lHE-AlGOmA SAULT STE . . MARIE

M A Y -A N D J ·U N E I 9 4 7

VOL. 73 NO . 3

Missionary News

(Courtesy "SYLVA, " Lands and Fores ts Review)

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THE EDITOR'S CORNER ----· The Fifteenth Triennial Synod of

the Diocese has come and gone and its highligpts are recorded in this is­sue of the A.M.N. One or two things mi~ht _be noted as we look back on what was accomplished.

One of the mo~t outstanding act~ of Synod was the acl option of a neY\T

Canon · i11corporating a Diocesan Board of Missions. In its provi~ion that PVery DeRnery must he repre­sented . by at least one missionary clergy, ~ho would resign his posi­tion once he accepted the rectorshrip of a self-supp.orting paris h. the Hvnorl acted wisely. So often Mission Bo'l.rds consist of urban dergy who, while they may have been r u r a 1 clergy at one time, are not always e~:mversant with the prevailing ru­ral nrohlems. This nrovision assure~ the Mission Board of aileqnate repre­sentation of r n r a 1 dergy '-'rho arA <>on versant with th e prohlems of the1ir own · dav. This provision also ~ives recognition. long overdue, to the value of our rural work. Algoma is es~entiaHv a missionary Diocese and those who bear the hrunt of the missionary work should be accorderl f -11 ll renresentl'ltion on -l'lnV ·board whi'ch concerns their work. ..

A swwnd ont.st.andin!!' a~t of Synod '""S the nnanimous flecision to af'.­CPnt ·the two increases of n'ine p-er Nmt.. in the Diocesan _Apnortionment

· ~~~- Mi~sions as sug<rested bv Dean ) 'Ht a.terman. This mea:ns ;:~n increase from our present apportionment of · .cr.-t 600 to $5,46~ in 1919. 'fhe far.t that the increa~e was passed unani­monsly shows that ·we are on the

true path of advance. The living, tive Church is the Church g-ives itsel.f sacrificially to the decadent Church is the which is concerned only with i We trust that as the years go by Diocese will give more and liberally to missions.

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The Editor would also pay to the inspiring address of G. Watts. It was one of the presentations of the Missionary lenge to the Church which been privileged to hear and snre that he voices the sentim .. all members of Synod. ·· ·

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The interest of the ·lay~en .Diocese was also a hea1thy \Vith ·the whole-hearted su · the laymen, as revealed at the Church will exert a influence in all phases of life goma, an influence far in e . the numerical s t r e n g t h of Church.

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Bishop Wright is pleased nounce that Marathon has the status of a self-supporting A new church will soon be Marathon, due to the ge-n the Company.

The new Rector of the · Marathon will be the Rev. F arrow, at present Incum Mission of Schreiber.

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lH E AlGOmA Missionary News

VOLUME 73 MAY AND JUNE 1947 NO. 3

CONTENTS OF THIS ~SSUE

ARTICLES PAGE

T'HE I NDIAN ADVANCES -- --------- -------------------------------------------, ------ -------- --- --- -- --- 4 S hingwauk Graduation H andicraft Projec.t

BOOM DAY'S . ------ ---- ----------- --- ------------ ----- ----- --:-··----- --- -- ----·· ---- ---- --:... .... T. Th<;>rpe 8

OUR CHALLENGE - ----- - - -~ - -- ·------------ -- ·------- - -···--- - -- -- - - ---- -- ---- - -------- Doris Kenny 12

LAYMEN'S BAN'QUET --- ---·----- ---- ---- ·----------------------------------------·------- -- --·-------------- 13 .

SYNOD HIGHLTGHTS ------· ---------·--------- --- ---------------------- -------------- ---- --------------------- 14

BEYOND ALGOMA BORDJ!mS ---- -- -- -------·-------------------- ----· -' ·--------·---- ·--·------------- 2·l I ndian Thrift 'Club They Trust the Christians Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY ------- --- -------------- -- --·---------- ---------- ------ ---------------- ·---- 24

1Muskoka Deanery Conference The Diocesan Annual

S.S.J .E. EXPANSION. ------ --------- ---- ------ -- ---- -·------------------- -,-- --- --·---- ----------- ---· -·-----·- -- 26

A.Y.P.A. DISTRICT BANQUET - - - -~--------- - ------- - ---- - ---------- - --·-- --- - --- - ------ - -- - --··· ·· --- - 27

LAKEH·E AD NEI\V·S __ _____ _____ ___ ___ : ............. --- -·- -------- ------·-·--------- ----------- -- -------- -·-- ----- 27

THE BISHOP'S ITINERARY ____ __ ____ ____ :_·--- -----· ·---- -· --------- -- -- -- ---- -- ---- -- ---------------- 28

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MR. M. TWEE-DAL·E, 38 Albert 'St. W. Sault ~te. Marie, Ont.

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SHINGWAUK GRADUATION Graduation exercises were held at

the Shingwauk ·Indian · Residential School on the evening of June 6th before a large audience of friends of the School.

The exercises were opened with prayer and Bible reading, Proverbs 3: 1,. 7. Following this Principal M'in­chin presented his report. The School C h o r u s rendered ''The Canadian Boat Song'' and. Rev. Dr. H. S. Watts gave an address .. Following a selec­tion by the Junior Choir various p-re­sentations were made. Prizes were given . by Mrs. A. E. Minchin to Audrey LeSage and Harrington S'ands for highest stand1ing in G\ade 8 and to Anna Sahguj for House­hold Science. Dean Craig presented Effort prizes to Delphine Thomas and Finlay Antone. The Athletic Cup, given by Bishop Wright, was pre­sented by him. Mr. R. '\Vallace, Su- . perintendent of Public S-chool ath­letics presented hockey badges to the School team. Mrs. W. L. Wright pre­sented Bibles to the graduating class. Mr. J. K. Mather, Vocational Guidance teacher at the Collegiate Institute gave an address and Bishop Wright gave the blessing. -

Following the Exercises refresh­ments were s;erved to the guests.

VALEDICTORY • AUDREY LESAGE

My Lord Bishop., Canon Minchin, Honoured Guests, Members of . th.e . Staff, and Fellow Students:

First of all I should like to thank you for the privilege of speaking to

you tonight as Valedictorian of Graduating Class of 1947.

Our l1ives are mixtures of and failure. If we work hard we shall be successful but . don't we shall be failures. only what we make it.

Being in a school like this advantage. Here we are cared and understood. Our good are recognized and en co · our weaknesses are found out corrected. (Don't worry I am going to tell what they are.)

When a little boy or girl coltn~IIU Shingwauk one of the first he learns 'is how to pray, morning and evening pr church every Sunday. As added on to his age ·and· added on to his height, he be take part in the various that are always in progress. comes a member of the ChuFch League and she becomes a J.A. ber. When they get older s begin studying harder and not only for the school exa but for different tests in Guides. This helps them the future.

Some of our class will be Shingwauk and will -step. the world and take their different Reservations and cities at different jobs.

And ·some of us will go High School to try aud o

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ficient education to become mechan­ics teachers, stenographers, nurses or 'just plain everyday good 'fathers and mothers.

Yet we will not forget this school and all the fun and train1ing we have had here. For everything we do -to­day. helps us to obtain our goal to­morrow.

In closing, we the Graduating Class, would like to . thank tqe Staff who have .so patiently taught and helped us through our years here. We also want to express our appreci­ation to the Church and to the In­dian Department who make it pos-ible to carry on the work of the

school.

'' 0 Thou Who dost the vision .send, And givest each his task,

And with the task sufficient strength,

Show us Thy wlill, we ask. Hive us a conscience bold and

good, Give us a purpose true,

That it may be our highest joy Our Father'~ work to do."

PR.INCIPAL ' S R EPORT

Working short-handed has been our chief problem during the past ~·ear. This has meant very hard work for all members of the st~ff - especi­f.lly as our enrollment has been Hghe~ than ever before. At the pres­ent. bme we have 144 children in · residence.

Some of the senior girls have ~~~ved themselves very helpful

h er these c'.ircumstances and we ave d ·a · ,

b ec1 ed to constitut .. e all mem-~ f .

P.r ~ 0 Grades XI, XII and XIII as in:l:~ts. For this year we have also Wh ed two members of Grade -X

0 have proved ~hemselves reli-

able·. Altogether we have 15 ~tudents· attending either Collegiate or Tech­nical School and the majority are doing .very well indeed, especially in · the senior Grades. A number of those graduating from Grade VIII today hope to go on to High School next term.

