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 Memorial Volume 
 
 OF 
 
 JUBILEE CELEBRATION 
 
 
 ,•• - '•■' 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF 
 
 KNOX CHURCH, OTTAWA, 
 
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 Ife/d nth, 1 2th, ijth and i8th November, 
 
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 OTTAWA : 
 
 Printed by Thoburii & Co., m Elgin Street 
 1894 
 

 Memorial Volume 
 
 OF 
 
 JUBILEE CELEBRATION 
 
 OF 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF 
 
 KNOX CHURCH, OHAWA 
 
 He/d nth, I2th, ijih and rSth November^ 
 ' 1894. 
 
 OTTAWA : 
 
 Printed by Thoburn & Co., 36 Elgin Street 
 1894 ' 
 

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 INDEX. 
 
 
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 • 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 1 
 
 Preface . . . . 
 
 3 
 
 *1* 
 
 Historical Narrative 
 
 5 
 
 Sermons — 
 
 
 Revd. Dr. VVardrope. . . . . . . 
 
 41 
 
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 f 
 
 " Dr. McLaren 
 
 53 
 
 J 
 
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 Addresses (Sunday afternoon) — 
 
 
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 Revd. James Ballantyne .... 
 
 6s 
 
 
 *' Dr. McLaren 
 
 69 
 
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 '• Dr. VVardrope . . . 
 
 71 
 
 
 Programme OF Meeting of i2Th November.... 
 
 73 
 
 -m. 
 
 Addresses — 
 
 
 I 
 
 Revil. James Ballantyne .... 
 
 77 
 
 1 
 
 '* Dr. VVardrope ..... 
 
 79 
 
 1 
 
 " Dr. Moore.... 
 
 81 
 
 m 
 
 " Dr. McLaren 
 
 83 
 
 1 
 
 *' Mr. Herridge ... .... 
 
 86 
 
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 •' Mr. VVitten *. 
 
 90 
 
 " Mr. Mcintosh. . . 
 
 94 
 
 1 
 
 " Dr. Benson 
 
 96 
 
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 Programme of Meeting of i3TH November 
 
 100 
 
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 Addresses — 
 
 
 1 
 
 Mr. George Hay 
 
 102 
 
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 Sir James Grant ..... ... 
 
 107 
 
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 Mr. A* Mutchmor 
 
 III 
 
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 Mr. C. R. Cunningham 
 
 116 
 
 
 Mr. John McMillan 
 
 118 
 
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 Memorial Communion Service ...... 
 
 124 
 
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 Appendix — 
 
 
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 Office-bearers of church ..... 
 
 125 
 
 1 
 
 Subscription list to pay off debt 
 
 129 
 
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 Members of rhtirrh who have entered ministry . . . . 
 
 134 
 
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 Act of Incorporation ...... 
 
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•^'■WIIP^^PW^PIIUP! 
 
 Preface 
 
 I^HIS volume is a commemorative one. Fifty years ago the 
 Y Congregation of Knox Church was founded, and it was 
 considered right and proper to commemorate the semi-centennial 
 anniversary of the event by holding a series of Jubilee Services. 
 The volume contains a record of that Celebration, and is given 
 to t:.o public, in the belief that members of the congregation, as 
 well as outside friends, may desire to obtain it, as a souvenir of 
 the history and progress of the Presbyterian Church [r Ottawa. 
 Ottawa, December, 1894. 
 
 
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 KNOX CHURCH. 
 
HISTORICAL NHRRHTIYE 
 
 OF 
 
 KNOX CHURCH, Ottawa 
 
 For Fifty Years 
 
 Prepared by JOHN HENDERSON. City ClerK, OttaWc 
 
 Bead at Jubilee Celebration, November, 1894. 
 
 In preparing this narrative of the history of Knox Church, 
 Ottawa, the writer has thought it advisable, in order not only to 
 completeness, but also intelligibility, to trace up its genealogy, and 
 take for a starting point the first institution of a Presbyterian 
 Church in the City. Up to a certain point, the lives of parent and 
 child are bound together, and by studying the history of the one, 
 light is thrown upon that of the other, and its future course more 
 clearly understood: 
 
 In order to do this, we must go back to the time when the 
 nucleus of our City was first established— almost, if not quite, to 
 its earliest authentic records— because we find the erection of the 
 first Presbyterian Church to be co-eval with that period. 
 
 In the year 1826, a few settlers located at "The Point," as it 
 was then called, and in the month of June, 1827, Colonel John By, 
 with two companies of Sappers and Miners, arrived and pitched 
 
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 their tents on the broad plateau of Nepean Point. Their arrival 
 virtually formed the foundation of Bytown, so called after the 
 Colonel . The construction of the locks and Sappers' Bridge was 
 then commenced, and rapidly proceeded with. The former under 
 contract with the late Hon. Thomas MacKay, led to the importa- 
 tion of large numbers of mechanics and laborers with their families, 
 and in their train the traders naturally followed. 
 
 In the year 1830 the population of "The Point," or " By- 
 town," as it was thenceforth called, is estimated to have been a 
 little over 1,800, and small as the number was, their spiritual welfare 
 had not been neglected, as we find no less than five clergymen 
 laboring amongst them. These were the Rev. Messrs. Ainslie, 
 Episcopalian ; Heron, Roman Catholic ; Poole and Carroll, 
 Methodists ; and Cruickshank, Presbyterian. That the Presby- 
 terians were neither the weakest numerically, or the least ze?.lous 
 and energetic, we may conclude from the fact, that the first church 
 to be erected was a Presbyterian one. The most reliable evidence 
 would indicate that this was in the year 1828, Tradition says that 
 the Presbyterians being anxious for a place of worship, Mr. 
 MacKay sent up a large number of his men from the locks, and 
 in a few days time, a small and unpretentious stone building was 
 erected on the site of the present St. Andrew's Church. Could we 
 see that little humble building, with its six windows only, three on 
 a side, we should doubtless be struck by the contrast, presented to 
 the imposing and commodious structure which now occupies its 
 place and bears its name. It was however in keeping then, as 
 the present building is now, with its surroundings, and we can well 
 imagine with what satisfaction the small and humble body of 
 Presbyterians assembled within its walls, to engage in the service 
 of the beloved Church of our forefathers. 
 
 In the month of March, 1830, the Rev. John Cruickshank was 
 inducted as its pastor, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. 
 Dr. Machar, of Kingston. Its first elders were Messrs. Thomas 
 MacKay and Thomas Macdonald, ordained in 1831, and Mr. 
 William Clegg, ordained in 1835. The Church, until the year 
 1831, was in connection with the " Presbytery of Canadas," but 
 
year 
 ' but 
 
 when, in that year, the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of 
 Canada, in connection with the Church of Scotland, was organized^ 
 St. Andrew's Church became a member of that body. Mr. 
 Cruickshank labored amongst the congregation until the year 1843, 
 when he was succeeded by the Rev. Alexander McKidd, who 
 remained its pastor until 1846. 
 
 In the year 1843, when Bytown was still but an overgrown 
 village, with a population of about 6,000 mhabitants, the disruption 
 took place which culminated in the formation of the congregation 
 of Knox Church. To understand the causes which led to this, it 
 may not be uninteresting to refer to the course of events which 
 took place in the parent church in Scotland. 
 
 For many years previously the Church of Scotland had been 
 agitated over the action of the civil courts, intervening in matters 
 purely spiritual. In the exercise of the law of patronage (which 
 had been abolished previously to the union between the two coun- 
 tries, but re-enacted a few years afterwards, in spite of its abolition 
 having been guaranteed by the articles of the union), ministers had 
 been imposed upon congregations, contrary to the wishes of the 
 people. Redress by the courts had been refused, on the ground 
 that a question of civil rights was involved, and the plea of the 
 Church that spiritual matters, including therein the trial, ordination, 
 suspension and deposition of ministers, and the freedom of congre- 
 gations in the choice of pastors, pertain ^d solely and exclusively to 
 the cliurch courts, was rejected. A final appeal to the same effect had 
 been made to the House of Lords. It also had been rejected and 
 was immediately followed by the disruption, when nearly five hun- 
 dred ministers threw up their livings and their churches and, 
 together with a large number of elders, withdrew from the Estab- 
 lished Church and organized themselves as " The Assembly of the 
 Free Protesting Church of Scotland." 
 
 The movem.ent was not confined to Scotland, but spread 
 rapidly throughout the eastern and western provinces of Canada, 
 and on the loth day of July, 1844, in the City of Kingston, the 
 
first Synod of the Free Presbyterian Cburch of Canada was organ^ 
 ized. ^Ottawa the interest and excitement on the subject, was 
 not ieMtiMsnse ;thnn tfaxoughout other sections of the country, and 
 first naaaifested itself by a meeting of several members of St« 
 Andrew's Church being held, and the following letter addressed to 
 the Trustees : — 
 
 " Bytown, 5 th September, 1844. 
 
 " We the undersigned members of St. Andrew's Church, 
 Bytown, in connexion with the Church of Scotland, being 
 appointed as a committee to arrange preliminaries of a public 
 meeting of those favorable to Free Church principles, as held by 
 the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, beg leave to 
 request the use of the Church on a day which we may hereafter 
 appoint for that purpose. 
 
 " Your answer in writing is most respectfully requested at your 
 earliest convenience. 
 
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 " We are, Gentlemen, 
 
 ♦' Your very obedient servants, 
 
 (Signed) J. DURIE, 
 
 ALEXANDER GRAY, 
 JOHN FORGIE. 
 
 " To the Hon. Thos McKay, Dougald McArthur, Esq., 
 " Edward McGillivray, Esq , Trustees of St. Andrew's Church, 
 " Bytown, in connection with the Church of Scotland." 
 
 The above letter is given in full, as being the first action taken 
 towards the formation of Knox Church. Of the signatories to it, 
 Mr, Durie, at that time in business as a merchant, still lives in 
 honoured retirement, an elder of the Church, Mr. Gray, in busi- 
 ness as a watchmaker, and Mr. Forgie, as a merchant, have long 
 since entered into their eternal rest. 
 
 The request was refused by the trustees, on the ground that 
 the Church could only be used for congregational purposes. The 
 Methodist Church in Upper Town was not so scrupulous, and on 
 
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JOHN .DURIE, Esq. 
 
the 7th day of November in the same year, a meeting of a number 
 of the members of St. Andrew's Church was held therein, presided 
 over by Mr. Thomas Wardrope, then teacher of the Dalhousie 
 District Grammar School, with Mr. Gray as secretary. The Rev. 
 Henry Gordon, who was present, addressed the meeting on the 
 question of the disruption in Scotland and the position of the Can- 
 ada Presbyterian Church. At the close of his address the following 
 resolution was submitted by Mr. Donald Kennedy, an elder in St. 
 Andrew's Church, seconded by Mr. Durie, and unanimously 
 adopted. 
 
 " The meeting having heard the statements of the Rev. Henry 
 Gordon, one of the ministers of the Presbyterian Church of Can- 
 ada, respecting the present position of that Church, and the grounds 
 which led to its separation from the Synod of Canada, in connection 
 with the Church of Scotland, and moreover had ample time and 
 opportunity to weigh calmly the merits of that great question, which 
 issued in the memorable event of the disruption of the Church of 
 Scotland and in the subsequent disruption of the Synod of Canada, 
 do now resolve to adhere to the Presbyterian Church of Canada, 
 and appoint the secretary to transmit this declaration of adherence 
 to the Presbytery at Kingston, and to apply to that Presbytery to 
 afford them such spiritual supplies, as it may be in the power of the 
 Presbytery to grant." 
 
 On the Sabbath following, Mr. Gordon preached to the con- 
 gregation, in the forenoon in the British Wesleyan Chapel, I^ower 
 Town ; in the afternoon in the Methodist Church, and again in the 
 evening in the British Wesleyan Chapel. This was the first meet- 
 ing for worship of the congregation of Knox Church : Sunday, 
 lOTH November, 1844. 
 
 The following extract from a letter of Mr. Gordon's, written 
 to the editor of the " Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record," fur- 
 nishes an interesting account of the position of our infant church 
 at that time. No apology is needed for producing it in full. It is 
 written from Gananoque under date of i8th November, 1844, and 
 is as follows : — 
 
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 " Landed at Bytown on Tuesday, early in the evening. In ^ 
 consequence of the strange and unexpected change in the views 
 and position, on the part of their minister on his return from the 
 Synod in July, I found much excitement in the congregation and 
 things so critically situated, as to induce me most reluctantly to 
 yield to the persuasion of our Bytown friends, to hold a meeting on 
 the Thursday, stay over the Sabbath and assist in organizing the 
 adherents to our principles into a regular and separate congregati(;n 
 in Bytown. This was done, and the number far exceeded expecta- 
 tion, — not indeed as to final results, when a pious and energetic 
 minister of our Church should come into the field, but at the pres- 
 ent time, not so many were expected to mike so decided an avowal 
 of their principles. Our Church, having Mr. Thomas Wardrope 
 teaching the District School, Bytown, and who had nearly com- 
 pleted his studies at Queen's College for license, it seemed to me 
 that it would, in the circumstances of the congregation, destitute of 
 a minister for the present, though having the benefit of a pious and 
 energetic elder, Mr. Kennedy and some pious members, be very 
 desirable to get Mr. Waidrope appointed by our Presbytery, to the 
 office of catechist, to enable him to conduct the devotional exer- 
 cises of the Sabbath and all religious functions within the power of 
 the office there and where it might tend to edification. There having 
 been a meeting of our Presbytery at Prescott appointed for Wed- 
 nesday evening, I crossed the country homewards and got Mr. W's 
 commission as catechist forwarded to him. Of Mr. VVardrope's 
 piety, scholarship, amiable disposition and prudence, I have a high 
 opinion ; and after a deep conflict of soul, deeply attached as he 
 was to the Queen's College professors, &c , from all of whom he 
 has the highest testimonials, he felt himself hedged in by the force 
 of truth and his views of Cliristian duty, to cast in his lot with our 
 Church. I feel grateful that one who is likely to be of so much use 
 to the Church should have been given to us in our time of need." 
 
 In explanation of the allusion in the above letter to " the 
 strange and unexpected change in the views and position of their 
 minister" the Rev. Mr. McKidd, it may be stated that up to the 
 the month of July, 1844, he was believed to be in sympathy with 
 
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 the Free Church movement. He attended the meeting of Synod 
 at Kingston in that month and was expected to cast in his lot with 
 that Church, but to the surprise of all, returned to Ottawa decided 
 to remain in connection with the Church of Scotland. 
 
 That excitement ran high and men's minds were much dis- 
 turbed, is evidenced also by recorded incidents, notably the case 
 of Mr. Donald Kennedy. As has been stated, Mr. Kennedy was 
 an elder in St. Andrew's Church. He took a prominent part in 
 bringing about the disruption in Ottawa, and, as was right and na- 
 tural, sent in his resignation of the office of elder. That resigna- 
 tion was not at first accepted by the Kirk Session, but laid over for 
 future consideration, presumably for the purpose of affording him 
 an opportunity of reconsidering his decision. Proving contumaci- 
 ous, however, it was afterwards taken up for consideration and 
 resolved that it should not be accepted, but that he should be 
 deposed from the eldership. This action regarding Mr. Kennedy, 
 is the only reference in the record of St. Andrew's Church, to that 
 great movement which convulsed the Presbyterian Church of Scot- 
 land throughout its borders and split the Ottawa congregation in 
 two. 
 
 The congregation being now duly organized, no time was lost 
 in securing a place of worship, and an agreement was entered into 
 for the use of the British Wesleyan Chapel, until the first day of 
 May, 1845. It was obtained for every Sabbath from 9 o'clock a.m. 
 until 4 o'clock p.m., and also for each Thursday evening, for which 
 a rental of ;!^i5 currency was paid, and also a further sum of is. 6d. 
 per week, the congregation furnishing its own fuel and light. Ser- 
 vices were at once held under the charge of Mr, VVardrope. 
 
 On the Qth January, 1845, the first congregational meeting, 
 since organization was held, when a Committee of Management 
 was appointed. It was composed of the following members : Mr. 
 John Forgie, chairman, Messrs. Alex. Gray, John Durie, Donald 
 Kennedy, J. McTaggart, John Lough and George Hay, secretary. 
 At the same meeting a Sabbath School Committee, composed of 
 the following, was also appointed, viz : — Messrs. John Durie, super- 
 
intendent, C. Knapp, A. Anderson and George Hay, and the work 
 of the school was immediately commenced. 
 
 The next step in the onward progress of the Church, viz.: the 
 erection of a place of worship, soon followed, and on the i6th of 
 the same month of January, ihe Temporal Committee assembled 
 for its consideration. The result was the immediate preparation 
 and circulation of subscription lists and the sum of jC^oo 8s. gd. 
 waj contributed, all of which was realized excepting the small 
 amount of ;^i4 i6s. 3. A suitable site was immediately secured 
 by the purchase of two lots from Mr. Besserer on Besserer Place, 
 now Daly Avenue. Mr. Besserer, though not a member of the 
 Church, but a Catholic, showed not only his generosity but his 
 goodwill to the infant church, by selling these lots for the sum of 
 jC3°i a reduction of no less than ;^7o from his selling price. 
 Tenders for the erection of a frame building, 40 feet by 60 feet, 
 were called for on the 13th March, 1845. That the men of that 
 day were both energetic and capable is evidenced by the fact, that 
 the Church was completed and opened for service on the 28th day 
 of December of the same year, 1845. The services were conduct- 
 ed by the Rev. Wm. Lochead, of Osgoode, who preached in the 
 morning, the Rev. Henry Gordon in the afternoon, and the Rev. 
 Thomas Wardrope, pastor, in the evening. 
 
 While the erection of the Church was being energetically push- 
 ed forward, a matter of even greater importance to the prosperity 
 and welfare of the congregation, the selection ot a suitable pastor, 
 was receiving anxious and careful consideration, Mr. Wardrope, 
 while still attending to his duties as teacher, had also been acting 
 as catechist and supplying the regular church services at the same 
 time, with marked ability, zeal and acceptability, and having finish- 
 ed his course at Queen's College, decided to abandon the profes- 
 sion of teaching and devote himself to the ministry. A letter 
 dated nth June, 1845, was received from the Rev. Mr. Gordon, 
 stating that he had been fully licensed by the Presbytery, and that 
 that body was now ready to receive and deal with a call. This sug- 
 gestion was acted on at once and a call, signed by no members 
 
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 and adherents was presented to the Presbytery at a meeting hold in 
 Prescott on the 15th July, 1845. 
 
 The record of the Presbytery on the subject is as follows : 
 " The Presbytery next proceeded to the consideration of the call 
 from the congregation at Bytown, in favor of the Rev. Thos. Ward- 
 rope. The call having been presented, Mr. Wardrope signified 
 his intention to accept the same, and having delivered as one of 
 the pieces of trial previous to ordination, a sermon irom Ephesians 
 i-i8, "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that 
 ye may know what is the hope of His calling and what the riches 
 of the glory of His inheritance in the saints', it was sustained and 
 highly approved." 
 
 On the 13th day of August following, Mr. Wardrope's ordina- 
 tion took place. The following extract from the columns of the 
 " Record " tells the story. 
 
 "On Wednesday last, 13th instant, the Rev. Thomas Ward- 
 rope was ordained to the pastoral charge of the Free Presbyterian 
 Church at Bytown. The ceremony was interesting and solemn in 
 a very high degree. It took place in the Methodist Church, Upper 
 Bytown, the large and handsome place of worship now in process 
 of erection for the use of the congregation, not being yet completed 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Burns of Knox Church, Toronto, preached and 
 presided on the occasion. He delivered a most eloquent discourse 
 from the words, " Lift up a standard for the people," (Isa. Ixii, 10) 
 peculiarly appropriate lo the present infant state of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada. After sermon he explained briefly, but com- 
 prehensively, and in a style exhibiting nothing of that acrimony and 
 railing severity which we have so often heard ascribed to him, the 
 causes of the disruption in Scotland and their bearing upon the 
 church in this colony. 
 
 After devotional exercises the usual questions were put by Dr. 
 
 Burns and satisfactory answers were given by Mr. Wardrope. After 
 
 Mr. Wardrope had been set apart to the work of the ministry by 
 
 prayer and the laying on of hands of the Presbytery, he was 
 
 -addressed in an impressive and affectionate manner by the Rev. 
 
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 Mr. Smart of Brockville, the father of the Kingston Presbytery. 
 The Rev. Mr. McLean followed Mr. Smart, by t'elivering a short 
 and feeling address to the congregation. 
 
 The services were concluded by prayer and praise about 
 half-past three p.m. Before the ordination prayer Dr. Burns 
 warmly expressed his happiness at being unexpectedly called upon 
 to preside at the ordination of the son of an old school-fellow of 
 his own and brother in the ministry, of whom he had long cherished 
 an affectionate remembrance. 
 
 We were struck with a new and pleasing (at least to the writtr) 
 and very promising feature in the ordination, we mean the presence 
 on the platform of several ministers of the different denominations, 
 who appeared to take great interest in the proceedings. 
 
 The ceremony throughout was conducted with great order, 
 and all seemed to feel the solemnity of the occasion. 
 
 The Doctor preached again in the evening, and on both 
 occasions the house was filled. 
 
 Mr. Wardrope enters upon his important charge beloved and 
 respected by all who have the pleasure of knowing him. His 
 brethren in the ministry have high hopes of him. May his course 
 be as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect 
 day." 
 
 The last act in the equipment of the Church, preparatory to a 
 career of active Christian work, was the ordination of elders. 
 Messrs. Donald Kennedy and George Sieveright had previously 
 been elders in St. Andrew's Church, and to these were added the 
 following, viz : Messrs. John Durie, Andrew Wilson, Alexander 
 Anderson and Alexander Kennedy. These four were ordained on 
 the 7th of December, and about the same time the Church was 
 formally designated by the title of " Knox Church, Ottawa." 
 
 Here then we have reached another epoch in the history of 
 our Church, another milestone in her pathway is left behind. The 
 congregation now possessed a commodious, though plain and un- 
 pretensious church building, an esteemed and able pastor, a 
 zealous and efficient Session and Temporal Committee, an indis- 
 
pensable doorkeeper, in the person of Mr. John Young, and also 
 that apparently inseparable adjunct to all well regulated churches, 
 a DEBT. In some respects the process of church building was 
 marked by features very similar to those which occurred in our own 
 subsequent experience, and which then as now, the energy and 
 foresight of the Temporal Committee failed to avert. Contractors* 
 mistakes, underestimates for the sake of obtaining a job, unexpect- 
 ed rise in price of material .md wages, intervention of the Commit- 
 tee and assumption of responsibility on their part, in order to have 
 the building completed ; these were the sterotyped elements which 
 they had to encounter, and as a result the original contract was 
 finally exceeded by over 40 per cent. The contract price was 
 ^^425. When taken off the contractor's hands it had swelled to 
 ^592 £os. 2^d., adding to this the price of the lot, we have a total 
 costof;^62 2 IDS. 2)^d.or in other words $1,040. To a small and by 
 no means a wealthy congregation this was a heavy burden, and for 
 many years was a continual source of anxiety, and at the same time 
 no small hindrance to the progress of the congregation. The 
 salary of Mr. Wardrope, although supplemented by a free house, 
 was far below what he was entitled to expect, amounting only 
 to the small sum of $600 per annum, and even that pittance was 
 not always forthcoming. The salary of the door-keeper was equal- 
 ly insignificant, and quite as often in arrear. 
 
 The only source of income was the pew rents (the system then 
 adopted) and the Sabbath collections, supplemented occasionally 
 by the eTorts of the ladies, whose valuable services were enlisted at 
 an early date. Their first appearance on ihe scene was in the year 
 1846, when a few of them (the record is particular to say " young 
 ladies") collected the sum of ^^20 for the purpose of completing 
 the outside of the Church. This, though the first, proved not to be 
 the last occasion when they lent their powerful aid towards meeting 
 the financial burdens of the congregation. 
 
 In order to get rid of the debt, it was resolved in the year 1848 
 to adopt a systematic method in the shape of taking up special 
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 find the Temporal Committee reporting in the month of June, 
 1849, that the amount received was only j£2S 2s. 6d., and the 
 collections were becoming so extremely small that it was necessary 
 to adopt some other plan. It is evident that although the Church 
 gained in one direction through the operation of the above scheme 
 it lost in another by the diminution of the pew rents, the receipts 
 from which fell off considerably. The Committee was compelled 
 to report a deficiency in the shape of arrears from the previous year, 
 of ;^ 1 8 3s., sorrowfully adding "this deficiency with the state of 
 liabilities, as compared with the doings of former years, shows 
 manifestly, that instead of gaining we are losing ground in money 
 matters." The report also recommends that, in place of the 
 monthly collections, a united effort should be made to wipe out the 
 debt. This latter suggestion does not appear to have been adopted, 
 as we find that in the following year the debt had gone through the 
 usual course, viz : A transfer of the indebtedness from a Bank to a 
 Building Society to the amount of ;^9o. 
 
 In the next annual report of 25th December, 1849, we meet 
 with a repetition of the same complaint — the Church debt still 
 extant — an increased floating debt and a still larger falling off in 
 the pew rents. No doubt this was caused in part by the hard times 
 consequent upon the severe bus-ness depression then existing, but 
 it was evident that the system of raising a revenue by pew rents, 
 like the special monthly collections, had broken down. It had 
 been tried for four years and proved a failure. The reason why it 
 failed is very succiently stated in the above report, which describes 
 it as bringing " the weight to bear so unequally as regards the 
 ability of church sitters.'* Some other method had to be adopted, 
 and accordingly in the same report we find a recommendation in 
 behalf of our present voluntary system, I quote the words of the 
 report : 
 
 " The plan which they (the Committee) would respectfully 
 suggest for your adoption, is that of obtaining contributions from 
 all who have an interest in the support of ordinances amcngst us, 
 
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 as God may have enabled them and as they feel in duty bound to 
 give, by means of subscription lists instead of the present mode of 
 pew sittings." This report was signed by one whose nr ue is well 
 known to all of us tor his prominence in church work and who is 
 present with us in this meeting, the then secretary, Mr. George 
 Hay. 
 
 Thus was inaugurated another advance in the onward pro- 
 gress of our Church, thus making the sittings in the Church free to 
 all, and leaving everyone, as a matter of duty, his own conscience 
 being the judge, to decide what he should contribute out of the 
 means wherewith God had blessed him, for the support of His 
 ordinances. That system has stood the test of 45 years of experi- 
 ence, and has proved effectually, that not only in theory is it sound 
 and just, but in practice also it has been eminently successful. 
 
 I have already referred to the full and complete equipment of 
 the Church for its congregational work, but made no mention of 
 the service of praise. It may not be uninteresting to refer briefly to 
 this subject. At the congregational meeting held on the nth day 
 of January, 1847, the following resolution was unanimously adopt- 
 ed, viz : " That Mr. Donald Kennedy be precentor for the current 
 year, with power to select such male singers to assist him, as he 
 may think most suitable." The point of interest in this, is the 
 manner of th*^ appointment, showing that in the early history of 
 our Church, the congregation exercised the power which it has 
 under the general laws of the Church, to make such an appoint- 
 ment and which it continued to do for many years thereafter. Then 
 we have what we might almost look upon as the nucleus of a 
 choir," the power to associate with himself a number of male 
 singers such as he might select." Probably, however, it was merely 
 for the purpose of securing an efficient reserve upon which to draw 
 in case of emergency, as the psalmody continued to be led for 
 many years thereafter by a precentor. 
 
 As already stated, pew rents were abolished at the congrega- 
 tional meeting held in December, 1849, ^"^ the system of volun- 
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 the following districts, viz : Gloucester, New Edinburgh, Lower 
 and Upper Bytown, Richmond Road and Hogsback. Canvassers 
 were appointed for each, in every case one elder, and ore or two 
 members of the Committee, and from its initiation the method 
 was a complete success. In the report of the Committee for the 
 following year the tone of disappointment and anxiety, so appar- 
 ent in the previous one, had disappeared and given place to one of 
 congratulation and rejoicing. For this ihere was abundant reason, 
 as ihe subscriptions to the Church fund had largely increased, 
 while at the same time the other collections had followed suit. 
 For the year, the sum of ;^204 13s. yd. was obtained, against 
 ;;^ii5 4s. i^d, the pievious year. Ordinary and special collec- 
 tions showed up to ;£'jo 8s. lo^d. as against ^^49 iis. yd. Nor 
 had the ladies been idle. They not only undertook the work of 
 collecting quarterly the subscriptions, but also started an organiza- 
 tion which added to the annual revenue the sum of ;!^8i 6s. Al- 
 together the gross revenue I'or the year amounted to ;j^36o 15s. 
 5^d. a very substantial reason for congratulation and proving 
 clearly that new life had been introduced into the congregation. 
 This enabled the Committee to wipe out a considerable amount of 
 floating debt, such as arrearages to the pastor and door-keeper, 
 whose salaries had never, up to this date, been paid in full. We 
 can easily, therefore, understand and sympathise with the feelings 
 of the Committee, which led them in their report to give utterance 
 to the following language : "' Your Committee feel called upon to 
 express their gratitude to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, 
 for the very abundant success with which He has blessed this 
 Church in outward things." 
 
