Evidently those who prepared this program thought that Canada had made a contribution to this Restoration movement, and that that contribution was not an insignificant one. We appreciate this acknowledgment.

      Canada is a country whose area is greater than that of the United States, but her reasonably habitable territory equals that of the United States. Her geographical position gives her great varieties of climate, but everywhere it is invigorating and conducive to the production of a hardy and an energetic people, a liberty-loving people, a people capable of thinking for themselves.

      Canada's contribution from Nova Scotia began at River John about 1815. It was at the beginning of the old Scotch Baptist order, a people very like our own movement, and the work in Prince Edward grew out of this same people. Benjamin Howard was the first evangelist from the United States to present [220] our plea in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick. He preached in various parts of these provinces fully seventy-five years ago, though it was not until about the year 1840 that the churches began to be organized.

      D. Crawford, G. Garrity, W. Hughes and H. Greenlow are some of the pioneer ministers of the Maritime Provinces, and to those and their colaborers the brotherhood owes more than can be told.

      In Maritime Provinces there are now thirty-three churches, three thousand members and twelve ministers. These churches have given many of their substantial members to the churches in the United States, especially to the New England churches, and there are now in other fields as many as thirty-five preachers belonging to these provinces.

      Ontario's contribution to the Restoration work began with the organization of a church of Christ at Lobo. Ontario now has fifty churches with a membership of about five thousand. Many Disciples have gone out from them to the Western States and to western Canada. There are now in the United States many more ministers belonging to Ontario than them are now in Ontario.

      Western Canada--the church in Portage

JOHN MUNRO.

la Prairie, Man., is the mother church. Its charter members went out from Ridgetown, Ont. For a number of years it was our only church in the West; now there are twenty.

      Canada's 10,000 members, 100 congregations, 90 ministers, $250,000 of church property, $50,000 contributed annually for local work, $7,000 for Home Missions, $4,000 for Foreign Missions, and $3,000 for C. W. B. M.--all this is but a small part of Canada's contribution to our movement. Her chief contribution has been workers.

      Archibald McLean, one of the best known and best loved men among us, is a son of the little province of Prince Edward Island.

      To the foreign field Canada contributed Dr. W. E. Macklin, Dr. Jas. Butchart, Mary Rioch, David Rioch, Dr. Martha Smith, Neil McLeod, Martha Lediard, W. C. McDougald and John Lord.

      What constitutes our Restoration movement? Not buildings large with spires and turrets crowned; not surpliced choirs and organs grand. No! Men, thinking men, large-minded men. Men who know the truth, and, knowing, dare maintain. Men who count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. Men who count self-sacrifice for the gospel's sake a joy. Such men are Canada's contribution to this movement, and of these she has supplied her share.

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