We have good news- of all those who graduated from High School last ~ear· :

ls'abel Oke . has ·completed her tra'ining at the Mothercraft Hospital in Toronto and secured high marks in her examinations. _She is now do­ing practical work under the Nurses' J\ge:q.cy.

. 'Dorothy B~rispille, last year's Val­edict6rian,",has a position in the Bank of Nova ''!·Scotia in Montreal.

Nellie Sand.~ has a good offi.ce p.o­siVion in Detrqit and is aJso improv­ing her skill by attending ·evening classes.. · ·

Jennie Tallow is training as a nurse in . the -General Hospital in Sault Ste. J_\!Iarie.

Our branch of the Junior Auxili­ary, ·with Miss Mulirhead and Miss Staples as leaders, ·held its annual

'· Bazaar and Tea towards the end of November, when a great number of our friends from the city and from across the river attended. Altogether this event proved a great success both socially and financially. The

. C.B.L., under Mrs. Moran, were al­lotted a table at which they sold articles made at their meetings. In May, Christine Abotossaway repre­sented our branch at the annual meelings in North Bay. She was given· the opportun'.ity of speaking · af the afternoon session on the day set apart for the Girls' Auxiliary

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when she quite vividly described something of the life at Shingwauk.

The Girl Guides have had another successful year. Twelve of them went to Pioneer Camp and secured a num­ber of Badges. We now have _ three First Class Guides ~ncluding Del­phine Thomas who has her All­Round Cord and is acting as Com­pany L-eader. A Guide and Brownie L-eadership Training Course was ar­ranged in the. c~ty by the Provincial Association and a number of our Leaders and Senior Guides were able to t~ke advantage of the course. l\1rs. A. E. M'inchin is Guide Captain, Miss Watton is now in charge of the Brownies and Mr. Radcliffe is Scout Leader. Through the kindness of Mrs. Peacock, the Guide Mothers' Association of St. Timothy's Church in Toronto became. interested in our Brownie Pack and have provided complete uniforms -for all member;;.

Our annu.al Confirmation Serv~ce took place on Trinity Sunday when Bishop Wright administered the Rite of Confirmation to six boys and ten girls.

In the G.B.R.E. Sunday School -ex­aminations six .of our children se­cured 80% or over. Lauretta Nah­dee, with a total of 9·3% , obtained the highest mark for the Sunday Schools of the Diocese. Susie Kick­nosway with 92% was just one mark behind. The amount sub­scribed by the children in their Lenten Boxes was $39.27 for the M.S. C. C.

Athletics and social events take a prominent place in our school p-ro­gramme. During the winter we have weekly parties either on the skating rink or ' in the -audlitorium according to the - season. In the summer the

boys and girls play gether once or twice a week. boys are now Public School pions in both softball and Winning the hockey champ is particularly creditable as only the second year they tered the league. The boys good hockey and did not single game either in the schedule or in the play-offs.

Once again I wish to pu press our sincere thanks · to tary Club, the K'iwanis Clu Lions Club, to the· I.Jegion and many friends who have treats for the children and sh much kind~ess in many ways.

In . spite of the difficulties I that on the whole this has b other go-od year for which we God. The Staff has done Roble in fact every member has harder than any man· or should be asked to do. We we shall be able to open term with a full Staff and year will prove even more than any of its predece ssors.

REV. A. E.

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HANDICRAFT PROJ In 1941 when the Rev. C. G.

and his wife went to the River Reserve at Massey, they found the standard of among the Indians at a loW Old 1og shacks were their d their clothing was ina unkempt and under-no .. - -.conT"'""'

prevalent.

Example rather than just ing has brought about a

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change . . First, this teacher-mission­ary began an addition to the little house assigned to him. Lack of· a spirit-level gave him opportunity of using the spectators to sight the building·. By careful questioning he was able to put the right answers into the mouths of the onlookers and th ey felt pleased. Occasionally the In dians lent a hand . with the building and when the addition was compLeted almost everyone on the reserve came to see it.

Since then many plans have been­dra,~·n up for Indian dwellings, es­timates made and advice given by this versatile missionary. A gradual improvement in their hous'ing has taken place.

Through the securing and ra1smg of goats, quantities of milk were pro­vided for the children to drink in · chool hours .. The dothing p-roblem was attacked by Mrs. Kehler who t a n g h t sewing and the care of clothes.

But an additional source of in­rome was needed if the standard of living was to be raised and main­ta~ned at a level ·which wotild per­nnt and encouraO'e a higher stand-ard f · · ,..., ' th 0 sp1 ntual development among r else Anglican Indians. This, Mr. t~e ller is trying to bring about ofrouQ'h handicrafts. With the help Ottthe Denartment of IndiAn Affairs, rn .awa .. he has been enabled to ac­. lire sk'tll in the buildinO' of looms Jn w . ,..., ' tnak' eavmg, gem-cutting, jewellery eraf~g, Pottery making. metal­noem. an~ wood-working. · _\Neaving, ha·· cuttmg arid jewellery making ve al . . a'"air ready begun on a small scale, tion ~ng funds . for l·arger produc­

rom Ontario come many beau-

tiful stones such as blue sodalite, green Amazon'ite , pink Wilsonite, rare Thompsonites, the -rriost ·vari'eci and heautiful agate in the world and the lovely moonstmie which shows such a beautiful blne lustre when turned in the light. Many other stones are obtained feom the United States.. Handsome dinner rings of these stones set in silver are being made, also brooches, bracelets, pen­dants and ear-rings. The tourist

·trade is expected to. be a · profitable outlet for this· craft-and for church bazaars and sales the trans.actJion wiB be mutually helpful.

. rrhe development of loom building awaits the n ecess.arv wood--vvorking power tools, but will be an impor­tant item when production is possi­ble . It. is honed these looms wiH be put into other Indian schools and weaving taught as a craft.

This project of " Better living through Hand1icra£ts," with t h e n ycessary backing, m i g h t easily prove to be a pattern which could profitably be 00pied on other Indian reserves and even adapted for Resi­dential Schoo-ls.

A FAITHFUL LAYMAN

· At the early service on Whitsunday, special thanks were given for the 25 year·s service which Mr. H. W. E1lard has now r ounded out as a Lay R eader of the parish. As our senior Lay Reader Mr. El· 1ard has been always active in his service not merely at St. Paul's but assisting the work of the C1mrch generally at- the lake· head, for ·a time at St. Michael 's, Port Arthur, at St. James·', Murillo, at Roslyn Road Mission and now for some time at Vickers' Height

1Mission. All will con~

gratnlate Mr. Ellard on_ his anniversary and trust that good health and a continu­ance of his good works may be his.

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BOOM DAYS

LUMBERING on the North Shore of Georg-ian Bay was carried on

very extensively during . the years 1900-1910 and in a somewhat lesser degree. for .another five years .. From then on, it eventually dwindled off to be just an ordinary industry. Du­ring 1900-1915 m:any lumbering com­panies held extensive timber limits on Onaping, Vermlilion, Aux Sable and Spanish Rivers. LumberinQ' op­erations on these waters were a11 be­ing carried on at the same time.

Records may be found, showing some twentv-five different lumber­ing firms o.perating ·approximate!';. one hundred logging · camps each year, for some ten or twelve years. The saw-log production from these camps eaGh . year averag-ed· 2.600.000 p.ieeeR. or approximately 110,000.000 F.B.M. in log, all of which found its way to the mouth of the Spanish River. Around 150 men were em­ployed from May 1st to October 15th each season, sorting out these . saw­logs. or distributing the lo~s of each lumbering company into their . re­spective booms.

The ''Sorting Jack'' was formed by an open lane or waterway about 24 feet wide, flanked on both sides by a series · of floating sidewalks which were constructed on flatted, long tlimbers. These; in turn. were anchored in place by being chained to clumps of piles, at close intervals, all along this waterway. In this main . waterway J•ane, there were gaps on each side. These were all boomed off to form separate long waterwavs of about one~half mile in length, .lead- · ~ng out to , the booming-out bay, where boom men, tog-ether with tug­boat crew, would spill each pocket

or mark separately, accordin . the sorting progressed. Two tug of the Boom Company were · busy at this work during op.en each year.

The current 'in the river was .propelling power which moved along in the "Sorting Jack." jam was intentiona}·ly made narrowing down of the river to form a necessary bottle , n the head of the jack. Here the rugged men were stationed. duty was to break loose the log and swing the logs into the current in such a manner would . proceed down the jack in a cross-ways, or fashion. The objective of the Comp.any was to see as little as poss'ible bet\veen the logs, in that a big day's sorting 8Ult; and to put through log-s as possible before the .halted the sorting.

