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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est filmd d partir de Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcbssaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. rrata :o pelure, 1 d □ 32X 1 2 3 t 2 3 4 / 5 6 -x/C'V*- W-'X^ ^ S^IiJ! lunttiiij of tliii Sopfets. •A. SERMOTSr \ BY THE REV. JAMES J. HILL, M. A., ^ edor nf t^e |anslj of ^t. |o^n. PREACHED IN TRINITY CHURCH ON MAY 18th, 1873 , iuic», ANP PITHLISHEI) AT THE REaUEST OF THE PARISHIONERS. ST. JOHN, N. B. : J. & A. McMillan, printers. % . 1873. C/' y .J^ r**i ''i^f? "\ K-> (m: ^ ih^ Iandiii0 cf th^ loplista. J^ SERMON \ BY THE REV. JAMES J. HILL, M. A., r» %ztiox of 1^« f aris^ of S^t. |o^n. PREACHED IN TRINITY CHURCH ON MAY 18th, 1873, AND PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE PARISHIONERS. £T. JOHN, N. B. f J. & A. McMillan, printers, 78 prince wm. street. 1873. The historical information in this Sermon was kindly furnished me by J. W. Lawrenck, Esq. ; who has also prepared an Appendix to it. Ifc was not written for the press, but I cheerfully assent to its publication at the request of my Parishioners, with the earnest hope and prayer that the reading of it may lead them to seek an interest in that Saviour in whose coming Kingdom both I and they, soon to sever our connection as pastor and people, may hare our eternal home. SERMOlSr. \ V " Here have we no continuing city ; but we seek one to come," Heb. xii. 14. These words are true, true of all of us : " here have we no continuiug city." Whether we are seeking one to come is a question, the importance of which can only be equalled by the issues which hang upon eternity. It is especially forced upon our attention, my brethren, that there is no abiding place for us in this world, when we contemplate the many changes which the hand of time has wrought even within our own memory. If we only trace back with the finger of memory the wavy lines which time has drawn during the past twelve months, we are compelled to admit to ourselves how many and how great are the changes which we see around us. We may well say, in the words of the familiar lines, " Change and decay in all an und I see," and earnestly pray, " Oh Thou who changest not, abide with me." When penned by the great Apostle to the Grentiles, these words had a special reference to his own people and , nation. The Temple was still standing in all its glory. Jerusalem was still the capital of the Hebrew nation ; it had fallen into the hands of foreign rulers and its glory was departing, but the Romans had not yet begun ruth- lessly to destroy it; and, though five hundred years of trouble and anarchy had wrapped the country in gloom and sadness, yet were the people animated with the hopes of better days, and the anticipation of a Deliverer who would set his people free. " Jerusalem was builded as a city that was compact together." It was " beautiful for situation;" it was "the joy of the whole earth." The motto of the nation was, " Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces." And as far as human judgment could form a man's opinion, there seemed to be (because of the wondrous favour of Almighty Grod) one continuous onward and upward march of permanent pros- perity tor the country and its people. The sun of prosperity shone upon it with unclouded brightness, and the history of the land of God's chosen people was, notwithstanding its trials and difficulties, a series of pictures growing richer and brighter with increas- ing years. But now how changed ! " The city which was once so full of people now sits solitary 1 She has become a widow ! and she that was great among the nations, and Princess among the Provinces, how is she become tributary ? " "0 Jerusalem, thy breach is like the sea ; who can heal thee ? All that pass by clap their hands at thee ; they hiss and wag their hjad at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying : ' Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty? The joy of the whole earth ?'" If you visit the Holy Land to-day, you will find how truly the prophet's lament over that once noble and glo- rious city has had its fulfilment. "How is the gold become dim ! How ia the most fine gold changed ! " No matter of surprise then that the Apostle thus wrote to his nation and people: "Here have we no continuing city." It was an earnest appeal to them to look back, to retrcce their history, to watch the risings of that worldly spirit which had alienated their hearts from the living God, and made them to trust in broken reeds that could give them no help. Speaking to them, as he did, of the ful- ness and pieciousness of Christ's atonement, and of the wondrous provision which He had made for every soul that trusted in Him, He turns their thoughts to that "city which hath foundations, whose builder and n\aker is (no human hand nor human skill, \ni\) Ood," the Creator of all things, and he oays, by way of encouragement, if here we have no continuing city, no sure abiding place, if change is written upon all human affairs, let us seek that city which is to come ; a home in the kingdom of God, a lest in Heaven. How plain and forcible are these words then of the Apostle, when viewed in the liglit of his own people, his own country, his own day ; and when we look in our day at that same country now fulfilling the word of prophecy, its people scattered and peeled ; the Hebrew a mere tenantr-atr-will cf his own land; the land "trodden down of the Gentiles," and she who "sat as a queen," and "the joy of the whole earth" now but little more than a resting place for the traveller and a heap of ruins, we cannot but see how mutable and transitory are all earthly things. This day fthe 18th May) brings to our notice a contrast of 'i very different kind. This day, ninety years ago, the first steps were taken, and the first efforts made to reclaim from the wilderness this locality on which our city is built. We have been in the ascending ladder. From a waste and a wilderness, where no sound was heard but the voice of the forest bird, or the roll of the waves upon the beacli, the rush of waters over the falls, or the regular beat of the Indian's paddle, while the only dwellings were an occasional encampment of the wild children of the forest, we have now our present city with its thousands of inhabitants, its thirty or forty churches, its public buildings, its free schools, its courts of justice, its growing and increasing commerce ; its lines of railway connecting us with the whole American continent, its steam communication with Europe ; its telegraphic con- nection with every part of the world, and its every facility ^ for making it wealthy and successful, prosperous and happy. Every year makes some addition to its business facilities, and every year bears witness to the increase and growth of the country as an equal competitor in the race of life vnih other parts of the Dominion. Yet, notwithstanding its upward and onward growth, notwithstanding the fact of its contmuous increase, no less true is it, my brethren, of us than of " the city of the great King," which, sinking down from its lofty pinnacle