. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. he crew would be required at the guns, themissionaries, with Black at their head, had beentrained and eqiiippeil as marines, but had happilynot been required to defend their frequently preached in the old church;Bemiett died in Halifax, having been for manyyears chaplain in the local Penitentiary. Twoyears later there marched ashore in the band ofthe Twenty-
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. he crew would be required at the guns, themissionaries, with Black at their head, had beentrained and eqiiippeil as marines, but had happilynot been required to defend their frequently preached in the old church;Bemiett died in Halifax, having been for manyyears chaplain in the local Penitentiary. Twoyears later there marched ashore in the band ofthe Twenty-Ninth Regiment, Stephen Bamford, a 266 CANADA: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. local preacher, whose name later became a house-hold word in Methodist circles in Halifax and inall parts of the Lower Provinces—a man whocombined the simplicity of a child with the spiritof a true British soldier. A volume might bewritten respecting this eccentric man, in whosepreaching humour was sanctified as never his appointment to Zoar the officials werealarmed; before his term ended they almostidolized the man. Every inch a soldier, tall,finely-proportioned, and up to his death erect asa statue, he was in all respects one of the most. The Rev. William Temple. beautiful specimens of old age anywhere to bemet. In the old church, William Croscombe alsocommenced a ministry in Canada wliich madehim deeply beloved and greatly successful. Thewhite-headed boy, who found his first NovaScotia home under the hospitable roof of HughBell, became one of the English Wesleyan Mis-sionary Committees most trusted agents. Inthis church in his earlier ministry. Dr. Richey,father of Richey of Nova Scotia,was heard as one of the grandest orators of the day—a man who attained immense popularity asa preacher, and even in declining years seemed,when he rose on the Conference platform, todwarf the utterances of the ablest men sent outfrom Britain to preside at Conference should here be
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