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FATHER •MINISTERID. HERB
L,ickflow. ative
Observes. Jubilee
In free Church. .
A copy of "People's Journal" ,
a Scottish publication which .ser'-
lies the Inverness and: Northern
Counties Area of Scotland, has
beet sent to us by, someone in '
Toronto whose :identity: we do not
know ♦ • • wY ,
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It concerns an article. about
Rev. John Calvin MacKay, who.
has completed his "jubilee in the.
Free Church. Reif. Mackay was '
born in Lucknow and we reprint
• the article because of its local
interest,
The article read '
One of the most notable mem.
It's , Been A Tough Week
.We've been, a: 'pretty lucky.
crew around our place this year.
All'. winter, friends, neighbors
and relatives 'have been coming
down with everything. from the
ordinary stuff — pregnancy and
insanity.-' to exotic •items like
Oriental hepatitis and whooping.
mumps:. We ' 'haven't . had so
'muchas a sniffle..:: •
It was too good to last, and we
"got the whole bundle this week.°
•Nothing' serious,' physically,: but
- mentally. , and emotionally, a
shattering period.
First it was the dentist. Kim's .
Was her : regular six-month
• Check-up. It's a'. breeze:' She
waltzes in , blithely, has her
gums frozen, and the dentist.;
.pumps a little concrete into a
pin-hole you couldn't see with a
: ':.telescope.
It's -a- little- different- for- fa-
t •
her. I also go regularly. to _ the
`.dentist. ,Every three or four'•
• years. When I have a broken
tooth' or two, and 'have . wild,
stabbing pains from several of
the other old stumps, and have
postponed my .appointment
about six times, I go down for
my regular check-up. • •
Sweating, trembling; and eon -
deigning all dentists:and their
inane questions to the• murkiest
'depths, I sit there. trying 'to', tear
•the arms off the chair. Too gut-
less about needles 'to have the
• freezing, I go .through the ago-
nies. Of Prometheus as the poor
• man prods about among the
snaggles of porcelain,looking
for ,a piece of genuine, human
tooth he can drill. .
And then .there's always that
excruciating moment when he
steps back, with some kind of
• chisel cocked in his hand,
shakes his headmore in pity
than. in sympathy,, ' and sa 's,
Nmmm» •
Visions of the blood, the pain,
the ignominy swirl through my
head: •
Well, that's the way the week
began. Worse was to come. I've
been suffering from a bad
shoulder for years. I know; Ev
erybody has one. Or a bad back
ors bad hip. One week, the doe -
tor says it's an inflanunation. On
the next visit, he says it's, an old
injury aggravated by tension.
Next trip, it's bursitis, Next, af-
ter X-rays, it's a calcium depos-
it. If I had halt the calcium in
'►y teeth that I have in. nay
shoulder, I . ' could be one of
those grinning -ape. models :.in
• the toothpaste ads. -
Anyway,. I finally decided. to,
do something about it. Or my
wife did. She didn't . mind my
groaning in/my sleep. It was the
cursing, every. time l< rolled onto
:that side, that upset her. She
was . worried about my soul:
I wasn't. But when it got to
,the point where I couldn't pour
a bottle of beer any more, 'with-
out weeping,:I realized that man
cannot : exist on pain pills alone.
I've mentioned what • a yellow ;
• streak I have about needles., The
..doe said, as he took out this ele
pliant -syringe, loaded with:cort•
(sone, "You'll 'feel a slight pin-
prick as, the needle.enters." The
cold , .sweat stopped flowing.
Nothing, to it:
Then he started to: lean on the--,
needle. Have<you ever had a pin-
prick with a .,crow -bar?. '
The .only coinparable earned-
" ence
rneri-
ence I've had was one time'
• veterans' : hsopital' . I was
wheeled into this room for
'tests." Flat "on my back. 'Two
'nurses held a hand each, one on
each side of the the bed. Decent
of them, I' thought.. Comforters.'
As :I , was smiling ..at them, in.
turn' the• doc rammed this huge
. hypodermic in my chest . and
shoved down. Then he started to
• suck (marrow out of my breast-
bone, as it turned out). In the.
next three seconds, thosenurses
wound up on opposite aides of
.the bed, without` touching- the
floor. I was told later. that I had
. been a volunteer for a research
• project. • • .
