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A lU-COUl) OV
IWl SERVICES CONNECTED IflTH THE JUBILEE
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The Fiftieth ANNivEf^SARY
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THE ORDINATION AND INDUCTION
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REV, WM. M6CULLO0H, D, D,
(As Pastor of the First Presbyterian Ohurch, Truro, N. S.)
^CompUfd by The Colchciter Sun.}
Piinted at Tm; Coi.ohkstek Si'.v Oftioe, Truro, N. S., 188(».
P14ICK an CKNTS^
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•^■INTf^ODU0TION,»^-
l*"ifty years in nalional life may be but a span, but how
lon^ the stretch in our comparatively short lives of three score
and ten years. It is a life time in itself, and to but few is the
privilcfje <j[ranted of celebratin.i,'^ the anniversary of such a lonf;
period oT years in the prosecution of any one line of duties.
It is indeed the very rare exception that the end of two score
and ten years will lind us situated in any way similar to what
wc were in the opening years of such a period.
Of all Britain's .sovcreit,m's but tiiree have filled with their
rci,q;ns the long space of fifty years, and the reign of the most
glorious of these is pregnant with events, that have run almost
contemporaneously with the long life in the Christian ministry
of him who.se Jubilee of Fifty years' service has just been
celebrated in our Town.
Since Fifty years ago a new world has sprung up> and the
changes on ever\' side and in all our surroundings aie so great
that we can but in mute astonishment ga/.e upon the new
creation.
The occasion being so exceedingly rare of any Divine
completing a Pastorate of fifty years and more especially so
of such a one over the same congregation, — and this ci^ngiega-
'•'on being that of the oldest in connection with the Frcsby-
. . .an communion in British North America,— that it wa.s
thought advisable to preserve in this form a record of the ser-
vices and exercises in connection with the Fiftieth Anniversary
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of the Rev. Dr. Mcrullnch's Ordination and Induction, which
was held at J'luro on the I4lh of February, 1889.
This i.s the reason that the following paj^'cs are devoted
to so full and detailed an account of a Coininctnoration much
of which of neccs.sity has already appeared in the new-spajjcr
press of the day.
The following letter contributed to the columns of TlIK
COLCIIKS'IKK Sun, a week or .so after a full account of the
Jubilee cxcrci.ses hr ap})cared in its column.s, by P. S.
llainilton, lvs(j., Yarmouth, N. S.. will show at a L(lance how
different was the i>riinitive'and scattered villa^'c of Truro in
1839 from thebustling.prosperousand thrivinj^ town of this day.
To the Editor of Tim Cokhtster Sun. ■
Sir, — The very interesting accounts which I read through tlie
press of .what 1 may call the McCulloch Jubilee, in your town, lead
me to su])pose that it might be of interest to especially the younger
portion of your readers, to learn just what Truro consisted of fifty
years since, — say about the close of 183S or Ijtginning of 1839. As
noy recollection of the place, at thnt time, happens to be very vivid, I
offer to Thk Sux as the oldest existing local journal, the following
list and location of the dwelling houses and other principal buildings
of J'ruro, of the epoch named. We will suppose that we enter " the
village," as it was then called, Irom the South, by the Halifax road,
using the letter R for the right and L for the left hand side of the
highway as we proceed.
First L , tlie house of John Barnhill.
Nearly opposite, R., an old house occupied by Joseph McNaughton.
L., by the broolcside, Mrs. William Blair.
L., shoemaker's shop, and in the rear of it, the tannery of her late
husband.
L., the old Miller homestead. When I first recollect it, Mr. Alex.
Miller still occupied it, and it bore a sign as a " 'I'emperance
Inn;" and was, I suppose, one of the first, if not the very first
" 'I'emperance Inn " in Nova Scotia. Fifty years ago, I think
it had already become the residence of David Fletcher.
L., some distatxe back from the street, an unoccupied house of Chaa.
Tucker, having a veranda, with outside steps, along the whole
front of the second story.
L., nearly in front of this house, an old shop of Mr. Tucker's.
R., C. Tuckers residence.
L., nearly opposite the latter, the wheelwright's shop, and in its /ear,
the dwelling ot George Cook. \
L., Samuel Craig. R., William Hall. ^ .;
R., Hall's blacksmith shop L, C. Tucker's shop.
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We have now reached the Common, on the South East corner of
which a house, since enl irg.'d, at this time m jstiy unoccu;)ied;
although Jas. Philii[)s. tnilf)r, occupied part of it — long known
aftcrward.-i as Nurihiip's hotel.
Turning to tfie left, the only house fronting on the South end of the
C'onunoii was W. Bowlan's.
Daniel Smith's .irul William ^.utien Smith's were the only residences
on Sniiih's Island.
Fronting on the Common, at the S. VV. corner, the old jail.
Next. W. side of the Common, S. G. W. Arc hihald's, previously Joyce's.
Next, old Court House, directly in frout of the present Court House.
Next, John Doggett's now Prince of Wales Hotel.
'J'he only buildmg ho iting on the Common, from the East side, was
the house, since removed, and long known as '• Charley
Nelson's Inn." At this time, it was occupied by some of
Mr. Nelson's family.
Fronting the Common from the North, was, at the N. W. corner the
old corner house, a tavern of long standing, afterwards burnt.
At the time it was I think, kept by J. (i(jrdon Nelson. In a
line at the N. E. corner, a house afterwards enlarged, belong
ing to the Ross estate, and unocr upied in 1838 1839.
Iktween this and "the corner house, " a vacant shop approached by a
long flight of outside steps, which had been occupied as sue li
by S. Clark of Halifax.
Leaving the common by the "Lower Village road," the first L was
known as the "Fisher house" and was occupied by J. Corbctt.
Next, Lm !)• Sutherland's then an inn.
L., the carpenter's shop and then the dwelling of Thomas Crowe.
R., on the brow of the hill, I'eter lilair's house, long disappeared.
Leaving the (ommon by Front, now Queen Street, the first L., John
Dunlap's shop.
On the brow of the slope, R., an old house known as Knight's place and
I thmk then occupied by a Mr. Knight, afterwards of Halifax.
L., the William Dickson place, eventually Hyde's — occupied in 1838,
or jus: previously, by John Romans and John Johnson.
L, Ceorge Dickey — afterwards David Wilson's.^
L, Wm. Flemming — his barns and outbuildings, then on the opposite
side of the street.
I,., James Braynion — afterwards Charles Pearson's.
L, a little old-fashioned house occupied by a Mrs. Detriechsen, who
kept a private school.
L., John Fulton. I think he was still alive and in occupation in
1838. The house and farm were after him successively owned
by Isaac Blair, Joseph R. Dodson and James Hamilton.
Jj., Dr. D. B. Lynds. William Logan, house and carriage-maker's
shop. Edward Logan — afterwards his son David's.
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Lm an old hoiisf nearly opposite tlie North end of C'hur<h lane.
occupied hy "tinker Nowl:in."
H., house and silversmith, etc , shop of David Page.
L.. I 'avid VVaddell Archibald.
Here, <T0Ssing the artilicinl channel whirh fed a pond by the mnrijiii
of the »ireet, we have back from the street, to the left, thu
grist and saw mills and the residence (jf Matthew J. An hibald.
Close upon the street, L . tin' Hapti'st Chapel, and R., the house '»<
Mrs (lardiiicr, nnd her sisters - eventually Miss i'uniers'.
keturiiing to the ("omnion, antt leaving it by the Hack, now i'rinrc
Street, we have first, R , house of the Misses Chambers.
Lm John I )unla|» s -now the oldest house in Truro, but moved to a
cross .street. R,, William ('ock'.s.
Lm school-hou.se - near, l)Ut west of Kleniming'." lane.
E-, George R. (irassie. Deputy Sheriff - now or lately Dr. Miiir's.
The house directly opposite (Irassie's, built and occupied by Dr.
Ed. Carritt, — atterwards Jose|»h Crowe's- had not yet I iliink\
been erected at the close of '38; but I am not (]uite certain.
Next. Mrs. Upham, mother of Chas. Uphiui, who eventually owned it.
Here there extends to the southwarci what used to be known as
"Young's Road," or the "Muckle Henry Miller Road," which
formed the first and oldest approach to Truro and Halifax.
On its ))rolongation Northward to Front Street, there was to the L...
a small hou,»e occupied either by Dr. Carritt, or the Misse.s
Hamilton.
Continuing E., on Back street, ne have L,. David Eorbes's— after-
wards enlarged and a story added. R., David Page,
li., and corner of Church lane, Samuel James Blair s carpentei sho])
— afterwards Post Otifice,
Fronting on Church lane, West side, S. J. Blair's dwelling house.
Directly opposite.— St. Johns Church, on site of the pre.sent church.
The Ross two story house R., on Back street, was, I think vacant in
'38. but soon afterwards ocou])ied by Joseph Dodson as an inn,
li., in rear of Church, Mrs. Matthew Archibald.
R., the Waddell mansion— nRcv. John Waddell.
Crossing the original channel of the ' Falls brook" an old house, S .
near the bridge.
S., Longfield cottage and grounds -Rev. John Burnyeat— now Sir
Adams C. Archibald
Two old buildings R., and occupied by ICliakim Tupper, tinker: the
other the office of Geo. Dill, Prothy. and Registrar of Deeds.
R., residence of (ieorge Dill. R , Hugh Moore's homestead.
Returning to the cross street, running north from near Waddell house,
on the R., house of D. Brown; from him sold to P. S Hamilton;
from him to Jonathan McCully.
li., Truro Academy. R., Richard Ambrose.
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"Sri Alfxander ArrhibaUl. JJ., jotham R Waddell,
!U., On tlie iioTthe.ist c(»rner of this sUeii 'tul interval'j road or Kionl
street, the huil'linj^ erecte(i as :>h( l>y John (Dr.) W'adik:!!--
afterwards Reading's dwelling, I'his brings us to the bridge
leadiii;,' to Bihlr Hill
On llic low iiiterveiiin)4 ground, jusl at the foot of the hill, There were
onlv two blacksmith's shops - McCully. S.; and Mcl-eods. L.
On the Crown of the hill, coniinennng next the river, there were
R. John Marsters, A small house of Mrs. Kn^lish on the
river bank t •. the fear of Marsters. A shoeniaker shop and
ho'ise of Major Alexander Archibald.
Lm Marsters law oliice. R , John (loudi^e shop. JJ., Wms McCullv.
R., shop occupied about this time by either Samuel .\TcNutt or RobVs
(.'hambers. L> ^^ m- McLeo(J.
U., corner Court House road -Somers house — afterwards Wiswell'.s.
U,., opposite corner Court House Toad —I''.d ward P.lanchard.
L-, l'>/.ra Wiilc-rs— an inn (vflong ^tanding, afterwards burnt.
L-, Old Masonic Lodge. R. Saddlers shop. Mrs. Barry.
li., Hon. S. Ci. W. .Archibald, oflicc-and l.onse^
L-, i^nd about a furlonir farther North Henderson homestead.' We
need go no farther.
Returning to Court House road— a short distance up. £., Jonathan
(Jravt's, formerly postmaster.
About half way to the top of the hill, B-.> l^^^it^ fioudgc, afterwards
Rev. \Vm. Mcrulloch,
At the to]) of the hill. R.. K. 15. Dickson, Barrister.— afterwards Mr.
.Mct/.ler.
Nearly o])posite to this house North, formerly stood the Court House
which was afterwaiJs moved to the Common.
r do not, think [ h ivc ini-<>o 1 a hnu-*;' within the limits over which tlic
uKive line cxtt-n It*. 'I'lvit i>^. I do jiot think I iiivt- niissi'il a house stiindn)tr
within tliosi; limits, tilt-y Vi' IIS ii^o to-ilay, Tlu^ list '\^ hnt a m''iij,'n' ono
romparod witli whit wf find u]V)ii tlio s.iiiio fJTi'oiind now. Some of vont'
TO idurs nriy Vcihio it as a RKCOIM) of tin TH'iiol to which it refers, [f Ilmce
conn ted coiTecMy, thore are, coniiVrisinf,' Hi Me Hill, seventy-four (7') •'Iwtdl'
hiii houses in the alioVc li-st, Siipjiosiuy them to lie all iiih iliited- altliou(i-li
I Ixdieve. th^il, tliree or four were V ic uit — all I allowing the nsuiiUy ueceiited
aver if^e of tiv<' persons to eich dw(dlinyf.'-the poiiuhition of 'J'vuro. the Hill
ill d'lded. at thi- coiuniyncemeiit of )HiU», would lie tlirei' hundred and seventy
(:J70) souls. What is it now? Yours,
Yarmouth, .\. S.. F(d«, -ilst, l^^so, I\ S, Hami l.To.N,
Such was the villar^e of Truro when the Rev. Dr. McCulloch
commenced his pastorate here just fifty years ago ! From thi.s
little villar^^e an eneriifctic and live town has .sprung^ up with
all the advantages and convenience.*- that modern centres of
population are enabled to have. The town's present statu.s
can be learned from a perusal of Mr. J. F. Blanchard's pajjer
further oii in thi.s pamphlet.
Rev. William McCulloch, D. D.
Tlie venerable clerLjvman, whose fiftv vc.irs of continuous
iiiiuislerial work in ihc one ^on^rc^^'ltion have just been cele-
brated b)' the jubilee exercises tiiat are to be recorded within
these pages, whs born in I'ictou, in iSil. He received his
early education at the well-known (irammnr School in that
town under the tuition' of the Rev. John McKinlayand latterly
of his own father — the Rev. Thomas McCulloch. Of the
seventy students that attended the (irammar .School with Dr.
McCulloch, not one is livin,;:,'" to-day. In col'cjji^e amont^r his
fellow students wore the R(;v. James Ross D. I).. ICdward
lilanchard, late Town Clerk of Truro, William (irant, M. D.
Professor '\n Pliiladelphia Medical Collej4C, the Rev. VV^illiam
rVaser, I), i) ol l^arrie, Ontario, and many others afterwards
distinL,nnslu;d in 'different |>rolcssions in life; and of his fellow
collet; iatis the Rev. J)r. I*'rascr is the only survivor. The Dr.
pursued his Divinity studies at the 'J'heological ITallofthe
Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia. After which he engaf^ed
in liie teaching;; profession for two years in Pictou town anil,
was also [or two jears Head Master of the Varmouth Academ\'.
He spent nineteen months in (ireat Britain and on the Continent
and returnin;.( to Nova Scotia was licensed to preach in the
old church at Mcri)L;omish on the ci^dith of Au;.,mst, 1838. Dr.
McCulloch preached his first sermon in his father's church in
Piclou town, taking for his text John x : 9. On his way to
Truro he spent two Sabbaths at New Annan, preaching in the
(lid School house on the hill, near the site ftf the i^resent sch(K)l
house, making his home with Mr. Win. Hyers, Sr., and arrived
here on the lOth .September, 1838, preaching twice in the old'
church at the Cemetery on the following day from Rom. iv: 16
and P.salm xlix:8.
In about five months after the young minister's api)e.'irance
before tln" Presbyterian congregation of Truro he was ordained
in the old Cemetery Church on February 13th, 1839. The
Rev. John Sprott preached the Ordination sermon from Matt.
x:4i. Among the clergymen present on this very auspicious
occasion for the Truro Presbyterians were the Revds. John
Sprott, .Musquodoboit; John Brown, Londonderr)-; Thomas .S.
Crowe, Maitland; J. Smith, Upper Stewiacke; R. Blackwood,
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Gay's River. J. L. Murdoch, Windsor; John i. l^xtcr, Onslow,
and Hugh Ross, Tatama^fouchc.
The choir was led on that occasion by David T. ArchibakU
and of that band of sinj^ers, consi.stin<^ amont,' others oi Charles
lilanchard 'Sheriff, Williain Archibald, Jotham VVaddell,
JancBlanchard ''Mrs. Dr. WaddcJl";, Annie Cock Mis. Ivunham)
Jane Archibald (sister of Sir Adams ArchiViald, afterwards
Mrs. Dr. Bayne;, and Sarah Blanchard (Mrs. A.N. McDonald,,
the last alone survives.
The communion roll of the church at that time numbered
170 and of this number there arc living to-day \iw\. fifteen; viz :
Mrs. Nancy Archibald, Mrs. R. O. Christie, Mrs. Timothy
Archibald, Mrs. Isaac Archibald, IVIrs. Cjcori^e Dickey, Mrs.
W. Cuttcn Smith, Mrs. William Flemming, Truro; Mrs. Joseph
Loughead and Mrs. Robert Louj^head, Clifton; M'S. James
Johnston, Coldstream; Mrs. Rebecca Johnston, Acadia Mines;
Mrs. Munroe, Malifax; Mrs. Nanc> A. McKecn, C'apc Breton;
Mrs. l.saac Lof^an, Shubcnacadie and Mr. Samuel James
Archibald, Harmony.
The elders of the church at the time of Dr. McCuUoch's
Ordination were Messrs. Samuel Archibald, William McCully,
J. J. Archibald, J. D. Christie, Hn<'h Moore, John Smith,
Kdward I.ogan, Hugh Johnston, Ak ndcr Kent and James
Loughead. During the last fifty years twenty-seven elders
have been appointed.
In 1839 the Presbyterian Church of Truro stretched from
near the Shubenacadie River to Kemptovvn and neighborhood,
fully 25 miles in length; it embraced parts of (jrecnfield 11
miles from Truro, run out 10 miles to McCallum's on the
Stewiackc Road and e.xf ended to McCilinch's 6 miles on the
Halifax Road. From this wide-strttching congregation for
many years under the pastorate of Dr. McCulloch there have
since been formed the prosperous churches of Clifton, Cold-
stream, St. Andrew's, Truro, and the Harmony Mission Station.
The members of the I'resbytcry of Truro in 1839 were; —
Rev. .Ti.hn Waddell, M. A., Retired, Truro.
" John 1. Baxter, Onslow.
" J. L. Murdoch, M. A., Windsor.
John Brown, Londonderry.
John Sprott, Musquodoboit.
Andrew Kerr, Economy.
Robert Blackwood, Uay's River.
James Smith, D. D., Sttwiacke.
T. 8. Crowe, Douglass.
William McCulloch, Truro.
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Duiini; Dr. McCulloch'.s Pastorate there have been fifty-
one chaa^ics in tliis Pi-csbytery by deaths or removals.
Dr. McCulIoch inanied his first couple on April gth, 1839
—Miles Cicldcrt and Alice Nasli — both are yet living. He
■ofticialed at the funeral of John Corbet, October 20th, 1838
before his Induction, and after his Ordination the first funeral
service he held was on March i6th, 1839, on the occasion of
the death of Mrs--. Letitia Wilson.
Durinj^ his lont^^ pastorate the Dr. has admitted to the
church 1008 persons, baptized 960, married 520 and attended
and officiated at 810 funerals.
One of the most important cvcnt-s in connection with this
Clujrch over which Dr. McCulloch has so long and so abl}' pre-
sided was its <j^rand Centenary Celebration on 13th Sept., 1870.
.At that time of the 170 communicants on the Roll in 1839
but 68 were living, yet the communicants then numbered 500.
Durin:' the Doctor's ministry up to that date he had baptized
728 pcisons, married 405 couples and officiated at 513 funerals,
The venerable pastor emeritus of the First Presbyterian
Church in Truro has been contemporaneous with the following
clergymen of other denominations in the town : —
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BAPTIST.
M. k. Rev. J. K. Gouck«r.
' liHEW'.S, (PR«:.SRVTERIAN.)
Ruv. T. Cummiug.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Ri-v. D. C. O'Cuminr.
\W-s. D. W. C
Rev. A. Burrows.
lUv. W. J. Mihau.
Diiimck,
ST.
Rev. John Burnyeat.
" ,J. Williams.
EPISC<)l'AI>r.'i>'.
Rev. Chuilfs Lever.
Rev
Rev. J. D. CuiTitnan*.
J. Fotsythe.
J. A. Kaulbacli,M. A.
Rev. V,
B, Stewart.
Foyu.
F. Dustaii,
.ST. PAI'L's, (PKESUYTKRIAIS).
Rev. D. M. (Jordon. Rev. VV, M Phillip.
I' W. T. Wilkins.
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John McMillan, B. D.
'" A. L. Geggie.
METHoDi.sT. — From 1834—1844 :
.lease Wheelock. Rev. J. McMurray. Rev. J. .Tost.
'IhuiiiMs Smith. " R. Moiton. " Robert Cooney.
S. Tuttie. " Richard Smith. " A. B. Black.
Rev. J. R. Narraway, '44-^ '50.
J. I^iickley, r.l. Rev. A. B. Black, 153 Rev. J. Rofiters, 76
(J.O IhiestiH, '54. " R. M<irton, 'GG. " R. A. Temple. 79.
.1. McMurray, '57. " .1. Read, '09. " S. B. Dunn. 81.
T. H, DavifeB, '59. " J. Slieutou, 72. " R.A.Daniel, '84.
Thos. Smith, '61. ' '■ S. B. Moore, '87.
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By a resolution t)f the Truro Presbytcr\- it was dccidcil
that the fiftieth anniversary of the Or(H!)ation and Induction of
this respected I'^ithtT in the Churcli should be celebrated u itli
a[)pr(^priatc services and the arrani^cnicnts were left- in the:
liands of the following active Committee : — Rev. J, Robhins,
Convener, J. M. Pitblado, C. P. Blanchard, L. H. McKlhinncy
(representini^ the First Presbyterian Church); Rev. T. Cumming
J. K. Hlair, J.P\ Blanchard O'eprcscntinq' St. Andrew's ("hurch,;
Rev. A. L. (ic^i,ne, Donald Fraser, J. P. McDonald represent-
ing St. Pauls Church:; Rev. J. D. McCiillivray. lulwin Archi
bald, Silas Black frepresentinf^ Clifton); Rev. W. T. Bruce, \V.
N. Dickson, J. C. Archibald frej)rescntin^r Coldstream; and
John L. Archibald 'rcprcscntinq' IIarmon\' Mission Station,.
At a mcetinrj of this Conimiitee L. B. McP'.lhitincy was
appointed Secretary and C. P. l^lanchaid, J rc.isuter. To this
Committee, assisterl by a noble band of lady workers in the
Cong're^'ation, must be 'j^iven the credit (or the very successful
issue of the Jubilee services ana celebration that were held.
Tlie Convener of the Committee was indefatigable in ever\-
effort to brin^- all to a harmonious and a happy issue, that ho
succeeded, almost beyond the most sanguine expectation, is
now a mere matter of history.
The members of t'lc Truro Presbytery at the present time,
1889, are, according to date of their Ordination :
Rev. Wm. McCuUoch, D. D.
Ebenezer Ross,
•lainea McLean.
E. (Jrant.
J. Robhins.
J, A. Ldiifin.
J. A. C^iiill.
E. M. Dill. «'
and ministers residing within the bmiuds,
Revda. Alex. Rosa and A. L. Wvlie.
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Rev. Alex. Cameron, B. D.
"I T. Cuinminy.
.1. H. Chase, M. A.
E. Smith. \\. A.
W. T. Bruce, M. D , ISf. A.
D. S. Fraser.
W. 8. Ness.
A. L. (ie}.'i;ie.
The preliminary services in connection with the fifty years
Jubilee of the Ordination and Induction of the Reverend Dr.
commenced on Sabbath, February loth, when at the morning
sessicHi of the F'irst Presbvterian Church the Rev. E. Ross
preached, at 3 o'clock p. m. Dr. McCuUoch ])reached his
Jubilee sermon and the Rev. Dr. Forresv, Principal of Dalhousic
College, 1 lalifax, held service in the evening.
The Jubilee exercises contemplated b)- the First Presb}'-
terian Church were referred to by different ministers in Truro
in their respective pulpits on the Sabbath and all spoke in
JUBILEE CELEBRATION,
high terms of commendation of Dr. McCulloch and his long
life's work.
Rev. J. A. Kaulbacli, M. A., Rector of vSt. John's Episcopal
Church, at his morning service on the same day, from the te.xt,
"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity," made a most kind, feeling and chri.'stian
reference to Dr. McCulloch's work in Truro, to his life-long
service in the ministry of his church and to the honor the
citizens of Truro would do themselves in taking part in the
exercises that were to celebrate this good man's jubilee pastor-
ate during the coming work.
The following is a fair digest of the appropriate and
powerful discourse preached by the Rev. E. Ross on Sabbath
morning from Zech. xiv;6;7.
Tbu text, in its outward form, is plninly propliPt ii'. The time to which
it refers we cainiot determine. It is most eommoiiiy reifarderl as descriptive
of the Churcih's conditifm ti'om the time of its establisliment uiKler the
Ai)ostb>s. to the blessed perioii of the expected Millenium. In this view, it
helont,'S to the larcre domain of uiifulfilled projjheey; a part ef the Ilible
which lias always had strong; fascination for the curious ami the imagina-
tive. It may well Ik^ c)uestioned however, whether, in the study of it, men
have not often "darkene.d counsel with words without wisdom.'' In the
nature of thin^ the main purpose of prophecy can be attained, only after
the event. ,Ie<us said once and a^iinto his desciples,—" And now i have
told yf)u before itc<»me to pass, that when it is come topass.y(> may believe.''
And'how often ilo wi> read that they understofjfl not. this sa>iii}f au'l that,
(tf their Divini' Lord ; " These thing's understood.not the disciples at the
lirst; but wlu'U .les.is Wiis p:loritied. tlu'ii remembered they lliat these tJiinj;s
were written of him. ami that they had (haui tie se thinffs to him."' It is
when the corr(?sp(;nde>.v )f the event with the i>rt lictiou is re(()fr]iiz,>d aiu',
felt; when what has come to pass is seen toafrree exactly wilb what it was
foretold would come t(j pass, that fiiifh is confirmed aiKJ heai'ts str(^n«:thened.
Yet, are we not to overlook or neylect, as counting: it useless, any portion
of God's word. It is all ^iven by His ius]iiration. It is ail uie,st'i)recious
and most prf)titable. rnfultilled in'oi)hecy itself._ even when its jirimiiry
reference is oliseure or unknown, has often an iiu irtn-t and secondary
application, from which we can h^arn lesions of priceless wisdom. Take our
text asan e'xaniple. I do iiot know to wha,t jieriod thes(^ w(,vds [mint. I can-
not tell you — I do not think that any man can tell you witli aiiv certainty
or Aviih any exactn(;ss — what coridition of thiiif3:s. in the (hurcirs history
or in th(* world's, this scripture is intended to portray; but we can all s( c
here, 1 thiuk, a very plain and sti;ikinK pietare of our human life — of the
life that some of lis have been liviuf^so lon^,' — of the life that all of us are
living now- that is, all of us, who have found Christ. So lookinjjr at the text,
we miy learn lessons of highest value — lessens iijxin the (lie hand of
submission.of endurance, of constancy, of patient centinuance in well doinj?;
—and upon the oth(;r hand lessons of hopefulness and ,ioy and confidence, of
praise and tluuiksj^iviiifj. of f,'ladness and I'ejoicintj:- -as 1 eiit a .lul ike.
