Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3a verdant hue, and beneath the tree was placed, in large letters, the name of the church and] the date of its being finished. Capt. Scott was so loyal to his native land and the home of his childhood, and so loved the memory of his early associations, that it was his desire, when the work of completing, at his own expense, this magnificent structure had been accomplished, in some way to make it suggestive of the Town of his birth, and accordingly he placed on the spire the green tree and named the sacred edifice Greenock Church which is a slight modification of Green Oak. III. THE FIRST PASTOR. While the building remained in an unfinished condition the Rev. Mr. Cassilis occasionally held services in it and in September, 1823, when the interior had been plastered (which plastering was done by Mr. John D. Cameron), Dr. Burns of St. John conducted Divine worship therein and preached to a large congregation. It was completed in June, 1824, and on Sunday, August I'St, of that year, the Rev. Alexander MacLean, the first minister of the church, opened the same for.public worship. An early record discloses the following interesting information concerning Mr. M'acLean’s coming to Greenock Church: About the year 1821 the inhabitants of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, who approved of the Presbyterian form of worship (taking into consideration the expediency of possessing a place of worship in which they and their families might attend Divine service according to the form most congenial with their consciences) began to raise, by subscription, a fund that should be available for that purpose. By the employment of this fund, and the subsequent aid of C. Scott, Esq., a very elegant and commodious building was erected, and having ascertained by annual subscription that there existed among the people a willing…