It was very fortunate for . her companies, as well as Boom Company, that the p e r s o n n e l of the changed . very litt1e from year. Of 150 men required some 125 would be old least 4 or 5 years' experi

Some seventv-five '' H a Marks," on log~ O\vned by twenty different firms, might ning in the sorting jack at time. It was not unco:miJtlOJ:t ~ lumber company to have fo different marks on the same It ·was., therefore, necessary perienced men be used to pull these '·'Hammer­into their proper gaps

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" LOG ROLLING "

as the logs ,.vere proceeding cross­ways dovvn the jack. There 'vould· be !O to 50 men lined up on each side of this log lane, all puHinO' their re-s t' . 0 Pee 1ve marks into their own boom. I may mention here that these log marks are all registered and that th ' e logs stamped were all the very ~:elusive property of the company. . whose name the ''Hammer Mark" 18 reg'istered.

The boom camp · would open up each Yea l . . be in r ~ar y m 1\'Iay ·.and would ab contmuous operation u n t i 1 '\Va:ut the middle of October. There there no Sunday" work, otherwise bay rn. Was no let-up on the river or

outh, once the ice wa!S cl~ar.

The men were on the job, working from daylight in the morning until dark at night, during the longest days in the slimmer, rain or shiine, . snow or blow.

The men ate four times each day and were housed and fed in a large, three--storey frame building, erected on an island at the mouth of the Spanish River.

Erected on a boating pia tform on the side of the sorting jack, separa­ted some 50 yards apart, were two smaU ''Tally-man houses.'' Each man in . charge of sorting out a cer­tain mark or marks destined for his pocket or gap, had a tally boar~ along side of him, and every tlime

"H UGE BOOMS OF LOGSn

he pulled into his gap one hundred logs, he woul·d yell ·at the top of' his v o i c e , '''rally the hand"- or- . "Tally t h e · man's head''- or­'''rally the -be~l;"' 'log' niarks -beltng­ing to Cleveland Lumber Co., Mc­Fadden & Malloy and Graves Big­wood, respectively. The man in the Tally house, in each case, wou1d an­swer back -the same tally, like an echo . In this way, it was known each evening hov,r many logs were sorted for any and all lumbering companies during the day and so on aH through the season.

Spanish StatJion, two miles distant -a small tovirn on the Soo line of the C.P.R., was the jumping-off point for Spanish Boom employees. During the years 1900-1915, a good many ro­mantic characters attached to lum- ­bering operations spent at least some of their summer months at this small town. Some of the monickers used to designate these bush foremen

were:" BuH of the Spanish." " · light Mark,'' ''Danger 1VI:

"Kid Glove Andy," "Silent '' Chesty Bill'' and'' Bay City J all ·are syrionomous of the lo game and go with bush tal Jas. J. J effries, .John L. Sul Bob Fitzsimmons and James C go 'vith the boxing game.

It. was customary fur each 1 ing firm to place at least sometimes more, of their tril pl·oyees at Spanish Boom summer months, in order to see the Boom Company v.rere proper job of collectJing their tive logs.

Spanish Boom. Mouth of River, Spanish Town and Mills (some few miles distant) all hives of activity during the mentioned, with some 150 c bo-oted men working on sorting jack and boom Three or four: towing' tugs wo

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interm1.ittently too.ting their signal whistles, ·while transferring logs from small booms to Great L~ake booms, in the process of preparing . a tow of logs. T h e s e rafts of l•ogs, 50,000 t o 75,000 pieces, were des,­tined fo r . s awmills all along the North Shore of Georgian Bay, Cut­ler, tTohn 's I sland, Brennan Harbour, Spanish M~Hs, Spragge, Blind River, Little Current, Byng Inlet, Victoria Harbour, VvT aubaushene, Penetang, Midland, P arry Sound, Ov;ren Sound; and many r-afts -vvere towed as far as Sarn1ia.

It took a big lake tugboat four­teen days of good weather (night and day) t o tow a raft of 50,000-75,000 logs from the mouth of the 8panish River to Sarnia. In addition to streams that were tributary to Spanish River ·waters, during the ame reg·ime, some 500,000 logs were

driven do,vn "\Vhi~efrsh.~ R1Y~:f. · ·each . season to supplement -the ·'loggh{g 'd1~ ... dustry in generaL \Vhitefish RlivkJJ \{! empties into Georgian. Bay about 30• , mil·es east of the mouth of the Span-ish River. · ·

When you realize that the distri­bution of some 3,000,000 lo.gs was · made each . summer to · the above · points, you will have so,me 'idea of · how each winter's logging operations tied-lin with, or regulated the work

· of the tugboat owners on Georgian Bay.

Getting back to Spanish Station town-many of the employees from the sawmil13 at Spanish Mills, John's Island, Brennan Har.bour- and Cut-, ler, congregated at this point on ·holi­days and occasionally other days and on Saturday nights. Tt was riot uncommon to see ''Gang" fights on these occasions. Donnybrook Fair

"LOGS ARE CARR IED UP THE JACK LADDER INTO THE MILL"

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had nothing on Spanish Town in the early days. What ''shillelaghs" were lack'ing, was made up for by the use of caulked boots. Spanish Boom is no more, because no logs are now coming down the rivers mentioned. 'J.1he following sawmiU towns have ceased to exist: Spanish Mills., John's Island, Brennan Harbour and Cutler. Other towns, further removed from Spanish Boom, have not suffered to a like extent, as they an had some other industry to help them out.

Little Current, in Spanish Boom days, had three sawmills running night and day during sum mer months. All the sawmiU towns on Georgian Bay were more or less af­fected when Spanish Boom ceased wor~.

While the older people ·of the present generation may not live to see a duplication of Spanish Boom days, t}le younger peop.l-e of today may be hopeful of again seeing pulp logs and sawlog drives in a lesser degree, on the above-named rivers.

(Articles a.nd photogra.phs through courtesy of ''SYLVA,'' Lands and Fores.ts Review')

OUR CHALLENGE·

Another war has ended and there is a wor1d wide hunger for peace, a real peace which will bring content­ment, happiness and a freedom from fear. How can we get this peace?­Money cannot buy it and already there are rumours of a future war.

Daily, our papers with their glar­~ng headlines proclaim the lowering of mora1s, the increasing delin­quency of youth, the loosening up of home ties, and we continually ask .: ''Why? Why? Why?"

Science and psychiatry have not succeeded in stemming this tide of . postwar problems-what about the Church, can it influence the self­seeking and growing materialism so prevalent today? Yes,, definiitely the ChY.rch can be our greatest hope for world peace and security providing its members wiH rally to its side and put into p.ra.ctice those simple rules of living as Chris.t taught-to love God first, to love one's neighbour,

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to hold honour high and to hallow the home. The power of the Church for good depends upon the loyalty .and spiritual strength of its peoples.

Our example and our he1p are needed for the youth of the Church who will carry on its work. The Church of England in Ca.nada i alive to the needs of her youth and is directing its programmes to their a1l round growth. The S u n d a Y school· the Junior and Senior Girl ' Auxiliaries, the Chur~h Boys' !Jea­gue, the A.Y.P.A. are all chann:I through which the boy and the girl may develop their talents. in craft' learn sportsmansh1ip and co-opera­tion with others in their grouP games, develop confidence, to1 eranc~ and self reliance as they condu~ their O\Vn meetings and put on their plays. These attributes, you say, .c:~ be taught in any weJI organiZ }1

club. That is true, but the Cburc t goes stiH on~e great s.tep fur ther, nof only does it endeavour to make 0

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its youth fine citizens, but als.o fine churchmen. It has been said : "The youth of today' have everything''­but have they? Have they God? The · youth of the Nazi organization top­ped the world in training and equip­ment-c-aH that money could give­but they did· not have God- they fa iled.

So we stand challenged, parents, clergy, teachers and leaders to play our 'individual parts in this vital and an important task of guiding our children and our youth through their most impressionable years. Let us take care to give them the things that really matter, first:

a) A firm belief in God, for the'ir peace and stability through life.

b) A love for Ghrist as their Com­panion, that wiH deepen their love and understanding for others.

c) A respect for His Church and desire to serve Him through it.

r .. et us teach them how to weave this knowledge and love of God into the every day pattern of their lives: then we will begin to see the dawn of a new day with delinquency of youth decreasing, ideals lifting and home tJies strengthening.

