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[Letterhead Top] SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

[1902?-03]

at the same meeting a resolution from the Synod of Toronto
[and?] Kingston, on the death of Principal Grant, which had
[been?] received, was read, noted on the Board and
ordered to be engrossed in the Doomsday Book : and the
Synod Clerk was informed of the facts.
The resolution is as follows :-
The Synod of Toronto and Kingston, in expressing its deep
sense of loss at the removal from earthly service of the
beloved brother, George. M. Grant,D.D., Principal of
Queen's University, desires to record its appreciation of the
[rich?] and various gifts bestowed upon him by the Master,
and the manifold services rendered to his Church and
Country.
After a distinguished course at Glasgow University, he
returned to his native land and devoted his early
manhood, with its splendid gifts, to Mission Work, in
Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and to the pastorate in
Prince Edward Island, and St. Matthew's Church, Halifax.
While still a young man he foresaw and advocated a
Union of the various Provinces of the Dominion, and a
Union of all the Presbyterian Churches of the Dominion.
He had faith in the future of his country and of his
Church, foresaw the trend of events with a prophet's
clearness of vision, and even advocated such a union of
forces as would render possible a large and aggressive

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