I. The Life of the good man ■^ipoa the earth in a chequered lift.
"The lit,'ht shall not be dear npr dark— not day nor nifjht" — not all
brightness nor all trloom. It is an alteitiaticn of siiiishine and shadow.
This is true of the >?qod man's oitward exjierience. In this it mav bo
said he does not differ from othei-s. There is a distinction however which ■
you will make for yourselves. 1 do not M-a it to point it out. We are con-
cerned at pres(>nt with the fjocKl nian only, and we see .Tosei)h, first the
favorite of his father, tlien the envied of his"l)rethren. cast into the pit, sold
into slavery, thrust down into the. dunjjeon. Then ajfain we see him
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THH McCULLOCrr
l)r<iu>rlit f(i>'tTi fi'nni lif'^ iinprfHonincnt. HtnniKnji' liffoio PlniaoK wfth tlic
KiiiK'n n'litr oil Ill's fiiiKiT. aTfiivo'l In vcstui'f nf fin.' linen, wi'fli a (,'<il<l
f'liiin about Ins iicck. I'i'lili^ I'u Kk.vI'*'^^ ^'''""'1 ''li i' i'"'. riih-r dvi'i- nil l)if
find:— -or we rfi-i- DuvM, (icst tlx' huinhli- slicplicivl I'ld, 'lifii thi'ConijiM'M i
of (.Juli.itli, lh"n the tavnur«'(l conrti'i'r: soon ijn'vi'n foi-fli a fiifijitivt' ruiil a
wairliTC-r. Iij ar.ii I'V ^(iiitid upi n tlic thfonf of I^ir-u'l.' Vint afti>r lon/^ yens
fli'i'iufr {i^.iin ffo'i. .((M'usai.'iii (.rr tins roriHiiirary of A'"<'iloir]. iil-anUom 'I
T)y falno frii nls. cipsi-d an I HfofK^d ' yStii'iiiff— wftfi no <\\'y'\^, to fi'.-fi'iit--iiii<',
as closiiijj tlic sul li'Mjifi-dy, siic'l'lin;,' 1 itturost tcur-i over the son that so
little (lesci'v'eil Ins rej^Mi-iL Fnrt'i.errnore. we spo .fot'. a-* he rneets iis (i'st.
the most [irosjiei-ons man of the Rist. rich for hotli wor'ils. n'< h I'li carllilx'
possossiOiis, I'ieli in a j,''oo'lly iionsehoTd, n'ed I'li the <rn,i(iyi,ient. of health.
rich in tlie (;i,voi- of (lod; Init how soon (h<Ui);hr tnrneil to ifarfaiess. See
him now, stri'pt of all the world holds dciinst. si ri'pi (.f Ifoeksand h(!r 's.
hereaved of soiK uti'j daii>.clit«'rs. w'' h taiiiitin^i: fri'en's and a ^"^riifn^ wWv,
his body sjiiitten with loathsoiia- diseas'f!. the tnan si'ts lunonjr theashe«.
serapin^^ hi'mseff wil ' a (lotslierd. [jot us looUat .fili once ii^r ifn. The (d(;iids
are dispeised now, liis prospeii'l / is rtistored unl doubled, 'J'he h'ls'ht shines
uf^aiii. elear npoir his patli. Id's last diiyj are his 'est diiys.
'IMiis lesson of our text [■; trui of tlie >ro((d m.in^s relf;,'H)ns li'fe. H»f knows
much of (lod's plan and juirpoSf', he knows nnicli of man's dut^- find rlestiny.
—he knows iniicFi of si'n sii/d ^ui'lt.afid eoHS(H(iient ruin Jie knows mutdi loo
of th<! only leiiiedy and the Spirits njifdie it fori of it. The \Tuiy\ ninn know s
enough of these thin)^ to make, him wise unt" ^ai^'ation. But tfii're .arc
mysteries of tin; Diviin' Xatiire — mys terms of |)ivine f'ro\ i''ene.e- inysteri«M
wlt^hoiit and my.steri'es within luysteri' -< on every hand .vlii'ch we onniiot
■waltHo iiiiieh as to mention. w)iosn deptfis he cnn never f,i"th(uii h"re._ These
and oth'-r causes mak<' even his (;(>mmiinion withUod often MiietuatfiiK i'H'f
nneertaiii. One (Jay he is on the, hei,','hts, nnodier dnv he is in 1 Ik; de|)1 hs.
Now you hear him exult jnc' : '" The Lord ism/ liVlitand mysiilvation. wliom
fdiall'l fi'ir." "The fiOrd is tlie strenf.rth of my fife, of wfiom -'ha 1 1 I I e iifr lidV'
'JTien wailinfT in aiiKnii^h; "My fJoil. my fjod. why hast thou foi-saken mey
WliVoi't thou so far_ from helpiiif.' me, and fj-om the words of my roariut' ?''
Paul is eaii>j:lit uj) int(^ tlie thir<l hejivf^ns, iind has wonderf'i 1 revel:iti( iis
Vouchsafed, liiit eomintf <iown to earth h(i meets th" niessen^'er- of Siitnii
Stand iiifj: by his side to hulfet In'iu, Hi- is constrained t;-- crv out '"O wreteb •
ed muii that I am. who shall deliver me from tlu; body of this denlh;"' yet is
ho enalilt'd to add "I tliank (Jod llirout^h .fosus Christ our rjor<l."
//. Oitr UH tcarheg that for tlir (jood inan'x life, tlie ijietit (itxl has rc(i<ir<l.
"It hall be one <lay that shall be known to tlir' fjord. " Tho Lord knoweth
tho way of tho n'Khteous:" and I>avid sfiysa>>:ain "'The Lord knowetli the
days of the u[)ri;fht.'' How -.lioiild he but know them. }le Ins nppm'iit-ed
them, arrmurcid them, planned them. The I'salmist tells_ us farther " 'I'he
steps of ;i ^r,,o<l iiiiin are ordered of th(^ Lord.*' \otljin«' is left to ehiinef- or
ha|>-ha/ard: e\'ery movement is directed^ by uiiorrinK wisdom iiiidiinf.iilinfr
h)ve, so that from manys<-(uiiiti>^ ineonsistencdes. atid nuiiiy leal vieis'^'i udes
thei'c re^Siilts one hnrmonious whole ; '" it shall be one day;" from whi'di no
single event, not evi'ii the stran>,'est nor th rnost fiiiinful ecaildbe omitted,
without uiarriii)^ its eomph^teness. For this knowledpfe of whieh our text
speaks is soun'tliint,' more tinin slinpie c<;^'nizance. It is the knowled;/eV,f
interest and reffat'il— of 'genuine interest and deep rej^ii id. (lod watcdif^
the prof^-ress of the ^'oo(l ninn's life witlia real concern, and this thouj^dil
Hliould comfort the hearty of the .dii;istian in tho darkest hour of the "rlay."'
He does not know why it is so dark. Hut, floil knows, and this should (|uiet.
if it cannot jjrladdun, fie feels no pan^r- lie heaves no siffh- he slierls no
tear, but tiiHl knows it. This lesson the pitriareh Iia'l fully mastered, and
it snstiiiiK'd him throuj^h chiiifi and storm. " Heboid J )>ro forwarrj but he is
nf)t tliere; and backward, but I cii,nnot perceive liim. Chi the left hand
whoro he <loth work, but I cannot ludiobl him: he hidetli hiins(df from me
.that I cannot see hitn: But h<! kno\V(^th the way that I take; wlieti he; hath
tried me, \ shall come forth as_f?old." OtirGod i<ee](S a hottU^ into which he
puts his peojde's tears, preservinp" thotn as most pre<douR treasure.
But whilst wo dwell ui>on tlm darkness of this "day" wearenotto
forget — as wo are soniotimes unKratcfi.il ly prone to f( axi't— tliat (iod knows,
! h
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not t<»
knows,
JUinLEK CnUinKATION.
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rt'prarfifi it« })ri;.')itnea« as woll us its^ifUxmi. AaH «) when thfi clouds Imnk
lUjil iIh) rtuii s\ii««fl ii^'iiiti, He ^ivcs ii hi^iiviily W!.st to tmr jji'ospi li^y,
■urirliiiK joy to our ^Uii'<i<'yK " il( ^'lYi'S in ^lu'lfoiric lyowirs to 'Im<H '' iift
Hurcjy ('.ft '•>!«' clotlusMi sorrow';, .'tirouft." In lit^K-r ciiM' "Jiis ways uro jKiHt
iiiidJ/iK out-in Votli c.iflcs ('(lually wf Jioiil I n'flt ftat isfic I wiih tlw a^-<,.i-
^nc« UAt *' wi)at wo know not now, wo sJiall know Iwiit' iTtfr/
///. Thji hxt t^'.acjiex thai fu<m th<'. ijoixi tmno'a life On: ilarhn't^niinll
■piiHn, me. the tidy (•I(>j<ph. " It hIiuII c:oin'» to pass tliat at cvPTiniK timf; it «lial1
1)1' llKht,"" Hy a (nviT^ciii^fi not altir^'otlwr unnatural. l>iit <'<'rtiiinly ulto-
t7''thi'r uuwurranfal 1(! iIih clause is oTt(.'n umlorHto'xl uh \\(.uihtn to flio
l)l(-<ft('(lni'i:4 of t)io H lint iiftoi ilcatli. lint evening i*^ v*''"' ' f,'l''.V '^"' '"^
part indi'od, l.iit still a part, aiirl now it is niliruKil tliat on this Jat^'St staj^n
•of tilt' K'ood niiUJ ■; life '' there shall he li>.',ht.''
May wi' take tiii.s promise in ita al.olut(>no'*f» nud litprnlity? Aro thn
last 'lays oT.i;'io(| im«;u never i-louriod? Is the, closing: scene alway-* reiielieil
throu«;h a season, of unhroken ealm and sunshine? We may iKit iitKirm^nre.
Hiither we ure t-(j understatid th(t toxt as presontinf^ the teener i_l rule. We
niii-.t admit oxceptions. Still \\'« jnay s .fely iiiainti.in that this is the rule
It is_ lik(! the promise of Inii^; life and jtrosperity athu-he.d t<» tVu- liee[)in^; of
the, Hfth CMTini;inilment; imd in hotVi eases, aa in all siinilar ea'^cs. we • an '-ee
how tho rule carries within it;s(df. the, elements of iirohaMe fulfihuint..
This is th(! rule then, from which the glory of Ood i lul the K<xjd «T the
individual may cause jnany «xception^- ^'xc(•l)tionsliO■vvl■v<'r t.hat,a<'C(.rdinij
to our confident assurance, art? <jc<Miriin^' inore and more rarely, and will
<:ontinuo to oc* iir so, as the world jLjruws older and ' idter- 'I'Tie violence and
pei-secution that in past nffos. interlered with this rule have nf)w l()rg:ely
passed away. Oftener and oftonor thcrcfoix- nuiy wo expect to see th'>
rij^'hteous flourishing: like the palm troe.nnd hriii«in^' forth fruit m ohlafrc
For there is thi-* otlier princiftle in ooufttiint oper.'iti(.n-\vlii<h yet. is riot
mother,— " 'J'lie i),ith of tin; just i- as the shinitu,' liKlit that shinoth mc^ra
-and more unt'
tv!:
,iusi, 1" as tnu sumitu,' ii;,'
■.liininj,' day,"
'■H«w fin"! hasttie flny hivn, liowT)ri0it was Ih*; sun
How ><(V«;ly Blid joyful ttic CniirdR't.tut Iw; ruVi,
Though Ik! rose in a mint w^ien Mh riir« lie boariiii,
And there followed ituiur (l'-o|if<in(;H of rain, to."
And r. w we, are nimindcd that whilst sermons to tho yoiin^ .ate
frequent, sermons to the old, arc not so common. <')ur fiuhjoct this niornirij*.
tiSjM?oiiilly wVien considftrwl in connection with the season which it he/,'jn <
to commemorate, addresses itself nu»st iiointcdly to the, ti^fcd. To many of
us the eveni 1)4,' time has corae. TVh; shadows are liii;ft}M'iiin>jr. It is still
<iay with us, hut, the ni^'ht is hastening' on. It should I e the hest (,f thedny
— the hour of most hlesscfl promisi'. In tVie iiast hayi) heen frefjuent
tluctiiiitions- of (hu'kness and clou<l and storm, nlternatlnj' with cilm and
■sunaliine.. and untroiihled skies. Is it cieaT now? all cle;.r? Is the murk
und tVn' ^looiu and tho hldcknuss— the win ly storm and tempe!»t,is this — ate
these fill hehind / Is our West all (dear and uiKdoudtid and serene? Some
here ptvsent— ^hey must ind<>«v] he very few— -havo h«<!n sittinjr, under ih ■
miniS' rations of God's Mess.'nj[,'er whose'.Iiihilee has now coin(\ thtti .kIi all
the.sc fifty years; a f<^w more. thoii^^Vi still not many, have r«'cei vwd t le- word
from his mouth for fi;rty y(Mrs; vet more of you have henrd the >;osr<d from
his lips for thirty years; a consiilerahl^ niimner of you ha\-»! occupied tluise
pewt" from Siihliath to Sahhatli for twenty years; a 1 irjjre proiMirtion of you
nave iKjcn here for tcri years. Is there any one of you utisavedV It must
he a fw.irfnl tiling' to live under the jirospei faithfully jin^achc'. for even ten
years, and 1k>, without Christy But for twtmty years- for thirty yen rs- for
forty years—for fifty years,- -the thou>,'Vit atipals. Is tlieie, then such a on i
hero? We know "not. We hope not. Thit should tl«'re \i'.\ even this
lextrenio ijaso i.s n<il, hopideas; Christ saves to the uttermost. _ But there is rm
time to h(' lost. Th<>re never was. 1)< lay in tVie younjjf is infatuation. In
tho old it. Is the very madness of folly.
Whilst this season of Juhilce. then is fittlnj?ly a seasop of joy and
thank.s/<ivinf!f. it may will he at tho same time a season of d<!ep solemn
heart questioning, anri honest s(df examination, as in the si^rht <if (jiod. Ami
may He urunt that v/ith us all "at tho eveuinji time it shall Ixj light!"'
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• THE McCULLOCrr
■In the afternoon at 3 o'clock tlie First I'rcsbyteiiam
Church was crowdetl to the doors. to hear the Jubilee discourse^
f^o-called, of hirrr who had ^one in and out ainoi>gst thcin for
fitly Ion;.; years. The Mourning Cktoniclc^ in referring to thiS'
service, aaid : —
The large thinch wfts crowded, extra teat* hefns; put in the nwles f«r
the occasion, and fully one thoiwand person* listened to the Rev, Ooetors
(iistnurse. The rri-shytcriana of the town attemled in force and iivmy
drove in from the aarrouiidin^ districts, c»j>eei(illy from the eonyre^ations
rn the vicinity, now with settled pastors of th«ir own, but which oriuinally
Were nil uii(Ier the pastorate 0^ him wlvose jubilee they were »o ^lad Uy
relebrate. Larjj;e numbers were also |)resent from every onmniuniou in
Truro, as Dr. McCuUoch is held in the hitrhest resj)ec:t by the whole
ehri.stian public' of the town.
Many of those who attended the serrice f>n Jaat Siindny afternoon
expected to hear from the rererend f^enfcJeman some history of his pastor-
ate, st ictihinj^ over so long a period as fifty years. In this they were
disappointed, as the hiuhly interesting and edifyijig address, of one hour
in ]enj;th, made bnt little allusion to the many ehr»nges that had taken
place since Dr. McColloch was ordained over the church Jifty years ago.
Tlie whole tenor of his rtdmirable sermon was " give (rod the glory for
what he has d(»iie, for all that has been accomplished, and now let us
seriously con.sider what lessons are to be derived therefrom that will benefits
ts at the [(resent time, and wiil tend to farther the interests of H'« king-
dom in our midst."
The service was commenced by the vast congregation Tising and
ringing '"TVaise (Jod, from whom all blessings flow," etc. Then a short
thanksgiving prayer by liev. John Robbins, the present pastor of the
fluirch. After the siniri tig of jther suitable Psalms the learned doctor
read the 25th chapter of LeviticiJH, and also the 14.'{rd Psalm, ami took for
a text the 5th verse of this latter Psalm : " 1 remember the days of old;
I meditate on all thy work; 1 muse on the wrok of thy hands."
The venerable clergyman spoke with much force and
fcch'ng — the following being an outline of his very practical
remarks, found in I'salm c.\Iiii:5 ;—
Life's failures are neither few nor far betneen. Too fi'Pcruently they are
the consequences of nc^h^cted. [))'ovi(l(;ntial lessons. Treasured meiuoriei*
of past dt^ii liiiK-* have Tnon> to do with life's success Mian we arc inclined to
beiitjve. Tliey are entries in lifer's greiii lerl^er and reijresont so much cap-
ital <in uhith we ran draw in rectifying eri'ors. or sritimulatin^ to hift:her
e.lTortH. Such lessons nefj-iected lead' to c<mfusi(jn and ruin — (inly yahu'd
and studied they lead to success. The rnenrhant failing to examine hi*
books ;,o ascertain his finunc.ial jiosition, is of (juestionable honesty and
• Jon falls into disgrace. »So is it with the christian jnofessor. "The hand
o' the diligent maketh rich," while the reckless trader, whether in the
world or in tlie chiiicb, sinks to ruii'. The Psalmist reniemlH^red God from
tie hill Mizar. "he thought uptm his former v/uys," and for our benefit ha
i )-<lay repeats the less -n, '' 1 remembered the days of old. etc., etc."
1 lie not intend to review the experience of the last fifty years of life — 1
caTinot do it— but simjdy to suggest a few lessons suitable" to the occasion
that has iTought us together. »
I. To mini»ter aiul pCuple a Ch nrch's Jubilee is a most sungextive how\
What memories dne« it not recall V - pleasr.nt. as we wanaer in thought-
over the way by which God has led us as a church — yet sad, as we think of
JUBILEE 'CELEBRATION..
19
y^tettarp
course r
cm for
to this
Fii«le8 for
Poutor H
lid iivmy
relations
irii-'iniilly
i»(j yliid ti>
lunioa in
;he whole
afternoon
is j)aHtor'
they were
♦me ht>ur
had taken
years ago.
f glory for
Tiow let us ^
willbenetit
H'« king-
lising and
en a short
9tor of the
ned doctor
mi took for
laya of old ;
force and
practical
itly they are
id ineniorii'A
J incbno-d to
,0 much r,ap-
yr to higher
duly vaUirJ
cxamhKf In*
honesty and
'•Thohand
I'ther in the
rtiilGod from
iir henefit bo
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iirsof life— 1
the occasion
or in thoujifht
a we think ot
the many se.eiKH of sorrow that have Hefurated from us loved fellow-travcd-
|i VH to cteniity. Joys and sorrows so intenuinf^led as to make us reali/o
thai, "this is no't our rest" an! ••that to depart and he with ("lirist" is far
hcfcter. With you it is jiut th»f idstory of a con^ri •♦nation of only lifty years.
ll. is sduii ihiusr moi-e. It, i« th(^ historv of a (.'liurch of I'i'j years staridiii;,'
■urid of till' jtatieut, h<roic slru^^^'les of those Christian men aiid women, wlio
tirs], planted 1^0 -itatidard of the Cross on that hallowed spot wlien lie-*
their honored f?ust. \\i'i>iii^' the resurree.tion morn"- histoi'V of <iayH dark
almost as uiid-uiKh\ and anon hri;^ht with H;leams of lusaverdy liKlir;— day<
when they we|)t as thev remetuhered the Zion of tlieir old homes, yt.-t had
tliL'ii" wail of s(irro\v turned into a "new soiiff" of i-ejoieiii;.'. They w<'ro
men who lived to huild for Yoi, recrarflluss of sayrifiees. To iisaye a »,'oodly
h(!rita>,'-o for their children was the rccret sj)rinK of their christian selr-
df-nial, and to-day their memories come crowdiu^r upon us, likr' the autumn
leaves, each hearing its tale of sorrow or Joy, unknown to or forgotten hy a
bu^y world, hut n^corded in the Great Hoclk oT icm<iul'Vance. Th(!y have
hfft for us their histoi-y aud expcrie*^)ce, as precious im moi'ies and iuval-
uabhi lessons.
II. A time of earned dudif of the Church's spirdual charncter.
A chureli satisheil with its condition cannot l>e a proaperotis church. Ry
many worldly prosjxjrity siud crowdeil pews are so rej^'urded^ Full colTeri
and full pews arc by some hild in hiKher esteem than the "'leatity of
holines.s." In Christs day the rich ffa^ve of th"ir aliundan(u) and tnany
believed, but they added nothin^r to His jflory,_ Kumfiers nr<i nothing; to
•Chrirti, wh(!re. His Spirit is wanlinfj:.^ Purity i's His idonl^of ("J-od's liousf*,
and, where exhibited by its luembers, it is evidence of the Idj^h character of
the men of tVu^ past, ai^n of j)re3ent spiritual prosperity and security for
future profrress. Fifty years of privile>?e such as ours, precedeil hy tha
failh and toil of the F'atiiers, involve terrible rcsponsihility, and God ha^
a ri(jht to exjHU't a corresnojidin^' character. If christians, an-j C/iwious of
pi ogress, love to ,J"siis will ur>i;e us to hijrher attaitnnents, .vhile eousrioim-
ness of mourned ileadness will send us in sorrow to thi' foot of the Cross.
In either cis(> God is honored and new vijror is imparted to iniiividiial and
CI iiKrcfTational lif<'. What tlien is the cUnracter of the conjrrcKatiin? ff»
pure personal aiel f.imijy piety the rule In our christian houies and rlo wj
earrv it into our daily life? Is' there an earnest, unitiid I'fTort. to m;ike our
individual Influcsnce felt, our lip:ht to shine? Is our roli^rion a distinct
theory froiii our daily worldly life, 39 called, or do we IicHeve that there ii
uo such t)ilnj^ as woi'ldly life, but that a christian's .whole life is his re-
H/Lricjn ? Is there one liearinj? nie compelled to shy, " I never tri(id to anvft
'lie soul from ruin," f.>r, Cain like, "I am not my brotlf'u'- keeper"? T<
il)(re.(me of whotn, in sorrow, his pastor can say, "he ne%T)r helpid nu) In
tny work-i]' Money chantrers— the scats of sellers of doves — in the hous 1 of
foul, are its cirse ami the sooner you detoct and expel them the sofiner
will yuu f rec the church from influences that im])ede its growth, and will
make it a field that the Lord hath Messed. Enquire earnestly, becausf!
your in'lividual spriritual growth will bo the true measure of ccmgro-
(,Mtioual life,
III. A time to rectify what j.s lorong and strengthen things that remain.
This is your work, and the time is NOW, for "life i^ the season God
hath jifivon,'' anl you have no rijrht to leave it to a more ciiiveijii'nt season,
or to hand it over to_ others. .lust as then) are set times for intpiiry into
yo ir financial aftairs, so ou^ht thei"e to bo into your spiritual state,
thmprh, bv nf)t a few, the first is the most needful. The So nbath is auc-h ;»
season anrt conj^re^ationally this is or ought ti; be a grand examination of
ihiirch condition to a.-<certain what is wanting p,nd stop deterioration.
What does such inquiry bring to light? What influence has our religion
-e.'er our peisonal happiness and hopes? VVhat in its warmth of love t'.)
lesus and to all who bear His name? What in its holy obedience to God'a
la.vs? What in its shining example, so bright that men KNOW us to
belong to God ? What in our efforts, both by tcafehing an<l example, to
secure the purity and unity of the chm'ch ? Can we all pray honestly
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"that thojr all rnny lio one?" Jjot uh study our comlitiuu ami strive*
uwitt'illy 1,0 put lhinj,'s rifj^brt, ami kiscy thiMii nVlit,
iV. A iime !iU(i(jeHike. i^ effort after a briijlit Jiitnre.
Tin's is (lur <'.haracti'r, our duty, our plodjfo to ("linst, nnd failuro holic*
our I'laiin to Im (ukPh servants, (jiu'iii'?H is Christ's i.lu;i[ of a. church, iiii'f
its osscnco Is jjovc--" as I huvi.' 1ov»mI you, (itc.'' I5ut s(>(t, and cri'CMl jjoculi-
uritius dnivc out, true Kosiwd love. 'J'luy kfcp opcu luuniu^r soros in tho
lioily of C!lirist and Ix-Lin^ con-itaiitly l>rou;,'ht to tlio linnt '" llo fs woundc!
in tlu' housi' tif Ills fiiimls" and His "(•iwuiik'H lauKh anioiu; thunisiiivtss.'*
ThoiT is cuou^^U an I too much of uimu outw.ird icIiVinus \i'.: and a st.roii^r
tendency exists to uuik(! iv tlie uiaiiv luisiness of a church, t-ven thoufijh
eslitute of tlvat deej) yoariiiu;; of soul and active duty_dein:mded ofali
who would hold trui- mtoicoui's.; witli theii' Saviour, or aim at iuipr(<vinK
Un! chirch. Unity in tho c<>n;j:ro^.ition and coii'Sciiuentiy amun;,' christ-
ians, unity iu love is Clirist/s ideal and our dtity and cannot exist, wIkut.
for the sake of numhers. (rud's pi'ofe.s.siuj; children are t»;arjn{; down iiach
others (Uod'sV) hoiises. The Suviour receynizcis no christian as a Wos-
h-yan, liiptist, F>piscopali m or J'resl)yteri.in, hut as a son ofGixl, and aa a
.son i)f (iod we should treat each other. (Jar niectin^ to-<lay in U) aroiiso to
uspir.itionH after a hrij,'liter future, hut how is it to he reaii/odV The tio
th.it hinds us lotfod noisL hind us H) our lirethrcn in tlie o<a»t':re;,MtioM and
lo the h()us<'h()ld of faith. This element w^^ must c.irry into our life's wi rk.
