Clinton News-Record, 1971-03-18, Page 5St. Paul's Anglican, Clinton
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Mrs. Gordon"Schwalm was
the winner of a hamper shopping
bag full of groceries from
C.K.S.L. radio station, London.
The Womens Missionary
society of Cannel Presbyterian
Church, held their meeting on
Thursday, March 11 at 2 p.m,
with 12 answering the roll call
with their favourite Psalm from
the Bible.
President Mrs. It. A. Orr
opened the meeting with a poem
"Where Dreams May Grow".
Mrs. Percy Campbell and Mrs.
Edgar Munn gave the devotion
and study with Mrs. Clarence
Nolland taking part. The
Synodical will be held in Sarnia
on April 13 and 14, Mrs. Gordon
Schwalm will conduct a work
shop for children's Secretaries.
Mrs. Orr and Mrs. Gordon
Troyer were elected as delegates
going to the Synodical.
Craft representative from this
group, to the Hensall Nursing
Home is Mrs. Harvey Hyde. The
review of the Presbyterian
Record and Glad Tidings was
given • by Mrs. Schwalm. On
display were five more wee shirts
for under-privileged children
overseas that Mrs. Anne
Broadfoot knitted since the last
meeting a month ago.
Next meeting will be an
Easter Thankoffering on April 5
at 8:15 p.m. with guests invited
and those taking part in the
program and devotion will be
Mrs. Pearl Love and Mrs.
Malcolm Dougal. On the lunch
committee are Mrs. Harold Bell
and Mrs. Clarence Nolland.
Quilting preceded the
regular meeting of Unit four of
U.C.W, when they met at the
church. Mrs. James McAllister
opened the meeting and spoke
on the Cross.
Mrs. Russell Erratt read the
scripture, and Mrs. Robert
Mc Allister conducted the
worship telling the story of Jesus
in the garden and in the upper
room.
The topic, "The Americas"
was given by Mrs. James
McAllister who chose to speak
on Chile giving its geographical
position, climate, people,
politics and industries,
Gail Travers,sang a solo
,Greta : Larnmiql,IWty ,visits to sick and,
shut-ins were reported. Quilting
days are to be Tuesdays and
Wednesdays. Unit four will be
responsible for church flowers
and nursery for the month of
April. Mrs. R. M. Peck, social
convener, informed the members
what would be required for The
Spring Thaw Supper to be held
the end of March. The meeting
ended with lunch.
The regular meeting of the
A.C.W. of St. Paul's Anglican
Church was held on Thursday,
March 11 at the home of Mrs.
Fanny Clark.
The presidents opened the
meeting with the members
prayer. Minutes were read, and
,thank-you notes for treats sent
to sick and shut-ins. The ladies
were reminded of the A.C.W.
annual meeting to be held at St,
James Westminster in London,
on April 29.
Fund raising projects were
discussed. The topic for the day
was taken by Mrs, F. Clark. Roll
call was answered by reading
verse from the Bible having the
word rock in it, Mrs. Anderson
closed the meeting with Prayer.
Miss Ann IVIickle, Toronto,
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mickle,
London, spent Sunday with
their parents Mr. and Mrs. Laird
Mickle.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Rigby of
Blenheim, were weekend guests
with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Snell,
Mr. Stewart McQueen returned
home with them for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mickle,
London, are leaving Friday
evening of this week to spend a
10-day vacation in Europe. Mrs.
Mickle is conducting a group of
high school students on a tour
and will spend a few days in the
country of Yugaslavia. Charles
Mickle also leaves this Friday
evening with a group of High
School Teachers from Hamilton
to spend his vacation on the
Islands of Antigua and St. Kitts,
in the Caribbean.
Mrs. Russell Brock of
Chiselhurst had a pleasant
surprise last week while
recuperating from surgery in
Victoria Hospital, when she
picked up her bedside telephone
to hear the voice of her son Bill
and daughter-in-law Anne calling
from Hong Kong. The reception
was excellent on a 12,000 mile
call. It was at noon when the call
came through and the time in
Hong Kong was 1 a,m.
Bill is with the Far East
International Division of the
Toronto Dominion Bank located
in Hong Kong.
Citizenship and Education
was the theme for Hensall W.I.
as Mr. William Gibson emphazed
how educational travel and
illustrated his remarks with
beautiful pictures of his travels
in Australia, New Zealand,
Hawaii and Europe.
The motto on "Education"
was written by Mrs. Gladys
Coleman and read by Mrs.
Elizabeth Riley illustrating that
"The Life you live is the lesson
you teach", Mrs. Carl Payne was
soloist choosing for her selection
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling".
Miss Greta Lammie accompanist.
411 :Was ahRere0 by
way I could be a better citizen".
A donation of $30.00 will be
made to the Hensall branch of
the Canadian Legion. Mrs. Grace
Peck was chosen to select her
committee for the Fall Fair.
Nomination committee are Mrs.