of success to the lowest state of woe and ruin, teaches us that here, neither we nor they have any continuing city. Change writes its name upon all terrestrial things, and nothing here is so stable and secure that man can say with any more certainty than the rich fool, " 1 have much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." This ninetieth anniversary of the history of this city, is peculiarly suggestive of such thoughts as lead one to consider the transitory nature of all earthly things, and their Tnutability. " Our Fathers, where are they ?" Where are the men who braved the perils, the dangers, the hard- ships, the privation, the loneliness of the wilderness from love to their Sovereign, and an intense desire to remain loyal to their country ? Where are the men who laid the foundation of the good things we now are reapirg the fruits of? Where are the men who cleared the forest trees from our streets, who laid the plan of the city, who gave their names to the thoroughfares we traverse every day, who built our churches, and set in motion this hive of industry? And what supported them? What nerved them for their work ? Surely the answer may be briefly given in these words, short, brt full of meaning: Their patriotism, their loyalty, and their religion ; their love of country, their allegiance to their Sovereign and their love of Grod. When we ask the question, "Where are they?" we have the answer in the words of my text : " Here have we no continuing city." They have passed away; their very name" are imkni vvn to hundreds of the present generation, and of some of them there is not a lineal defccendant upon the face of the earth. They came to these s.iores seeking a new home, driven out of their former ones by the hand of revolt and oppression ; here they came for freedom and Mberty of conscience, and here they found their desire, but dearly had they to pay for their privileges. The homes they loved, the land where they had earned their liveli- hood, the sky under which they had worshipped the God of their fathers, they were forced to leave, and they sought in a new and wilderness land the freedom, the blessings, and the privileges which were denied them at home. They did not find, in this their new country, everything provided for them as the colonists from Stiotland found last week when they landed here to take possession of their new homes. Ninety years ago there were no hosts of friends to welcome the stranger, no easy transit prepared for them by which to reach their destination, no steamboats, no railroads, no tele- graphic wires, no speedy communication with the old coun- try across the ocean, no grand dinners and fine speeches and orations, but it was all solitary like the desert, all dreary like a wilderness; all was lonely, and nought but hard- ship and patient endurance awaited the early settlers upon our shores, whilst zeal and determination and an unfailing heart, together with fwe may hope and must believe in many) an untiring faith in the promises of God, were the vehicles which carried them over and beyond their many privations and hindrances to the object of their desire. Things have greatly changed since ninety year° -^go. Let us go back to that early day and take a brie look at the circumstances of those times, and the people who played the prominent part in church matters ; and first, as I have said, the place was a wilderness, and the early founders of the colony must have endured great sufferings, and must have met with and overcome and battled with many severe 8 privations. Yet they made here tiieir home, and her^, after the example of the patriarchs of Bible days, they set up their places of worship. They did not do as, alas, so many of the present day do, who are enervated by luxury and blinded by sin, excuse themselves from a confession of Christ before the world, and ignore His service, or turn their backs upon His table because of their difficulties I No, the difficulties of our ancestors, their privations, their hardships were their spur to seek more than ever, more zealously, more faithfully, that guidance, that God in whom, no doubt, they hoped those \^ho came after them would also trust. They make a great mistake who urge as an excuse why they do not heartily enter into Christ^s service that their worldly engagements are too engrossing and too absorbing, or they fear lest they should dishonour their profession. BuL how can they dishonour Grod more than by not believing Him that He will help them to live wise!;; , righteously, and soberly ; when He has repeatedly promised to do so; and of what use is Christianity if it is not for the very purpose of strengthen- ing a man to resist temptation, to overcome sin, to help hira live as Christ would have him ? Let none of us forget, and you especially my brethren who set no little store by the nobleness of your ancestry, that the surest and noblest way to exalt and perpetuate their fame is by a close imitation of their virtues and their piety. In this, as in everything else in life, deeds speak louder than words — fulsome ivords of praise are cheap modes of expres- sion ; it costs more to speak in deeds : choose you my brethren the latter mode, and let your lives, rather than your words, add praise to the fame of those who so long ago laid the foundation of our colony and our city — emu- late, if you can, their example, and let your lives bear the impress of that character which was stamped upon them by the power of Christ's love. The first thought of the Loyalists, after they had provided themselves with shelter, was to erect a place of worship to the honour of God, — and this they did on a lot on Germain street, between Duke and Queei. Their hurial ground was in the rear of that Church, and was used until 1819. The last interment in this ground was the remains of Thos. Horsfield, Esq., for many years a member of the Vestry, and whose tablet, erected by the Corporation of this Church, is on the wall at my left hand. This present Church was erected, partly by the labour and contributions of the Loyalists, aided by a contribution from the British government. It has been enlaiged twice ^mce its erection : once in 1811-12, when the chancel was extended and the Church lengthened by an addition from the two eastern columns, and again in 1857 the west end was added to, and a new tower and steeple were built. It is a marvel of archi- tecture for that day, and the forethought of its builders is shown in the fact that they made it at first of sufficient width to admit of its being drawn out to its present length. For many years it must have presented a strange appearance of being much too wide for its length, and unduly out of proportion, but we now, at this distant day may thank the men who were willing to forego their own taste (and they had a great deal of good tastej in order that their descendants might have the benefit and pleasure of using such a building. It is admirably adapted for sound, and is considered a fine building by the strangers who visit the city. The oigan placed here in 1804 by the liberality, chiefly, of Mr. John Black, whose brother, the Hon. William Black, was for some years