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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1989-02-08, Page 34PAGE 34. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1989. Carl Hemingway - well-known farm and church leader The community was saddened by the passing on Monday, January 23, 1989 of Joseph Carl Heming way who had been in failing health for some time. Carl was born in Grey Township, May 6, 1910, the youngest son of Wm. J. Hemingway and Isabelle (Watson) Hemingway. After teach ing at S.S. No. 1 Grey and at Blyth, he married Eleanor Knight in 1935. They made their first home in Brussels where Carl taught in the Continuation School for four years. They lived in Palmerston, Monk ton and Woodstock when Carl was Obituaries WILLIAM ELMER SOMERS On Thursday, Feb. 2, 1989 Elmer Somers died in his 72nd year. He was the loving son of the late Gertrude and William Somers. He was predeceased by one brother Glennay Somers (July 6, 1986). Elmer will be missed by many friends and neighbours. Funeral services were held 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon from Watts Funeral Home, Brussels Chapel. Rev. Patt Nunn officiated. Spring interment will be in Blyth Union Cemetery. In remembrance donations to St. John’s Anglican Church Building Fund would be appreciated. supervisor of Wearever Aluminum Sales for three years. On the death of his mother in 1940, they came back to care for his ailing father (to Lot 6, Con. 12, Grey) and remained to farm. Besides teaching and farming, he was 10 years secretary-treasurer of Grey Township school boards, seven years secretary-treasurer of Federation of Agriculture and five and a half years as county field man. He was well-known for his column “Matter of Principle” in the Clinton News-Record and farm programs on CKNX. While working in the Federation of Agriculture, with Co-operatives, Co-operators Insurance, credit unions and commodity groups, he instigated the abstainers bonus feature of Co-operators Insurance, all-candidates political meetings, meeting with members of Parlia ment and worked very hard to establish farmer-owned livestock processing plants. In an attempt to raise farm standards in health and income he ran twice as a federal N.D.P. candidate. As a fellow worker said “He was a man who cared about what happens to people and tried to do something about it”. He was instrumental in esta blishing Singtime on CKNX, a very popular Sunday program for many years. Carl was a faithful member of Brussels United Church serving as elder for over 40 years, Sunday From the Minister’s Study Love does not insist on its own BY REV. BONNIE LAMBLE WALTON-BLUEVALE PASTORAL CHARGE Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. It is a time of spiritual preparation as we remem ber Christ’s journey to the cross. It is a time when we make take on a special lenten discipline. That dis cipline might mean “giving up” something for Lent. I would like to suggest that perhaps we might try just “giving” something for Lent - giving more love. The most famous passage on love is likely to be 1 Corinthians 13. It is part of Paul’s teaching on spiritual gifts. He begins where the Corinthians are, by naming where they pride themselves and then showing the inadequacies they have. He says that you can speak in any kinds of tongues that you want, human or even those of the angels but if you don’t have any love then it is just a whole lot of noise. If you are smart enough to understand all mysteries and all knowledge, or if your faith is great enough to move mountains but you have no love, then you are nothing. If you give away every thing and even decided to sacrifice yourself, but have no love, you gain nothing. If Paul were writing to us today, he would name exactly where we are. You can speak about being a good church member, hardly ever missing a Sunday, but if you have no love, then its just a big show. You can be pretty smart and have a college education, even a divinity degree, you can have lots of faith that everything is going to be all right but if you have no love, then you are nothing. If you are one of those who give more than $500 a year to the church, or if you do untold hours of volunteer work for the church, but have no love, you gain nothing. All these things that you may pride yourselves on are fine but they must be tempered with love. Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13 that religious observance by itself is inadequate. True religious conviction issues forth in loving behavior. Love is not just a warm feeling. Love is action. What if we carried these words of Paul into our own personal lives? “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.” In my family I have three daughters who can have rather strongly held Correction Sometimes errors can come from something as simple as a reporter who can’t read his own handwrit ing. Such was the case last week when the name of Jane Grasby was unfortunately turned into some thing else in the cutline under the picture of the Belgrave Quilters with their prize winning quilt. The Citizen apologizes for the error. opinions about things. When there is a clash of wills and the decibel level in the manse quadruples, I need to remember that love is patient and kind and that love does not insist on its own way. What if we carried these words into our church meetings? “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not a nogant or rude. Love does not insist on its way own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.” Sometimes we could use a little more patience and kindness. There are times when we take offence at something someone has said to us or we are overly hurt when some one doesn’t say something to us and we feel ignored. Those kinds of simmering resentments hurt the church community. The loving thing to do is to try to clear up the problem or simply lay it aside. There are times too when the loving thing to do is not to insist on our own way but to do what is best for the whole community. A good camp song says “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” In this lenten season may we be known by our love. School teacher and Superintendent for over 20 years. There is left to mourn the loss of a faithful husband and loving father, his wife the former Eleanor Knight; four daughters, Ruth and Jim Axtmann of Walton; Marion and Lavern Godkin of Walton; Laurel and Wallace East of Wawa; and Karen and Ron Phillips of Aylmer and four sons, Dr. Don and Bernice of Manitoba; David and Pat of Bayfield; Ross and Anne of Brussels and Ray and Elaine of Surrey, British Columbia. Also surviving are 29 grandchildren and a sister, Elva Turvey of Grand Bend. Mr. Hemingway was prede ceased by two brothers, Oswald and Bertram and two sisters in infancy. The funeral service was conduct ed by Rev. C. Carpentier at Watts Funeral Chapel, Brussels on Janu ary 26. Mrs. Gladys Ellsmore sang “Amazing Grace” and “There is a Land that is Fairer than Day,” two of his favourite hymns. Pallbearers were grandsons, Robert Axtmann, Bruce Godkin, Daryl Hemingway, nephew, Morris Hemingway and neighbours Gerald Miller and Dale Newman. 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