Wo aro Iniildiuj; fni'CJod's j^lory, hut uo crumhlinK st(,ues, or (day hrirks,
no material looking' like stones from the devil's (juarry mu^t uudermino
vhi3 svahilityor mar the liu.iutyof your structure. Will (Joil honor thar,
in)ase huilt of any kintl of ruhlush. orhloss the net fliat svveens, cireloss of
what is caujrht. ^ and yet th(! pride of numbers is destroyinj^ tno old solem-
nity of a clirist rm profuision and nothing can he so in.jurious to a churchl*
ch ira.c.ter an 1 prospects. C'hristiiin life must he tho j^round work of hi^'h
anticdp.itions. It is so to the mind of Christ and must ho so to us. Y(»u
(trofess to I/O a co-\vorker with Jesus, hut, if so, you must us>) tho same
materi.il, you must he a New Testament iiec^ple, "eariiostly contending for
the Faith'"; if you can honistly pray and expect for hi'i^hter days and
11' Yoi; I'KAY I'lMC Tiii;.M, w.iiy i.-* it that, with such a mass of chri-itians as L
.see- hehii'e uu\ I'ums^dlers dominate ycair towni* We cannot have lar^o
harvests wic-hoiit hard lalior, xviv jiiorious victories without hard fou>,''ht.
ha 1 1 1< s. und o;ii' son;,'' " an I I'oi- t lie iio,,s>.' of t!od our iiord, I'll si;ek thy jj^mwi
alway" is a miseratde mockery iiidess cdiristiun work follows prayer. If
you (lesiie a htj^her type of ch.ircdi life you must work for it as well a^
pray, and if not your liope is the dream ( f the visionary. W'h :t say you to
ihu evils in tho Charch and (Jiilsido of it — it unchecked will hri/^ht days*
come .''
V. A time when, ittdhictimly, ice reviw the memurie» of our holiored
dead.
To-day hrin^jfs to your rocolhsction. not the history of fifty years, hiit of
one hun Ired and twenty-two ycnr^-v-tho life ol! tho olilcst Pres]»ytorian
church in the Dominion, and of tlie men. who, amid sacrifices and trials
unknown t(j you. sowed the seeds whose liarvest you w{i\) to-day -men who,
as its now glorified \)vst;Oj"s and j^rand t^ld (ihkus and momhers, made for
this conjC)'cf,Mtion the impi'rishahlo name (<f emjihatii-'lly " The Fiist Pres-
hyt.eri.ui Contjref^Mtion." Thro'ij,'h God's Messing tlry inado it what it is
and while (Joit h is cntriistc I it to us, let us, in hi si ility to v.'orldlinoss and
sin 111 every shaiio an 1 foriu and in hifjfh and h<dy consccratijn to Jesus
Christ, as a coiiji^re^ation, raisi' to those luen a monamcnt, whi(;h shall lo
for^^ottei) only wlien '• death itself shall die.'' ISce to it then that what is
entrusted to y<Mi i)assos to your children untarnishe .. Honor the ransomed
dead hy standin/,' hy the faith, the order and disciplini^ of (Jod's houso as
thoy did. Scrutinize (dosely the characters of such as profess a wish to .join
your hand. J>o not till tlie vacant seats with what God does not cnvn.
Stan<l hy your Ki'iitid old Jiihle and your honorc«l church. Stan<l hy your
Master and he will stand hy you, and wl.en your work ia done you'will
join the ransomed, ones who are now hei'ore the thi-one.
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The Rev. Dr. Forrest, in the evcninjj of the same day
preached to a very Jar^^e conf;re^ation from Deut. iv : 32
" Ask now of tlie days that are past."
The [jrcwlii r lif>»!in l)y ciillinf» atteutimi to tho wondprful cliarncter
«n(l iiiflutMicc of Moflea, tliu miin of (Jod. He triiced bricUy tl»e londing
/I'lituniB of liifl cliaiaotir, juitl the intureatinj; jHjsitioii ho (j< riipii'd on t,he
oiicasiori of the (U*livriin^ of f,lio discourao from which the toxt was taken.
In this discour.so Mosih riii<»!B w briuf survey of the past 40 years, he
<nnutiierati's tlu* various diHicullies with wliiih they art) called to contend
418 a peopl«, ami six wed how their success always d<'()end<'d on their
ohodieiiot! to (!o<l. In . •' text ho asks them- to take a survey of the past,
and profit liy the lessons Wniih their hishjiy had taUijht them. What a
beiiuiiful scene must have presented itself to the mind of Moses hnaself !
the days of his childhood on the bunks of the Nile \ his life in ihe home
of Pharaoh's dau^diter ; and hi(» aervice at the Kjjyptian court, and in the
Ktfyptian army all came vividly before him. Far moro vivid and im-
pressive were the 8cenei< of the Kxodus, and the jonnieyings through the
wilderness. He thouulit <if the plagues in the Exodus ; the lied sea and
the destriiction of their enemy ; of their journeyings through the wilder-
ness, ted with manna am! rtireshed with water from .he smitten Ronk ;
of Marah, and Elim and Hinia; he thought of the niurmurings ut the
peo|iIe, and his own impatience, and of (jod's judgments upon them, liut
far atiove these ho th<iught, of (Jod's long-suH'enng, tender mercy, and
kindness, in spite of all their imperfections and short comings— and now
that the journey is over and the borders of the Promised land reached,
aud ho is soon t<» get a glimpse of tho land of Promise, which is but an
imperfect typo of the better inheritance t(^ whi<'h Ood is to call him, he
stands gazing back over the past tnd calls upon the people with him tu
"ask now of rhu days tliat are past,"' and proljt by the lesson.
Tho position of Moses and the Jsraelitea was very similar to that
which wo occupy on this occasion, and the advice of the text was as
suitable to us as to Israel of old,— The past half century has betm a truly
eventful periotl in the world's history. Tho preacher traced tho great
changes tliat had Uiken place in tho history of nations and the vast strides
that had been made in scientific discovery — but it i.=< with tho religious
and moral changes that we as Christians have to do. ile callc ' attention
to the (jreat progress that had l)eeu made in ruissions, and in the various
efforts pat forth by Christian-s for the moral elovatien and im[trovoinc'nt of
mankind. 'J'his was true of our own land as of all others. When Dr.
M(tCulloch was ordained in J8'J9, there was not a single rcli;.'ious or
benevoleia society apart from the Church, except the P»ible Society. No
asylum for the insane, no institute for the deaf atid dundi, no orphan's
homu or home for the aged, no city missionaries, or organizations f«r
the refuge of the outcast and fallen — all these, and similar institutions,
through which tho Christian community endeavor to help those who need
their assistance, are the work of the past fifty years, and even in tho
church itgelf, its missions. Homo alid Foreign- its edurational and other
wfirk in every department, have all made extraordinary strides.
The preacher did not attribute this to the superi'jrity of the minister*
and office bearers of our own time, but showt I that it .vas largely ffie
fruit of the labor of thcjse \s\\u preceded us. He ([uoted Thomas Arnold
M sa}ing "two things we are Xm learn from history, one that we are uot
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in our«olve» superior to our fathors, Hnother, >.ht»t we nro nh^nu-fully niuH
monatrouHly ii»ferior to ttMJin, if wo ijo not ntlvdiK-e iH^yoml tliiMii.'
Ha illuatrated the point l)y »hewiii^ thiit the hiylily eitltivati-il «1o|»«h»
and fortilo meadows around Truro, were not the rusult i>f tlic lnV.ors <>f
tho nieii who m»vr occupy tbtsm u1(H»', but of tlw lurni wlio fillod tlw true*
ftnd built tho dyWo* in the days that aiH ({ouu V\\ ' ivo inuMm*r tin- iiitid-
ligence, tho relii^ioua and the moral coihHtion ol Trurn, art) not to bo
attributed to tho inon wlio are now doin^f fhti work, but larunly to tho
fatithful n>eti, who, ii: ciruumstancos far more; tryiiH?, sowed tho seod of
which wt> aro now ro:i|>iiii;j tiro rosu-lts ; and itf thoHt; men nono oocnpit^d a
more honorablo positioir thran ho w1k>8« .f r.bileo surviooa we are fchia woek.
celebrating.
1 know, Haid the preacher, tlwit to him anything lii».» fulaon-.c ouhxjjv
would be difitaateful ; and that he woidd In) tho first to nay witli th '
Pitalmist: "Not unto ub, U Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy nan)o i^iv i
glory," — but at the same time we niu«t not bo unmiiKlful fH the apoitolit'
injunction : — " Render hon<rt' to whom honor i* duo," and ti> whom i*
honor duo if not to tho faitiiful servant of tHiriat, who has «pnnfc his >vli(d»t
life in earnest endeavors to lead men to Him who alone eani save anii
bless them V "Them that honor me I will h»»n'>r," saith tho Lord.
The preacher did not consider it necossary to say mu>Ii 'o this oon-
giegation uixin this point as they were all familiar with Dr. MoC'ullooh'*
work and labors of love.
Ih". McC'ulloch could say of thom a» Paul said of the Tbessalomans ;
"For what w oi»r hope, or joy, or crown of rojoicint; ^ Are not oven yo
in the presence of oui' Lonl .loaua Christ ? For yo are our (jjlory ind j"v."
It is a somewhat impresaive fact that Dr. MoCuUoch is the oidy man
living whodo name was u|Kni tho roll of the church at tho' tin)o ho wa»
ordained a pastor Half a century's labors in one ct>n)j;re;4ation is wliai,
very few are j>t)rmitto(l to see. We do not know that another c;iae ever
occured in Canada, and it ia very rare in any country. It is therefon*
exceedingly appropriate that tin* church and the community should mark
such an event, and while obey ot; the Apostolic injunction by honoriiitr
him to whom honor ia duo, s'l )u!d listen to 'he words of the te.xt and
Bolemnly lay to heart the lostjcms which it suggest.'j. The preacher called
•ttention to \y\. McOuiloch'a faiflifulne.ss in warninc; men (»f their sins ;
to his intluonco in the homes of tho («!0|de in their times of prosperity,
but more particularly to the wonderful influence which ho exercised in
Ihe ho\iae ot mourning, and by the bodsidt* of the dyinj^. He made an
earnest appeal to any who had nob yot accepted the goapol, to celebrate
this Jubilee by layinj^ to heart the earnest- words to which they had so
often listened. Uonhi it be possible that there was one here present who
had listened to the oifors of the gospel for half a century, or even a
quarter of a century, and yet had rejected Christ ? How terrible must be
the resixmsiVnlity of those who go on year after year li'jtening to tlie
earnest pleadings of Christ through his aervanta, and yot reject Him ?
Nothing couKl give greater joy to Dr. McCulloch, on this his Jubilee.
than to know that in connection witli these interesting services sonie vvho
have hoard him so often had decided to accept the gospel he preached so
faithfully.
He closed his discourse by calling upon the christian peonle of Truro
to praise Cod for His goodness and to celebrate this Jubilee week by songa
and expveaasiona of gratitude for the inercieB of the past half century.
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On Thursday afternoon, February f4tli, at 2.30 o'clock
comnirnccd the interesting JubiU^ services for which the
active CoiHipittcy: ap[)ointcd by tlie 'iriiro Presbytery had
tn.iilc every preparation. The day was {^Joriously fine and
uhen the ('hairnian, Rev. John Robbins, Modenitor of the
(Presbytery ainJ Minister of the Conj^'r<!<^ation, called the meet-
\\v^ to order, promptly at the hour named, a vast assemblage
of pe(»ple filled the large church of tlic First Presbyterian
•con<rre 'atio;i. I he iuli.ibitants of I'run; of all denominations
and hundreds from the outside districts were packed into the
commodious and comfortable chur<:h--all desiring to do
lioiK • to the venerable I-'ather '\x\ tlu* Presbyterian church, whrt
was so ucll-known and so respected by those amongst whom
lie had lived aiul worked for li df a centur)'. The pulpit was
blight uith plants and flowers and on the wall above the
puli)it was a banner with the words " 'Jhe jubilee of our dear
old P;istor"- the wfjrk of Mrs. A. N. McDonalil, the only sur-
viving member f)f the choir of the church of fifty years ago —
and from the Reading-desk was a banneret bearing the figures
"1 839- i8cS9," artistically worked by Mrs. McLean o<" River John,
Among the Presbyterian cleri;ymcn present were, Dr.
McCuUoch, Truro; Dr. Pollok, Dr. Burns, Dr. Forrest and
John McMillan, ii. D,, Malif^x; P. G. Morrison, Dartmouth;
IC. A. McCurdy and K. Scott, M. A., New Glasgow; A'ex.
McLean, Hopewell; James Thonij-son, "West River; H. B.
^:cKay, Wallace; M. G. Henry, vShubcnacadie; T. C. Jack,
Maitland; A. H. Dickie, (jay's River; E. Grant, Up. Stewiacke;
1*1 Smith, B. A., Middle Stewiacke; E. S. Bayne, Mu-^^uodoboit;
J. H. Chase, Onslow; Thomas Sedgewick, ^cuUiiagouche;
James M. G. McKay, Shediac; Lsaac Baird, Miramichi; W. T.
Hiuce, M. D., Salmon River; J. A. Cahill, Economy; VV. H.
Ne.ss, Portaupique; J. A. Logan, Acadia Mines; Jas. McLean,
Great Village; James .Sinclair, Folly; Alex. Cameron, Halifax;
D. Stiles I'Vaser, .S[ ringside; George Christie, Bedford; Y. C'
Simpson, J. Robbins, A. L. Cieggie, T. Gumming, E. Ro?s,
A. Ross and Robert Atkinson, Truro.
Besides tliese were the resident clergymen of other denom-
inations in Truro; viz.; — Revds. D. W. C. Dimock, M. A.; J. A,
Kaulbach, M. A.; Paul Prestwood, J. E. Goucher and E. B.
Moore.
Another interesting feature was the number of those
present whose ancestors had been veritable fathers and leaders
in the Presbyterian church of the long ago. Taking part in
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the exercises celebrating Dr. McCulloch's Jubilee were the
grand children and f^reat grand children of the Rev, Daniel
Cock and the Rev. John Waddcll, — Dr. McCulIochV predeccs-
aois in the pastorate of this church. There were there, too,
daughters ol four of the clergymen who had taken part in the
Ordination and IiKluction of him whose fiftietli anniversary was
being celebrated at this time — viz; Mrs, 1 lugh.Dunlap.daughter
of the late Rev, J. I. Baxter; Mrs. R. Pntnam, daughter of the
late Rev. John Sprott; Miss Isabella McCulioch Ross, daughter
of the late Rev. Hugh Ross and Mrs. Smith, daughter of the
late Rev. Robert Blackwood and a widow f)f the late Rev. Dr.
Smith. Grand children of the late Rev. Dr. McGregor were
present, grand children and great grand children of the late
Rev, Dr. Thomas McCulioch and a .son ^t the late Rev. D-
Ross were also among the assembled multitude.
The Rev. Dr. McCulioch occupied a seat in the centre of
the platform supported on either .side by the Rev. Dr. Pollok,
Rev. E. Scott, Rev. Alex. McLean, Rev. M. Smith and Rev.
George Christie. This latter clergyman is the olclesi: (ordained
minister in the Presbyterian Church engaged in active work
in the Maritime l*rovince.s, probably in the Donjinion. He
was ordained and settled at Shubenacadie, July 22nd, 1S42,
and will therefore, if spared, celebrate his fifty years in the
ministry in 1892. The Rev. A, McDonald of Hampton, N. B.,
though, was ordained July 16th, 1842 — some six days before
the veteran that continues in the active work of the ministry
over the church at Bedford,
The exercises of the afternoon were opened by the choir,
consisting of Mrs. C. E. Cutw.n, Miss Jean McDougall, Miss
Spencer, Miss Belle Spencer, Miss Emma .^Lrchibald, J. D.
McKay, Caleb McCully, C. A, Archibald and W. Hall, under
the leadership of Mr. C. P. Blanchard, rendering the looth
Psalm. The Rev. E, Smith of Middle Stevviacke then read
the 72nd P.salm after which the Rev. George Christie, kneeling
on the platform in sight of the Whole assembly, offered up a
most fervent, appropriate and affecting prayer. Tlie 2nd
Paraphrase was then sung.
The Rev, John Robbins said: — Our gathering to-day is to
do honor to one who for fifty years has gone in and out
amongst this people. On the 13th of February, 1839, just
fifty years ago yesterday, Dr. McCulioch was solemnly ordain-
ed by the imposition of hands to the work of the ministry and
inducted into the pastoral oversight of this congregation. On
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That occasion the Rev. John Sprott of Musquodoboit preached
'irom the words of our Lord contained in Matt, x ;4i— " He
il.at rcccivcth a prophet \\\ the name of a prophet sh;ill
K ccivc a prophet's reward." — Of those who were then menisbcrs
of the congrccjation aW but tifteen iiavo gone to their rest-.
All the rninisttrj, who then constituted the Tresbytcry have
passed away. We may wcU ask in the words of Holy Writ,
" your fathers where arc they, — the prophets do they live
forever ?" — but bcint^ dead, yet by their works, the effect of
which reniaincth unto oar day., they yet speak.
Only r)ne minister yet lives in all Ihc .Synod who was
actively e;ti )loyed fifty years aj^o in the ministry. ! refer t >
Rev. Ale\'.'iR;!er Romans, who officiated at tiic marriaLjc ot
\)\\ McCulloch, an event which has had much to tlo in
'tletermining his success in the pastorate. Of Mrs. McCulloc'.i
St may be .said " Her children arise up and call her blessed;
her husband also he praiseth her.^'
Allow rac a personal reference, I have ever found in Rev
Dr. McCulloch a faithful friend. When I was called to be
minister of tliis conirregation I came in the spirit of a .son in
the gospel to this worthy man whom we seek to honor l(i-day.
— The Committee to whom the Presbytery entrusted the work
in cc'unection with this Jubilee have found much pleasure
therein, and we pray that these Jubilee c.>cercise.«i may be carri-
ed out irt the spirit of the g^reat Head of the C!hurch. Amen.
Mr. Robbins then read a cablegram of congratulation
from friends of Dr. McCulloch at Rridufe of Allan, Scotland
and telecjrams of a similar purport from the Moderator of the
I'resbytcry of Prince l-ldward Island; from Revds. Jaine!<
Carruthers and A. W. Mahon, Charlottetown;.from Rev. Du
J. Murra\-, North Sydney, and also the follow in'.x letters. Sir
William Dawson, K. C. M. (j.. Principal of McGill University,
Montreal, thus wrote in e.vlcndini; Ciins.jratulations to Dn
McCulloch :—
UniVersitv or Mc(5ii,i„ Montuijau
I'\;b. ■ th, ISv...
My iMHir Sir,— I beg t,o thank yon for your v(!ry UukI aivl courtiHuis
invitation to take part in the colonrution of the Jubilee of the Rev. Dr.
.VloO illoc'.h, whosu jiaiuB has so long buon as^oeiatoJ with the oaiisti of
relifjion andivliicvtion in Nova Scotia.
I cm axsuiM you thit £ reHfinl the event witii much interont an'l satis-
faction, not only as asscxiatod with Ur. M<!(^>allo(ih hinisolf, but with his lato
revonind fithor and other members of his family now nissod u way, who
wero very ile ir to nio, and to whom in my otirly lif>; I owad so rniioh
It is a matter of dopp rejjret to me that disUmco and the i>ryasurn of
multiplied euj^a^fements and duties here must prevent mo from oujoyiutf
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t}in pleasnirft of VK-fri^r jweHont, I (ran only th«Tf?forR Hond the cxprefwion of
fii f ;frHxl wisht!S au'l kunl rejfardH ou thi" <HM'iisioii,
Siurcrcfy Yours,
J. WM. DAW80N.
Kkv. Johm Roimmsk.
From the Rev Willram F'rascr (jf Uarric, Ontario, Joint
("lerk of the l^esbyteriati Cliurcii in Canada and the onl)'
survivinj^ fellow .stiulent of Dr. »McCulloch came this kind and
affect injf letter: —
'I'hc Rev. JoJin Ruhbi'iis. Tniro, lUUKTK, Feb. Ist, 1880, •
My l^car Sir, -I am to-iiay in rpct-fjit of your fr'tUT of the iiftth ulfc,,
iiivj'tiijjf ino to the (•♦•Icliratioii of tho Jiitiilec of the Or'iiualion auwl Induc-
tion (if tho R(!v. Div MiiJuIlncli on the Utli inHtant-
Rficfvf for yoiii-wdf and httvo the »r'K)dji(i*( toronvoy to your(,'orniiiitte«»
my best ac'knovvhMljfriicntH for your own and thoir kind winsidtrrntion. It
fc'ould.^ f am Hiirc, afTord hm; very ^^reat nloasurc to b*-, pres<;nt on tbc
aus|»i<i(iurt fKcaHioii a/id txi Joi'n with you al 1 fn dolri^ fionour to my Ixdoved
claHs-matc of thn lon^f a^jo. but twofve hundn^d iiiil(;*-iuid-winter- four
JM-ori! yi^ars (coinparativcly li^^htly ^xu-rn', howf.'Tm) an<l aoiae horno ihiti(;«.
Ac-. &'•.. admonish iw) that I must deny myself tJio^rratilic'-atjon, and content
fnyHHlf witli the fi'<dfnK th it 1 am with you in soul and spirit in this moBt
intorcHtinjr commemoration.
Kindly say to Dr. M(('ul!(K;h that his old sidi(Kil-f(dbjw k'H'« heart and
hand aionf^ with the. bretbieri of the. Presbytery and the conj^roK-irion in
Ifivinjf so a'pproj>riate an 1 KTa(!eful and, wcdl-mcrilfid a form to their
apnrec.iation of sitrvices in the lii/^hest of all intererfts so lonjf and ho faith-
fullr roiidered. and \\U lieart felt wish and praj'or. that, on the shady sido
of the hill he m ly yet have many davs of health and comfort and quiet
re|)ose in th«» bosom nf his family- stiH to enjoy the jtwpoct and esteem of
th(f brethniii and fi :<ii Is nmonjf whom he has ;/nne in and out during the
whole iK'iiVxJ of |iis moif active en^ap-ments— to l<-ok bock with satisfactioi^
ufd jfratitude oti the record of a well-Hixint life and to await jtatfentiy and
;;..nh<Jentiy the Ma«ter'rt " Well done, jjfwxl and faithful »<!rvant " KrentinK
in t he Unseen
With Halutatictns to the JJrethren and all inqiiirinR' friends, with best
wishes for the success of y<mrcomin»< demonstration, and for the pro(|rcHs-
and i»<)wer of the (iospel of Christ in my btdoved native land,
I am, my dear sir,
Very truly yours.
WM. FkASKR.
Kxtract from a letter from G. B. Crow, Esq., merchant,
of LiverjKKjl, G. B., to J. K. Blair, K.sq.
" STONRI.KKm," RoeK P'ICKHY. 8lBt Jany, fi'J.
MV Drar .1 AMKM, - f am in nMusipt of yours of the iHth inst. with the
circular referre<l to, I have >?reat pjeas'ire in sending a contribufion
t^)wards the testimonial to our old friend Dr. Mcl'ulloch. He ^H'jfnn his
ministry in Truro about a year after I left then;, but nevertheless I have
always'nad the (greatest rejjard for Dr. McCull'H'h and have felt fhat liis
work has l>een of the hiifhest fKWsibb* advnutaKe to tho iwople of Truro.
I need >iardly say that whatever, or whoever 1ms contiibut4id to the welfare
of my native town, will always have my warmest support and resjK'ct.
Pleas<! make my kindest remembraiK'-es to Dr. Mc(3ullfK"li and his family
and I hope ho may be long^ spired in your midst. His name must Ihj a
household word in Truro and its vicinity. My wife and family also send
their warmeHt »frepting« to the Dotrtor and family."
At the call of the chairman Jas, K. Blair and C. P. Blan-
chard, Esquir»s, came ,upon the platform, when the former
fUBlLEE CELEBRATION.
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read the following address on behalf of the Presbytery and
Vid congregation.
7'(> IKe, liw. Dr. McOnUoch :
A RTateful ]Mif^)io Kindly ernl)race tlie f)pportuTuty afforilwl l>y thi-
intorf'Stini^ <H'<vdHi()0 topreatnit you a testimony of tfioir lov and affection
l''ifty years have i)a:49(!(I away since yon camo aiium*: us as a Hi-ttN-il
tiiinistor, TIkjso luive IxMiii y<;ara of ^jvat iirojfrofls and idosperily. Tht!
sinj<lo (loii^nejration over wlin;h you wore ordahifMi has dcVflojKfd inti; (ivt\
In placp of one church cdifiru! mere are now si^vcn withni tlm limits of
vour ori>?inal i^hartirc. The Hparnely settled villa^^o of iifty years a/aro ha^t
f>ecv»ine a populous and thrivinK^towtk ^ ^
We are «lad U) feel tiiat its pi'o^ross in moral, reliffious. uTid in'el-
lertual life haft Itept pace with Us inaterial developiueiit. Much of tiie
leliKJous tone of tVicccniim unity we are jnstifi(id in ascrK iri^, under Provi-
denc'c, to tlie uiKUMwiiiif care with whi(;h ytju have Watolied over the spirit-
ual intere^trf of your ftfjck. No man Viaa'evor devof^d himself to th(! k'^xI
«»f hirt i)ei;])le with more entire HniKleness of pur|vjse than you have done.
Vou have enoura^ed them in every ;?(xxi word and work< \ <m have lifteif
up your voire ri+faipst livery form of un*ro'Jliness. You have denoii need
whatever you lielieved to he wrontf, fearless of (jhliipiy or misrepresefi-
lation. You have rej^jrcived the firriiiK- You have str(in*fth<!iied the w(>ak
and the wavering. Vou have sympathized with the sulTerinj,' and relieved
the distressed^ You have \)fnh with us in our iunoeent enjoyments ami
you have visited at tlj<! Ijc'lside of the siek and the dyinj;. You havi-
wept with the hereaved, and adminiHt^^red to iriourm-rs the eonsolation
of reli>?ion. You have asswiated yourself alike with our jiiys aiid our
sorrows. Your life is intertwined w'th ours hy your parti( ipation iu
almost every (event, father of joy or of >,'ri<'f. which has hiifallen us.
Wo cannot, therefore, allow this auspicious (lay, the fiftieth anni'
vftrsary f)f your settlement anionif us. to pass tiy without comintf forward
to express our appreciation of your lifelonj? lahors in the servien of your
I M vine Master. We are deeply coiiscioiiR that while we express our
iippioyal of your ministerial lanors you have not souj.rht to please men.
hut Tlim who sent you forth to work in that sphere which Heassij^ned you.
"We rejoice that at vour advanced. aj^e you an; privlle>?ed to enjo;^ so
Uirf»(! a measure of health anil strenj^^th. and we sincitrely prav that the
(3iv(!r of all goixl may yet voucl^Hafe to you a continuance of ^Kxlily and
mental vi^for.
