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THE WIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1985. PAGE 3.
From The Minister's Study
An age of change
BLYTH NEWS
Gordon and Betty Elliott visited Harve and Doreen McCallum at
their winter home in Mesa, Arizona for the past two weeks. While
there they took time to see the Grand Canyon, Brycc Canyon and Zion
Canyon. They also toured New Mexico.
LOST HEIR
The lost Heir group continues their weekly parties at Memorial Hall
each Wednesday at8 p.m. Last week's winners were: high lady, Mary
Cook; high man, Alvin Snell; low man, Ray Lair.
SO MUCH FOR FUNDRAISING
The busy parents who help keep Blyth Minor Sports decided to hold
a hockey tournament to raise money for local sports. The event was
successful but someone took away more than memories. Over the
weekend an expensive piece of rug from the main lobby disappeared.
With it went the profits.
LEGIONNEWS
The Diamond Jubilee Committee of the Blyth branch of the Royal
Canadian Legion held a fellowship afternoon November 6 with local
senior citizens taking part. The event was such a success that another
is planned for January.
The congregation of the Blyth Christian Reformed Church gave a
warm welcome to the Legion members when they attended church
there November 10. Rev. Roger Gelwicks, padre of the Legion was
minister.
Rev. Gelwicks and Rev. Ken Bauman of Blyth United Church
conducted the Remembrance Day Ceremony at Blyth Memorial Hall.
At the article of Faith signing afterward at the Legion among those
signing Mrs. Pearl Campbell, the branch's only Silver Cross Mother.
Blyth U. C. W. learns
about Indians
Ruby Philp and Molly Grant
conducted the worship service at
the Nov. 14 meeting of Blyth
U.C.W. Sunshine Unit which 26
attended. The table decorations - a
cross, a poppy and the word Peace
signified the theme.
The third talk on Canada's
Indians was given by Myrtle
Vodden, who said Indians had
difficulties with early traders; with
the English and French in two
wars; and later with newcomers
who tried to make them live like
Europeans. To-day problems still
exist, especially with land claims.
Mary Walden presided over the
handing in of Sunshine Bags, and
gave the present location of the two
travelling aprons. One was located
in Owen Sound. The amount of
money sewn in their pockets will be
divulged at their December meet-
ing.
Mary Walden read amusing
rhyming verses composed in the-
1920's by mothers of past and
present Blyth U.C.W. members
which described the methods each
used to raise her talent money - the
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BY REV. CHARLES
CARPENTIER
We live in an age that is full of
change. Things are happening so
fast we cannot keep up with them.
We live in a day of rapid transition.
Can our faith keep up with it?
For many people, the God they
knew as a child and even as an adult
is "a pensioner on vacation" and
the church they once loved is
looked on as a religious clinic, a
place where people come to get
their problems solved, or, they
think of the church as a religious
gymnasium, where moral and
spiritual exercises are available to
increase the individual's moral
health. Or in other words the
church is a S.P.C.H.B. a Society fot
the Prevention of Cruelty to
Human Beings. But none of these
statements are a true picture of the
church, because the Church is
mission, or in other words it is
a network of caring people. The
lonely, and the sick, can join the
church, and are welcomed
maybe not always welcome,
but welcome to every service, and
every social activity. Not only that,
there are always those thoughtful
sensitive folk about the church,
who are as concerned for the
mentally maimed as for the
occupant of the wheel chair.
In many organizations the bore
will not be tolerated; the misfit will
be manipulated out. Not many,
except church people, instinctively
recognize that those who are
crippled socially, and blind and
halt in personality, need accept-
ance.
The Church is a fellowship of the
concerned and those they are
concerned about. Its ministers, lay
and clerical, have always recogniz-
ed they should visit the sick and the
imprisoned. The church has recog-
nized without saying much about it
that it has a ministry also to the sick
who are walking around, and to the
people who oughtto be in prison
but didn't get caught.
Its acceptance of persons as they
are, without trying too much to
change them, had kept a lot of us
out of sick beds, and from troubles
that gets us into prison.
And that is why a congregation is
made up of a I kinds of people.
sort he died.
This is the convenant of God
made to us through his Son our
Savious Jesus the Christ.
They are of many occupations.
They have widely different tastes
in music, art, and fashion. They
have varied political and economic
views. And they have all the
weaknesses that plague the human
race prejudice, hatred, in-
difference, fear, even despair. But
these are the kinds of people Jesus
Christ came to call. It was for this
mighty sum of one dollar for the
ladies' organization in Westfield
church.
Treasurer Marjorie East gave a
report on the success of the
Harvests Bonanza which was a
pleasure to hear.
NOTICE
Anyone interested in obtaining the wood from trees
to be cut down in the Village of Blyth please submit a
bid on a "per tree basis" by November 30, 1985. To
view trees to be cut, contact Town Foreman, Mery
Ritchie at 523-4545.
Village of Blyth
Thomas Cronin, Reeve.
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