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#4 to the Indians on the Grand River. Amongst the Indians he made his home and tviled for eight years. The last few years his home has again been in Durham, but a large part of his time hbas been tully occupied in Christian work on his old fields in Grey and Bruce. pieh ~/ vthib "vp Nininait caier s > Sanir Avrsinsarsiniint £ Wc rtainda My father bad his home in Durham till 1867 ; he then remoyed to Teesâ€" water, where he remained nearly three years ; then spent one year in Goderich township, Co. Huron, whence he went All Ican do here is to summarize my father‘s work and to give a few tacts and incidsnts which may serve toindicate bow that work was done. â€" He travelled and labored as a missionary all through Grey and Bruce, through parts of Simese, Wellâ€" ington. Waterloo, Huron, Norfolk, and on the Indian Reservation. He did the pioncer work and organized the churches in Durham, South Arthar, North Arthur, Mount For est, Priceville, Hanover, Greenock, Holland, Salliâ€" van, Elderslie ( now Chesley ) He preached and baptized in Tiverton, and the church there was organized by the Rev. Wm. Fraser. He helped in revival work and in organization of the church amongst the Germans in Carrick. He frequently visited Smr ner. He organized the church in Goderich township. The church in Durbam wao organized with twelve members in 1853 in that room which be reared in the forest. In a certain room im a cloth factory connected with Watson‘s Mills, in the villiage of Waterloo, near Berlin, my tather was ordained, on Jan. 29th, 1851, to the work of the Christian ministry. The Rev. A. Slaght, who has been my father‘s friend for forty years, will remember that occasion well. Soon after his crdination he went to Durbam, Co. Grey, took up a lot there, cut down the trees, built a single room of a house, and began his missionary work. The family was removed to Durham in January, 1853. Over the steps of my father‘s conversâ€" ion I need not go ; nor need I sgeak of the seyere struggle through which he passed in leaving his staunch Presbyâ€" terianism and in becoming a Baptist. In the summer of 1845, just forty years ago, he was baptized at Fredericksâ€" burg (now Delbi) by the Rev. D. W. Rowland. He had already begun to try to preach and to doany Christian work which came in his way. He was about to go the Montreal Baptist College when he was persuaded by what was then the Baptist Union to labor as a Colporteur. In this work he toiled hard for a year, going as far north as Darham, Owen Sound and Cape Rich. That year left him completely bankrupt, owing to the simple reason that somehow the promised $200 salary was never pard him. It I am not mistaken there is somewbere in the accounts of this moral universe, a pretty large item to my tather‘s credit, entitled unpaid¢ salaries! This was the beginning and end of his education so far as schools are concerned, but it served to initiate him into the mysteries of reading, writing, and cyphering. In March of the memmorable year 1832, he embarked at Aberdcen on the brig © Annandale,‘ bound for Quebec. He paid three pounds for his passage and boarded himself. The yoyage was rough and and lasted seven weeks. At the end of it he stepped ashore, a sturdy Seotch youth of eighteen with a total capital of three pence in hig pocket. He obtained employment at once in a wholesale grocery in Quebec, and after three months there and eight months in a wholesale dry goods store in Montreal he came on to this Frovine. In 1836, shortly betore the Rebellion, he settled in the county of Norfolk, where for seyveral years he worked in a saw mill, being at one time entrustâ€". ed with the oversight of two large mills. In 1842 he was married near Simeoe, to Esther Stratton Wilson. It is not easy for me to write my mother‘s name here and not pay her a passing tribute. Nor would any account of my father‘s work te complete which made no reference to her. If I say that work never would or could have been done without her my father will be the first to endorse the statement.. It eyer a woman was a true helper and | companion to her husband, an untfailâ€" ing source of strength, courage and inspiration, that woman was my mother. With her for an ally it was impossible to be utterly discouraged or to give up. While her children live the memory of her quiet dignity, and womanly grace, and deep Christian devotion cannot fade. My father was born in the year 1813, in the (farish of Mortlach, Banffshire, Scetland. _He was the youngest son of William Stewart, a small ftarmer in lowly cireumstances,. At eight years of age he went to work as a herder of cattle : and it was several years later, when he had saved a little from his earnings, that he returned home went to school in Dufftown for sixteen weeks. It is with no small degree of pleasnre | that 1 respond to the request of the ; Rey. A. Grant, to write a sketch of, my honored tather‘s career as a home missionary. _ Preparing this sketch I trust that I shall be guilty, neither of any breach of modesty on the one hand, nor of any lack of filiil devotion on the other. How heroic and trnlyl apostolice my father‘s career has been it will not be for me to say : my daty is to record the tacts and to allow them to speak for themselyes. Nok Life of Rev. Alex. Stewart. By his son, J. W. A. Stewart, B. A From Can. Baptist, April 1, 1886 UBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuâ€" P ant to authority of Orders in Council, the Red and White Fine iimber in the tollowâ€" iug townships in the DISTRICT OF ALGOMA, namely :â€"The Townships of Grabam (part} Hart, Cartier, Levack, Jarvis Anderson, Chesley, Gillmor, Whitman, Curtis and Rutherford ( part), and certain areas between the Pigeon River and the Arrow River waters in the District of Thcnâ€" der Bu{. will be offered for sale by Fublic Auction at the Parliament Buildiugs, in the City of Torâ€" onto. on TUESDAY, the SEVENTEENTH day of SEPTEMBER next, at the hour of ONE