It is the force of the influence of the Church and the Christian home that can, above aU else, pave the way for lasting peace and happiness,

Laymen's Banquet

The dining room of the Windsor Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie, was crowded with clergy and laymen on the even­ing o{ Monday, June 2nd. The occa­, ion was the Diocesan Laymen's Banquet sponsor ed by .the Laymen's

•ouncil of St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral, Under the chairmanship of Mr. Fred ''. Dent. Distinguished guests at the banquet included : the Rt. Rev. G. F'. Kingston Bishop of Nova Scotia· 13' ' . ' 1

' hop Wright; Chancellor Babe; ~~cl liis Worship. W. H. C. Briien, · ayor of Sault Ste. MLrie.

Aft · · . er a toast to the king a deli-

Cious d' . . di Inner was. enjoyed by all, with

nner m . . a USlc by John VIncent and ' ordon F

rech. Fol1owing the chair-

man's remarks there was. a trumpet, solo by Gordon Frech. Mayor W. H . . C. Brien brought greetings . to all present from Sault Ste, Marie. After vocal and instrumental solos by Dor..; · een Hulme, Terry Lund .and John Jordan, the chairman introduced Bishop Kingston who spoke briefly. Bishop Wright then introduced Chancellor Babe, President of the Diocesan Laymen's Council, w h o spoke effectively on the privileges and responsibility of a layman. He called upon all parishes to form a Laymen's Councilo.

The banquet closed with a vocal solo by Doreen Hulme, 0 Canada and the Benediction by the Bishop.

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SYNOD HIGHLIGHTs· --------~~.-·~--~------

Tuesday, June 3rd ·

The Fifteenth Triennial Synod of the Diocese officially . began on Tues­day morning vvith M·at ins and a Cele­bration of th e Ho1y Communion. After breakfast the members con­vened in. th~ Parish H all. One of the .first' 'act~ was the announcement by Canon Colloton that every parish had paid its Diocesan Assessment in fulll·mFd · was therefore entitled to a vote ·,:at · Synod. This announcement . was gladly- rece 1ived as this was the first time in over twenty-five years that such had been the case. ·

Canon Co1loton was elected Cleri­cal Secretary and Dr. E . H . Niebel Lay Secretary.

t t t i3lSt-I O P 'S C HARGE

The Bishop 's Charge t ook the re­maining part of the morning ~ ession. After a welcome to the members of Syno·d the Bishop paid tribute to the late Archbishop D. rr. Owen, Bishop \V. Geddes and Bishop F arthing. He then · sp.oke of the valuable assist­ance .t·o Algoma of the Algoma As­soCiiation of England and of his intended ·visit to th em in 1948. H e deaJ.t with the relationship of the Church and Labour, P rayer Book Re­vision, Christian Unity and Marriage and Divorce. .

In the next sect ion he . dealt with some new appointments which he \va s pleased to make. H e announced the appointment of Rev. W . W . Jarvis as Diocesan Warden . of Lay ,

Readers; the Rev. R. H. and the Rev. P.R. Beatty as C the . Very Rev. J. Ii. Craig, the S. Turner and the Rev. ,f. F. as E xamining Chaplains.

l\iention was made of the ous r esponse on the part o f Church in Ontario, in Algoma · in England and in the United to · the Archbishop Thorneloe orial Fund. Al,most the entire j ective of $100,000 had been Mention was also made of the t erbury Cathedral Appeal to place between January 1st and 30th, 1948.

The Bishop expressed the t h a t Deanery Laymen 's Co virould be established and that

,parish wou1d establish a L Council. In dealing with work within the Diocese the noted that additional clergy · n eeded in and around Fort North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Mari e and on the north shore of Supe:rlior. The r etirement of the erable C; W. Balfour. rector Pau1 's., Fort vV ill i ~ m and deacon of Algoma, \Vas ann by the Bishop who paid trib his long and faithful service Church. H e also noted that Palmer had been given leave sen c.e from the Dioces.e to. b­establishment of a branch House at Sorrento, British He p aid tfiibute als~ to the

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and efficient work of Canon Co1loton and Miss Doris J ohnson in the Synod

office.

After th e Charge a committee was appointed to consider the Bishop's Charge and report on it.

t t t DEAN WAT ERMAN

In the aft ernoon Dean vV a term an of · Niagara DiocesE' presented a re­port on behalf of th e Anglican Ad­vance Appeal and the Buflget Com­mittee. He r eported that t he net total thus far received for the A.A.A. was $4,100,000 and urged all pres­ent to make a determined effort to .·ee that all pledges are paid in full.

He then dealt with Missionary Ap­portionments stating that the budget of 1947 which is $372,527 must be · raised nine per cent. in 19-18 and nine per cent. in 191:9. This, said Dean vVaterman, ·was due to the in­crease in the minimum stipends of · the missionary clerg? to $1,400, the acceptance of th e Diocrse of tht> Arc­tic as a full charge of the Missionary ' ociety ; the provision for transpor­tation expPnses of t 11 t' missionary clergy and to the unclt>rtaking of certain interdt>n ominational work. Acceptance of the hvo increases in 194 and 19-19 · · · · · f

· . :t m nnsswna ry giVm.gs or Al goma was passed by a unani-

lnous vote.

f 'l'he assembly also hrard a report l'Otrl •

the Rev. J. S. Harrington, sec- -

r etary of the Up.per Canada Bible Society; The remainder of the after­noon session was devoted to con­sideration of notices of motion.

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SYNOD SERVICE

The Synod service 'vas held in St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral on Tuesday evening. The Right Reverend G. F .. Kingston, Ph.D., D.D. , Bishop of Nova Scotia was the Synod preacher. H e chose as his text '' H mv many loaves have ye 1" pointing out that in asking this question J esus was asking His disciples what contribu­tion they had to make t o the multi­tude around them. H e then proceeded to discuss the contribution which the Church at large had to make to the world. In the latter par t of his ser­mon he dealt with the contribution · of the Church of Eng1and in particu­lar , r ef erring to tits contr ibution in -vvorship , education and . social ser­VIce.

During the service the Rev. W. \V. Jarvis ,,vas invest ed by Bishop vVright as Diocesan vVarden of Lay Readers. Folloviring this investiture, the Rev. P. R. Beattie an d the Rev. R. H. Fleming wer e made Canons by the Bishop ~ The certifi cates were r ead by the Venerable J . B. l_;ind-

• sell and the Venerable C. W. Balfour. They were install ed in their rightful places by the Very Rev. J . H . Craig, Dean of Algoma and rect or of St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral.

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Wednesday, June 4th

The report of the Executive Com­mittee took up most of the morning session. The report was adopted with one amendment, that the Bishop's travelling expenses come out of the Diocesan Expense Fund and not the Algoma Mission Fund as the Execu­tive had previously decided.

One of the highlights of the report was the fact that the Algoma Asso­ciation in England has continued despite the war, to cont:r~ibute to the · Diocese. It has concentrated its ef­forts on the Archbishop Thorneloe Memorial ~-,'und and during the past three years contributed $3,750.

It was announced that the objec­tive of $100,000 for this was weH in sight. ·

Applause greeted the announce­ment that mortgages on St. George's Church, ~spanola, and on St. John's Parish Hall and rectory, Port Arthur had been · discharged. The payment . of $5,980.42 on the Espanola church was made by the Kalamazoo V ege­table Parchment Company.

In August, 1945, the .parish of St. James', Gravenhurst, became self­supporting and became entitled to the privi1eges of a rectory, the report said.

t t t THE MISSIONARY CHALLENGE

Glimpses of war-ravaged Japan and the challenge presented to the Church of England in Canada to as­s'ist in rebuilding "that congrega­tion of faithful people'' were vividl'Y pictured by the Rev. Dr. H. G. Watts, :field secretary of the Missionary So-

ciety in the third day's sitting of the Algoma Diocesan Synod at St. Luke's Hall.

''In Tokyo alone only 3 of 25 for­mer Anglican churches . stand today," Dr. Watts decl•ared. (He visited Ja­pan w!th a mission a year ago.)

Wh,ile expressing the view that the atom bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was ''only a mere pit­tance compared to the wholesale waste brought about by American Air Force bombings in other J apa­nese cities." Dr. Watts said that lay delegates and possibly some of the clergy too, were apt to think of the war damage to Japan in terms ol wrecked bu,ildings and factories.

"It is not the buildings but the lives and faith of these people that we will have to rebuild. We are priviJ.eged in this task and yet face our gravest responsibility."

The missionary staffs of Church of England are almost to normal in China, he saJid, church work in India is returning something of a normal state.