 Another evidence of the growing prosperity of the congrega- 
 tion is found in the demand for increased accommodation, which 
 was met by seating the gallery, the requisite funds for which were 
 obtained by borrowing from one of the Church members. It is pleas 
 ing also to note that the claims of their esteemed pastor to a more 
 adequate support were not forgotten, a substantial increase having 
 been made to his stipend In yet another direction did the con- 
 gregation display its liberality, viz : by instituting the annual coUec- 
 
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 tion in aid of that deserving institution, the Protestant Hospital, 
 showing practically and conclusively, that although charity might 
 begin at home, with it at all events it did not end there. The re- 
 solution adopted on the subject shows how anxious they were in 
 those days to avoid giving any cause of offence, or ground of re- 
 proach to the enemies of the Church. It is worthy of reproduc- 
 duction and is as follows, viz : 
 
 "That the congregation of Knox Church institute an annual 
 collection in aid of the Protestant Hospital in Bytown, provided 
 the directors of said hospital do not give their ofhcial sanction to the 
 raising of funds by means of *' balls," v/hich mode of procedure 
 would give occasion to Romanists to speak reproachfully of the 
 distinctive doctrines of Protestants and brmg reproach upon the 
 Christian name, and they instruct their secretary to communicate 
 this to the chairman of the hospital already named." 
 
 Nor were the intellectual wants of the congregation neglected, 
 a library having been established, which in the year 1853 contained 
 142 volumes, and is specially reported on as being patronized by 
 33 families. A day of small things certainly, but the earnest of 
 better to come in the not far distant future. 
 
 In the same year it was resolved to build a manse on the lot 
 in the rear of the Church. The sum of ^200 was voted for the 
 purpose, ard tenders immediately called for. The work was soon 
 begun and was completed in the following year. The building was 
 a small and unpretentious one, built of stone and cost the very 
 modest sum ofp^288 15s. 8d. Though somewhat changed it still 
 stands on Stewart street, sole relic of the Knox Church of that day. 
 May no long time elapse before the new Knox Church will be able 
 to follow in the footsteps of the men of that day, and add to the 
 material comfort of its pastor in a more adequate manner than they 
 were able to do. 
 
 In the year 1854 the Committee continue to report encourag- 
 ingly upon the progress of the congregation, financially and other- 
 wise, although we find still a very low scale of salaries — the pastor, 
 even then, receiving only ;^ 200 per annum, together with a manse 
 
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 The doorkeeper, Mr. Young's, was only ;^2o, for which he Was 
 required to attend to the cleaning, lighting and heating of the 
 Church, sawing the wood, and the care of the library into the bar- 
 gain. The precentor, Mr. Robert Davidson, appears to have had 
 no stated salary, as we find the congregation voting him the sum 
 of ;^io for his services throughout the year. 
 
 Numerically the Church was rapidly increasing, and about this 
 time the Session drew the attention ot the Committee to the 
 necessity arising not only from their future prospects, but because 
 the sittings were all occupied, of obtaining a site for another churcH. 
 Efforts were made in this direction, but the obstacles were appar- 
 ently insurmountable and the idea was abandoned. 
 
 We pass more rapidly over the following years, which, for a 
 considerable time, were characterized by the routine only of con- 
 gregational work. To a certain extent they were years in which 
 the usual petty worries and anxieties incident to such business were 
 sufficiently abundant, but amidst all of which the progress was 
 steadily and persistently onward. The congregation continued to 
 increase, and the Temporal Commitee had anxious times providing 
 sittings for applicants. In 1855 more pews were added to the body 
 of the Church and still the supply was insufficient. The revenue 
 showed the usual ebb and flow, one year bounding forward in a 
 gratifying manner, only to sink again the next below the expenditure. 
 The Church debt also was still there. Like Sinbad's old man of 
 the sea,' it set at defiance the most strenuous efforts to shake it off. 
 The original debt indeed had disappeared, but only to be replaced 
 by another. Renewed attempts were made in 1855 to procure a 
 site for a new Church, the Presbytery having offered to furnish 
 supply, and in the following year a site was purchased in Upper 
 Town, on what was then called " Government Hill," from Mr. 
 Sparks, for which the sum of ;^5oo was paid. It was situated on 
 the corner of Wellington and Metcalfe streets, and is now occupied 
 by the Rideau Club. From this year up to r86o effort after effort 
 was made to sell the Church but without success. A church build- 
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 in all might be obtained by the congregation, but it was finally 
 decided to proceed no farther until the Church was sold. Offers 
 for its purchase had been received, but were considered inadequate. 
 
 The efforts of the ladies in raising money at this time were 
 remarkably successful. In 1858 they defrayed the cost of putting 
 gas into the Church, and in i860 they raised the handsome sum of 
 $912, which they handed over to the Committee, a portion of it 
 as a contribution, and the balance on loan. This balance to the 
 amount of $627 they afterwards presented to Mr. Wardrope in 
 supplement of his salary, which was still far from adequate to his 
 merits and requirements. 
 
 In these latter days when the taste and desire of congregations 
 call so loudly for improvement and progress in the service of praise 
 in our churches, it is interesting to note the action of Knox Church 
 on the subject. On the resignation of Mr. Davidson as precentor^ 
 in 1858, it was decided at a congregational meeting to organise a 
 choir, of which Mr. Duncan Kennedy was appointed leader, and a 
 Choir Committee composed of the pastor, Messrs. Hay and Durie, 
 elders, Mr. Mackay from the Temporal Committee, and Mr. Duncan 
 Kennedy were appointed. For some reason or other, not recorded 
 however, the attempt did not prove successful and the old system 
 was continued for some time longer. In the following year the con- 
 gregation intrusted to the Session the duty of regulating and man- 
 aging this branch of church service, retaining only in the hands 
 of the Temporal Committee the determining the salary of the 
 Precentor. 
 
 In the year i860 the demand for increased sitting accommo- 
 dation was so urgent, that an addition to the Church was decided 
 upon and carried out. This was accomplished by lengthening the 
 building one-third, and cost the sum of $1,480, and a brief tempor 
 ary relief was thus obtained. The manse also was proving too 
 small for the comfort of the pastor, and in 1864 it also was enlarged, 
 thereby involving another outlay of $1,067. These expenditures 
 formed a serious tax upon the congregation, but were resolutely faced 
 
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 and in due time successfully met, as we find that in the year 1865, ^ 
 when the disjunction of the congregation look place, the total debt is 
 stated as being only $1,018. The total revenue then amounted to 
 $2,881.89. The pastor's salary was increased to $1,200 which wac 
 further supplemented by a bonus of $500 for the preceding year. 
 
 The relief obtained by the extension of the Church was not of 
 long duration. So great was the demand for increased accommo- 
 dation, that the Presbytery was constrained to take action in the. 
 matter, which it did at a meeting in August, 1864, by appointing a 
 deputation to meet with the congregation and propose that a cer- 
 tain number of its members should withdraw, either finally or for a 
 limited period, in order to form the nucleus of a new congregation. 
 This suggestion was carefully considered and one year thereafter, 
 in the month of August, 1865, it was given effect to. At a congre- 
 gational meeting called for the purpose, the suggestion was adopted, 
 and a number of those present at once volunteered to disjoin them- 
 selves from Knox Church and form a new congregation in the west 
 end of the City, which was then growing rapidly in that direction. 
 On that occasion or within a short time thereafter some twenty-six 
 subscribers with their families withdrew Prominent among these 
 were Messrs. Donald Kennedy, William Hutcheson, William Tay- 
 lor, elders, and Mr. Thomas Mackay, member of Committee. Also 
 the following members: Messrs. William and John Porter, Robert 
 Whyte, Nathaniel Robertson, W. M. Hutcheson, James Dalglish, 
 James Ritchie, Alexander Brown, George and John Bain, John 
 Rowat and Samuel Christie. Mr. William Stewart, who had been 
 secretary from January, 1853, when Mr. Geo. Hay resigned that 
 office, also retired in December of the following year, for the pur- 
 pose of casting in his lot with the new congregation. 
 
 It was no small sacrifice on the part of the Church thus volun- 
 tarily to deprive itself of so many of its most active members, for 
 the sake of building up a rival congregation. Mr. Mackay, who 
 had acted as Treasurer from January, 1854, to January, 1864, had 
 ever played a prominent part in the work of the Church. Messrs. 
 Taylor and Porter had both been at one time active members 
 of the Temporal Committee. Mr. Donald Kennedy had been a 
 
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 leading spirit in the Church since its organization, and with the 
 exception of his brother, Mr. Alexander Kennedy, Messrs. John 
 Durie and George Hay, no name, up to this date, figures more 
 prominently on its records. 
 
 How different was the separation thus effected from that of 
 1844, when Knox and St. Andrew's churches parted company. In 
 the one case there was the forcible sundering of the ties of brotherly 
 love and Christian fellowship, accompanied with turmoil, excite- 
 ment and strenuous opposition ; while in the other, the members 
 went forth from the parent church, animated with the true spirit of 
 the Christian volunteer, enriched from the resources of the Church 
 and accompanied with the hearty sympathy and good wishes of 
 their former brethren. The following resolution adopted at the 
 congregational meeting shows the spirit which animated the Church 
 of those days : 
 
 " Moved by Mr. Hay, seconded by Mr. Donald Robertson, 
 that in view of the prospect of a number of our brethren leaving 
 this congregation, we being assembled in this meeting, desire to 
 record our sense of gratitude to the Great Head of the Church, for 
 the prosperity and harmony which has been vouchsafed to us in 
 the past and to assure our brethren that they carry with them the 
 hearty sympathy and good will of this congregation, and our earnest 
 prayer is, that a like prosperity and harmony may characterize their 
 efforts in their new sphere of labor." 
 
 No time was lost by the new congregation. The same energy 
 and devotion animated them as did their predecessors in 1844. 
 Services were at once begun in the Mechanics' Institute, Sparks 
 street, temporary pulpit supply secured, and in P'ebruary, 1866, a 
 call was presented to the Rev. William Moore, and having been 
 accepted, he was ordained on the 28th of March following. A 
 temporary building was erected near the corner of Bank and Maria 
 streets, into which the congregation moved on the ist of July of 
 the same year, and where they remained until the completion of 
 the present handsome and commodious structure on Bank, street. 
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 greatly instrumental by his energy, zeal and ability, in building up 
 the present large and flourishing congregation. 
 
 The first Elders of Bank Street Church were Messrs, Donald 
 Kennedy, William Taylor, William Hutchison, William Porter and 
 Robert Whyte. 
 
 Reverting to the special subject of this narrative, we find that 
 from this time onwards until the year 1869 there is little calling for 
 notice. That the Church was fairly prosperous in financial matters, 
 is evident from the fact, that the revenue increased and the pastor's 
 salary was augmented to $1,600. That it progressed also numeri- 
 cally we know, seeing that the old trouble of want of sufficient 
 sitting accommodation again appeared. The question was first 
 discussed in the Temporal Committee and subsequently at a con- 
 gregational meeting held in the month of November, 1867, when it 
 was resolved to acquire the vacant lot adjoining the church, and 
 steps were taken to build a new church. No lime seems to have 
 been lost in setting about the work. Those present were canvassed, 
 and amongst 22 individuals, $3,440 was subscribed. In the month 
 following, the lot was purchased for the sum of $900, and in 1868- 
 69, the subscriptions had reached $5,510. The project however, 
 received a temporary check in the latter year, by the resignation of our 
 beloved pastor, Mr. Wardrope, who for personal reasons and much 
 to the sorrow of the congregation, decided to remove to another 
 sphere of labor — the town of Guelph — which by an interesting 
 coincidence is like ourselves also celebrating its Jubilee this year. 
 The appreciation in which his services for nearly 25 years were held, 
 is shown by the fact that the congregation presented him with a 
 purse containing $1,059.25, and Mrs. Wardrope with a handsome 
 silver tea service, costing $75. I cannot better express the feelings 
 entertained toward him, than by quoting one paragraph from the 
 address with which he was presented. It is as follows, viz : — 
 
 " To some of us for many long years, you have been a brother 
 beloved in Christ, toothers a spiiitual father, from whose lips it 
 has been our privilege to hear the word of truth, the gospel of our 
 salvation and from whose hands we first received the memorial of 
 
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 our Redeemer's dying love. To all of us you have been a wise 
 counseller and a kind a sympathising friend. In time of trouble 
 and sickriess your presence has cheered and consoled many a sor- 
 rowing hojsehold, and although in the Providence of God, we are 
 soon to be separated, yet the memory of your watchful and loving 
 care shall still remain with us and be cherished with heartfelt grati- 
 tude." 
 
 The address from which this extract is taken was presented on 
 the 2ist September, 1869, and is signed by the following per- 
 sons : — 
 
 COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. 
 
 Henry McCormick, John Robertson, 
 
 John Thorburn, Donald McLaughlin, 
 
 James VV. Russell, C. R. Cunningham, 
 
 Hiram Robinson, John Henderson, 
 
 James Hope. 
 
 Alex. Mutchmore, 
 Peter Fairbairn, 
 J, McMillan, 
 Alex. Anderson. 
 
 ELDERS. 
 
 Alexander Kennedy, 
 D. Robertson, 
 J. Durie, 
 Geo. Hay, 
 
 So passed from amongst us one of the most devoted and large- 
 hearted ministers who have ever adorned the profession in our city. 
 
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 Before Mr. Wardrope had actually left, the pulpit was occu- 
 pied on a certain Sabbath by the Rev. Mr. Inglis, of Hamilton, who 
 captured the congregation to such a degree, that it was at once 
 decided to present him with a call. The effort however proved 
 unsuccessful, Mr. Inglis having declined, and the close of the year 
 found Knox Church for the first time on its history, destitute of a 
 pastor. 
 
 As was to be expected, the efforts made in raising the above 
 testimonial to Mr. Wardrope, proved a stay in prosecuting the 
 collections to the building fund, and the matter was allowed to 
 remain in comparative abeyance pending the securing of his suc- 
 cessor. 
 

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 It may not be uninteresting at this period, which proved to be 
 the commencement of one of the most important epochs in the 
 Church's history, to record the names of those who then formed 
 its office bearers. To an outsider, their number will doubtless be 
 a source of surprise, being sufficiently large to form the nucleus of 
 an average congregation. The Committee of Management, or as 
 it is more generally called, the " Temporal Committee," was com- 
 posed of the following individuals : 
 
 Henry McCormick, 
 James Hope, 
 John Thorburn, 
 Robert Blackburn, 
 A. C. Wilson, 
 C. R. Cunningham, 
 John Robertson, 
 Charles Sharpe, 
 Archd. McKellar. 
 
 James W. Russell, 
 Donald Masson, 
 John Henderson, 
 Wm. McFarlane, 
 John Drysdale, 
 Alexander Kennedy, jr. 
 D. S. Eastwood, 
 John Patterson, 
 Hiram Robinson, 
 John Shearer, 
 
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 John Heron, 
 
 Alexander Anderson, jr. 
 
 The members of the Session were : — 
 
 Alex. Kennedy, Alex. Mutchmor, 
 
 Donald Robertson, Peter Fairbairn, 
 
 John Durie, John McMillan, 
 
 George Hay, Alex Anderson. • 
 
 Chairman of Temporal Committee— Henry McCormick. 
 
 Secretary — John Henderson. 
 
 Treasurer — Alexander Mutchmor. 
 
 Assistant Treasurer — John McMillan. 
 
 Superintendent of Sabbath School — Alexander Mutchmor. 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Sabbath-School — John McMillan. 
 
 Having failed m securing the Rev. Mr. Ingiis, a call was pre- 
 sented the following year to the Rev. Wm, MacLaren of Belleville, 
 which was accepted, and he was inducted on the 14th July, 1870. 
 His salary was $1,800 and manse. The latter however, he declined 
 living in, and in consequence his salary was subsequently raised to 
 
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 $2,000. The effect of Mr. MacLaren's advent was soon apparent 
 in increased attendance and improved finances. The debt was paid 
 off, and at the first annual congregational meeting held after his 
 arrival, it was stated that the want of sitting accomodation was 
 greater than it had ever been before. In consequence, the ques- 
 tion of church extension was at once reopened. On the 27th of 
 April, 187 1, it was decided at a congregational meeting to build 
 upon the adjoining lot. There was however, a large number who 
 considered that it would be better to build in a more central local- 
 ity, and who advocated the site of the present church, and a notice 
 of reconsideration having been given, another meeting was held two 
 weeks later. It was then found that the supporters of the two sites 
 were pretty equally divided, and in consequence a further delay of 
 three months was agreed to, in order, as expressed in the motion, 
 " to give ample time for calm and deliberate judgment in this impor- 
 tant matter." 
 
 Pursuant to above the congregation again met on the nth of 
 August, 187 1, and after a very full discussion the following resolu- 
 tion was adopted : 
 
 '• That the lots situated on Elgin and Albert streets, fronting 
 on the City Hall square be purchased on the most reasonable 
 terms, and the proposed new church erected thereon, and that the 
 Temporal Committee be authorized to sell the manse on Stewart 
 street, and apply the proceeds in part payment of the said purchase." 
 The Committee was also instructed " to take all necessary steps to 
 carry into effect this resolution." No time was lost, as we find that 
 in the following October the manse was sold to Mr. Hugh Masson, 
 for the sum of $2,070, and the new site purchased for $4,000. In 
 order to provide a sufficient depth a portion of the lot immediately 
 in rear was afterwards acquired. Building and Finance Commit- 
 tees were appointed, and Mr. Langly, Architect, Toronto, prepared 
 plans of a building with a seating capacity of 1,150, and at an 
 estimated cost of $25,000. 
 
 In January, 1872, the lists showed that subscriptions had 
 been promised to the amount of $14,553, the sale of the manse 
 
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 and the old buildings on the new site produced a further sum of 
 $2,571, making in all $17,124, certainly amply sufficient to warrant 
 the immediate prosecution of the undertaking, and accordingly 
 contracts for the different classes of work were entered into, 
 amounting in all to $28,544. This being considerably beyond the 
 means so far at disposal, $15,000 was borrowed from the Metropol- 
 itan Building Society upon a mortgage on the Church property, and 
 the additional security of personal bonds from a number of 
 members of the congregation. In order to forestall the receipt of 
 the subscriptions, which were spread over a number of years, the 
 Committee was also compelled to raise funds from the bank upon 
 notes of hand . 
 
 In the month of May, 1872, the corner stone was laid by the 
 Rev. Dr. Wardrope. Matters progressed satisfactorily for a very 
 short time only, as we find that in the following month of June, 
 the contractor for the masonry suspended work and did not again 
 resume it until he had received a bonus of $2,750, in addition to his 
 contract. It proved however, to be only a postponement of the 
 evil day, since in the month of October in the same year, the work 
 was again stopped and taken out of his hands. Nor could it be 
 proceeded with at once, on account of the unwarrantable inter- 
 ference of the Trades' Union, which claimed that, before any more 
 mason work should be performed, the congregation shouiti pay up 
 in full, the balance of wages due by the contractor to the workmen. 
 This was refused on account of his having been overpaid, and in 
 consequence of this action of the Union, no further building was 
 done until the following year, when in the month of March, 1873, 
 a new contract for the masonry was entered into with Mr. Thomas 
 Young. The suspension proved disastrous in other ways, involv- 
 ing a cancellation and renewal of all the other contracts, some 
 with increased prices and some with d images added, for breach 
 of contract. More funds had also to be provided and a second 
 mortgage for $5,000 at 9 per cent, interest was placed upon the 
 church. 
 
 Troubles are said never to come singly, and the adage proved 
 true in our case, by the resignation of Mr. MacLaren m July, 
 
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 i873i thus leaving the Church at a most critical period destitute of 
 a pastor. In more ways than one this proved a most serious loss, 
 as his wise counsels and personal influence had been jiowerful in 
 influencing the decisions and holding together conflicting elements 
 in the congregation. His resignation was net entirely unexpected, 
 as it had been long felt, that sooner or later, the Church would 
 call him to fill a more important position, for which by his abilities 
 he was so eminently qualified. Thus it was, that while regretting 
 his removal, no opposition was raised thereto, it being felt that 
 however severe the loss might be to Knox Church, and more 
 especially at that particular time, the Church as a whole would be 
 a gainer. 
 
 Throughout the year 1873— a year ever to be remembered 
 for its intense anxiety and perpetual struggle for ways and means, 
 almost might we say for existence — the building steadily pro- 
 gressed. The subscriptions being slow of realization, by the end 
 of the year funds were exhausted, and the only recourse was to 
 apply to the banks for temporary accommodation. Still there was 
 no halt or stay until in the month of January, 1874, the Church 
 was completed and ready for occupation. 
 
 An Act of Incorporation had also been procured from the 
 Provincial Legislature, in the session of 1873, thereby simplifying 
 the holding and transference of property, as well as providing 
 necessary machinery for managing the temporal affairs of the church. 
 
 We were now the owners of two churches, the old one and 
 the new, and the question remained to be determined, in which 
 should the congregation elect to worship, or in other words, which 
 should be Knox Church ? On the one hand was the old build- 
 ing, insufficient and 'll-adapted it is true for modern requirements, 
 but hallowed by associations of the past, which clustered around 
 its walls, and sanctified by the memories of the lives and labors of 
 iTiftny of a past generation, whose names had passed from off" its 
 communion roll, and oft the other hand was a new, imposing and 
 cornhfiodious structure, centrally situated, begun and completed as 
 a congregational woi-k, but loaded dotvh with a crushing load of debt. 
 
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 To settle this important and urgent question a congregational 
 meeting was convened on the 8th day of January, 1874. The 
 subject was fully discussed and the following resolution adopted : — 
 
 "That whereas the new Church erected by the congregation 
 on the corner of Elgin and Albert streets is now completed so far 
 as to be in a fit condition to be used for public worship; and, 
 whereas the present meeting has been called in accordance with 
 the provisions of the Act of Incorporation, for the purpose, among 
 other matters, of determining in which of the two churches, now 
 belonging to the congregation, the said congregation will worship. 
 P'i it therefore resolved, that on and after Sabbath, the i8th day of 
 ju nary instant, the congregation will worship in the said new 
 Church." 
 
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 Eighty-six members voted for this resolution and sixty against 
 
 It was further resolved : " That as soon as a second congre- 
 gation shall be organized by the Presbytery of the bounds, the 
 Corporation of the Temporal Committee of Knox Church in the 
 City of Ottawa, shall convey to Trustees, appointed for that pur- 
 pose, the Church building and the I'.nd on v/hich the same is 
 erected, situated on Daly street, for the use of the said congrega- 
 tion, as provided for by Chapter 69 of the Consolidated Statutes of 
 Upper Canada and any Act amending the same." 
 
 We have now reached another milestone in our history, with 
 a completed and occupied church, but unfortunately, as yet, no 
 pastor. Not but that efforts had been made to secure one, no less 
 than three having been approached, viz.: The Rev. Mr. Simpson, 
 of Hamilton ; Dr. Burns and Rev. Mr. Scrimgeour, of Montreal, 
 but without avail, and when the Church was opened, there was no 
 one specially in view. This was by no means an encouraging out- 
 look to an attenuated congregation, staggermg under an enormous 
 debt and numerically weakened by the withdrawal of a large num- 
 ber of its members, consisting of the minority who had opposed 
 the removal to Centre Town and who very soon availed themselves 
 of- the offer of the old Church as a free gift, without encumbrance 
 
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 and with no obligation attached, farther than that it should be used 
 as a Presbyterian Church. In the month of April application was 
 made for a transference ot the property and it was conveyed 
 accordingly. 
 
 Embarrassed as Knox Church then was, hardly knowing what 
 the future might bring forth, whether it would ultimately succeed 
 in honorably discharging all its obligations, or whether it might be 
 compelled to succumb to their pressure, it was still disposed to 
 deal generously with its seceding brethren and, gave to them 
 largely of its material substance, retaining only for its own use the 
 vacant lot on the corner of Daly and Cumberland streets, after- 
 wards sold for $2,000. 
 
 The position of the congregation was indeed a trying one. It 
 owned a stately building, but like a flock without a shepherd, it had 
 no spiritual head. Instead of $32,000, as- originally estimated, it 
 had cost $52,000, and the outstanding liabilities, secured and other- 
 wise, amounted to no less than $36,000. To meet this enormous 
 sum, outside of uncollected subscriptions to the building fund and 
 the amount received from the sale of the above lot, it had only the 
 regular resources of the congregation on which to depend. The 
 outstanding building fund subscriptions indeed amounted to about 
 $7,000, but not much more than $5,000 were ever received The 
 balance remains unpaid to this day. The revenue required tor the 
 current year was estimated at $6,210, and this had to be raised 
 from a subscribing membership of about one hundred. Happily 
 the close of 1874 found matters in a more satisfactory condition. 
 Current expenses had all been met and a reduction of over $7,000 
 effected in the debt, leaving it then standing at $28,845. This was 
 a result for which the most sanguine hardly dared to hope, and 
 might well justify the closing paragraph in the Committee's report 
 of 31st December, 1874, as follows : — 
 
 " While very much has been done and results attained that 
 the most sanguine would hardly have dared to hope for, a heavy 
 and arduous task still remains. We cannot doubt however, but 
 that the task will be successfully accomplished. The record of 
 
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 the past affords ample grounds for faith in the future. Persevering 
 efforts steadily and faithfully devoted to one object will accomplish 
 great things, and your Committee ha -, every confidence that tne 
 congregation, weak though it numerically is, will be found faithful 
 to its trust, to its history and traditions, and above all to the cause 
 of its Great Head and Master, whose banc has led us so success- 
 fully in the past and A-hose glory it is our highest aim and object 
 to advance," 
 
 We pause again at this eventful period of the Church's history 
 to give the names of the office bearers, on whom mainly devolved 
 the labors and responsibilities of that eventful period. They were 
 as follows : — 
 
 ELDERS. 
 
 John Durie, 
 George Hay, 
 John McMillan, 
 Hiram Robinson, 
 
 Alexander Kennedy, 
 Alexander Mutchmor 
 Peter Fairbairn, 
 Donald Kennedy. 
 
 TEMPORAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 George Hay, 
 Peter Fairbairn, 
 Hiram Robinson, 
 Robert Blackburn, 
 J. VV. Russell, 
 Samuel Savage, 
 James Hope, 
 C. R. Cunningham, 
 
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 Alexander Mutchmor, 
 John McMillan, 
 Donald Masson, 
 John Henderson, 
 William Porter, 
 Henry McCormick, 
 J. M. T. Hannum, 
 John Shearer, 
 
 W. H. Dobier, Archd. Lee. 
 
 Chairman— Robt. Blackburn. 
 Secretary— John Henderson. 
 Treasurer — James Hope. 
 Assistant Treasurer— John McMillan. 
 
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 Superintendent — Alexander Mutchmor, 
 Assistant Superintendent — John McMillan, 
 Clerk of Session— John Durie. 
 
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 In the following year the long-tried patience of the congre- 
 gation was at length rewarded. After a vacancy of nearly two 
 years, a call was presented to and accepted by the Rev. Mr. 
 Farries, and his induction took place on the 28th of April, 1875. 
 The satisfaction with which Mr. Farries was welcomed may easily 
 be imagined. It was like the silver lining to the cloud, and his 
 arrival was looked upon as the precursor of better things, the 
 forerunner of brighter days to come. Sorely indeed at that time, 
 was the Church in need of all the comfort and support it could 
 secure, to strengthen and encourage it in the dark and trying days 
 which were soon to come. From a financial standpoint, the year 
 1874 had proved so successful as to lead to the hope that the worst 
 was passed. To a certain extent it was, but about this date hard 
 times set in. A wave of commercial depression, almost unex- 
 ampled in severity and duration, swept over the land and dark 
 clouds gathered ominously around us again. In 1875 the ordinary 
 revenue fell off to the extent of $1,500, thereby increasing the 
 floating debt to upwards of $5,000, and as it was all carried by 
 the banks, upon the personal security of individuals only, it was 
 naturally the greatest source of anxiety. The stringency of the 
 money market rendered it increasingly difl!icuU to secure renewals, 
 and those who were personally responsible for th^: notes were becom- 
 ing more and more restive and dissatisfied. Appeal after appeal was 
 made to the congregation, but with little success, and it seemed 
 impossible to do anything, but merely wait and hope for a turn of 
 the tide. The mortgage debt, amounting to $25,000, was favor- 
 ably placed, and it was felt that if the floating debt could be wiped 
 out, the greatest difficulty would be removed For the year 1875 
 the estimated revenue required amounted to $7,318, so that it 
 seemed hopeless to expect anything extra of any account from 
 the overburdened congregation Still it was no time for despond- 
 ency or relaxation of the struggle, and effort after effort was perse- 
 vered in during the two following years to accomp. sh its reduction. 
 Although partly successful, somewhere about $1,750 being raised 
 for the purpose, it was found that in January, 1877, the debt had 
 slightly increased. The inevitable had then to be facec'. and 
 
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 another mortgage of $6,000 was placed upon the property, making 
 the total debt $31,000. 
 