a vestryman of this church, and whose relatives still worship here, has been a good one in its day, and still has considerable power. The church was not warmed with stoves until 1803 or 1804, so that for twenty years the worshippers had even in the way of such privations a good deal to try their zeal and their constancy, and we may imagine the attendants at public worship enduring B % 10 much, rather than forego the privilege of meeting God in the sanctuary, for here they, no doubt, often said : " I was glad wlien they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord.'' And here, no doubt, they often held fellowship and communion with Him whom they sincerely loved, and whom they faithfully served. Til 8 men who were connected most closely with the organization and building of this church (opened for Divine Service on Christmas, 1791) were Messrs. Rogers and Horsfield, Church Wardens, and the Vestry were the Hon. Gabriel Ludlow, Ward Chipman, Jarvis, Whitlock, Elmes, Hazen, Campbell, Rogers, Dr. Smith, Lawton, Bain and Hallet. They were men of whom their descendants may well be proud, and what is far more creditable to them., men whom they might well emulate in their good deeds and noble self-denial for their country and for their God., The times were hard; the difficulties to be overcome must have been very great ; the winters were long and severe ; the country yielded nothing ; every article of home consumption was imported, and yet how nobly these men contended against their hindrances, and how grandly they conquered them ; indomitable patience and perseverance marked their whole career, and we cannot but admire and praise their patient continuance in well-doing. Connected with the Royal Arms, hanging on the wall, there is a very interesting history, and I hope they will always be allowed to hang there as a relic of olden and event- ful times. In September, 1776, "Trinity Church," New York, with nearly one-third of the city, was burned to the ground. Everything was burned in the church except the Royal Arms; they were saved and brought here by the Loyalists, and were put up in the first house used as a church in Germain street. When this church was finished and to be opened for Divine Worship, they were, by an order of the Vestry, placed on the wall where they now hang. The day is coming when, in all probability, the 11 Church shall be severed from the State, and the Church of England shall be no more a pet of State patronage ; for its support, for its strength as an organization it will be thrown altogether on the people, and it will flourish, just in proportion to the spiritual power of the people who support and adhere to it. The vitality of a church rests on a more solid base than State patronage, money endowments, popularity, or a good name ; these may give it a certain standing in the eyes of men, but its true power is in its godly and pious members ; its Christ-like adherents, its crowded communions, its simple, earnest, faithful members. The Eoyal Arms will never be a source of strength to you, but they may remind you of days when strong men, of strong wills and deter- mination, and men who were sanctified by Christ's teach- ing, wrested their rights from the hand of t^eir enemies, and planted in a free country a free and noble Colony. They looked for strength and guidance to Him from whom, if we seek them as earnestly, we too shall he blest as they were by the reception of the same gifts. God grant that it may be so with you and your descendants. During this long period of ninety years there have been seven Eectors over this Parish. The Hev. George Bissett was the firsc. He came with the Loyalists and held the office till 1788, when death removed him from his sphere of labour. Dr. Byles held the office for twenty-five years, fron 1788 to 1814. The Eev. Mr. Pidgeon from 1814 to 1818. Eev. Dr. Willis from 1818 to 1826. Eev. B. G. Gray from 1826 to 1840. Eev. I. W. D. Gray from 1840 to 1868. There are, doubtless, many interesting facts and circum- stances belonging to this period, which it would be desir- able for some one versed in them to gather and put into readable shape, so that the history of these early times, with their invaluable lessons of untiring endurance and patient perseverance may not be lost. 12 There are some lessons which we ourselves may dravF from the thoughts suggested by my text in connection with these past events, to which, asking God's blessing upon them, we may turn our attention for a few minutes. " Here have we no continuing city ; but we seek one to come." The first is true ; past events corroborate it. Every day loosens our hold upon life. '' We begin to die as soon as we begin to live." How is it with us in regard to the second part of the text : " Are we seeking a city yet to come ? " The very natural inference we would draw from the brief statement of facts I have laid before you is this : The early settlers and founders of the Colony endured great privations, suffered many hardships, put up with many inconveniences, and adhered faithfully to their principles, not merely to procure food and shelter, and to escape the trials and persecutions to which they would have been exposed had they remained under a new and alien govern- ment, but they abandoned their homes and left their all ; they came and fought with their privations and difficulties that they might retain their fidelity to their Sovereign and worship Grod according to the dictates of their conscience. It was principle, not fancy nor prejudice which led them on and sustained them in their determination, and we may well believe, a deep-rooted love of God in many a breast which led them to honour His name and His word. His house and His day above all temporal advantages. They have all passed away. Our time has come to consider for ourselves the lessons suggested by the changes of the past, and also what may be learned from the bravery and patient endu- rance, the zeal and perseverance of those who laid the foundation of the city, and gave us this church to wor- ship in. I. The Transitoi^j Nature of all Human Affairs. — How many events of the very first importance to the 13 actors in them have transpired within these walls, the record of which may linger in the memory of a few living persons, or perhaps may be found only in the Parish registers. How many baptisms, the recipients of which never lived to maturity; how many confirmed, how many married, how many over whom our grandly impressive Burial Ser- vice has been read, and how many whose record is on a more enduring page, who first here, through the preaching of Christ crucified, have been brought to the Saviour, and now where are they? Of many, their very names are forgotten, and the place "that once knew them knows them no more." The voices of those who, for so long a • time, proclaimed here the Grospel of Christ, and pointed sinners to "the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world," have long been silent in the grave. Others take their places, and by these changes we are forcibly reminded how true are the Apostle's words, " Here have we TiO continuing city." We are all changing ; hurrying on with