Rev. Duncan Henderson, for many years a leading member of the Miramichi Presbyterian Church, and for about ten years Pastor of St. Andrew's Church, Chatham, N.B., the largest and most influential Church in the Presbytery,
passed away after an illness of over a year's duration. Mr. Henderson was in the fifty-fifth year of his age. Very general regret will be felt at his demise, as he was a most earnest, conscientious and upright minister of the gospel,
an eloquent and forceful preacher and a man of character.
Rev. Mr. Henderson was born in Kilmory, Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1866, and
received his early education in the public school of that parish. At the age of sixteen he left home to take a course at the High School at Glasgow, preparatory to entering the University. From his infancy he was dedicated and set apart by a pious Mother for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. With this end in view he entered the University of Glasgow at the age of eighteen, and had the advantage of getting equipped for his life work by sitting at the feet of such noted men as Edward Caird, in Moral Philosophy, and Lord Kelvin in Natural Philosophy. Graduating in arts, he took his final year in Theology, at the close of the session in 1889. He came to Nova Scotia to fill the appointment as assistant of the late Rev. Kenneth McKinzie, of Baddeck, C.B. His last two years in Theology were taken at the Presbyterian College, Halifax, from which he graduated in 1891. On May 2nd of that year he was licensed by the Presbytery of Pictou, N .S. and ordained and inducted on the 27th of that month by the same Presbytery, into the charge of Blue Mountain and Garden of Eden, where he was successor of the late Dr. Blair, an eminent Scot, who had been the minister of the congregation for the long period of forty-two years. Dr. Blair presided at the induction service, and he and successor lived like a father and son for the remaining years of the Doctor's life. In 1898 Mr. Henderson accepted an unanimous call to St. Andrew's, Chatham, N.B. and labored with signal success for nearly ten years.