 Bad as things were in the beginning of 1877, at the close of 
 the year the congregation seems to have been buoyant with the 
 hope that the worst had been passed and that better times were 
 drawing near. In December we find the Committee reporting as 
 follows : 
 
 " After many years of laborious and painful effort, we have at - 
 last reached that point which may fairly be looked upon as the 
 culminating one of our labors and which becomes to us a new point 
 of departure. Our Church has been completed in all its details, 
 its organization more or less perfected, our debt has been consoli- 
 dated, and our finances generally brought into such a state that 
 they can now be attended to and overl loked with the minimum 
 amount of labor. We have, in short, reached that point in which 
 great things cease to occupy our attention, and we settle down to 
 the ordinary work and regularly recurring business of every day 
 life. Let us hope that, as guided by that wisdom which ever 
 accompanies faithful service, and with the blessing of a kind Provi- 
 dence ever granted to diligent and trustful labor, we have pros- 
 pered so greatly in the past, the same wisdom and the same bless- 
 ing will be found guiding and accompanying us i.i the future and 
 leading us onward and upward, to a higher development of vigor- 
 ous, energetic and successful congregational life. On our 
 shoulders lies the burden, and with us rests the responsibility, for 
 our future being one of successful progress and usefulness, or one 
 of disappointment, stagnation and frustrated expectations." 
 
 The Committee however, deemed it prudent to add a note of 
 warning, as they do in the closing paragraph of the same report, 
 viz : 
 
 " They cannot disguise the fact that the situation is a serious 
 one. Upon a small congregation the burden is undoubtedly 
 severe. It is a matter for sincere congratulation that it has so far 
 been well and favorably borne. In the present depressed condi- 
 tion of business throughout our community and the country gener- 
 
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 ally, no calculation of early relief can be relied upon. We must 
 undoubtably make up our minds to bear our burden, patiently 
 doing what duty requires of us in the meantime and hoping that 
 in the no distant future, returning proi-perity will come ,to our help 
 and by adding to the means and number of our adherents, enable 
 us, if not to reduce our liabilities, at all events deprive them of 
 their present burdensome character." 
 
 Unfortunately the above warning proved to be only too neces- 
 sary. The times did not improve and although temporary relief 
 was obtained by re-arrangement of the debt, such as converting it 
 into a straight loan for a fixed term of years, instead of repaying it 
 by annual instalments, as was being done witli a large proportion 
 of it, still it proved to be too severe a burden on the ability of the 
 •congregation, and it was felt that the only way by which sniisfactory 
 relief could be secured, was by a reduction of the prir.cipal iisclf. 
 Year after year it was the same old story, at one lime hopeful, at 
 another despondent. The repetition of so many urgent appeals 
 was becoming wearisome, and from their very frequency were 
 failing of effect. High pressure, when to.> long maintauied 
 becomes dangerous, and realizing this, in i88r a fresh effort 
 was made and a second mortgage, amounting to $6,000, was paid 
 off. A fresh re-arrangement of the remainder was made at the 
 same time on more favorable terms and at a reduced rate of inter- 
 est, whereby substantial relief was afforded. The total debt was 
 now $27,000, 
 
 The effect of this was immediately felt. The revenue of the 
 following year was well within the expenditure, and at its close 
 the Committee reported : : , ,; , 
 
 "Our prospects were never b'ighler since we undertook our 
 present heavy financial obligations. We have proved indubitably 
 that we can, with God's good hand upon us, directly raise 
 within ourselves and without special effort, a sum sufficient 
 to meet all our financial obligations and thus prevent 
 the necessity of any floating debt. All that is now necessary 
 is that our people, in the same spirit of liberality which 
 
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 another mortgage of $6,000 was placed upon the property, making 
 the total debt $31,000. 
 
 Bad as things were in the beginning of 1877, at the close of 
 the year the congregation seems to have been buoyant with the 
 hope that the worst had been passed and that better times were 
 drawing near. In December we find the Committee reporting as 
 follows : 
 
 ** After many years of laborious and painful effo'-t, we have at 
 last reached that point which may fairly be looked upon as the 
 culminating one of our labors and which becomes to as a new point 
 of departure. Our Church has been completed in all its details, 
 its organization more or less perfected, our debt has been consoli- 
 dated, and our finances generally brought into such a state that 
 they can now be attended to and overlooked with the minimum 
 amount of labor. We have, in short, reached that point in which 
 great things cease to occupy our attention, and we settle down to 
 the ordinary work and regularly recurring business of every day 
 life. Let us hope that, as guidetl by that wisdom which ever 
 accompanies faithful service, and with the blessing of a kind Provi- 
 dence ever granted to diligent and trustful labor, we have pros- 
 pered so greatly in the past, the same wisdom and the same bless- 
 ing will be found guiding and accompanying us i.i the future and 
 leading us onward and upward, to a higher development of vigor- 
 ous, energetic and successful congregational life. On our 
 shoulders lies the burden, and with us rests the responsibility, for 
 our future being one of successful progress and usefulness, or one 
 of disappointment, stagnation and frustrated expectations." 
 
 The Committee however, deemed it prudent to add a note of 
 warning, as they do in the closing paragraph of the same report, 
 viz : 
 
 " They cannot disguise the fact that the situation is a serious 
 one. Upon a small congregation the burden is undoubtedly 
 severe. It is a matter for sincere congratulation that it has so far 
 been well and favorably borne. In the present depressed condi- 
 tion of business throughout our community and the country gener- 
 
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 ally, no calculation of early relief can be relied upon. We must 
 undoubtably make up our minds to bear our burden, patiently 
 doing what duty requires of us in the meantime and hoping that 
 in the no distant future, returning prosperity will come )o our help 
 and by adding to the means and number of our adherents, enable 
 us, if not to reduce our liabilities, at all events deprive them of 
 their present burdensome character." 
 
 Unfortunately the above warning proved to be only too neces- 
 sary. The times did not improve and although temporary relief 
 was obtained by re-arrangement of the debt, such as converting it 
 into a straight loan for a fixed term of years, instead of repaying it 
 by annual instalments, as was being done with a large proportion 
 of it, still it proved to be too severe a burden on the ability of the 
 •congregation, and it was felt that the only way by which satisfactory 
 relief could be secured, was by a reduction of the principal iiself. 
 Year after year it was the same old story, at one time hopeful, at 
 another despondent. The repetition of so many urgent appeals 
 was becoming wearisome, and from their very frequency were 
 failing of effect. High pressure, when to.) long maintained 
 becom("s dangerous, and realizing this, in i8Si a fresh effort 
 was made and a second mortgage, amounting to $6,000, was paid 
 off. A fresh re-arrangement of the remainder was made at the 
 same time on more favorable terms and at a reduced rate of inter- 
 est, whereby substantial relief was afforded. The total debt was 
 now $27,000, 
 
 The effect of this was immediately felt. The revenue of the 
 follov^ing year was well within the expenditure, and at its close 
 the Committee reported : 
 
 '* Our prospects were never brighter since we undertook our 
 present heavy financial obligations. We have proved indubitably 
 that we can, with God's good hand upon us, directly raise 
 within ourselves and without special effort, a sum sufficient 
 to meet all our financial obligations and thus prevent 
 the necessity of any floating debt. All that is now necessary 
 is that our people, in the same spirit of liberality which 
 
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 characterized them amid times sufficiently trying to test 
 their faiih and steadfastness, should now maintain undiminished 
 the same readiness of hand and willingness of heart, until after 
 a short respite, and by a united and therefore successful effort, 
 we shall still further reduce the amount of our indebtedness." 
 
 The above report was submitted at the congregational meet- 
 ing held on the nth day of January, 1883, ^^^ but short was the 
 respite taken, before a further effort was made to still more reduce 
 the indebtedness, The measure of relief from the wiping out of 
 $6,000 was so great that at the close of the year a suggestion was 
 made, that twice as much more should be got rid of. This was 
 immediately acted on. The effort proved again successful and in 
 the month of February, 1894, $12,000 more was discharged and 
 the debt reduced to the amount at which it now stands, viz : 
 $15,000. 
 
 We look back with no little pardonable pride upon the record 
 of these latter 10 years, and humbly and gratefully give thanks to 
 God for giving to the congregation, the courage to undertake and 
 the ability to perform so much. From a financial standpoint the 
 result was deeply gratifying. Starting in the beginning with a debt 
 of $36,000, with only about 100 subscribing members and adhe- 
 rents, we had in ten years time, not only maintained the Church in 
 active working order, but had reduced our liabilities by the large 
 sum of $21,000. 
 
 Thereafter the congregation breathed more freely and was able 
 to give its attention more undividedly to its- great and responsible 
 duties as a Christian Church. Not that its hand was withheld 
 from giving ; that lesson had been too \/e\\ learned and too deeply 
 rooted to be readily forgolten. From trnie to time as occasion 
 arose, the spirit of liberality was called upon, and never failed to 
 respond. In 1886 for example, nearly $1,500 were expended in 
 improvements in the comfort and adornment of the building, and 
 in the same year the present organ was erected at a further cost of 
 $3,500. All was done by voluntary effort, and without any 
 increase of the debt. Neither must we omit to mention the liber- 
 
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 ality of one of our members, who within the past twelve months, 
 placed at the disposal of the congregation the sum of $ 1,000, for 
 the purpose of cushioning the pews in the Church. For this we 
 have to record our hearty thanks to Mr. William Porter, one of the 
 few now remaining of our oldest members. 
 
 In the beginning of 1893 a cloud came over the Church, 
 caused by the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Parries, who for 18 years 
 had been our pastor, and who had decided to remove to a new and 
 distant sphere of labor. Knox Church has been blessed in its 
 pastors in the past. They have been few in number ; only three in 
 half a century ; and they discharged their duties thoroughly and 
 well and as became able, energetic and active Christian ministers. 
 Than Mr. Farries no one left our city more regretted, not by his 
 people alone, but by the whole community. Ever faithful in 
 preaching the doctrine of Christ crucified, outspoken and fearless 
 in his denunciation of sin, and withal gentle and compassionate 
 towards the offender, he has left behind, a memory which will 
 remain ever fresh and green, to live with life itself in the hearts of 
 all who were privileged to sit under his ministrations and enjoy 
 his personal friendship. On leaving, the congregation presented 
 him, in token of their esteem, with a purse containing $r,25o. 
 
 No great time elapsed before his place was filled by the Rev. 
 Mr. Ballantyne, our present pastor, who was inducted on the nth 
 day of June last. What he shall accomplish in the future remains for 
 some other hand than the writer's to chronicle ; but we doubt not, 
 judging from his record elsewhere, that he will be found worthy to 
 follow in the footsteps ol his predecessors. May it so prove, and 
 may Knox Church have reason to bless abundantly the Providence 
 which guided his footsteps hitherward. 
 
 But one more act in this " eventful history " remains to be 
 recorded, and it is one most fit and proper to this "Jubilee" 
 celebration. I have already said that our debt stands now at 
 $15,000. Rather should I have said stood^ since now it is a 
 thing of the past. Realizing from past experience how serious a 
 clog to congregational energy and enterpri.se it was, the resolution 
 
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 was formed to wipe it out if possible, and once more has the 
 effort proved successful. The last burden has been rolled away, 
 and to-day Knox Church stands free and untrammelled, without let 
 or hindrance, ready and equipped to apply itbs.lf with all the 
 energy of youth renewed, and with the benefit of knowledge 
 gained from dearly bought experience, to whatever work as a con- 
 gregation it may in the good Providence of God be called to 
 perform. 
 
 Our pleasant task is ended. May we venture to hope, that 
 the time spent upon these pages will not prove to have been in 
 vain, nor the labor entirely fruitless. It is a record of half a 
 century of Christian work, not for ourselves, but for the cause of 
 Him who guides the destinies of mankind, and who has given to 
 each and all a work to do, both within the Church and without, 
 and who has plainly showed, as our past abundantly proves, that 
 He is ever ready to help the earnest and faithful worker, enabling 
 him in the end to achieve results which at the outset appeared 
 impossible, and to overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable. 
 As a congregation we have been printing " footsteps on the sands 
 of time," and let us hope that the actors in the next half century, 
 those upon whose shoulders will devolve the responsibilities and 
 the opportunities of the future, and who will have to bear the burden 
 and heat of life's conflict, will be encouraged by the memory of our 
 past, to strive even more earnestly, more faithfully and more suc- 
 cessfully in building up our Zion and making it a beacon light, to 
 encourage and guide the weak and erring, to raise up the fallen 
 and down-trodden, to comfort the afflicted and bruised ones, and 
 to lead to a truer and nobler conception of the brotherhood of 
 man and the fatherhood of God. 
 
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SERMON 
 
 Delivered by 
 
 Rev. Tl)onias Wardrope, D.D. 
 
 IN KNOX CH^'^^.CH, OTTHWH, 
 
 SUr\. y, Utti Noveniber, 
 1894 
 
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 REV. THOMAS WARDROPE, D.D, 
 
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 REV. THOMAS WARDROPE, D.D. 
 
 Deut. viii,, 2. — "And thou shall remember all the way which the Lord thy 
 God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and 
 to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldst 
 keep His commandments, or no." 
 
 These words, originally addressed to ancient Israel, are equally 
 applicable to ourselves. Like them, we are to remember and re- 
 flect upon the past, in order that we may learn the lessons which it 
 was designed to teach us. We are to think of the goo(iness and 
 mercy which God has caused to pass before us, and to ask our- 
 selves what we have rendered to Him for all His benefits. 
 
 I. By the words before us we are led to think of our life under 
 the similitude of a journey. When we are called upon to review 
 the past, it is said to us, a: it was said to the children of Israel, 
 "Thou shalt remember all 'he way which the Lord thy God led 
 thee." 
 
 Apart from any spiritual application of the idea, the life of man 
 is but a pilgrimage. We pass through the successive stages of in- 
 fancy, youth, manhood, and old age ; and then we go down to the 
 house appointed for all living. At the longest, with but rare ex- 
 ceptions, " the days of our years are three score years and ten ; 
 and if, by reason of strength, they be four score years, yet is their 
 strength, labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." 
 What then, brethren, is our life here ? It is a span, a vapor, a tale 
 that is told. Surely we are strangers, pilgrims here. Surely we 
 have not a moment to lose — no time to spend in vain trifling or 
 thoughtless indifference. We have seen, by great skill in the art of 
 writing or printing, an important document compressed into a 
 space so small that microscopic sight was necessary to decipher it. 
 Just so thickly ought our brief span of life to be inscribed, as it were, 
 with the records of momentous transactions bearing upon our 
 future and everlasting welfare. 
 
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 But, while in the case of all men life is a journey, it is the be- 
 liever only who feels himself to be a stranger and a pilgrim here. 
 He alone has the pilgrim spirit. His life only is the " pilgrim's 
 progress," You would not call that man a pilgrim, who is dragged 
 away captive to a strange land ; so neither can they be truly called 
 pilgrims, who are only against their will, borne onwards on the 
 rapid and resistless tide of time to the future unending eternity. 
 He only is a pilgrim who has some end in view — some place which 
 he >\ishes to reach, and towards which, albeit often with difficulty, 
 he voluntarily moves along. The believer in Christ then is a 
 stranger in this world, not only when he is literally a stranger where 
 he lives ; but set him down wherever you will — in the bosom of his 
 family, in the midst of friends, surrounded by every comfort and 
 convenience which the world affords — he is a stranger and a pil- 
 grim. In spirit and in purpose, he is forgetting those things which 
 are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are be- 
 fore. He seeks another and a better country — a city which hath a 
 foundation, whose builder and maker is God. 
 
 As the traveller upon his homeward journey is glad when his 
 path is smooth, and the way-side accommodations comfortable, but 
 is nevertheless not tempted to linger among the pleasant scenes 
 through which he has to pass, nor to take up his abode in the com-" 
 modious resting places where he occasionE^ily stops for refresh- 
 ment, but eagerly pursues his way ; and as, on the o^her hand, 
 when the road is difficult, and the prospect dreary, ai.d the inns 
 uninviting, he only looks forward with greater pleasure to the com- 
 forts of his home : so it is with the believer, His treasure is in 
 heaven, and his heart i: there also. 
 
 Even in the wilderness through which the children of Israel 
 journeyed from Egypt to Canaan, there was a variety of scene ; 
 and with varying scenes, there were varying feelings and varying 
 experiences. Now, tor example, they come to a certain place, 
 weary and way-worn ; they are confidently expecting refreshment ; 
 for they have been told of springs of water there. But when they 
 approach, their expectations are disappointed. There is water 
 
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 there indeed ; but it is bitter, so that ihey cannot drink it ; and 
 they rail the name of the place Marah, for the waters are bitter. 
 But anon they come to Elim, with its springing fountains and shady 
 palm trees ; and there they pitched their camp. Yet not at Elim 
 any more than at Marah are they permanently to remain ; for, shady 
 although its palm trees be, and sweet its waters, Elim is neverthe- 
 less in the wilderness, as well as Marah. And before them, al- 
 though yet far distant, is the promised land to which they must 
 hasten onward. 
 
 So the believer's lot here will be varied. Now he is in affliction, 
 and he calls the place Marah, for the waters are bitter. Most cer- 
 tain it is, that he will have many trials, outward or inward ; for 
 " whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth." And while he pursues 
 his way, he will find that God, by the consolations which He im- 
 parts, can make the most bitter waters sweet. But now again his 
 outward comforts are multiplied : Marah has been left behind ; 
 and he reposes for a time by the springs and beneath the shades of 
 Elim. Yet, even while there, he hears a voice saying unto him, 
 " Arise, depart, for this is not thy rest." Thus he is kept mindful 
 of that which, left to himself, he might forget. He is reminded 
 that however circumstanced as a citizen of time, his citizenship is 
 in reality i" heaven. He is reminded that, when time and the 
 things of time shall have come to an end, he shall be welcomed 
 into the everlasting habitations, to "dwell for ever with the Lord, 
 beyond the reach of woe." ., , ,, ., 
 
 2. By the words of our text we are reminded too, that in the 
 journey of life the Lord is the constant and unerring guide of His 
 people : " Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy 
 God led thee." 
 
 Look back on what, in your owu case, is part of life's journey. 
 God has guided you ; and that, in no unimportant sense is true, 
 whether you have valued His guidr.nce and protection or not. 
 What unnumbered blessings has God bestowed upon you, alto- 
 gether irrespective of .he spiritual blessings in heavenly places, 
 with which He blesses those who are led to look to Him as their 
 
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 God in Christ Jesus ! Are there any among you, whether rejectors 
 of Christ or believers in Him, who have not cause to say, " Good- 
 ness and mercy have followed us all the days of our lives ?" How 
 sad the reflection, that such multitudes are utterly unmindful of 
 Him, whose bountiful hand supplies all their wants, who gives them 
 all things richly to enjoy. How sad the reflection that God's 
 goodness follows thousands to the grave, and that then, thi-ough 
 their rejection of Him, they go away into the outer darkness ! 
 
 But we cannot speak of the temporal blessings bestowed upon 
 you, and dissociate from them the mention of the spiritual privi- 
 leges with which God has favored you. For what have been your 
 circumstances with respect to these ? Was your lot cast among 
 the homeless and forsaken who have scarcely ever heard the 
 Saviour's name, or been told of the provision through Him, of 
 salvation for the lost and perishing ? Were your early days spent 
 among those who inculcated upon you no regard for God's Sab- 
 baths, and no reverence for His sanctuary? Have you been led 
 along a path which separated you from the appliances of mercy, 
 and in the course of which yoii have heard a voice of expostula- 
 tion addressed to you, saying, " Turn ye, turn ye ; for why will ye 
 die?" No, my brethren: few among you will venture to set up 
 *as a plea for your neglect of the things that belong to your ever- 
 lasting peace, the allegation that no one ever told you a,bout the 
 grace of God, about the love of Christ, about the danger of 
 neglecting the great salvation, and the blessedness of those who 
 fall in with the oifers of mercy. 
 
 Look back on your history brethren. There are milestones, 
 as we may call them, along the path which has been trodden by 
 every child of God. Bethels, Peniels, Ebenezers. where God has 
 been called upon in faith, and found to he a very present help in 
 trouble. Art there not pillars set up, here and there, along the 
 pathway of your life, marking out times and places which you can 
 never forget : some it may be, commemorating signal deliverances 
 from impending calamity in connection with your worldy business ; 
 some commemorating periods of bereavement, which the Lord 
 
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 made to you periods of special blessing, by working in you humble 
 resignation to His will, and enabling you to say, '* He hath done 
 all things well;" some commemorating long nights of disease, when 
 you seemed to be drawing near to the gates of the grave, and God 
 so strengthened you with might by His spirit, that you could say, 
 " Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 
 I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me : Thy rod and Thy staff 
 they comfort me ? " 
 
 If you have been careful to set up each pillar, you will under- 
 stand much of the faithfulness, and wisdom, and love, that have 
 marked God's dealings with you. And if there are no such stones 
 of memorial, set up by the way along which you have journeyed, 
 O what utter blanks — what deserts — spiritually, your lives must 
 have been ! If there are no such stones of memotial, it is not be- 
 cause you have had no occasion for the erection of them, but be- 
 cause you have not been wise, or observed these things, nor under- 
 stood the loving kindness of the Lord. You have lived as destitute 
 of the saving knowledge of God, as if the heavens had ceased to 
 declare His glory, and the firmament to show His handiwork. 
 You have lived just as if there were no Saviour and no need of a 
 Saviour, as if God had never sent His Son into the world, that who- 
 soever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting 
 life. 
 
 Much of what I have been saying is no less applicable to your 
 family than to your individual lives. Not now to dwell on what 
 ijiight well be said in connection with this, let me go on to remind 
 you that much of what I have been saying is equally applicable, in 
 its own way and in its own place, to your congregational life. 
 You have had your vicissitudes, your diversified experiences, your 
 anxieties, your disappointments, your hopes, your comforts and your 
 joys. You have again and again come to periods in your history 
 which have been to you more than ordinarily memorable, you have 
 reached such a stage in the history of your congregation now. 
 Half a century has passed away since this Church was organized. :1: 
 
 How many here — or rather, how few — can remember the 
 
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 meeting in what was then "The Methodist Church, Upper Town," 
 on the seventh day of Novennber, 1844, at the close of which it 
 was resolved by those lirectly interested, that application should be 
 made to the Presbytery of Kingston for the organization of a con- 
 gregation in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Canada 
 (then popularly known as the " Free Church "), and for such 
 supply of gospel ordinances as it might be in the power of the 
 Presbytery to grant. How few can remember the little ** British 
 Wesieyan Chapel,"- on Rideau street, in which the late Henry 
 Gordon of Gananoque preached on the following Sabbath. I hat 
 chapel was rented by the congregation for use on the Sabbath 
 forenoon and afternoon, and was so occupied till the erection of 
 the frame Church in Daly street. Beinf; then in charge of the Dal- 
 housie District Grammar School, now the Ottawa Collegiate, I was 
 requested by the *' Home Mission Committee '' to conduct the 
 exercises of public worship in the newly formed congregation, 
 " with reading and exposition of the word of God, and the subord- 
 inate standards of the Church." This I continued to do till the 
 thirteenth of August, 1845, when I was ordained to the pastorate, 
 in which I continued till September, 1869. 
 
 'I'he new Church, already referred to, was opened on the twenty- 
 eighih day of December, 1845. The first ordination of elders wac 
 on ihe seventh day of December, 1845, when Alexander Kennedy, 
 Andrew Wilson, Alexander Anderson and John Durie, having 
 been duly elected by the congregation, were ordained to the 
 eldership, along with George Sieveright and Donald Kennedy, who 
 had " come out " with the congregation ; the brethren just named 
 formed the Session at that time. 
 
 The first communion service in the Church was held on the 
 first day of February, 1846. Several double sleighs, loaded after 
 the manner of those early days, brought many from the Gatineau 
 to unite with us in this communion. These were the nucleus of 
 what is now the vigorous congregation of Wakefield and Masham. 
 J dwell no longer now on memories of the past, they will in other 
 ways, during the Jubilee services, be brought to your remem- 
 brance. 
 
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 The old Church in Daly street I recall to my recollection now, 
 — in imagination I see it before me. I see families and individuals 
 moving up the aisles to take their places. I see the pews filled with 
 their old occupants. I hear the psalms and paraphrases in which 
 we were led by those, who in succession were the conductors 
 in our service of praise. I see the Sabbath School assembled, with 
 the Superintendent in his place, and the various classes before their 
 teachers. Communion seasons pass in review, with the reception 
 of young communicants at the preparatory services ; then on the 
 Sabbath, the '* action sermon," and the addresses before and after 
 the " breaking of bread," and the evening sermon by brethren, with 
 whose forms and voices we were familiar. There were sermons on 
 communion Sabbath evenings and at other times, which were fre- 
 quently referred to by members of the Church in after days, the 
 texts of which I can recall to my recollection now, as by William 
 Aitken, on " Yet there is room ;" by J. B. Duncan, on " Did not 
 our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and 
 while he opened to us the scriptures ;" by William MacLaren (now 
 Prof. MacLaren, present with us here), on " By grace are ye saved 
 through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God ;" 
 and by J. K. Smith, on "Ihe ransomed of the Lord shall return 
 and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, 
 they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall 
 flee away." 
 
 In review of all the past, we may well say " Hitherto hath the 
 Lord helped us,'' and while at once reviewing the past, and antici- 
 pating the future, may we not say " The Lord hath been mindful 
 of us. He will bless us." May this, dear friends, pastor and 
 people, be largely verified in your experience. The Lord increase 
 yov more and more, you and your children. 
 
 3. By the words of our text we are taught what great ends 
 the Lord has in view in the way by which He guides His people : 
 *' Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led 
 
 thee to humble thee, and to prove thee, whether thou 
 
 wouldest keep His commandments or no." The Lord does not 
 
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 lead you on without observing, all the while, how your hearts are 
 affected towards Him. 
 
 He leads you on ** to humble you." Do not misunderstand this 
 word, brethren. It does not mean that you should clothe your- 
 selves in sackcloth, and bow your heads like a bulrush, and parade 
 a " voluntary humility," and turn away from all that is bright and 
 gladsome in life. But it does surely mean that, with a deep sense, 
 of unworthiness, you should " walk humbly with your God." It 
 means that you should cherish a childlike and loving sense of your 
 dependence upon Him. It means that amid all the trials of life, 
 you should look to Him for comfort — that, amid all the per- 
 plexities of life, you should look to Him for guidance. 
 
 '* Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom, 
 
 Lead Thou ma on ; 
 The night is dark, and I am far from home : 
 
 Lead Thou me on ! 
 Keep Thou my feet ; I do not ask to see 
 The distant scene : one step enough for me." 
 
 He leads you on "to prove you." "Thou, O God, hast 
 proved us," says the Psalmist ; " Thou hast tried us as silver is 
 tried." "Though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness 
 through manifold temptations, yet the trial of your faith, being 
 much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried 
 with fire, shall be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the 
 appearing of Jesus Christ." 
 
 He leads you on " to know what is in your hearts, whether 
 you will keep His commandments or no." It is your safety, your 
 happiness, your eternal welfare, that God seeks. Of all true hap- 
 piness He is the source and spring. That we may be partakers of 
 it — of the blessedness of communion with Him — we must walk in 
 the way of His commandments. What the result of this would be, 
 He tells us: " O that thou hadst barkened to my cominand- 
 ments," says He to His ancient people ; " Then had thy peace been 
 as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Now, 
 about this keeping of the commandments of God, you have many 
 anxious thoughts. Many of you, I have no doubt, have often 
 
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 thought of your obligations to Him from whom cometh down every 
 good and perfect gilt. You have inquired, '• What shall I render 
 unto the Lord for all His benefits ?" You have often tried to write 
 His laws on your hearts, and you have often lamented your 
 failure. 
 
 Let me ask you to look at this under the clearer light of the 
 New Testament. Not that the Lord withheld from His people the 
 needed grace under the old ; but now He speaks more plainly to 
 you. Just transfer this promise from the Old Testament to the 
 New. It is indeed ahcady done lor you : " I will put my laws 
 into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." Will you 
 in lowly confession and earnest prayer, tell Him how sadly yoi^have 
 failed to write His commandments in your hearts, and ask Him to 
 write? You know the power by which He will .do this. It is by 
 the Holy Ghost that dwelleth in you. 
 
 "The Holy Ghost that dwpHeth in you," This implies that 
 you have received Jesus as your Saviour, that you are resting on 
 Him as " the end of the law for righteousness to every one that 
 believeth." But do not lightly take this for granted. O ! make sure 
 of this, for, without Christ, there is no real trust in God, no loving 
 obedience to His commandments. Relying on good resolutions, 
 earnest purposes, serious firmness of mind, you are off the solid 
 rock ; you are building on sand. But, looking to Him as the only 
 Saviour, all will be well with you, You may hear His gracious 
 promise, " The Spirit dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." He 
 shall so work within you in response to loving trust, that it shall be 
 " Your meat and drink to do the will of your Father in heaven." 
 You shall know, in your blessed experience, how the grace of God, 
 which hath appeared unto all men, bringing salvation, teaches us 
 that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, 
 righteously and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed 
 hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour 
 JesuG Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us 
 from all iniquities, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zeal- 
 ous of good works. Amen. ' 
 
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SERMON 
 
 Delivered by 
 
 RCY. DR. McLflRCN, 
 
 IN KNOX CHURCH, OTTflWfi, 
 
 Stiqday, Utt^ November. 
 1894 
 
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 REV. WM. McLaren, d.d., 
 
 Prof, Systematic Theology, Knox College. 
 
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 REV. DR. McLaren. 
 
 Rev. XXI. 22. — " And I saw no temple therein." 
 
 When I was asked some time ago to take part in these Jubilee 
 services, I was informed that the preachers were expected in the 
 morning to deal with the past^ in the afternoon with the presenty 
 and in the evening with \.\\q future. I have decided to conform 
 to this suggestion, although, perhaps, not exactly in the manner 
 intended. 
 