''Here in Canada our miocnnnstl"' work is contintl.ally advancing. are making great strides, e · in the northl;and. ''

Dr. Watts said that he had ing but pra'ise for the Church's with the Indians. At present ·are 19 residential Indian schools ''we are taking every step to

• prove . them,'' he said.

t t t ELECTION RESULTS

Announcement of the election Diocesan delegates to the

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and Provincial Synods ':as made at the brief- afternoon sessiOn.

Rt. Rev. W. L. Wright read the results of ·the elections to the as­sembly. Twelve clerical and lay del,e­!.l.'ates wer e named rep.resentatives to the General Synod and sixteen cleri­cal and lay delegates to the Provin­cial Synod.

They were listed as. follows General Synod: Rev. R. F. Palmer;

Rev. Canon F. W. Golloton, Saul·t Ste. Marie; Rev: P. R. Beattie, Sud­ury; Rev. vV. W. Jarvis, North Bay; Dean J. H. Craig, 8ault Ste. Marie; Rev. 'J. S. Smedley, Port Arthur; Chancellor Fred Babe, K.C., Fort William; D. W. Jessup, Sudbury; Dr. E. H . Niebel· · Capreol; Ross A. Corless, Copper Cliff; J. H. Elliott, North Bay; Dr. L. V. Ben, Hailey­bury.

Provincia.! Synod: Rev; Canon F. W. Colloton, Sault Ste. Marie; Rev. R. F. Palmer; Rev. Canon P . R. Beattie; Rev. vV. W. Jarvis; Dean J. H. Craig; Ven. J. B. Lindsell, Gravenhurst ; Rev. J. F .. Hinchliffe, Copper Cliff; Rev. E. R. Norna bell, Huntsville· Chancellor Fred Babe; E. W. Shell, Sault Ste. Marie ; D. W . .Jessup ; J. H. Elliott; F. S. Dent; Ro s A. Corless · Dr. I.;. V. Bell; Dr. E. H. Niebel. ' ·

Rural Deans: Algoma, Rev .• J. D. Wan, Sault Ste. Marie; Thtlnder Bay, Rev. J . S. Smedley, Port Arthur,· Manitoulin Rev. R. W. 't ' Rump, Whitefish Falls; Muskoka, .~": E. R. Norna bell, Huntsville; ~1P1Ss1ing, Rev. A. P. Carding, Coni­~ on; Temiskaming Rev. S. Turner, " ew Liskeard. · ' n· 10cesan Executive Committee:

, 'a~ 1 go m a, Rev. A. E. Minchin, 1

t Ste. Marie ; Rev. E. Wright-

son, Blind River; F. S. · De'nt and T. J. Foster, Sault Ste. Marie.

Thunder Bay: Canon S. E. Yeo,. mans, M. Cochran and L. C. Irwin, Fort William.

:Man'itoulin, Rev. G. Thompson and J. H. McMillan, Gore Bay.

Muskoka, Rev. F. F. Nock and H. Wilson, Bracebridge.

Nip.issing, Rev. W. W. Jaryis and J. H. Elliott, North Bay.

Temiskaming, Rev. C. Goodier, Haileybury and R. R. Woods, New Liskeard.

Named as Registrar w·as Redmond Thomas of Bracebridge.

t t t RECEPTION AT BISHOPHURST

About 200 called at Bishophurst ~n the afternoon when Rt. Rev. W. L. vVright, Bishop of Algoma and 1\Irs. Wright were "at home" to the and other city and out of ~own clergy and lay delegates to Synod · guests.

In the receiving line were Bishop and Mrs. Wright, Rt. Rev. G. F. Kingston, Bishop of Nova Scotia and his daughter Mrs. H. B. Green­sted, Jr. Mrs.. Wright and Mrs. Greensted wore sweet pea corsages.

Guests of honour were Canon and Mrs. R. H. Fleming of Sundridge, Canon P. R. Beattie of Sudbury and Rev. W. W . Jarvis of North Bay.

Mrs. Wright was presented with · a pair of ·white doeskin gloves by Dr. E. H. Niebel of Capreol, Honor­ary Lay Secretary of Synod, to mark the payment in full of assessment by each parish in the Diocese.

The beautiful spacious rooms of ''Bishop hurst' ' were adorned with

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bouquets of cherry blossoms,' daffo­dils, pansies and periwinkle and here and. there were ~ighted tapers. The tea table had a centrepiece of arbu­tus flanked by lighted pink tapers.

Pouring tea during the afternoon were Mrs. E. L.· Allen, Diocesan Pres­ident of the W.A. and Mrs. J . . H . Craig, wife. of the Dean of Algoma. Assisting at the event were Mrs. A . E. Minchin, Mrs. J.D. Wall, Mrs. A. Greaves, Mrs. F. Gard, Mrs. N. Gil­more, Mrs. W~ McLean, Mrs. A . Privett of Garden River, Mrs. R. H. Fleming of Sundridge, Mrs. Gilbert Thompson of Gore Bay, Mrs. J. S. Rhodes of Burk's Falls, M1iss Nancy Minchin, MiRs Kathleen Wal1 and Miss L. Staples. ·

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

The evening session was spent a consideration of t h e Fin Statement of the Treasurer Synod, Canon. Colloton. It was cepted . by the Synod after discuss1on. A discussion of the ciple 'of investments was lead by P . H . B. Da-·wson, who -sug Financ~e Board to ad vise the urer in the investing of S y n funds in other than Gov

' bonds. His · ~otion close margin.

The evening session p.m.

t t t Thursd~y, June 5th

The morning session opened· ~ith the reading of the minutes of the prevfiops day's· proceedings.

The Synod passed a resolution es­tablishing a Diocesan Board of Mis­sions consi-,ting of the · Bishop and Treasurer of the Diocese as ex-officio members and two clergy, one a ~is­sionary priest who would resign as soon as he accepted a self-supporting parish, and one lay representative from each Deanery. The ·. object of the new board is to sttimu1ate inter­est ia missions, review · quotas to­ward stipends of missionary clergy and endeavor to increase amounts given for missionary objects.

The Mission Board; 3:..-;' elected by Deaneries, is as foll~ws :

Algoma- Dean Craig; Rev. R. Webb and l\fr. J. D. Tipton.

Thunder Bay ·- Rev.' M. Goodman, .Rev. C ~ Large and Mr. ·H , Ha1ight.

Manito·ulin ~ Rev. G. Th Rev. R. W. Stump and Mi. F.

Muskoka - Rev. S. Craymer, E . Bowyer and Mr. H . ·\Vil'son

Nip is s j n g - Rev. Canon Fleming, Rev. R. K. Bamber R. Corless.

. Temiskaming- Rev. I. vV Rev. J . vVatson and Mr. ~r.

LAMBETH CON F EREN C E

Proposed · by Dean C r a i g heartily supported by clergy laity alike was the motion · B.ishop 's expense to I..1ambeth ference, June 1948, be paid. T ing of the funds wes·left in th of . a committee of three pr laymen. ·

A motion was presented by Beattie to the effect that $ set aside each year for ·a

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"!fund so that the Bishop's exp.enses to' this important conference every ten year s might be assured.

A n u m b e r of Diocesan reports were given. These 1included the, Ar­chives Committee r eport r e a d b y Can on F . \V. Colloton, the Woman's Auxiliary _read by Mrs. E . L. Allen, the Al goma Missionary News read bv R~v . F. F. Nock, the Council for S~cial Service read by Rev. Canon H. A. Sims, Chapl-eau; the Youth ·conference report read by Rev. W . W. Jarvis; Burwa'lh Chaplaincy read by Rev. ~J . Hinchliffe. The report of the Muskoka Sanitorium Chaplaincy . was p-resented but not read by Areh­deacon r~indsell. A vote of thanks was tendered to the Arehdeacon for his 30 y'ears of service as Chaplain.

A lively discussion foll-owed the reading of the report of the Algoma )ri><sionary News and the recommen­rlation of the report that the name he changed was vetoed. The su gg·es­tions of -the report were referred to the Executive Committee for ·fur­ther study.

, The need for improving Sunday ' ehool teachring was stressed in the rrport on Religious Education.

The Synod voted to send . a note of appreciation to the Ontario De­Partment of Education for the op­Por;~nity of teaching religion in the P~btlC s.chools. Almost all p u b 1 i c ~~ _ools in the province now have re­,~~Ious _education, the r eport said. It · of s;omted out by Canon Yeomans Pu i ort William that one of th~ eet ls of the Shingwauk School re­ee :e~ the highest marks in the Dio­eta .111 the r ecent - Sunday School

lllinations.