lightning speed to the end of our earthly sojourn ! Oh, that it may be true of us as it was of those to whom St. Paul wrote when he said : " We seek a city yet to come." Another lesson we may learn from the memories of this anniversary day, viz. : II. The earnestness with which we should seek a better inheritance. — There can be no doubt of this ; that it is no mistaken eulogy on the founders of this Colony to say that they werf! earnest; self-denying, enduring men — godly men, and men of deep piety. They forsook a great deal, and laboured hard to make themselves a home where they might still be loyal to their king and faithful to their God. May we not learn something from their acts? May we not learn to seek a more enduring city, an inheritance in God's kingdom above, with that earnestness and zeal which a man exhibits when seeking a thing which he believes is, worth having? Your ancestors sought a new home in. '■■» 14 the lonely wilderness, where they had unnumbered hard- ships to contend against, and a high price they paid for their freedom and liberty: we are offered, through the precious blood of Christ, an inheritance surpassing man's highest conception, for " Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered the heart of man the things which Grod had prepared for those that love Him." We are oflfered this glorious home without money and without price, " for he that believeth hath everlasting life." " They who believe do enter into rest." " There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." " Being justified by faith, we have peace with Grod, through Jesus Christ our Lord." How is it, my brethren, with you to-day? Are ye labouring to enter into that Eest ? Are ye striving to enter into the strait gate ? Is your eye upon the Crown of Grlory and your face set Zionwards ? Are you as zealous for the unseen things of eternity as you are for the perishing things of time ? Believe me, these are no idle questions ; but such as we all need seriously and heartily, as in the presence of Grod, to put to our own consciences. Many an one have I heard make this lament on their dying bed: "Would to Grod that I had been as eager for Heaven as I have been for earth." Let us, my brethren, profit by their experience, and avoid the rocks on which so many have made ship- wreck of their faith. Let us seek Christ now ; make sure work for eternity ; and seek at the great day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, " to be found in Him not having our own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of Grod by faith." — Amen. r I \ APPENDIX A. After the landing of the Loyalists in 1783', that part' of the city lying to the south of Union street was laid out into building lots, with streets and squares, with a reser- vation for Church and burial ground. The intention was, in accordance with universal custom in new countries, to ' have the two together. The spot chosen was the place for which, over half a century, has been known as the " Old Burial Grround:*' the intention was to build the Church on its south-west corner, facing the square, the frame for- which was cut off the land where the Court House stands.- - The fire of 1784, caused by the burning of brush, and' which ran over the whole north-eastern section of the city, and only stopping when arrested by the Kennebeccasis river, led to the abandonment of many of the lots in that' quarter, as well as the selection of another site for Church and burial ground. A lot on Grermain street, between Duke and Queen, , extending back to Charlotte, now owned and occupied by James McMillan, Esq., was taken for that purpose. The church erected was an unpretending one, intended for temporary use, until a better one could be built : it was unconsecrated, and after the opening of Trinity In 1791, was offered for sale at £200, without finding a purchaser. It was subsequently used by the Methodists, imtil their ' Grermain Street Chapel was built about 1805, — the Rev. Joshua Marsden being its first minister; and after them* by the Baptists until the erection of their first place of worship, on the corner of Queen and Germain streets, about 1819. After which, for many years, it was used for a dwelling house. The Presbyterians of those days, for the most part, went to Trinity Church. On Sunday evening, the 25th May, 16 1817, the ''^Kirk^^ was opened for the first time, the Rev, George Burns, D. D. having arrived that afternoon from Scotland. He continued its minister to the summer of 1831, when he returned home. He is yet living. B. The ground on which Trinity Church stands, was the gift of G-eneral Coffin, fwhose tablet, erected by his son, is in the Church,) and Thomas Whitlock, Esq., a merchant of the city, and for a number of years a Vestryman and Warden. G. The builders of Trinity Church were Messrs. Bean and Dowling, the former at its opening was a member of the Vestry, he died in 1823, aged 79 years. Relatives of Mr. Dowling still worship in the Church. D. From the King street fire of 1849, the cupola of Trinity Church ignited. To save the building, it was necessary to pull the cupola down, which, with the tower, was not erected until 1810, The builder, Mr. John Venning, after nearly comp^ ;ting the work, fell from the staging on the south side of the tower to the roof, and from it to the ground, and w s instantly killed. This unfortunate event occurred May 22nd, 1810. A slight fall of snow, the night before, made the stage slippery. Mr. Venning's age was 40 years. E. In 1812 the clock was placed on the Church: its cost and charges of importation, was £221 19s. sterling. It was defrayed by subscription, the City Corporation voting £50, and some time after assumed the charge of keeping it. The dial on the back of the Church was not placed there until 1857, when the new iower and steeple were built and the last enlargement of the Church made. F. The organ of Trinity Church was made in London, to- wards the cost of which Mr. John Black contributed £250 stg. He removed to Halifax, and was a leading merchant n there. In 1813, he was made a Legislative Councillor of N. S. He died in Scotland at the age of 58 in 1823. The freight on the organ was one hundred guineas: it was brought out in the ship ^' Brothers," belonging to Hon. Wm. Pagan, who remitted it. For a number of years Mr. Pagan was a Vestryman of tha church. 