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 Ontario in 1SS4, kindly laid the Corner-stone of the U. E. L. Memorial 
 
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Around the Walls of the U. E. L. Memorial Church, 
 
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U. E L MEMORIAL CHURCH. 
 
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 ADOLPHUSTOWN, 
 
 1884. 
 
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 PATRONAGE COMMITTEE 
 
 His Honor Lieut. -Governor Robinson. 
 
 The Lord Bishop of Ontario. 
 
 Chief Justice Wallbridge, 
 
 The Hon. Geo. A. Kirkpatrick, M. P, 
 
 The Hon. Sir Richard Cartwright, M. P. 
 
 D. W. Allison, Esq., U. P. 
 
 His Honor Judge Wilkinson. 
 
 Wm. Canniff, M. D„ M. R. C, S. E 
 
 The Ven. Archdeacon of Ottawa. LL. D. 
 
 BUILDING COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Venerable T. Bedford Jones, LL. D., Chairman. 
 
 The Rev. R. S. Forneri, B. D., Rector, Secy-Treas. 
 
 J. J. Watson, Esq., J. P., P. M. 
 
 Dr. Ruttan. 
 
 Capt. James Chalmers. 
 
 S. M. Outwater, Esq. 
 
 Parker Allen, Esq. J. P. 
 
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 The story of the United Empire Loyah'sts, in whose honour the 
 Church above represented is beincj built, belongs to the period of a 
 little more than a century ago. They were men, who, when their 
 fellow-colonists rebelled against the British Government, remained 
 steadfast in their allegiance in spite of proscriptions, confiscations and 
 personal outrages, many of them fighting in defence of the old flag, 
 under which they were born, all throu^^h the dreadful struggle, until 
 the thirteen States were severed from the Empire. 
 
 Then did those sturdy patriots evince their attachment to their 
 Sovereign by an unexampled act of devotion, which covers their mem- 
 ory with undying honour, and on account of which those families" who 
 were concerned in it were, by Order of the Imperial Council, enrolled 
 in an ofificial list as *' United Empire Loyalists," ** to the end that 
 they and their posterity might be discriminated from future settlers 
 for distinguir.licd benefits and privileges." ■' 
 
 For, rather than retain their possessions by the sacrifice of their 
 honest convictions, and of their birth-right as British Subjects, they 
 manfully determined to abandon home, property a-nd prospects, and 
 turn their footsteps towards the Canadian north to make new homes 
 for themselves in the unbroken wilderness. But then — 
 
 •' 'Twas British wilderness ! 
 Where they might sing, 
 (loci save the King ! 
 And live protected by his laws, 
 And loyally uphold his cause. 
 
 'Twas welcome, wilderness ! 
 Though dark and rude, 
 And unsubdued ; 
 . Though wild beasts howled 
 
 And Indians prowled ; 
 For there their sturdy hands, 
 
 By hated treason undefiled, • 
 
 Might win from the Canadian wild 
 A home on British lands." — Rev. Leroy Hooker. 
 
 * Given at the Council Chamber, Quebec, Monday, Nov 19th, 1789. 
 
Thus it was that this noble band of patriots became the Fathers 
 and Founders of our loyal and prosperous Dominion, which is at 
 this day " The fairest jewel in Britain's Crown." 
 
 It is said that upwards of 20,000 souls were thus driven into exile ; 
 and mcredible were the hardships and privations they, with their 
 wives and children, endured, in making their way, the most destitute 
 of them on foot, to British territory, and scarcely less severe were 
 their trials during the first few years of their settlement in the bush. 
 
 Among these refugees was a goodly company of Churchmen. The 
 whole congregation of Trinity Church. New York, with their daunt- 
 less Rector'^ at their head, Dr. Inglisafterv-irds first Bishop of Nova 
 Scotia, crossed over into New Brunswick. he faithful band of the 
 Six Nation Indians, were most of them. Christians, belonging to the 
 Church of England. Many others transported themselves to Upper 
 Canada, chiefly under the lead of the Rev. Dr. Stuart, who has been 
 called the " Father of the Canadian Church." 
 