We would Im*, doini; injustice to our focdinjfs were we to omit an ex'
jiression of esteem anu respi-ct for your excidh'nt wife. Mrs. lVt(<'iillfK-,h
has end<'a,red lierstelf ♦^o us all hy her j^entlencss. her amiahility and her
iinatintetl charity. Believing thai the iKmelicial effects of the example
•let hy you hoth in your scparat/i spheres of actiiiii will he hmg felt in its
influence on tlie thoughts and ccmduct of tin- ci)mmun!ty among whom you
" ' lessingof ihnl may cimtinue to rest utK»n
ind ahide with y<ju as in the past.
have lahored. we j)i'ay that the hiessingi
i'o the oth(!r menihcrs of your family we would tender our hest wi»hos
for their health and happiness, and the «amo hlessing «ve pray may alfto
rest on them.
It is our wisli to ]>rosent you with some tangihie token of our estoero
and affection, and request your acceptance of this purse as an aoxjouil)ani-
mont to our address.
. (Signed) JoHN Eobhins,,
(Cluiirman.)
J. P. Bt.ANCIIAUU,
J. K. Blaiii,
JmB. McEi.hinnkv,
(S«<;retary.)
Immediately after the reading of the addrcsss Mr. Blan-
chard stepped forward and said, " Dr. McCulloch, on behalf
of your numerous friends, both picsent ^nd absent, I have
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fj^rcat plcaf^'irc in presenitinijT you with fihb pur&e a& a lan^iblc-
rxprcssioi! of Uicir love and esteem'^ — at the same tiirie hc-
handed the venerable cleri^yman a puysc containinj^ $i20c
iti t;old.
After a few mouients spent in fmIcdI prayer, Dr, McCul-
loch, who was vi^bly affected by this undoubt€t.i expression,
of the esteem o( liis friervd^^ with imich feeling and cm )tion
read the lollowing ;,
To the Rnv. Jolui Rubbins, and members of the Vresby tc ry of Truro; air!
to the iuoiuber» of tlw* committee of nuiruipmieut us»r! €))ri!itiai>
friends r
With wh.it f(ielinj!fs 1 have received your affectionate address, »:veii
without its acxiomiKiuiiiieiit. I Av<x\\ ivot att.euii>t to express. You havn
sketched a ua?*tiir's record, us it oujjrHit to bo, but as far as it refers to mine,
you h i f e sketched it with a twj partial ej'o. No false humility iiroiajits
this remark, No true minister of Jesus can review his cai'ter, even ■wheiii
he thinks tliat liis woyk has been done liONKSTLY. without the deepest
anxiety. Kec illin^i: the duties and responsibilities of liilf a century is to
mi'., no li)»ht thoujjrht, as tiiue wears on. To thi> too counucn dan^er_ of
sclf-ippreciatJon. there is often a.ddeci the greater danger of measuriu;;
ministerial charact'T and f lithfulness. by the oiu'riion of attached friends.
To a pastor's eye. t.ften blind«'d \sy limited views of resiKjiisibility. oi
intlaencod by si !e issues, faithfulness is one thin^. but to the eye of <}(hI
\x is (jiiite another thin*;, and, while I t^ike vour words as exjn-essive of
sinc(^re <>onvictions of my character and worfc. I yet feed, that duty and
nfety (iemand, thit. lookui^' I ayond the earthly^ partial tribunal, I should
rest on the decision of Huii in whoso record the history of all life is
inscribed.
When I ai'ceptfil the c.ijl to_ the ONCE united con^'roKation, — united
fftill, in faith, order and work -it was iiiy resolution, if Providence p<u-
mitted, to spend my days and e»id my ministry h.'*re. _ I came amoiij; you
as the succ,f>s.sor of men whose n unes aic written in the book of life.
rircTimstam-ea trying and dilHcult awaited uu?., owing to a long vacancy
in tht^ congregation, from the protracted indisppaition of my venerable
predecessor, incapaciuitiuf; liini from active service. J'roni the smallness
of the conf?i'e>.;ation. its extensive bounfis and s<;attered honuiS, I saw that
if 1 beciame its pastor it would demand and must receive my life's Ix st
yeirs. and with them hard work, and after my lonjf experience I say to
you frankly that 1 have never seen reasons to.re^'ret Iny choice, or in-
ducements to underestimate the solemnity of the advice given me wh«u
•ettled over ycm :
"(^(k1 has place i jou liere, stay till He orders otherwise."
1 regard as a higli honor my sucx-ession to such men as the "Rev.
Kaniuel CiK',k and the JJev. J; t Waddell. in the pastorate c'f tho Firs)
Presbyterjati (Jhurch in the 1. ominion : aiid as but the third pastor in
lli3 years, it ts diiTicult to find a liigher testimonial tu th«/ char.icter of the
congregation, and to the fathci-sand elders. wnos(! teacliing ;,iid discipline
had formed that character, an I into th«' fruits of which I entered. \V}ien I
use the word congregation, 1 in(du<le all who havt) ever been under my
pastoral care, wherever tlujy worsliiji.
I know no life that conscientiously devoted to the work of Christ,
exercises the Same elevating influenie, -that offers tht^ same present.
prompt, and precious rewards, th.it tnvisnres up so many happy miiuories,
or sheds such a ehtsering li^ht over life's sunset, as tli.it of a iiiiiaster of
the gospel. Tliero is nothing to comiMire with it, in all the re«H/rd3 of
human greatness.
In the strain of your own addnsss ; to preach (.'hrist — to co-work M'ith
Him in the great ingathering, — to guide youths' wayward feet, — (<■ suppc.rt
ages'' tott(!riug st«!p, — to bring Jesus, as it were, t.o the homes of the sad and
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sorrowful, to gmof)th tho dying' pillow,— to plant a flower, where erstwhile
^rew ii thorn, aud all for tne Maatt-r's sake, is to havn lived Jiot in vain.
The ijlaro I have so loii^ (Kicupicd is now filled liy another, and while 1
have weleoined him in the name <jf his Mattel-, I eiave from you, toward
him, ami' his, the same respect, sympathy and attachment which 1 havQ
<?njoyeil at your hands; and you will, for him, tn-asure up memories that
will lu.ike his pastorate in Truro a joy.
Your affei'tionate reference to Sirs. McCuUwh and .family, we both
hit,'hly value, and fcid deeply grateful to the head tif tho church, that, in
any rk'^nie, we, and ours, have be^n a benefit in the confjfre^aticn.
1 hive not dwelt upon the chequered scen<?9 of the pas*^ and for
reasons which, I trust, you will all appreciate. Mut in closing', rmit me,
brethren, (»N(;k iixuKit MY('ilAK(Ji;, to say ♦■o you. yoiiludd ti jirominent
and highly i-espou-iible position, the influencf^ of vvliK'h in dajv< past, both
the world, and I'hurch have f(dt. Keep up, and extend, that miluence, as
you pri/.e yinir Master''s blessing- Hold fast th<; form (/f sound words,—
scrutinize with the iinstetisions of those w lio wnulil mingle jn your solemn
feasts. — tolerate no confoi'mity to the world, in lithcr princi()le or pi'actice,
- lifrlit up the sinners waiideria^ j)ath. — let love Iniid yrtu to each other,
and in the trundle of life with the Lonl your (»ofl. and when your work is
done, you will .join the >jreat eternal Jubilee band niuund the throne,
T() th(! ladles of the con>j:re^ation. 1 tcnb-r alT«!iionate refj^urds, for
all the elYorts made, to lender this day a hippy day, to the con«iP)2:aticn
ani my family, and may it be the earnest to all, of bri^rhter days yet
to come.
I think you all for vour valuable rememberance, and pray that the
(iod of Providence and Grace may ble^s you and yours, and make you a
blessinj,^ wherever your lot may be cast.
Youra^affci'tionately,
Wll,MAM McClJLLOOn.
The choir here rendered in a mo.'^t pleasing manner the
anthem — " Wake the Sonj,,'- of Jubilee."
The Rev. Mr. Robbins then stepped forward and pre-
sented t)ie Doctor on behalf of the Session with tiie Bible and
Psalm Book which he has used continuously in the pulpit
.since the present church was open in 1854.
The Rev. Alexander McLean, Hopewell, Convener of
the I'^oreit^n Mission Committee \\. IX represented that
Hoard and read a resolution of congratulation to Dr. Mc-
CuUoch that had been pa.ssed and ordered to be presented to
him on this occasion.
The Rev, Dr. Burns, Halifax-, on behalf of the Board of
the Presbyterian CoUeo^e, presented cordial L,^rectin[^s t'^ t)ic
learned " hather " in the church wlio had been spared to cele-^
brate such a Jubilee as th-s, and referred in apt words to the
{.jreat interest Dr. McCulloch had ever taken in the work of
the ministerial education of the denomination.
After the 133rd Psalm had been given by the choir the
Chairman introduced J. F. Blanchard, Esq., who read tlie
following g(K)d paper on " Truro in Fifty Years."
Mk. Chairman.— I think I am r'l^xt when I say that this is the first
public jubilee that has ev<M' been celei)rated in Truro.
AVe have had our Town Centenary celebration and our Presbyterian
ConKru^ution Centenary celebration but I do not recollect of a public
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jubilee proviqus to the proirent one and I am sure- we all consi'dor thtr
suhject of this a fittinpf ono and we can omploj' the lan/^uaKe ii^ed iu*
reference to a uiuri wbo was a publie Ixjnefactor and say, "he is worthy
for whom wo dotliis." We have i-onv? tog^ether today, no tlouht all iA ns-
anxious to make thifi celebration a most cordial and hearty one and feel
that while doin^ honor to the ReTererol aiwl highly re^*fX!(;ted and may I
not add miurh beloved 1 >ixrtor we are thereby doinj? honor to ourselves,
Tht! i)art api)ortion«d to me by the committee of arran^femonts is
to address you on the tlieme,
TllirRO IN VVpyH YP^AKS,
In addressing myself to this subjept allow mo to saj' that it ;.■< not meant
that I am to take a prospective view of the ilfty years still in the woiub
of the future arKi jrive a forecast of what mijjiit be conjurerl uj) in the
imagination with resiHsct to the wonderful disc>)verfe3 and inventions that
are to be bi-ou>fht to li^ht and '\n which Truro is to be foremost in pir-
ticipatiiTK'i ^tit it is to take retrosyx-ctive views of the fifty years that
are post awl see whatpart this town of Truro has had in the race of
Eroj>:ress anci mm'e partii-.ularly whether our noble tree of PreHbyterianism
as pro|iorti(mately grwwn anti flourished. With this end in* view and
taking up the first part of my subject I ask you to stop back with me fifty
years anrl w'e will take up our position somewhere on Queen street (their
called Front srtreet) and take a view of our surroundings. On that street
are a few siiattered dwellings, mostly form houses with farms attached
running from the river buck over the Fiill in the rear of the village r a half
dozen on what is now Prince street: about as many more (m the Halifax
road (now Willow street), anri an equfil number "on Lower Vilhige road
(now Elm Street); To the south on the face of the hfll almost an iinbrc-kcn
forest. To the east are a successum of farm houses up the Salnmn river,
and four or five on upper Prince street aliove the present railway crossing,.
These, witlia couple of small stores, two or three blacksmith shops, o
carpenter'^s shop
itted th'' pro-
. . ipio of doctors. The legal
profession were congro^'ated on Bible HilL Looking then to the north-east
IS Bible Hill, at that time
The emporium of trade,
in fact, the principal place of business for the county. To the north are-
the intervale and marsh lands which from the first 'settlement of Trun*
and Onslow have betm the mainstaj' of the fanners, L(X)king across and
beyond these Is Onslow, the residence of some of our best fanners, the
improvements Iwing not so much in the incrc^ase of the number of farms,
thouj?h that is vei-y considerable, as in th<) improved methcxis of cultivation
and ill the aulwtantiality and arcliitectural beautv of their dwellings. At
that time many of the farms, both in Onslow and Truro, had an adornment,
which the boy ooastfully said his father was going to tu have on his house,
nailed a mortgage, I feel sure I can safely state, as an evidence of thrift
and progress, that wliile the farms have increased amazingly in value,
these adornments have given phice to others of a more agreealile chara.cteT,
On referring to a plan belonging to Dr. McCulloch. I find that within
the area emnraced bv the t)resent town of Truro there were just fifty-five
houses. Allowing five members to each household, we have a population
Of 275. Going a little farthei- buck to my boyhood I call to mind that Her
Maiesty^s mails were conveyed from Truro to ISc^w Brunswick on horse-
back. An incident^ (Xicured that comes voiy vividly to my recollection.
On one f)ccasion while crossing Chigonois bridge during a severe thunder
storm^. the horse was struck by the lightning, and he and rider went over
the side of the bridge. Fortunat(dy i* was near the end and the riiler
escaped unhurt while the horse was. ..illed. The mails from Halifax to
Pictou were carried in a one-horse chaise once a week each way— the
single letter postage between these two points was eight pence. From the
United States it wns la. l^d. and from England 3s. J d. I had no means
inese, witn a coupie or small stores, two or tnree oiacKsin
<iarria/are maker^s shop, a watchinaker^s shop, and perha])s a carp
or two, embraced what is now the town of Truro, I have omit
fessional gentlemen! I shouM mention a couple of doctors.
company
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iin a fDur horse < oach, making the journey in two days. The company
•was not aucct'SsFul as a'HpecMlatiori aiul aftiK* paBning thnmgh some two or
(three hands succesnivoly was boaght ap by MeRsrs. Hyde and Hough in
1841. A little over forty -seven years ago a coach and six was substituted
■for the foiprhorse stage aitd mails and passengers were pushed through
(from Halifax to PictoH and vice versa in n singlu day, giving us a mail
■every day. T4ie pwsh and ■energy of o«r friend Hjxle at that time was
•<;onBidered <jiiite phenomenal. 1 have no do«lvt lie still kjoks back with
9)ride to the share hu htd in this important progressive movement.
About this time a two-horse stage was pla^ced on the Amherst route,
which, in 1^45, (over 43 years ago^ got into the hands «f C. B. Ardkibald,
•under whose successful nianagetuent the mails were forwarded with cars
•and despatch, (♦n both these lines the stage coach ^ave place to the
iron horse, which brings us three mails a day fn^m Halifax and two each
€rom Pictoa and Amherst, instead of three a week fiom Halifax and
Pictou and one from Amherst as it was fifty years ag»i. And instead of
the insignificant parcel of mail matter, us near as I have means of com-
jiuting there are now despatched from the Truro otilc&, including those
()laced* in the box at the station, nut less than 1,500 let ."s per day.
This, you will observe, is only counting the <»«tg«.)ing lebtei"fl. Doubling
this will give about the number tliat arrive and depart daily, making a
total of 3,000 passing through each of the six days of the week.
The Traro oflice in respect to bissiness is second oaly to Halifax in
the province. Fifty years ago there was no suih thing as money orders.
Lastj'ear the amount that passed through th'*; hands of the postmaster waa
■over $132,500. This includes the anmunt r«K;eiv«d as well as despatched.
Fifty years ago there was no savings bank in Truro, and if there had been
■one I fancy very little mtmey oould have l>e«n found to put into it. On
enquiry I tind there is now on de|•<j^it tn that institution the large sum of
over $360,000. Again, go back half a century. Then the only custom*
officer in the county lived at Little T/yke, '\\\ Londonderry, whose receipts
could have been but little m<»re than liis salary. Triir<» afterward became
an outport of Londonderry, and it was nvit till IHM that it became an
independent port. Then the revenue collected was ^;},000. In 1874 it
amounted to ^18,000 and the year ending 31 st Ofcembir, 1888 it amounted
to ^84,000 indicating with fair precision the enterprise of our people and
the volume of their mercantile transactions, making allowance always in
the calculation for the heavy increase of duties. Our educational institu*^
tions have made wonderful advance in fifty years. I am of the opinion
that Truro in respect to teachers was in advance perhaps of any other
locality in the province, but our buildings were sD)all and of an inferior
description. Now we can boast of a palatial normal 8<:hool building and
professors whr)Bo wjrk of training teachers, who are scattered all over the
provini-e^ has commended itself to universal approbation. Fifty years ago
teachers were supported mainly by fews froni the pupils. Now an educa-
tion is free to all that choose to t.ake advantage of it. Our school buildings
are targe and eommodious built with a view to comfort and health. In
this respect our progress keeps pace with the times in which we live. We
are now making an effort to advance still further in this direction, and
hope soon to commence the erection cf an academy suitable to the growing
requirements of the town, and which I hope will be no diaoredit tu th«
architectual taste of our people. We have now over 800 pupils in our
common schools. I cannol pasa away from tiiia subject without adding
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jny foeble teatimfiny to tho uiomory of the Into Dr. Forrester, whnaw
monument statidn on the nor.rml school p;rounrl», ;nid to whom woare \yir'^
lar},'ely indubteil for tho introduction ami establishment of our present free
school ayatom. nml our escellont collo«o for the training of teachers. I
paHs on to m.ilte a few (general remarks in reference to our manufacturing
industries. Fifty years Hf?o wo had no manufactories, at all events none
driven by steam; indeed .ste<ini was not then known as a power for propel-
Imt^ machinery; or if known, entirely in its infancy, llie Truro foundry
wan established in 18<»2. Messrs. Hibley and Caffrey were the j)roprietor8;
Dho casting of stoves was their principal business. Mr. Sibley sold eut and
vas succeeded in 1870 by ftiinlner Clish, the senior menjbor of the present
lirm, which ia now styled " The Truro Foundry and Machine Company."
rho principal part of their work now coji.siits in the irianufacture of heavy
luachineryof various kinds, the Proprietors, MoHsrs. Clish, McDonald ifeCo.,
have the reputation of conducting; their business in an enertjetic arni
capable manner, the value of the work turned out V>y them in the course
•)f a year must be very laifi;e. The last and pej,' factory of the Messrs.
Lewis «& Sons was established in 18(54. The machine used for making thrt
ribbon pegs is of a very complicated and delicate character, and F believe
the only one in operation in the Dominion. The «^(»o(l» of this firm are
not confined to the Dominion, but have found their way to Great Britain
and CJermany. I was told by the senior partner that when in Hamburcf
with a view of opening up new chaniuls for b^usiness, he broufi;ht away
with him a thousand dollar order. Ho also nmde sales in Frankfort on
tihe business tour, and I am glad to say that notwithstanding the very
severe loss this firm lately sustained by lire, they are now in a condition
and actually en{»a£;ed in plaain<i their goods upon the market as energetie-
ally and 8Ucce8.sfully as if nothing had happened. Another of our industries
worthy of special montioa is the hat manufaetory of Messrs. Craig & Kent,
This business was first started by C. E. Stantield, in the year 1807.
There have been changes in the porsonell of the firm, but StanfieM has
tontinuoasly held an interest to the prciseut time. Some idea of the
success of this establishment nmy be gather«d from the fact that in the
«arly part of its history ten dozen hats were turned out daily; now the
output is 27 dozen per day, being an increase of 170 per cent, in the
twenty-one years of its existence. Their goods are sold only to the
wholesale trade, and find their way principally to the upper provinces.
To Mr. Stanfield, Truro is alsw indebted for the establishment of a manu-
factory where wool is turned into cloth and knitted g()ods which have the
reputation of being second to none of like de.scription in the Dominion.
Alongside of this factory is the condensed milk and canninu establishment.
This company commenced operations in 1883. In 188r> the manufacturing
of condensed coflfee was added.
Their market is from ocean to ocean ; cut off the North-west and
British Columbia and this industry is crippled bey<ind recovery. The
farmers participate very largely in the advantages arising from this
industry in Truro. During the five years of its operations the company
has paid out for milk the largo sum of !i^r)5,000 and for wages ^35,000^
making together ^90,000, being $18,000 a year put into circulation in
Truro aqd vicinity. Besides this the company paid $42,000 for sugar,
which no doubt went into our local refineries, thereby promoting the
interest of these institutions. There are other manufacturies that 1
cannot, for want of time, do more than enumerate, viz : the last factory
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« >f Mr. Hopper, t/ke ^foriiitnrn fiictf»n©(i of Me«Br«. S|(«ticer Bnilhcrs &
Tiiriiur, A\v\ I'f M'-SHis. ■ChHinhora ct Cm. Ml mir ftlHi-tm of ItuHincsa mi'l
■smiiH '|\M'liiiii,'« arit |.ij;litiil by incimrli'scoii*. light, Riiii Triant wa» tli ■■ lirnt
town in tlsf, iir«jviiui.- Xa adupt tho •ByBtJMri. The l;uiij«'ftft nf all niir
■uiiitiurii(.-tmiiiji 'iiiii««hrifH j* thu cdnversioii of fhe tret'B df th« fdfrHtH into
luinl)iii^ \\\\A t'ht! l.trj^n-H-fc maiinf»ct«rcT of }umbt«r in tht? pn>vi>u»i^ is our
t.nviisiiKJii, T. <i. IMc.MiillrTi. Lust, yc'iir'ht! t'xpoitt-il ui.wardHof ;^n,Ot>(\()()f)
fe-'t, nf liiinlh'r i«t, k c<mt, 'fc<« 1ii)r, of it<it Ickh than yCi (n r i lioiiHaiiil .(f. tlii)
rai WHV »ifHt»ff. Tins t-xhiUfti a pay roll <.f )|VJ0.1»on r yrnr, nnd almost
•entiii jty t.'tlcijii'Hp liy t;h»> f.rrtiierH and l!ihf»''er« oi Oolclu'stttr country. Rip.
McMhIK'h owns ^"iT-OOO iktch cf tinihur IhikI in tlira county, which will
'inoii! than tii\ hi« utniupt etiifts to cut d«wii and cuiiViit mru jijmlu'r for
th« tiiaTki^ts. 'Jaiiitfs Hirnil, aiitfther of our ftUow towjifOmnt in a larjife
cxponor of lAituhor atid hardwood tiriil»t«r. 3 feel as ihoii^'h I havo not
•dr)i)e aii'yt.hih;.; liko justice to our in iiiMfrtotnrini' iinlnstfic«, Imti inK^^t pass
on. Tlu' town of Trtrro whs inijorpo rated in IH7?». Inntu'diatidy after water
was introdU(yd firr lIh) piirposn of 'liro |)r<*to<JttoH '" The fiolh/ Ryfitem '^
was adopbed, v>.\\t\ v;ith !4^a^i'fnll^i .■^aiicesa. Since that the I,tp|)i'r hrook
lias bot'U niad« t<t oontributu to this v\\i\. < )ur strctts are now li'j;hti'<l hy
tdei'tricity instead of hy fril, an they wt^re a conple of yeara ai^n. The
telephone hafl aho been introduced int<i yeinial nse wit'hin the IjiHt. two
veai*. K-eiriind'iug you thnt tiftj* yars hi;o t'hcTe wero only fto IioUHeR in
what is now thu town of Truro, and proV>al.|y not more than 2V.'') to .'W'^
inhabitants: nnw r:c, hi!vo .1 poiir^htiTi of «b(int oO!)f) and out streets in
every drrixitAon arc att?rRc*t/i'.'e, uHd fifr stylo of aicJ»ire( rnre Tiiiro will
ennipare favicably with any other town in the Dominion of tvjftal «t'/e.
I oaiHio^ dwell ]oHji;ef on th'is part of my sal-jec-'l, l>Mt pass on to tli.vt which
I)a5, luoro important bcirni^^ on tfce julnleo, viz., what pfoj;re»s has
I'lesbyteriniusm made duriivi t^est; (ilty years Lot loe say iiere t^at the
ehurch which was locat'd witiiin t'ht' jity.ita of tlte present eeiifreterv wax
■erected wMut tlie year 1.7*»7. The first pasr.or, Rev. Mr. Cock, wub se'ftleit
over t.lie congregatioti in \"'l. He was succeeded by Rev. .lohn Waddell
in 179'^. it was dwrin":,' Mr. WaddftlM iiK;iui>l)eiicy that the Hritisb anA
Foreign Bible Society v as formed in Londnii in ttie year ^804 a btaneh
society was fonmed in this (•(ini;ro(rat'ron irj 1810, winch 1 believ*' was the
^rst in America. Rev. Mr. Wuddidl was ^wcceeded tn JisUO by the
revereHd doct^^r whose jubilee w« are this day celebratint?. .^t the time
Doctor McCulhtch entered upon his inipor*uant charye the coni,'r<v.,'ation
exttinded from iJeaver Hw^olc to Kemptown and from the dividiitL' line
IjetwetHi '5l'rMr<* and (hisiow to Brooktield. The nu>rtber t)f comniunic mts
on tlu'chm'ch roll was 170: the number of elders, ten, as fnll<iws: Messrs.
Alf.'Xandcf Kent, John J. .Archihal.J, John D Chriwtie, NVilliam McCally.
Jaiiu's Lou^htiad, dojin Sinith, Sanuujl Arch'iiald, H.u,<^h Mtxire, Hiitjh
Jolmsoii and Kdw.ird I.<o<ran -the most of the^iv above the averaj;e in
mental viyor ami of exem|dary iHety. One of them. Mr Kent, was in th«*
eldership <>!! yearp, :» len^'th of service probalily unexampled in the history
of T.he I'resbyturian church; a man remembi-red by immt of you as-enjoyinji/
the reputation of po.ssessitif; juany excellent quality's and wniversilly
respected. Of the 170 church members on the loll, 15 of theui are now
living, vix.; in the First Presbyterian church, Mrs. Nancy Archibald, Mrs.
R. (;. Christie, Mrs. Ihukc Archibald. Mrs. Timothy .\rchiba!d ;uid Mrs.
<ieorge Dickey. In St. Andrew's church, Mrs. Williaiii FlemininK and
JMrs. VVilliaiu C, Smith. In Clifton church, Mrs. Robert Loughead and
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Mrs. .Jo9n[)li I>»iji{h(!iul. \\\ F+ariiJony, SjhimjoI JiiiiwiH Aniliilnilil. Im
f'<jl"l(jtrt'aiiv, MiH. .Iuiin!.s .J(>li'iyet(»r>. In .S-hi»l)i'UiHJ;itlii;, Mrs. Ihu:ic lj<ij»iin.
hi Halifax-, Mra. Munro. In Aciwlii* Miiit-s, Mch. It«V)<!cca Jolnson ; antl^
Mfu. Mc'lvt'tii, Hvu)>.{ i« Cajii,' Itrulon l>« it nut siMDi'wlvit, r'c*ii>arkal)li!
Btiut all itrci wuniutt, witli hivb one uvc-t^ptioiv, i»ikI ;irll tlvc wonx-n hut one
are widowi*, n yotKi' t?»an>i|»lo I tljink ottlw liMi;^tn ity o| oiw woiiiuu. I
WiiB abfwiifi ti'itii iXmi I'rovini'.u at tlin f iine of t^he i^iutt)*''.'! cudinalion tmt
I liavti b«i!n inloruJiMl l»y out; who wan pn •w'ut tliat tlv lain Kcv Jolin
Sprott piLM»:h<:«l the ordination »<)rHMMj fioun th»! tt-xt " iJli^ that rovc-ivoth-
a prof>hi!t in tlR> iKtino of a proplvt't shall r»'«ti»vi! a (itroyhft'n rewanl.'