The report of the Council for So­cial Service dealt clearly and effec­tively with such questions as low cost housing, venereal disease . the fairer treatment of Japanese in Can­ada, etc:

t t t SF' !RITUAL ADVAI'IICE

Dean Craig presented an int.er.est- · · ing· r eport on the plans of the Splirit­ual Advance Committe e of the D}ocese. These plans for 1947 a.n d 19 18 embraced such ideas as the or­gani~a.tion throughout the Diocese· of Parochial Missions, Parochial Visita­tions and the wider distribution of ~nexpensive Parish Booklets 'Yhicli had . proved so popular this past spring.

A motion of congratulations to the Bible Reading FeHowship celebrat­ing its silver jubilee in London on J nne 5th was passed.

A letter of sympathy and condo­lence will go from the Synod to each of the bereaved families of the Lak__e Superior tragedy.

t t t _A_ r:'~O!N!M!::N'tS ANO EU::C'nONS

The Bishop announced the follow­ing appointments.: Diocesan Repre­sentatives to the Corporation of 1"rinity College-Rev. ~J. F. Hinch­liffe; Rev. F~ F . Nock; Father Loose­more, S.S.J .E .. Bishop's Appointees . to the . Executive Committee-Rev. .J. W. Hawkes, S.S.J.E.; Canon P . R. Beattie ; Messrs. J. D. Tipton and F. T. Dwyer.

1 Elections to the Diocesan Board of Religious Education were .as follows -: Revs. C. Goodier, J. F./ HinchNffe , M. Goodman ; Messrs. J~ H . Elliott, F. Gard. . .

Elections to the Diocesan Council for Social 'Service·: Revs. H,:· A: Sims,

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J. F. Hinchliffe, W. W. Jarvis; Messrs. F. J\t[atters, F. T. Dwyer, D.

· E. Jessup. · '

T h e R e v . F . F . N ock was re­appointed as Editor of the Algoma Miss~onary News. ·

Canon Colloton and with pr the Bishop.

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ORDINATIONS Ordination of three : men to the

sacred ministry of the· Church of England was held at St. Luke's Pro­Cathedral on Trinity Sunday.

The Rev. Arthur Privett, S. Th., of Garden River, was admitted to the o.ffice of priest and William eT ohn

. Parnell, who recently came from England and Gordon Byce, of Es­'panola, a graduate of Emmanuel· lege, were ordained deacons.

Officiating was Rt. Rev~ W.- L. Wright, D.D., Lord Bishop . of Al­r-oma, assisted by Rt. Rev. G. F. Kingston, Ph.D., D.D., l.Jord Bishop of Nova Scotia, the Very Rev. J. H. Craig, M.A., D.D., Dean of Algoma, and Rev. Canon F. W. Colloton, B.A.,

· B.D., the Bishop's chaplain.

Following the time,honoured cus­tom of the Anglican Church, the can­didates were questioned and exam­ined in front of the congregation and

. then after earnest prayer, they re­ceived the lay1ing on of hands and were presented with a copy of the Bible as a symhol of their commis­sion to preach · the Gospel.

Dean Craig · in his sermon said :

"We are living in great and strenuous days. This is ()ne of those rare periods in history when civilization strikes its tents and· moves forward . . To what it is leading · us, Go~ only knows. At least it is evident

that this is a great time to be alive. extremity is God's opportunity.

''Never neglect your inner of the grave . dangers of the min day is that it should he so caught the hustle and bustle of life thatr its ability to listen to the voice As the years go on, you will most infinite number of calls you. I am not suggesting that r·esist them all, but I am not to he so taken up with lose your essential contact

· God. Preserve carefully the tween the time you spend upon and the time you spend upon

"Above all do .not neglect the. the Scriptures. A deep kno Bible will save your ministry , vidualism and thinness. Your will never he a burden if it is well on the Scriptures·.''

Mr. Privett will continue at Garden River and Echo Parnell is proceeding to where he will also serve bour'ing points as Missana and Wawa. Mr. Bvce was

· for the Bishop of Saska will proceed to that Dio

The choir under the di Mrs. Douglas Johnson an anthem Tcha.ikovsky 's 'i the Trinity.'' The Co ting was by . Martin any was sung by Bishop

- choir and congregation.

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BEYOND, ALGOMA· BORDERS ------,----·

INDIAN THRIFT CLUB The Palampur Branch of the Wo­

men's Co-operative Thrift . Club is one of the best me:;tns of contact with non-Christian women that our 1\iis­Etion has.

The monthly meeHngs, which are held in the eomnarative p.riva.r.v of the Pres.ident 's (Mrs. C. R. H. Wilk­in«on ) garden are an event in the lives of e~meci::~lly the Mohammedan women who otherwise never leave the serlusion ot their homes. Covered from head to foot in a bourkha they :Jrrive in the garden, then, sheddin~ this cove:rl1nl!, they enjoy the change of scenerv ::md the ~oci.etv of other ~~'omen~nhri.~tian. Rikh, Hindu and Mo«lPm. (Hindu, Sikh and of courf:e Christian women do not generally observe purdah.)

These Thrift Clubs are a govern­rnent proi ect but are sponsored by groups wishing to help the people.

Each woman has a type of bank book and dep.osits a certain amount each month, saving toward some definite o'hiPrt such as the education of her children. The monev tis invested by

I • thP l!OV~rnment and once a year a divinPnn Of perhaps 6% is necJarP({ Rnn divided ::tmong the members. To ·nrRw from her 14sa\rings ·a member .

, must have the ~xmsent of the meet­inO'. selfl.om withheld but at least' a r.hP.ck on spending on less important things. 1

ThP meetings will incJ11de talks on' hAfllth, tr:::~vel or some other non-reli­gious su h.iect; or a heal·th play or a programme p11t on by the pupils of one of our schools.

Though no reltigious teaching can hA given at these gatherings the Christian influence is there and the wav is opened for visits to the homes where the conversation can be brought around to this topic.

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THEY TRUST THE CHRISTIANS fitlt's an ill wind that doesn 't bene­• 0

~orn.~on~.:__even the riots in India, Po ta~lc m themselves., . give an op­th r Ulllty to missions for service to the ~ffering . A recent letter from 0 fe t ~v. Geoffrey Guiton, Principal , ch e Harriet Buchanan Boys' , ch ool, to individua1s and · Sunday ell~ols Who are supporting his boys,

of this opportunity:

"Well, the · school is more a~ive than ever,'' writes Mr. Gui ton, ''and filling a greater need. The~e have been so many refugees come here from places '~'here ther·e is terrible trouble . going on, that we are simply over-crowded. It is difficult to turn these boys away. But we have reached the grand total of 830 boys this morning ; aU our class rooms

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are crowded and still the refugees come. Here is a typical case that hap-­pened yest erday.

'' An old Sikh gentleman came to see me, having arr'ived the previous

SCOUT BAND

night from the frontier. He had '"two small boys with him. He said to me : .~ These are all that I have left, my two · small grandsons. ·I have travel­led for six days to bring them to a place of safety ; all the rest of my family,- and their parents, are kiaed ; two weeks ago we were a happy fam­ily of thirteen, three generations of us livin g together. Eight have been murdered, my two daughters have been stolen away; I must go back to . Jook for t hem. Won't you take the boys? I c:1n pay for them.'

" What could one say. Surely Mis­sions are just for tlimes like these; I took the boys in and since then have tak en six more, cases just as tragic as this one. ·

'' Indian Christians everywhere have been playing a great part in

relief ·work and Missions have l'ln1n .dllr··r

their share~ It is ' really amazing h these people, non-Christians of or four cl'ifferent communities bringing their ·wives and children

HARRIET BUCHANAN SCHOOL.

Missions for safetv . . . and. it great advertiseme~t for Chris ·

'' vV e are in a very safe area there has been very little trou our district , nor do . I expect . But we are constantly besieged p o or Ind,·~an Christians from tricts that are far from safe to their boys. We need to have fifty boys looked afte.r and as you ar e helping. Food is tremeridously h1 price; it is cos1·jng· us ten ' dollnrs a ' mon feed each 1~ oy with the simplest ... and t hi~ ~'OVers. the bare foodstuffs.. \¥ h e a t and rationed, vegetables and unobtaJinable .. . but we ·eternal GOAT, although doubled in price since I last. vV on 't you help by get some other church or

THE ALGOMA MISSIONARY NEWS 23 terested in a boy here~ Our waiting list has some pretty needy cases and I can assure you that the Indian Church of the future is going to need all the leaders. that we c·an train.