 This text seems to lead us on from time with its measured 
 periods, into an eternal state wher3 duration is no longer 
 measured by days, years, jubilees or centuries. This chapter, 
 according to the ordinary view, which we do not question, presents 
 us with a glimpse of the heavenly state, as that was given to John 
 in vision. We need not stay to enquire whether the scene of 
 future rewards shall be this earth, as this description might lead 
 us to think, or some other world, as Christians more generally sup- 
 pose. For while the redeemed in glory must have some local 
 habitation, heaven is much more a state than a locality. Where 
 Christ is will be heaven to the risen saints. 
 
 John had been carried by the angel to a great and higfi moun- 
 tain, where he saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending out 
 of heaven from God, and when it rested on the earth he saw the 
 city spread out at his feet with its streets of gold, illumined with 
 the glory of God. It is Jerusalem enlarged, ^ransfigured and 
 glorified. It is continental in its extent, and so magnificent that 
 the City of Solomon, even in its palmy days, must have seemed 
 unworthy to compare with it. But to John's Jewish eye there 
 must have appeared one strange defect. It is Jerusalem without 
 a temple. And even we ourselves may, at first, be inclined to 
 think that if heaven is Jerusalem without a temple, it is Jerusalem 
 despoiled of its crowning glory. It may seem so, for we often 
 travel on a road without thinking where it is leading us. But if 
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 design God has been following in successive ages, we shall discover 
 that the goal of all God's dealings with his redeemed is Jerusalem 
 without a temple. 
 
 I. What purpose then did the temple serve? It evidently 
 took the place of the tabernacle of the congregation in the wilder- 
 ness, and served the same purposes. It was a permanent taber- 
 nacle, or tent of meeting, corresponding to the stable abode 
 granted to God's people in the Land of Promise. When the na- 
 tion was marching through the desert, it was fitting that God's 
 dwelling place among them should be a tent which could be taken 
 down in the morning and pitched again at evening. But when 
 the people were settled in Canaan, it was suitable that God's 
 dwelling place should assume a more stable and permanent form. 
 
 What purpose, then, did the temple serve ? It was the 
 meeting place of God with His people, and of His people with God. 
 It indicated that they did not always dwell closely together. A 
 meeting place is not a place of abode. We meet in churches, but 
 we do not live there. The very existence of the temple, reminded 
 Israel that they were far from God, and needed to come and meet 
 with Him. 
 
 It was also a means by which the people had access to God. 
 Three times in the year the nation assembled at the temple for 
 the service of God. Hers all their most solemn acts of worship 
 were presented. Here sacrifices were offered continually for their 
 sins. Here the priests ministered for them and made intercession 
 on their behalf. And here, on the great day of atonement, the 
 High Priest in his holy linen garments entered as their represen- 
 tative into the Holiest of All, with sacrificial blood. The temple 
 was the grand outward means by which the covenant people drew 
 near to God ; the very centre of that whole economy of agencies, 
 by which they were helped to approach God. 
 
 But while the temple was a meeting place of God with his 
 people and supplied the means bj which Israel might be brought 
 nearer to God, it always kept the mass of the nation at a distance 
 from Him. They could not enter God's special dwelling place. 
 
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 They could only worship at a distance in the temple courts. The 
 priests could minister in the Holy Place, but even the Chief Priests 
 were denied access into the Divine Preoence. Only the High Priest 
 alone, once a year, may enter with the atoning blood into the 
 Holiest of All, where God dwelt between the cherubims above 
 the mercy seat. 
 
 The Most High allowed no undue familiarity on the part of 
 Israel They were never permitted to forget his august Majesty 
 and the distance which separated them from Him. The entire 
 arrangements of the temple service were fitted to inspire them 
 with profound reverence for Jehovah. Even when he pitched his 
 tent visibly among them, they were made to feel that He was not 
 such an one as themselves. 
 
 We doubt not that the pious among them, learned to worship 
 
 with a measure of filial confidence, but even then they trembled 
 
 before His veiled glory. The arrangements of the temple service, 
 
 gave color and tone to the Psalms, in which they expressed their 
 
 devotional feelings. Who can doubt that these sacred songs, voiced 
 
 the reverence inspired by the temple service ? Listen as they 
 
 sing : — 
 
 " The eternal Lord doth reign as King, 
 Let all the people quake ; 
 He sits between the Cherubims, 
 
 Let the earth be moved and shake." 
 
 The truth is, the idea of the temple was, in a sense, a con- 
 tradiction. It represented God as in the very midst of His people, 
 and supplied the means of bringing them near to God, and yet 
 it ever kept them at a distance from Him, 
 
 I have said that we often travel on a road without thinking 
 where it is leading us. Notice the design which God has been 
 following in His dealings with His redeemed. 
 
 Trace the record of God's dealings with our race all down the 
 ages, and we shall be much surprised if you do not discover that 
 the end which He has kept ever before Him, is to remove the 
 contradiction involved in the ancient sanctuary, and to give us the 
 City of God without a temple. 
 
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 The temple in which the Jews gloried, as the crowning beauty 
 of their system, was itself a milestone on the road, along which 
 God was carrying His redeemed. It was an indication of progress 
 and a mark of imperfection. It showed how far they had ad- 
 vanced, and how far they had yet to go before they reached the 
 goal towards which God was conducting them. 
 
 When God created man, He created him in His image, in 
 union and communion with Himself; and ever since sin separated 
 man from his Maker, God has been working to bring his redeemed, 
 back into union with Himself, a union closer and higher than that 
 enjoyed by our first parents, before sin had blighted their nature^ 
 or dislocated their relations to God. 
 
 If we trace the order and method of God's working down 
 the ages, we may mark three periods of the Divine manifestation ; 
 one prior to the entrance of sin, and two subsequent to it. These 
 periods we shall venture, from their distinguishing characteristics,, 
 to call the periods of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Ghost. 
 
 The first is the period of the Father. It is the season of 
 human innocence, the period of man's unfallen purity. Revela- 
 tion makes known a golden age in the past, and another yet to 
 come, with a dark intervening period overshadowed by sin. 
 
 At the dawn of human history, unfallen man had direct access 
 to God without the intervention of any mediator. There was no 
 shrinking then from the Divine Presence. God was in them and 
 revealed Himself through the working of their moral and spiritual, 
 powers, as well as from without, in the works of Creation and Pro- 
 vidence. Man's nature, in the entire range of its moral and 
 spiritual powers, was in touch with God ; and the closeness of his 
 union and communion with his Creator, was measured only by his 
 capacity to enjoy it. 
 
 This period was short, bright and beautiful. Soon the gold 
 
 became dim and the fine gold changed. Sin entered and made a 
 
 - double separation between man and God, Our guilt interposed 
 
 to keep God from loving approach to us, and our moral defilement 
 
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 unfitted us for fellowship with Him. Thus a great gulph seemed 
 fixed, between fallen man and his Creator. From this time the 
 great problem of our world has been, how to bring man back into 
 union und communion with God, and towards this end the Divine 
 working has been directed all down the ages. 
 
 The second period is that of the Son, culminating in the incar- 
 nation and the work done by the incarnate Son of God in our 
 room and stead. From the primal promise in Eden, all God's 
 dealings look forward to this consummation. The angel of Jeho- 
 vah, who spake to Hagar in the wilderness, who wrestled with 
 Jacob at Peniel, who appeared to Moses at the burning bush, and 
 led Israel into the Land ol Promise, may, we believe, be identified 
 with the pre-incarnat6 Saviour, And by the temporary assumption 
 in these early days, of the human form. He foreshadowed the 
 permanent adoption of human nature into personal union with 
 deity. 
 
 All the types, the ceremonies and predictions which precede 
 the Advent, pointed to Christ and His atoning work. To Him gave 
 all the prophets witness. And all the movements of history pre- 
 pare the way for the incarnation and the redemptive work of Christ. 
 During this entire period everything looks forward to the fulness 
 of the times. It is like what some of you may have seen on one 
 of our western prairies, a steady wind blowing across the great 
 plain, and everything seems to feel its influence. The dust, the 
 smoke and the clouds career along in one direction. The waving 
 grass and flowers and the bending bushes and trees are all swayed 
 towards one point by the steady current which is passing over 
 them. So during this entire period, everything seems moving on 
 with expectant eye towards Bethlehem and Calvary. 
 
 But when this long-looked for day arrived, something was 
 achieved to bring man back to God worthy of this preparation. 
 By the assumption of human nature into union with the person 
 of the Son of God, two things, otherwise impossible, were accom- 
 plished. In our name and nature sin was expiated and redemp- 
 tion wrought out, and a foundation laid for our righteous re- 
 instatement in the Divine favor- What had been prefigured by all 
 
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 the bloody sacrifices under the law, became an accomplished 
 reality, when Christ " bore our sins in His own body on the tree." 
 I know that some dislike and denounce the idea of atonement 
 through the sufferings and death of a substitute. But he who has 
 not seen this blessed truth foreshadowed in the Old Testament, 
 and realized in the new, when " Christ was once offered to bear 
 the sins of many," should pray God to open his eyes. And when 
 the scales fall from his eyes, he will see and be made glad by the 
 sight, that ** He was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we 
 might be made the righteousness of God in Him." 
 
 Not only is guilt expiated through the sacrifice of Christ, but 
 in Him human nature is brought nearer to God than when it stood 
 in primeval innocence. It was very near to Him in Eden, when 
 every part of our moral and spiritual nature was in touch with God, 
 but that was no such nearness as results from the incarnation. 
 How little we can comprehend it ! But we can see how marvel- 
 lously near to God, is human nature brought in the person 
 of the Godman. In Him we see all the thoughts, feelings and 
 experiences of unfallen human nature, taken up into the self-con- 
 sciousness of the eternal Son of God, and made his own, so that it 
 is the same person who says, " I thirst," who declares, " before 
 Abraham was, I am." 
 
 The //it'rd period is that of the Holy Ghost. It is the period 
 in which we live. It was inaugurated at Pentecost and reaches on 
 to the consummation of all things. What then is the special work 
 of the Holy Spirit during the present dispensation. Is it not to 
 bring men into living union with the Godman and then through 
 Him into conscious union with God ? The Divine Spirit provides 
 the outward means for effecting and perfecting this union, in the 
 Word which He has inspired — to be an unerring standard of faith 
 and life, and the external instrumentality for regenerating and sanc- 
 tifying those who are far from God. And he calls the Gospel 
 ministry to proclaim the truth, and press it home on the hearts of 
 men. We are said to be begotten by the Word of God, and to be 
 sanctified by the truth, and we are taught by the apostle, that 
 " pastors and teachers " have been given, "for the perfecting of 
 
 
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 the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body 
 of Christ : till we all come in the unity ol the faith, and of the 
 knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the meas- 
 ure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." But all this is out- 
 ward, and appeals to us in the way of moral suasion, and would 
 avail little did not the Holy Spirit accompany the external means, 
 by the secret and inscrutable working of His power in the hearts of 
 men. Paul may plant and Apollos water, but God giveth the in- 
 crease. It is the special office of the Divine Spirit to quicken the 
 dead to a new and higher life. It is His to convince men of sin, 
 of righteousness, and of judgment. It is thus men are led to 
 understand the truth in its personal bearing, yield to its power, and 
 embrace Christ as a Saviour from the guilt and power of sin. The 
 quickened heart responds once more to the Divine voice, and is 
 brought by the leading of the Divine Spirit into living union with 
 the Godman, and through Him into union and communion with 
 God. Through Jesus Christ we have access by one Spirit unto 
 the Father. Thus our inner nature is brought once more into 
 vital touch with God. The gulf which sin had made, is not only 
 bridged by the incarnation and the atoning work of Christ, but the 
 redeemed are enabled to pass over it, and are brought back to 
 God. 
 
 In the heavenly state to which we look forward, all that is 
 characteristic of the periods of the Father, of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Ghost shall remain, and be made permanent. Nothing 
 essential shall be lost. What is distinctive of each shall abide in 
 the grand result. The design which God has been following in 
 all the ages, will then be accomplished, and the union of His re- 
 deemed with Himself, shall be complete and perfect. 
 
 In this life the contradiction inherent in the temple, remains 
 in the best of Christians. They are near to God. In Him they 
 live and move and have their being ; and they are very near 
 Him in Christ, but still sin keeps them ever consciously at a dis- 
 tance from Him. However high we rise, in this world, in the 
 Christian life, the darkness and unbelief due to remaining sin, 
 lower its vigour and mar its triumphs. 
 
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 But in heaven all will be different. The last foot-prints of sir> 
 will be removed from the redeemed. Nothing that defileth shall 
 enter the Holy City. All that separates from God has disappeared. 
 And there His servants are like him and they see Him as He is. 
 There is no longer any place for a temple there. No meeting 
 place for God and and His people is there required, for they have 
 met in a union complete, perfect and permanent. No more are 
 means needed to bring men nearer to God, to remove guilt, to re- 
 store to the divine favour, or to remove the stain of ;iin. The work 
 is done. The Divine image is restored, and every part of man's 
 moral and spiritual nature is once more in touch with God. No 
 more is it necessary to keep men at a distance from God in order 
 to inspire them with reverent regard for His Majesty. For the 
 nearer they now get to Him, the deeper is their insight into His 
 matchless excellency, and the profounder their homage of adora- 
 tion and praise. 
 
 What then is the practical use we should make of this glimpse 
 of the City of God for which we look ? It is surely that Christians 
 should seek to be fellow-workers with God in His great design. We 
 have seen that that design is to bring our moral and spiritual nature 
 back into living touch with Himself. We should clearly seek to be 
 workers together with God in promoting the highest welfare Df those 
 around us, and in working out our own salvation with fear and 
 trembling. 
 
 We cannot doubt that the low state of religion among us, is 
 largely due to the fact that so few Christians make it the steady, 
 conscious purpose of their lives to live in touch with God. 
 
 Let me not be misunderstood : " If we ?ay we have no sin^ 
 we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." It does not 
 make us holy, to delude ourselves with the notion, that we are 
 already free from sin. What some regard as freedom from sin, is 
 not the result of bringing their life up to the standard of God's per- 
 fect law, but of bringing the standard of the law down to the level 
 of their life. This can only foster delusion. But ^iurely we 
 should steadily make that our aim, which God is aiming at for us. 
 We should seek to " apprehend that for which we are apprehended 
 
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 of Christ Jesus." There is much of our life, which is not in touch 
 with God, nor in harmony with His will. It should not be so. The 
 thought of God, or of His love should never be unwelcome to us. 
 We should never go where we cannot take God with us. Our 
 thoughts, our plans and our pleasures, should all be such that we 
 can have God with us in them. 
 
 This is a high ideal of life, and if you set it before you, you 
 will often fail. But it is better to aim high and fail, than never to 
 4nake the attempt. And if with each failure you tall back on the 
 blood of Christ for pardon, and the grace of the Holy Spirit for 
 support, you may resume the struggle, renew your strength and 
 come off successful in the end. Thus your life on earth will pre- 
 pare you for the life of heaven, and will bring you so near to God, 
 that it will seem no great transition to you, when you step across 
 the narrow stream and enter the City of God without a temple. 
 
 You have reached an important waymark in your history as 
 a congregation, which may well call for solemn yet thankful retro- 
 spect. Fifty years have run their course, since this congregation 
 was organized, and during half a century it has carried on a work 
 freighted with momentous interest, to all who have come within the 
 range of its influence. While you are to-day, doubtless sensible of 
 many shortcomings, you can raise your pillar of grateful remem- 
 brance, and thank God for what His grace has enabled you as a 
 people to do . 
 
 Of those who were active at the formation of this congrega- 
 tion, fifty years ago, how few remain to take part in this joyful com- 
 memoration ! They are like the grape gleanings in the outermost 
 branches when the vintage is past. Of the goodly band of elders 
 who served the congregation so faithfully, forty-eight years ago, 
 when I first became acquainted with it, only one contmues in ac- 
 tive service. Another, with his work done, seems waiting by the 
 river for the summons to pass over into the Land of Promise. Your 
 iirst pastor, after half a century of faithful work is still here in 
 goodly vigor, and you have to-day been privileged once more to 
 hear the Gospel from his lips. 
 
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 But of the rest, how few remain who can recall the early 
 struggles and successes of the congregation ! Ever since I was 
 called from the pastorate to my present work, what a change in 
 the membership ? How many old faces are absent, and how many 
 new faces are present. But still, thank God, ihe work abides and 
 advances. The servants die, but the Master lives. The workers 
 pass away, but the work goes on. In this city, we see the result of 
 the work done in those early days, in the younger congregations 
 which drew their original membership in whole or in part, from 
 this congregation, and which now like goodly daughters surround 
 their mother church. It is seen in the Ottawa Valley, where its 
 influence has told powerfully in favor of vital religion, evangelical 
 truth and sound morality. 
 
 But it may be affirmed of you, as of all christian workers, 
 that your best and highest work is not now visible to the eye of 
 sense. It is not found m the Ottawa Valley, or in Ottawa City, but 
 in the City God. 
 
 What fills the eye now is preparatory and unfinished, and 
 ever marred by human imperfection. But we look for a time, when 
 the work begun on earth shall be seen completed in heaven, and 
 the contradiction inherent in the temple and the christian charac- 
 ter shall disappear, when that which is perfect shall have come, 
 and that which is in part shall be done away. ' 
 
 Brethren, I recall with you thankfully the memory of God's 
 goodness in the past, and I congratulate you heartily on the happy 
 circumstances, which mark your entrance on the second half cen- 
 tury of your history. I trust that in the years to come, cleaving 
 close to the master, you will continue to enjoy in richer measure 
 the Divine benediction. My heart's desire for you is, that you may 
 always cherish and uphold the Gospel of the Grace of God, that 
 with growing vigor and love, you may throw yourselves into the ag- 
 gressive work of the Church, and that you may be honored of God 
 to lead many to Christ, and prepare them for a home in the City 
 of God without a temple. 
 
ADDRESSES 
 
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 Rev. Jas. Ballantyne, Rev.Wna. McLaren, D.D. 
 Rev. Tlnorrias Wardrope. D.D. 
 
 Delivered iq 
 KNOX CHURCH, OTTflWR, 
 
 Sariday Hfterqooq, Utl^ Noveiribei', 
 1894 
 
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 KBV. JAMES I5ALLANTVNE. 
 
Rev. James Ballantyne — 
 
 2 Samuel, v., io. — "And David went on, and grew great, and the Lord 
 
 God of Hosts was with him. I 
 
 Especially to those who have reached the years of middle or 
 advanced life, does such a memorial as we are keeping appeal. 
 And just in proportion to the extent of their moral culture, do 
 men seek to keep fresh the memory of past rare experiences. To 
 hear one say " I do not know ; I cannot remember," when ques- 
 tioned as to important facts of the past, such as the birth or the 
 marriage, implies a want of those feelings that go to make up 
 much of the beauty of life. For it is the l ment of affection, 
 that in the recollection of such events and in to-day's celebration, 
 finds its strongest expression. It is not as if we were met to com- 
 memorate the establishment of a business firm, or to rejoice over 
 the erection of a building. Intelligence, int^illect, power and 
 energy are worthy of praise ; but after all, it is love that leigns 
 supreme, and therefore at this time, experiences in connection with 
 the life history of this congregation, to which the heart has been 
 linked and by which the depths of our joy, or our sorrow, were 
 stirred are fondly recalled. Yes, even though some of the days 
 tiiat are gone, were filled with anxiety and trial, the soul's affec- 
 tions are not lessened, but rather deepened thereby. Like the 
 vessel that has returned from a long voyage and is now moored 
 in tb"? quiet, secure harbor, the peace and the serenity around, are 
 but enhanced by the remembrance of storms encountered. 
 
 The impressions that are revived to-day, cannot be as strong 
 in the minds of the young, as of those to whom they were once 
 real, for no merely intellectual effort is sufficient to recreate them. 
 It would be a mistake, however, to suppose that this occasion is 
 without interest for the young, or devoid of purpose in its bearing 
 upon their life. The children have their birthdays, and it alvnost 
 seems as if the anniversaries of national and religious life, were 
 specially adapted to youth. Is it unreasonable to expect, that our 
 commemoration may be of even greater profit, to those who have 
 

 
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 had little part in the events remembered, *han to the men and 
 women who actively shared in them ? The Jubilee in Old Testa- 
 ment times, was hardly intended to meet the wants of the young. 
 It reminded the generation about to leave the stage of life, of 
 God's wonderful dealings with them, but it also inspired and 
 strengthened the faith of the young, that God would be with them 
 as He had been with their fathers, that He was at every moment 
 of their existence ca'-ing for them, and that His promise of right- 
 eousness, to fill the whole earth would certainly be fulfilled. We 
 likewise go back to the beginnings ot our history and during these 
 days of meeting, ponder on the facts that have marked our course 
 as a people : let us by them be assured of the Lord's faithfulness 
 and that He will not forsake us in the time to come. 
 
 The text of Scripture that I have chosen, as appropriate to 
 this afternoon service, gives the Divine answer to the desire that 
 fills every young soul. It reveals the secret of true success in 
 life. It is the solution of the problem, that confronts every one, 
 entering on the sericuc business of life. The appeal is made to 
 the life of a man, whom all of his race regarded as successful, and 
 he is declared to have prospered, because the Lord God of Hosts 
 was with him. 
 
 Now it is possible to read that Old Testament story and think 
 that other reasons explain his success. David belonged to the first 
 rank of statesmen. This verse appears in connection with the choice 
 of Jerusalem as a capital. That city was to be the joy of the whole 
 earth, beautiful in its situation, formidable in its strength, and charm- 
 ing in its surroundings. In the choice of his capital alone, the King 
 of Israel gave proof of the wisdom and sagacity of a statesman. 
 David was the most highly gift id of the Hebrew poets, and he has 
 left us the richest legacy of sacred words, that human lips have 
 ever sung. The stream of melody that came from his heart, has 
 made glad many generations, and Christian people of our day, love 
 and sing these songs of the son of Jesse, as heartily as did the lone- 
 ly exiles in Babylon, but with the added meaning of centuries of 
 christian experience. Then David had military genions, and with a 
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the world, for on many a battlefield he displayed his prowess, as he 
 extended his kingdom from the river to the ends of the earth. He 
 was in short a born leader and ruler of men. ^ 
 
 Do we say that these elements of character, would as a matter 
 of course, make David great and prosperous ? Let us hear what the 
 God-guided historian says. All these facts were known, better 
 known then than now, yet we are told that his strength was not in 
 them, but in the presence with him of the Lord God of Hosts. 
 
 It is ours to rejoice to-day over the prosperity of the past 
 because the Lord God of Hosts hath been with us. And now look- 
 ing towards the future, if truly prosperous days await us, there must 
 be obedience to this same requirement. This does not mean, that 
 the Lord will give us success and relieve us of all hardships and 
 difficulty. Not at one bound did the ideal King of Israel become 
 great. He was not cradled in luxury ; God had set him apart for 
 the throne, but he did not at once come to it. Fror ■ wrath of 
 King Saul he had to flee. His home was in the ' .md on the 
 mountain side. His path to greatness was strewn /ith obstacles. 
 And it is not otherwise with us in the attainment of the high 
 ideals of life. Generally speaking, success comes through study, 
 diligence and trial. Resistance is almost necessary to the develop- 
 ment of power ; and it is a great misfortune to any youth, to have 
 no difficulties to contend against. 
 
 Now, the lesson of this text is, that we are not to be dis- 
 couraged, if in youth, hindrances nrc placed in our path; nor if 
 there seem to be checks to the progress of our inner life. It is 
 not in a day, nor in a year, nor in many years that we reach the 
 crown for which we are striving. We come up to the goal, only 
 after we have passed over many a rugged read of self denial. 
 But let us not be cast down if the Lord is on our side. 
 
 This leads us to ask, how can we make sure that this Lord of 
 Hosts will be for us ? How can we win His help on our side ? By 
 choosing Him as ours. Among the Greeks and Romans there was 
 a very familiar parable called the " Choice of Hercules." It told 
 how Hercules, the son ol Jupiter, who slew monsters, and reform- 
 ed abuses, and redressed human wrongs, and was the type to these 
 
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 people of all who lived virtuous lives, how he went forth one day 
 to commune with himself, and make the great choice of his life. 
 As he was seated in thought on a green bank there came to him 
 two maidens. The one promised all the delights of sense, the 
 pleasures of the wine cup, ease and luxury. The other bade him 
 live, not for sensual delights, but for noble deeds ; she urged him 
 not to devote his life to selfish pleasures, but to the good of others. 
 And turning to this latter, Hercules gave his hand to her, and thus 
 became the representative of all, who have shunned the delights of 
 sense and lived laborious days for the welfare of the world. 
 
 This story from ancient mythology I mention, that we may 
 learn that men have always felt, that there was a critical time, when 
 the choice of good or evil must be made. To every young person, 
 the choice of Hercules comes; youth is the critical period 
 of life, when there is the greatest danger of yielding to sin and 
 temptation. It is the time when we usually make the other choices, 
 that reach so far in their results ; we choose our occupations, our 
 family ties, we form our most enduring friendships then, and this 
 is the time when, as a rule, we decide whether we will serve the 
 Lord or not. There is in every country, a point from which the 
 water that falls, flows in one direction to one sea, or in an opposite 
 direction to another sea ; so that the distance ot an inch may deter- 
 mine whether the particular drop that falls, will go on its mission to 
 this ocean or to that. Youth is for us this watershed. 
 
 It is important that we know, that in every one there is the 
 power of choice. The Lord of Hosts was with David, because 
 David had chosen him. Every christian is a christian, because he 
 chooses to let the Lord into his heart. Every impenitent sinner is 
 what he is, because he chooses to be so. When the Saviour said 
 to Peter and Andrew " Follow me," he addressed them as rational 
 beings, who had the power of choosing his service or following the 
 old life. Just as distinctly, as Moses said to the Israelites, does the 
 God of mercy and love say to us, " I have set before you liie and 
 death, choose life. 
 
 So when we ask how are we to avail ourselves of the con- 
 ditions of true greatness in life, we find there are abundant encour- 
 
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agements to seek it. Seeking the life that Jesus holds out to us, 
 seeking it aright, and seeking it in time, we cannot make of life a 
 failure. 
 
 And I am sure of this, that whatever events it may be our 
 privilege to commemorate in years to come, whatever the 
 measurements be of the life beyond this present, we know nothing 
 certain of days and wreks and years, one point we shall keep in 
 remembrance, that hour when we first made choice of God as our 
 God, that will forever be kept sacred by us, as the marriage day 
 of our souls to God, from which date any prosperity that has 
 blessed us, first above all earthly anniversaries, remembered when 
 suns and planets have ceased to move. 
 
