A new electric sign graces the well-trimmed lawn of Leaside Presbyterian Church at the corner of Eglinton Ave. E. and Hanna Rd these days. Saturday evening the sequential messages invited all to attend services on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. Electric signs are an interesting technique for churches of Protestant origins. At one time so dour was Scots-inspired Presbyterianism that their brethren in other churches swore they made you sit on field stones during the service. Not true of course but how ever comfortable the church may be these days, Leaside Presbyterian is no doubt having to work for every parishioner, as are other churches. We see the church being built in 1951 at a time when congregations were larger everywhere. In 2012 Glebe Presbyterian Church on Thurloe Rd. closed and merged its dwindling congregation with that at Leaside Presbyterian.