 The piety of the Loyalists was remarkably exemplified by the fact 
 that leavinc; other valuables behind, they brought with them out of 
 their abandonded places of worship, the Bible, the Sacred Altar 
 Vessels, the Tables of the Commandments, and even the Royal 
 Arms, as the most precious relics of their old homes. These they 
 placed in the rude log churches which they constructed without delay 
 in their new settlements. 
 
 In the land of their adoption their conduct was worthy of their past 
 record, worthy of men who, at such great sacrifices illustrated the 
 Scriptural precept to " Fear God and honour the King." 
 
 Ever to be remembered in our Canadian Annals was the first 
 Canadian Parliament, convenec' at Niagara in September 1792, a 
 few years after their arrival in '.he country. Among their very first 
 acts were the adoption amid great enthusiasm of the old English 
 principles of law, order and government, and the Abolition of Slavery 
 in the Province. Thus the U. E. Loyalists took the van of all the 
 world in this great act of justice and humanity. England herself did 
 not manumit the slaves in her colonies until 1838, while the United 
 States did so only about 25 years ago. 
 
 In the year 181 2, when our peaceful Canadian settlements were 
 invaded by hordes from the neighbouring Republic, thinking with 
 enormous odds t that they would easily sweep the flag of England 
 
 * A squad of rebel soldiers entered Trinity Church during divine service, and 
 when the Rector be^an to pray for the King, levelled their muskets at him, but 
 he kept calmly on with the State prayers, omitting nothing, and the muskets were 
 at last dropped. 
 
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 from the American Continent, Loyalist heroes, now advanced in 
 years, with their sons by their side, fought under General Brock and 
 other noble soldier^. Invasion followed invasion, but at the end of 
 the stru^'^gle not a single inch of Canadian territory had been wrested 
 from the British Crown. Thus we owe it mainly to the U. E. 
 Patriots that one half the Continent cf North America remains to- 
 day under British rule. 
 
 Such were the U. E. Loyalists of America, a nobler ancestry than 
 they, no country in the world can boast of. Their convictions led 
 them to uphold the Unity of the Empire, and they had the courage of 
 their convictions ; for this they fought and bled and sacrificed every- 
 thing that men commonly hold dear. As settlers they proved them- 
 selves to be laborious, law abiding, God fearing, proud only of what 
 they counted their richest inheritance — " participation in the name, 
 character F.nd freedom of Britons," 
 
 One hundred years have now rolled by and the Loyalists of that 
 hour have passed to their rest, but far and wide throughout this 
 Dominion their descendants may be found glorying in the name and 
 traditions they have inherited and in the ties that bind them to the 
 mother land. 
 
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 The Centenary of the settlement of old Canada by the expatriated 
 Loyalists, was, in the summer of 1884. celebrated in several parts of 
 the Province of Ontario, and nowhere more enthusiastically than in 
 Adolphus to.r'nship* on the Bay of Quinte, on the spot it is 
 said, where the first detachment of the Refuges landed, \mong the 
 proceedings in honour of the event, was the laying of the Corner- 
 stone of the 17. E. L. Memorial Church by His Honor Lieut.-Gov- 
 ernor Robinson, a descendant of a distinguished Loyalist family. 
 The interesting ceremony was performed in the midst of a brilliant 
 assemblage Clerical and Lay, whilst on either hand were drawn up a 
 Company of Volunteers, who at the close of the proceedings fired 
 three volleys as difeu de joie^ 
 
 It was natural, at a time when Loyalist memories were being 
 stirred to their depths, by the preparations for the Centennial 
 demonstration, that the parishioners of the old Township of 
 Adolphus, once " almost the centre of Canada," t proud of their 
 ancestry, m requirmg to build a new Church, instead of their 
 superannuated frame and plaster place of Worshij) should resolve 
 to erect a Memorial Church to their brave grand-fathers. And 
 having thus resolved, with commendable spirit they determined to 
 make it as worthy and complete a Memorial as they could. A small 
 brick parish Church answering their modst re(|uirements, would have 
 cost but $;.i,ooo; they resolved to expend seven or eight thousand 
 dollars on a Monumental Church of chaste design and finish, ac- 
 cording to plans submitted to them by Kingston architects, Messrs 
 Power and Son. 
 
