Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-12-26, Page 6THE EXETER. TIMES -ADVOCATE licanisra in .EixOter Trivia Memorial Church to Celebrate Fortieth Anniversary Built by. the late Thomas Trivitt' by gee", John. J Isenton, Exeter on the Exe. the capital. town of the fatuous shire of Devon, 10 the English eity atter which aur Ontario yt11ag0 a Exeter is named. Devbashire settlers were among the first teeetiew (town the forests and atreek up the soil or Huron .county; and sTescendants of these DeVonshire Xol.are still with us to -clay. It was an Cornwell, the adjoining (TRIMS 1Devonshire, that the religions e Christians, • appear to have originated. James Street United church ia t living with the original Bible 'Christian -ar. ganization; and the Trivitt Memor- ial .Churca, with .whielt this article is more eepeelalty ..e'oncerned, is a living Hale with Somerset end Dev- .onsaire—wit1i the former, because !Thomas Trivia Was -4t native of 'faun - tan Dene, long famous for its adher- ence to the geese of -the unfortunate Moniuouth;• and wialt . the latter, be- 4ause a•goeilly..aatiibei"of • those who have worshipped Within its walls have the .satneebleied in their "veins: ;and,let us hope, the same spirit iu theirhearts as had the men who 4chae.ed the Armada up the English •Chattnel into thewaste waters .of the Norp1,-4ea. No men of Devonshire -Weed. need be ashamed of the stock •• from which he has sprung. And let e.21)e. • O. stock iu Exeter Prottaes ana the •e6igeleys, the rid around it noteirget that the Dionats and the Care4s, the Gren- Vallee. and the Raleighs.,were baptis- ed and confirmed end Married and hurled according to the rites of the Anglican Church; and when, they re- call all this, will they perthit it to aid at some future day that the Anglican flag fell into the dust at Exeter because the ileseendahla of Devonshire men—yes, of Devonshire meal—had Mit spirit enough to keep it floating above them? Of 'course such a thing never will, and never can, be said in tae future of Devon men; was it not Sir Richard Gren- ville, or Bideford, who said to his sailors on the ocean, ".Courage, my lads, we are as near heaven on sea as on .the lana!" The .Anglican cause in Exeter is historically the ild of Devonshire faith and loyal- teSe and to Deronshlre faith and lo- yalty the appeal once more is made --the appeal es it were of Grenville from his ocean graise, in a voice loud- er than that of Drake's drum itself: "Courhge ny lads, we will never. • let the old flag' fall!" That flag will be unfurled once More on pan - day,' December 29th, in the Trivitt Memorial Church:_ and all folk of Devonsildre origiu, and oU Angliesns of whatever origins +are asked: to come and hear with their own ears of the noble works that were done in the days of 'their fathers, "and in the old time before them." . . Origin of the Anglicanism in Exeter The origins of Anglicanism in Exe- ter go back to the fifties of the last century; and it is very Probable that there was a nfore or less organ- ized 'Anglicati congregation inEsete.r for some, years previous -to the .build - lag of the first Christ (laurels There are the usual legendary mists en- shrouding the very early history of Exeter Anglicanism; but qltotie mists had disappeared by April; 1809, when we stand on firm historical ground with the th•st recorded entry in the old Vestry book. The Rev. Stearne Tighe•—a Immo Unit is more remits, iscent of Ireland than or Devonshire —wee the eters-ratan who watchea by the cradle of Anglicanism in Exe- ter. The Went thou born turned, out to be a sturdy youngster, devel-' oped. tato a sturdier man, and Is not yet sur ring front the effects of old. age. Other districts of England as well as Devonshire contributed ole- inents or strength to his growth; Scotland—in the perpon of Dr. Hynd- man—contributed a splendid charch-• Man and an excellent •cattrchwarden; and Irelaud—what good cause has. not Ireland always and everywhere• supported?