B. Beaton, Mrs. Fred Beer and
Mrs. Clarence Reid. Program
committee were Mrs. J. Corbett,
and Mrs. Gladys Coleman.
Hostesses Mrs F. Harburn and
Mrs. N. E. Co,- ‘n auction sale
was held.
BY M. E. FREML1N
A long-familiar landmark in
Huron County is the lovely little
Anglican church in Clinton.
The 105-year-old ehUreh, St.
Paul's, stands at the crest of a
rise in ground, shaded by
magnificent old pines and
maples, its graceful Architecture
set off by a broad expanse of
well-kept turf. A stone cairn
stands near the street (No. 8
Highway) to commemorate the
burial ground of the pioneers of
the district. Until a few years
ago, two weather-beaten
gravestones remained in the
church grounds; but
contemporary vandalism
enforced their removal. Still, the
whole setting retains old world
feeling of serenity,
The early history of St. Pails
is in effect the history of the
town of Clinton. In 1824 the
Canada Company was founded
by John Galt and the names of
many of the members of this
company have been perpetuated
in the townships surrounding
Clinton: Hullet, Tuckersmith,
Colborne, McKillop, Hay,
Stephen, and Usborne.
In 1834 the Canada Company
deeded, among other farmland,
lot No. 24 to Peter Vanderburg.
On this lot a "God's Acre" had
already been set aside and a
frame church erected in 1832,
along with a school; the
remainder of the lot became a
community cemetery.
The Canada Company was
given a one-third reduction off
the purchase price of any
improvement they made.
Unfortunately, this practice
resulted in penny-pinching on
the • "improvements", for the
first church was poorly
constructed and wholly
inadequate.
Clinton was known then as
Vanderburg's Corners; the
Vanderburgs had arrived by land
from Toronto in 1831 and Peter
was clearly a successful
entrepreneur for he was shortly
the owner of a church, a school,
a cemetery and a tavern. Only
the latter, however, was
revenue-producing, and in 1844
he sold to William Rattenbury,
and the little settlement became
known as "Rattenbury's
Corners". In the 1850's the farm
was laid out in village lots and in
1857 was incorporated as a
village and named Clinton. This
was in honour of
Lieutenant-General Lord
Clinton, on , whose Devonshire
estates the Rattenbury family
had been tenant holders; the
town was given permission to
use the Clinton coat-of-arms.
The "God's Acre" which
Peter Vanderburg had deeded in
trust for the Church of England
and Ireland in 1835 is the site on
which the present church stands.
The Rattenbury and Racey
families deeded adjoining
property for a rectory, and it
was on this part of the
property-site of the present
rectory that the temporary
church was erected, replacing
the Canada Company's flimsy
make-shift one, and designed to
serve until a more substantial
structure could he built. Its life
was short; fire destroyed it on a
Sunday morning in January,
1865. The present church was
completed in November of the
same year. The church's burial
ground had been discontinued
the previous year. Some of the
graves are under the present
church; others were levelled and
the stones removed to make ,
sliding door-weights in the new
church.
St. Paul's is older than the
Diocese of Toronto or that of
Huron, so that for the early part
of its history it was affiliated
with the Diocese of Quebec.
Then, as the church
establishment developed in
Ontario, it became part of the
Diocese of Toronto and - since
1857 - with that of Huron.
The first Sunday School had
a rather melancholy history: it
had originally been the rectory,
until a handsome new building
went up in 1872; then it was
moved across the street to do
duty as a Sunday School. In
1884 the church was prosperous
enough to afford a new Sunday
School, and the wardens were
given permission to dispose of
the old one as they saw fit. It
was sold for $20 and led a
depressed social life as n livery
barn, until it went the way of so
many of the frame buildings of
the period - destruction by fire.
Until 1875,, the church
revenue was derived from the
rental of pews and "sittings", It
was not until the early 1900's
that the voluntary system of
giving, and free pews, were
introduced. Doors were removed
from the pews and used for
wainscotting in the new Sunday
School. About 1877, sidesmeti
had to be appointed, as a tart
note in the church records
informs us, "to keep order in the
gallery of the church during
divine service" - a pleasantly
human touch. Apparently the
staid occupants of the pews
downstairs had begun to suspect
that the occupants of the gallery
were having more fun then was
consistent with Higher
Seriousness.
"Well, at least the gallery was
put to some use in those days:"
sighed a later incumbent of the
pulpit, on discovering this note.
Fora church in so small a
community., St,. Paul's has
magnificent stained glass. The
first of the windows dates from
1882, a memorial to Thomas
Biggins, who died at the age of
15. Others lovely windows,
following the classic tradition of
stained glass 'Me Good
Shepherd, Virgin and Child,
-Christ Knocking at the Door, St.