 The contributions of the parishioners for this interesting object, 
 though far short of the required sum, were liberal for their means ; 
 but helpers were not wanting abroad, especially in Kingston. Among 
 the Clergy the Venerab':! T. Bedford Jones, LL. I)., became the 
 faithful and active friend of the undertaking ; among the laity its 
 patrons included the eminent names of the Hon. J. B.verley Robin- 
 son, then Lieut. Governor of Ontario, Sir Richard Cartwright and the 
 late Chief Justice Wallbridge, the Hon. G. Kirki)atrick, and Dr. 
 Canniff, author of " The Settlement of Upper Canada." 
 
 * Named like ihc other townships around the i)ay, Ernsttown, Frc(h:ricksbunT, 
 Marysburg, after a child of George III. 
 
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 On the i6th day of June 1884, as already stated, the Corner stone 
 of the sacred edifice was laid. Autumn of the following year saw it 
 completed externally (save the spire) at a cost of $5,000, every dollar 
 of which was paid up in less than twelve months. Let a ^ew words 
 of description suffice. The Church is of the Early Enghsh Gothic 
 style, solidly built of limestone from the Kingston quarries. At the 
 south side is the Main entrance Porch ; an elegant Bell tower 
 octagonal below and circular above, ascends at the iU;Pftion of the 
 Nave and Chancel. The chancel terminates in half a^^wagon, with 
 a win-dow in each face. The dimensions of the Nave are 50 feet by 
 30 feet, and of the Chancel 24 feet by 30 feet, a fine arch separating 
 these two parts of the Church. 
 
 It stands on a choice ^pot of land, the gift of one of the leading 
 parishioners, J. J. Watson, Esc}., P. M., and from a delightful 
 elevation overlooks, at a short distance, the beautiful bay of Quinte, 
 an object of interest to travellers on the steamboats that in summer 
 daily pass by. 
 
 One feature of the unfinished interior must be specially mentioned, 
 for it is that which more than any other will give it the character of 
 a U. E. L. Memorial Church— the Mural Tablets. 
 
 Just above the wainscoting, will run all round the walls of the 
 Church a band of coloured tiles and in this band will be inserted 
 polished purple and buff Tablets one foot square, placed diamond 
 fashion angle to angle until the circle is comT^leted. These Tablets 
 are to contain the Names of the U. E. Loyalists. Thus, names, which 
 are brightly historical will be preserved from the oblivion to which 
 their unmarked graves and crumbling tombstones would consign 
 them. There will they remain for the remembrance and honour of 
 successive generations. 
 
 And in this place it may be appropriate to mention another pro- 
 posal whereby, in connection with this Church, both the memory of 
 the old heroes may be perpetuated and their example be continually 
 held up before the eyes of the youth of the country. It is proposed 
 that some lover of " the men and their deeds," should provide the 
 sum of one thousand dollars for the purpose of endowing a Sermon, 
 
 Lecture or Oration to be called after the name of the donor TAe 
 
 Lecture^ to be delivered annually upon a set day, by some select 
 speaker of ability, lay or clerical, who in recalling the motives and 
 conduct of the Loyalists in the trying hour, when 
 
 " Crown and law find Parliament 
 Were trampled in the dust," 
 
 would draw out those lessons which their courage and patriotism, 
 their constraining sense of duty, their love of freedom, and honour 
 
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 and charity, in a word, their devotion to their earthly and their 
 heavenly Sovereign^ have left behind them. 
 