0. On the 27th August, 1792, the Vestry unanimously thanked Mr. William Thomson, for his verv handsome present of a bell to Trinity Church, and the" Hector and Church Wardens were appointed a Committee to wait on him with a copy of this vote. Mr. Thomson was the father • of the respected Miss Ann Tliomson of this city, wlio is* the oldest member of the Church liviiig, ai. s.ble to attend; its services. H. The stained-glass windows in the chancel of the Church was the gift in 1859, of John V. Thurgar, Esq., one of the oldest living members of Trmity, and who for many years was one of its most efficient Wardens and Vestrymen. To the elder portion of Trinity Church members, the- name of John Clark will be familiar. For nearly half a century he was Clerk of the Church, and held the office under five Hectors. At the opening of St. James' Cliurch, Lower Cove (where he lived,) in the fall of 1851, he was present. It was the last time he ever attended a place of worship. He died two years later at the great age of 94. K. In addition to the Dr. Botsford Charity Trust, Trinity Church holds the valuable trust for poor widows and orphans, bequeathed by the late Greorge Swinney, Esq., Assistant Commissary (xeneral. THE LATE BISHOPS OF NOVA SCOTIA. For over sixty years the Bishops of Nova Scotia had oversight and discharged Episcopal duties in New Bruns- wick. As all the ministers of our Church in those days were the missionaries of the " Society for Propagating the waiwpp; MM 18 Gospel in Foreign Parts," and by it was chiefly supported, the appointment of Rectors, although in the Representative 'of the Crown, was made by the Bishop as the representative of that society, as the following extract from a letter to the Vestry of St. John from the Bishop of N. S., after the deatii Dr. Byles, will shew : " My final recommendation to the Venerable Society for Propagating the Grospel, shall be solely influenced by the best consideration I can give to your highest interest." A brief reference, therefore, to them will be a fitting intro- duction to the early Rectors of our Churches in this Province. The Right Rev. Charles Inglis, D. D. Dr. Inglis, for a number of years preceding the Ameri- can war, was one of the assistant ministers of Trinity Church, N. Y. In 1777, six years before the evacuation of that city by the British, he was chosen Rector. In 1783 he went with his family to Halifax, and in 1787 was appointed Bishop of Nova Scotia, and consecrated at Lambeth by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of Rochester and Chester. He was the first Bishop appointed to a British colony. Dr. Inglis was as faithful to the Crown in his new home as he had been in his old one. The Legislative Council and Assembly of N. S. having invited him to preach before them he chose for his text Prov. xxiv. 21, "Fear thou thp Lord and the king, and meddle not with those given to change." Bishop Inglis consecrated Trinity Church. His ministry extended from 1759 to 1816. He died the lattei year, at Halifax, aged 82 years. He was the third son of the Rev. Archibald Inglis of Glen and Kilcar in Ireland. A tablet to his memory was placed by his son in St. Paul's Church, Halifax. The Right Rev. Robert Stanser, D. D. On the death of the Rev. John Breynton, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Halifax, Dr. Stanser was appointed his . successor. The chaplaincy of the Assembly having been resigned by the Rev. Joshua W. Weeks, he was also appointed to it : these offices he held to the death of -Bishop Inglis. The Legislature being in session when the \' Bishop died, the Assembly, by a unanimous vote, recom- • mended liira to the British Government as liis successor. In accordance with their wishes he was appointed, and went to England for consecration. On Dr. Stanser's return to Nova Scotia, he onl^ remained two years, wlien he went to England, and continued there to his death. His Eccle- siastical Commissary in N. S., was Dr. John Inglis, Rector of St. Paul's. The Right Rev. John Tnglis, D. D. Da. Inglis, the third Bishop of Nova Scotia, was the son of its first. On the elevation of Dr. Stanser, in 1816, to the Episcopate, he succeeded him as the Rector of St. Paul's, and in 1825, on his retiring from the duties of the Episcopal office. Dr. Inglis was appointed his successor, and proceeded to London for consecration, returning the following year. Bishop Inglis generally visited New Brunswick every three years. His first visit was in 1027, when he conse- crated the Stone Church. His last visit was in the summer of 1 840, and the last Church consecrated by him was St. Luke's, Portland, when he preached from the text, " The Lord is in his Holy Temple, let all the earth keep silence before Him." The late Major-General Sir John Inglis, who greatly distinguished himself in the East at the defence of Luck- ' now, was his son. He died in 1862, at the age of fifty. A fine tablet was erected to the memory of Bishop Inglis, in St. Paul's Church, Halifax, by its corporation, on which is recorded : " Endowed with talents op a high oeder, he zealously devoted his whole life to the diligent disciiakgb op his sacked duties, AS A MINISTER OF THE QoSPEL OF ChKIST. He died in London on the 27th op Oct., A. D. 1850, IN THE seventy-third YEAR OP HIS AGE, AND IN the twenty-sixth OP HIS EPISCOPATE." The First Bishop of New Brunswick. The Bishops of Nova Scotia ceased to have jurisdiction' over the Churches in New Brunswick in 1845. That year the Rev. John Medley, D. D., of the Diocese of Exeter, mmmmm 20 was nominated l»y the Crown, and consecrated to the office of Hishop. His title is Bishop of Fredericton, where he resides, and his Cathedral is one of the finest ecclesiastical edifices in America. Dr. Medley still continues to dis- charge the duties of his office. His first sermon after his arrival was preached in Trinity Church, from the words, " Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father." Dr. Medley has three sons in the ministry, two in England. The other is Rector of Sussex. THE FIRST RECTORS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. The Rev. Samuel Cooke, D. D. Dr. Cooke was educated at the University of Cam- bridge, and was sent in 1749 by the Society for Propagating the Grospel in Foreign Parts to New Jersey. In 1774 he retiirned to England on private business. In 1785 he was appointed Rector of Fredericton, and in 1790 Ecclesias- tical Commissary to the Bishop of Nova Scotia. In 1795 Bisliop Inglis wrote the Society for Propagating the Gos- pel : " It is with inexpressible concern that I have to ac«iuaint you of the unfortunate death of the Rev. Mr. Cooke, your old and most valued missionary at Fredericton. This venerable clergyman lived on the opposite side of the St. John river to that on which Fredericton stands. Some parochial duty called him thither on Saturday the 23rd of May (1795) and returning in the evening in a birch canoe, with his only son, an amiable young man, a sudden squall of wind overset it, and they both perished. Never was a minister of the Grospel more beloved and esteemed, or more universally lamented in his death. All the respect- able people, not only of his Parish, but of the neighbouring ->untry, went into deep mourning on this melancholy ■pi on. The Rev. John Beardsley i^ born at Stratford, Connecticut, and ordained in England in 1762. As there were no Bishops in the old Colonies, ordination could only be obtained by going to London, the Episcopal jurisdiction over them being exer- cised by the Prelate of that Diocese. V' 21 Wlien the war commenced Mr. Beardsley was livinj? at Poiijrlikeepsie, N. Y., and in 1777 was (^laplain of (^ol. Beverly Robinson's regiment, and with it came to New Brunswick. He remained in St. John for some time, and assisted in getting the frame out for a Church, wiMch frame was burnt in the tire of 1784. Mr. Beardsley was the first Hector of Mrugerville, wliere, after a ministry of over seventeen years, he resigned on account of