Paul, St. Peter, St. Cecelia)
commemorate old Huron
County bathes - Rattenbury.,
Mounteastle, Fatten, Rance and
Hovey - and contribute to the
tense of history which informs
the little church. Other old
names in the district are
remembered In the
Doan-Ruribail kindergarten
rooms, constructed from funds
left in the estates of the two
families. The room was •
dedicated by Bishop Townshend
in 1965.
A plaque in the church
grounds commemorates one of
Clinton's most distinguished
citizens, whose name is still
respected by ethnologists,
Horatio Emmons Hale. Born in
New Hampshire, Hale graduated
from Harvard in 1837 and
accompanied the Wilkes
Expedition to the Pacific in
1 83 8-1 842, a sort of
ethnological parallel of Charles
Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.
Hale's contribution to the
"Narrative" of the Wilkes
Expedition is one of the basic
sources of Polynesian ethnology.
In 1856, he came to Clinton,
fell in love with the countryside,
and settled in the little town
where he practised his profession
of law and his avocation of
linguistics. He dreamed of
turning the town into a cultural
centre, and marked out a
University Square and a College
Street - dreams, alas, never to
be realized. (The local nickname
for the University Square was
the Devil's Half Acre, settled by
Irish immigrants.)
Hale turned his attention to
North American Indian
languages and discovered that
the Tutelos near Brantford,
fugitives from North Carolina,
belonged to the Siouan family,
and identified the Cherokees of
the Carolinas as linguistically
He made an intensive study
of the language and customs of
the SIM Nations of the Crawl
giver and pnblished in 1883
"An Iroquoian Book of Rites"
still regarded as definitive in its
field., Hale died in 1896; several
of his grandchildren are still
living itt the area.
The church organ has its own
little history. A little melodion
provided the church music until
1867, when a cabinet organ was
first rented, and later purchased.
A pipe organ was installed in
1888 which required the services
not only of an organist but of a
"pumper"; small boys vied for
the job, which paid 10 cents per
service. A superannuated
pumper recalls it as a
hard-earned dime. In 1929 this
income source was cut off,
however, with the installation of
an electric motor. A would-be
organist in the church was the
nephew of one of the town's
medical men, Dr. Gunn;
although he wasn't accepted as
official organist, the boy was
allowed to slip. into the church
after services and practise. In
later years, townspeople
recognized their aspiring
musician as the conductor of the
Toronto Symphony, Sir Ernest
McMillan.
A small plaque on the church
organ is a tribute to a later
performer, Mrs. Theo gremlin,
who retired in 1958 after serving
as organist for 39 years.
Many Ontario families will be
familiar with other names from
the parish; the late Rev. Harvey
Colciough and Rev, Frank
Herman, both of whom served in
the Toronto area; and two
brothers, George and John
Thompson, both now Canons of
the church in Metropolitan
Toronto.
One of the most eloquent
speakers among St. Paul's rectors
was the late Kenneth McGoun,
who presided over the church's
centenary celebration in /935,
In that address he spoke of the
meaning the church has for its
people,
"What St. Paul's has meant to
many thousands who have
worshipped here will never be
known to 'us on earth, but
through all the years St. Paul's
has stood as a symbol of the
sacrifice of God's Eternal Son,
through her services and
ministrations calling men and
women to repentance "and
assuring them of pardon through
the precious blood of Christ."
(The above material was
researched by the late Mrs.
Lillian McKinnon, a life-long
Member of St, Paul's, and
presented as a lecture to the
-Church Guild in 19Wi.)
Clinton News-Record, ThurKlay, March 113, 1977.
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ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH
""THE FR1E141501 CHURCH" .., Pastor; REV. H. W, WQNFOR,
B.Sc., 13.COrn., B.O.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY. ,A.R.C.T.
4... A, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1971 •
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School,
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Topic: "THE CROSS AS RECONCILIATION"
-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches
A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister
LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
WESLEY-WILLIS
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1971
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Favorite Hymn Sing.
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
"A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH"
NO. 1: "ARE WE IMMORTAL?"
HOLMESVILLE
p.m, — Worship Service and Sunday School.
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Party, 4 p.m., Friday, Clinton Arena.
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REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D.
Services: 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
(On 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9:30 a.m.)
The Church of the Back to God Hour
every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO
- Everyone Welcome -
ST. ANDREW'S •PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, '1971 ,
Mr. Charles Merrill, Organist
REV. T. C. MULHOLLAND, Minister
9:30 a.m. — Sunday School.
9:30 a.m, — Morning Worship.
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: REV, L. V, BIGELOW
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1971
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service — 7:30 p.m. -
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. — Prayer meeting.
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ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Clinton
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1971 ,
LENT 4
10:00 a.m. — Matins.
Wednesday, March 17 - 10:00 a.m. - Celebration
of Communion.
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CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
166 Victoria Street
Pastor: Donald Forrest
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1971
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Huron Street, Clinton
SUNDAY, MARCH 21. 1971
Sunday School — 10:30 a.m.
EVening Worship '-- 7:30 p.m.
Pastor: Rev. A. Maybury, Gbderich
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