Thi' late I4<sv. I^u;/h Itos* introdiK!o<l thu I>i. to tlw' emi'/ivj^HtiotK Suukj
tiini! utttrr this aittlwiat'iit l>i\ McCivINm li f)THrtnizc.l a \W>V- ila.HB. which, R
undnrtTtmnd, wan tho liist ia thu Dtmrtnion at Itfattt in Hjc I'rehliytcriai.
phuroh. He was aaaislvid in this ^uod work hy (h»! late Rev. I>Hiiii:k
McCurdy The I>>)t;!:r)r ah»o litartoi the Hrftt Mwaionary praytif iiu»!tin<^,
and aciU fioui his congregation the hr.st ♦;ontiil)Htion to tSu h-miy iiiVBHion.
connnittee of the rhurch, of whi<h I think he was secntary. At»ine lime
there were si.\ prayer meetings, two l)ihle cla.-iH» » h(?[il i>p .••ieadiily and
others oeeaKiomdly. At the same time there were »evi ii i-jabhatli hcIuxiIh-
within tlie liinit» ot th'* fon(4re!<atio«. I)urin(» hiH pastorate tlie Doctor
tduulled 10U8 into the feilow-ship of the cliurt-h, bapM/ed !•«>(), married
520 and olh<jiated at HJO funerals. It will Ih) readily understood that iV
would be an utter ini|joH!<ibility for any inatt toovisrtiiku the ^>.iHlonil work
of uo an extensive ai charge, ami it consrtaully inereaHiiri; in nuiiM-rical
Btrenyth; hen<;o the nereHttity f(rr several divirtioiw. 'Fhc tirtit to separatft
from the parent otein wa.s the Clifton section, which uniii d wiili Heaver
Brook and Piii»cepori, niakins^ together a separate eh;«r;4c. The next waa^
Salmon liiver, East Mcmntain and KiMiiptown, which lor . few yeafs.
received aid tron» the »u[)ph n>entiny; fund of tint uhtirch, hut is now self
sustaining. Liiat year tlie Kernptown »eetion built a neat church which 1
believe »» clear of debt. \ am unable to <<ivo thi^ datcs'of then« scp tration»
but I ani of the opiniiMi that both tix)k place after the erection of tlie
church in the villat^e, A new churoii was in conten>plation for some year*
before any decided ste|m were taken towards itH erectioti. At length a
few energetic women took the n)atter in hand, aixl by hard work and
persevennu effort raiaiid a autticient r»r (very nearly autiicietit) sum ui
money, and purchased the eli;:iblo and beautiful site on which the First
Presbyterian church now Mtands. That church was erected in the year
18;").'*, and very shortly after ir. was occupied it was found to be too small
for the growinjj; wants of the congregation. An ailditiun of twenty feet
was made to it, and when liniahed 1 believe every pew was occupied. The
congregation atill continued to grow and the demand for j>a8toral labor
grew with it, and at length by the earnest advice of the Pastor it was
deemed advisable to separate the tiock. The congregation, if 1 remember
aright, was willing to divide only on the ground that the interests of
religion demanded it. Th's separation was effected and the new congrega-
tion entered on its s« parate exi.stence on the let of .lanuary, 1876. They
worshipped in the Y. M. C. Association hall for nearly five years. Their
attention was first directed to the erection of a manse, and when that was
completed the more formidable undertaking of a (-hurch was proceeded
with, and in some time in the year 1880 was completed to the great comfort
and satisfaction of the congregation. Harmony has l)i;en set off as a
: lissioa Btatiou and I suppose before long (perhaps in oonaeution with
JVB7L EE CEL EBRA TION. 5|,
'<«reeti fields will l»« vrocUul *irt« a Hopnrnte <M»iigrej4ati(m. St. Paul ■
•ooiiKrt'{,;!vU(rn whh ori^iiriiillyiti comiectiitn with tliu rSurch trf Scoflimd, l)Ut
ihavin(< a<>m«, into t.|i<' Biiion nhe JiiiB n(r<l'i8liMCtivf«xi«tt!iK:o l)yi liko llio
•other c4itjrcht'« (fornm part of wh^t, Iriiow " the JVufibyttirifin charch in
'(-aiiaiia." V^iv a j^ootl whi4t) lii:« nil yoMn^ <?fcar<'hi>« nhe hiul to Htrii|»'Kle
alniuHt for an cxiHtoiiot! Inir, \\vt prout'fSH <tf Inte ytars \uiv. hffii iiinHt. nans-
factoiy A few yi-ai-H >n^<) the (flmrch «;iJi1it«' whs </»"<'Hftly i!»ilar«i('d md thfl
'i;()ri)»n*;^»«ti<in is ii<*w <n n imnarkably pronjmrottw <ji>ii(iition. I do not know
thi" iiBinlnT of «hiir(.«h imiiitltirrw on the <H)nim-an»<)H rolls of (,!|ifton and
•(JoldHtTiHnt ItMt tilt! tvdls oi the trhree djuruh«'H in Tniro will ii)<li(;ate very
fairly tJke d(!)j!ri<o <rf ^Jiiis^jterity U> which cmr PrcMiytoriaiiism linsi attiiinixl.
Tho total n«inh<4r on tlo-Bo t^uuo rolls iH<jverT>00. 'OurifitiaiK;ial prospi-rity
ktH'pn |iaco with owr nuiMburH. I^ast yoar t/tic ai;«r<!natf amount raimfd by
tlii'Ho t.hiiiohfs for niliifioHH auiK 'Ix^cvoloiit pHrjxmfa wrh t\^^i rt'Hjxjctalile
auin <jf ft^i^^Qd it will be rmdily nec^n that onr ProHbytcrianistn ban
4<o|)t widl to th»} front. Iliat it 1>a« rtot lairJi»'<l betiiird w+iile <mr aijricul-
•tural, coHiiiii;i<;i»U and mannfacturing indu.itries havo Ijeun prosiurona u, a
dei^rof) that fifty ycarH cfmid scarcely have bum (xmceived Jty tbu most
fruillKl JHiiij^inMtiijw. I do not oonstvlrr it my place to eiKjuiro what part
Dr. McC«ll<K:h had in fmKlaciirg «o satiHffactory u rfswlt l/«t 1 am H«re it
inu»t ij;ivo him ploasurt" on ttie-<K;ca9io!i of his jubilee to note the ^;row»,h
and (itHmperity <jf that caMBii which he had ho nmch nt iuart, and now
l»eforo I close let me say that amidst the nmlt/itsdinotiH .-tiatiKus that hav«
•taken place darinn the last fifty years ; the ncifntitic discoveries that
huve been made; the w<Mid(Tf«l invisntions that have been broy^ht t'>
linlit ; the proi^ress t,liat has been m«<le in drvelopinc; the rt^soMrccs that
4ay hidden beneath the earth '« sm-face; 1 aim ^lad to say there is 'jiie
thinii tiiat has iiofc chanqi'd, dues not admit a change and tliat is the
*' (JoBpel of the (irace of <*fxl." Then* may lie ehaugis in our manner of
svorshin- tlsero have heen to somi? extent, but the ■iiospel has not changed
-and the truth set forth by our ministers is th<; same Mi;.;hty power which
works throwf^h faith into salvation.
Let t!iia day's service have, the effect of stimulating us to liold fast by
the faith <*nco delivered toi the Saints, nt>t to let it ro, for it is our life.
Finally, let us take with us the nwtto upon whi<;h we, as IVesbyteriant
jjrofess to act, vie : Unity, Charity and Lijyalty,
I7nity in the prrtaecution of th^ great work of the salvatitm t>f the
world, regard' '.'8fl of <ien«miati<)nal liius provided the gr«;at essentials of
our faith are firmly held; Charity towards all men, <loing gfwd as we have
•opjtortunity and Loyalty not so much to our Presbyterianism, though they
tnust not be lof,t sight of, but loyalty to our great Head and King in
whiiHo service tt has been our sacred duty and our Iiigh nrivile'.'e to work
»" tliW assi'.'e'i conftdence that eventually the whole world will be subject
to his benefigent reign.
The Reverend chairman then introduced the Rev. John
McMillan, H. D., Chalmers Church, Halifax, who gave a most
intcrcstini*- and .spirited addt-css upon " Presbyterianism in
Fifty Years." A synopsis of this fine speech is herewith given :
Fifty years a^o there were four separate PreH.^yt,ftrian bodie.<« in the
niaritiiHc provinces, viz,, the f^resbyterian synod of Nova Scotia, the synod
of Mova Scotia in c/miiectioi) with the church of Scotland; the Presbytery
of New Brunswick in eonnectiou with the church of Scotland, and th«
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Kcfofin/'il Pitslpy'tiuy <lf N. \\. ami N. S. TFicih ^cn- in all nloiil- mixty
niim.-it<-i'>'. lirl' lit'i'*> AlMiiiiiai fur Ih:I!i j,'iv»'y, ii list. i>f the miDirtti^M iih
poiiiK'i't ion \\\K\ the fiiHt two IkkIjiw 1 Ijiiwc im-iitii ntfl. 'I'ht iv wrjc f W( iil v-
four iu r.ouiM'i'tioik witli'lhi' \'\,\M utt'l t atiiI v-l ho s\\\\\ lH«'r<t'::i'iii| ♦wrty-sl/i
ill all. l|i tfi'it l»Ht 'rniro JH iiiarkc'lviiciiiit. iiinl tH«' u.iiiii' nf \\ illiiiiii Md--
t!iillti<h Is vfi^H'M as 11 prt iicl4»»r v^iiliHi lln' I oumU of tin' nyiioii. With ilic
e.Mi ptioriiif l?(n. Aif'X^iiiilt'r Itoiuatis, lH Mi (Jiillm h i> tlic(iilf miiiisicr
ill i'«iiiii»'ctioit wil li I itlicr sv'iKiil at tiiat, t iiin'. wi^o if* m.iv liviujr. Ail iia\r
Koiic to tln'ir rcvvaiij ; hiving foiiyht n ;,'<i(,'l li^lit. \\w; now w«nr tli*
r.iowM of )<r»irv. rh<'i<^ V*. only oiif minisicr wht.Hf uaniM is in our byrio'l
roll, who (sohlt r in t)n' ministiv iVian |)r. MiCiillorli, viz. Vv. McIacmI. <>t
hy.lin'y. lie wuh orilai.'tcl (.ri '.tfi N(.v.. Ih'CI. !mii he was not in NoTii Sr.otiii
fifty yi-afM atfo. ill'.- iMrfifuKJ, 1 1 1'lii v<-. his 1 1( ji li ii;;ir ill ilic iiiinistiy
tli..ii_ imy otlii'i- I'rcsliytTiaN ininiHti'r \\\ thi' lioiir.nion. T)ir'rv iiit*. iic-
I'nrilin^' to t'vi-il ytcty rolls sulniittcii to last u^scini ly, «ij,^ht }iiiii<lrc(l
tin! fit;lit .r-ti«v I'ri-sl ytcrium miMistcrs in tlic In.iiniiioij. Of th'Si: aliont
tlirct' huH'ltvil aiMJ wiiu'ty wen- </r'laiiJ«"l -^iin'c tjic uin'on i.f UOfi ; scvrii
huiiilri!' ani.i lifii'i ci sinci; the iiiimri (■( isixi. ami only ivv i'Iwp have lifcn mt i
iiftv yiais in I Sc iiiiniMtry.
'i"lii.fi>' w<r« many trtily ^ccat men anu'ii^'- tlif iniiiir-firM of fifty ji'nrsv
a;,'o. I <lo,not, say that tlir ministry is il( noniM-al inj; in any nsncci. I
do not. fi«li'('>>r that, it is. Nay. I jiwi sure tlut it'is wot.. I nHiMii that, the
youn^ nun of the |>i(-<nt day. <diicatcd in our<-Hii (■(dlc^ri s, ar>- in inosi
rtspociH 1^4' t^'ri null*, and in Miviit> rtspt'ctn thf s.t^wiiors of tln^ yoimy iiicn
who, u h \lf a '••i"4tuiy UK"- 'aiiif Urom t?ni niotht-r couHtiy, I Iclifr*- iliat..
as a ruU'. out- ininistcrs twt: do iiior*" and harder ivork than mir d.rc-
falhrrs. N»idoiil.f iJu r hud hardships of 7arJ|ajs kinds to c^niuif of which
wi' know iiothinj,'; ^mt ifi tfics*- l.nsy. lu.st lint,' days, whin all arc in tin
riisli J in I ht-'-H' duys of «dosi'. (UdeTniinr-:! coiuliiitit.ion, fx-. ry mfnisl^r fiiiist
work hai'd, fanifsMy aVid cofistanf.ly. or Pic will Ic a failure-. I canni i
ud.iiit iViat tiVv^ foniur <'aj's wore loiter tliau thcsc-tfiat there w.ci.-
tfio.itfr mm folll^^ly than taiw- nieti who.sc laliu's vutt us all to shanic'.'
Ptiii, th,iT«' wcrt^ minv j;i''-at and ^oo'I in>'ii anionvT the fathi rs •■ iruri who-
left their f(iol|»iin(s afl o»( r our land: iiiwn >v fiom to rojiy is to make oui
lives '-aiMi'iiie: rne»i to )>(■ iie(i| fu i verf istinn' r»'memlir,.nc(' ! 'I'heiv wei(
nine men i,i\ tlie roll of 'J'niio J'leslyti'iy w.*iei. Dr, M( r.illoch joined it on
nth Feliiiuiiy. IK({», vi/.. Ut'vds- Joiin W add< If, J(,hii Hrown,' 'I'hoinas !<.
Orowe. -}( hn r I5iixier. John Sprott. A- Kerr, .f.imes Smirh. J. I\Iurdi«eh. and
I!, iila.'kwoo"!. I was per.sojially (ic(|mi.i'nterl ^■'w'h. Messrs. ]5jixt,er and
Spiotf only. V\heii ill IH'ifi I wenlii.*a .voiifijr luan to my first charjro in
M iis((n»)dol!oit. Mr. Sprott showed iiie no iittle kiiidnt)s-s. aiid ^ave me imicli
v.iluaMe assist.ane.c Oneadvit'ol sliall nerei' f<iivet was. '"alwa.ys chi usiv
af.ii ie\l/' 'I'Tie last sermon fie ever listened, to. hr; heard fri:n>_ me on '^I'th
Defeml'er. i'^l'I^at th'.' olKiiin^ of u new ehurefi. utid tfie last time he ever
(irearfiud ind»'ed, tho last trmn he was ever on ^ of the house -was the-
Hi'.me (la.v. He jfaVe u most, loiicliinK adrlress froin the ft-ords "ao run
that. Ve 'iui.y obtain." In \*^ 'S tlu; jrreat disrupt ir.n «'f t)ie estahli.shofl
cliureli of l-iotlund (M'cured, ami in (lie followfiifr year "the fref; chur.;!*
of >i'ova^Scot la " was foniieil, a»id in IK T^ '" tin- Presryteii'in <'liiireh of ISo.w
IJrun.-^wic.k.*' l^>nrinL' tluse y<Mis then'. wa« mueli exeftoiuent— and many
«hrinK<'^- In Pi'etou I'leshytery all "_th»i Kirk" ministers loft lor S(,,"'''mi'I.
e.veeptiiitf Ke.v, Mr. Stewart, who join ^d the Free chun-h, and Uev. AIca.
McGii livraV, of MeL<;Ilan's Mountain. 'J'o tin; latter I <)_w<! nuicli, ns it
v/as t-linaiKii lii^ advice and assistaiiro I left f(jr eoljcffo ' the uutimin
of IHoii, Jn tH'T) there were six I'rerfl yttMiaii l-odies in i : ninritinio
provinces, A\> was an a/jis of earnest (jontcntion, shall I say hiVoled con-
tention f.'jr the truth, or wliat_ w.;s supposed to lu' the truth. If now
th«n- Is a tendency to latitudinarianism, then there was a tendency to
oxcliisivetiP.Hs, _I)(^c,trinc was innfj^niHed. practical work wa.^ not unitedly
anil entlMisiafitically enf^a^cd in. •'Casi-s" ahoiindod i)i church court.s.
The eyes of all wore turned to the interna^ condition of tlie chiircli itself:
t<Mi little attenticn wvas >,'iven to the coiiditi' n of the. outsidti world, near
and far. Hut God had |)ur))Oses of lovit with le^rnrd to tho church. Fop-
aration vi.x'n not to be lorevor, not for haij,'. A divided Prcsbytcriani.sni
w^
/^7)V;. /{/: CFJAiBRA TION.
Zl
tinmt b«< n>awil((l. -ilowly, wfcop liy Ht4ut, hut. <*iirel.y roiijiiU'd. A miwkmarj'
spiiil was iri'iitiil in the » liiiidi, iiiiJ Uiui 1mI|mi| tminn greatly for uliilii
nrl(iNlim'«H Hcji.iruti"* iiM'ji, Ik'jk'vmIi iirr iiiiiu-.H iliiiu. Kor ninut liftiew
^i>ai« iliij six IkoIj'i'h I'XJHlcii rti'piiiatrly ; lait tJicij u. In it'lilci aii<l ln-ltoi*
4Ta- tlu' aj^i' <<f iiiiinii hc^iiij iijj Itl) Otrnli.r. I^it'i.at l'i( tmi, tin' I'rt'Nliy-
ti'i inn cliuii-Ji of Novii .scotia 'u'l fJif Tiic <Jimr,}i of N«i%a Scotiu w( r«;
iicipjiily iiiiin il limit' ijol ''i-inK " wnylt (lis><'jiiiii^' inijiinlcr <»• coiij^^jt*
trillion ill litlim IwhIv. 'I'l-fic «i'ii' rtixty-sfviii mijiiitfj-H |ll•«'^»^ iit, lull
tlin ti)t.ij iiiiiiilu'r of iiiiiii'^N*r-< in iJu- ijiiif'!'! cluuTii wuh i iulitv-niiu'. 'I'Ik
lit xt, iinicui look placi' in l«i( Jctwtou iMs IkkIv. iuIUmI " tn<^ /'n sliytciiati
<'liiinli of i)ji! loiyiT provinces" (uid l.ht' Krei; cluiicJi of New HniiiHwick.
In «'<»nii»ctiion willi ihi-^ luxly tin r»i wci"*' l|i) iniiii."*t«>rM, 'J linn tlic six
s(«|)arutf or^'.iiii/'tions wen' n-diKcd to four, in IMis tli<' nvo "Kiik"
I'oiii'Hijj Nov .I >(;oiiii iind jN<!vv Hvuiisw'ick u«u'<' uiiU'.d— v itli t \v«'niy-ori<'
tuiiii^1rr*--Hnfl t.lK'ii ilii'if wric ojily \h^^^•^\ Hopaia'' cliurilu-*, with al out
li<r> iiiJiuUfrs iu nil. Uai; iij IHTo nt Montrual, on "lili Jiujo, a Iwiiiitifiil
IiriKl*' 'ay. took plare tlic l.ist airl ;,'ran'l(.'Ht union of all. Afli-r iIji-
iii'ci.-'j.sar. pri'liuiiiiiriis, IM". JiI<'(ir((^or. r.iiil_ to nii'ini ry dfiir, lni'l tliu
iiai joji oj" '• tilt!
„ . ••! in Victt'iiji.
flail, I lit-n joiii.il liaii'ls. tiu'l liurst out witii i,ni- lu'cor.j iu siiifrin^ tlio IKiU'tl
I'siliiu A tin ill of luy pa'^scd lln-oii^li every Mn\\, luit !il.i.>f ! tlit re wan f,ne
nottjof sadni'.AH. A few of the Kirk uiiniHteis and fouKVeKatioiis tleeiiuKd
toiiitiTllie union, so ili;it there ai'' still thnu IVi'sliyicriun 1 odits iu the
luiriiiiiK! ludviui'.e*. if the llcforuicd I'ri'shvteriaiis cuii now he eouuied.
'i'he union liiis ,iro\'ei| a ve.-y liajipy one to (ill whoeiitered it. and has heen
nrodiietii'e of threat ;{<ioil. All jia^t iJitTcrenets ure now for^^ot I en. We
look and loiJL' foi the linn to coiut? wheii there shall 1 <( a peifeellj" iiuited
oeeaii to ocean- <ind when our hrcthreii who now
say, "wo will k" with you, for wo soti that (.Ic^d
♦lonor of del liiriu;,'. aiui'l louil and juidi'iuffHl clu^ers, the ft riu.
I'reshyicri.in church in ( ' .ii.ida.'" The v ist as.<eiiilily fi.itJtere
look and loutr foi the 1 1
l*i( .■<liyl-ei iaiiisiu from
nuiniii without nhall
13 with you."
In 1H75 there wore
time nrovinces. Now theiit are, coinliiiK prohati*
'"tho kirk " niiniHters, we
i;v» uiiiiisters on the roll <.)f tho. -^vnotl of the nmri-
" -ncrs, aliout IHU, Adiinj.'
find that in lif'ty years- froni IHHO to ISW). our
luiuistora in thoso province-i increased from <>() to lur.. But tho pnt^'ress
made iii other respects is still nii>re nuirkod. 'I'ho increasi- even since
lH7r> ha -1 Ih'cii- in families, 5. (Kio; in coruniunit^antH, lo.ooo; in coutriliut ions
to the schiuues, .^15.000; to all i.urposes, S;iii'J,(l()0. In IKHt tht r»' wen! I etweei:
ten and twelve thousand iiK'nuers, now tliortj aro.iii the. united eliuroli
il ,tKiu. During all those years \)r. McCulldoh (.ci-upiod a iiromimnt po.sitioi!
in the eliuitd:. ilis jniliience hj.s hiiori vtsrv wroat. Multitudes have heon
Haved, instriu^tod and coiufi>rted thro'Kli lii^ instrumuntalily. If the
tloctor had heen a menhiiu*, oi' lawyer, tjV niedit'al man, lif) would prolia.ldy
he. worth many thoiis.indH of <I(_dl;!rs to-d.iv, hut he is richer far -ricli iii
the .jcys of an approxinj; ccnscit /ice and tlio iissiminco of heaven's smile;
rich in the ine.Triory of •^vi.'nt j^ood done; rich in the anV'i;tion3, in the
pr.iy(r.s an'l f-'ootj wishos of hosts of (]hristi:in friernls. Yes, I>r. .McCul-
lo'ii can .joyfully tsiy; "If I had my life to live ovi-r a^'aiti, I would ho a
minisUu'." Fifty yosirs iu one placo mak(^< a veJ'y lon^ pasiorute. St, me.
iti.iy l(Ki hjiij? in their c.onj^reffations. Th( y hivo to ho Htornu><l at hy shot
nnii shidl hefnre t,h<'y leave. They havo sometimes to l-o starvoil out.
S(jmi^ are failuri-s in a. short t.iiue : like nuitoora, thoy are veiy hvilliant for
a short jwriod, >)ut then juiss into ojscurity. Lon^ pai^toranos an; not so
common as f<a'niorly; monk's the pity. lie is no ordinary man who can
HU(5C<!ssfully mana>.rc a modorn coujrT'ejrat it ii ft r foi-ty or fifty yoai-.s. It
says much" for rht; First Pros>iytorian church of Truri> that 'the. Dootoi
coiild .itay with them for fifty years! /I'lit) leng-tli and sucotss of a pas-
toiMto ilt.poml mutdi uik)U the i)eoi)lo. Il is Ihey who must fill the ohiircli,
tho ministor alono can iu;v<.'r do it. iut, under n<xl, tht; secret of Or.
McCulhx'h's succes.s was fourfold, viz.; Ist.IIis fi.ithfulncss and prudence
in diseipliiu^ ; 2nd. His preiu'hin^if the plain and siinplo gospel; 3rrl. His
nnvvoaned (lili^onco in pastoral work; 4th. His kindness to tho poor and
needy, il'o hae nevov heen tin amusinf,' proachor. a stinsational proarjhor, a
moroiy ontf.'rtaiuing preat'-her, or a merely intollectual proachor. He has
,/
ss
THE McCULLOCH
jriven not flowers, bub bread to the huu^'iy ; not siijjrar plunin. but moiliciiw
to the Hiu'k ; not a hook of an(ic.!f)tcs. l)ut ;i (,'(iido book to tlu- bist. Ho lia.*
fe'l you with ffooil str<;uK uourisliiuj^' food, the sincere niilk and tlio meat of
tho\vor(l. Then, how tufthfuliy ;ind lovin^'Iy he uifuiVtered to the sick
and dj'in^. to tho poor and needy, the teini)ted iiul fallen! For nearly
twrdve years \M\ McC.iUocli and J we're nci^'hlor-s; for nine yeav^ lueni' or.s
of tho s.luie Presbytery. Daring' all tlK'se years we never liiida dls-if^reo-
ment. Theie never was the sliVbtest coldness lotwecn us. No tw(j niin-
istei's could possfbly w<rk tnj^other more lurniiinionsly and pleisatitly
than woMid. We often took sweet counsel t(:K''ther, We Avere true
friends and lirot!w:>rs. I .sliall never forjret bis wordsnf tender syinpithy
when death entered my homo and t'lok aw ly a love 1 little li'.yl <fod bb'ss
Dr. McXJulloch and his beloved family veiy abundjintlj' alway to the end,
After the
.sin<;-in^
of Psalm 123, the Rev. Allan Pollok,
D. D., of the Presljyterian College, Halifax, spoke a.s follows,
uj)on " Our Colleges in fifty years"; —
'ilio sulijf.'Ct assigned to uie by the Commftteo- "f)in- Colleffes iu fiftv
j'ears"' — carries my miJid beyond the limits of inttdliVenl reniiniseenc'e
to the Mother country and to a remote Hum. when I wis a boy._"creepinpr
unwillin^jrly to stdiool." anil liiivinf? littde to do with education except
.such as was eleinontary. My ear h' expon'eneo, tlu' hereditary belonyriuRS
of my friend. Dr. Mct^iiUoch. and the uncpiestionahly Scottish on'^'fn of our
church rec.ill at this time what that country has done I'n the promiuion
of educntioii. As far back as the yeir of the Scottisli Itefonuatiou. irriO.
