Wednesday, August 26, 1959 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE \ Still 15 teachers REV. B. "Reve RAeeeen an E. H. Wallace. He mentioned that there are ~.“many priests who have had a vocation from childhood and have been able to follow it with unswerving purpose.” I sup- pose that I am one-of these. [I always had the desire to be or- H = dained. In fact, in the Vicarage home at Purley, Surrey, England, during the visit of some Bishop, I was alleged to have announced as a small boy, “I am going to be a Bishop.” SATISFYING VOCATION As I look back on 47 years of Parish work I can witness to the fact that this vocation has led to a lifetime of great Fos uappiness and some adventure. It certainly has not made me tich in worldly goods, but there is much wealth of many and varied friendships. The influence of a Priest's life is not a tangible thing, it cannot be measured, but he has the chance to sow ‘the seeds of character and high ideals. (the best seeds are often his acts and D not his words) in the hearts of those with whom he comes in contact, and in Rural Parishes these are often not only of his yagrn Church. j How often, as he preaches day by Sunday, does he "that the seed of the Word JGod has fallen on barren 4; then maybe years later, he 4eets one of his old flock who Ylets him kno that the seed ¢ z EST, ~ CHURCH PRVICES CK Cy Word of Life . A. RESKER WRITES ON CAREER Call of the ministry influenced - Archdeacon’s life q how he became a priest and why.” (Mennonite Radio Mission) Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Oral Roberts Sunday, 9:00 a.m. Voice of Prophecy Sunday, 9:30 a.m. British Israel Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Church of the Air Morning Service Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Christian Science Ist & 8rd Sunday 5:05 p.m, Tabernacle Tidings Calvary Tabernacle Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Billy Graham a Sunday 3:30 p.m. Wonderful Word Sunday, 10:15 p.m. Morning Devotions Mon.-Fri., 9:05 a.m. eo CKCQ DIAL 570 of the High-Way, Angli- formed 26, and last” n the ceremonies at St. Peter’s has born fruit his life. SEED BEARS FRUIT I well remember going back to my first Parish in Battersea (S. London), where I served seven years as a junior Curate, from 1912. (There were 10,000 people Packed in nar- Tow streets in an area 800 yards by about 300 yards.) I had lett 25 years before, Soon after the First World War; the hall was crowded with the former boys of the Church Scout Troop and Bible Class I had: been responsible for. I can hear now, after 45 years, that gang singing, to the dismay of their young and very callow im some way in Curate, “Drown Him, Drown Him Lord of all.” After all those years how those ex-slum boys talked about the old days. How the heart of that ex-Curate “burned within him’ as he realized that the seed so poorly sown in those War days in the hearts of those poor boys had, through the mercy of God, borne some fruit. Most of those fellows had children of their own, and perhaps they too might benefit. OUT TO CARIBOO | Those 14 years of work in London in Battersea, and in the| Pembroke College Mission ear'| the famous Old Kent Road, were a wonderful training for pioneer work in B.C. My Scout training made me want to do pioneer work and so when Bishop Adams, who had just been elected Bishop of Cariboo in 1925,"invited me to form a new Parish centred on Williams Lake and taking in the vast Chileotin country, I went out there, under the S.P.G., in 1926. Dr. Harling Priest, who often was a welcome visitor, used to call it the biggest Parish in Canada; it was 300 miles east to west and 100 miles from north to south along the Cari- oad. Services were held and ranches. t early age the Southwark Diocese of S. B. |i young Priest or some boy with that time only had a trave Priest about once a year, The soon had built three Churches, two halls and a Vicarage, and that was during the ‘depression when beef was seling un the hoof at two cents a pound' I hated to leave the Cariboo after 12 happy years of much wandering among the cowb: People responded well and very |S |miners and settlers, to settle down during the war years at Kimberley. But that too was pioneer work, for the Parish had had no resident Priest for years, and was at a very low ebb in every way. In 1946 I felt, as the song of those days expressed it, “too fenced in” in the city and vol- unteered to take over a new Mission taking in all the scat- tered places and mines around Trail and Nelson along the U.S. border. Services were held in 13 points, and after eight years of pioneering, the Mission became two Parishes, Castlegar and Fruitvale-Salmo, and after four years Castlegar is self-support- ing. I have written this not. in any boastful way, but to em- phasize the point that the pi- oneer missionary work of the| Church can bring