"Again . . . thanks for all that . you are doing. It may seem very little to you, but it is making it pos-

sible for one more Indian Christian boy to get an education, to live in safety and health and to have the chance to learn more about Christ.

"We have the Bishop with us now . . . . twelve of our boys were con­firm~d 1ast Sunday, eight. · of this group owe it all to you in Canada.''

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TWENTY -FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ''When Thy word goeth forth, it giveth

light and understanding unto the simple.'' (Ps. 119, v . 130.)

On June 5th, this year, the mem­bers of the Bible Reading Fellows.Mp throughout the worl:d will be unit­ing in thanksgiving and prayer. Thanksgiving· that the Fellowship which started as a parochial venture in South London, has grown during these twenty-iive years to .a world wide movement with over 5,000 bran c h e s and 340,000 members; Prayer for God's continued blessing · on th~s organization.

In 1922 the Rev. L. G. Mannering Was vicar of the parish church of Bt. Matthew, Brixton, and he called together a few parishioners to dis­cuss ways and means of quickening the spiritual life of the paris,h. This venture 'IV as first caHed '' 'rhe Fel-lowsh· f "' . Ill .

1P o ~t. Matthew," and Its alll aim Vi'as to provide help to­

'''ard 1 de ~ t 1e regular, intelJigent and p1,~0hOl'~al reading of the Bible. '''h ~ th1s small beginning has grown de"a .bthe late Archbishop Temple ·

·>Crl ed '' 0 . Port as ne of the most im-in 0 ant developments of the Church !ng U:, genera~ion"-:The Bi~le Read­t·hes ellowsh1p. N e1ghbour1ng par-

adopted the idea and the move-

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ment expanded, not o~ly in England 'but ~n many other .parts of the world. The founder·; · now C a n o: n Mannering of Bristol Cathedral, the Bishop of G1op.cester, Chairman o:fi t h e Council, and . many fampus names, not only connected with the Church of England but with all Protestant bodies are now linked ·closely to the movement. There are 'two executive cQuncils outside Eng­land, our own Canadian council and a newly formed council in New Zea­land. The monthly notes are printed in about a dozen different languages and more translations are contem­plated. A special edition in Braill-e is available for blind readers and nu­merous children's books and various aids to devotional study are pub­lished from time to time.

To mark the twenty-fifth anniver-. sary, spec~al• s.ervices are being held

in St. Martin-in-the-Fields and in Westminster Abbey and a g r e a t public meeting is to be held in the Central Hall, 'Westminster (where the U.N.O. conference took place last year) on the evening of J nne 5th, where the Archbishop of Canter­bury wil1 preside and Her Majesty the Queen, who is herself a member of the B.R.F., has graciously prom-

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· ised to be present. There will be a Bible exhibition in one of · the halls within the Central HaH, where many interesting manuscripts and exhibits will be on view, including the Bible taken into Ne" gate Prison by Eliza­beth Fry, and a chained · Bible. A sp~cial detailed programme of the services and evening meeting, with an inset giving descriptions of the exhibits and one or two articl•cs of interest . (such as a history of the B.R.~1• by Canon Mannering,) is., in preparation and · will be available ( price-~25 cen. ts) at the Office of the General Secretary for Canada, Box~ 190, Port Hope, Ontario, where . any inqu'lries aLo11t the monthly notes or other Fe1lowship publications may be addressed.. ·

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Surel·y all who value God's W will unite in prayer with this w \-vide organization on this happy casion. In many parishes spe services are being arranged Thursday, June 5th, or one of Sundays preceding or followring date, but whether it is possible to tend a · special service or not, prayers of the whole Church asked that God wil-l continue bless this undertaking and to it,s growth throughout the years come.

. ''Although we cannot be present the gathering in London, we can all in the Anniversary celebrations assured we are together 'bound . by chains about the feet of Goa'." ( . B.R.F. Note- June 5th, 1947, Series

MUSKOKA DEANERY CONFERENCE

On Wednesday, M-ay 14th, 1947, a by everyone. Grace was said by W.A. conference of the Muskoka Rev. W. Hankinson of Milford

. beahery was held in Bracebridge.

-At 10:30 a.m. there was a Cele­bratiop of Holy Communion at St. Thomas' Church, writh the Rev. F. F. Nock of Bracebridge as celebrant, assisted by Rural Dean Nornabell of Huntsville. There were 92 communi­cants. Rural Dean Norna bell preached the sermon, using Roga­tiontide as his theme.

Following the . service there was a conference of the Presidents of the various Bran•ches of the W.A.

Delegates registered at · R. M. Browning Memorial Hall after which a picnic basket of lunch was enjoyed

Mrs. Cameron lVIilner of Port ing, Deanery Officer of Deanery, presided at the session.

The meeting opened with a followed by prayers by the G. Bmvyer of Emsdale.

Scripture reading was then by Mrs. Smith of Hunts,':ille.

Mrs. Milner gave her · which she announced that four new W.A. Branches in ery this year, namely, Gregory, Rosseau and There are now three h eleven W.A. members in the

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Mrs. G. H. 0. Thomas then wel­comed the delegates to · Bracebridge, to which Mrs. Hayward of Emsdale replied.

An address was given by Miss MCintyre on her work in northern Saskatchewan. This was an inspir­ing account of a Bishop's Messen­ger, whose aim is to love, to serve and to teach.

Mrs. Campbell also gave ail ad­dress in wh'ich she told about inter­esting places in the Diocese of Al­goma.

''Bless This House '' was sung· by a trio c~msisting of Misses Shirley Par­rett, Margaret Beckman and Carol Hutchison.

There follow ed · reports from the eleven Branches of the W.A:' which were present.

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The report of the Presidents' Con~ ference showed that Mrs. Wilson had been appointed Secretary of th~ · Deanery Conference., Mrs. G. Jef­fries of Bracebridge was appointed Treasurer.

· Mrs. W1illiams kindly extended an invitation to hold the 'next Deanery meeting in Gravenhurst. It was de­cided that this meeting would ·be held in the autumn of 194 7.

Questions from the Question Box were answered by Mrs. G. H. 0. Thomas.

l\irs. Penny spoke briefly on the Girls' Auxiliary :ually to be held ·in North Bay on May 24th.

The meeting closed with a hymn and the Benedict'ion was pronounced by the Venerable J. B. Lindsell.

THE DIOCESAN ANNUAL

The annual meeting of the Algoma Diocesan Board . of the \¥oman's . Auxiliary was held in North Bay fr?m May 25th to 28th, beginning With a service of Thanksgiving .and Holy Communion at the Church of

2!· John the Di~ine, Sunday, May

bl>th. Rev. W. W. Jarvis was cele­Dr~nt and Rt. Rev. W. L. Wright,

· ., was preacher. -

0.Previous to the annu~l meeting a atl:ls' Conference was held w'ith an of ~dance of 55 under the direction Pr r. W. M. McKibbon . .A splendid '''~sgra~ featuring craft work, games in thenJoyed and supper was served \\r

1e hall. S'peakers included Mrs.

~ti~s E Wrig_ht, Mrs. D. Kenny and · __ , Craig, . _

Over 100 delegates assembled for the annua1 meeting which celebrated 50 years of service in \V.A. work.

Many messages of greeting and best wishes were received. '

Address were given by Rt . . Rev. W .' · L·. Wright, D.D.; Mrs. R. E. Wodehouse, Dom'inion President of the W.A.; Mrs. E. L. Allen, President of the · Algoma Diocesan Board; Mrs. Johnson Elliott, Dominion Junior Secretary; and Miss A. Edgar, re~ tired missionary from Iridia who was recently appointed Principal of the Women's Missionary Training School in Toronto. ·

Reports of aU ·officers were re· celived and indicated growth of th~

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work all along the line. Diocesan Life Memberships were presented in . appreciation of faithful service to four members.

A Diocesan Tea was 'held Monday honouring the anniversary of St. John's Branch, North Bay. Congratu- · lations were extended to the Rt. Rev. W. L. Wright on this occasion of the

_ third anniversary of his consecration as Bishop of Algoma.

Members of the Executive Com­mittee who were unab1e to be pres­~nt through illness · were remem~ bered by :flowers and messages.

Provision will-be made to gather historical information for the com­piling of a booklet" on the W.A. in Algoma to be printed and ready for distrtibution in 1951, the 50th anni­versary of the completed organiza­tion.

S. S. J. E. EXPANSION

It is with a great deal of regret that his many friends in Muskoka, }-loth in hif; own communion of the Church of England and in other churches, bid ''au revoir" to the Rev. -Roland F. Palmer, S.S.J.E., Su­perior of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Brace bridge.