—would not let either' England or Scotland advance an inch beyoad her iu the furtherance of the Anglican cause. All those kingdoms "and the gallantaittle Principality of Wales" and the ,Provinces of .Caea- ada, have helped te'make Exeter .An- glibanism what it is to -day; in God's name, let those who have either in - •e• Mae careless rapture" of „nab. Wor- ship and its Memories? epAn ansWer in the affirinatixe avis giVen—not by a Devon but by a ',Somerset inaa. The Vale .ot Taunton is in its Odyn way as fine as the Vote .of Exeter; Rua. from Taunton •came the inspiration that gave the Ontario Exeter. its Memorial Church, Dreams .C.eate True Nothing in the career of Thomas Trivitt is more remarkable than the streak of romanticism *which ran through Ms otherwise very :prosaic and business -like character; but there is nothing unusual in all this. We know how Carnegie had a Very warm •corner in his heart for a cer- tain mountain district in Scotland! we know how Henry Ford is not for- getful of his Cork ancestry, though bo never romped in his boyhood bo.• side "the pleasant waters of the River Lee"; we kuow how most Old • 14 441;;4;(i. r ' ter ace. -4-1--es:e----11.Etel teees-seetee 01, ,14,f 011:::: Monts • K OF .MON W.EAL Esta.blished. 1817 herited or adopted the Anglican tra- dition, anti . entered ,intoethe reward of previous Anglican labours, - not become fainthearted now! -Christen- dom at large needs now more than ever such service as •the Anglican church alone can give it; Canada needs our Anglican comprehensive- ness encl. toleranee; • Ontario needs ow Anglican sanity and forbearance; and Exeter needs ner Aitglieensessea?_ will„esSeseeaudd-hinficireLiVen.ded as hey ai•e of Devonshire 'cream and Hibenian water! If, as some main- tain, Exeter Anglicanism has sus- tained a loss of vigor during recent Years, now is the time to revive such 'vigor and to recover any ground that may have been lost; what oc- casion then is More fitting than that of next Sunday for the blowing of the trumpet of its renewed youth? Let us all meet the future and its troubles in the spirit of Newbolt's ringing lines: "If the Dons;sight Devon, • 111 quit the • Por t sof -Hetiven, And•we'll drum them up the Channel As we drammed them long ago." • Crystal Palace- netts First Church Sometime hi 1800 or 1861 the first "Anglican edifiCe 'et Exeter_i Church—was erected;7tand for' more than a quarter of century the Anglican .congregation eforshiPPs ed within its walls. When the new Church was built the old church was sold, and now forms part of the Crystal Palace on the fair grounds. The building of the new - eliterah forms a romance in itself; end it is }in a romantic rather than tn a pro-. sale mood that 1 now begin, the story of it. s SETS and LIAILITIES 31st October, 129 e ASSETS sh-,,On had and due from Banks Bankers Notes of an cheques on other Doniinion an Provincial Cover oC,Uri. ' ........ . • Canadian Mu icipal Securiti British, Forei n and Coloni' lic Securities her than Ca Railway and Othe Bonds, De and Stocks. .. Call and Short Loa on Bond tures and Stocks . Quick Ass anks ent and Pub- dian entures $/433843749 63.44%11'04 25,033,797.01' i,Deben- Loans and Discounts ad otl Assets Bank Premises . ,ustomersLia i Credit. I • + AY I t 5,906,82,859 14.9I2,67. $496,269,977.87 44424561.20 14,500,0o0.00 ,etters of -473*,18,43,06 $965,336,997.13 LIABILITIES TO THE PUBLIC Notes in Cirmilation, Deposits w Letters of Credit Outstanding— Other &V* • ill • • i1i ... . .t $4465,136.5o 8/1,713,556.89 *S384511,06 IS,a71,101.145 LiabillOes to Public, , $888,898,253.61 EXCegs of A6tets over Liibikties to Public— . .. . $76,438,143.52 Devonsliire plfhlenee. The Exeter of the Old Land has 'always exercised a sPell oyer the minds and hearta, not only of its own citizens and of Devon men. general- ly, but of strangers for outside its borders and even outside England it- self. Readers of Macaulay's account of the march of William of Orange's army through Devonshire will re- member how the heterogenous ele- ments of that army—Dutch, dermans Danes, Huguenots, Swedes and Eng- lish exiles—were filled With admir- ation as they beheld the towers of Exeter Cathedral rise over the val- ley of tbe Exe. Soldiers are not us- ually credited with aesthetic feeling or with any poetical admiration of the pleturesque; but Exeter and its Minster, the Exe and its valley, ex- torted a more than Pagan reverence from William's army oil that odcas- ion. But if strangers on beholding such a scene are compelled to wor- ship it, how much greater, how much grander, is the worship of those who have sprung from its very soil! And when Devon exiles in strange lands recall Exeter and the Exe, when they hear the Cathedral bells ring in imagination through their ears, can we be surprised that they people their new surroundings With incidents and scenes of their old en- Vironment—that the Devon they be- hold in vision is to them more than the Canada they .see in reality, and that the log churches they are