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The Huron Expositor, 1973-03-08, Page 10HOLIDAY STORE CLOSING MARCH 9 to 20 CROWN HARDWARE PHONE 5t7-1420 SEAFORTH ••••••••••.......•••••N IN MODISH NEW FABRICS AND COLORS Choose from light pastels, whites & bright color plains and a wide range of plaid & check effects. British wool dress _coatings in reg- ular or new walk- ing lengths. 39.95 to 55.00 Use yOur Chargex JUST ARRIVED! THE NEW SPRING RANGE OF PARIS - STAR FORTREL DOUBLE-KNIT CO-ORDINATES See them in our windows VISIT OUR READY-TO-WEAR DEPT. --,9TAKCEY READ and USE EXPOSITOR CLASSIFIED Action Ads PHONE DIRECT 527-0240 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 from 4'p.m. to 8 p.m. cis THURSDAY, MARCH 8 from 12 NOON to 8 p.m. NOTE:— Eligible voters other than those resident in the Town of Goderich may be sworn in on election day if their name has been omitted from the voters' list. Advance Polls: SATURDAY and MONDAY MARCH 10th and MARCH 12th, .1973, from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. and on each of the TWO DAYS at the following places: GODERICH Mrs. Joseph McNevin Residence CLINTON — TOWN HALL EXETER — TOWNH'ALL SEAFORT H— Les Habkirk's Office, Main St. The ballot boxes will be opened at the said places and the votes counted at 7 p.m. on the fifteenth day of March, 1973. NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ANY ALTERATION IN THE LIST OF VOTERS AND FOR CERTIFICATION OF PROXY CERTIFICATES IS 8:00 P.M. MARCH 8th 1973 • ADDRESS ALL INQUIRIES TO: RETURNING OFFICER— RUSSEL T. BOLTON OFFICE LOCATION— 10 MAIN ST.,SEAFORTH TELEPHONE 527-0370 SEW UP SAVINGS EASY CARE Fashion Crimpelene, Trevira, Double-Knits, Seer- suckers, Plain and Printed Polyester Crepe, Cottons, Broadcloth and denims: , ^ ... Tfl .7 JILIRON EXPOSITOR, 011APORTV, ONT., MARCH 0, 1973 Wilted Church preOltiry names new chairman • I. nzeri -- • -' Rev. Douglas warren Of Crediton took over the chairman- ship of the Huron-Perth Presby- tery of the United Church at a meeting of the Presbytery in Seaforth Thursday. He succeeds Rev. Frederick Faist of Strat- fold who resigned because of the many meetings he must attend as president-elect of the London Conference of, the United Church. The office of the vice-chair- man left vacant by Mr. Warren's election will be filled at the April meeting. Rev. Muriel 'Stephensdn, serving in India under the United Church of Canada and now on a five-month furlough until May 20 at her home in Toronto, was the guest speaker. She said only two per cent of the people in India are Chris- tian. It is the largest democracy in the world with a population of 550 million people in an area of one million square miles which Is aboutone-third the size of Canada. Miss Stephenson said the pro- blem of a population explosion is being tackled by education in family planning all over India. However, she said, the village people in India are tradition bound and are suspicious of any change. In India, a country of many religions, it is written into the constitution that all are free to carry on their own religion. She said India faces many problems but is bravely seeking the answer to them to work them out. One of the main problems is poverty. Illiteracy is an- other. There is much disease and lack of good sanitation. Un- employment is high, she said. Because of the drought in the north-west areas of India ow- ing to the fact that the monsoons failed last July, August andSept- ember, vast multitudes have no. food or water and many have left their homes to go to the cities for relief. Miss Stephenson said the Indian government is really try- ing to help families. It has set up schools within two or three miles of every family. Clinics and dispensaries are available and nurses and doc- tors are sent to deal with the sick, however there is only one doctor for every 5000 people and one nurse for every 70000 people. There are 65 million children who, are still not in schools. Miss Stephenson explained how she was a part of the Church of North India, which became a union in November, 1970 for six denominations. In speaking of the work to be done in completing the constitution, she said when it IS ready there will be separate education and medical