age, went to Kingston, receiving half pay as chaplain. He died there in 1810. Mr. Fyler Dib})lee, now in his 89th year, is the oldest living member of Trin- ity Church, and is the grandson of Mr. Beardsley. The Rev. Samuel Andrews. The first Rector of St. Andrews was the Rev. Samuel Andrews. His farmer field of labour, like nearly all of the early ministers of our church in this Province, was in Connecticut. He lived to the great age of eighty-two, and died at St. Andrews in the year 1818. The Rev. Samuel R. Clarke. Mr. Clarke was from Milford, Connecticut, where he preached for nineteen years. He was the first Rector of G-agetown, and resided there for twenty-five years. The Rectory was burnt, and with it Mrs. Clarke, and a young lady a sister of \V. D. W. Hubbard, Esq., who was on a visit to them. It so affected Mi. Clarke that he resigned the Rectorship, and was succeeded by his son, who died August 1841, aged sixty-nine years. Air. C. afterwards went to St. Stephen, and was the first Rector of that place, and after a residence there of thirteen years died at the age of eighty-s^ven, in 1 824, alter a ministry of fifty-seven years. The Rev. Frederick Dibblee Was a native of Connecticut, and a graduate of King's College, N. Y., (now Columbia.) He was the first Rector of Woodstock. He died there at the age of seventy-three, in the year 1826. He has numerous descendants in York and Carleton counties. The Rev. James Scovil Came from Waterbury, Connecticut, where he was bom. He g-aduated at Yale College in 1757. His field of 22 labour was his native town and the surrourding country. Mr. Scovil was the first Rector_of Kingston, where he died at the patriarchal age of »«»«ty, in the year l-8ftS-. His son, the Rev. Elias Scovil, was his successor, who died in 1841 at the age of seventy. His son, the Rev. William Elias Scovil, the present Rector of Kingston, succeeded him. The late Willi' a Scovil, Esq., who for many years was a member of tl c Vestry of Trinity Church, and for twenty-four years consecutively a Warden, and served under five Rectors, was a son of the first Rector of King- ston, and by his first marriage a son-in-law of Dr. Byles. He died in 1851, at the age of 85, when a tablet to his memory was placed in Trinity Church by its Clorporation. The Rev. Oliver Arnold Was also from Connecticut, and like Mr. Sco vil, a graduate of Yale ColJege, where he took his degree in 177(). He '..as the first Rector of Sussex. He died at the Rectory in 1834 at the age of seventy-nine, his contemporaries of 1783 in the ministry, having all preceded him. His puccessor at Sussex '.vas his son, the Rev. Nelson Arnold, who has been dead for over twenty years. Rev. John Millidge, D. C. L. It was some time after 1783, before Westmorland Parish had a Rector. The clergymen v»rho officiated there at first, did not long remain : one of them, the Rev. Mr. Willoughby, returned to England ; the other was the Rev. Mr. Egleson. Its first Rector was the Rev. John Millidge : his father be- fore the war was Surveyor General of New Jersey, and afterwards, for a long time, a representative in the Nova Scotia Legislature, from Annapolis. Dr. Millidge was a brother of the late Thomas Millidge, Esq., for many years a leading merchant of St. John, and one of its representa- tives in the Legislature., and up to his death, in the year 1838, a member of Trinity Church. After leaving West- morland, Dr. Millidge, for a number of years, was Rector of Granville, N. S., and on leaving it wa? succeeded by the Rev. George Best, afterwards Rector of Fredericton. In 1817, Dr. Millidge was appointed to the Rectory of Annapolis, and its Garrison chaplaincy. He occasionally preached in Trinity Church, and when Dr. Byles died in S8 1814, a very general wish was expressed by its Vestry and Parishioners, that he should succeed him. Before learning their views, the Bishop had offered the living to Mr. Pidgeon, then Rector of Fredericton, and nominated the Rev. Mr. Mouutain, son of the Bishop of Quebec, his suc- cessor . I)r. Millidge, every third Sunday, held service in the Clements' Church, eight miles below Annapolis, and on the 27th November, 1830, when in the reading desk, had a stroke of paralysis, from which he died nine days after, and was buried under the chancel of St. Luke's Church, Annapo- lis, on the 9th day of December, at the age of 57 years. An old parishioner describes him as " A noble specimen of a man, a gentleman of the old school, much respected and beloved by all classes, and who had the happy faculty of winning the confidence and respect of the young." His wife was a sister of the late Hon. Charles Simonds, of Portland. In St. Luke's Church, Annapolis, a tablet was placed to his memory by his parishioners. THE RECTORS OF ST. JOHN PARISH. The Rev. George Bisset, A. M., Left England for Newport, Rhode Island, in 1769, to act as assistant minister to the Rev. Mr. Browne, Rector of Trinity Church. In 1771 he was cho'ion his successor, and remained at Newport until the evacuation of the Island by the British in 1779, when he went to New rork with several members of his church. At the close of the war he came to St. John, and was the first Rector of the Parish. In 1786 he went to England to urge his claims for the loss of property he obtained by his wife, and for aid for the erection of Trinity Church. He returned to St. John and died in 1788. The body of Mr. Bisset was interred in the Germain Street Burial Place. In 1791, it was removed to the Putnam Tomb, in the " Old Burial Ground," King Square. On the 27th of November, 1791, "The thanks of the Rec- tor, Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church, was unani- mously voted to Mrs. Putnam, for the respect shewn by her, to the memory of the Rev. Mr. Bisset, deceased, the late worthy Rector of this Church, in removing and receiv- *ag his remains in her tomb." Her husband, who died in H 1789, at the age of 64 years, was the Hon. James Putnam, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court in New Brunswick. Mrs. Putnam died in 1798, at the age of 66 years. The tomb and grounds are to-day in the best condition. On the 11th March, 1788, on the death of Mr. Bisset, a Latin epitaph appeared in the Royal Gazette, of which the following is a translation : " A man most excellent, also replete ^\lV-r\OH;'. With nature's gifts and grace's richer stores, " ' ^^ rVt^A \\ Thou Bisset wast ; these to the world dispensod. 'I^cnJ. bcir\i\V\an sJ^'^t.U Tn different places, thou at length Hast reached the realms of rest, to which thy Lord V-^o^t^nc.