o‘clock iu the afternoon. At the same time and place certain forfeited aud abandoned Bfinbs in tte Townships of Digby, Sherborne and Lutterworth, in the District of Haliburion and County of Victoria, will be offered for sale, the purchasers of these latter, Bertbs to have the right to cut all kinds of timber. Sheets containing terms and conditions of Sale and information as to Areas and Lots and Conâ€" cessions comprised in each Berth will be furpishâ€" ed on application, either personal or by letter, to the Depariment of Crown Lands, Teronto, or tre Crown Timber Agencies at Ottawa, Sault Steâ€" Marie and Port Arthur. E. J. DAVIS, Commissioner Crown Lands. May God spare to us that honest heroic Christian soul yet a while ; and when he departs may he leaye his mantle behind him. The following interesting items must close this sketch. He held religious services in twentyâ€"eight piaces where there was ns church. At one time and place be baptized four entire households; at another time three households ; twice he baptized three generations at the same time and place ; the oldest persons he baptized was eightyâ€"five. He neyer left a chapel in debt the building of which he had encouraged. Once he had a dirk pointed at his heart, another time a pistol was levelled at him, twice he was stoned, once threatened with a club, because he preached the truth. And so I might go on. How many amusing stories might he told, how many not amusing. artment of Crowh Lands, P Toronto, June it not that in 18589 when the little chapel in Durham was builr, my father, besides his manual help, paid on that chapel out of his owen pocket and out of his poverty ninetyâ€"six dollars and twenty cents. How he did this 1 canâ€" not tell, but I found the bill of it lately in rummaging his papers. How did he and his family live through those early years? Please do not ask me to give a complete answer to this question. Let a few hints suffice. Two summers my father went to the older sarts of the Province and worked in the harvest fields, One year his entire income, from Convention and tield, was one hundred and thirty seyen dollars and fifty cents. He chopped and drew his own wood. He got all out of his little bit of ground that it could: be made to yr:eld. While he labored on my mother opened the house to boarders, sold milk, vegetables, and I know not what. The egge of actual want was reached more than once. The family could not possibly have veen clothed had it not been for the kindness of Christian friends in Toronto and elsewhere whose kindness my father cannot forget. I see distinctly before me now the first coat that was actually bought for me out of a store! Perhaps I might have had that coat sooner were _ _ How did he get about oyer all that extent of country? Let me tell. It was chiefly by means of those instruments of locomotion which kind nature supâ€" plies, viz., his own two feet. When he went to Durham he had a horse and wargon, but he sold the horse to pay for his little lot of ground, and the waggon to pay for the carpenter work of his little house. For eight years he journeyed on foot. To get up on Sunday morning and walk to Mount Forest (sixteen miles) for the eleven o‘clock service was nothing. To start on Saturâ€" day evening after his children were all in bed and walk to Chesley (twentyâ€"two mwiles), or to South Arthur (twontyâ€"five nules), or to Greenock (twentyâ€"tive miles) was a regular thing. It he had to go to Owen Sound (twentyâ€"eight miles), or to ( Fergus forty miles \, or to Tiverton (fortyâ€"five miles) he set off on foot as unconcernedly as one now takes the train. One walk of his I am disposed to boast of, _ He had an appointment ts preach, and to baptize for the firs, time in Durham, at eleven o‘clock one Sunday morning. â€" Friday afterâ€"noon at four o‘clock found him near Simcoe. County of Norfolk, one hundred and twenty miles from Durham! At that hour Friday hbe started. Somebody let him ride on horseback the last twenty miles. The rest of it he walked eyery foot, He preached and baptized in Durham according to appointment Sunâ€" day morning, "had agood time," and only felt a little tired and footsore on Monday! At the age of seventy three he can outwalk nineâ€"tenths of us young men toâ€"day, _ Well do I remember when at last he brought home a horse and a bridle, later on a saddle, still later a waggon and set of harness. And now my own utility appeared, for I could go with him "to raise the tunes" at his little farmâ€"house meetings. _ _ One year he baptized fortyâ€"nine, another year eightyâ€"tive, another one bundred and seven, another seventy ifl"e- He almost neyer held special | meetings, but persistently, in all seasons and all kinds of weather, maintained his weekly. fortnightiy, and monthly appointments, whether on Sunday or weekâ€"day. 1 have seen some heavy storms away north, but I tail to recalil the storm that terrified my father and kept him at home when be had an apâ€" pointment to fill. While the early scttlers were hewing out their homes in parts of Grey and Bruce, few of them could have been unacquainted with him. To visit people in their own bomes, to hold a prayerâ€"meeting in this house and in thas, to give tracts and New Testaments, to talk of the Saviour to men, women, and children, to gather the settlers in a little 10G schoolâ€"house and ?reach to themâ€"tais was what he was always at. His power with _ individuals was â€" remarkable. When some poor fellow was drunk and making a commotion in the villiage streets my father could some times go and lay his hand on him and lead him off home as if he were a lamb. I would to God I had his tact, and power, and patience in dealing with individuals about spiritual things. Tc the little child seated on his knee, to the most poverty stricken or most reckless inhabitant, to the most hoary headed sinner he always thought it worth his while to speak about Jesus. And so he toiled year after year. 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