.fohu Knox, in tlie first bookof DlseipHue, sketcdied out a ^rand system
of national (education. He Uiid it down as a fandauiental pi inciple'to be
foUowed in every (Christian land, refonue I from Popery; that no part of
the [lopuhiLioti. whether rich or jHior, shoiiM be allowed to j^row up in
i^uoraui'e, "All musi hecompeUed to train up their children In h>arninff
and virtue.'' "Provision mu.st btym'ule for those that b(> poor and not able
by thems(dve3 or by their friend?! tf) be sustained at letters." For these
ends every iiarisli was to have a school-master and every nf)tablu t(jwn
a "colledfje." Tho system was crowneil by the three IJrii
this was pro.jeeted at a time when the coiinti-y did not contain a million
of iiilialutants. The course ot instruction laid down wns of the most
slaburate character; but it wouUl _be_ tedious to produce details. The
standard' aimed at was as hi^jh as it it i-i now. and a laixe part of tho
revenues of a (diurcli which had jioasessed the h<ilf of the i)roper1y of the
kinpjom were to be devoted to this purpose. If even the jiartial execution
of this enlij^htened scheme had to be deferred till the foilowinfr century,
this delay was in no way attributable to the Scottish ministers; but was
in defiance of their loud and oft repeated remonstranees. It was thwarted'
by the ijreed and raf)acity of tiie nobles who had^ seized the patriiuony
of the ('hurch and refused to dis^orf,'<> the ]>rey. When they wm'ci at last
tKimpidled to surrender a part, they did it. AS'ith a ^rudpe tluit rnuch belp^sd
the civil troubles of a succeodiiiK ap\ The scheme was at last imperfectly
realized; yet all know how muen it did for Scotchmen durin^f a \m\\z.
IM>riod. when other churches and other European nations had do7ie uothin^r.
!t opened u]) to them avenues of wealth and employment in the hij^hest
positions in all FiUropean countries.
I love to think of the church of our fathers, one of the fairest daug'htfirs
of the Reformation, as having led tho wav in education, in universitjes.
collefi:ea and comuKm schools, and it would be stran^'e if, when looking
back upon the a^sooiations of youth, I did_ not feel th(> toiuih of early en-
thuaia^•nl in this matter. I caiiie from a dist'ict hallowed by the presence
of great heroes in the cause of cduc^ation, Presbytcrianism and liberty.
Tho nearest parish to mv native parisli was one heldbyGeorge (lillespie.
who was considiu'ed by \\^ contemporaries to be the most gifted of the
Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Af^sembly. At ji short dis- ->_
tanee was St. Amlrews. where Saniutd Hutherfor.i, anijther commissioner,
author of the famous liOtters, and other wotks. was Principal, where he
died, and where, when after the Restoration lie was summoned to a court
<;
JUBILEE CELEBRATION,
39
that woulfl liavo oondemuod him to the inartyrdoiu that Jamos Guthrie
lii'l just sulTereii, ^v.nt to theiu the wdl-kuown ix'ply : " Ti'll thoiu I huve
to aiipcar hcfoi-e a sufjoricr Jiidjjrf auil Juilicatory, and i^w your day arriv<'S
I will lin ■« Jmtc fuw kind's and ji^rcat folks fouu'.'' in that same university
Andrew Melviilu, oiie ol' tiie greatest scholars of his aye. was |irincipiil.
and thonce. for his hold dtd'cni^c. hefori' kiu^^.rf and coarts. of tiic iudciien-
deiiro (if the churcli and Pi'esliyteriul Kovornuiont, Jie was (iriven forth
to die in a forei^^n land. In that s/iujc county .Tunies MeUilU.', the author
of tlu) valuaMt^ Diaiy and Ijetters. held a p.MJsh fr<jni wliicli h<^ too w..3
tixpatriateil in the same cause, Alexander Henderson, tlie Moderator (f
the (ilasjrow Assembly of Iti'is, the learier and statcsui:i}i (>f the reforming
jKirly iinij one of tlie Scottish Comniissiouei-s to the Westmiustir Assenildy
of I>ivines, hold a parish in the neitrhhoihocxl. From the sliore mii^ht he
seen on any day the H<iss Kotdc lisin^ up to a ^reat li<.'i;;hl. stern and
frowniiiiif, from the Iiosimu of the (reruian ocean ; vvhtn't; many a sulVcrer
for cons^'iince s.ike had lin^'-ered (Hit his weary days, ^'a/,ij»;j:-up<>n the
land wliich lii> was not iR'rmitte.d to tread. These men sud'ered or died
iti the cause of our aii(:i(Mit cljiiriii. and tliuu;^h tlie end did not cxmio till
maj'tyr's hlood Avas jucssed (JUt lik(! water over the land, tlie cause ti'i-
iimplusd at^ last ami we enjfjy in (»ur institutions and in all lands the
fruJt of their toil and their tears.
Our vonerahle friend. Dr. McC'ulloch. \yent forth into the battle of life,
animated liy these very traditions and insjiired hy th(!se memories. Ho
must liave known them from a childhood, during which these names
were h(»useliold words, Sonn' scientists ttdl us that life and character
are formed ainl UKJuldeij by the i\\-o iidluences (;f Jiereiliiy and envii'on*
ment, and in l)otti tlu'st; j-(^speets my lionored fi'iend has enjoyed singular
advantages. L'nler the iiitluence of his di-M..<i,L;uisluMl father, who cinuf
out from Scotland in IHOi!. who tau^lit literature, phih.sopliy and th(;(ii(ij;y
for so many years, and t(j whom, as well as to his family. Sir ^^'illianl
lJaws(jn. oiH! of his most eminent students, has referred, in the letter reafl
here to-day, as the centre of a band c" instructors, Dr. \lr;(.'ulloch not
only br(^athe(l a I'resbytei'ian atmospliere l)at was (dosidy identifieil with
collegiate education in all its aspects. In his own day liis fatJier made a
deep impression upon this country; but it is since his decease that his
views liave l)eeu most effc'ctaially carried out atid that, the fruits uf liis
labors have been ^atlu're(i. His sotis. Professor ]\lc('ulloch of Jtalhousie
I'oUejife.and Mr. Michael Mct'uUoch sjjent their lives in the work of
instructing^ youth and ^vere thus worthy sons of a worllij' sire; so that Sir
William Dawson mi^;!!* justly speak. of tln^ services rendered to education
by thi> wiihdy respected • family."
My own c()nnexion with this ])rovince date.s from the OtJi of Jaiuuuy,
IH.53, when, with two_ friends. 1 landed in Ha.lifa,x._ One of these is tlie
Convener of our Forei^^fn Missior. Board. The (jther is Dr. Sprott, of iS'orth
Berwick, son of the gifted ami oid^inal minister wlm, as you have heard
to-day, preached the sermon at Dr. Mct'uUoch'H induction fifty years ay'o.
At that tim(s l-'Csides the other (lenominati(mal collefi:(.f*, two Presbyterian
i;olle>?es were maintained; one by the Free church in Ifalifax. and tlie
other by the Pres'yterian tJiureh of IS'ova Sc(jtia, at the West Jviver.
Both of "these had been cummiiiced in IS4m. That at t))f \N'cst Kivei- owtsd
its inception t(j the wisdom and courage of the late Principal Ifoss; who
saw that a native ministry, educated within the pri>vini.'e, was essential
to the prosperity of the churcii. and that there could be iKt independent
self-devehjpment in Christian I'literprise without it. In spite of much
opposition and even ridicule, not only from other parties ntit also from
ministers of his own body, he persevered and by his energy and ability,
larfjely saved our common Presbyterianism. Without the aid which hfs
younK men j?ave at that crisis, lar^j^e numbers of jjfrfnyin^^ settlements
would have been lost to our church, Jle was ably assistiid by Doiitors
Keir and Smith, After the Union of JS(!0 the West h'iver Seminary was
united with that of the Free Churcli and transferred to Truro. When
J),-.lhousio Collvf?(^ was revived in 1802, the Truro Arts Profes.sors became
Professors in Dalhousie Colleffc. Our Hall was finally transferred to
Halifax. To the Presbyterian Church belongs the hon(jr of rescusitatin^
^
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if ^
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n
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40
THE McCULLOCH
r)?i,l}i(iusffi Collo^ro. which hiul hocm (wtaVilwhed in I^»20 hy the Hail of
iJ.ilhouHif. nil nf'Ifr of t.hc. Chiircfi of Scothtu'l, to furnish <iliic it icjii iirHt*
f.ir,ility tor (dilniniiij,'' doKifH^f^ to ijfnsoTi;^ u\\wx iTi m nioiiil <>rH of th(! ('lniicli
of l'Jiif,'I;iuil. who wurc irot nioiv! t,n in a tiffch of ihn popiilat I'on. ' Our chmcli.-
t.ruo to ii!4 iii-ii iiicts as Fiiviri^' Ihhim ji1w;i^s 1 h(^ |i;it,ron an'' Hiij)poft, u\
fviucatiori, phico'l itri funds ut, th«! Hurvjiu! of t\\v. provincn for t.hi; i-sla).-
liahiiii'iit of ii proviiic:iivl univur.sity. WliiiCevt-r may bo tliou^'ht of this
iiH ;i |>olioy, tho act of our (rhi>r(;h was ojic, (;huii«ut(-!riz<.;<i hy Kp'rit, jiiuJ
iiiaj^naiiimity. Whct.htn' other den )im nations will evt-r avail tiumixclvn'/
of tlie pnA'rsions t^f t.h«( Act; «»r m>t, f.hu ri.'HU'lr,, an n-f^anls tbt? intt'.n^sts of
[)ri>vini:ial .^fiiuiation, )iai l>eon a (lirttiii'^iiiftlu'd siTcctJSfl, and DalhoiHic
Oolhv.'f, i;x<!li)«iv(' o? afr'fliat.cd <«j1lt;K''», lias r/ow an attiendinct,' of uon-
uiderahly ovi-r fcwo lujiidreil Htudcntfl. •
With rc'M[n;o't to our Theoloyica] (7olh>{jo, which Tia» iTri(1«>ri,">iio so
many chan^is and whiuh, if wo rochoii from tho tirrx; when thn Into
Dr. McCitlloch begun to tuach th(;o]o</y in fit-too, is the oldent of oiu-
t}itiolu!»ical 'c;olli!!<.'a, a infui^iire of immirnrjty ih now oiijoyod. for wlii.;h
W(; ar(3 indt't'd thankful. Its \y\Wl hirtti-rv in Mijch ae \\va-<\ not inaku n.-!
ashaiiMid. Wi! have honestly t.'iuleavonjd to do the wi>rk (fuu-tly an.'
thorou^ilily, Hi!( king to \w judyi'd not hy «how or hy {)rc'tinision8 inU
liy resiiItH. Wo havci hunilily waitiM} for thtt fruit of thin tfiiality of wotk
and it appcarM as if it had conni at laf?t.. This yi'ar wf liavc in all
thirty-one in al.ti'n(hin(;<.' ; which in rcmsuh^raMy ahovo tht; avitrayo atif?
beyond uiiy previooa yi-ar in our hiatory. Wn exjKsct to nond out ton
licentiates into the fiold thia suiuiner. At Iho same tiimi it shf^'uld be
remfiinbered that all our atudentu are home inTHsionariea dunn<4 the half
of th« year. Hince I beeaiiie connerrted with the college fourteen year.**
ago, nixty-nine have been educated at our coUej^e. Includinj^ the f«'>»
studentH about to leave ua, during fourteen Hf'«aions we shall have trained
aeventy-niim for our ujinistry. Oat of the 17" ininisterii in active «ervioe
in our synod, two-thirds have been trained in whole or in part at our
Hall. There have l>een trying tinites and yreat diacoura^'ementt*. Our
work ia studiouB, and, ohHcnriid within wallH, it doen not trr)tne before
the eye of (jbaervation ; but it may be known by its taiij^ible resulta
and iinim-nse conuequenees to the atanditiK "f our niinistry, the re-
ajiectability of our chur(;h and our iuHuoiice as an edueativo force in
the community. Aft>er what I have brought forward as facta, leavinjf
out of view such fruits and inMuence« an cannot be tabulated, who of uf,
would think of iv'..^rgin'.', thin ('ollege in one or more of our (.'ppur
Province Colleges? I'ho fact in that while thia wcruld l)e a deadly injury
to our <;hur<-h hero it would be no benefit to them. It would BiiK[)ly
drive our *«t."'d'jnt.T to si ek for ediicntion in a foreign country, where
many of thenr would remain. One denoniinatimi in thin province was
perMuaded by the all absorbing influence of the l/pper Provinoes tf-
merge itu The >Iogical Hehool in that of Toronto, .I'ld do what cannot
he undfiie. The ccmseijuenco of this has been, that out of ten theo-
logical HtudentM, nine have gone to the ( Initod .States and one. only one,
has gone to Toronto. Students em more easily, ijuickly and cheaply
go to r,he United States, and, if our Ccdhige were dismantled, they would
go there. And they would receive a good education there, and enjoy
many advantages ; bub it is not desirable that our future miniHters
shoulil be educated '\\\ a foreign country. Every country and every
inatitHtion in it has its own traditions. We do not wish to affoct the
ideas, ways and methods of any church but our own or th« old Scottiith
pJBJL nn CEL n'BRA T70N.
4-1
IVfothor. whdse cliildrcn wo love, to Iw called. Wo rorMcmber oht fathtTs,
'we ventirate rxir Riiiitcd dciul, .iii'l rIi;i11 wu, at tJto iiivitttlion of jitnbitioii
'whii'h irt iH?vrr Kitiftfit'ii nr at thu ciill (>f »v cold, <;alcKliitiTit; Rnd bloodloss
i'xpi.'dioncy, to.ir np liy this roots ii trtif, that hns tKtriit^ siicli fruit ami
'thit lias Iv.foii wiiorc.d liy thuir tears, cheriHlu.d V>y tlieir labors ;itiil
'joiisecrated by their pmyens, artd sn hlot out an horKircd name that lias
hei.ii w^itr,(!ii in htiavcii '/ Jfo prjod cowld come of «uc;h anthankful,
mean and iitiijer-.enitis pidicy.
I love to hoiKtr XS\- .'\T(.'(/ii1Io(;U on tliia auspicions day, hecaHse ho in a
TepreBentative inin - ;ni emhodiminit of our own disiiru-tivf priiii:ii)li.'8 and
traditions. A.s a proaidtiT. it has biMiH his aim not to di';d in xensatioiis
and Rtartdiiiu; r>ui prin^'B, Imt in ] riiioijiles. lit; lias trie*! to cidiijhten
the rnind, and not t<> tickh? the ear. Mnn this ciiiiiot be done without
principieH which may appuar dry heoaiise th<y deinatid thought from thw
hearer. >io Sciwnoe ran he tau^lu, withonr, priiiviple.'^, and d-ivine tnitli
■*;anMot he taH*lit without priiiciploa thou^^li adults may prefer passion
and hahes in iiMderstandiM;^ rn <y cry for picr.ares. -l honor him hecauatt
he has ro.sisied tl«e tide of innovation wliieh has breiken in upon all
•churelieB, ?.ud the PriKl.yterian chundi rn'ist, IfCMiise it> was t>»i,'e the
purest and most (;<inservati ve and prf»nde.st of its niraf. and ;_doriou*
iraditiens. I honor him l)ec lase he haa Ween an emim^iit e.xatiiple of
the Chri-stian jtaator -a hhppherd under the (»reat Shepherd -a livinj;
enibodiitient. of the srreriit'.'.-it, ottiee spon earth ; of the ministeriai life at-t.
fortli in oar jjresit teKt hook .rf pasti^al theuloyy the wonderful pastoral
e[)i8tleB of St. I'awl. With Buch ministers as hiin in our churcheB we
need not the neerer, und irrespotiRihln infinenfe« (>f the confeswftiial to
'^iiard the heedh'as fteps (d' yonth or to chei r and enliven tht- feeldeiiesa
and infirmities of old ai;e. | honor him heea«s(i of hi.^ ru^'t; d indepen-
dence -of tiiat h(dy b<ddneBs. which the ApostleH espeeially di.splaye<i,
"whieh astonished th.-ir en(;mien and tlie. enemies of the trM'.li and which
they prayed for theirs"Iv(S and the chnrch prayed for thein. <»«r friend
waH never wantiti!f in that rjnality. 'I'lua pnl(>it, which novelty ha« not
yet 8w<!pt away, was a v runo (»f prayer where vice was detected and
robnked with an indopeimrnce which has left its impreRR on thiR now
proRperoRB CMnniHiHty Kii(i theref^tire ir. is that all classes and deiw. mi-
nations hav« united in honorinct him thin day. It is a privileee for us
to nhare in this ccleltratioii, which fnniishei* ns with a motive to ^^n
■forward and iirutate such a bright oxainpU.
At 5.30 o'clock the afternoon scs«;ion \v;is closed liy the
Rev, J. H. Chase, M. A., pronouncing the bcncdictirjn.
At the clo.sc of tliis .service the ladies of the coni;r'".^^'4tion
t'ntcrl'iincd at tea the Rev. Dr. McCjilioch anci family, tin;
['rcsbytcry and visifin*^ friends, in the adjoining; Hall, c m*
ncctcd with the church. The Morn/m^ Herald thus spoke
of the splendidly laid tables and the ;.^encral appearance of
the tea room : — .
Th<' tlaU adjoin intr the ehureh in wliieh Ihe supper w i"? servi ftw-^
tiste.fiillv decorated ,f(jr tlio (Kjcision and presente'i <in utt^active ti|>i)<vii'-
uneti There, wm' tbrer> t;i.bl.s, e k h of a S(Mtititr e,api(.ily of fori v. niriniiiu
•ilie full Itri^jlh of the hill. 'I'ha diipl ly of silverware urei rich and rare
«iiiHa "poke volumes for the wealth an'l t.inU) of the eomniuuity. .Vt one
4^
Tim McCULLOCir
• '111 of the Tiiil) wcri' fttinfr lff<i hI/c ofl |»iiw) rii/.fs of Tfov. Dr. M<'f'iill<M'}i'
mrl lii^- wifi'. who Oijoy- l!ii' luvi; of tln,s |»( o|)Ic with whom nht) lias li\((i| st><
iiumy ycuii't iii- an iu.iik"il u <li'«r<;<; iiH Ika- hiisliaiui. On out' sidr- of liio
witi'iow at till' cimI of til*! IV. ill w'iiH tfvc followiUK : " iHiJA 'I'aki' li'<Jfl iiow.^
for t,h(* Lonl fiatfi .hoHcii t,hi'i' to liuiM n ii hmi-M' t'or"t he- ^inctiiary; 1;« stroii//
uirl do it." Oft tlic otficr si if whs: "ihHii, I iciiininticr tlic <lavH of oi'H 1
iiio'litati' oil all 1 iiy works. I inusi^ on the work of tli.v l)a,D>ls.'' 'J'Ik-sc wcth
tiic text^^chosf'ii liy Ki'v.-I )r.. .V[c(Jurio<h t<» pi'facli from t,\\ t.ln' firht (HM-asi(jn
that hi- a/lilii!Hsefl the coiiKVf(.fati<m, and in piCfwhiiiK hiM juhiluo Bwririoii on
Siimlay l.i'-l.-
I >r. .Mf'< 'til loch was si>(it»-l at t.lit-. crntral tjiblo, wliicli vns |ir(.'Hi'.'(''l over
liv Mis. {{ohliitis, wff(^ of the j);i>~tor of th(! coirtgri'jratioii. iuid Mrs. AlcxaTidf^r
\filli'r._ wifw of th<( I'l'liM' of thtit naiiui. airl rcfircsfiit iriK"ii« of the ofdcsf
names int In' history ».f t ht'tori^r'ejfafjciii. Oiu'of t li'- taliiiM-.ovi-rsoti Ihih tal/le
w.iK hroii»;ht from Scotland fifty year- a^^'o Tiy t,li(! wife uf l)iv McCnlloch,
Hjid aiiotliiT wan lirduKht from Scotfarnl hy tho motl'icr of Mrn. Jiimes
I'ithfadfvarid was iiiadi? dy Ixir ijriuit-^rrand iiiothcr. Tin- i.ahjc was ©hijijant-
ly Hot, ari/l V/lis wjiitod ui«iii oy the d<'S(;i'ii<litiits of some of thf. <'arlii.'Ht
Prc.Hhyti'riaii families iu Tniro, iiicJiidiriK Jirrftit-Kiund-'la.UKp'itcrv of R«v..
Dr. \Va,ddidl and Ki'v. Mr. ('<kJ<. and othi-is raprcsenl iiii? other old and
Iri^'hly r'esjifcted families. The otlinr tahles were prcsfdedover and Itjokod
iffter liy tFfo wives of the (irr-si'tit Riders i^f the (■(jrij^i'eKati'on.
The aiifii'ier was of a KUiiiiifuoiis chanu'tw and was hij^hly en.i»yi;d l)y
aes'ei'al Iiu.'l'iiedH of (.fiierits.
The Morning Chronicle had these kind word.s : —
Tfio tt'a at whieh thn ladies of thiiconpn-Kation entertained thefrffiiests
was an histori'eal one. 'J'ln' tahh^s were, splendidly laid; the tiihle ware. (;tc.,
Tfvas of the Iw.-ii; and they were laden ilown uilli the <;ood thiiiK'^ provided.
HoiiM! ■J.ia [leojde ^7Ut down, n\i\w\'\i\'ii, all (he local (lei'^y, the clergy and
♦•Idcn'K of til*!! Truro prifshytery and r<;pr(seiita,t ivai divines and laynan from
the J'reshyteries of lladifnx, and Pietou. hesides the h^adfiijj: people of the
town. The liall \k'as tastefully dw-oncted. Hi-hind the platform were t wo
hanners. These read ;'
1K:«>-Taki! ^ti^'l no«' fof tlm l/)ril hnth eho»cn thee to biiild an hotiae for the aarH.'tiiarj'
Ke stronif and «lo it.
1^8!> -I runicriihttr the do>K of nld. I meditate on Thj' workH. I iiiuHe eii the workv
fif Thv tiumlH.
flHtween th( i-;e two hiin/nTS was the word " .liihrhM'," and iimle
■r it
* Keiiiwrnhor them tliat had the rule oCfer Voir ^wliieli s(ioke. unto vou tluv
^vord of God.' On ei'lher si'do, hwtwi two splendid oil ix.rt.raits of ]»r. and
oil
Mfs. M('(Iiill<M-h taken in i he prime of life f(<rfy years a^fo, 0« the sidn
Walls were the w(M'ds : ' Look.' "Lfve.' ' Watch/ ' I'ray/ y\inon»!: the histor-
ical featiiii'f+of the ♦H-ctasion wei'e a little tahle used at thw first coininuniou
.MMvice of the church lift yean* mko; u tahle clotli witjiout a stain or soil,
>»rou/^'ht to Truro in 1772 hytho rnotherof Mrs, .fames Pithfado^and another
table (loth. e((ually spotlow, owned liv Mr.s. ]hv MclJulloch. and whitdi was
iiSdl hy the late f)r. Thomas McCuiJ'H-h at lir.^t (communion s<'rvice in
I'ictou in IHO),^ The tea was a >*i)loiidid success and shmild he very Kiatify-
iii^' to the ladles in cliai-i^e — .Mrs. .lohn Itohhins. Mrs. .(Mexaiider Miller.
M IS. Jlenry Tiipper, Mrs. L, \\. .McElhinney, Mi"m. C. i\ Bhinchard and Mrs.
JuhnH. Mi'ller.'*
The communion table referred to above and the sac-
ramental ves.s(.ls were used for over one hundred yean — the
" token.s " were dated 1772.
The rccejition meeting in the evening was held in the
church, commencing' at 7:30 o'clock and continuing without
intcrmis.sion, and amidst the greatest enthusiasm, until 1 1
o'clock. The large church was crowded to (he doors. The
Kcv. J. Kobbins was again in the chair and with masterly tact
7 aifiL BE era. hbra rio^i^.
K%
•and ability scj conducted this lon^ session that at no time did
'the interest in the proceed in ;^.s in the lca«ft. diminish. Tlu:
iineeliii;,^ was opened with ihe sin{^finj( (A the 9Hth Psahn and
sprayer l>y the Rev. K. li. Moore, Mathodist minister. The
'choir ron(k'icfl tlvc anthota — " J'raisc ye the I.ord "--Miss
MclJioui,''alL, soloist — with iru.ich cxpressioti and taste, after
which tiir Rev. K. V. liurns, D, I)., Moderator of the (jcneral
Assembly, {'.Io(|oc'ntly spoke, in substance, as follows :
Mu. ''ilAiiiiJAV. It, \i\ oiii' piivil<'K<' '<• li^''' i'l 'Jk' V'ictoriuii iijri'- nii
»uo rrii)jrr;ujt witli historic iii<«i/i)ri<'rt iiniil fruitful (f iiiiuiifidd liltKsiii^'".
'1 iiti vuiMjraHlfi iVictor. in 'aIidsd liiinov '.vc iir<! \!,.v\.\\y\w<\. who coiiic fr<iiii
i<o rri;ii_jy qiiart,4'rH iijid rfprtsiwit sik^i a variety of interest :i iunl iiisl itn-
tioij.'^. iw \{) Ik' coi'diiiilv e«)ii';(iatuhi'l"il. not, jnenly '"ii 'liavinj.!: ri-aehed hi-*
• tn'ele.HJarttif.al Juhilee, uii<i such a jiil/ih-e, hut one too. so clorti' t^) thut r,f
our liehiveil SfA'creifj^n. I'li'shyterinn iire [iroverhially hiyal We feiii
(Ifxl, honor l3ie (2'"'<'ii- ii'i'l iihm)(JI') tioI with -^iieh «.■< tire j^iven to eTiaii«:e.