^s^ vejC'teAdV Has welcomed thee, with his immense applause. " All kail, my servant, iv thy various trusts " Found vigilant andfaitrij il: sec the Ports, " See the eternal Kingdom of the s/des " With all their boundless g/ory, boundless joy " Opened for thy reception, and thy bliss." Meantime the Body, in its peaceful cell Reposing from its toils, awaits the star, WhoF. living lustres lead that promised morn, VVhoKe virifying dews thy mouldered corpse Shall visit, and immortal life inspire." A contemporary wrote of him : " He is a very sensible man, a good scholar and composer of sermons, but diffident in company and the pulpit." The Rev. Mather Byles, D. D. The second Rector of St. John was Dr. Byles. He was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1751, and for fifteen years was the minister of a Congregational church at New London. Leaving that body, he went to England and took orders in the Episcopal Church, and on his retii.rn to Boston was chosen Rector of Christ's Church. In 1776, when the Biitish troops left Boston, Dr. Byles and his family went to Halifax- and was appointed Chap- lain to the garrison, retaining that post until his appoint- ment to the Rectorship of St. John, on the death of Mr. Bisset in 1788. On Christmas morning, 1791, Trinity Church was opt aed. Dr. Byles preaching the first sermon. The house where he died can be seen on the south-west < orner of the mprket lot facing Germain street. During I lie last seven years of his life the duties of the Parish were mostly discharged by his assistant, the Rev. Roger Viets, for many years after Rector of Digby. Dr. Byles died a the 12th of March 1814, in his eightieth year, having been Rector of St. John for nearly twenty-six years. 1 \ 25 The Rev. Gteorge Pidgeon. The first Bishop of Nova Scotia had two daughters, the elder of whom married Chief Justice Haliburton, the younger the Rector of Fredericton, the Rev. Mr. Pidgeon, who also was Ecclesiastical Commissary. Mr. Pidgeon was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1762, of which place his bro- ther was Rector, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the Rifles as ensign, and v/ent with the regiment to America, on the breaking out of the war : at its close it went to Halifax, where, on the suggestion of Bishop Ingiis, he took orders in the Church. He was appointed Rector of Fredericton, on the death of Dr. Cooke in 1795. On the death of Dr. Byles he was appointed to the Rectorship of Saint John. His successor at Fredericton was the Rev. Jehoshaphat Mountain, who afterwards removed i ^. Quebec and succeeded his father as Bishop of that Diocese. For some time previous to his death his health would noi admit of his performing service, and the Church was not opened for worship, as the duties of the Parish devolved entirely on himself. The Vestry, for some time, were desirous of obtaining an assistant, and had given the Hon. William Black, one of their body, then in the old country, authority to secure one. The Vestry, in writing Mr. Black, said : " The gentleman to be engaged must not labour under any defect that will class him an inferior speaker. Eloquence, however desirable, we do not look for, but think the Parishioners will require a delivery distinct, emphatical, and sufficiently loud. Therefore, however valuable his other qualifications, we beg you to decline an engagement with an/ gentleman whose utterance and manner in the pulpit may be decidedly ungraceful. An entire freedom from Scottish accent cannot be expected should your engagement be made in North Britain. Wm. Scovil, (Signed) Harry Peters, Z. Wheeler, E. Barlow." Mr. Pidgeon unexpectedly died on the 6th of May, 1818, after a ministry at St. John of only four years. The press, in referring to his death, added: "His pious and benevolent character, and amiable manners, will long en- dear his memory to his numerous friends." Mr. Pidgeon was interred in the "Old Burial Ground." His tomb is in good condition. On it is the following inscription: _ , _ - - . - - i6 " Under this Sto5e? are placed the earthly remains of the BEV. GEORGE PIDGEON, FORMERLY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DCBfLIN. late rector in this parish and ecclesiastical commissary in this Province 23 Years. He Died May Gth, 1818, aged 57 YEARS. The Eev. Robert Willis, D. D., The fourth Rector of St. John, at the time of his appointment, was a Chaplain in the Royal Navy, his ship being in Halifax in 1817. At the request of the Bishop, on account of the health of Mr. Pidgeon, necessitating the suspension of service in Trinity Church, Mr. Willis visited St. John and remained for some weeks. So acceptable were the services of Mr. Willis that efforts were made to retain him. At this time Mr. Pidgeon unexpectedly died, and shortly after Mr. Willis succeeded him as Rector and Ecclesiastical Commissary to the Bishop. Carleton at this time %/as a part of the parish, a small church was erected there in 1804, called St. John's Chapel, service was held occasionally itl it until 1822, whe'i St. George's Church was opened. In 1825 Carleton was made a separate parish. In 1819 the Rev. Abiaham Wood arrived from England, and was an assistant to Mr, Willis to 1822, when he went to the Grrand Lake, having exchanged with its missionary, the Rev. Frederick Coster. Mr. Wood still survives, and is the oldest minister of our church iii the Province : for some time he has been living iu St. John, and is now an attendant at Trinity Church service. It was during Mr. Willis's time the Stone Church was built, it was opened for service in 1825, Archdeacon Best, of Fredericton, preached the sermon from the words, ^^ Peace be withiyi thy walls.^' At this time Dr. John Inglis, Rector of St. Paul's, Halifax, succeeded Bishop Stanser, and Dr. Willis was appointed his successor and Archdeacon of the Diocese. \' 27 He held these offices to his death. His successor at St i^^ ' w-n' P'^'^"* ^^'^*°^' t^« -"^ev. George Hill, .f T • 7^1;f^ was married twice, each lady being members of Trinity Church. The first died in St. John, 1821, The ETr'H)S''w?n'''^- ''^^ ''''''' «f Salisbury he Rev. Cuthbert Wilhs, is his son by his second ^^fe a daughter of the late Colonel Billop, who died at his resi! dence m King street, Saint John, in 1827, at the a^e of 90 ^Sd 80 y^arl"'^ '''' '' «^"^^' ^ the'21st Aprfl! mt The Rev. Benjamin Gterrish Gtray, I). D. On the appointment of Dr. Willis to St. Paul's, the Society for Propagating the Gospel appointed the Rev. George Best as his successor. The Bishop, at the sam^ bme, appointed him his Commissary for New Brunswick. The Rev. B. G. Gray, Rector of St. George, Halifax bein^ appointed to Fredericton. The RepreLkative ^f thf abTJTo Mr R.^f *1 presentation was vested, was unfavour- able to Mr. Best leaving Fredericton, as he felt the Eccle- siastical Commissary should live at headquarters. The parishioners of Mr. Best were also opposed to a change Ihe consequence was, he remained, and the Rev B G Gray was appointed to St. John. Dr. Gray its fifth Rector, was bori: at Boston in 1768 and went with his father to Halifax on the evacuation of Boston m 1776. He graduated at King's College, Wind- sor and proceeded to England, where he completed his studies. For scientific pursuits and the fine arts he had much taste. A pen and ink sketch of Nova Scotia scenery ot his, was sent by Governor Wentworth as a present to the poet Moore. '^ i- vu ^ ■ih^L?'^^ T ""'.