cem- Pelted by necessity to worship In are transformed by the magic of meinory and affection WO the soaring glories of Gothic arehltectate? Seine such feelings nista have stirred the hearts 0e the first Devon settlers itt itteter as they recalled the Anglican WOr-i ship in the valley of the Exe, and the Devon Memories Aseeciated with that worship—the legend of Richard Grenville, the tradition of Walter Raleigh, the Garter of Lord Moxtnt- joy. they "retapture the first Country folk feel a tightening ofsthe heart and a filling of the eyes as they reeall the scenes amid which their eyes first opened on the light' of day—the ruined castle on the high bluff over the river; the river itself winding around the 4111; the church tower shadowing (110 river and frailt- ies,' the hill as it it and it alone, were' lord and master Pfali. TIVitewas *oily ,ariVe to those teelings. They grew strouger with the growth' ot his own material prosperity; they were dreams it is true -but dreams that finally became the master of..the dreamer. In 1887 those dreams be- came realities. .(aneen Victoria's Ju- bilee may, or may not, have had something to do with it; but on Lam- mas Day—the first of August—of that Jubilee Year the foundation stone of the new church was laid; the new chuech that has since. borne and that will bear for ever, the rather unusual title (among .Anglican religious edifices), of the Trivitt e m o rial Church. Patterned After Exeter Cathedral The Memorial Choral is built, as far as it was possible to do so, on the plan of Exeter ,Cathedral; and as an Irishman who ,has read a good deal about the achievements of Queen Elizabeth's Devon worthies in Ire- land I can picture—much more viv- idly since I came to the Ontario Exe- ter than I could before—the visit, say, of Mountjoy to that cathedral before he set out on that Irish 'cam- paign of his against Hugh O'Neill which was to end at Mellifont. For history as well as locality can attract us to famous religious shrines, and the Memorial Church at Exeter has already acquired a romantic history of its own. On the very day of its Consecration forty years ago took place theefuneral of Elizabeth Triv- itt, wife of the donor of the church, lady bountiful of Exeter since site first took up her residence there; a :good wife, a devoted •Anglican, an excellent woman. What a combine - tion --the Consecration of the church an the forenoon, the burial within its chancel of the donor's wife in the afternoon! "In the midst of life we are In death," I svas never privileg- ed to see the face of the late Bishop Baldwin or to hear his voice; but I can see that face and hear that voice in the pulpit; I can else.. see the awe on the taxa' of the men and hear the sobs on the lips of the women as the preacher's voice fills and re -fills that. great church, echoing backward to the chancel and .eeverberating upward to the root;- bringing the great con- gregation EIS it were to the brink of 'that Eternity into which their de - Parted sister had flown! Yes, the ,Trivitt (Memorial church is already possessed of traditions and memor- . les from which it will ,not willingly part. It is a true child of the Cath- edral in the -English Exeter; and the pround motto of the •Garter, 'Which se many lords of Devoti have won and worn in the past, may well be Applied to it: Hol salt qul mal y pease Oliva be Lo him Who evil thinks of Iterd MOuntjoss Thad of Devonshire Sacha church, built on the plan of so historic a Cathedral, is setae - thing more than a Canadian copy of an English shrine; 11 is an inspira- tion to every priest who ministers tte its altar, to every preacher who Voice forth his menage Mtn its pulpit. And that inspiration will appeal in different ways to different Rectors. Since the Church itself is Devoilehire In its itiapiratiee it is perhape happy coincidence that its new Rea, tor is ail Irishman who has bug tot Prefeend veneration for a great ,k v mielara)41010000.004.1•14000WAPTPC**~*.*******14trfr***rtncrwr,..