It is tlw^reforc! quile in uc;eor<i wiili tlic Hiiint, of this eeh-lirat ion. that
w<j, Avith heart
aiiii voice, seii'l up
t)i
<lil familiar arelaim. "<ioi| Hav<
the (JiKjen. '' How uitieii we <av(* to the si'\ leprrHcnted hy the nohht
vvoKian who lias ho lon^,' ^,'riiei-d the Hinisli ilivone (it»* " i<i;("i;s KT Tt'T-
A.MK.N''"», tiie si-x repre^.iMited hy thi- faitliful few that were last iit tlie
■crosH and first at the H<yiii"l(hi e I )|o\v henifie'-ut han 1 ectn the ii<'iiiev<-
iiients of our moderi.) VVoiusin's For'i/»'u Mimioiiiiry S<H',ietiesl Mr. Hliiii-
i-li.ird. ith'his a'liniralih' pa|Mir oii (Tic jvnt fifty yeait of this thriving
lovvn, sliowc^d us how .unicli woim n liad to do wiili tiie .■M-lect inn (in jsr,:))
•of t:
le Hite uin
I tli
e er"e,ti(Hi of th<' frai
lie w
Ol'k of llii-4
iforr
ai)l(- am
toianio'lioiis rlniriji. Douhtli-ss Mer<' w admitted to th<' inwardin'SH of
th
IS mil
giie ceh'hnit ion w", wotiiil lind tJiat
v.dini
•n hail not a 1 it t h- to do
vvith it. JIave they lujt the more Mt do ail.h almost every iji'p.u tment of
eliurch work? We |i<d satij^fjed thut he in whose 'lion (»r wi' are met
mid he the first to arlniowledm, Jiovi' njudi th
pastorate was due to the "true yok(.-f<'l
favored lum.
h'' suec,e-<s of his ivmarkahjc
ow " with whom Hoilha-iso sit^iiaiiy
i'o what siiitrular advaiitiices h;is womnii's hand upiw^areil in tlu
tl
oiiderfiil " .\;jfap;e
lese servii'is. Tji
tlie L(rve F'eiist. we have had provided for m> tietweei
jrroai
tin*; tahhjH and the artistie attraetioin of tlie
idjoinin^j )iall '■ we can ni-ver forget. What a feast we have hid I As
w»; fari'd .siimptMoiisly — so siimptuousl.s' - had tlie juirvcyor of un old famil-
iar stoi'y jmt in aii utjp<'araijee he would have foiinfl r" ismi to i'ej)eat.
the t<'Stiii)oiiy lioriie at inajiy a Preslyterian entertainiiii'ii( . " 'I'liein
reii^riouses euts awfii
Truly in that aueient hall, so heatitifully ni<'t-
amoj-phof'-d hy tl«;se "angels of the (•"luii-cir* -who have doiihtle-;^ found
ill turn, that they w<!ro "et)tertainin;i: angels unawai'*';-;.'' we "did ( af our
meat w itji ^la.dness and sin/^leneHS of heart. |)rai-in;r and hlessiim ' "xxl.''
I am, like yourself, sir, a 'omparati ve new roimr -and iioi to tho
manor lioivi, as moH of those who hive teii'lered -<iiih warm /jfiei^t iris's to
our honored friend on tins auspiriitu.-i day. hut 1 will yield to note- of t hem
in the -treuH^tih and sinceritj' of my re«(i<'et for him., and th<f thoro'i;jhrii"'s
it I I have rcji-ciH of
f t)ie Mansc. \\i- had
of my symjiathy with this ilay and all who honm it'. I have n
my own for this intert^si,
W
Wire
l.otl
I S' ll> O
fathers hailiiiK' from the same Sliire in the dear old lair'. Fathers. t<K>,
w iio mi;t it) lioiKirahle iiiti'lh ctiial Khi'liatorsliip for lu.'ither of the^i'
<iituy:lily wai'ii</r^ iii their |>aKsa<.'is at nrui-; of sixty yeai's winee. to iisi-
a fauiiliar (<X( resHiou of the mo-*t hrilliajjt (J I" ma la's JJovi iiior (ii-nerals,
did "hit Indou the litdt.'^ It was fair, lIioukIi forcff;il lijjrhiiii^. .Nofoul
hl(;WH vei»<i dealt and although at tines ''the Fatht-rs dil eat .sour
yraiies" -I am sure f>/laii<in;.f liai;k at the veniMaiilf eynosuro of tin'
oiica^ion) that the children's teeth werr not set on ed>?<'.''
Truly a very sp-ei iai inten^t atta«'heH to tjris occasion. 'I'o he fifty
years in' the miuiatry at all 'v uucommun: hut to te a minister fifty
rr
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TffE McCULLOCH
yuans iu oiih parish in this chiu/jrifiil km l—to bo tlie thir.i pastor in-
siiwu'Hsiou ill 117 yt'urrt. p irticipuliiiij in nijfb 4oyo liapLisitis, liri lal^'
iiud IJiiiials, irt (jspiT'i.illy uuconunoii.
For tljf ({ualitics m.irUia^' the ministry of our venoiulilo Fathor wi-
pniiso (Jo 1 his ^^'rcat plaiim h^ of spoocli. his iaiiUfiilu.'ss in tlit^ fxcrriHO of
• lisciplinc. tht; vi;^''il.nu'(i i.f his paslor.il caro, his coui'ii^cods rttaiiiliii^jf in.
trim oM pa this, his i.unstniw witn.-Hs. bravitijif aji-uiuHt wii'Ic(.HliU'»H,_wht!ih»)i-
III iii^h places or low ;■ hi/^ i; truest pr<ichnnati()u o| th<) (Jospol— his cryiiiii.'
ah>iai and siiirin^ not u^^.inst Habliath <losecration<— li^wduuss. yrofajiiiy,
'mtiMii|)',M'ani »t- -all thii«i' {oimsof i;vil wluch arc tlio rciuroach au'i tlm ruin
of tliosf who iii'lulK*' HI thuni.- Dr. McGuiloch is-(,u(» who fears not to staml
alont' — of tUn I ype portrayed by tbo Biird of Paradiso iu tlu; ptrsuii of thu
Ser,iph- iVbdici ■,—
Animi^ iiiiMinicrahle falsa, unmovud —
Hii.'-hakcii, niisedudt'il, hiH lo.\alt.j Im tcjit.
Hi.s l()V<j, >-(s?.cal, nor miinbur, ii<a' uviiiiiplft
U'itl) him wroujfli*, to swwrvc tj-oui Truth
«)riihiu)i;e his cuiistuiit uiia(},
Thouj^ti siiij,'lt(.
Ift thoso days of woi'Idly cottf(jrmity and sinful compromise— of s(*>
culled librr.iU'hristi.nu'Ly — wlien thcro are so many " li'lioral " with \i\\\x
docs n<>r. huior.y: t(j lli( uiscdvos — the precious "truth .is it is in Jesus" — but
bsirnionious to a de^'rce iu flic ht)ardin;r of their own. ptitty fieeultarities,
-it is well to- havi' men wlw. at all hazard*, will '"buy the 1'iruth ;uid
sell it not."
Rinsing' tbi'outrh tbc vcstilmie of the N«rt,h Presbyterian Oiurcih, St..
liouis, I saw on a mural tablet tlii'\vorflri of Mabiehi (ii:f)) in memory
of a dcjiarte.il pii,st,i)r. iiu'l this deserTptioii of the true Priest of the Most
\\\'^\\ <fod, 1 would apply to him whom t(^-duy we delf;j:ht to honor- '' The
liiw of Truth was iiihrs- mouth aik<i ini((uity Wi]S not, found fn his lips; he-
w.ilki>d with me in peace aud equity and dkl turn, many away from
ini(piity."
.An oc.cn.aJon Irkc this throws-us back into the past, Tfw? half century we,
commemorate enibvaceS' our Now World experience and a ><ood deal more,
When in early youth we set foot in Toronto (May IH 15). we found a j)on-
nlatiou of a little ovei' 17.000— now wsd find ten times that nuiiduir. Old
Knox tlhurch was a small one st<iry brick building with an nnshapcdy
woodeft addilion; l)r. Jenuiiif,''s church was a small frame on Richmond
street, back of Knox^s. and Dr. Barcbiy'^sold St, Andrew's <m Church street.
near the Kr;iscopal Cathednil.- 1 was the last to preach fn ofd Knox:
t'hurch, which was burntsci down oji Sabliatli. tlic iJOth May. Ih'T. The
present, stately edi-jiec' spran^r from its ashes the ycai' after, I was in old
St, Andrews the iiif,'lit its bidl tolled for the last tim(>. To Its ereilit it
jjave the Knoxites .shelter the Sabl>a.th succeedrn^ their lire— but well
do we remember. thouirJi Kraiteful. \\vrw straiig(;ly we felt uuder shadcjw
of a "HcHiduary'^ Kirk. Now, wil,lii'n the city, the tJiree have incrcasuil
at least five fohl, and what a contrast fn the buildinj.£S and the member
ship I The thirty ministers of the (jhurch of \\\y ordination have multiplied
ni;j:h twenty times over. Then imu- eollcKC was a tiny Infck house, on
.lames street, near Shaftosburj' Ha,Il, with fourteen students. Now we
liave six collejfes, with students countwl by the hundreds, and edifices,
and endowments amounting to many humlreds of thousands of dollars.
Kinancially it w;as with us truly a "day of small lliins^s"— now we can
report nearly eijifliteen hundred thousand dolhtrs raised for all puriioses
in a year, double our figures at the Tjnion in 1875. On succeeding' lb-,.
I 'onald .Eraser and Mr, Loui'ic as Convener of our Poreiirn Mission (>)m-
mitteo in IHHO hut i|JP200 were all that the conj,'re>?at ional collectioiis liad
yielded the jirevious yctar ; when that was shortly doubled it was doenied
quite an advance, l^ast year (uir Foreign Mission Fund renchcd withiii
a trifle of §70.iX)0— nearly .*!20,000 in advance of the year pr(!cedin^'. Thirty
years ajro_ British (/olumbia and the North American Inlians formed oiin
sole Foreign Mission— in additi(m to the jiioneer work of our Mistern
brethren in the New Hebrides. Now we have six separate Forcifj:n Mission
fi(dd8--our own aborigines, Central India, Formosa, the New Helyides.
the West Indies, aud Honan iu China. Our Western friends, whose zeal
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rtlioul'l prcivoki; vnry in luy, Ii.ivi! ai-nt out to ludia ami Cliin.T, ten now
iiiissiim.i!'i<'s uitliiij u sin;,'l<' year. Tliis iiicroast! in tlu' Furci^n Mission
ih^iartiii'Mit \\.\.^ nut t^ikcn fidiii. Ijut. lul'loil to the others— whicli aii' ail
in a. niuiN! or loss hnalthy ccMidition, our Iloiiio Mis-^icm fiuvl l\iiiir
over g!lu,(i(M) in oxcf-s.-t 'if tho yiJiu- liclon'. Allow cliurch irKicIiintM y ir
in th<)roiiu;h!y workinj^ order, yi't must wi^ not iiLikc oiundIvcss fools in
^rloryin-/. (.'hurclifs shoiilil not 'h* n nnlit.;rwl,, hut wci^limi— wt!i;rlic(l in
tho lialuu'os oC tlio Sanctuary — I trust wn tti ,y not lu- found wanting.
Iji't us rcui'MuJ'or Uin lesson, a littl(> wliilu .\\s,<.> licfort) us in tiit? haV-hath
Solioul, (»f (iidirou's ■■ uobli! tlific hundrtvi." W'r nri-d a niulciplii-.ation of
Hiudi as uii! iiol, at oasi! in Zion. s|)rt';i,din^' thciusidvos out t>n tin; rivi'r's
liank, biit who imcuj Imsimss— liku tho throo hundrod aapiHira, uro ready
to ^o u|) ii'u ( ui'c aj,',iiiist till' vni'Uiy.
liidiold Imw ^ood and liow phjasmt a tiling it is for hi'otlirfMi to liwoi!
I if,'(!tiicr in un<r(y. as the platfo'iii an I th*- pews diunonstrato to-ni>,'ht — nor
let till! foif,'t!t to coii^xralalali' you. Mr. ('liuirninn. on your niot auccessful
i<aj)fi vision of tIicsh ri;iriarkai)l<' sorvicos and on thf. partiouiiii ly h ipjiy
ndatiojis .suli^isiin<r I'ctwc'tii vnursrlfand your lionoroil friiuKl iind f.itlmr.
No Dcrtion of liis nn'inora^ii*' addnv'^s tlii:4 afternoon ininresscd uio iiioro
Mian his iti i>,'i"l'yi'i>-' the otTu'f. of the h()ly ininistry. I iiray God that
parents an I cliil ireii ))r<;^!ent may reiiioiulxjr his words. " If a man tlcsirt
tliir (dKi-e of a Bishup. lie desireth a ^jfood work-''^ Our frien<l ti'stiiies ho
h iH found it so. and I I'eid assured tli il all my ministeiial hretliren present
will en lorse tlia^ testiuiony. Faithful, earne.st. vvhule-souled. thoroughly
rMUseerated (ran li lates for the iuini>try. "the Son hath need of them." We
reiull the (diivaJrous deods of the warriors in former and hiter times.
Oh 1 who woulil Hut » olruTipioii be ' ,
In tliii«, tho lordliwl- chivalry.
Ui>, rouse yc then, brave tirotlicr band,
M'ith hoiieHt hrait ;iti<l working hund—
We lire but few, toil-tried, yet true.
And hearts heat high todare and do.
Ay I there be those th it aehe to Bee
T1i« da\ dttwij of our viotory.
Work, lirotliers, work ; work hand ttud brain,
We'll win tile (Jolden A^u again.
The antbcni — " Hallcluj.ih " — Mrs. Cutten and Mis.s E.
Archibald in the duett — vva.s L,nvcn, after which the Chairman
called the roll of the Prc.sb)'tcry of Truro — each minister
came to the platform, (grasped the hand of tlic Rev. Dr.
McCuiloch and spoke words of conji^ratulation and esteem.
Tliese were the Rcvds. E. Ross, James McLean, Alexander
Cameron, James Sinclair, J. PI. Chase, \i. Grant, E. Smith,
J. Robbms, W. T. Bruce, J. A. Loyan, J. A. Cahill, W. 11.
Ness and A. L. Gegfjie. The Doctor was also warmly con-
gratulated by Revds. Alexander Ross, D. Stiles l^^aser and
E. W. Dill. The Rev. T. Cummin^ was abseiit on account
oi another en>^agcmcnt.
From other Prt:sbyteries there came up with hearty
congratulations and brotherly words ; Revds. T. Sedgcwick,
Clerk of tlie Synod, and H. B. McKay, Presbytery of Wal-
lace ; Revds. Y.. A. McCurdy, E. Scott id James Thomp-
.son, Presbytery of Ptctou ; Revds. Dr. Burns, John McMillan,
M. G. Henry, E. S. Baync and T. C. Jack, Presbytery of Hali-
fax; Rev. J. McG. McKay, Presbytery of St. John; Rev. Isaac
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riif. McCULi.ocn
li!
Baird, Presbytery of Miramichi ancJ Kcv. I'\ C. Simpson, or-
dained Probationer. I lore the liymn '"Stand up for Jesus"
was given by the choir and whole amUmcc with moi^t pleasing
and marked effect.
The elders, rcprcMontinj^ the Truro Prcj^byterian con-
gregations, came forward, — Alexander Miller, Ivsc]., for the
First I'resljyterian Church, Hugh McKen/ic, Msq., for St.
Andrew's and Donald A. Prasf:r, ICsq., for St. Paul's, — and
aho heartily congratulated th(^ learned Dr. McCjilloch Uj)on
this, the anniversary of the fiftieth year of his ordination
an J induction.
The Rev. K. Scott, M, A., of united Church, New
Glasgow, was then very happily introduced by Mr. Robbins,
and in a most pleasing manner he read the fcjllowing masterly
pajKjr on " Our Missions in J''ifty Years ": —
To sketch the work of nearly fifty yoara upon a c-aiivaH of iibnnt h»lf
as many miniitus, neoosHitates the l>;irf;HL outline, and [ cm only ank thf
paMonce of thone to whom that outline may tx; iv familiar Htory.
Fifty yj'U'fl ago our forei^^n mission work was coiiliiu-d to a ff'W
individual eontrihutiona s«nt to mMiieticB aliroad Ah a church we diu
nothing,'. But as we view our forci^ni niiRai<»n work to day wn !n:i! l1ov\itiv;
by ns u stream, broad and deei), and, like thu rivoi- of Kwkiol'H vioidn,
ever growing broader and deeper, carrying ]if(! to ihe moral wastes of <,>ur
world.
Looking up tho stream we see it dividing, like the river that wat<!red
Eden, into f(jur heads, each having its source in a dillemiit branch of what,
is now the Presbyterian Chureh in Canada. After rbe fashion of the early
voyageurs let us explore these tributary stream.^t, trace their origin, not in
mountain s|)rings, but in loving hearts; measure their lengt.h.not in mib-s,
but in years ; their volume, not in feet' and fathoms, but in work ; thfir
result, not in tho produeUs of alluvial acres, but in the fruit of the Spirit
borne by once savage lives.
Beginning with the longest branch, that of the T'resbyterian Church
of Nova Scotia, tho fuMt sign on tho page of history, of our v^ork that was
t© be, is a acono iu a sick room in tho old Scottish town of lianff. A bal)V
boy seems dying. An.xious |)arentfl bend over him, their liearts wrung
with the anguish that only parents can know. There, as they pray, they
vow, that if his lifo is spared, they will devote him to the service of (iod,
to go if it ia His will, to the heathen.
Then, jast ns a mountain rfpring sometimoa comes forth, ag.un
disappears, working its way through rock and soil, and again conms forth
in larger volume as tho head water,'} of some noble stream, ho for years wt-
see nothing of our foreign mission work, but it is there, working down the
thoughts and prayers of those parents, and by the blessing of (Jod ufjon
missionary literature which comes in his way, permeating the life ot the
son until it appears in his own resolve, to go, it the way were opened, t*^*
thw foreign Held.
J»hn Geddie, tho pioneer in every respect of our foreign mission
work, both in the church at homo, arousing her to undertake it, and in
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tho field as her firRt iiiissionfuy, was Ixjrn April 10, iHlf*, and was thus not
vt-ry far ftuin ilic atjo ol iho fatlitji' in whoHii honor wi; are jjntherod to-duy.
Wlii-n ab"iur. a ywir old liiu piinitits (;amo \,u Pictnu and ihuH the two
l^rew in kuowl'-'lgt: sidw by Bide. Tlu'y filled oim church, onu school, oiio
jilayK'ound, wifh their wotHliii) and work and j^lco, and, while laboring (or
one ((jMimoii i-iid, their lives have been, and their graveu will he, sovored
far and wide by mountain, streani and sea.
1 lia\c spolveii of ilie vow of lieddie's jiarentn. The Spirit of Ood
■rieins to have wrought hy the same nieunR, the satnu consecration in the
Hon. From earlicHt year.s he deHired to preach the (^jospel, and if poHsihlt'
to the heuliien. I'Ut while tttudyini; f"i' ih'j ministry hin health failed. Jn
that siokneua, th<iu<.{h at the time he knew nothing «)f the dedication mado
iiy iiin parentu, he solemnly pledj^e^l himself that if life were H[)aied and
tli(! way opi'iie'l he would l>e a niiBsionary. Mow often (Jod nses affliction
to crystallizi! into shape atid action, feelings and wishes that may have
lonj^ been in sciiition in our iiearta I >
He was licensed May 2, 18;J7, but our church had no foreign mission
<»f her own. He did not sei; his way to leave her, und well for her that ho
<li<l not. Me accepted a call to Cavendifdi ami New London, 1'. E. Island,
and was ord.iined there Match IIJ, 18.j8, so that if he had lived, his jubilee
would have been celebrated last Marcli.
Working earnestly at h(tme, his interest in f(ireign minsions grew
Rtronyer. Me organized Jt miHsiomiry societ.y in ins own congregation, und
led his CO- pn-sliyters to du the same in theirs. The next st^p in his
chei'ished phui was to induce the church to undertjxke a niisaionof herown.
Quietly and persistently he wrought with voice and pen. In duly, 1843,
the year that the church i^i Scotland was rent by disruption, an overture
wa.s introduced for the first time into our Synod to undertake a mission to
the heathtsn.
The overture was sent d«iwn to the three Preshyterioii, and next year's
synod appointed !i F<ireiy;n Miwion (Jommitlee to investigate, ^collect
funds, and report That Foreign Misiiion Committee apjx^inted forty-hv<}
yean ago is the foreign mission work of our church first taking definite,
visiljle, shape.
Next year they reported progress, and were authorized to select a
field and appoint a missiotiary. They met, Septendjer 24, ]84r>, and after
mu«h prayerful consideration cIk.'Sh the South Sea Islands as their field,
and Kev. John ( ieddic as their missionary. Of that committee that first
onencd our mifesioii work ani(mg the heathen, the only survivors are Rev.
Cief)rgo Chtistio aad Sir VViliiani Dawson.
Mr. (leddie spent a year in visiting tho church and learning what he
could of medicine and the mechanical arts, and sailed from Halifax, Nov.
r^O, 1840. Reaching the South Seas he chose as his field the Now Hebrides
and landed on Aneiteum, the most southerly island of the group, July iJ9,
1848, over forty-one years ago. The people were low,— sunken in savage
barbarism; feuds and figliting were constant — killing and eating each other
the custom. Maidens when married, had, instead of a marriage ring, a
cord tied on their neck. With this they were strancled if the Imsband
died betVire them, that they might accompany him and serve him in the
spirit world. For some fifteen years previous to this native teachers from
Samoa had been laboring there, but not much impression had as yet been
made on the mass of lieathenism. Our missionary, in bodily presence
weak, but .strong in faith, went to work, amid dangers and hindrances,
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both from natives and aaiiflnl wood trJwlorB, and on Miiy J8, ISfiS, \vf*
fchitn four y«'arB after ho landed he organized a church l>y tho Jiar>ti«in of
thirtGcn funvertn.
A f*Av weclcs later John Iiij^lia of thn Rcfonntid church of Scotland
waH settled fiii I lu) oth«r side <jf the i.ildiid, and in two yeaij* uiorii, nr Hix
yearn after Mr. (Seddio landed, there were '{0 Bclmoln, 'J.OOO of the people
nttetided |iiihlii; worship, wlnle the wlmlci pojmlation, ahont 4.000 had
practically renouiwed hoathonisin.
For the onward hintury rif that niiH.nion let few words Hufhco. II«
came homo on fnrlrin'_'h in 1804. Diirinc: his ftlmen<-e liis ntatiun wa*
wroutrhft by Rev. William M(:(!ullaL;h. Hciit out l>y our cliurch. wh"
remained in the mission ah-iut tliree years. Mr. (Jeddie returned, lahnred
sir year* and died nf paralysis, iJeo. 15, 1H72, aged 57. Hu di mI early
hut he lired lonj^.
Kev. .J. 1>. Murray, formerly nettled in Antitronish, Hiicceeded hiin,
remainir)j^ four years, n hen he removed to .Australia.
Mr. Aniiand who ha<l been laboring in Fila, was now settled in
Anoiteonj, roinainin^' until 18S4, when, f)wirii,' to the deereaain:.,' pnjmla-
tion, it wan felt that two iris.iionaries were no louj^er nettdtMl. Our wifk
there wan handed over to the Free (^Inircli of Serd-land. whicli had this
mission on the other side of the Island anrl Mr. Annniul, after a visit
home, went north froni .Aneiteiim, the most sruitherly islam! f>f the i^roup,
to tSanto, the most northerly, to o[)eii a new mis.nion. The jn-ople of
Aneiteurn have for amno time ha(i the l'>ible in their own lanj,'ua;<e, paid
for by their own labor, chiefly in the production of arrow root, and
[jrobably as larjje ft proportion of them can read it an in Nova Scotia.
P^ifty miles northwest from Aneiteuin lies Tanna. .John Will.-amB
first [)laced three native teachern there in JHJW, nine yijara befori! the
(ieddies went to Aneiteuni. One died; the others had to leave. Three
years later, Messrs. Nesbifc and Turner, <<f the London mi.ssionary society,
the first I'^uropean missiemaries to S'ttie in any part of the New Hebrides,
landed there, but in seven months they had to (lee for their lives in an
open boat. For the next fifteen yeara it was not deemed gate for mission-
aries to nettle but native teacliejs at intervals labored there. In 1H5.'?
small pox was introduced by a tradinj,' vessel, and made fearful havoc.
The heathen were :m<^ry, murdered some of tho native Christians, and the
only surviving teacher escaped to Aneiteuu),
Next year two teachers wont from Aneiteum (where Mr, Geddio had
been working for si.x years), nnd prepan-d the way one* more for Kurop<-an
niiasionaries, and, hk we look in upon the island in IcSOH and 1850, wo find
Mr. and Mrs. Paton, from the Reformed church f)f Soot.land, and Rev. ,J.
W, Matheson, of Roger's Hill, Picrou, and hia wife. We see them joined
.July (Jth, J8G0, by Rev. S F, .Johnson, from Stewiacke, and his wife,
and prospects are bright on Tanna. Soon they darken. Measles are
brought by a vesael, and ajjread rapidly and fatally. Hurricanes sweep
tho island, and 'destroy the plantations and fo(jd. The new relitdon is
blamed. The heathen ragn. .lohnnon dies Paton, whose wife had died
not long before, and the Matheson.-^, Vjarely escape with tlieir lives, and
within five weeks Mrs. Matheson is in her grave, followed three montha
later V)y her husband; and thus, never to be remunied by our church, end»
in disaster and death <iur mis<(ion work in Tanna. It was taken up by
another church in 1808, and has ainco prospered.
Looking still northwest wo see fr(>m Taona, eighteen miles distant.
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thu i«Ianil of Krroinanj^a. Williftms nnd Harrin worn kill«vl in an uffort to
intro(iu(!ij th<! j^onpiil thcru in 1k;M>, riitio yturs hefuit! wy liu^an work in
Anuitvuin. Native teaohorn frotu Saiiioa woro laiuIiMl n year later, but
were cruelly trwiitt'd, uml were at, jetii^tli t.iken iiwny l»y (lie miasion vonnul.
'< )(i the 17tK of June, 1857, oiKhtofii years after Williiunn ami Harris were
killed. (Joorgu N. <iordon and wife, frnm our fjlmrcli, were nettled there.
For four yearn thoy wrought amid sickness ami diititfer. and on tin- iOth
of May, I8t»l, they were murdered by a l)aiid of lieatheii.
(Wh now ooine to a point in the history of riur mis'^ion work wliere in
the union of l7(>0 we, meet with aiinthir tributary, the ^Vee ("hurch of
Nova Scotia, but before going back ujjon it wo will fnllowdown the now
united sr,reatn.^
Tidings cam" home of (Inrdon's «leath. Ilis broth< r. James D,
Oord(m, olferiMl (f> take his place, \saa nrcepted and reaeheU Krruiiianga
in 18G4. Hero he labored for fniir years, when he left to go as the
liiissionary of the Presbyten.in (^hiireji (,f New .Siuith Wales to Santo.
Meantime the year before he left, .lames McNair, a yoiitii; Scotcliman,
was employed by our churwli iovl h^^mUmI in Krroinanuiv, where he wrought
for three years and died in 1H?0. .lames D. (Joidon in a short time came
back from Santo, labored aa an independent missionary, until IH7'J. when
the tomahawk of the savage laid him low find
" Krr;)m«nifa'H tiloo'l Htoincd islo
Had now a martyr roll.