 Rev. Dr. McLaren — 
 
 I would not have thought it necessary to say a single word in 
 addition to the address to which you have just listened, had my 
 name not been placed on the programme for this afternoon. I am 
 sure, that if these words which you have heard, are received in a 
 loving spirit, this meeting will be memorable to not a few who are 
 present. There are some thoughts, however, which I would like to 
 throw out in connection with this Jubilee meeting. I do not expect 
 that many of you will ever see another — at least, in connection with 
 Knox Church, Ottawa. I suppose that very few of those who have 
 reached middle age, will ever see another in Knox Church. Only 
 some of the very young may have that privilege. You remember 
 when the children of Israel observed their Jubilee, it was inaugurat- 
 ed on the great day of the atonement. On that day the priests 
 blew the trumpet of the Jubilee, and it was required that they 
 should sound it throughout all the land, I suppose that although 
 Judea was a somewhat small country, the loudest trumpet that ever 
 blew could not be heard all over the land ; I think we have no 
 Scripture for it, — but tradition is, that when the priests at the 
 
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 sanctuary blew the trumpets, every Israelite within hearing, was 
 expected to take his trumpet and give nine blasts, and thus the 
 glad tidings, spread all over the land, over hill and valley, moun- 
 tain and plain ; and wherever the joyful sound went, it proclaimed 
 liberty to the captive and the opening of the prison to ihem that 
 were bound ; and it made known the acceptable year of the Lord. 
 Now it seems to me there could not be a happier thought in con- 
 nection with this Jubilee celebration, than just that every one of 
 you, as your Jubilee has come, should put the silver trumpet of the 
 Gospel to your lips and proclaim all through the community, that 
 the acceptable year of the Lord has come, that the great Atone- 
 ment has been made, that salvation full and free through Christ is 
 offered to all, and that whosoever will may come, Fifty years ago 
 christian people did not think as much about this duty as they do 
 now, and they do not think as much about it now, I venture to 
 say, as they will fifty years hence. Fifty years ago, there were 
 multitudes in the christian church, who took a considerable inter- 
 est in churches at home — in their own land — who never gave a 
 serious or passing thought, to the duty of sending the glad tidings 
 of salvation to the ends of the earth. There has been a very won- 
 derful awakening the last twenty years, to this duty. We are, I 
 think, nearer the dawn of a brighter day in the christian church, 
 a day when every christian shall feel, that he must not only attend 
 to the wants of his own community, — of the town or city in which 
 he lives — but should do something to carry the Gospel efifectively, to 
 every soul that is perishing, for lack of knowledge. There has 
 been a marvellous awakening to this duty recently, and all manner 
 of associations, societies and organizations have been instituted, 
 each aiming to do some worthy service for the Master. And yet I 
 feel that with all this multiplication 3f machinery, there has not 
 been a corresponding increase of power and efTectiveness. There 
 seems to be something still lacking — what is that something ? You 
 have seen a railroad train, rushing along with tremendous speed and 
 force. I know few things, that give us a greater impression of 
 power, than a train in motion. But, you have seen also the rails in 
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the furnace, the water in the boiler, and the engineer at his post, 
 but the train stood dead and motionless. What was needed ? 
 Was not everything there? Why did the train not rush swiftly on 
 its way ? One thing was lacking ; the spark to kindle the fuel was 
 not there and the water did not boil, to generate the power to drive 
 that locomotive. And surely, if there is one thing above another 
 which is needed to day, it is not more machinery in the Church of 
 God, but it is the power of God — to make it effective — the energy 
 that works in the heart, that clothes the words spoken by human 
 lips, with the power and demonstration of the Spirit. This is what 
 is lacking. And should this Jubilee be followed, not only by an 
 increased effort to make the Gospel trumpet sound the glad tidings, 
 in the ears of all who have not heard them, but be attended by 
 something of the power which enabled Elijah, on the top of Carmel 
 to bring down fire from heaven upon the altar, — then you will see 
 abundant evidences of progress and success, in connection with 
 your Christian work, until the influence of this congregation, spreads 
 far and wide, to blesf^ the world wherever it is felt. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Wardrope — 
 
 My dear children of the Sabbath School and members of the 
 Bible Class, young men and women, let me say that I hope you 
 will give good heed to all these things you have now been listening 
 to, lest at any time you let them slip. I think it best that our 
 service this afternoon should not be prolonged beyond the usual 
 hour. We have not heard too much, not a sentence, nor a word. 
 The second address followed the first with a proper enforcement of 
 its great truths, and now to enter upon any new line, or even to 
 follow that route along which we have been led, would be inexpe- 
 dient at this hour of the afternoon. I will, therefore, not detain you 
 just now, especially as I hope to take part, if the Lord will, in the 
 
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 Communion Service on next Sabbath Day ; and if the Superin- 
 tendent of the Sabbath School will kindly give me ten or fifteen 
 minutes in the afternoon of next Sabbath, I shall be glad to ad- 
 dress a few words of counsel and encouragement to the children. 
 Meanwhile let me say that we ought all, young men and old, to 
 lock up in our hearts those great truths to which our attention has 
 now been turned, and may the Lord direct our hearts to Himself 
 and bless us with the experience of them, and the power of them, 
 and to Hs great name shall we give all the praise. 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Ballantyne (Chairman) — 
 
 Christian friends : I wish to say first of all on '.behalf of the 
 congregation of Knox Church, and for myself, how very much we 
 have been gratified by the presence at our services yesterday, and 
 at this meetmg to-night, of so many from the sister Presbyterian 
 congregations of the city, as well as from other communions. 
 These signs of sympathy and regard we, as a congregation, shall 
 not soon forget ; and to my mind Christian unity had better not be 
 spoken about at all, unless we are prepared to recognize in one 
 another, fellow laborers in the same cause, who are working for the 
 one Master, unless we are ready to rejoice in the signs of prosperity 
 among others, as well as among ourselves. 
 
 It is a matter of regret to the Committee, that they have not 
 been able to find on the programme, places for all whom they 
 would have desired to address this meeting. We had with us 
 yesterday, the Moderator and several other members of the Presby- 
 tery, and we would not have denied ourselves the pleasure of 
 hearing them except for pressure of time. 
 
 The rejoicings that have marked this occasion would have 
 been more complete, if it had been our privilege to have with us 
 the Rev. Mr. Farries. I know he is not absent from the thoughts of 
 those, who have been accustomed to worship in this place, and I 
 am sure in many hearts, there is a very grateful acknowledgment 
 of the work he was permitted to do here. He has written to say, 
 that on account of the opening of his own Church, which has been 
 rebuilt, conflicting with his engagement here, he is not able to be 
 present with us. 
 
 It would be difficult to analyze the feelings that fill our hearts 
 to-night. There is always something strangely interesting and 
 affecting in such a historical occasion as this. Recollections crowd 
 in upon us, hopes for the future are bright, and we allow our 
 minds to wander to the founding of this Church and to the future, 
 when others will occupy the places we are filling. 
 
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 Yesterday afternoon, Dr. McLaren spoke to us of the manner, 
 in which the Jews, were commanded to begin their Jubilee. It 
 was by the blowing of trumpets throughout the land. It will not, 
 I think, be inappropriate that we should in the public way we have 
 chosen, make mention of God's goodness to up, and o. what He 
 has accomplished through the agency of this Church. 
 
 But there was another feature of the year of Jubilee. There 
 was a proclamation through the land, of universal liberty. All 
 slaves were liberated. Some of these were made slaves by 
 the burden of debt. One feature of our Jubilee services should 
 be, if possible, to make proclamation that this congregation 
 is free from debt. There has been a debt of some fifteen 
 thousand dollars on the property of this Church. I am glad 
 to be able to say, that this entire amount has been subscribed, 
 but we hope to-morrow evening to give fuller particulars of the 
 effort which has been made by this congregation. 
 
 I feel we shall be freer henceforth to do the work of the Lord 
 efficiently in this place. I am glad beyond expression, to witness 
 this evidence so early in my pastorate, of loyalty and hearty co- 
 operation on the part of this people. 
 
 These figures, 1844 and 1894, may mean much or little, 
 according as we understand the space between them. In this 
 case it means a history of which no congregation need be ashamed. 
 
 We were renriinded last night, that this Church shall not always 
 endure. Other pastors will fill this pulpit ; other faces will look 
 up from these pews. These walls will one day crumble, but let us 
 hope, that the spirit which has animated this people in the past, will 
 continue to animate them, and that we shall be blest ourselves and 
 be a blessing to others. , - 
 
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 Rev, Dr. Wardrope — 
 
 Mr. Chairman and dear friends : I am not sorry to have had 
 the six-minute limit prescribed. I shall be very glad to keep 
 within it to-night, so that those who come after shall have equal 
 time. 
 
 I have just been reminded by a friend, of an incident con- 
 nected with my ordination fifty years ago. I may relate it to you, 
 as it may interest some of you. The elder Dr. Burns, who had 
 just come out from Scotland, Mr. Smart, of Brockville, and Mr. 
 McLean, of Picton, were then taking part in the ordination ser- 
 vices. Mr. Smart, Presbytery clerk, had been educated in 
 England, and was not very familiar with the modes of the Scot- 
 tish Presbyterian Church. He was very much amused when Dr. 
 Burns, the Moderator, instructed him to go to the door of the 
 Church and proclaim on the street, that any valid objection to the 
 ordination must be made then or never. " But," said Mr. Smart, 
 " the people are all inside — there are none outside." *' No mat- 
 ttr," said the Moderator, " rhe forms of the Church must be com- 
 plied with." . 
 
 The ordination took place in what was known then as the 
 ** Methodist Church, Upper Town." 
 
 My ministry began here when there was a good deal of 
 excitement, and a good deal of feeling, in connection with the 
 movement which had resulted in the organization of the Presby- 
 terian Church of Canada, then known as the Free Church. It 
 was, however, my great satisfaction, and a source of abiding joy, 
 that my relations always continued to be pleasant, with those from 
 whom I had been constrained to separate. 
 
 The late Mr. Durie soon came out from Scotland, to be pastor 
 of St. Andrew's here. Then broke out the immigrant fever ; and 
 that, along with other influences, brought him and me close 
 together. Throughout one sorrowful summer, we labored among 
 the immigrant sheds, and, at the close of it, he died, a martyr to 
 his too zealous efforts on behalf of the fever-stricken. 
 

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 Our relations were such, that no ripple of discord ever dis- 
 turbed them. Later on, Mr. (now Professor) Gordon was to me 
 as a younger brother. 
 
 Then, with our brethren of the Methodist Church, I yns on 
 the most cordirl terms. I believe that I know far more about 
 their doings and meetings and conferences, in those early days, 
 than Dr. Benson here. I think I could tell him many things he 
 does not know, but that might interest him. 
 
 Mr. Peterson, who had then a circuit on the other side of the 
 river, said in a missionary meeting, in the Methodist Church : 
 ** Mr. Wardrope is everywhere. He is the most itinerant preacher 
 I know of — wherever I go I am sure to meet him." It was so, in 
 reality, and the plain truth is this, that I was, doubtless, too much 
 of a missionary to be as efficient as, possibly, I might otherwise 
 have been in my own pastorate. But my inclination fell in with 
 the exigencies of the times, and the demand was so great for ser- 
 vice, up and down the Ottawa Valley, that I had no disposition or 
 desire to resist it. I believe, if such had been my lot, I might 
 have made a very fair circuit rider. 
 
 I would just say a word of those with whom I was associated 
 in the eldership ; the number in all, in my two pastoral charges, 
 having been forty. I mention this as a rather singular thing, and 
 I think a remarkable thing, that now at the end of fifty years, 
 twenty-eight out of those forty are still alive. During my pas- 
 torate here, of twenty-four years, there was the death of only 
 one elder, George Sieveright, who, after having lived ninety-three 
 or ninety-foui years, was at last called away. That was the only 
 elder whose death I had to mourn while I was here in the 
 pastorate. 
 
 I might go on indefinitely, but I recall the very seasonable 
 hint cf my friend in the f hair. I sincerely wish that these services 
 may tend greatly to the enjoyment and profit of the congregation 
 and of all concerned. 
 
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 Rev, Dr. Moore — 
 
 I am very thankful that I do not preach for the Emperor of 
 Germany. I am sure, if I did, he would have to complain of 
 longer than six minute sermons ; but, while not sympathizing with 
 the Emperor's request for short sermons, I think, on some occa- 
 sions, brevity might be considered the soul of wit. 
 
 I can never forget the friendly relations that have existed in 
 my intercourse with Knox Church ; nor can. I forget that when 
 Bank Street Church was founded, Knox Church included St. 
 Paul's, which has since sprung into existence, and has large claims 
 upon our regards. Hence, I am very much in the position of the 
 man who had the misfortune to fall in love with two ladies at the 
 same time. He said : " How happy could I be with either, were 
 t'other dear charmer away." It is satisfactory to relate that the 
 kindly relations, so happily begun, have continued uninterruptedly 
 all these years. 
 
 I think Knox Church is to be congratulated on the character 
 of its pastors, and the terms of service which they have filled. 
 Mr. Ballantyne has come so recently among us, that he can scarcely 
 be considered as included in the fifty years past, so that three 
 pastors only have extended over this full term. I have been 
 acquainted, somewhat intimately, with all of them. I can say 
 nothing more than this, that the honors which have been heaped 
 upon our friend, Dr. Wtirdrope, who was made Moderator of the 
 General Assembly, shov; the high place he holds in the esteem 
 of the Church. And the fact that such grave and sacred responsi- 
 bilities were laid on Professor McLaren, by his appointment to the 
 chair of systematic theology, in Knox College, is ample proof of. 
 his character. No one could be appointed to such a position but 
 a man, whose ability and knowledge commanded the confidence of 
 the whole Church. In these days, when men are examining the 
 foundations on which all things rest (the foundations are. strong, 
 growing stronger with every ye^r that is passing over us^, it is a. 
 satisfaction to know that the young rrien. pppiing . out ftoni , Knox, 
 
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 College, while in sympathy with all that is good in the modem 
 spirit of enquiry, exhibit a soundness in the faith which is the best 
 guarantee of the present standing of the college and its professors. 
 
 Then reference has been made to the eldership of Knox 
 church. I shall not refer to any of the gentlemen >yho have been, 
 made elders since I came here ; but of those in active service 
 when I came here, there are two or three still living who certainly 
 deserve to be held in honor by the Presbyterians of the Ottawa 
 Valley. 
 
 Of those who have passed over, and entered into rest, I might 
 name Donald Kennedy and Alexander Kennedy, both men of 
 sterling integrity, both staunch pillars of the Presbyterian Church, 
 
 Of those living, two are laid aside from active service. I 
 refer to Mr. William Taylor and Mr. John Durie. These men 
 have served their time, and may be regarded as having been honor- 
 ably relieved from further active eflTort in the Master's cause. Only 
 one other remains to be mentioned, and when I mention his name, 
 I am sure you will recognize the propriety of all that I have to say 
 regarding him. To his public spirit, the wisdom and soundness 
 of his judgment, and his readiness to exhibit self-denial for the 
 general good of the community at large, Presbyterianism, and the 
 Ottawa Valley, are much indebted. In every line of public effort 
 and public charity, the name I am about to mention, mjist be recog- 
 nized as standing in the first rank. I refer to Mr. George Hay, so 
 long and so honorably connected with every good work in this 
 city. I would say more about him, only that I thought I saw him 
 in the audience when I came in, and 1 do not wish to embarrass 
 him. 
 
 I want to congratulate the congregation of Knox Church on 
 the splendid effort they are making to clear off their debt, I am 
 sure that every Presbyterian feels like congratulating them ; and 
 we all rejoice to know that Knox Church has cleared off its 
 debt. In this we may not be altogether disinterested. We are all 
 anxious to raise as much money as possible for missions, and aug- 
 mentfition, and the other schemes ot the Church ; and we know 
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 present yoke of debt, you will be able to contribute more to these 
 schemes than it would have been fair to have expected in the past. 
 Your effort in this regard may have wider results than you at 
 present anticipate : in this, that some forlorn, debt-burdened 
 brother, seeing your example, may take heart again, and so emu- 
 late your example, and set himself and congregation free from the 
 debt which has hampered his efforts. Wishing you all prosperity, 
 and with a desire to keep withm the six minutes, I shall now 
 resume my seat. 
 
 Rev. Dr. MacLaren — 
 
 It has given me very special happiness to be in Ottawa on 
 this occasion, and to lake part in these Jubilee services, I have 
 no such claim to speak to you as my friend, Dr. Wardrope, has, 
 for my pastorate was a comparatively short one, not much over 
 three years, and, of course, I have no special right to speak as one 
 who had a very long acquaintance with you. And yet there are a 
 great many things that connect me with this congregation, and 
 with Ottawa. 
 
 I recall (when I lived in the backwoods, on the banks of the 
 Ottawa, thirty miles :o the north west of you) a visit which we 
 received in my father's house from Dr. Wardrope, then Rev. 
 Thomas Wardrope, just inducted, I think, a few months before, 
 into the pastorate of Knox Church, Ottawa, and from Mr. Alex- 
 ander Anderson, an elder of the Church. They were on their 
 way up the Ottawa, to do some of that missionary duty to which 
 reference has been made so appropriately to-night. Well, part of 
 the missionary duty which was done on that occasion, I believe, 
 was the conversation held, if not directly with myself, at least with 
 my parents, as to the possibility of some of their sons turning their 
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 this was one of the influences which had something to do with turn- 
 ing my thoughts in the direction of what has become my life-work 
 and joy. 
 
 Not very long after, I came to Ottawa, and began to attend 
 the Grammar School, and I then became a Sunday School scholar 
 in Knox Church, almost the first Sunday School that I attended 
 regularly . 
 
 I do not wish you to suppose that my early religious educa- 
 tion was entirely neglected, for I had what I regard as the best of 
 Sunday Schools, that is, a Christian home, where father and mother 
 did the work of religious teaching and training. But, as a matter 
 of fact, the first Sunday School I attended for any considerable 
 time, regularly, was Knox Church, Ottawa. From this city I went 
 to Toronto, to attend college, where I commenced my studies in 
 the institution in which I have now the privilege of doing work 
 of a somewhat different kind. So that you see I have had the 
 fortune, or misfortune, of being a prophet in my own country ; 
 first as a Sunday School scholar and pastor in Knox Church, 
 Ottawa, and then as student and professor in Knox College, * 
 Toronto. 
 
 Well, these are reminiscences of the past, but I wish to say 
 here to-night that the pleasure it has given me to come back to 
 Ottawa, has been very great. What happy relations I had with 
 this congregation, during the time that I was engaged here in the 
 work of the ministry ! Judging from rriy own experience, Mr. 
 Chairman, you may have good courage in entering on the 
 work that lies before you, because I can say, without intending to 
 flatter anyone present, that I have no higher wish for any minister, 
 than to have associated with him such elders, office-bearers, and 
 members as I found in Knox Church, Ottawa. 
 
 But many of these noble men and Christian workers are no 
 longer here ; and it throws a shadow of sadness over me, when I 
 think that not h few of those with whom I was f-o pleasantly asso- 
 ciated, more than twenty years ago, have finished their course, and 
 have passed beyond the veil ; but, thank God, we. can think, of 
 them all now, with a sense of comfort and joy. 
 
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 I think you are entering on the second Jubilee of your 
 history under very auspicious circumstances. I am sure, if you 
 succeed, as I believe you are hound to succeed, in clearing off 
 the incubus of your debt, that you will have every right to put the. 
 Jubilee trumpet to your lips and give it a loud and long blast. 
 You will feel freer to enter on the course before you, and you will, 
 doubtless, devise more liberal things, and achieve greater things, 
 for the advancement of Christ's kingdom. 
 
 I may venture, as a senior minister and professor, to congrat- 
 ulate you, as a congregation, on the gentleman you have secured 
 as your pastor. I am familiar »vith his course in the University of 
 Toronto, I know his career in Knox College, and I am acquainted 
 with his personal character, and his ministry in London, and I am 
 persuaded that you have every reason to thank God for the gift 
 He has bestowed upon you. And I trust that he, also, may have 
 cause to thank God for the people given to work with him, and 
 to hold up his hands in the gospel ministry. 
 
 This congregation enters on the second half century of its 
 history with very encouraging prospects, and I feel assured that 
 whoever lives to see its next Jubilee, will see a time of even greater 
 prosperity, and of more abundant truitfulness than that which 
 makes us glad to-day. 
 
 I am delighted to be present, and to share with you in the joy 
 of this happy celebration ; and my pleasure is greatly enhanced, to 
 see so many from other congregations rallying round you and 
 showing their Christian sympathy and affection for you, at this 
 important juncture in your history. May this spirit always prevail,, 
 and may God's bless ng rest on you and them. 
 
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 I am glad to say that I feel as much al home here to-night, as 
 if I had been born in an atmosphere of Jubilees, and had never 
 breathed any other. It seems to me that there is everything to 
 make me feel at home. I look at your pulpit and I remember 
 that its present occupant is a college contemporary of my own, 
 whom I esteem for his fine intelligence, and his earnest Christian 
 character. I look at these pews and I see in them many familiar 
 faces, with which I became well acquainted only a short time ago, 
 during my brief but interesting pastorate of this congregation. 
 And, though some of the meetings which we held at that time, 
 were not altogether of a Jubilee character, but rather a kind of 
 preparation for a Jubilee, yet we came out all right in the end, 
 and I think I may say that, so far as I know, we parted from each 
 other with mutual regrets. At all events, I shall never forget the 
 kindness extended to me by members of this congregation, during 
 the time I had the oversight of it. 
 
 And then, when I listen to the sweet voices around me, I 
 still feel at home ; almost as much so as if I were in St. Andrew's 
 Church. When a representative of your congregation came to me, 
 to ask the assistance of a few members of our choir, for your 
 Jubilee services, I said he was welcome to the whole, and I regret- 
 ted that, on account of other engagements, I could not join the 
 number. 
 
 But I am not here to tell the audience how comfortable I feel 
 myself, but rather with the purpose of offering to you the greetings 
 of that Church, of which I have the honor to be pastor. At a 
 recent meeting of the Kirk Session of St. Andrew's Church, the 
 following resolution was passed, and I read it now because I think 
 it furnishes an appropriate text for the remarks which I wish to 
 make. 
 
 " The Kirk Session of St. Andrew's Church having learned 
 that the congregation of Knox Church is about to celebrate a 
 Jubilee, desire to convey to their brethren he warmest congratu- 
 lations. 
 
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 " Being the oldest Protestant Church in this city, St. Andrew's 
 naturally views with especial interest the growth of religous organ- 
 izations amongst us during the sixty-eight years of its existence. 
 As the mother of a large family, it cannot but feel some honest 
 pride in the children that have sprung from its loins ; and it will 
 be gratifying to them to know, that so far from showing signs of 
 decrepitude it \» as never more prosperous than it is to-day. 
 
 •' We have watched with sympathy the advances made by 
 Knox Church throughout iis career, the steady perseverance with 
 which it has vindicated its Pr''")byterianism, and the evangelical 
 temper which has always characterized its work ; and we count it a 
 happy circumstance, amid the many changes of life, that its 
 first pastor iri his green old age, and its last pastor in the strength 
 of his manhood, should appear as contemporaries in this joyous 
 festival. 
 
 " While this Jubilee is, in a certain measure, commemorative 
 of a severance brought about by honest conviction, it is a matter of 
 thanksgiving that no one now thinks of it that way except when 
 consulting historical documents. We rejoice with you in a Can- 
 adian Presbyterianism, which is one in name, and one in spirit, and 
 •our earnest prayer is, that through God's blessing, you may long 
 continue by your efficient Chiistian services in this commi ity to 
 illustrate alike its bright days and its dark ones, the motto of 
 our beloved Church, ' Nac Tamen in Consumebatur.' " 
 
 I think you will see, sir, that it was necessary for me to be 
 furnished with some such authoritative document, as I happen to 
 be too young to have followed personally the career of this congre- 
 gation. It is seldom, nowadays, that youth is placed at a disad- 
 vantage, but this is one of the rare occasions, on which one could 
 wish to be a little older than he really is. 
 
 Members of this congregation, feel an honest pride in the 
 attainment of mature years, and I congratulate you on your 
 courage in not only acknowledgmg, but in openly boasting of an 
 age, which most people are anxious to conceal, as long as possible. 
 
 I am here, however, sir, to convey to you greetings from a 
 •church older still. St. Andrew's was founded sixty-eight years ago, 
 
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 on the very spot now occupied by the present edifice. It is» 
 therefore, but in the nature of the case, that she must always be 
 the Cathedral Church of Presbyterianism in this city, the precursor, 
 and, in many cases, the direct source of the many thriving ecclesi- 
 astical establishments that have sprung up around her. 
 
 If you do right, as I hope you will do, it is impossible for you 
 to say, how much of that impulse towards right, comes from the 
 excellent ancestral training you have had. 
 
 On the other hand, if you do what is wrong, you are quite 
 old enough to assume full responsibility. 
 
 It cannot be claimed that St. Andrew's Church is in all 
 respects, like that which the Apostle pictures in his graphic image 
 of the Jerusalem above ; but I think we may claim to be a '* free 
 Church," as free as any church can be, in all the essential elements 
 of true Christian freedom ; and, however that may be, there can 
 be no doubt about it, that St. Andrew's is the mother of us all. 
 As a resident of this city for eleven years, I have watched with 
 the keenest interest, as have all the members of my congregation, 
 the growth of this Church, and the heroic way in which, from 
 time to time, it has met its difificuities. 
 
 It has always seemed to me. Sir, that the welfare of one 
 Church involves the welfare of every other, that the growth of 
 Christian sentiment in one church, contributes to the growth of 
 Christian sentiment in every other, and that such a thing as 
 jealousy is entirely out of place. The faster you grow — I do not 
 mean merely in numbers, for the demon of statistics has entered 
 too much into ecclesiastical affairs — but the faster you grow in 
 true Christian zeal, and Christian efficiercy,' the more you will 
 delight the hearts of all sincere lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 There have been some persons asking me, " What is this 
 Jubilee for? What does it commemorate?" I have tried to 
 explain to these inquirers. I have said in effect, " You do not 
 understand this matter. You do not know, that fifty years ago, a 
 small band of Christians formed themselves into a church. They 
 moved to Daly street, and there prospered, and then they were 
 forced to divide themselves into two halves, and one took the 
 
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 name of Knox Church, and, as a matter of fact, the other did 
 not." If my explanation is not satisfactory, I refer the inquiref 
 to the historical document which is to be read here to-morrow 
 evening, and which will make the whole subject as clear as noon- 
 day. 
 
 And even supposing some persons still remain unconvinced,' 
 I do not know that it matters very much. The word jubilee is 
 not necessarily connected with a period of fifty years. No doubt 
 the Jewish Jubilee was fifty years. But we are not Jews. We are 
 Christians. A Jubilee is any period of great rejoicing ; and if a 
 Church, which in a few weeks has raised fifteen thousand dollars 
 to pay its debt, is not entitled to a Jubilee, 1 should like to know 
 who is. If you should repeat that achievement, I think you 
 ought to have another Jubilee, and I hope we may all live to seie 
 it. 
 
 But the ecclesiastical Jubilee, it may be urged, generally 
 embraces a period of fifiy years, and we know what happened irl 
 the Church with which we stand identified fifty years ago — that 
 great movement called the Disruption. There is no reason why 
 this fact should be slurred over. We are bound not only to res- 
 pect, but we are bound to remember, the deeds of honest, upright 
 men, who, moved by the dictates of conscience, acted as they 
 believed to be right, whether we agree with them, or differ from 
 them ; and I am here to say that, in my judgment, that event of 
 fifty years ago had a great deal to do with advancing the cause of 
 Presbyterianism in every part of the globe. At the same time, 
 I do not imagine that this is what we came here .to-night to cele- 
 brate. If I supposed that this was the prominent idea in the 
 minds ^jif any person?, now before me, as a representative of St. 
 Andrew's Church, I should not miss the opportunity of addressing 
 you in the words of the well-known hymn : 
 
 '• The year of Jubilee is come, 
 Reiurn, ye ransomed sinners, home." 
 
 We are not here to commemorate our past differences. We 
 are here, rather, to rejoice in our present unity. We look for the 
 
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 old dividing lines, and, thank God, they are rubbed out altogether. 
 From one end of this broad Dominion to the other, the Presby- 
 terianism of Canada is one. We all alike, take pride in the same 
 heroic ancestry, who, long ages ago, in the Glens of Scotland, amid 
 perils and persecutions, won for us freedom to worship God. We 
 all alike sing the same psalms of praise. We all believe the same 
 great doctrines. We all unite in preaching the old, yet ever new, 
 Evangel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we all share in the 
 growing triumphs of a Church which, though at the first, it had a 
 distinctly national origin, commends itself by its broad intelligence, 
 by its fervent piety, by its sound government, to men of all creeds 
 and of all countries, so that, whether they become members of it 
 or not, they acknowledge how much its prosperity is bound up 
 with the best interests of this western world. 
 
 I may be too sanguine, sir, but, while cherishing a warm heart 
 towards all sincere forms of worship, I firmly believe that the new 
 Catholicism of the twentieth century, by whatever name you call 
 it, is destined to be essentially Presbyterian in its influences, and 
 in the well-furnished agencies by which it does its work. We have 
 a glorious inheritance, and it is ours to go up and possess it, strong 
 in our love of humanity, and strong in our faith in God ! 
 
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 Rev. W. Witten — 
 
 Your Committee have appointed me to speakt onight,^^s the 
 representative of the Reformed Episcopal Church, in which 
 Church I have the honor to be a minister. It is especially appro- 
 priate that the Reformed Episcopal Church should be associated 
 with you, in this celebration of your Jubilee, and also in every 
 celebration connected with the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 For this reason, because the movement was first launched 
 upon the world in consequence of our founder, Bishop Cummins, 
 
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 of the Anglican Church, taking part in an Union Communion 
 Service, held in the Presbyterian Church of Dr John Hall, in New 
 York City, twenty-one years ago. The wrath of the Anglican 
 Church, at this action, was so great, that it compelled him to leav6 
 his Mother Church, and that caused the organization of JUi 
 Church. 
 
 Since then, we have always regarded the Presbyterian Church 
 as our warm friend, although you do sometimes take away from us 
 our best, our brightest, and most promising ministers. But you 
 know the sympathy existing between us. Your clergy are welcome 
 in our pulpits, and into our ministry. 
 
 We are one with the Presbyterian Church in all essentials. In 
 all points we are alike, except only in government, and in the use of 
 a Liturgy. 
 
 And, perhaps, when you celebrate your Centennial, you may 
 have conceded the desirability of Episcopal government and 
 Liturgical services. There is no telling. Naturally my own pre- 
 ferences tend towards our custom, in these matters, and, perhaps, 
 you may have the same experience, which I can best illustrate by 
 a little story, if you will forgive me for introducing it here. 
 
 A little boy had a pet cat, of which he was very fond. The 
 cat had some kittens, and the little boy thought he was just as 
 fond of the kittens, and wished to keep them. His parents 
 objected, and said they must be destroyed ; so the little fellow 
 put them in a basket and look them round to the Presbyterian 
 minister, and asked him to buy them. *' No, no ! " said the 
 minister, " I don't want your kittens ; I cannot buy them ; and 
 they are too young to take away from their mother." So the 
 little fellow pleaded and said, " Please take them ; do buy them, 
 sir, they are such good kittens — they are such good Presbyterian 
 kittens, sir." But the minister would not have them, and the boy 
 went away disappointed. A couple of days later, he thought he 
 ■would try again, and this time carried them round to the house of 
 the Episcopal minister. He was shown into the study of the 
 minister, with his basket of kittens, and there saw the Presbyterian 
 minister sitting, which rather disconcerted him. But he opened 
 
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 up on the Episcopal minister, and begged him to take his kittens. 
 He received the same refusal as before. "I do not want your 
 kittens, my boy, and I certainly will not buy them." " O, do 
 take the kittens," said the boy, " please buy them ; they are such 
 nice kittens, such good kittens ; and they are such good Episco- 
 palian kittens, sir ! " 
 
 " Why, you young rascal ! " said the Presbyterian minister^ 
 *' when you came to my house with them you said they were such 
 good Presbyterian kittens." " Oh, yes, sir, I know sir," said the 
 boy, " I did say so, but that was two days ago, aiid they have had 
 their eyes opened since then " 
 
 We heartily congratulate you upon this celebration of your 
 Jubilee, and we look upon you with a great deal of respect, because 
 we have not yet attained to the dignity of a Jubilee. 
 
