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Revorond Norman McLeod, at St. Ann's ; Reverend Mr. Ferguson, at 

 Sydney ; all of whom may l)e justly considered the pioneers in the mission 

 field of the Prcsliyterians of Cape Bi\-ton.' 



VI. Lutherans, etc.— Conclusion. — Many of the Germans, who came 

 into the province in 1749 and later years, were Lutherans, and their first 

 church in Lunenburg was formally opened as early as 1771. The clergy- 

 man who first jireached witlun its walls was the Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg. 

 The names of the ministers most identified with the early development of 

 the Lutheran Church were Messrs. Frederick Schultz, Johann Gottlob 

 Schmeisser, Ferdinand Conrad Temme, and Charles Ernst Cossmann. 

 The total number of Lutherans in the province at the last census was less 

 than six thousand, of whom five thousand five hundred members lived 

 in the county of Lunenburg.'- The conference of the Evangelical Lutheran 

 Church of Xova Scotia comprises only five ministers, all of whom are 

 connected with the churches of the historic German county. The Con- 

 gregationalists now number less than four thousand persons, while the 

 Disciples, Adventists and Quakers respectively comprise less than two 

 thousand, and do not require any special mention in these pages. 



The trials, surterings and devotion of the missionaries of the several 

 churches of the ])rovince form materials for a most interesting history 

 from the time when the Roman Catholic priests and Calvinist ministers 

 arrived in the pi-ovinco with Sieur de Monts down to the fourth decade 

 of the present century, when the province had attained a condition which 

 rendered the labours of the clergy relatively easy. Most of the histories 

 that have been jirinted of the labours of the pioneer clerg}' have so 

 far failed to do full ju.stice to the men who performed such an invaluable 

 work for the social and moral development of the people.^ All that I 

 attempt, or am able to do in this short imperfect review is ,to recall the 

 names of .some of the worthy pioneers of the principal churches, and ex- 

 press the hope that a competent pen will ere long take up the subject and 

 record the heroism, pathos, and self-sacrifice which illustrate the lives of 

 the religious builders of Nova Scotia. 



' See " A brief sketch of the Cape Breton Mission, with a notice of the late Mrs. 

 Maf'kay, of Rockfleld, who was the main instrument in establishing the mission, 

 and l)y wiiom its airairs were almost solely conducted. For private circulation, 

 (Edinburgh) 18.51." 



I have had also the advantage of the perusal of the MSS. of a lecture delivered 

 by Mrs. Edith .J. .\rchibald, on the "Early Scotch Settlers in Cape Breton." before 

 the N. S. Historical Society, in February, 181)8. 



*See DesBrisay's Lunenburg for interesting details of the différent religious 

 bodies in that historic section. 



•'The Kclations of the .Jesuit Fathers. Patterson's " MacGregor," Richey's 

 " Black," cited in these pages, and some of the reports of the missionaries sent out 

 by the Society for (he Propagation of the Gospel, form an exception to the remark 

 in the text above. 



