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days without much to mark rches, nor were there any ¢ ' cabins Bibles could be By: in many cases if Sunday hen neighborly calls were er. very bad, Rev. R. Monteath, who: once 0! ¢ Toronto ~--~had encamped for 'on the shore of Lake Scugog, and prior to the year 1827 their 'evtremely bad: "They were among the most degraded and ere addicted to drunkenness . and so destitute were they of moral prin- rere pests of the country, and the by-word and scoff; as ror of th ants. But during the autumn of this }>¢ and benign tendency. From ed and vitiated, in almost ous, moral; and piofis * com- Cc were rare... Camilla Sanderson, in her First," the stoty -of a" pioneer preacher in on of the minister's salary was paid 'in kind. tributio wete all that could be desired; and some- and 008, a I'to make articles wholly unsuitable do mod- : ¢ "of family requirements. one occasion i great bale of wool was sent, and when the' vent away and looked at it with a most comical ty Then he turned to mother and said,, 'What in the shall we do with it? We can' neither eat, drink, nor appose y sell it?' Mother laughed and answered, ind a spinning=wheel, I'll show you that i in ils of 0 keeping, but that she could take wool and with her own hands put it through all the tedious Wl 3 ' 3 Po i de § x ingenuity were equally and severely taxed to Road. . We refer tothe Presbyterian Church and the Primitive Metho-- dist Church, the former on the 12th and the latter on the front of the: 11th concession; both of which were erccted this year. We are quite aware of another place of worship which was raised. four years Defomc, namely that which is used by the Baptists on the front of the secomed concession. But that was originally intended for a schoolhouse, amid' was so used for some time. To.all intents and purposes, then;. the tw churches we have just noticed were the first that were raised in this: township. . And let it be remembered where they were raised; not in the neighborhood of the earliest settlements, nor in places where villages were forming, but'in quarters of a thoroughly rural kind, which were not: peopled till twelve years after the front concessions, Col. Farewell gives the following account of the establishment of Presbyterian church at Utica: "John Christie, father of Peter Christae;, was accustomed to walk to tbe kirk at Starr's Hill, east of Whitby tow from Epsom. He wrote to the Marquis of Bredalbane in Scotland of the want of churches in Canada. The Marquis sent a subscription of £20. sterling, and with this and contributions of lumber, shim gles and timber, the church was built 1848. 1851. This was the year the steamer Woodman was built. Com temporaneous with this achievment was the erection of another place off worship: namely, the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Prince Albert, Bx lad long heen needed, the Wesleyan Methodists in this locality being numerous, having had the benefits of preaching since 1830. Before the church was put up they bad met in the schoolhouse. Somewhere alu about this time an important Society was constructed again, which fer several years had been defunct. -We refer to the Bible Society of Read... 1852. This year another chapel appeared in the township. This was the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the neighborhood of Utica. Af ter being raised and fitted for use, it was duly dedicated in the month of September. 1856. . Before the end of that year, two buildings were opened ix. the township. One of these is situated in Epsom, namely the Wesleyan. Methodist Chapel--a simple but very commodious structure. The ot¥enr is also a place of woiship, which stands nearly a mile north, and foams the property of the Primitive Methodists, - Shortly after this, though not till the summer of 1857, two athe chapels were raised in the township. The first was the Episcopal Mesh dist situated near Borelia, which was set apart for religious service exw the 18th day of October. The other was the United Presbyterians Chapel on. the northern side of Prince Albert, which was formals: opened on the 8th of November, . The earliest religious body in Port Perry seems to have been coma-- posed of Millerites, They held their services in a log building nea where the water tank now stands near Borelia. Some peculiar belinds . are credited to these people, notable among which was the idea that Christ would come to earth again in bodily form at a certain fixed dade which they claimed to know. Quite a stir was created in the neigh boc -- hood as the day of the Lord's coming drew near, for the Millerites'begara: to give away 'their property. Of course when Christ came they expesni ! that the dead would rise. One man who had buried his children in as graveyard near his home, dressed himself in white and sat out orm ks porch to watch the graves of his children, and for the children to rise. A number of the Millerites became members of the Catholic Apos--- tolic church which started just about the time the Millerites disbanded. William: Wightman was the first ordained minister of the Cathrotie-- Apostolic Church, and the building between Borelia and Prince Albesst , now used by this body, was put up while Mr. Wightman was in charge. . The Episcopal Methodists were the first Methodists to hold service in Port Perry. That was 10 the days before the union of the Episcopal and Weslevan Methodists. After the church at Borelia mentioned ow Mr. Monteath, they occupied two other buildings. One was that now used as a primary school. ' The other was erected by them on the cog- property on Queen Street. ; 'esleya Methodists Were strong at Prince Albert, At 'thax. time Prince Albert Ctreuit took in Scugog, Reach, Uxbridge, and Scot, Prince Albert as headquarters. ; diy : Marmad arson was one of the earliest ministers. Nie eat yridge, and the circuit was divided, Prince Albest. + That wa about the year 1873. : i Methodists found their membe steps to establish the)