REV. CHARLES TUPPER.
Rev. Charles Tupper, father of Sir Charles Tupper, became the sixth pastor in 1826, but remained only a short time on account of ill health. Rev. Charles Tupper was born August 16th, 1794, at Cornwallis, N. S. He began to teach school at nineteen. He united with the Cornwallis Church in 1815, began to preach in 1816, and was ordained in 1819. He died January, 1881, after a ministry of sixty-five years. As a student, preacher, pastor, teacher and writer, he was very successful. He mastered thirteen languages, so as to be able to read the Bible in them all. Of his controversies and discourses one of his opponents said that “He wrote with the seriousness of a Christian, and the politeness of a gentleman.” He formed the first Temperance Society in New Brunswick. He was the editor of the Baptist Missionary Magazine for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In 1838, he acted as a principal of the Baptist Seminary at Fredericton. In 1857 the degree of D. D. was conferred by Acadia University. He was noted for his piety, great ability and devotion to duty.
After Mr. Tupper’s retirement the pulpit was supplied for nearly two years by Mr. Enoch Freeman, a student of Waterville College. In 1827 a Missionary Society was formed and the sum of £17 10s. 0d. ($ 70.00) was raised. In 1828 the Association was again held with this Church.