We will go on then to notice
the chief incidents of the term.
The wooden school-room, the slow completion of which had been watched
with some impatience, was ready for use on April 29th. On the next day,
being Sunday, we inaugurated it by reuniting under its shelter our
scattered congregations, hitherto distributed over the three largest
rooms at our disposal. It was not a noble building, being,
architecturally, a long shed of rough planks against the bowling-green
wall, which was whitewashed for the better lighting of the room. But it
was apt to the conditions of a colony, looking as it did like a log-house
in a backwoods-clearing. Internally it was well lighted and ventilated,
and just sufficient for our numbers. _Heureusement il n'y on a pas
beaucoup_. This was not the only occasion on which we were thankful for
the school's self-imposed limit of numbers. The completion of this poor
structure was a fact of which those who have but little knowledge of
school affairs will appreciate the value. It was a new burden on an
embarrassed exchequer, but not a gratuitous one.
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