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History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; From Its Commencement in 1765
History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island From Its Commencement in 1765 Author:James Robertson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: J. Johnstone Subjects: Presbyterian Church Nova Scotia History / Canada / General History / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867) History / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) Religion / Christianity / Presbyterian Notes: This is a black an... more »d white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Biographical Sketches of the Ministers who composed the Presbytery of Truro at its original formation -- The Rev. David Smith, the Rev. Daniel Cock, and the Rev. Hugh Graham. We omit the name of the Rev. George Gilmore of Windsor, as he was only a correspondent member of presbytery at its formation, and does not appear to have attended its subsequent meetings. He was from the States; and our conjecture is, that he is the missionary referred to by Hodge as in the employment of the Presbytery of New Brunswick. We omit also for the present the name of the Rev. James M'Gregor, of whom we shall furnish a particular account afterwards, because he himself refused to be regarded as a member of this presbytery, and at a later period, along with other two brethren, constituted another presbytery, whose origin and history it will by-and- by devolve upon us to trace. The Rev. David Smith was ordained at St. Andrews, Fife, at the close of 1764 or beginning of 1765, and acted as clerk of the Presbytery of Dunfermline. He was chosen moderator of Synod, at its meeting in the New Kirk of Falkirk, May ] 766, and opened the October meeting in Bristo Church with a sermon from 2 Cor. ii. 17: "For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ." His appointment to Nova Scotia, as we have already...« less