 In one sense, of course, our ministry being identical with the 
 ministry of the Anglican Church, we are coeval with that Church 
 in the length of our existence ; the associations, traditions, and 
 history of the Anglican Church are our associations, traditions, and 
 history also. But, as a separate organization, we are only just 
 about to attain to our majority, which we hope to celebrate in the 
 next few weeks. 
 
 You moved, and now stand for what you believe to be right, 
 and we do also. But you are the more fortunate, in the fact that 
 you are now regarded with loving solicitude by your Mother 
 Church ; whereas we are still left out in the cold, and regarded 
 with anything but love and favor by our Mother Church, although 
 we are her last-born, and therefore, presumably, her best born 
 child. 
 
 However, I trust the day is not far distant when " the lion 
 will lie down with the lamb," without eating it — when the Roman 
 Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Reformed 
 Episcopalians, and a'l other denominations, will unite and join 
 hands in the worship of the one Father, and the service of the 
 one Christ, 
 
 The Roman Catholic is an admirable Church, the Anglican is 
 an admirable Church, the Presbyterian is an admirable Church, 
 
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 and so are all the other Churches. They are all grand Churches, 
 and all possess noble aims, and admirable characteristics. And 
 it does seem to me, at the end of this enlightened nineteenth 
 century, that we should unite and stand together upon the basis of 
 our many poiits of agreement, rather than continue to hold aloof, 
 and stand apart, upon the grounds of our diflFerences. Nothing 
 should separate those who acknowledge and worship the one 
 Christ, and whose one great and holy purpose is the honor and 
 glory of God. 
 
 What we need is to get down to the common humanity — to 
 the manhood and the womanhood which lies beneath the outer 
 garb of sectarianism. A man may wear a crucifix upon his breast, 
 or an S. S. upon his collar, according to his religious predilictions 
 and temperament, but beneath it all, and in spite of all, " a man's 
 a man for a' that." 
 
 Mr. Ruskin says : " There is a Church, a holy Mother Church, 
 wherever one hand meets another helpfully, and that is the only 
 true and holy Mother Church that ever was, or ever shall be." I 
 trust that blessed day will soon dawn, when the hands of Roman 
 Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Re- 
 formed Episcopalians, and all others, shall meet one another 
 helpfully, and together form the only true and holy Mother Church, 
 that ever was or ever shall be. As we grow broader, we grow 
 more like Christ our Master, and when ignorance, bigotry, and 
 intolerance are banished from our pulpits, ignorance, bigotry, and 
 intolerance will disappear from the pews. 
 
 I congratulate you most heartily, and also extend to you the 
 heartiest congratulations of the whole Reformed Episcopal Church, 
 upon this occasion of your Jubilee celebration. I trust, that as 
 you have much for which to be thankful, and for which to rejoice, 
 and especially at this time, in the removal of all debt upon your 
 beautiful Church building, and, as you have many and rich fruits 
 to show during the past fifty years, the fruits of good works, you 
 may reap even a richer harvest in the next fifty years upon which 
 3?ou are just entering, and your Centennial may prove more joyful 
 than your Jubilee. 
 
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 I wish your new Pastor a long, happy, successful, and blessed 
 ministry amongst you, and I pray that all his faithful work and 
 labor of love, may be crowned and consummated by the blessing 
 of Almighty God. 
 
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 Rsv. Mr. McIntosh — 
 
 When the Chairman of your Committee sent me the kind 
 note of invitation to be present, to represent the Church of which 
 I am pastor at your joyous Jubilee, he said it was to deliver a very 
 short speech, and I therefore took it, that it was simply to give to 
 you, our congratulations as a sister church, and to wish you, as we 
 most heartily do, greater prosperity in the coming years than even, 
 the past has brought you. 
 
 In congratulating you the thought comes to me, " What is 
 the history of a church ?" The gathering of godly men and women 
 banded together in the name of the Holy One of Nazareth, having 
 in view each others upbuilding and development in the knowledge 
 of God our Saviour, and reaching out to the lost, bringing them 
 to know Him, whom to know is life eternal. A company of be- 
 lievers in Jesus Christ, their only head. The history of one of 
 these societies — of one of these churches, how marvellous it is ! 
 
 Few of us can number fifty years. Some of us have seen just 
 fifty years. The history of this Knox Church, in this city of 
 Ottawa, what has it been ? The gospel preached faithfully ; visit- 
 ing from house to house ; earnest prayer meetings ; diligent study 
 of God's word; the faithful following up of doctrines taught; 
 searching out those that have no church home and bringing them 
 in. Doubtless there are those here who have been gathered in, 
 not fr m Presbyterian families only, but from the highways and 
 hedges, and to-day are rejoicing in the knowledge of their God and 
 Saviour. Oihers have passed away beyond the shadows, whose 
 pathways have been lighted up, as they listened to the story of a. 
 Saviour's love. 
 
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 There are those, doubtless, who would, if they could, wipe out 
 of existence every church in this city. There are those who think , 
 that the existence or non-existence of the organized church is a 
 matter of small importance to the world, but, sir, if it were possible 
 to blot out every Christian Church in this city, property would not 
 be worth even fifty per cent, of its present value in ten years. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and brethren, we are living for the future. 
 Just as we are living for the present in the right sense, we are living 
 for the future, the future of this generat'on — of the race — of the 
 world. We are living for that future which shall know no ending 
 forever. So what the influence of one christian church is, only 
 the recording angel can tell. 
 
 I therefore congratulate this city upon the history of this 
 Church, upon its present standing, on its past, and its future pros- 
 pects. 
 
 We live together, we work together, Presbyterian and Coiigre- 
 gationalist. You know what they did centuries ago in Old England. 
 You know what they have done in New England. 
 
 What we need is to know more of each other, and to see in 
 each other brothers and sisters in this blessed faith, that makes us 
 men as our fathers have been, who can endure as they have en- 
 dured, as we may be called upon to endure before this world passes 
 away. 
 
 I am glad to be here, to carry congratulations from the little 
 sister across the way. She is not going to be little much longer. 
 She is growing, there is room for her growth, and in that growth^ 
 you will rejoice as he^tily as we now do in yours. May the Lord 
 build you up and make you of greater strength in His service than 
 ever, until in the great harvest home, you will brmg the sheaves 
 home with rejoicing. Then may we all be gathered home, to see 
 the face of Him who redeemed us by His blood, and has made u& 
 kings and priests unto God forever. 
 
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 Rev. Dr. Benson — 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Christian friends ; I remember when an 
 ■occasion somewhat like this in its social character (but the induc- 
 tion of a pastor into a Baptist Church), I had prepared some 
 things to say, bui was not asked to say them until after nine o'clock, 
 I then wrote across the slip of paper *' Never give an address after 
 nine o'clock." Up to this point we certainly have had a very 
 enjoyable and profitable evening. 
 
 I bring to you without doubt, the sincere good wishes of the 
 Methodist Church or churches, as you may be pleased to term it 
 of the City of Ottawa. I am one of the young men of Methodism, 
 and yet I have had the privilege of being associated with pastors 
 of Presbyterian Churches in six of the principal cities of our 
 Dominion, and have been pleased to feel a oneness of feeling and 
 aim in all our work, and that work carried on without rivalry, 
 except in this, to seek to accomplish the most good, and do the 
 most for the salvation of men. 
 
 I am certain Mr. Chairman when I bring to you from the 
 Methodism of Ottawa, words of warm sympathy and kindly greet- 
 ings on this your Jubilee meeting, that they are sincere congratula- 
 tions on the successes that have come to this Church. 
 
 • I had no knowledge until this evening, that you had started in 
 Ottawa (or Bytown), under the shadowing wing of Methodism. 
 But starting right is always a safe thing to do. I am certain a 
 bright future is before you, and we rejoice with you over the suc- 
 •cesses of the past. • 
 
 While we have been listening to the kindly words of Dr. 
 Wardrope and Dr. McLaren, cheering words have also come from 
 Ihe brethren of sister churches in this city. Many of the speakers 
 have drawn our attention to the past. Suppose we now take an out- 
 look into the future. It is important to know where we stand, but 
 it is more important to know in what direction we are moving. It 
 is not well to be stationary — so firmly fixed that we cannot move 
 at all. It is well for us to be progressive, and the question should 
 come to us all " Have we been developing in the past years, the 
 
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 la gest and best christian life ? Have we been growing in grace 
 and in the knowledge of the truth ? Has there come to us. the 
 brightest and noblest manhood, while sitting under the preaching 
 of God's word, and the teaching which has come from this sacred 
 desk ? " 
 
 It has been said, and I think with truth, that iniquity flour- • 
 ishes in our cities, that the worst forms of vice, and the viciated 
 classes gather in largely populated centres. We cannot claim a 
 large population as yet, but our city is growing, increasing in 
 wealth and numbers ; and now the question comes to us, as mem- 
 bers of christian churches, are we keeping pace in proportion to 
 our financial and commercial progress in the moral tone and 
 religious life of the people, who gather within the boundaries of 
 this the capital of our great Dominion ? The city is the stronghold 
 of the saloon — the gambling dens and worst forms of vice and 
 crime. The cities to a very large extent control the rural portions 
 of our Dominion. It is a joy to notice the growth of the church 
 in the cities of our land. Every christian church built in these 
 centres of population, and standing for pure christian life, is also in- 
 creasing the moral strength of the nation, irrespective of denomina- 
 tional lines. We are, I am glad to feel, working away from that 
 small idea, of simply increasing our own Church or congregation. 
 While loving our own communions best, as we should, we long 
 more for the coming of Christ's kingdom, throughout the whole 
 world . 
 
 What is needed to-day more than church membership, or 
 rather over and above church membership (every christian should 
 belong to some church), is christian citizenship. I do not mean 
 that you should carry your politics into your churches, but I do 
 mean, that we should take our christian principles into political 
 life — business life — social engagements. We want a christian life, 
 that will develop the noblest, truest, and best manhood of the 
 nation. This should be our aim, and tovvaids this end we must as 
 churches bend our energies. We look at the jiast and" what 
 wonderful unfoldings have come to us during say fifty years. What 
 discoveries 1 inventions ! What marvellous facilities for carrying 
 
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 on the work of the church, as well as strengthening whatever we 
 arc pleased to call christian civilization. 
 
 In 1807. we had the first steamboat ; in 1830, the first rail- 
 way train; in 1833, the first lucifer matches; in 1838, the first 
 ocean steamship ; in 1844, the first telegraph message; then fol- 
 lows the Atlantic cable, the telephone, the electric Ijght and 
 motor. But there are other discoveries to follow, other facilities for 
 advancing civilization are coming. They are coming more (piickly, 
 in the opening years of the t\ entieth century, than they have come 
 in the past. The opportunity for the church universal is upon us. 
 Shall these things tend to the building up of the Church of Christ, 
 or shall they be instruments, in the hands of the enemies of good, 
 for the building up of evil. I pray that the advances made during 
 the past fifty years, may be for the spreading of truth and 
 righteousness throughout this fair land. When England and 
 France, some years ago, united their forces by land and sea against 
 a then common enemy, these united armies had no rivalry in their 
 ranks, except to see who should be most valiant and victorious 
 ovei their foe. 
 
 I want to say to you, that the Methodist Church of the Domin- 
 ion, of which I am proud to be a pastor, and the Presbyterian 
 Church of this great land, of which also I am proud, are as allied 
 forces fighting a common enemy, and I am glad to believe that 
 there is no rivalry between these armies of Israel, only vieing with 
 each other in seeking to do the most for humanity and the glory 
 of God. 
 
 What we need most is a genuine revival of religion. Not 
 more societies, there are too many already. We are frittering away 
 our strength in multiplying societies among our people. We want 
 a revival that will stop cold formalism — stay worldliness — destroy 
 dishonesty— curb pride — settle church feuds — cure evil speaking, 
 and pay church debts. I rejoice with you in the successful effort 
 made on this occasion in wiping out your entire church debt, may 
 othew follow your noble exampk in this regard. 
 
 The reverend gentlemen then drew a lesson of warning by 
 vividly relating how pilots go out hundreds of miles from the 
 
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 harbor .0 find and bring in ship, off the ocean, and guide then, 
 ■nto safe anchorage. While on >he other hand " derelicts " to ,h^ 
 number of .3., floated about on the ocean, endangering ,000 o^ 
 ton of shtpping, .. Don't be a derelict," said the speake " Be a 
 
 :^::^':v:;:zr'"-"''' "-" ™ -^^ -onife.;nto";: 
 
 Dr Benson closed his address by relating a touching in- 
 cident of a pastor, »ho while journeying i„ a raLay train asked 
 one who sat near hin, (and was interested in hearLgThe hyml 
 
 «:» w s U ^'^"^''r-''-") "«-e you been redeenfe ' .^^Oh 
 yes, was the reply, " over eighteen hundred years ago " " Why 
 you are no. e.gh.een hundred years old," " Oh no, bm'l w r': 
 d emed over eighteen hundred years ago, but I did ^ot >.rf "2 
 until about nineteen years ago." 
 
 Ihere'ir.lotZeV"'"'"'™"'' '" "■'' g^^a, congregation- 
 
 ch me Fverv f '\"'""°"<'^<' '<>' '" ">= great redemption 
 
 scheme Every one here ,s redeemed ! redeemed ! Have you 
 
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programme 
 
 .. JUBILEE CELEBRATION 
 
 OF 
 
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 OTTAWA, 
 
 Tuesday Evening, 13th Nov., 1894. 
 
 GEORGE HilY. Esq., Chaimar\. 
 
 ,^ , . Miss Chute 
 
 Organ Voluntary 
 
 Invocation. 
 
 Chairman's Address. 
 
 Reading— /Tw^nV^/ Narrative of Knox Church, 
 
 Mr. JOHN HENDERSON. 
 
 " Calvary " 
 Mr. JOHN E. MILLER. 
 
 Address. 
 
 Sir JAMES GR«lNT. 
 
 " Hosanna in Excel sis " 
 
 Ml88 HENDERSON. 
 
 Address. 
 
 Mr. ALEX. MUTCHMOR. 
 '' J^lee as a Bird'' 
 Mr. G, p. PEREIRA. 
 
 Address. 
 
 Mr. C. R. CUNNINGHAM. 
 " Come unto Me " 
 
 Miss ETHEL TOPLEY. 
 
 Address. 
 M. JOHN McMillan, b.a. 
 
 DoxoLOGY - - - Praise God;' er^c, 
 
 jBcneOictton * 
 
 Chair taken at 7.30 o'clock. 
 
 Vocal Solo 
 
 Vocal Solo 
 
 Vocal Solo 
 
 Vocal Solo 
 
 Paul Rodney 
 
 St. Quentin. 
 
 Dana 
 
 Coeneft 
 
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ADDRESSES 
 
 BY 
 
 George Hay, Esq.. ciiairrriar), 
 Sir Janaes Grant Mr. C. R Cunninghani. 
 
 Mr. fllex. Mutclinaor, " John McMillan. 
 
 Delivered iq 
 
 KNOX CHURCH, OTTflWil, 
 
 Tuesday Ever|irig, I3tl:\ November, 
 
 1894 
 
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 Mr. XiEORGE Hay. — 
 
 I observe that the next item on the programme is the chair- 
 man's address. I scarcely know where to begin, but I know where 
 I would like to end, and that would be about lo o'clock to-night. 
 If you gave me a whole night I could find abundance of material, 
 but I do not wish to tire you, or take up too much of your 
 time. There are a great many things of interest before us this 
 evening. Seme were referred to last Sabbath and last evening. 
 Many of them have been discussed already, and more might 
 have been suggested than it was possible to discuss in the time at 
 the disposal of the different speakers. 
 
 My memory goes back to more than fifty years ago. I would 
 like to begin at the beginning, but to do that would be to begin at 
 the first Chapter of Genesis — " In the beginning God," — and then 
 in the New Testament — "In the beginning was the Word." That 
 Word is the foundation of all we have, that is worth living, or 
 working, or thinking for in this world. That is a theme it would 
 be impossible to exhaust, even if we had the time to speak of it. 
 You had a little specimen of that sort of discussion in the sermon on 
 Sunday night, when one of our former Sunday School " boys," Rev. 
 Dr. MacLaren, occupied our pulpit. Rev Dr. Wardrope, Rev. Prof. 
 MacLaren, and others that couW be named, are the kind of men 
 we had in the olden time, and if you go back to the days of the 
 Free Church movement you will find that God in His Providence 
 then raised up many such men, as He always does when He has any 
 great work to accomplish on the earth. Sometimes we wonder, as 
 we review our Church's history, that such and : ich has been done, 
 and that such and such has not been done. We begin to think 
 of these things, and sometimes get where Topsy got when she was 
 asked how she was created : — " she 'spected she growed " — and 
 except for the revelation we get in God's word, our own feeble 
 understandings would avail us but little as to the influences which 
 have produced the results we see around us. 
 
 We have to go a long way back to find the reasons why Knox 
 Church 13 in existence to-day. Some people will ask us why we 
 
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 left St. Andrew's Church ? Why was there any disruption at all ? 
 and we should have to go a long way back to find out all about 
 these things, but we are not here to offer any apology, or give an 
 explanation for the existence of our church. Were wato do so we 
 thould have to go back to a period in Church histoty prior to the 
 disruption, long before '* The ten years' conflict " — way back of 
 that again, before the time of the reformation. There were one, 
 two, three reformations in Scotland, some of them pretty far apart. 
 Back of all this in history you find the people whom God was pre- 
 paring for the great work of the church, and that work has beea 
 going on right through the ages from the very beginning. 
 
 A good deal which would be interesting to you, might be said 
 about what immediately led to the disruption, but that would take 
 a much longer time than the six minutes allotted to us, and must 
 therefore be passed by. I have got here some pictures which 
 would also interest you, if you have the time to spare after the 
 meeting is over, or, if I had a camera or magic lantern, I could 
 show you pictures of the kind of men they had in Scotland in those 
 disruption days ; but men of the same class are still with us — sub-^ 
 stantial men — men of mark and spiritual substance fitted for the 
 duties of their own day. 
 
 A litile egotism on this subject may perhaps be pardoned, for an 
 individual's experience may serve to show what was going on at 
 th-^" time. In the disruption year of 1843, I attended the Ameri- 
 can Presbyterian Church in Montreal, and there I got the eyes of 
 my spiritual understanding opened. I was bookkeeper at the time, 
 in a business that my conscience troubled me about. I had no- 
 personal interest in the business ; I did not like it. It was, in one 
 department, a wine and spirit business. I felt I could not stay in 
 it — so gave it up and found myself suddenly without a situation. 
 I did not know where to go, or what I was going to do, but I now 
 see that all this helped to shape my destiny and place me among 
 the men who founded Knox Church, Ottawa. They 'vere a small 
 but determined band whom I should like to call to mind for your 
 admiration. In Montreal I made the acquaintance of two young 
 men, Sandy Fraser, afterwards Sheriff of Cobourg, and his brother 
 
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 Donald, afterwards Minister of Cote Street, Montreal, and finally 
 the celebrated Doctor Donald Fraser, of London, England. These 
 two young men were very enthusiastic Free-Ghurchmen, and upon 
 my coming away to By town in 1844, they gave me a large pile 
 of Free Church documents which I scattered right and left. There 
 •were already two parties in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, one 
 of which sympathized with the movement at home in Scotland, and 
 the other thought that we, in Canada, had no business to touch it. 
 I went to the minister of St. Andrew's Church, Bytown, and said 
 to him, " I wish to join your church, but I am a Free-Churchman 
 in sentiment, and if disruption takes place in Canada I shall leave 
 bt. Andrew's Church." ''AH right" he replied, "join the church." 
 I was then received into St. Andrew's Church, and I have always 
 had a warm feeling for that Church ever since ; but when the dis- 
 ruption came, and I left that congregation, this same minister, 
 when I met him in the street shortly afterwards, to my surprise, 
 passed me by — he did not know me at all ! That was a little 
 specimen of the strong feelings that existed in those days, in such 
 matters. You cannot understand it now perhaps, yet it took some 
 -courage then to assert one's opinions and stand by them ; but our 
 trials in Canada were light compared with what was endured in 
 Scotland, by those ministers who left all they had in the world, for 
 the sake of principle. 
 
 The sufferings and struggles of those days, were vividly recalled 
 at the great Jubilee Meeting of the Free Church, held in May of 
 last year, at which meeting our friend the Rev. Mr, Crombie, now with 
 us to night, was present as one of the delegates appointed to repre- 
 sent the Canadian Church. At that meeting a letter of apology from 
 the British Premier, the Honourable VV. E. Gladstone, was read, ex- 
 pressive of his interest in, and sympathy with,ihe objects of the meet- 
 ing. He took occasion to say that in his opinion, he conceived it to 
 be undeiiiably true that the distinguished leaders ot the Free-Church 
 movement, some of whom he had the honour to count among his 
 friends, were, in the course they folbwed half a century ago, the 
 genuine representatives of the spirit and principles of the Scottish re- 
 formation. At that time, as I have mentioned, the feeling in regard 
 
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 to church matters ran very high, and had not greatly subsided for 
 many years. 1 can recollect when I was in Scotland in 1864 — 
 twenty years later — they looked upon me as a perfect phenomenon, 
 because I went with my cousins to the Established Church — I be- 
 ing a Free-Churchman. Things never came to that point here, but 
 the feeling in Scotland was strong and deep. There was of course 
 a great deal of principle in it, but also not a little of poor human 
 nature running through it all. Those days are happily now past 
 and gone. 
 
 Why did we call this Knox Church ask some. Well, we called 
 this Knox Church, because we had a sort of romantic feeling, that 
 we owed a great deal to John Knox. That man was one of the 
 greatest forces that Christianity has had, not only since " the dark 
 ages," but since Christ ai)peared on earth. In some respects he 
 was not equal to Luther, or Calvin, but iq other respects he excell- 
 ed both. If we look at the influence, his character, lit labours 
 exercised upon that poor little country called Scotland^ and the in- 
 fluence exerted by him besides, on England, and all through the 
 world, we find he was equal, if not superior to, both these men in 
 the roundness of his character, not only in its religious aspect, but 
 in statesmanship as well, — and he may well be counted one of the 
 three mighty men of the great reformation, — and that was the 
 reason why this was called Knox Cliurch, and here we are. We 
 are proud of the name, and 1 want to know what you would call 
 me unless a Knox-Churchman — what would you call Dr. Ward- 
 rope but a Knox-Churchman, what is Mr. Cunningham, and others 
 of us but Knox-Churchmen ? 
 
 When we came out from St. Andrew's Church and stood face 
 to lace with our work we were a mere handful, few in number, not 
 any rich among us, buMiall earnest in sympathy with and zeal for 
 the cause. A good deal had to be done, considering our means. 
 We were without a place for meeting. The religious and mental 
 life of the place might perhaps be estimated somewhat, correctly 
 when it is stated that there was neither Sunday School nor Prayer- 
 meeting known to be in connection with any of the churches, 
 with the exception of a small Sabbath School class in Upper Town, 
 
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 taught by a member of the Methodist Church. There was neither 
 Bible Society, nor Temperance Society; no Hospital nor Literary 
 and Scientific Institution, and no Public Library in the then town. 
 Not a street lamp or loo feet of sidewalk within the limits, and the 
 pocket lantern was the electric light in the early times of 1844. 
 
 In those early days people were not afraid to walk more than 
 half a mile to church. They came on foot from the present 
 Taylorville Church, Gloucester, in the east, some six miles away, 
 from beyond the present Bethany Church on the west, from beyond 
 the now new parish of Billings' Bridge on the south, and from the 
 foot hills of the Laurentian Hull Mountains on the north. They 
 came Sunday after Sunday, fair or stormy, some bringing lunch 
 and staying for the two sermons. 
 
 We can modestly, but honestly affirm, that Knox Church people 
 have had their share in the work of bringing about the condition 
 of prosperity and progress that now exists in Ottawa, in this year 
 Anno Domini 1894. 
 
 The work of the church in those early Bytown days was not 
 confined to the town, but the country up and down the Ottawa and 
 its tributaries, was visited by our good Minister, Dr. Wardrope, who 
 lectured and did presbytery and pioneer work at the cost of much 
 personal hardship and labour. Years sped on. Into the details of 
 our history it is not for me to enter ; but I may say, that to meet 
 the pressing need for more church accommodation and the pros- 
 pective growth of the city westward, it was decided to build this 
 church in which we are now met. Our ambition, however, was a 
 little too high for our pockets, and since then we have had cause 
 to regret this. True we have a beautiful Church — very elegant and 
 commodious, but it has been found a little too commodious. We 
 are, however, going to fill it now. It has ^ad an ornament upon 
 it. '* We have a cupola on our house," said one little boy boast- 
 fully to his comrade, •* we have no cupola on our house," said his 
 companion, '' but we have a mortgage, ha ! ha !" To-night I am 
 happy to say we are going to take this "ornament " off our church. 
 To-night I am delighted to be able to tell you, and you will be 
 pleased to hear, that we have got $15,000 subscribed and some 
 
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 $56 over; our Y. P. S. C. E. having just put the copestone on this 
 monument of our Jubilee ! 
 
 Without further remarks I will now call upon Mr, Henderson, 
 who will read the Historical Narrative. I would like if I had time 
 to recall reminiscences of some of our old Knox Church worthies 
 which would interest you, and if the opportunity should offer later 
 on I will do so. 
 
 {For Historical Narrative a/wt'e refer red to, see page 5.) 
 
 Sir James Grant, K.C.M.G, M. P., M.D.— 
 
 It is to me a source of great pleasure to be present at the Jubi- 
 lee of Knox Church, and I desire to thank the Committee for the 
 honor bestowed upon me, of inviting me to take some small part 
 in the proceedings of this evening. Let me say you are to be con- 
 gratulated on the marked success which has attended your efforts 
 on this auspicious occasion. We are nrt assembled to discuss 
 church history or government, but in order to join together, as one 
 people, in expressing our sympathy with the great church work, 
 now in progress, not alon^^^ in Ottawa city, but throughout the 
 length and breadth of the Dominion of Canada. What a remark- 
 able change has taken place within the past fifty years. The re- 
 cord of the growth and progress of Knox Church, as presented in 
 the able document read by Mr. Henderson, is an evidence of un- 
 tiring energy, zeal and marked ability, all of which united in bringing 
 this Church so very successfully, to its fiftieth year; and in this 
 noble work it is gratifying to know you have the best wishes of the 
 entire community. We are living in times when over the whole 
 world, there is a manifest longing for fraternal unity. Conventions 
 are being held in every direction at which representative men meet^ 
 to compare notes and interchange ideas. TIk; kingdom of God. 
 on earth is presented as one ; and what is of essential benefit to 
 one church, in course of time, becomes the property of all. 
 
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 We are living in a peculiar time, a time pregnant with error as 
 well as advanced religious thought. Agnosticism endeavors to 
 occupy a space, and would-be scientists now and then disturb the 
 public mind with theories as untenable as they are abstruse. For- 
 tunately the education of the present day is such that a line of 
 demarcation is readily drawn between what are sound and unsound 
 principles. Throughout the various kingdoms of nature, how 
 perfect is their structure. In plant and in animal, the finest sub- 
 division of tissue under the microscope, could not possibly be im- 
 proved upon. All is perfect, the result of cteative power, hence 
 the difference between God's works and the works of man. The 
 tiny heart beats on for years, without giving evidence of being 
 tired, but the muscles of the arm, if over-taxed by continuous ac- 
 tion for two hours in one direction, would of necessity require to 
 rest for a day or two to recover ordinary tonicity. Here there is a 
 distinctive difference between creative power and the works of man. 
 The laws of God are perfect ; the operations of man are imper- 
 fect. The more we examine this subject, the clearer becomes the 
 fact that scientific investigations, carefully made, sustain Biblical 
 truth. In these varied lines of enquiry, our divines have much to 
 contend against, and for that reason should be fully equipped with 
 a well stored library, an indispensable part of church furniture, 
 thus increasing the minister's power, and providing food for 
 thought. 
 
 This is a time when the ministry should be thoroughly equipped, 
 and their physical and mental organizations well looked after by 
 those with whom they are laboring, for as a rule the usefulness of 
 the minister will be in keeping with both the mental and physical 
 power he carries along with him. Some have an idea that it is 
 an easy matter to be a minister. A youth impressed with 
 that notion once called on the late Mr Spurgeon. He had failed 
 in several positions in life, but held the opinion that his calling 
 was the church. After a time he was afforded the opportunity of 
 proving himself. His text and subject suddenly flashed past like an 
 electric light, and left him in total darkness, when he gave expres- 
 sion to his feelings and said : " My dear friends, if any of you 
 
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 think that it is an easy thing to preach, I advise you to come up 
 here and have all the conceit taken out of you.'' 
 