-.., Earl or Devoltulaire of 10110 0,go.eue- von worthies have had a centiKetz: able .share in moulding the modern. Ireland that we knew tollays. they certainly influenced Ireland in tite .great days of .Queen,Elisabeth;. but of none ot them has Ireland re- tained ea vivid a memory es of Lord: afountioy. This great lord wag made Earl ot Devonshire by King '‘a..atues' the First; bat his great work for the. E nglish Crown and for the ,Apglican' .church. in. Irelani was achieved un- d er Queen Elilabetli. He was a re- markable produet of the Elizabethan age. He was a son of. the Renais- sance 0-$ well .tts of the Retormation; his utterances .01.1) religious subjects would have won the approval or Erasmus end the eulogy at Dean Inge, - An lenglieli Lord to pe rever- enced and applauded, nut only by Devon men, but by Irishmen! Mountjoy was the greatest gift that Devonshire ever made to Ireland. True, he made no truce—he could! make no truce --with open Rebellion! but he did try to make a lasting truce between all the racial and re- ligious aevildoms taut have made Ireland tbe Hell of Western Europe. He failed—not because lie could not succeed, but because lie died betoi•e his projects for Ireland had time to. ripen. Ile would and should have' succeeded because -the. Anglicanism he so worthily represented in his own person wee almost as compre- hensive as the Catholicism of Eras - must Mountjoy was to Ireland what Erasmus was to all Europe. He must often have worshipped in that Exe- ter Cathedral on the plan -of which the Trivitt Memo•rial chuech is built. 'He was the lordliest examnle in his • day and generation of a lordly scorn of4religioue intolerance. Have we advanced so far in religions tolera- tion. that we can do without his like to -day? An English lord to be re- verenced and applauded, not only by Aaglicaas, but by mon-Anglicans! Some bold and yet wise words that lie uttered when almost every other man, English and Irish in Ireland were losing their heads have long been a mainstay to me i11. those days ot almost universal religious- unset - For though Mountjoy was a hard lacier of Irish' rebels ho was an easy rider of Irish. consciences! He had not Cromwell's hatred of the Masa nor Ireton's hatred of the Irish. Yet he was an able foe Rome; he met the Jesuits themselves in open controversy; and according to Mory- son his secretary and biographer the soldiers of Loyola were wonted 111.argument by the general of Eliza- beth. An Efiglish lord, to be rev- erenced and applauded, not only by Protestants, but by Roman Catholics! This English lord •of hong ago, whose services for Ireland are so well ap- preciated by me, whose wide out- look. on religion and whose tolerance. of religious differences have been •so helpful to me, will be more than over an inspiration to .ine itt the Devan- halve *atmosphere of the IDrivitt .Memorial Church! I will almost be a contemporary of Lord Mountjoy lix my new pulpit. Will learn to look upon the realities of religion as the only worth while . things in Chria- tianity; to fear God, as Mduntjoy did; to. honour the King, as Mount- ' joy did; to love thebrotherhood, as Mountjoy did—the restoration of law and :order among a lawless and • disorderly peopde is not inconsis- tent with. "love of the brotherhood." —shall certainly be some of tilt aims 'swill set before me in my preaching. I count it fortunate that in these democratic days a, democra- tic Irish parson should be able to go to an. artistocratic English Lord— aa English Lord who was also an Irish Viceroy— for that Inestimable intellectual treasure which the Greeks called "Light." For Mount- joy was a Lord of Light even more than he was a Lord of Iron! Alone, or almost alone, among his contem- poraries, he carried on the tradi- tions of Erasmus; and a revival of Erasnuan traditions is badly needed to -day. An English lord„ to be re- verenced and applauded, not only by Preachers but by non -preachers! A Devon lord, who .deserves to be held up as an example for Devon men everywhere, and for Irishmen who are wise enough to acknowledge the debt which they owe to -Devon! An Anglican lord, who. understood and appreciated the Anglican Church bet- ter than any noblemen or commoner of his day, may his spirit in its turn be understood and appreciated by the Devon and other Anglicans who in a Canadian envirohmet are 'striving not only to preserve but to propo- gate the religion in Englattd! • CiteakiI ON Inuen sxliyan ;RAILF4) WunctiiiIP A117, Tutuila, B 1.14°T173X0 (AP)".*"4 Toreunlety 11)o.= no:a este:: S4.t:Eie tNYCtl'11:11:1e' were ended to -day with, t curious, .