^^jf'l by Bishop Inglis, at Halifax, on the last Sunday of September, 1796. At that time he was m his twenty-ninth year. His first mission was as Chaplain to the Maroons, at Preston, five miles from Halifax, who had been brought from Jamaica to Halifax by the British Government, and in 1800 sent to Sierra On the death of the Rev. George Wright, Rector of St. Georges, Halifax, in 1819, he was appointed its Rector, reta nmg it to his coming to St. John in 1825. Ou th£ death of Archdeacon Best, Rector of Fredericton I W l< : mi mst 28 in 1828, he was nominated his successor, and although very urgently pressed to accept the appointment, he declined. For a number of years after coming to St. John, the Parish of Portland and the eastern portion of the County was a part of his cliarge. He was instrumental in the erection of Grace Cliurch, Portland, and down to the settlement of a resident clergyman, he and his assistant held service in it every Sunday evening. It was the first free church in the Diocese. In November 1833, he sustained an irreparable loss in the death of his wife ; the Eectory on Wellington Row was burnt, and with it Mrs. Gray and a female servant, both of whom had followed Dr. Gray to the foot of the stairs, when, unknown to him, they went back and never re- turned. His Library, which at that day was the best in the Pro- vince, was also destroyed, as well as the Records of the Parish. Dr. Gray retained the Rectorship to 1840, and the Garrison Chaplaincy to his death. He died on the 18th February 1854, after a ministry of fifty-eight years, at the age of eighty-six. On the tablet to his memory in Trinity Church, erected by its Vestry, is recorded : " SOUND IN DOCTRINE. IN LABOURS ABUNDANT. A FATHER TO THE POOR." r The Rev. John William D. Gray, D. D., The sixth Rector of St. John, was the son of his prede- cessor. On the resignation of Dr. Willis, and the declining on the part of Mr. Best to succeed him, the Vestry of St. John strongly urged the appointment of the Rev. J. W. D. Gray, then Rector of Amherst. Difficulties were in the way, which at that time prevented the attainment of their wishes. The result was, his father, then Rector of Saint George, Halifax, consented to accept it, and he became his assistant, retaining that position in the Parish until 1840, when he became Rector. Dr. Gray was born at Halifax in 1798, and was a graduate of King's College, Windsor, towards which he always felt a warm interest. In 1846 he went to England in its behalf, the Bishop of Nova \ ll Scotia finding a clergjman to assist in his parish during his absence. He was one of the Governors of the College at his death, also a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton. In 1821 lie was ordained in London by Bishop Howley, and after an absence of a year returned to Nova Scotia, and entered on the work of the ministry at Amherst, where he continued to the close of 1825, when he came to St. John. During his rectorship here St. James' Church was built, and the southern section of St. John set off as a separate Parish by the name of St. James. A few years later the northern section of the City, with the Stone Church, was made a Parish, by the. name of St. Mark. From his first coming to St. John, like his friend and parishioner the late Chief Justice Parker, he was unwav- ering in his support of the " British and Foreign Bible Society." In the Sunday School of the Parish he always took the deepest interest. During the whole of his ministry it occupied a first place in his thoughts. Since his death a fine oil portrait of their late Eector, has been placed by the teachers in their room, in the Sunday School building adjoining the church. In 1860 Dr. Gray's health was so much impaired, that a visit to England was made. It resulted in its partial restoration, so that he was able to take part in the duties of the Parish and preach on Sunday mornings. For some years before his death he had an assistant. In the fall of 1867 his health was .o bad, that entire rest and change was indispensable. He went to Halifax with Mrs. Gray on a visit to their son, where he continued to sink until February 1st, 1868, when he expired at the age of seventy, after a connection with Trinity Church, Parish of St. John, for forty-two years, fourteen as assistant minister, and twenty-eight as Rector. As a controversial writer, a preacher and speaker. Dr. Gray ranked among the first. On his tablet in Trinity Church, erected by its Corporation, is inscribed : a ripk scholae and an able divine. An Uncompromising defender of the Protestant Faitu. Kind AND Courteous, He lived beloved and revered, ' And Died UNIVERSALLY LAMENTSn. t,T~r ^ 80 II The following on a cablet in Trinity Church, to one " Who hath done what she could^''^ will be a fitting close to "Old Trinity" and its "Old Rectors." SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH DeBLOIS, late superintendent in Trinity Church Sunday School, who died ist june, 1869, in thb 78th Year of her Age. this tablet 18 erected by thb Teachers and Scholars of the sunday schoor., in token op their Love and Esteem for the Deceased, and in remembrance of her Faithful and zealous services therein for more than Forty Years. " Blenaed are the dead which die in the Lord, they rest from their labours and their works dc follow them." — Rkv- xiv.13. The great age to which nearly all referred to attained, recalls the text from which the Rev. Canon Harrison, Rector of St. Luke's, Portland, preached on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 9th, 1868, in Trinity Church, on the occasion of the death of its late Rector : " Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of com Cometh in in his season" — Job v. 26. ' v.* tk EASTER MONDA-Y, 1791, 5, aB>'*^«>'»-'''it' Rector. HEV. MATHER BYLES, Churchwardens. ^ .' THOMAS HORSFIELDj^f^j^ FITCH mQERS. ,v^A% H .sj Vestrymen. HON. GABRIEL LUDLOW, llMM WILLLAM HAZEN, \fe^*+ -iS^ WARD CHIPMAN. lOMr^'. ^ " coLIN CAMPBELL, \-\ "l^ , NEHEMIAH ROGERS, u^t^i'^ ^ . ISAAC LAWTON, THOMAS BEAN, \ % 7-5 ^ *)f«^ SAMUEL HALLET. WARD CHIPMAN, iQ^^/o MUNSON JARVIS, *5^/t> THOMAS WHITLOCK, NATHAN SMITH, ?\ Mrjs THOMAS ELMES, Vestry Clerk-^coiAS campbell. Sexton — JAMES m'pherson. Samuel Smilek held the office of Sexton from 1793 to 1814. when ha resigned on account of age. E^STEI^ MONDAY, 1S15. Rector. rev. GEORGE PIDGEON. OjuUA .%\% Church Wardens. WILLIAM SCOVIL, ADINO PADDOCK. 1 ^ > ? - Vestrymen. I %^ (a HON. WILLIAM BLACK, XH'i-^ WARD CHIPMAN, ^<^l+3 DAVID HATFIELD, ^jfjH- SAMUEL MILES, |gf 1 HARRY PETERS, ^^ (^ \\ JOHN WATERBURY, Vestry Clerk — craven calvery. 1 Jj 5 | Sexton — WILLIAM Rogers. craven calvery, henry gardner, munson jarvis, john nutton, thatcher sears, zalmon wheeler. ■ if m 32 EASTER MOISTDA-Y, 1819. \^s! Rector. REV. UOBEKT WILLIS. \^ 5 HON. ROHERT PARKER, CHARLES WAR]), \^\0\ IK >RERT W. ( ROOKSHANK, ELISHA l)i:W. RATCHFORD, yg MM GEOROE SEARS, DANIEL SC'OVIL, H. A. KINNEAR, L. H. DEVEBER, ■ THOS. L. NICirOLSON, JOHN KLVNEAR, A. S. PERKINS, WILLIAM SCOVIL. 1 ?S | Vestry Clerk — george wheeler. Sextun — ROBERT SMITH. EASTER MONDAY, 1BT3. Rector. REV. JAMES J. HILL, A. M. Church Wardens. 1^75 BEVERLY ROBINSON, JOHN SliARS. Vestrymen. LEBARON L. BOTSFORD, WM. HARRISON, SIMEON JONES, GEORGE H. LAWRENCE, CHRISTOPHER MURRAY, THOMAS M'AVITY, RICHARD M'GIVERN, JAMES M'NICHOL, JUN., JOHN W. NICHOLSON, WM. W. WEDDERBURN, CHARLES W. WELDON, GEORGE W. WHITNEY. Vestry Clerk and Treasurer — h. lawrance sturdee. Organist — profkssor martens. Sexton — WILLIAM FALLIS.