 The men who would succeed in any calling in life are those 
 which the ministry needs: men of all round capacity, well su[)plicd 
 with that rare commodity, common sense. To keep a congrega- 
 tion together for years, requires no little ability, backed by a store- 
 house of information, brightened and intensified by the active, 
 living sf irit of the Book of all Books, which contains the very mental 
 life blood that stimulates the growth of intellectual and spiritual 
 vigor. I once heard Mr. Spurgeon say to some young ministers, 
 who had been under his instruction, and about to enter on the 
 ministry, " Above all things be natural ; be what God made you. 
 You cannot be a Chalmers, a McLeod, or a (luthrie. Use the 
 faculties at your disposal and make the best of them. Let your 
 voice pass naturally over the keys of the organ that formulates the 
 human voice. Do not play on one key, or the voice will crack, 
 and a minister's sore throat be the result. Above all things ex- 
 pound the Gospel and do not pound it." From time to time, I 
 have heard some of the great divines of the past, such as McLeod, 
 Cummings, Spurgeon and Punshon, and certainly these men have 
 played an important part in expounding the Gospel and spreading 
 the light of truth far and near over the face of the world. In 
 Canada, contemporary with these transatlantic lights, we have had 
 such workers as Dr. Cooke, of Quebec ; Drs, Malhewson and 
 McGill, of Montreal ; Dr. Urquhart, of Cornwall ; Dr. Spence, of 
 Ottawa, and Dr. Machar, of Kingston ; and, thanks to a kind Provid- 
 ence, we still have with us Dr. VVardrope, of Guelph, active and 
 energetic, although a worker at the very commencement of the half 
 century just being celebrated. Fortunately in th-^ir footsteps we 
 have young and vigorou^men possessed of rare power and capa- 
 city for work, such as is evidenced in men like Gordon of Halifax, 
 Herridge and Ballantyne of Ottawa, Macdonnell of Toronto, and 
 others too numerous to mention. In the church as well as in the 
 university Dr. Grant is a rare light, gifted with powers of a high order 
 and ready and willing on all occasions to advance the best inter- 
 ests of Church or State. 
 
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 What could be more satisfactory than the practical result of the 
 present Jubilee, which thanks to the generosity and liberality of 
 your many friends, has enabled you to temove a debt on Knox 
 Church of over $15,000. This is certainly a relief to both rich 
 and poor, who sit equally in the House of the Lord. Church ex- 
 penses should be so arranged as to be light on the poor and needy, 
 many of whom, were it not for free sittings, could not afford to 
 attend church in these days of fashion. I join with you m return- 
 ing thanks for such blessings, an evidence, should such be wanting, 
 of happiness and prosperity in our people. In no section of 
 Canada is there a belter feeling among all religious persuasions 
 than in Ottawa City. Only a few months ago there assembled in 
 our City Hall a most representative gathering of citizens of all 
 •creeds and nationalities, to take part in the |)resentation of an 
 address to the Rev. Dr. Dawson, who has, as a Catholic priest, 
 resided over 50 years amongst us. Shortly afterwards Dr. Dawson 
 was invited by the St. Andrew's Society of this city to preach the 
 anniversary sermon, which duty he discharged with marked ability, 
 the Rev. Mr. Hcrridge occupying a seat on his rfght, and, on the 
 same platform, many of the leading Protestants of Ottawa. It is 
 this unity of action which strengthens the whole fabric of the 
 State, and gives fore: and character to the best efforts of our 
 people. Knox Church has certaiiily made great progress in the 
 past fifty years, and is now, far and near recognized as a power for 
 good. The growth and prosperity of Knox Church is only one of 
 many like developments in the growth of the church as a whole in 
 Canada, which in itself is undoubted evidence of the religious in- 
 fluence at work, guiding and directing in such a way as will not fail 
 to exercise a beneficial and lasting influence. The progress of Can- 
 ada, inthat same halfcentury of church history, has been most remark- 
 able. Fifty years ago we had but fifty miles of railway in all British 
 North America. Wo had only one canal, and we had no manu- 
 factories. We required to look to other countries for almost all we 
 consumed. Our population was little more than half a million, 
 and the Imperial Government had chief charge of our postal 
 affairs. The various Provinces of Canada were disunited and un- 
 
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 known to each other, not only in church matters, but in trade and 
 commerce as well. The great North-VVest was truly a " Lone 
 Land." Today we are a united and confederated people — one 
 General Assembly of the Church and one Parliament for our 
 Dominion. A railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific; canal 
 facilities in keeping with the trade of the time, and equal to any 
 in the world. Manufactories of almost every description, to meet 
 the wants and requirements of our people, now numbering about 
 five millions. This development in the lifetime of one of the 
 pillars of Knox Church, Rev. Dr. Wardrope, now present on this 
 platform, is an outcome remarkable in every way, and proof, were 
 such required, that Canada has become a nation, fearnig God and 
 honoring our Queen. In the midst of all our prosperity what re- 
 markable influences are at work, and well may we endorse the 
 deligh'.ful sentiment of Bishop Cox, of London, England : 
 
 " Oh where are Kings and Kmpires now, 
 Of old that went and came, 
 But Lord, thy church is praying yet, 
 A thousand years the same." : >■ > ,■ ■: 
 
 Mr. Mutchmor — 
 
 History it has been said, is philosophy — leaching by example ; 
 I think it was Dryden who wrote, all history is only the precepts of 
 moral philosophy, reduced info example. Now, sir, if it be true 
 that history repeats itself, the historical statement just read, must 
 ■convince all present here to-night that Knox Church has a 
 great future before it, if it accomplishes as much in the next fifty 
 years in proportion to its privileges and opportunites as it has 
 achieved in the past. I presume the membership of the two churches 
 in 1844 would not exceed 200 or 300, and the money contribu- 
 tions for all purposes would not exceed $3,000. Now the mem- 
 bership of the Presbyterian churches in the city is about 2,500, 
 and the money contributions raised for all purposes about $45,000, 
 
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 an increase in the membership about ten or twelve times what it 
 was fifty years a^o, and about fifteen times the amt unt of money 
 raised for all [)urposes. Now, sir, we do not claim that Knox 
 Church did all this, but we do say without fear of contradiction, that 
 it has done its full share, and this wonderful increase is not confined 
 to Ottawa alone, it applies to the wiiole Dominion, and one of the 
 most happy and blessed results is the fact that instead of having two 
 churches,the Established and the Free, we are now one united church. 
 The minister of St. Andrew's Church during our vacancy was our 
 moderator, and we became so warmly attached to him, we refused 
 to part with him until we made choice of one we liked better, and 
 now we are so abundantly satisfied, that we are profoundly grateful 
 to our ex-moderator for his very able and much valued services 
 
 The achievements of the past are not without their lessons, 
 especially to our young people. One lesson is we should not despise 
 the day of small things Another lesson to those who may be spared 
 in the good Providence of God to see the next Jubilee is to prize 
 very highly their great privileges, and make the best use of their 
 opportunities. What acontiasl between 1894 as compared with 1844,. 
 instead of a small building belonging to another denomination this 
 fine large church practically free from debt, instead o*" the back- 
 woods village overshadowed by pine forests on two sides of it, and 
 the only means of reaching it from the outside world the " Rideau 
 Canal," the '• Old Stage Coach" or shanks nafep,ies. Then a small 
 population, the majority of whom were Roman Catholic. Now Ot- 
 tawa is the Capital of this Great Dominion, and including Hull, 
 and the suburbs has a population of over sixty thousand. We have 
 six or seven lines of railway, and two more projected lines, an elec- 
 tric railway system second to none on the contineni, telegraphs, 
 telephones, electric light, typewriters, phonographs, our letters de- 
 livered two or three times a day at our doors, etc., etc., all these 
 advantages and privileges come from "the Giver of every good 
 and every perfect gift," and carry with them their responsibilities and 
 obligations. " P'or unto whomsoever much is given of him shall 
 much be required." To the servant who hid his Lord's talent with- 
 out using it, the Master said, take it from him and give it to him 
 
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 iority which years well spent bring. It has been said only the 
 Chinese adore the aged, and I am afraid their old-fashined notions, 
 including their false religion is proving very disastrous to them at 
 the present time. In contrast to such notions we are proud of the 
 results of 50 years loving faithful service of Knox Church, and re- 
 joice that the old mother church is still ready and willing to be 
 helpful in every good word and work, notwithstanding its many 
 conquests in " overcoming evil with good," and its victory in 
 rescuing souls from the "bondage of sin and satan and bringing 
 them into the glorious liberty wherewith Christ makes his children 
 free." It is not tottering, neither are her garments tattered or torn, 
 with age ; she has many children in all parts of the Dominion to 
 rise up and call her blessed. Of course we do not doubt for a 
 moment or dispute in any way the statement made by our good 
 friend. Rev. Mr. Herridge, that St. Andr. v s is the mother church, 
 in point of age, but I would emphasize additional fact that 
 
 Knox too is a mother church, with fa ire children than St. 
 Andrew's. Consequently St. Andrew's, though never more vigorous 
 and prosperous than now, has proof of her age in the fact that she 
 has more grandchildren than children. If additional proof is re- 
 quired I can furnish it in my own experience, at least partially, as 
 my dear old grandmother was a member of St. Andrew's Church 
 about 1833 to 1837. In some respects Knox Church appears to 
 be younger to-day than many years ago, from the fact that we have 
 more young people connected with the church. I was reading a 
 few days ago about a Presbyterian church in the beautiful town of 
 Hempstead, on Rhode T^^land, two hundred and fifty years old, to 
 which all loyal descendants were invited to celebrate the two and a 
 half centuries of its existence. It was said of that church, youth 
 has so concealed age that one would suppose it had not been born 
 more than 25 years ago. Its first pastor, the Rev. Richard Den- 
 ton, from 1644 to 1659, received the munificent salary of $350 a 
 year, and was paid in such articles as were most useful and avail- 
 able. I am, afraid, sir, our ministers in these days could not get 
 along very well upon such a salary as that. 
 
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 In rear of that old church was the historic grave yard, where lies 
 the dust of notable men and women who have disappeared in periods 
 from centuries down to weeks, whose best history is, that they 
 pleased God '\nd loved and served Him in their day and genera- 
 tion — what better history could they leave behind them ? In like 
 manner those who took an active part in the organization of Knox 
 Church 50 years ago are disappearing — they are fast going over to 
 the silent majority, only last week a good mother in Israel fell 
 asleep in Jesus of whom it may be said, blessed are the dead 
 which die in the Lord from henceforth, yea, saith the spirit, that 
 they my rest from their labors and their works do follow them. 
 This and other noble lives, " not lost but gone before," along with 
 the comparatively few for whom we thank God, are still spared to 
 us, among whom very notably is our worthy and venerable chair- 
 man, are all worthy the emulation of our young people, and then 
 Knox Church will maintain its place in the front rank of all that is 
 Evangelical and Christian, and come forth '* fair as the moon, 
 clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners." 
 
 A Chinese convert once remarked in a conversation with a 
 missionary, we want men with hot hearts to tell us of the love of 
 Christ This is the kind of preaching we have enjoyed all these 
 years in Knox Church, men with hot hearts like Paul. " The love 
 of Christ constraineth us, yea woe is unto me if I preach not the 
 Gospel." They were not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, believ- 
 ing it to be the power of God unto salvation, "thus saith the Lord" 
 was counted by them to be worth far more than whole volumes, of 
 their own, or the words of any men. The three R's were promi- 
 nent in almost every sermon — 
 
 Ruin by the fall. 
 
 Redemption by the blood of Christ. 
 
 Regeneration by the Holy Spirit. 
 They always found the preaching of Christ and Him crucified a 
 theme large enough, broad enough and deep enough for their ex- 
 panding ability. Th^ Bible is to them the inspired word of God, 
 and the only infallible rule of faith and practice in the words of 
 Goldsmith : 
 
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 •' Ai church with meek and unaffected grace, 
 Their looks adorned the venerable place 
 Truth from their lips prevailed in double sway 
 And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray . " 
 
 To which Walcott added two lines: — 
 
 " Such vast impression did their sermons make, 
 They always kept their flocks awake." 
 
 With a magnificent Church like this, practically free from debt, 
 a faithful minister and devoted pastor, of whom we have every reason 
 to be proud. A Young Peoples' Society ot Christian Endeavour 
 second to none in the city; a Bible Class and Sabbath School ex- 
 celled by none in good, efificient, honest work ; in short, a congre- 
 gation well educated and trained in all the doctrines and princi- 
 ples of the Christian religion like the locomotive and engine with 
 its train of cars on the track, so beautifully d'^scribed by Dr. Mac- 
 laren on Sabbath last. !t must have the fire to generate the steam 
 before its passengers can reach their appointed haven. So with 
 Knox Church, we need the fire of the Holy Spirit to kindle within 
 our hearts a flame of love and zeal to consecrate ourselves to the 
 service of the Master, more fully than ever. 
 
 No tongue can tell, eternity alone will reveal what a congregation 
 like this wholly in earnest, c>in do to win souls for Christ and make 
 them sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, relying upon His 
 promise, " Lo I am with you always," let us go forward with un- 
 daunted faith, Jehovah Nissi — The Lord our banner, if the way is 
 sometimes dark and lonely Jehovah Shammah — "The Lord is 
 there." If there are needs we cannot do without Jehovah Jirelh-- 
 •'The Lord will orovide." If we feel at times who is sufficient for 
 these things Jehovah tsid kenu — The Lord our righteousness, and 
 if troubles within and fears without assail us Jehovah Shalon — The 
 Lord our peace, said Paul the Apostle, I can do all thii.^s through 
 Christ which strengtheneth me. If there had not been a past 
 there would be no Jubilee services, let us link past experiences 
 with present opportunities, and make them the foundation of le- 
 newed hope and implicit faith and trust, in an all sufficient Saviour 
 until at last we who are now celebrating this jubilee and the genera- 
 
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 tions who become followers of us, even as we also are of Christ 
 shall join the white robed throng who have gone up from us to be 
 forever with the Lord in one ceaseless song of praise, " Blessings 
 and Honor, and Glory, and Power, be unto Him that sitteth upon 
 the throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever." For thou hast 
 redeemed us to God by-Thy blood out of every kindred and 
 tongue and people and nation, and hast made us unto our God 
 kings and priests, and we shall reign with Him on e?rth for ever and 
 ever on the earth. 
 
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 Mr. Cunningham — 
 
 At this late hour I will not give the address I had prepared for the 
 occasion. I prefer to follow the proverb, " Enough is as good as a 
 feast," and as the evening is so far advanced it would be out of 
 place for me to detain you. Before sitting down^ I would like to 
 give voice to a few thoughts connected with this Jubilee ; and the 
 first thing I would say is this : that whatever has been said 
 eithei to-night or last night, about the auld and the new Kirk, has 
 nothing to do with the Canada Presbyterian Church. In Canada 
 the seven branches of the Presbyterian Church are now one organic 
 body, and all of these branches have subscribed to the principles that 
 were declared by the Free Church in the old land in 1843. The 
 united Canadian Presbyterian Church represents at the present 
 time about 800,000 of the population of this Dominion, and con- 
 tains a body of clergymen close upon 1,100 in number, who are in 
 active operation from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
 
 Every harvest has a seed-time, and if we want to understand 
 properly the advantages which we nc;v enjoy, we must look back 
 to the period from 1838 to 1848. That was a seed decade, and 
 probably no ten years of this century brought up more important 
 questions than it did. For example, the Father Matthew move- 
 ment began in 1838 ; the teetotal movement also began in 1838, 
 by which thousands and thousands have been brought into the 
 temperance fold. Much was done to make a sober nation by 
 
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 these movements. By them the scorn of total abstinence and pro- 
 hibition was planted and in our day it has become a goodly tree, 
 bearing fruit not only on the other side of the Atlantic but through- 
 out the length and breadth of this continent. Alongside of these, 
 two political movements took their rise. The first — The chart- 
 ists movement — demanding the six points of the charter, was a 
 movement of the working classes. It culminated when the leader 
 of the party was put in prison in 1843. 
 
 The other great political movement was the uprising of the 
 middle classes, who demanded the abolition of the corn laws, 
 and free trade for the nation. This movement was led by manu- 
 facturers, poets and statesmen, and there was no city, no county, 
 no place of any importance, which was not roused by it. It cul- 
 minated in 1846 by free trade becoming the law of the British 
 nation. 
 
 This movement did not come a day too soon, for in 1845 the 
 potato blight swept over the country and left in its tract famine, 
 hunger and typhus fever. In Ireland alone no less than two mil- 
 lion people were swept away by thece causes, and many were com- 
 pelled to emigrate. 
 
 The end often years saw an uprising of the European nations. 
 Louis Philip, King of France, haa to flee from his country ; Pope 
 Pius from Rome ; the Hungarian war broke out against Austria ; 
 the King of Prussia made terms with his people, and throughout 
 the length and breadth of P^urope, there was nothing but upheaval, 
 war and rumours of war. 
 
 But of all the matters that took place during that decade, none 
 was of more importance than that which took place in Scotland, 
 viz : the disruption of the Church of Scotland. No grander 
 spectacle has taken place in this century than that of 474 clergy- 
 men on the 18th May, 1843, leaving their manses, their glebes, 
 their stipends and their churches, for conscience sake ; and how 
 grandly did the people of Scotland uphold the hands of these 
 ministers by providing for their wants and building colleges, 
 churches, homes and schools for those who had come out, from 
 Maidenkirk to John o'Groates. But it might be asked what 
 
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 effect has that event had on Canada ? It had this effect, it opened 
 the eyes of the statesmen of Great Britain to the fact that the 
 people were in earnest, and that they would not be trifled with in 
 matters of conscience and of liberty. 
 
 The rebellion of 1837 in Canada had the same effect. The 
 policy of the Imperial Government at that period was to create a 
 state church in Canada. Large quantities of land were set apart 
 for this purpose ; thousands of pounds were voted for the building 
 of rectories. The state church designed for Canada was that of 
 Prelacy, but the reflection of the rebellion of 1837, and the 
 movement which had taken place in Scotland, roused the people 
 of Upper Canada to demand the secularisation of the clergy re- 
 serves, which event was consummated in 1854. The result is that 
 to day Ontario has no state church ; all denominations stand 
 equal in the eye of the law, and no trimming or time- serving poli- 
 tician will now dare lo thrust on a free people a state church in 
 in this Dominion. 
 
 As the night is now far spent and many of us are far from home, 
 I will bid you good night, and on some future occasion, give you 
 the speech which I had prepared for you. 
 
 Mr. MacMillan — 
 
 You will excuse me, I hope, if I venture even at this late hour, to 
 occupy a few minutes of your time. If it were not that I feel like 
 making a few remarks I would not say anything ai all, but I do 
 earnestly desire to give expression to a few thoughts before we close 
 this Jubilee Service. I am exceedingly glad — indeed I am de- 
 lighted, beyond the power of expression, that I have been spared 
 to see this night in the history of Knox Church. There are some 
 things that have been alluded to to-night, that I did not believe 
 twenty years ago anyone here would live to see. Some of us 
 twenty years ago, perhaps did think we might live to see a time 
 when these galleries would be filled by eager listeners to the mes- 
 
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 sage of salvation which has been preached from our pulpit. Some 
 of us did think at that time, we should live to see a much larger 
 congregation than was then worshipping within the walls of this 
 building, but I do not think anyone of us at that time, believed 
 that in 1894 Knox Church would have no debt; and I wish to 
 say, that without in the least degree boasting of the achievement — 
 this removal of a debt of $15,000 is a thing of which every mem- 
 ber of. Knox Church today ought to feel proud. I, for one, re- 
 joice exceedingly, that to-night we are in that position. Through- 
 out the land of Israel, in the year of Jubilee, the silver trumpet 
 proclaimed liberty to those for a time enslaved, restoration to their 
 ancestral possessions to those for a time dispossessed of them ; 
 and the cancelling of mortgages to those whose , roperty had been 
 encumbered. Liberty, joy and thanksgiving were the watchwords 
 of the Jubilee. In our Jubilee, we too are free from debt, and 
 therefore, joy and thanksgiving should fill our hearts. 
 
 The first thing for which, as a congregation, we have great reason 
 to rejoice and be glad in connection with our Jubilee Service is 
 that God has been with us through these 50 years. We rejoice and 
 give thanks for God's goodness, grace, and guidance. This is the 
 one thought that ought to pervad-^ every heart in this congregation. 
 If we miss that .note we miss everything ; because whatever has 
 been done, little or much, and it has been very little, has been 
 done through the grace and goodness of our Heavenly Father — 
 to whom we owe all, and to whom to-night with glad hearts we 
 ought to be able to sing praises. 
 
 Again, we rejoice and give thanks to-night for the testimony given 
 by the founders of this congregation 50 years ago, to the principle 
 of a Free Church in a free State — the doctorir.e that Christ and 
 Christ alone is Head, Lawgiver and King in His Church, and that 
 neither Pope, Prelate, Prince nor Parliament, may legislate for the 
 Church which he bought with His blood. We do not meet to 
 celebrate the disruption of the Church of Scotland — we do not 
 meet to speak of the differences, or troubles whifh existed in the 
 past, and for which we at any rate are not responsible. We do not 
 wish to say one word about the differences which separated good 
 
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 men and good women 50 years ago, but merely to mention the 
 fact, that it is owing to that notable historical event, that we as a 
 congregation exist. We do not seek to magnify these differences — 
 we ought rather to minimise them. But, Mr. Chairman, we are not 
 ashamed of, and we do not need to give any explanation or apology, 
 for our existence. The principles which underlay the great move- 
 ment which took place in Scotland, the result of which was felt 
 through the whole world, were such as in our time at least need no 
 defenders. I repeat, Mr. Chairman, we are not here to celebrate 
 disruption, disunion, or separation, but to speak one to another 
 about the way God has led us through these 50 years. 
 
 Again we rejoice in and give thanks for the fact, that through 
 these 50 years we have had faithful, earnest, godly men as our 
 pastors. The greatest gift which God can give to His Church 
 is His Holy Spirit — the second best gift of God to His Church is 
 that of faithful, earnest, scholarly, spiritual minded pastors, and 
 such have been given to us. We have had Dr. Wardrope, Dr. 
 Maclaren, and Mr. Farries, and now Mr. Ballantyne. Whatever 
 questions may have been asked with regard to these men, this ques- 
 tion was never asked — has their life been in harmony with their 
 preaching ? No one asked, or ever thought of asking the question, 
 are they preachers in name only ? Whatever .their defects or 
 short-comings may have been, everyone knows that they spoke the 
 truth of God, and that they lived a life in accord with their preach- 
 ing ; and while our pulpit has never given any uncertain sound on 
 the great and fundamental principles of our common Christianity, 
 nevertheless, the highest and best preaching we have had in Knox 
 Church, has been the lives of our pastors. One of them is absent 
 from us to-night, and has been absent from these services. In his 
 southern home, his heart I know has been going out to us, and we 
 now send a message of loyal love to him, as one of our former 
 pastors. The oldest members of this congregation owe much to 
 our first two pastors, but most of the present members owe most 
 to the Rev. Mr. Farries — owe that which can never be expressed 
 in words. -■ ' • ■"' ...i.^-:..~- :...^'.-...-.-^:^-.*- .:^,^.-..>^...^i^-.-,-*-ii*^-v-,-j^-— ■.,•-<.,-— 
 
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 strange that in the midst of this rejoicing, we should say we have 
 any reason to be thankful for our trials and struggles, yet if the 
 scientific theory be correct that men's environments count for very 
 much in their history, our environment must have influenced large- 
 ly our congregation. We have had our dark days — we have had 
 our troubles and our triumphs. These struggles have tested our 
 faith, and have helped to make us what we are. This discipline 
 of trial and struggle has cemented friendships which death cannot 
 sever, and has developed a spirit of resolute self reliance, of liber- 
 ality, and of loyal attachment to our congregation. 
 
 There are many reminiscences I could give did time permit. 
 Let me refer to one memorable scene which comes before me at 
 this moment. We met one evening, down in the lecture room of 
 this church, in the midst of those dark days, when we were doubt- 
 ful about what the future of the congregation financially would be. 
 I remembe'" that about twenty or twenty-five of us met in the lecture 
 room, and discussed our financial situation, and talked one to 
 another about what everyone would give. Now, I tell you there 
 was no mincing matters at this meeting. It was life or death with 
 us. We spoke one to another about what each ought to give, the 
 good thing that came out of it all is, that we were really enabled to 
 do far more than we expected. 
 
 Another thing, Mr. Chairman, at which tonight we rejoice and 
 for which we give thanks, and that to God, and that is the measi le 
 of success which has attended us as a people. Our record is one 
 of which no people ought be ashamed. Others may seek to be- 
 little it ; we are proud of it, and I feel proud to-night, to know I 
 had a little part in the work that has been done by Knox Church, 
 and I rejoice in the degree of success which has attended u?. 
 While the financial progress of our church may be considered as 
 one of the aspects of the successful work of our congregation, 
 there are other matters for congratulation. Every congregation 
 has its own characteristics, and its own peculiarities, just as each 
 individual has. Now, one of the things of which I have always 
 been proud in regard to Knox Church is this, the large number of 
 men that have been sent out, who where members of our congrega 
 
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 tion, and are now ministers in the P:esbyterian Church, is a remark- 
 able thing in the history of this church. It will be 38 years on the 
 first Sabbath of January next, since I spent my first Sabbath in 
 Knox Church. During all that time I have been associated with 
 the Sabbath School ; and so far as I know there has not been a 
 single year out of 38, which this congregation was not represented 
 in the halls of our theological colleges, by one or more of 
 our young men studying for the ministry. At the present 
 time three of our young men are studying for the ministry 
 — Mr. Taylor, who is here to-night ; Mr. Bremner, and Mr. Camer- 
 on, and I know at least one other young man who will be ready 
 before very long to follow their good example, and keep up the 
 good record of our congregation. This is one of the things for 
 which we ought to praise God to night. 
 
 Once again we give thanks for our present favorable position, 
 With a good pastor, a valuable church edifice, free from debt — with 
 hearts made glad by God's goodness to us in the past, and with a 
 faith resting on God's unchanging love and invincible grace, we 
 take courage and unitedly face the future. Better and more ag- 
 jjjressive work should be undertaken and successfully prosecuted in 
 the future. • , ', -,-■ . • .-^ ■ ■ - 
 
 I wish to say one word to our young men. I am sorry there 
 are not more here to night. I would like to give fome testimony 
 with regard to what Knox Church has done for me. This is a time 
 when the young men of this congregation will have to decide what 
 its future is to be. It has been said we have come to a crisis — but 
 here is one of the crises I see in this congregation at this [present 
 time. We have .Mr. Chairman, yourself. I think, a- the only repre- 
 sentative now present in this congregation, who had a part in the 
 organizition of our church. One or two are still alive — Mr. Durie 
 we remember, and we hope we may be able to see him with us 
 next Sabbath ; one not very long ago left us, and we would have 
 been delighted to have had him with us to-night. I allude to the 
 late Mr. Blackburn — one to whom this congregation owes much, 
 not because he gave us money; he did do that — but because of 
 his good qualities, and for the great example which he set us. Mr. 
 
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 Blackburn was one of the men that grew upon us all the time, and 
 the more we knew of him the more we respected him. Now the 
 time has come when all the men who bore the struggles of this 
 congregation in its early days may soon leave us. Few at any rate 
 are with us to-day, and the question of the future is, what the 
 young men of this congregation are* going to make Knox Church. 
 The time is coming when they must step to the front and face the 
 possibilities of the future. This is the age of young men. This 
 is a period when young men must bear the brunt of the conflict. 
 "The glory of a young man is his strength." The strength of a 
 church is the strength of its young men. It is they who are going 
 to make it what it is going to be in the future. Some of you may 
 be saying, oh, I am too young. Remember that the greatest, the 
 most stupendous work ever done on this earth, was finished by 
 Christ when he was a young man of 33. It is not necessary that 
 a man should be fifty before becoming an elder in the Presbyterian 
 Church. In fact the earlier he is made an elder the better for 
 himself and the church, and in this connection perhaps, you will 
 permit me to recall a personal incident. I remember on the Sab- 
 bath I was inducted as an elder in this church, meeting our good 
 friend the late Mr. McKellar, and as we passed up Daly street, he 
 put h's hand on my shoulder and said : "The only one thing I am 
 afraid of is that you are too young " Now my testimony to-night 
 is, that if work of any value at all has been done by me for this 
 congregation, it is because the congregation elected me to the 
 eldership when I was young. The best services which anyone has 
 to give to the church, ought to be given not when he is past fifty, 
 but before he is thirty. What Knox Church has done for me I 
 gladly recognize to-night — it has made me. if there is anything 
 good in me, what I am, and if any good has been done on account 
 of the fact that in a humble way, and yet willingly, I stepped into 
 whatever work was laid to my hands. 
 
 Young men take hold earnestly and faithfully of the work be- 
 fore you. The church is yours. You will have other struggles 
 that those who have lived and worked in the last fifty years have 
 not had. You will have your own difficulties that will test and 
 
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 try you — difficulties as great, perhaps, as those through which 
 others have passed, — but " be steadfast and immovable, always 
 abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as ye know that 
 your labour is not in vain in the Lord." 
 
 MEMORIAL COMMUNION SERVICE. 
 
