in force was increased by 548939.000 and now stands at $480,279,000.

A measure of the Company's 5gb vice is seen in its benefit pey- manta. Policy proceeds distributed in the year to policyholders and beneficiarle amounted to $8,057,000. Since it commenced operations in 1879, Mr. Parker painted out, the. Company has distributed in policy‘ benefits more than $172.000.000.

Tbs Company's revenue allowed an increase during the year in keeping with the growth of bus- iness. The income from prafnlums was $15,812,000 and from interest $4.748.000,maklngtotL1 income $20,- , height of the building."

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C. Cliff Butler. manager of the re- sort and well known Montreal sportsman. described the develop- ment as a Ptotal loss."

He said the blaze originated in one of the bedrooms from l. cig- aret butt and that within 20 min-

adjolnlng cottages were engulfed in a "solid _sheet of flames that at times reached four times the

The income not required to meet l November. was scheduled to 0P6“ ﬂlffﬂlt Clllmi. taxes, expensesM within two weeks and the work- letc, must be invested and held to era were just completing construc- meet future ‘obligations to pollcr- tion of the project, pianos holders and their dependents. Aa- eater to girl enthusiasts, sets held for this purpose were increased during 1947 by $811,000. bringing the total assets of the Company to 8140550000

The growth of life insurance 0p. erations in The Dxlperfal Life and other life insurance companies currently reporting is i; reﬂection of pubic confidence. The econ- omic role of life insurance under today's inflationary conditions is one of stabilization. Everv time a renewal premium is paid, every time s. new policy lsaold. money is diverted from the spending stream in competition for consrmer goods to be laid aside for the dsyc when it will be most needed.

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ly William Black. bishop of Methodisrn in the Atlantic colonies. who strengthened the wavering Wesleyan forces with convincing sennons.

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Rev. William Black. who baptised Nathaniel Wright (11054 1825) and his children in 1794.

and talks, formed eight or ten into c society (really s church in the sense of it being a body of believers) who thereafter met regularly in class. and baptized Nathaniel Wright and his three oldest sons, John (later to be known as "Squire John" of Sexletown). William. (later of Chelton) and Nathaniel o! Bsdeque. Following the administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to the newly formed church and with Nathaniel Wright's earnest pleas in his ear for a lniniatsr to work on the Island. Bishop Black returned to Nova Bcotls where regrettably there were not even enough preachers for that colony.

When Rev. F. A. wighLman. pastor of Bedeqbc ln i901. wrote in a short historical sketch that Nvllllnrrn Black preached in Bedeque in 1794 he evidently thought that Nathaniel Wright had slways lived there. 1794 Becleque was still wildly Presbyterian and there is nothing to show that they shared with Tryon the benefit of Bishop Black's visit. though h may not have been a total stranger to them. Most of the Bsdeque Loyallsts had spent their first exile winter in Bhslburne-(thst Nova Scotia centre which grew into a Loyalist city over night and faded away to a village almost as quickly) where William Black preached his first sermon from a table among the stumps. June 8. i873. and whore during their tan months stay the Wrights and others likely heard the

famous preacher. , ' First Press Notice

Bedeque quickly demonstrated the richness 9f its soil and the sntor- prise of ita farmers. The first mention of this district in an Islind newspaper, The Royal Gazette and Miscellany of Inland of St. John (Nov. 5. 1791). reads:

"Arrived from Bsdeliue and Tryon boots with wheat flour. etc, oto. ths produce of those very ilyfustrioua and flourishing settlements."

Another crop which also flourished had an undated notice in ‘the some i|sue_ entitled Births:

"Mrs. Robina, of nedsquo, at o, son," '

wheat flour from a community which according to some sutiror- '

deficiency now is being tried on I

lties did not have a mill till sixteen years later presents an inter-siting question as to when the first grist mill was started in Bedeque. L. U. Fowler, writing in the Prince Edward Island Magazine Glllml “ill- Willlam Taylor who came from Newfoundland in 1807 wu tho first miller in Bedequs. The Newspaper notice may not entirely refute this; the flour could be from Gouldlnnrs mill. ‘rryon. and tho "etc, etc." from Be-deque. I-Iovrever a map darted March i. 1708 in Stewart's Account of Prince Edward Island In The Gulph of St. Lawrence, published in 1806, shows a saw-mill and com-chill on the Dunk. It is a pretty safe surmise that William Taylor came to s mill already built and tn opera- tion for a number o1 years on the west. side, of what would later l1 known as the oltl Mill Bridge; succeeding William achurman who like- ly ran both saw and grist mill for the proprietors, and who in i501 left his son Caleb on the Central Bedeque farm and. moved to Wilmoi Grove. where purchasing a mill site together with 0.500 sores of pint and mixed hardwoods from Sandy Rhutland Maodonald. he was ab? to make a small fortune in a. few years. .

During the same year (1807) Nathaniel Wright came back h Bedsque, and, settling on his hundred and fifty acres st Oentrevllll through which ran the south creek of the Dunk, soon built s grist mil. and vied with William Taylor as the most popular Bedeque miller.

It is not surprising that Bedeque at this time could support two mlllers. Fourteen years earlier. before the community was ten years old, Governor Fanning, writing to Henry Dundas, the Secretary of state, made special mention of Bedeques wheat crop, enclosing all item from the Island Gazette which told of three thousand bushels bein; gathered in the autumn of 1793 in this small community. Nathaniel Wright's reasons for returning to Bedcque are not very evident. 11o may have been in danger of losing his Loyalist grant by reason of non- aettlenient, and possibly the fact that his wife. Nancy Lord's sistml - had gone to Bedeque to live-Fanny in 1791. as wife to his brother stcphen Wright. and Alice in 1798. as bride of John Baker, Jr. ma} have influenced his decision to leave Tryon. ‘The Lords were strum Methodists, but in the Presbyterian stronghold of ‘iedeaue two lonl women certainlyrleeded rs-enforcemnt.

First Methodist Sermon

Nathaniel Wright's move to Badeque coincldetfwith the flrsl Methodist sermon by an ordained preacher in that district. Rev. Jamel C. Bulplt, who arrived on the Island in the summer of 1807. wmll shortly afterwards of his fifty Island Methodists scattered in dlffereni . conventions from Murray Harbour to Bedeque. Other Methodist; missionaries had visited the Island for a month or two. but we havi no account of them being at Bedeque. A Methodist local preacher Thomas Dawson “(1762-1804), who came to the Island in 1801, settlinl on the I-Iillsborough. east of Charlottetown, is said to have preached l! nearly every part of the Island. He visited Bsdeque. as recorded l\-— Chsppell‘: diary: --

“Tuesday, Nov. is, 1m. Mr. Dawson goes with John Cambrldst M]: Iobqus.’ "

If he gave them s sermon it was not. a Sunday one. as he presclll-"i tho following Sabbath in Charlottetown. John Cambridge. Mr. DIW‘ son's fellow traveller in Bedsque. wrote A Description of Prince Edward Island In the Gulph of St. Lawrence in 1805. wherein dsscrlbinB Y" 1181011 on the Island. ha said. "there are a. low persons who attend ti"

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established church once a weak. The fsr greater part are dissenters o! one description or another. But as they have few religlousmeetlna! l Ind 110i my ministers their Sabbath days are generally filled uP Wm‘ “ 100K111: over their past week's industry and in visiting their nelghbﬂfl- q When any dissenting minister has happened to visit the Island "011 . the continent many of ths inhabitants have attended with an all?!" -- desirs to be instructed." (To Bo Continued)

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