•experimental vessel, the only 01 its hind, a charred. wreck 111 Apin harbor and ,Captain J. Ault the ship's master, dead in the line oil duty, Captain Ault ins killed in a bleat, that preceded buruingof tae vessel yesterday, several members of the expedition were ,,,ttijurea tont Telly, Kolar, a cabin leby, was Missing, tehes here gave no reason for the explosion, but told of a blast that lxui'led Captain Ault overboard, followed by a fire that spread to. five .other craft moored in the vie 'deity, destroying all of them. frhe Carnegie, built in 1909 She. dui Carnegie Inetitution, was on a 3. year .cruise that started trent Wash- ingt.on a year ago last spriug, It carried a party of seventeen .etiente nits studying magnetism and atmos- plserie electricity. No iron. or steel • was used 111 constructing the ship. • Ali metals in. its makeup or carried aboard .the .Carnegie were uon-mag- uetic to prevent deviation of aelicate apparatus. A sternalen saiUng 'ves- sel, brigantine rigged, the Carnegie carried. 12,900 feet of sail and was powered by an auxiliary litotes • or about 160 horse -power. - • In every particular tad ;Well ' of making the'vessel non-magnetic was carried out. • Even the buttons • on the uniforms of the crew'were bone or brass. This is the vessel upon which H. F, Johnston. now in charge of the 'Magnetie Observtory at Waterloo,. West Australia, sailed as a scientist for so. many years. He was, to have joined the staff again In. Sydney for a year's cruising • in the 'adieu Ocean and South Atlantic, Ocean. •The rate Captain .Alit was. one or his' dear frienda.aad. companions for • many years. • His parents ht•Exeter 'are very thankful he was not oit the 'vessel •at. the:time of the. explosion. The liquidators of the Home Bank Of Cailada will declare another di- vidend, brit it will not come in the feria of a Christmas box. Mr. Clarksou one of the liquidators said that the dividend would be -six or eight or even ten per cent. He de- clared thkt there were large assets itt real estate and timber lands to be realized upon, and this would take seine time. Until these assets are liquidated, no dividends ean bessaid, although he did. say that there would be ample motley ,come in to pay de- positors 6 or 8 per eent. The. Home Bank closed its doors August l71,11, 1923. *** *** * "YOltr engine Is missing" said the serViee-station mail as the yottitg, lady bronght her ear to a Sten. "That's hinny," said the girl, "ii .was there when 1 left honle." WINS' APPITOVAL .M$ 'SOLOIST "The follo'whie -taken frVia the Nows-TiMes of South BendedncieTho • Mr. Luxton spoken of is a son of Mrs and Mrs. C. 1'.• Luxton, Soafh. Bend. and a., nephew •of Mrs, E. Willis,' of town. . , "Ruby Jobnsbe Whitt, soprano,. and Arthur Luxtpn, tenor, both ad- vancea _pupils. of Katherine Evelyn 13oone, made their initial bow to the Public in a program of songs Mon- day night in the Progress club audit- orium, large audimice voiced its genuine appreciation by generousees, Mrs. \Vhitt •opeaed the program with. a group of four numbers, the sec- ond of which, "The Posts" by Schu- • bert, was particularly well done otee lr.ies„eees. vealing a tine soprano voice of much Mr. Luxton followed ;with a groan — or four songs. His voice 'showed warmth end richness. "2Jy Ideal," " •by Testi, and the "Wanderer," by Loewe, were his two outstanding numbers, and were presented with:. sympathetic understanding. 33otheingers were at their hest in the closing number, "The Wanderers., Night Song," a thiett by Rubenstein, which was; arranged especially .for: airs. Whitt and Mr. LuxIon by Chas.. Mathes, vocal Coach. Mrs Mathes ale. - so accompanied the yOung artists at• the piano, and his sympathy and support did much towards their.'suc- ceSs." Any ,elaborate account of Cana- da's part in 'the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago is ren-• dered prohibitive- in this column due to lack of space. However, we be- lieve that Canadian farmersgen- erally followed with keen interest and pride the daily newspaper re- • ports of remarkable victories scored • by Canadians in the departments of cvs, live stock, poultry and others.. * * * * Fur marketing is simple. Your just skin an animal and then skim a husband. Constipation Severe Headachet Could Get No Relief Mrs. • JoSapit Harte, Stella, Ont.,. writes: --“I Was always troubled with severe Itesaaelies, for a number of years,. caused by constipation, 1 hai beeonur- real bad and could get no relief. Ono day 1 gni' MIlburn's "AM advertised) so T bought a 'vial; they helped n10 wonderfully, and I got relief - at °nee, "NOW if / become this least bit con- stipated I can always depend orrl"axa- Liver Pills as they never fail. They • are easy to take and do not Weaken Pride, 21 cede a vial at 01 drug. gists and dealers, or mailed direct ott. receipt of pried by The T. Milt -urns 00,, Limited) Toronto, Ont. '