The congregation treated Mr. Young very handsomely, in response to this appeal. They presented him with £105. 14s. 10d., over and above his claim for salary.

A great deal of interest gathers around the eleven years that Mr. Young spent in connection with the St. Gabriel Street Church. It was under his regime that the oft-mentioned display of religious hospitality on the part of the Recollet Fathers took place. Their church, of which we present an engraving, was put at the disposal of the Scotch Presbyterians in 1791, as it had been, for twenty years up to 1789, at the service of the English Church; and on the 18th of September, 1791, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered in it, as has been already stated, according to the practice of the Church of Scotland. The "Society of Presbyterians," as they were then called, continued to occupy the old Recollet Church from the date mentioned until their own edifice in St. Gabriel Street was ready for divine worship. The Fathers politely refused any remuneration for the use of their church, but were induced to accept of a present from the congregation, in acknowledgement of their kindness, consisting of two hogsheads of Spanish wine, containing 60 odd gallons each, and a box of candles,—amounting in all to £14 2s. 4d. Mr. Hunter, in his manuscript, closes the narrative with the quaint remark—"they were quite thankful for the same." Again, in 1809, when the present roof was put upon the St. Gabriel Street Church, and the steeple and bell were erected, the Scots' congregation assembled for public worship, for two months or more, in the Recollet Church. This reads wonderful in these days, when the lines are so strongly drawn betwixt Protestants and Roman Catholics. But this exhibition of neighbourliness is not without its parallel elsewhere. At several places on the continent of Europe—in Switzerland, if I remember rightly—I learned, when travelling in that part of the

world in 1877, that Protestant and Roman Catholic services were held alternately in the same edifice. The same thing was true of several parishes in France: notably of Mount Beliard in Alsace, the country which gave Farel to the Reformation. Such displays of toleration and sympathy show that men are better than their creeds, and belie the cynical maxim of Rousseau, that "it is impossible to live at peace with people whom one believes to be eternally lost."

The fact that it was not a singular act of religious toleration and friendliness, on the part of the Recollets, does not detract anything from the magnanimity of their conduct. They were not equally disposed on one occasion to show kindness to certain Jesuit Fathers, when the latter knocked at the door of their convent in Quebec.

As the Recollets were the first missionaries and teachers that arrived in Canada, and showed so liberal a spirit towards Protestants, they are entitled to be noticed at some length. They belonged to the order of St. Francis, and were also known as "Frères mineurs de l'étroite observance de St. Francois." The term Recollets indicates their characteristic aim, which was to secure a scrupulous observance of the rules of the founder. They were the third section of the Franciscans that attempted to bring about a reform in the order—the "Capuchins des religieux du tiers ordre" being an earlier branch of reformers of the same fraternity. They gave themselves up to study and meditation, and endeavored to revive a taste for letters in the monastic institution to which they belonged,—(Latin) recollecti.

The founder of this reformed order of Franciscans was Juan de La Puebla y Sitomayor, Comte de Belalcazar. He was a Spaniard, as his name indicates, and initiated this school of monks in 1484. The order was introduced into Italy in 1525, and into France, at Nevers and Tulle,

in 1592, and at Paris, in 1603. In 1532, they were sanctioned, and erected into a particular congregation by Pope Clement VII. Previous to the French Revolution, they had 168 convents in France, and these were divided into seven provinces. The order furnished many chaplains to the armies of the Roman Catholic states, and they offered their services for missions to India and other heathen countries, as well as Canada. Four of them accompanied Champlain on his third voyage to this continent, in 1612, nine years after their establishment in Paris. These four pioneers were joined by two others in 1625, and by several more in after years. The first school in Canada was opened at Three Rivers, in the year 1616, by Father Pacific Duplessis, of this order—the second school at Tadousac, in 1618, by Father Joseph C. Caron. Besides these, they instituted quite a number of elementary schools for boys in the country parishes as well as in Vercheres, Quebec and Montreal. In 1620, the Recollets, under the French King's authority, established a convent at Quebec, to which the famous Prince de Condè made a liberal donation. At the conquest, in 1760, their lands, with those of the Jesuits, were taken possession of by the crown. The last of the order, Père Louis (Demers), ordained in 1757, died at Montreal in 1813.

Their church and monastery occupied the space bounded by Notre Dame Street and Lemoine Street, in one direction, and McGill and St. Peter Streets, on the other sides. Upon the extinction of the. order in Canada, this property passed into the possession of the British Government. It was afterwards conveyed to the Hon. Mr. Grant, in exchange for St. Helen's Island, which previously belonged to him. The Fabrique purchased it of Mr. Grant, and assigned the church to the Irish Roman Catholics for their use, after their numbers had greatly increased by immigration; and they continued to occupy

it until St. Patrick's Church was opened on 17th March, 1847. The original buildings were entirely of rubble and masonry, like most of the edifices of the period; and when they ceased to be occupied, they soon gave tokens of decay, so that the front, facing on Notre Dame Street, had to be taken down. The old French Parish Church being removed from where it stood, across Notre Dame Street, extending into what is now Place D'Armes, in 1830, its cut stone front was transferred to the Recollet Church. The venerable structure was demolished in 1866, to make way for the exigencies of commerce; and all that remains now to remind us that the order ever existed in Montreal, is the street which bears their name. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Rev. John Young's name must ever be associated with the history of the St. Gabriel Street Church. It was a substantial work he achieved, when he moved the Protestant citizens of Montreal to erect this edifice for the worship of the Church of Scotland. It marked an era in the history of Canada. It declared that the British people had come to stay. It was the first Protestant edifice for public worship, properly speaking, in the province. A little church, which still stands, it is true, had been erected six years earlier by Hon. James Cuthbert, Seignior of Berthier, a Scotch Presbyterian; but it appears to have been of a private character—like the chapels attached to the demesnes of noblemen in Great Britain—for the religious instruction of the retainers and dependants of the lord of the manor. I fancy this must have been the status of the church in question, because no notice was taken of it in the historical reviews and statements relating to Presbyterianism in Canada, prepared early in this century by Dr. Sparks, Dr. Harkness, Mr. Esson and others. This church had also a bell which is older than that which hangs in the steeple of the St. Gabriel Church. But