 It was earnestly hoped that the Church would be completed and 
 opened for divine service in the Jubilee year of her gracious Majesty's 
 reign, but that season proved a " bad " one for the farmers, and the 
 parishioners (a farming community) were unable to proceed. How- 
 ever, in the following winter they subscribed $i,ooo in the hope of 
 better times the next season ; but the most severe drought ever 
 experienced again blighted their prospects, and another postponement 
 of the work was necessary. But next spring the Building Committee 
 are resolved (D. V.) to allow difficulties no longer to hinder them 
 from finishing the work and labour of love entrusted to their manage- 
 ment. Will not friends of the undertaking help to smooth the way 
 of the Building committee by their kind contributions to the Building 
 fund ? Will they not help to make the Church Mcitiorial Throughout 
 by subscribing for a Mural Tablet, a Memorial Window, for a Font, 
 Altar vessels, or other ornaments ? A fine subject for an Altar- 
 piece would be a sculptured representation of the first Canadian 
 Parliament, striking off the fetters from the slave. 
 
 Perhaps it may be replied that th ^ brave Loyalists deserve some 
 far more imposing monument than this. They do, most certainly, 
 and we trust that a national memorial will one day be undertaken by 
 a grateful country, but yet, it will be granted that a church is no in- 
 appropriate memorial for men of such chosen virtue". And, more- 
 over, it is the utmost that its builders can accomplish to keep ever 
 green the memory of those heroes. They trust, therefore, that the 
 readers of the foregoing sketch, touched by the story of suffering 
 patriotism, may be moved to help on the good work, for the sake of 
 men who fought and bled for Britain, and then, when the cause was 
 lost, gave up all that men hold dear, that they might bring up their 
 children on British soil. 
 
 Dear were their homes where they were born, 
 
 Where slept their honoured dead, 
 
 And rich and wide on every side 
 
 The fruitful acies spread ; 
 
 But dearer to their faithful hearts, 
 
 Than home or tjold, or lands, 
 
 Were Britain's laws, and Britain's Crown, 
 
 And Britain's flag of long renown, 
 
 And grip of British hands.* 
 
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 One or two extracts from Dr. Canniff's valuable work "The Settle- 
 ment of Upi)er Canada," will illustrate the prominence which 
 Adolpustown enjoyed m its early days in the affairs of the country. 
 
 *' The time came when Adolphustown was almost the centre of 
 Canada. It is true Kingston was the great point to which the mili- 
 tary and naval forces centered, and the circumstances of such gave 
 thac place a status which it could not otherwise have obtained, but 
 Adolphustown was really the centre of the settlements in the central 
 part of Canada — the Midland district. So it came that the courts 
 were alternately held at the Fourth Town and Kingston being twice 
 a year in each place." The first lawyer to plead in these courts was 
 Nicholas Hagerman, Esq., a prominent U. E. L. who came to 
 Adolphustown in Major VanAlstine's company, (page 456.) 
 
 Again, on the same page, we read: — "Adolphustown, or Fourth 
 Town, contributed during the first years of Upper Canada, a good 
 many worthy individuals to the welfare of the country, indeed 
 Adolphustown took the lead for many years in political as well as 
 more general matters relating to the country. The general elections 
 at onetime resulted in the election of four belonging tw this town- 
 ship to Parliament. To c[uote the words of Josej^h B. Allison, our 
 township though the smallest in the Province has furnished as many 
 statesmen and judicial officers as any ot the larger townships. From 
 the humble abodes of Adolj)hustoNvn have gone to the Legislative 
 halls of Canada, Thomas l)or]an(J, John Kohl in, Christopher A. 
 Hagerman, Paul Peterson, Dr. W. Dorlaiid, Willet Casey, Henry 
 Ruttan, Samuel Casey, Daniel Hagerman, David Roblin, John P. 
 Roblin, who represented the county of Prince Edward for many 
 years. The Hon. John A. Macdonald, although not born here, 
 spent his juvi^iile years and attended the common schools in 
 Adolphustown. Now, we challenge any township in the Province, 
 that has not a city or town connected with it, to turn out eleven 
 members of Parliament, all of them U. E. Loyalists."