• Well, I°won't bore you with a
lot more sick detail. Suffice it to
say' that my 'wife and daughter
went to the eye doctor. Kim,
who wants glasses like she
wants a hair lip, got them: 'My
wife was sore .. as hell because
she paid 10 dollars for the es- •
amination,. and didn't get any .
Just to cheer us up, we
phoned Hugh on Sunday,.. We
knew ' he was starting to ' write
his final university exams/ on
the •Monday. Wanted to wish
him luck. A croaking wreck whe
sounded•more like Edgar. Allen
Poe's raven than our jolly boy,'
informed us that 'he'd' been. sick
as a dog with the 'flu for three.
weeks,
bers of the Free Church the Rev. ..
,john Calvin MacKay, has` just eel-
. ebrated •his jubilee in the ministry,'
,He and his wife,.who live at 10
Dunachton Road, Inverness., were
honoured by the congregation of
the, town's Free North Church•.
,Amongst'.the gifts they received.
were two fireside chairs.
But Mr. Mackay didn't, chdose
them with anTintentionr of retiring
and taking things easy.' He will
continue to serve his kirk.'
' The name :Calvin Mackay is one
which. has resounded throughout •
the Free Church.'
'Well it'might, for Mr. Mackay
h'as' been: one of its inspiring forces,
He was born in Canada, in Luck•.
now Ontario, where his :father,
the Rev. Angus Mackay; whose;'
forebears hailed 'from Sutherland,
was :minister.
When his father resigned in• 1,904.
he settled in'Kingussie, and Cal-
vin Mackay was ordained as a min-
ister in the Nairn Free Church in
1915..
our years later he 'set out as a
.Free Church missionary in South
America: servingin:`Peru: at. Lima,
Cajamarca and Moyobambo.
During his early service in South,.
American: , Mr, Mackay was ace-
ompanied• by• his wife, who often
had to make. long treks on horse-
back with him, crossing the' Andes,
to reach their "home at Cajamarca,
• NAMESAKE
When he•.first went.to Peru, the
superintendent at the.•mission 'was
a namesake; the. Rev. Dr'. John
N. Mackay, now. in retirement in
America, who hailed from Inver
Bess,•
Dr, Mackay's__brother., the 'Rev,
William R. Mackay , recently suc-
ceeded Calvin Mackay as chap=
lain for the Inverness hospitals..
` During his .long spell" overseas-.
from .191.9 until 1935 - Mr. 'Mac-
kay Was closely associated with
other notable mission workers from
the 'Highlands;
HIGHEST HONOUR •
They .included Nurse Sarah Mae-
d.ougall., , from 'Glen Urquhart 'arid
Dr. Kenneth' MacKay who now
stays at Laggan in Inverness-shire,
• Convalescing after an accident,
Mr. Mackay returned to this
country in 1935., rejoined his wife
and family in Dundee.
In 1938lie was inducted to
Kincardine Free Church, and in'
:1942 he was accorded his Church's
highest honour - Moderator of the
General Assembly of the "Free.
Church .
But .his.work in the mission field
was notY et ended. In 1945 he •
�
was recalled for further duties'in
Lima,.
He stayed there until 1948,
when he. was succeeded by the Rev
lames Mackintosh, a Glen Urqu-
hart man, who has been nominateq
this year's Moderator ofthe •Gen-
eral Assembly.
DAUGHTERS. OVERSEAS
• Their friends areilelfghted that
Mr. and Mrs, Mackay continue
to stay among. them. Mrs. Mac-
kay, who hails from Rosehall, in •
Sutherland, is a sisterof well-
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:.May 96.
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• APPEAL.,
ho has • IS A com nunity Servi Gird.*
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THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AT
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LucknowFruit Market
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You May Mail Cheek Or:' Money ,area Divert . Ib
Red Shield Hadquar$rs.,
alvatian Army, " Winglam
known farming personality Mr.
W.D.Munro, Overskibo,. who
lives in retirement at Birchfield..
Evelix.
All three(Attie Mackays'
daughters' are overseas Anita
(Mrs. Lloyd) in Australia Cather-
ine (Mrs. Ross) in Toronto, and
Rachael (Mrs. Sime ) iii„ Winnipeg.
-Williams, their Wei son, who
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served asp a Major with the Gurkha
paratroopers during the war, and
later in the. Colonial Service on
the Gold Coast, is now secretary
of the N.F.U. for Kinross and
West Fife,.
Ian was in the Intelligence Ser-
vice in wartime andis now an
entomologist with the' Shell 'Com-
pany
om-pany in London.
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