In 1872, the year tliat (Gordon was kilhid, R»>v. H. .\. Rober. m and
wife, sent out Iiy the (/hurch of So<jtlari<l in Nova Scnti.t, whose work
in the Now Hebrides will be best noticed in this cunnection. reached
the islands. Mr. Itoiiert.son had gone nut as one of the crow of the lirst
Mission vessol Day.spiing, which was built in New (Hasgow. Takinji up
his abode in Aiietleiim, as the a.;ent of a cotttm coin[)aiiy which was
operating there, he remained for several years. Hf;re, in the best
position for jiidifing ac<;urat(Iy of missions, their need, their trials, their
Huccesses, ho devoted himself to tht? work. Coming home he studied
for three yenrs, was licenseil, ordained, marriied, and re'iuming to the
south seas, chose as his field that island where the grass had scarce grown
'Xreen on fwirdon's grave. Prospects were becoming better. The sandal
wood was exhausted, and uhite traders no htiiKer ptfivoked the natives
by their wrongs. A piece -of land was purchased by the mission. The
Christians came and lived upon it and were at onee a protection and help
to the missionary. For seventeen years the Robortsons have wrought
and prosjtered. Thoy have now thirty-five schmds, one hundred and
seventy hve church meml>er8, and gatherings of five huiiderd people at
* communion season. The island is Christian and the axe that laid
low the last iRartyr of Krroinangu rests in peace in the museum of the
college at Pine Hill.
With thankful hearts wc set sail (ind sixty miles further north reach
Kfate and are welcomed by Rev. .1. \V. McKen/.ie and his wife. Th>'
tirsc introduction of Christianity was by some (Christian natives of Tongn
and Samoa who got lost at sea and landed here. In 184.5 the mission
«hip John Williams settled four teachers, who were followed by others fi-
death by disease and violence thinned tlieir ranks. Once at least it wi«
entirely abandoned, only to bo taken up again, and in 1S61 Measr-.
(leddie and Murray, when on a visit, organized a uative church by the
so
Tfrn McCUfj.ocH
)iiipti«oi of tliii'toen converts, when aa yet tlioy hiul no Euroinaiti
hjissiomiry.
in tliiA condition wns the island wht-ii Kuv. DonHld Morrinoii and
wifi'. «(:ii', out hf onr ciiurcyi, sottlfd in 18(14. For tlirt'o nliort yoarB-
liM wrou^^ht, iind aft»?r a linm-riiix dcirliiii' Ik- died in iMWI' at A»il;h.rid.
Native tfnclxM'n for the nioitt earrifd on tho work until the nibtlLMiioiit
of llt'v. J. W. McKen/io and his wif« in 187*2. Thi' JMt report showf,
«8 a icHult of nearly scvenlurn yvars' faithful, pivtient work, a coniniiiniMn
toll (jf l.'iT iiMMji)nTS, and states that Mefenty rcnoiincHd ht'atlii'nisiii
<1nrin^ iht* ytar. In another part of tho island lultMirs Kev. D. McDunuld,
of the I'n'shytfrinn chirrch of Victoria.
The ortly other of these islands in whicii ohi ehurch is directly
rutrreHti'd is Hanto, the largest and most n«itherly of the j<roup, and with
it the island «jf TanK<tH, which has iieen umde ihe head nniirters of
onr tnissidti there. The first work un Santo was by two teailurs diid
their wives, who were iaiidid \iy i.he vessel of the London missionary
Society in IHHl. In a few months they all died from fo»er. S.nei>
years later, dauies D. fiordon had with liiin in Krroinan^'a, two Santo-
nan, lie learned their ian!/n;ii^9, wen> to Australia, left the service
of (•iir church, and wenf, as the missionary of tho Church of New South
Wales ti; Santo in iHtU/. 'i'he people received hin» viiost kindly and
when he went away in the l>ay8prinj< ft)ur months later they mourned
their loss. He returned to Krrouianj^a to meet two years afterward a
martyr's death.
In 1^71, le8rt than two veui> iiflcr fiordon^ left. Kev- John Goodwill
and wifi'. Hi-nt o\it hy the ("iiaiili nf Scotluiid in Nova Scotia, Hcitllcd oji
Suirto. Their recept Ton was kindly, luit they siilTerecl much fro)ii Hickiiess
Hud fevfi'. and in two vi'ura they were dlilij^ed to reiiKjve, and afterwai-fl
returniMl to JSDra Scot i.i. Four yi'ar!< after Mi', (toodwili':* departure Mr.
and M rs< Animnd took up the, work in ihtt. scttljn;,' on 'J'un^'oa. a !<inall but
pl«?asant and healthy inland witii frii-mlly pi-oide, and from it tliey wurk
the adja -t^nt i)art nf Santo, wliere tlie same Uiii)j:iia^e is spoken. It is
too H(KHi yet t^or reain'njr, ])nt, thus far the sowing' time calls for tliunk-
fiiliie-''' and jcy,
A fi'W K<'ii<"ttl remarkson thi3jOnr oldent mission field.
!. Oar church lias wrought in five of these f>*]ands. Two of them.
Aneiteiim and Tanna. are ikjw wioujclit h}- other ( luirches. The_ other-
three. Krromanpi, Kfate, Santo, are Htili eciHipied l>y nur three missicm-
nrii's tliere,
II. In addition to y hat. wc have done directlv our (diurcli has no doubt
lieeii tlieineans of leading "tin rs to the held, sf) t}iat to-ihiy. while we liave
Ifiree missionaries there and the /ree Church of Scotlaiul two, th< Aus-
tralasian churches have eleven, making sixteen in all, and all the ju-incipal
ishinds of t]ic fifrouparc, receiving tlie jrospei.
III. In most of tho islands the |ioi)ulation has Rreatly decreased,
hir/;ely owinj,' to dis(msea intnx' .c,»'d by trading vessels. This decrease
is in a measure stayed, but whether these races survive, or L'ive place to
sti<'n^,'er peoples, this fiifr proui) may be counted amon^ the isles that shall
be ^iiven to Christ fur His inheritance.
IV. On the whole, our experience! tlier<> has been remarkable for.
the short time that many of our missionaiies have been permitted to
wcirk.
The iirst. Dr. (xeddii' and his wife, labored lonffest of all, twenty-four
years, from their first settlement until his death. The last three Avith
their wi\'e», the Macken/ies, Robertsons and Annands, have Iieeii from
sixteen to seventeen years and are still at work. The nine others have
t<iuether made up little more than tliiity yean*, or an averajre of aliout
tliree and a half years each. si.K of the?,! bejnjs' taken away by death, and
three retiring from the mission.
JUBILEE 'CELEBRATION.
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«-»X('('pfi(iiH, on every Jslainl tliat has hoi'ii wroii^rlit. ilie i)ii'neeiH havo
lioen natives from rithei- isl.in'N. \\\ ««n'(iiil in^tituie^ the lii jt teai her-*
wi'i'e nuii'il«re I, hut others uji launttvi took ilnii' pl.iees. What hut .liviii.<
Ifnice could taki'_ wuili Immiij^s unil so tnuisforiu tlieui. ni<jvin«: theiu to
tak'\ their lives in tlieir own hiiniis uO'l ^'o to live iiiid lu'.'of.^ iind often
to die, that tliey nii^^ht lift iij) their fellowmen from doifft'datiim, misery
nnd sin.
Let us now ;,'() hack to tlio head waters of another trihutarv, that of
the Fre<« <"hiireh _of Nova Scoti i. This hraiich of the church Vcj,Mn to
agitate for a luissiou of its own ahout the year IhT,;. niid flituc is jio doiiht
th It th • stoiv of (ieddie'-( work was ;in Importatit fact'or in the niovi-nnuit.
1 have he:ird .folin Moi'ton, a Free ( 'ImrcliMian, jell that u hen a hoy. ;i
nei;,fhhor lad who took the old Missionui'v J'.eyister. used to lend it to
lliiin, and how his youthful heirt was st'irreil within him and ilrawii
toward tho mission tiold hy (luUlie's letters fronj tho S(»uth Seas.
They selected as their tiidd tin Greek populatnnj of Turkey, of whom
there were ahout twidve million-., and t h<.-.e as their missinnary. l'etro>
"(lonstaiitinides, n. younjj tj-reel; who had just completiMJ his studic? in
Ivlinhii yh. He fipcned a stiti.ui at I>eiiHidesh. in .Vsi i Minoi'. and re-
ported er(> loiijra thrivin^r scliool. u fair con^ji'e^ation. and a chiinh of
nftt.!Oii comuniuicant'', hut owinyr to several causes. <diicf of whicli was
the um^Xftectedly l.'irjrc deiiiiuids made for uii-«sion hmldinj;^ and I'arryinjr
on the work, :nid the ^'rowm;,' convict i(u tli.ii tlnir a^oiit rai».rht pos.sihiy
he as well suited to Some other line c.f life, tl'^y det ided to withdraw frojii
that fii Id. and aloio' with the union to cast in tlwdr lot with the work in
lajf \\\
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tlie South Seas. '1 hat wotk. U'^ carried on ly the i.nited liody and the
""kirk" in Nova Scoti i, and later, hy the e.istern section of the I'reshj-^
terian chnrdi in Canad.j. we have already seeiK
In followinj^ doAv 11 the foreij^n niissiou wi.rk of the I'reshytoriauehundi
of the Lower I'roviiices, after the unij n of ih;o, we come to Trinidad.
Rev, .Vohu Morton, a youn^ minisl^er, ^^ettled in Hri l>;ewat<r. Luneir
l>urK. ''ouiity, went to the \Ve-;t Indies for his health. Sojouinin*^ \\\
Trinidad, his attention was tiii'nod to the •>:t.K'^^^ immi^^nints from India.
Some time i)rcvi(ais, owinu to the sctarcity of laborers, estate owners ha
he^un to iiiii>iMt men f rom^ the far east. Thes** were to servefive year-<
for a c.cn'tain wu^re. and re(;eiv<Mi reti;''n pos-ia>jre free, if they wished "to fjo
hack to India, or. in lieu of thi' j-assaj^i , a free ^rant of land if tln'v^
remained in the island. Mere was India hrou^rht tit our doors. Kvanjj:eli/,e
them, and if they remained they would lo ('hristian; \i t^iey returned,
tliey would ladp to leaven India with the >rosp(d. He came home, laid
the matter hefore the churcdi. anil thi' synod in l>sii7, resolved to undertake
the, w(u'k, and sent Mr'. .Morton as their missiijiiary.
Three years later they called t,o the work Rt'v. K. J.Grant. Another-
threi! years, and Rev. Thomas Christie was sent, Mr. ('hristie, after seven
years'' .service, removed on account of illness, which afterwards proved
fit.il. Ill ixso Rev. J. \V. McLeod was apjiointed, and fcair years later
died at his post Rev. .1. K. Wright was sent in tHH". and last year retired
fi'om the nussion. while the lati'St addition was the .Maccaes in I88H. In all
till i-e have heeii six missionaries with rheir wives sent to Trinidad. Three
f till lahor. two have died, and one removed, and here, as in the N«;w Hehri-
des. the poineers have I (;eri the longest si)ared.
Mesides the six missinn families, six teachers have labored "^here.
Three of them, Miss Hlai kaddar, Miss .Sempl^ and Miss Coneland. after
periods of service of fi'om four to ten years, are siill in the work. Of
the other three. John .\. McDonald and Alexander Gamplxdl are preaching
in the home tield, and Miss Archihald has heen taken away hy death. Thi-
projjress (if the mission is stated 1 y Mr. Morton in his 2l8t annual report
reeeivi^d a tew days since, as follows:
'■ Tlie hopelessness with* which our efforts wore at first resrardod has
largely passed away. The three children with which our first achfo"
opened has >jn'own to 2,ooo pu])ils in onv own or povernmi'nt schools, thirt.v
four schools, some of them held in lurue and comfortable houses whii h
serve as local chapols, five respectable cnurches and four organized coi:-
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(/reffations cover tho j^nnimi that was unbroken twenty-ono years nffO.
Till- 25.000 East Indians are now fj^rown to 60,000. while an increase of 2,00(>
new coniei"s annually, stearlil j' enlartres or work.
One feature of the work in Trinidad is that half, ^nd sometimes moro
than half, of its entire cost, from year to year, is paid in the island itself,
by native converts, estate owneis and friends.
If I mi^ht describe this mission in two words, these would be '"solid"
" SUCC^'SS."
• The next, the third, of these tributary strea.as to our foreijjn mission
work of to-day is that of the Church of Scotland in Nova Scotia.
The chief part of that work jtrior to the union of 1875. was that of
Messrs. (}(xkIwi}1 ami Robertson in tbe South Seas, which we have already
seen in connection with tho othei- wurk in that field. Tht'y Avere so bound
together tliat we ci>uld not well take tho -:i separately. And we niijirht
notice in p.issin^j: that that intertwining was one of the things that drew
the churches tO|Lfether and helped to bring about the union at home.
Besides her work in the South Seas that churdi was looking,' toward
India, and her first missionary there, and one of the pioneers from our
church to India was a woman. In IsT-l, Miss .Fohiis;, lad v princi[)a! of one of
the Halifax schools, otTen'd herself for mission work. The Kirk synod
accepted her and she was sent to Madras to eiif^ajHfe in orphanage and
Zenana work in connection with the Scottish Ladies' ScK'ietv for promoting
female education in India. On her airival she was put to live in a newlv
plastered house, with the result that in a very short time, just lonjr enouKli
to prove her admirable fitness for the work, she was comp(dled to (s'ive
it up. and returned home to die. She was a niemViei' of St. Matthew's
chunh. Halifax, and the exjxinses of he; passaj^e and salaiy were gen-
erously paid by that congregation. About the same time Rev. .lames
t'raser Campbell was accei)ted by that church and just pre,vif)us to the
union of IBTu he was appointed hy them to lab(jr in Madras, and two
years later he was transferred to the western section of the church and
renioved from Madras to the mission in Central India.
While at the work of the East let usglance at iJemarara.
Six yeni's ago, Mr. Morton, on iris visit home, brought befoi c the church
the condition of 80,000 co(dies of Demarara. without the g<,.s| el. Tliere is
a Presbyterian missionary socdety there, and ilu y oflered that if we wouM
api^Miint a man and pay half the salary', they would juiy the other half.
Rev. John Gibson was appointed in 1hh4. imd wrought faithfully laying
foundation work. His last report shows a comnuinioii roll of thirty-seven
members, with R31 children in the schools of the mission. A few weeks
since, not long after oixr hearts were dieered by these glad tilings, came
the sad news of his suilden death.
The foul ,h and last tributary, that of the Canada Presbyterian ('hurch
requires more of time than can be given to-ilay. The briefest notice must
sunice. As far back as 185(i, all three blanches of the Presbyterian < 'hurch
in tho upiMU- provinces were agitating the auh1e<'t of missions. The Upper
Province church resolved to unite with the Presbyteriau church of Nova'
Scotia in the mission to tho Now Hebrides, but did not succ( e I in carrying
it out. The Free church had decided on a mission to Bengal, and' the
■ Indian Mutiny prevented, while the Kirk were planning a mission to the
Jews, with hea,aquarter3 at Jerusalem. None of these earlicjr movements
came to maturity.
The earliest work in any field that is now any part of the foreign
mission work of our church, was in the North West, by the sending erf
James Nesbit to the Croe Indians at I'rince Albert in W\S. For twenty-
throe years mission work among the Indians in tho North West has been
carried on, and now there are in that field ten oitlained missionaries,
nearly all of them Indians or half-breeds, and seven teachers, laboring
among nineteen bands; with a iwpulation of 3,500.
The roving habits of the Indians have lieen one of tho ^eatest hin-
drances to the work, but now the buffalo is gone, they are neing gathered
on reserves to live by farming, and it is felt that better days are coming.
One good result has already been seen. .\ouc > f the triVjos among whom
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our missionaries ht :1 been laboring took part in the rebellion three
vt'cirs ajja
Mat while beginning at home, the cry from the regions beyond wa«
heunl, itnii in 1S71 that churfh snle(;tefi China, anrl sent out iUw. George L.
Mai'kay, Ho settled in the north of Formosa, an island not far from the
size of Nova Scotia, eoutaining some two and a half millions of Chinese,
tin ! half a million of native aborigin'is. There luivt^ lalxjred at difterent
limes with hiiu in the mission Ki'vs. Dr. Fras^ir, K. F. Jiuior and John
JamiesoiL It is eightt-cn j't-ars since the mission was begun, and last
report shows 2,fvi() l)aptizi'd momlMrs, with fifty chajK'ls and fifty-<jne native
preachers.
Three years after occupying Formosa, that cJiurch began work in
In iia. In 1874, the samo year that Miss Johns went from Halifax, Miss
Kodgcr and Miss Fairweather were sent from the Cana<la Preshyti-rian
l.'hun'h to Indi.i to labor under the superintendence of the American
missionaries: and thus east and west began work there about the same
time, and in tioth cases the pioneers were women.
We now c<»me to the union of 1«75, and these missi«m8 in the far East
i\,\-{} conilucted henceforth by the Western section of th<f Presbyterian
Church in Oanada. Part of tliom we have already noticed, in Formosa anci
the Xorrh West. Although as we have seen there were two ladies sent out
to Iniia in 1H71 and supportcsd by the Canada- Presbyterian Church, the
pr^'sent mission to India was not begun until after tlie union.
In 187'i Rev. J, M. Douglass was sent out and settled in Indore, when
he was. July 1h77. joiue 1 ny Rev. James Fraser Campbell, Mr Douglass
retire I not long afterward from the mission. Rev. J. Wilkie was sent out
in is-.a Rev. J, Builder in 1H*J. died 1888; Rev. \V. A. Wilson in 1884; Rev.
R. Murray from Pictou in 1885. died' 1887; Dr. Buchanan. 188a
Besides these there have been a number of ladies. From Nova S<'6tia,
bosides Miss J(dins, Mary Forrester, now Mrs. Caiupbell, went out in 1877,
Mrs. Murray. 188'j, died 1887, and Mary McKay, M. D., 188K From the
West, in addition to Miss Rodger and Miss Fairweather, there Avent out
Miss Macgregor in 1877, now withilrawn- Miss Ross, 1888; Miss lieatty,
M. D.. 1881. Miss Oliver, M. D.. 1884 ; Miss Sinclair, 1888, and Miss Scott, 1888.
Five ancient cities— [ndore, Mhow, Neemuch, Rutlani, anrl Oojein, have
ln>en <K',cu|>ied. and from those great centres of jiopulation may the light
soon spread to the ten millions of Central India,
One of the chief obstacles with which this mission has had to contend
has Ix'en the opposition and persecution of rulers, but with a courage and
patience and perseverance that could neither be daunted nor worn out nor
wearied, the missionaries held the fort. They appealed and memorialized;
they wrought and prayed, and their efforts have Iteen crowned with suc-
cess. The work has now the favor of the authorities. The distrust of the
neoi)lo has given place to confidence, and the mission stands to-day, so
far as hum m eye can see, on the threshold of an era of great prosperity
and progress,
iSe.xt comes Ilonan. in North Central China. Two years ago the Stu-
dents missionary socdeties of Knox and Queens collefjes, each offered to
send one of their number and support him in the foreijj^n field. The com-
mittee recommended Honan, a province with a population of some fifteen
millions, more or less. Rev. Jonathan Coforth. fnim Knox college, went
out about a j'ear ago, followed in a few months by Rev, Janu's Smith,
M. D.. sent by the students of Queens, He was followed by Rev, Donald
McGillivary, a young minister who knew that fimds were low and was
so anxious about it tliat he offered to go for five hundred dollars a year.
Still another, a meilie.;il missionary. Dr. McClure, has btion sent, and is
supported by a gentleman in London. This mission, while under the
control of tne foreign mission committee, is entirely 3upp<jrted so fai'
as salaries are concerned, outside of the funds of the churcL
Youngest of all is the mission to the Chinese in British Columbia, of
whom there are eight or ten thousand. This mission was approved by last
Assembly, but no missionary has yet l)een appointed,
I have glanced very brielly at our mission woik abroad in fifty years.
I might speak more fully of the development of interest at home, of the
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wave of nu's.^ionary zeal thit has ^^wi'iih ^^\''V tho West (Uirrn,tc tlio la-t
t\ro or thro*; yoars. of tln' at tfou of tho students in Krujx, (^ htmi's, urul
Halifax colloj^os, each supportiiiif wholly or in part their niiHsicnary. of
^•oii^io/^ations ami even iuiiivi'liials (^•iiaranteeiii^ the s.ipnort of a mis-
sioiiary._ ojtlier tinfOuHftioually or for a term of >'ears, of tiie eai'iiestnes>
an'I activity of the women of our ohuich. which has heon maiiil'este I from
the earliest ilayn of our missionary history, of tho (jfrowth of tho Women's
Foreign Missiunaiy -JtH-foty.— hut tone wifl not {»<.'rniit.
As he looks hack over the years that are j^ono ami uiarks the pro^fross
of tho half '•enturv in the spirit aul work of missions, n'ell may our
father whose ,iiil>il(>e we (••■Idirate. oiler the tlianks^ivin^j luayer of
Simeon. — thou>4'h we trust the answer may in this ease he lonjr (leI<lye(l.-
"■lJor(l now lettest thy servant depart In peace — lux inine eve-A hive seen
Thy sa vat ion. Avliich Thou hnst prepared hefoi'e tlie faco "of all i)efii)le.
a 1 i^ht t > li^'hten the Oentiles.''
Let us j?o forth from this ^lad meetinir to work more faithfully und
pray more earnestly for ilio ^.p^edy coming of tftat gladder time, tlit-
jubilee of a ransomed raco.
The missionary hymn " From GrcenlandV icy moun-
tains " was .sunf,s aft.trr which the chairman introchiccd the
f-'llowinfj clerj^ymcn of the town of Truro, who came forward.
.nd, in short and fcHcitous tcrm.s, congratuhitcd Dr. Mc.Cul-
loch upon the very happy event that all had met to celebrate :
Rev. J, A, Kaulbach, M, A., St, John'.s, h^jiscopal. Church ;
Rev. J. E. Goucher, Baptist Church ; Rev. IC. B. ?^oore. Meth-
odist Chut-ch ; and Rev. Paul Prestwood, Methodi.st Chinch.
The Rev. D.'W. C. Dimock, M. A.,— the first name on this
list — was prevented from beings present through indisposition.
The choir rendered in a brilliant manner tlie anthem,
" Guide me, oh ! thou great Jehovah " — Mis.s Jean McDougall,
soloist — after which Dr. McCuUoch receivcxl the congratula-
tions of the town of Truro from the Recorder, F. A. Laurence,
Esq., M. P. P.; of the Legal and Liberal professions from
Lsrael Longworth, Esq., and from the (iovernment of Novm
Scotia through the Hon. D. C. Eraser,
Mr, Samuel James Archibald, the only siu'viving male
communicant, who was on the church roll fifty Ncars ago.
amid great applause mounted the platform and most lerventl)-
congratulated his dear pastor that he had been spared to
see this day, and, tiiat he himself was privileged to join in
so grand a demonstration.
The anthem, "Arise ye, arise,'* was given, afid then, on
motion of the Rev. E. Smith, a unamim(.)us vote of thanks
was given to the ladies of the First Presbyterian congregation
for the handsome and generous manner in which they hatl
entertained the visiting IVethren.
The Rev. Dr. McCulloch arose and a.sked the privilege
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of a few words as the Jubilee exercises were drawing to a
close.
He could not, he said, find words to express to the friends who
liad spoken in his behalf his warm appreciation — not of all that had been
said, but of the deep affection that their words convened. Not only
his friends, but the whole community, who had met to honor him, knew
thit he didn't care much for human honors ; but he felt that this
meeting flowed from the warmth of hoarts who felt what they had said
and what they had undertaken to do. He could but express his heartfelt
gratitude to the men anrl women who had hea{)ed these honors upon
him. The audience could not understand his feelings this day. lie felt
humiliated before Ood. The audience might understand this if they
could know him as he knew himself — of his short coinings and failures
in the sight of Cod. There was danger in self-appreciation as well as
in mis-appreciation. While praying for themselves he u.sked that they
invoke prayers for him, that no danger befall him or his because of
this day. His prayer was that every home in the congregation might
be a Bethel, and that the children would be so guided that when the
time comes there may be a grand jubilee in Zion's mountain. Then
we should realize that they who serve their Master do not live in vain.
He again thanked all for their past kindness to himself and family,
and asked that the people be to his successor, Mr, Robbins, all that they
had been to him.
The Rev. J, Robbins, in short, appropriate remarks,
referred to the great and practical lessons that might be
derived from this successful Jubilee and endeavored to em-
phasize the facts that it brought out prominently before
them all. In kind and feeling words he alluded to the good
life's work of the venerable servant of the Most High, whom
they had endeavored to honor during the services of the day,
and to the coming evening of his life at the close of which
their friend's greatest hope was to heai- the Master's " Well
done, good and fe^thful servant; enter thou into the joy of
the Lord."
After .singing the 671)1 I'salm and the Benediction was
pronounced by the Rev, E. A. McCurdy, of New Gla.sgow,
the vast audience dispersed, carrying with thein delightful
and sacred memories of this most profitable Celebration — the
Jubilee of Fifty years service in the ministry of the Rev.
William McCuUoch, D. D.
NoTH- Since deliv*n-inf? my addresrf on the occasion of the Jubilee T met
Mi-. Isaac Smitli. probably the oldest resident of Truro, who related to
iiK' the following anecdote, of wliich ho was an eye witness, and which
deserves a jilace m ccunection with the .iubilee proceedinHfs.
The jrciieral election of ISiiO was decidedly the most exciting election
«'ver hel I in Novd Scotia. It was the oa'asion of the dissolution im what
was called the Brandy Question. At that time the present counties of
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Colchester and Pictou were incliKled In Halifax, and the olpctinn was held
six daA^ in Halifax, four davn im Truro ami six dav,s in Picttoii. TJin
party lines in Picttm wero "Ivirk'' and " Antil>ur«'i'r,'^ and it wa-< a lift'
and death strujfsrlt* W'twfen thciii- Roth mrties cauie i^nto Pictou town
from all parts of th(3 District anno'l with bludgeons, and it was a fon-^rone
conclusion that when they met, whicli they certainly would, there would
be bloodshed. The parties in marcfiiujf nronnd approached each other,
the one ffoinpr up the hill nrid tfie other (lown. and as they were neiirin^'
each other. Dr. McCulIoch, tlio fathi>r of him whose jubilee has been cele-
brated, stepper! l)etwoen, and he was warned to (yet out of t|io^ wny ot-
he would be killed. Ho called out that if there was to be killing they
mi^fht as well bej,fin with him, and the result was that ^ both iiarties
peaceably retired. AnylxKly whf) knows the strujf^jrles in Pictcm in those
days and the fierceness of the yartj' spirit then e\i<tin>,' will be able
to appreciate the dauntless Ueioi*m required fu smch an ciuer^ency.
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