boards set up to look after this aspect of church work, leaving the church free to carry on its own work. Regarding her own work, Miss Stephenson said they were re- vising the Hindi hymnbook which will be off the press in August. She said she spends much of her time teaching music in seminars, workshops and institutes. Miss Stephenson completed her talk with playing an Indian song (bhajan) on a bamboo flute, and playing her violin and sing- ing another song, o r bhajan. Presbytery appointed a team to be responsible for Christian development in the Presbytery. They will be working with Rev. Morley Clark, London, field sec- retary of Mission in Canada. Appointed are: Rev. Robert Ray- mont, Mrs. Cora Thistle, Harold Knisely, Rev. Barrie Robinson, Rev. Glen Wright, Rev.Bruce Guy, Rae Grant, Mrs. Moira C ouper. The members of Presbytery learned with regret the prema- ture retirement of Rev.Laurie Ray of the Kirkton- woodham charge as of June 30, 1973 due to ill health. In one of the reports it was revealed that there were '2 can- didates for the ministry in Huron and Perth Counties in 1972, an increase of one. Total member- ship in the church in the two counties is down by 2,235 for a total of 21,509 in 1972. Bap- tisms are down by 72 and mar- riages by 50 and the number joining the church on profession of faith are down by 95. Atten- dance at Sunday School dropped 1,316 to 5,771 last year in the counties but there are 466 more members in the United Church Women giving it a total of 4,607 members. Rev. Frederich Faist in handing over his gavel of office to Mr. Warren said that as chairman he was often in a bind to know whether presbytery should be structured to program or business. He said at the end of the Presbytery meeting there was often a feeling of frustration, when there should be a feeling of having been inspired. He sugges- ted that at Presbytery there should be more program,, then business Could be done by Divi- sion meetings at other times. Mr. Fast said he sensed "a deep feeling of concern, a sense of responsibility that the church has to move forward on the feet of ordinary people like you and me". He said that there must be a sense of reporting but those ac- tions should always be, done with a careful study and the -Chris- tian ethic. "We have so much at stake here in Huron-Perth Presbytery to offer to the London conference as we work with other Presby- teries", he said as he handed the gavel over with "Your au-• thority does not rest in this piece of wood, but in your heart". The day-long session was attended by 95 clergy and lay delegates. Rev. Raymond Lindsay of Monkton presented a film on Key 73, an interpretive presentation of the continent-wide evangelism thrust, the aim of which is to confront every person in North America with the gospel of Jesus C , Rev. Harold Currie of Sebringville expressed his disap- pointment that Presbytery would not ,be dealing with two import- ant issues to be voted on soon in Parliament -- Capital punish- ment and Abortion. NOTICE TO_ n2221E1 QUALIFIED VOTERS n I I ja I t () IN THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF HURON CONCERNING THE PENDING BY-ELECTION TO BE HELD MARCH 15th, 1973 FROM 8:00 A.M. UNTIL 7:00 P.M. ReVision of Lists of Voters The Returning Officer will be present at his office, McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 10 Main Street, Seaforth.for revision or addition to the voters' lists and for the certification of proxies on Several of, the clergy suggest personally contacting one's member of Parliament informing him of how you stood on the prob- lems carried more weight than a petition from Presbytery. In the upper picture delegates to a meeting of the Huron Perth Pres- bytery at Northside Church, Seaforth, are en- joying lunch at the church. From the right are Irvin Trewartha, Seaforth, Rev. M. E. Reuber of North- side and Rev. Douglas War- ren of Crediton who was elected chairman of the P resbytery. Above are (left) retiring chairman, Rev. Frederick Faist of Stratford, Mr. Warren and Rev. D.Docken of Duff's Church, Walton. To the right is Rev. Murial Stephenson on fur- lough froM India who was guest speaker. (Photo by .0ke) REV. 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