to the Priest just as much satisfaction as can the work in some large centre Of course this kind of work is often very frustrating in the smallness of numbers and in the fact that so much of the work and chores that have to be done are not the real work of the Priest. IN BISHOP'S DEBT I would like to pay tribute to that great misionary Bishop, Archbishop Adams, who taught me so much of ‘the work of the missionary Priest. great deal to him when he was Bishop of Cariboo. He even taught me to drive a car on|of those hair-rising Cariboo trails. The pioneer missionary sows the seed of the Word of God in ual hearts and not in the that was the difference : 8 ; between Old Kent Road, with|£TOUP. They are Bert Poston,|ion, speakers have given them in. 280 people to the race, and the|ATt Long, Ted Walker, Glen| structive talks on archery, pistol Bao ; Kerley, Doug ATchinson, Bob! shooting and wildlife. Chilcotin, with about one to 10 square miles. The Clergyman was always welcomed, and people did attend the Church service. I hope this little auto- biography may help some a@ ‘vocation tothe -Priesthod- to realize that there is much hap- piness and satisfaction and 2 little adventure in the work of the Church in rural areas. It is a satisfying thing to build and sow seed for the future har- vest of the Great Kingdom. The master came to the earth and lived the simplest kind of lif he Rural Priest must expect. I have discovered that it is not the soft job that brings hap- iness, but the tough one. But the Grace of God IS suf- ‘icient. vincial pal affairs has Sey council that it should proceed with only partial construction of a new civic centre because of a shortage of money on the bond mark THE OFFICE OF | DR. JAMES DUTHIE | (Chiropractor) WILL BE | CLOSED from June 28 to September 7 nine boys, ‘Toronto Telegram FIDDLER Ed Gyurki, 21, Woodstock, Ont., bestows a sentimental buss on his violin after winning three out of four categories in Canadian Old Time Fiddling contest at Shelburne, Ont. He gave away one of his prizes—a hand- made violin—to a 10-year-old competitor. his Conservation Club week. Mr. Cariboo” Sugden started the club three years ago and the original ranging from Grade Seven to Twelve, are still in the Boys honor departing leader Lawson Sugden, game biologist | Bateson, Robbie Moon and Mich- who left Saturday for his new I owed a/position in Edmonton, will un- doubtedly treasure the “ wallet given to him by members ael Proctor. Under last fishing flies; taken On camping trips, ups of big horn sheep. Sugden’s guidance, the boys have ben taught to tie some have their bronze, silver and gold stars for prone shooting; they have been duck banding expeditions, and round- In addit- History of Brotherhot of Engineers outlined \ "gee The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is the oldest. of all railway labor organizations, W.H. Sharp, chairman of the British Columbia legislative board of the brotherhood told members of the newly formed local lodge on the occasion night. Mr. Sharp said the B. of L.E. Was the pioneer of the big 4 organizations of the railway brotherhoods, being founded in 1863. Its formation took place at a convention in Detroit called by engineers working on the Michigan Central Railway. It was attended by some 16 delegates from , four railway systems, the Michigan Southern Detriot and Milwaukee, Grand Trunk, and Michigan Central. At the meeting only 12 members took the obligation and no one knew who they were, the reason being fear of retribution from railway management. NO IDLE FEAR That this was no idle fear was shown by a copy of a letter from the office of the super- intendent- of the Intercolonial Railway dated 1882. The letter was sent to the mechanical foreman of the line, instructing him to‘ discharge any engine drivers who had joined the union. BROTHERHOOD GROWS On the charter of Division 320, parent division of the local lodge, Mr. Sharp said ap- pears the names of a number of engineers who left the Inter- colonial Railway rather than relinquish their membership. These men made their way across the continent to the Pacific coast where they had been offered jobs on construst- ion of the CPR. They brought the B. of LE. to British Columbia. Prior to the outbreak of World War 1, the Canadian Northern Railway was under Don't forget to the Vo) 2 ING OFF operator after using your telephone 1 When your callis finished, hang up the receiver and turn the crank vigorously for about three. seconds. This will let the'ppertor know that the line is free so she can disconnect. REMEMBER: ¢ RING-OFF is important. Otherwise will report your line as “busy” to anyone tying to call you it dict IMPORTANT TELEPHONE POINTERS 1 receiver gently. e jeronk RINGING: If you are on.a party line, lift the ceiver to find out if the line is in use. 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