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year the old Temperance Hall was rented as a place of worship, and the few families and individuals in the city who were in sympathy with the movement were organized into a preaching station. This station was supplied with preaching by Mr. John Currie, now Rev. Dr. Currie, one of the professors of Pine Hill College, Halifax; Mr. Thomas Sedge- wick, now Rev. Dr. Sedgewick of Tatamagouche, N. 8.; Rev. Geo. Patterson, D. D.; Rev. James Bayne, D. D.; Rev. Dr. Keir, Rev. Dr. Murray, and by others. In the same year 1856 the site on which Zion church now stands was purchased at a cost of $2,275, and the committee, consisting of Dr. Bayne, Dr. Roy and Dr. Patterson of the Pictou Presby— tery and Dr. Keir, Dr. Murray and Rev. James Allan of the Prince Edward Island Presbytery, pushed on the work of church building with energy. On the completion of the church edifice it was occu- pied as the future place of worship, and the old Temperance Hall, in which both the Free Church and Queen’s Square church had been rocked in their infancy, was deserted. After taking possession of this new building they were at their own request organized into a congregation by the Presbytery on 25th July, 1860, and were furnished with a regular supply of preaching by probationers and by mem- bers of Presbytery. In the year 1861 Rev. J. D. Macgillvray preached to this little flock in their new church with great acceptance. Partly from the charm of having a new church, free of debt, partly from the united and earnest efforts of the people,

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