The Rev. W. G. Parsonson, Superintendent of the St. Albans Circuit, is a son of a minister of the British Conference. He was born in the Shetland Isles, and received his education in the connexional schools. Mr. Parsonson was trained for commercial life, and his travels in the United Kingdom and on the Continent have given him the address and the companionable manners of an educated man of the world. He is well read in English literature, and his sermons, models of terse composition, are enriched with careful thought, and delivered with quiet fervour. As a man fully acquainted with church polity, Mr. Parsonson attends to every part of a circuit minister's work. He was President of the Conference in 1897.