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Leaves after "A lot of good years"
REV. ED BAKER.
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
The Rev. Ed Baker is
leaving Duff s United Church
in Walton, perhaps not so
much by choice, as by cir-
cumstance.
He admits he has a reput-
ation in the Huron-Perth
Presbytery as a boat. rocker.
Although he has enjoyed the
people and his years in
Walton, he's not always pre-
pared to tell people just what
they want to hear.
"If society is prepared to
take some of the medicine,
ministers are handing out
today, civilization may be
preserved," he said.
According to Baker, be-
tween one-third and • one-
quarter of the churches in
Huron and Perth have less,
than 150 families. The Wal-
ton congregation has about
120 families. He said there
are about 200 resident mem-
bers in the church and that
he's got about two-thirds
that many bosses.
"You ask the average
farmer what he likes about
farming and he'll tell you it's
Although the Year of the
Child is over, UNICEF's
work for nearly 960 million
children in Third , World
countries is not. These
children need balanced diets,
clean water and immuniza-
tion against disease in order
to survive. Your use of
HILDA ANNETE DORSCH
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Pieter C. Dorsch of R.R. #5
Brussels, recently graduated
from the Diploma Nursing
Program of Lambton College
of Applied Arts and Techno-
logy School of Nursing in
Sarnia, Convocation cere-
monies were held in the
College gymnatorium on
June 7, 1980. Annete has
accepted a position at Free-
port Hospital in Kitchener.
She also is a graduate of F,E.
Madill Secondary School, in
Wingham.
because he's his own boss,"
Mr. Bakei says in analogy.
WORLD VISION
Rev. Baker has something
of a world vision. "Injustice
and greed breed war. 1 said I
was going to try and work
against war," says the man
who, when filling out job
applications, in the blank
asking about military service
writes that he helped pick up
the pieces in Korea.
He has mixed* feelings
about Walton:44 I've had a lot
of good .years in Walton. The
people here are pretty good.
They're an honest, straight
forward kind of people."
He said he was told he
should be nice and just pat
people on the head. This
leads him to another analogy
as he says that's like going
up to your neighbour's door
when his house is on fire and
telling him you admire his
pansies.
"People want us to be
pansies when there's a fire in
the kitchen. People say what
can I do about i .t? (world
problems). Bob McClure
(former United Church mod-
erator) was'only one guy, but
• he did a lot about it," Mr.
Baker says.
The minister grew up on a
farm near London and
father went out west when-
Ed was 15, leaving the farm
in his son's care. Later he
went with his father to
Saskatchewan .where they
ran a wheat farm for a couple
of years. He then went to the
Seminary in Saskatchewan
and from there went on to do
missionary work in Korea for
10 years.
UNICEF cards and stationery
throughout the year can
insure that they enjoy their
rights as children every year. .
For information or a free
brochure write to UNICEF,
Ontario, 38 Berwick Ave.,
Toronto, • Ont., M5P 1H1 or
call (416) 487-4153.
There he saw what war can
do and says, "Think of the
tremendous amount we
spend on armaments, It puts
a lot of money in the pockets
of people who, are already
rich.
He gets a little more
emotional as he talks about
Korea.
CRYING THEMSELVES TO
SLEEP
"Few people in Niarth
America have heard some-
body crying themselves to
sleep at night because they
have got nothing to.. eat.
"There's something like
35 'per', cent unemployment
and they have it .a lot tougher
than we do. If you can't work
(in Korea), you die," he said.
Following his missionary
work in Korea he came back
into parishes in this country,
first in Toronto, then London
and finally to Walton where
he has been for the last five
years.
FRUSTRATION
If he has had frustrations,
he says he thinks the people
feel some frustration too
because they're struggling to
get the church going full-
time.
• Besides being minis-
ter.of the church, Mr. Baker
would have also liked to take
on a part-time job but people
think the minister's job
should be a full-time, one.
"I think a. lot of people see
my job as within the frame-
work of this church," Mr.
Baker said. He thinks people
should be helping, out others
who are less fortunate and
says, "A lot of people want
to be 10 or 15 per cent
committed to the Lord. ThLy
get upset when you talk
about 50 or 60 per cent.
"I feel some of my point of
view about the world need to
be listened to."
"The church is the poor
man's country club. Just go
in and try and disturb the
country club and they'll' get
out the rifles," Mr. Baker
said.
He adds, however that he,
has had many good relations
with the people in Walton.
"When I came here, I felt I
was glad to be back in the
Ministry. I will be in the
Ministry the, rest of ,my life
whether I'm" preaching or
not."
He says he will be seeking
to help people bavini a tough ,
time, to have a better way. of '
living.
"I think in terms of people
in society who are put upon..
I'm interested in people try-
ing to get by on minimum
wage.) want to ex f" -)re how
people can get by on $5000 a
year or less because people
are going to need to know
how. VVe're past the age of
affluence.
"One of the problems,I see
is that people are afraid to be
straightforward. We don't
like to talk about our pro-
blems.
FIDDLING
"They said about Nero
that he fiddled while Rome
burned. That's what's going
to happen to North American
civilization in the next 25
years," he said.
He also said ,that in the
past few years, a number of
priests and nuns had been
protesting against the , op-
pression of the poor and had
been shot on church steps for
it and noted that one of the
problems is that the powerful,
and affluent will never give
up their possessions.
Mr. Baker is to be replaced.
by the Rev. Charles Swan, a
minister from permuda,at an
induction service on Thurs-
day, July 3.
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