 On Sabbath, the i8th of November, the Jubilee services were 
 brought to a cloue by the celebration of the sacrament of the Lord's 
 Supper, to which an invitation had previously been extended to all 
 who at any time had been members of Knox Church. In the ob- 
 servance of this memorial of our Lord's sufferings, almost the en- 
 tire membership of the congregation participated, as well as a 
 considerable number of those who in the past had been identified 
 with them in church life. Pointing, as the sacrament ever does, to 
 the central theme of the Gospel, it was the most fitting bond of 
 union between the company then assembled and the worshippers 
 who had hitherto come together at the Master's invitation. Of 
 that long procession moving for fifty years to the Cross, only a few 
 were left of those who companied with them from the beginning, 
 but the occasion brought the grateful recollection of the good and 
 holy lives of many who had finished their course on earth in 
 patience, keeping the faith ; and all were reminded that in the 
 kingdom of God there is no farewell. We do not say •' Good-bye," 
 but " All Hail !" for when the shadows flee away and the day 
 dawns we shall again behold those, who were to us here as the 
 light of our eyes. 
 
 The opening devotional exercises were conducted by the 
 pastor, who preached a sarmon from Luke 24 : 26, " Ought not 
 Christ to have suffered these things ?" Then the Rev. Dr. Ward- 
 rope, who throughout the early history of the congregation had led 
 the exercises of many communion seasons, offered the prayer of 
 thanksgiving, and with the words of institution, distributed the 
 elements . After all had partaken, he addressed the communicants, 
 upon which a hymn was sung and the benediction pronounced. It 
 was felt to be a very holy and blessed privilege, especially as the 
 worshippers recalled the fact, that there the Saviour had often 
 verified His promise not to leave them comfortless, and there, too, 
 many a soul now in heaven once held communion with the 
 Master. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 Office Bearers in Knox Church from 
 1844 to 1894. 
 
 PASTORS. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Wardrope, from 1844 to i86o. 
 Rev. William McLaren, *' 1870 to 187 v 
 Rev. F. VV. Parries, " 1875 to 1893. 
 
 Rev. James Ballantyne, present Minister, inducted nth 
 June, 1894. 
 
 ELDERS. ■ ■ " ..■-.//■■■■"■"'^'■f' ■■-:'■■,; 
 
 Donald Kennedy . . . . 
 George Sieveright . . 
 Alexander Kennedy 
 
 Andrew Wilson 
 
 Alexander Anderson 
 John Durie 
 
 George Hay . . 
 William Taylor 
 
 Donald Robertson 
 
 \ Tiiese were the first elders of Knox 
 Church, appointed to office in 
 1845. Mr. Kennedy retired and 
 joined Bank Street Church on its 
 formation, and Mr. Anderson also 
 retired to join Daly Street, now St. 
 Paul's. All are now dead with 
 the exception of Mr. Durie, who 
 
 j still holds office. 
 
 ! Ordained 15th December, 1850. Mr. 
 Taylor also joined Bank Street on 
 its formation. Mr. Hay still re- 
 mains in office. 
 
 Ordained i6th March, 1856. Now 
 dead. . . ._. . ... 
 
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 126 
 
 William Hutchison Inducted 17th December, 1864. 
 
 Joined Bank Street, and now dead. 
 
 A'EXANDER MuTCHMOR.. Ordained 2nd June, 1866. Retired 
 
 on leaving city in 1879. 
 
 John McMillan Ordained 25th November, 1866, 
 
 S. S. M, Hunter Ordained 25th November, 1866. Re- 
 tired on leaving city. 
 
 Peter Fairbairn Ordaine ' 25th November, 1866. 
 
 Now dead. 
 John Thorhurn Ordained 1st March, 1873. Left on 
 
 formation of Daly Street. 
 
 Donald Masson Ordained ist March, 187^. 
 
 Hiram Robinson Ordained 30th March, 1873. 
 
 John Shearer Ordained 25th April, 1880. 
 
 James Campbell Inducted 25th April, 1880, Now 
 
 dead. 
 
 Murdock McKinnon ... Ordained 31st May, 1884. 
 
 William Porter Inducted 31st May, 1884. 
 
 Samuel Savage Inducted 31st May, 1884. 
 
 J. WiNLZR V^^ARDROPE ^ r^ i • j ^.u t oo ht 
 
 , ,, ^ ' Ordamed 16th June, 1889. Mr. 
 
 John McJanet ,,. , . , , . 
 
 , ,, -^ Wardrope retired on leaving city, 
 
 John Kennedy 
 
 Arthur Chisholm j 
 
 SESSION CLERK. 
 
 John Durie Appointed in 1845, ^^^ '^ still in" 
 
 office. 
 
 ASSOCIATE CLERK. 
 John McMillan 
 
 SABBATH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS, 
 
 John Durie Appointed 9th January, 1845, re- 
 mained in office until 1866. 
 
 Alexander Mutchmor. . From 2nd June, 1866, to September, 
 
 1879. 
 
 John McMillan From September, 1879. Still in 
 
 office. 
 
 i! 
 
 
lay 
 ASSISTANT SABBATH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 William Taylor. ...... . App*^>mted loth January, 185 1. In 
 
 office until 1855. 
 
 George Hay 1856101864. 
 
 John McMillan 1864 to 1879. 
 
 Alexander Mutchmor.. 1879. Now in office. 
 
 CHAIRMEN OF TEMPORAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 John Forgie 1845 
 
 J. McTaggart 184647 
 
 Alexander Gray 184S 49 
 
 John Durie 1850-52 
 
 George Dyett 1853 54 
 
 John Durie 1855101858 
 
 Donald Kennedy 1859 
 
 William Taylor i860 
 
 Henry McCormick 1861 
 
 C. R. Cunningham 1862 to i866 
 
 Henry McCormick 1867 to 1870 
 
 Robert Blackburn 187 1 to 1877 
 
 John Henderson 1878-79 
 
 William Porter 1880 
 
 John McMillan 1881-82 
 
 C. R. Cunningham 1883-84 
 
 Hiram Robinson 1885 to 1887 
 
 Donald Masson 1888 
 
 Robert Blackburn 1889 to 1891 
 
 Alexander Mutchmor 1892 to present time. 
 
 SECRETARIES OF TEMPORAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 George Hay 1845 
 
 Alexander Gray 1846-47 
 
 George Hay 1848 to 1852 
 
 William Stewart 1853 to 1866 
 
 John Henderson 1867 to 1877 
 
128 
 
 James Campbell , 1878 to 1883 
 
 John McMillan 1884 to 1888 
 
 John McJanet for nine months of 1888 
 
 R. H. Campbell 1889 
 
 D. L. McLean 1890 to 1893 
 
 W. J. l^AiRBAiRN 1894 
 
 TREASURERS. 
 
 J. McTaggart 1846-47 
 
 1848 and 1849 ^ot recorded 
 
 John Durie 1850 to 1853 
 
 George Dyett 1853 
 
 Thomas McKay 1854 to 1863 
 
 Alexander Mutchmor 1864 to 1872 
 
 James Hope 1873 
 
 Hiram Robinson 1874 
 
 James Hope 1875 ^o 1877 
 
 C. R. Cunningham 1878 to 1882 
 
 Hiram Robinson 1883 
 
 John Robertson 1884-85, and part of 1886 
 
 John Henderson balance of 1886 
 
 J. W. Wardrope 1887-88 
 
 George H ay, jr 1 889 
 
 Robert Masscn 1891 
 
 J. W. Wardrope 189 1 
 
 William Ashe 1892-93 
 
 B. M. Northrop present treasurer 
 
 ASSISTANT TREASURERS. 
 
 John McMillan 1866 to 1876, and 1878-79 
 
 Lee 1877 
 
 John McKellar 1880 to 188& 
 
129 
 
 APPENDIX No. 2. 
 
 List of Subscriptions to Pay off Mortgage Debt on Knox Church, 
 Ottawa, i2th November, 1894. 
 
 Association Lidies, Knox Church $500 00 
 
 Alexander, Mrs. H 25 00 
 
 Ami, Dr. and Mrs 200 00 
 
 Ashe, William ; 25 00 
 
 Adams, Samuel to 00 
 
 Anderson, Robert 25 00 
 
 Anderson, Mrs. Robert 25 00 
 
 Blackburn Estate _ _ ^ooo 00 
 
 Ballantyne, Rev. James, B. A 120 00 
 
 Buchanan, James 20 00 
 
 Beckett, Mrs. A 100 00 
 
 Blythe, Alexander . . 50 00 
 
 Billings, H. B ^o o^ 
 
 Belanger, Mrs 20 00 
 
 Blythe, Miss ^o 00 
 
 Buchanan, John J i^ oo 
 
 Buchanan, Miss r 00 
 
 Brennan, John e 00 
 
 Cunningham, C. R 300 00 
 
 Cunningham, Miss Jessie 50 00 
 
 Cunningham, Miss Ethel 25 00 
 
 Chisholm, A 160 00 
 
i i 
 
 M I 
 
 130 
 
 Claire, R. K $100 00 
 
 Campbell, H. S 4° 00 
 
 Campbell, Robt. H 25 00 
 
 Christie, A 25 00 
 
 Calvert, John and Robert 20 00 
 
 Corning, Mrs 15 o® 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. James 10 00 
 
 Campbell, Miss 6 00 
 
 Christian Endeavour, Y. P. S : 410 00 
 
 Dobier, Mrs. J 20 00 
 
 Dobier, John 15 0° 
 
 Dodd, Mrs 1000 
 
 Dewar, Miss Jessie 10 00 
 
 Davidson, W. J 25 00 
 
 Davidson, Master M 1 00 
 
 Eagleson, Jr 2500 
 
 Evans, Samuel 25 00 
 
 Fisher, A , 5° 00 
 
 Foote, Le Roy ^ 500° 
 
 Fairbairn, W, J 25 00 
 
 Fummerton, Wm 15 00 
 
 Ferguson, Wm. J 20 00 
 
 Garvock, A 5° 00 
 
 Garvock, A., Jr 25 00 
 
 Gray, Wm 20 00 
 
 Hay, George 1300 00 
 
 Hay, George, per M. B 500 00 
 
 Hay, Mrs. George • • • • • '°o °° 
 
131 
 
 Henderson, John . * 
 
 TT , ^ $25000 
 
 rlenderson, Stuart .... 
 
 T7 1 00 00 
 
 -tlorne, Miss 
 
 TT . 32 00 
 
 Harrington, Mrs 
 
 Heron, John 
 
 Hilliar, Mrs ""^ °° 
 
 TT r^, 2000 
 
 Heron, Thomas 
 
 Haig,M : '500 
 
 ■ * ■ 20 00 
 
 Jamieson, Robert. .. . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Kennedy, Mrs. Donald . 
 
 „ , 100 00 
 
 Kennedy, John 
 
 ,_ , 20 00 
 
 Kennedy, Isabella 
 
 10 00 
 
 Leslie, Mrs. John 
 
 T ' 150 00 
 
 Lawson, Samuel 
 
 , . 40 00 
 
 Laing, J. A 
 
 ■ 30 00 
 
 Laing, Mrs. J. A 
 
 _ . 30 00 
 
 Lamg, Miss Jessie 
 
 20 00 
 
 Laing, Robert 
 
 20 00 
 
 Low, James 
 
 20 00 
 
 Mutchmor, Alexander 
 
 200 00 
 
 Mutchmor, A. Percy. . 
 
 ^ • '■ ' 5c 00 
 
 Mutchmor, Ella W.. 
 
 50 00 
 
 Mutchmor, Harriett A . , . . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Mutchmor, Muriel B . . . . 
 
 20 00 
 
 Masson, Donald 
 
 * . . . 200 00 
 
 Masson, Robert 
 
 50 00 
 
 Mortimer, Mrs. A 
 
 10 00 
 
 Marlin, Miss 
 
 25 00 
 
 Millar, A 
 
 25 00 
 
I 
 
 f 
 
 4i 
 
 ;■;»- •_ ) 
 
 i !ti. 
 
 
 1 
 
 1: 
 
 .i '.i 
 
 i 
 
 t 
 
 1 
 
 i ' 
 
 132 
 
 McKellar, John $1000 co 
 
 McKellar, Miss Margaret 100 00 
 
 McKellar, Miss Kate 100 00 
 
 McMorran, Ralph M 300 00 
 
 McMorran, S i 00 
 
 McMillan, John, B. A 200 00 
 
 McMillan, Mrs. John 10 00 
 
 McMillan, Miss Isabelle T .' 10 00 
 
 McMillan, H. S . . , 10 00 
 
 McLellan, Mrs. A 1 25 00 
 
 Mcjanet, John 200 00 
 
 Mcjanet, Thomas 64 00 
 
 McFarlane, T. D 50 00 
 
 McAllan, R. H 100 00 
 
 McLaurin, John 50 00 
 
 McDougall, A. H 25 00 
 
 Mcintosh, D 20 00 
 
 Mcintosh, John 4 00 
 
 McLeod, J. H 2 00 
 
 McCracken, Wm , 15 00 
 
 McFayden, Miss • . . 5 00 
 
 McKay, Hiiam 25 oa 
 
 McCracken, Joseph and Robert 20 00 
 
 McLean, D, L 5000 
 
 Northrop, B. M 80 00 
 
 Ogilvie, Charles . 50 00 
 
 Ogilvie, Miss 15 00 
 
 Orr, Oliver 5 00 
 
 Porter William 500 00 
 
oo 
 
 133 
 
 Porter, Mrs. William $50 00 
 
 Peden, Robert ^^ ^^ 
 
 Potts, Joseph 2^ ^^ 
 
 Pirie, T. A 
 
 25 00 
 
 Po^e'-'Miss 2^ ^^ 
 
 Perry, James ^6 ^^ 
 
 Pearen, T 
 
 ' / 10 00 
 
 Robinson, Hiram j^^o ^^ 
 
 Robertson, George ^o 00 
 
 Roxborough, Thomas 50 00 
 
 Robertson, Mrs. John, (paid) 25 00 
 
 Robertson, Charles, (paid) i^ 00 
 
 Robb, George jo ^^ 
 
 Rainney, Miss ^ ^^ 
 
 Shearer, John ,„^ ^^ 
 
 ' •' • 200 00 
 
 Shearer, John, Junior ^o ^^ 
 
 Sieveright, Mrs ^^^ ^^ 
 
 Stalker, Hugh ^^ ^^ 
 
 Savage, Samuel ^^ ^^ 
 
 Savage, William 25 00 
 
 Sutherland, Miss 16 00 
 
 Swinburn, A r^ ^^ 
 
 ' 10 00 
 
 Turner, H. H \.r^ ^« 
 
 ' 40 00 
 
 Thorne, Mrs. J „« «„ 
 
 ' -' 30 00 
 
 Tomlinson, Miss ^ ^^ 
 
 Taylor, Mrs. James, (paid) ^ o^ 
 
 Taylor, William 2 00 
 
 Waters, W. W ^ ^^ 
 
134 
 
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 APPENDIX No. 3. 
 
 List of Members of Knox Church, Ottawa, who have entered the 
 Ministry, or are now studying for the same. 
 
 jvd 
 
 John Anderson. 
 
 Revd, Archibald Lee. 
 
 (i 
 
 Mr. Chestnut. • 
 
 '* David McLaren. 
 
 <( 
 
 W. McLaren, D. D., 
 
 " William Shearer. 
 
 
 Prof. Knox College. 
 
 " W. H. Geddes. 
 
 ti 
 
 David Wardrope. 
 
 " George Whillans. 
 
 (( 
 
 George Wardrope. 
 
 " G. A. Shearer. 
 
 (( 
 
 John B. Gourlay. 
 
 " Walter Dyde, 
 
 i( 
 
 John Ross. 
 
 Prof. Queen's College. 
 
 
 Guy Grant. 
 Alexander Grant. 
 Thomas McKee. 
 
 Mr, Alex. Anderson, 
 
 (died before completing his course.) 
 Mr. Hugh Ross, 
 
 student at Queen's. 
 
 (( 
 
 Alexander McLaren. 
 
 Mr. James Taylor, 
 
 
 Donald Fletcher. 
 W. M. McKibbin. 
 Robert Whillans. 
 
 student at McGill. ' 
 
 Mr. William Bremner, 
 
 student at McGill. 
 
 Mr. — Cameron, 
 
 II 
 
 J. Anderson. 
 
 student at McGill. 
 
 (( 
 
 R. R. McKibben. 
 
 ■ . -" V 
 
 1 
 
 
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 APPENDIX No. 4. 
 
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 e. 
 
 rse.y 
 
 CAP. CXXXVII. 
 
 An Act to incorporate *' The Temporal Committee 
 of Knox Church, in the City of Ottawa." 
 
 [^Assented to 2Q(h March, 1873.] 
 
 VUHEREAS the Kirk Session and Temporal Committee of Knox 
 Church, in the City of Ottawa, in communion with the 
 Canada Presbyterian Church, have by their petition represented 
 that it is in the opinion of the congregation of the said church, 
 expressed at a general meeting of the congregation thereof, that 
 the Temporal Committee of the said church should be incorporat- 
 ed, and that the lands and other property of the said congregation 
 held in the names of trustees should be vested in the said Tem- 
 poral Committee and their successors, to be elected at the annual 
 meetings of the said congregation ; and have prayed that the said 
 Temporal Committee should be incorporated with the powers 
 hereinafter contained ; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of 
 the said petition : - 
 
 Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of 
 the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as 
 follows : — 
 
 1. Robert Blackburn, Hiram Robinson, James W. Russell, 
 James M. T. Hannum, Samuel Savage, John Drysdale, Henry 
 McCormick, Alexander Kennedy the younger, Archibald McKel- 
 lar, Donald Masson, Alexander Anderson the younger, John Heron, 
 John Shearer, Hugh Masson, William Porter, James Hope, C. R. 
 

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 Cunningham, John Henderson, R. H. Graham, J. W. H. Dobier, 
 John Little, William Angus,Charles Sharpe, John Thorburn,\V. Mac- 
 Farlane, the Rev. W. MacLaren, John Durie, Alexander Kennedy, 
 Alexander Anderson, Alexander Mutchmor, George Hay, John 
 McMillan, Peter Fairburn, and their successors in office to be 
 elected in a manner hereinafter provided, and are hereby constitut- 
 ed and declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name 
 and style of "The Temporal Committee of Knox Church in the 
 City of Ottawa, in communion with the Canada Presbyterian 
 Church" ; and shall have all the rights and powers vested in cor- 
 porations generally by the Interpretation Act. 
 
 ■'"■»■•'-" 
 
 2. All the lands, tenements, hereditaments, and premises be- 
 longing to the congregation of the said church at Ottawa, and now 
 vested in trustees for their benefit, shall be and the same are here- 
 by vested in the said corporation upon and for the trusts, purposes 
 and uses declared and expressed in respect of the same, in and by 
 the several grants and conveyances thereof respectively, and sub- 
 ject to all mortgages and charges created thereon by the trustees ; 
 and all the personal property of the said congregation shall, and 
 the same is hereby vested in the said corporation in trust for the 
 said congregation. 
 
 3. On the second Thursday in January next, the whole of the 
 said Temporal Committee shall go out of ofiice, and the Temporal 
 Committee of the said church shall thenceforth consist of eighteen 
 members of the said congregation in full communion, six of whom 
 shall also be members of the Kirk Session, and shall be elected as 
 hereinafter mentioned ; and such eighteen members and their suc- 
 cessors to be elected as hereinafter provided, shall in virtue of such 
 election be members of the corporation, and shall have the same 
 powers as the members hereinbefore named and incoporated, and 
 shall go out of office at the expiration of the year for which they 
 shall be elected as aforesaid, but they thall be eligible for re-elec- 
 tion, as hereinafter contained. . 
 
 4. An annual general meeting of the congregation of the said 
 
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 church shall be held on the second Thursday of the month of 
 January in each year, in the building used by the said congrega- 
 tion as a place of worship, at which meeting there shall be elected 
 by a majority of the votes of the members of the congregation 
 then present, male and female, in full comnunion, eighteen mem- 
 bers of the congregation in full communion, six of whom shall also 
 be members of the Kirk Session, as successors to the members of 
 the Temporal Committee whose term of office expires at the time 
 of such annual meeting ; and in case of a vacancy occasioned by 
 the disqualification, death, resignation, or refusal to act of any 
 one or more members of the Temporal Committee, or by the fail- 
 ure to elect a Temporal Committee at any annual meeting, such 
 vacancy may be filled by the said congregation ^.t a special meeting 
 of the congregation called for the purpose, due notice of such 
 special meeting to be given from the pulpit of the church or place 
 of worship on the two successive Sundays immediately previous to 
 the day appointed for such special meeting : Provided always, that 
 in case ol the refusal or neglect of the said congregation to elect a 
 Temporal Committee as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Tem- 
 poral Committee elected for the immediately preceding year to 
 continue in office and act until their successors shall be appointed 
 at some special general meeting of the congregation or at the 
 annual general meeting, 
 
 5. At all meetings of the said corporation duly convened, any 
 five members thereof shall form a quorum for the transaction of 
 business, under the powers conferred on them by this Act, and it 
 shall be the duty of the secretary of the said corporation to call a 
 meeting whenever required so to do by any three members of the 
 Temporal Committee, or by the chairman of the said committee. 
 
 6. On the second Thursday of the month of January next, and 
 on the second Thursday in the month of January in each year 
 thereafter, all the members of the Temporal Committee shall go 
 out of office and shall cease to be members of the Temporal Com- 
 mittee for any purpose connected with the property held or to be 
 held in trust as aforesaid, but shall not by reason of having been 
 
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 previously members of the Temporal Committee, be dis(iualified 
 from being re-elected in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, nor 
 shall any member thereof who may be hereafter elected, from the 
 fact of his having been such member, be disqualified for reelection 
 after his term of ofifice shall have expired ; but nevertheless the 
 members o( the Temporal Committee shall always continue in ofifice 
 until their liuccessors have been elected as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 7. Meetings of the said corporation shall be held to be duly 
 convened by notice of such meeting to be given from the pulpit 
 on the Sunday preceding the day of such meeting, or by a notice 
 from the secretary addressed to each member of the corporation, 
 and mailed twenty-four hours at least before the time appointed 
 for the meeting. . 
 
 8. Should the said congregation desire to take a conveyance of 
 land for the site of a church, chapel, meeting-house, burial ground, 
 or residence for the minister, or the support of public worship and 
 propagation of Christian knowledge, such conveyance shall be 
 taken in the name of the said corporation. 
 
 9. Should the said congregation desire to ent:r into any con- 
 tract or agreement with any party or parties for the building, re- 
 pairing, extending or improving of any church, meeting-house, 
 chapel, or the residence of a minister, on lands held by the said 
 corporation, for the benefit of the said congregation, such contract 
 or agreement shall be entered into by the said corporation. 
 
 10. When a debt has been or may be hereafter contracted for 
 the building, repairing, extending or improving any church, meet- 
 ing house, or chapel, or the residence of a minister respectively, 
 on lands held by the said corporation for the benefit of the said 
 congregation, or for the purchase of the land on which the same 
 has been or is intended to be erected, the said corporation may 
 from time to time secure the debt or any part thereof by a mort- 
 gage upon the said land, church, meeting-house or chapel, or the 
 residence of the minister, or may borrow money to pay the debt 
 
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 or part thereof, and secure the repayment of the loan and interest 
 by a like nriortgage upon such terms as my be agreed upon : 
 Provided that no such mortgage shall be created by the said cor- 
 poration upon the land upon which any church, meeting house, 
 chapel, or residence of a minister respectively is or may be erected, 
 except in a case of a debt incurred or to be incurred (or the erec- 
 tion of such church, meeting-house, chapel, or residence of the 
 minister respectively. 
 
 11. The said corporation shall likewise have power to borrow 
 money from any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, 
 buildinf^ society or societies, banks or other institutions, authorized 
 to lend money upon the security of any lands held by the coipora- 
 tion for the purpose of building, repairing, extending, or improv- 
 ing any church, meeting-house, or chapel, dt the residence ot a 
 minister respectively, on land held by the said corporation, or for 
 the purchase of the lands on which the same has been or is 
 intended to be erected, and to mortgage the said lands for that 
 purpose, and to insert in such mortgage all usual and customary 
 clauses, conditions, stipulations, and agreements, and esjjeciaily a 
 power of sale in default of payment of the principal money and 
 interest, or either, or a p;irt or parts of either, as to the said cor- 
 poration shall seem meet : Provided that before such corporation 
 shall borrow money under this section, the congregation at some 
 general meeting shall have passed a resolution directing or approv- 
 ing of the borrowing of such money and giving such security. 
 
 13. When lands held by the said corporation for the use of 
 the said congregation become unnecessary to be retained for such 
 use, and it is deemed advantageous to sell the land, and the con- 
 gregation of the said church have, at a special general meeting 
 called for that purpose, expressed by the votes of a majority of the 
 duly qualified members of the said congregation present at such 
 meeting, their assent to a resolution to sell such land, the said cor- 
 poration shall sell such land for the best price which can be ob- 
 tained therefor, and shall convey to such purchaser or purchasers, 
 

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 his, her or their heirs and assigns, 3uch lands, and such convey* 
 ance shall be valid and efTectual to all intents and purposes. 
 
 13. It shall be the duty of the said corporation to raise funds 
 by voluntary contribution or otherwise, as shall from time to time 
 be decided upon by the said congregation for the support and 
 maintenance of public worship, and the propagation of Christian 
 knowledge according to the doctrine, discipline, and modes of 
 worshfr of the Canada Presbyterian Church ; and also for the 
 building, repairing, extending or improving any church, meeting- 
 house, or residence of a minister respectively on the lands held 
 by the said corporation for the benefit of the congregation : and it 
 shall also be the duty of the said corporation to manage the finan- 
 cial and temporal concerns of the said church, subject however to 
 the directions of the congregation expressed at any general meet- 
 
 > ing of the congregation, and to pay the ministers and all official 
 
 ) salaries, and all other just claims against the congregation ; and 
 
 such corporation shall also obey the lawful orders and directions of, 
 
 respectively, the Kirk Session of the said congregation, the pres- 
 
 : bytery of the bounds and the synod and General Assembly of the 
 
 Canada Presbyterian Church. 
 
 14. Within ten days after such annual meeting the members of 
 the said corporation then in office shall elect one of their members as 
 chairman, another as secretary, and another as treasurer of the 
 said corporation, who shall hold office till the close of the annual 
 meeting next after their election ; and vacancies in any of such 
 offices may be filled at any meeting of the members of the cor- 
 poration regularly convened ; and the chairman so elected shall 
 when present preside at all meetings of the corporation, and in the 
 absence of the chairman such one of the members of the corpora- 
 
 - tion present as a majority meeting shall name shall 
 
 preside ; and the chdlrr* lys have a vote at such meet- 
 
 ing ; and it shall 
 
 of I secretary to keep in books for 
 
 that purpose min. es or -ords of the proceedings had at the 
 meetings of the corporat' )n, which minutes shall be signed by the 
 secretary and chairman ui other person presiding at such meeting, 
 
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 and shall be kept and held by the said corporation in trust for ever 
 for the said congregation : and it shall be the duty of the said 
 treasurer to collect and receive all moneys due and collectable by 
 the said corporation, and to keep and dispense the same under the 
 direction of the said corporation, and to keep a true and faithful 
 account of all such receipts and disbursements. 
 
 15. It shall be the duty of the members of the said corporation 
 at each annual meeting of the congregation to submit a true and 
 perfect account in writing, fairly entered in books to be kept tor 
 that purpose, of all sums of money by them received, and of all 
 sums rated and assessed or otherwise due and not received, and of 
 all moneys paid by them as such corporation during their term of 
 office ; and they shall also on going out of office pay over and de- 
 liver over to their successors in office all sums of money, books, 
 accounts, goods, property and other things which shall be in their 
 hands as such corporation ; and in case such corporation shall 
 make default in rendering such accounts or delivering over such 
 money, goods, books, and other things as aforesaid, it shall be in 
 the power of their successors to proceed against them at law for 
 such default. 
 
 10. And whereas, the said congregation are building a c\ irch 
 in Upper Town, west of the Rideau Canal, in addition to the one 
 held by them in Lower Town, and it is expedient to make provis- 
 ion for the transfer of one of the said churches with the lands on 
 which the same i§ built, to trustees for the use of a second con- 
 gregation, to be organized by the presbytery of the bounds : 
 
 Therefore it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to 
 convey to trustees to be appointed for that purpose, as provided 
 for by chapter sixty-nine of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper 
 Canada, and any act amending the same, one of the said churches, 
 and the lands on which the same is erected, in trust for the con- 
 gregation when such may be organized by the presbytery of the 
 bounds, the said property when so conveyed to be used for like 
 purposes as those for which it is now used. __-—--—— 
 
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 142 
 
 17. And whereas, when the new church now in course of erec- 
 tion is completed, it may become a question as to which church 
 the corporation hereby created s^all apply : 
 
 Be it therefore enacted by the authorty aforesaid, that the ques- 
 tion shall be determined thus : a general meeting of the congrega- 
 tion of Knox Church shall be called for the purpose of deciding 
 in which of the said churches the congregation will worship, and 
 upon a majority of the duly qualified members of the said congre- 
 gation deciding that question, the said corporation hereby created, 
 with all the corporate power hereby conferred, shall belong exclus- 
 ively to such church in which the majority of th said general 
 meeting so decide to worship. 
 
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