It is twenty years since the Mis,­_stion House was established in Brace­bridge under Father Palmer's leader­_ship, the property for the institution having been given by the late Rev. R. T. Sadler. When the Canadian House, in Brace bridge, was made autonomous in 193'2, Father Palmer became tits ·Superior. The ordained

Grants were made to provide an increase in the Divinity Studen and Regional Workers Fund and was urged that the Branches

·every effort to · increase the n of contributors to the Thank..-. ..... ,.~,~· Fund·, used for the training of sionaries owting to the great need more workers in all fields.

Generous donations were made the purpose of repairing · . churches and parsonages, assi in building new halls, installing tricity and providing signs for sion churches.

In 1948 the annual• meeting be held in Huntsville, Ontario.

The closing address was given. the Rev. W. W. Jarvis, who b his remarks on the Book of Pro in likening the W.A. to a jewel great price.

men at the 1\liission serve a large group of throughout this district. and dition frequently conduct in city churches in all parts con tin en t.

Father Palmer leaves Brace for British Columbia on 1eave sence, where in the town ren to he will take the ieawer:s.u~ instituting another such . h will be thirty years on Ju since Father Palmer was at St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral Ste. Marie. He served in a Ontario parishes before Boston to enter the S.S.J.E.

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On Sunday morning, May 4th, Father Palmer preached the sermon at St. Thomas' Church, Brace bridge, and assisted the rector, Rev. F. F. Nock in the service. He · spoke from the gospt;l lesson for the Sunday, taking his text from St. John:l6:7, ''Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it 1is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Com­forter win not come unto you; bnt if I depart, I will send him unto ~'OU. '' After explaining these words

of 'our Lord, Father Palmer sp.oke more personally and made refer­.ence to the twenty years spent in one place. The twenty years had been happy ones and he has many memories of kindnesses_.

After the blessing, Mr. Milton Bailey, the people's warden, pre­sented Father Palmer with a 'bill­fold containing a cheque to be used for mater~.ial for the new mission house at Sorrento ..

A. Y. P. A. DISTRICT~ BANQUET An advance in A.Y.P.A. work in

the Diocese was marked by the hold­ing of the first A.Y.P.A. District Banque.t at Holiday House, Brace,. hridge, on Wednesday, May 28th. Beve-n t y young pe6pl•e from the A.Y.'s of Port Carling, Port Sydney; Gravenhurst, Hunts.ville and Brace­hridge attended. The chairman of the banquet was Bill Thompson, President of Brac,ebridge A~Y.P.A.

The visiting clergv were the Ven­f'rable· J. B. Lindsell. Gravenhurst; Rural Dean Nornahell, Huntsv1ille; ~- Bowyer. Emsdale; and Rev. F. p ather McCausland, S.S.J.E.; Rev.

· Nock, Bracebridge. After dinner /veral presentations were made and h~~st~ were proposed and renl1ed to lr }rbss Hilda Clark of Port Sydney, ~ 188 Penny of Port CarliinO' _ and r~h . o W .ter ·McCauslanrl. M 1 ss Joan 'B1 e sanq. two deli<!htfnl· selections 'DY _the Bend of the River" and

Ubl."

The 'Bowy guest speaker was Rev. E. he w er of Emsdale who spoke on la, ''W~s of St. Paul, I Corinthians:

en I became a man I put

away childish things.'' The thought­provoJdng and inspiring address was greatly appreciated by . all those present.

The remainder of the evening was . spent in dancing to music supplied by a k>cal orchestra.

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LAKEHEAD NEWS

Archdeacon and Mrs. Balfour were made recipients of a beautiful automatic toaster from 'S't. Paul's choir at the choir's recei1t annual banquet. Every · breakfast will now be enriched by the happy memories of the kind donors! Mr. F. S. Parish, the choir leader, made a feli­citous speech r eferring · to the coming re­tirement of the rector and his. wife. A handsome Ronson l~gh'ter , ~as aJso- pFe- . sen ted to Mr. H. J\;t:oorey,· a senior member of the choir, who. is retiring by reason of ill health. Mr. H. H. Browne, the org-anist, made the pres-entation on behalf of Mr. Moorey 's fellow-members . . ,

t t t The "Four Star Jamboree" given; 'by

the Guides, Scouts, Cubs and Brownies proved a great success. T}l,is was a new venture to bring 'the.se groups together and to give the pare'nts and friends an evening's entertainment. .Great credit is due the Commissioners and Leaders and

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all who took part for the most creditable programme. This should become an annual event.

Parents' Night was again a · notable event. A large number came to . witness the ''badge-giving'' and the ''going-up. '' St. Paul's is very happy in aH its leaders in these various youth groups.

THE BISHOP'S ITINERARY

JULY-AUGUST, 1947

July 2nd-Webbwood for E'vensong at 3 p.m.

Espanola for Evensong at 8 p.m.

July 7th to 12th-Youth Conference at Sandstone Lake (outside of Port William )'.

July 14th-To Toronto.

July 23rd to August lst--'Sault .Ste. Marie.

August lst-Sprucedale at 8 p.m.

August 3rd-Beaumaris -at 11 a.m. Novar at 4 p.m. Emsdale at 7:30.

August 4th-Sand Lake at 3:30 p.m. Kearney at 8 p.m.

August 5th-Orrville at 8 p.m.

August 6th-Burk 's F alls at 8 p.m.

August 7th-Magnetawan at 8 p.m.

Augsut 8th-Pointe au Baril at 11 a.m. Port Carling at 8 p.m.

August lOth-Gravenhurst Sanitarium at 8:30 a.m.

St. James ' Church at 11 a.m. Gregory at 3 p.m. Rosse au a t 7:30 p.m.

August 11th-Bent River at 8 p.m.

August 12th-13lh-Lak e of Bays Missions.

Augus t 14th-15th-S .. S. J. E., Bra cebridge, etc.

A<: gust 17th-Bala a t 11 a .m. T·ort Sydney at 7: 30 p.m.

August 18th-Blind River for Confirma­ticn at 7: 30 p.m.

SUBSCRIPTION RENEWALS

The following is a list of sub rene'\vals r eceived and acknowledged thanks:

'l'he Rev. C. Lord, York' Mills; E. Pool, Kakabeka Falls; Mrs. Peter, Hailey bury; Mrs. Alice M. Dalton, Mass.; Dr. E. H. Niebel, Miss M. Campbell, New Liskeard; Gladys L. Hughes, Port Carling; E. Thomas, Intola; Wm. Young, J ... anding; Mrs. Evelyn A. Thoi:nas; bridge; .Mrs: Oswald Attwa ter, Stn.; Very Rev. -Dean J. H. Craig, Ste. Marie; John FitzGibbon, Sault Marie; Mrs. A. Greaves, .Sault Ste, W. N. Leslie, 'Sault Ste. Marie; ' Mrs. Geo. Ramsay, Sault- Ste. Marie; Fraser, Burk 's F alls; Mrs. S. Ftost, toria, B.C.; W. Rogers, St. Thomas; B. H.. Turner, Little Current; . Mis~ M. Kirby, .Whonock, B.C.; Mrs. S. Mindemoya; Mrs. Wm. Andrews, City, Min11.; Mrs. J. P. McDonald,

·River; Mrs. A. J. Flowers, Copper­Geo. Taylor, Port Arthur; Rous and Toronto; Mrs. E. · E. Edwards, Ca G. C. Counsell, Walden, N.Y.; . Coate, Toronto; .Mrs. K. W. Lowe, ville: Mrs. E. G. Swin,gter, _Port. Mrs. Geo. N. Ecclestone, Walter F. Campbell, Toronto; Mrs. Stewart, Acton; Miss W. E. Prowse, bridge ; Mrs. W. P. Greenhill, Mrs. \V. J. Montgomery, P enticton, Col. W. J. A. Later, Huntsville.

W.A. Library, Emily Rice, Hamilton; Mrs. F. B. Kent, Landing; Mrs. Cowan, Bracebridge; Myrtle Nelson, Sprucedale; Mrs. ine Booth, Port Arthur; Ron Tay Ste. Marie; Miss . D. Armstrong, Marie; Mrs. Hayman, Sault .Ste. Mrs. H. Holmes, Walford; -~rs. Roth, Port Sydney ; Miss Alice Thessalon; Mrs. E. · R. Cressey, .Sister Ann Marie, S.S .• T.D., Toron Wm. B:uton, Ne''' Liskeard.