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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1947-10-30, Page 8Wriki Gonidition $IGNATATAR Rev. L. 11, Turner Meets Eis-ColoredGe ne her ageetiene it Wee hut eee. _ ondary. AradY 'Med tO Dan "When Brethren of the Cloth at Stuart, Fla. es Well eitirrender," often vvOnder the'love bng 13V`e4he to nibblDieae may SERVOCE phi E. • • UAW t • vy • • rtla • • • (1.2,1DO., 1445 • • . • Foremost Our first consideration, when we are called, is to serve faithfully, thoughtful- ly,. and well. All other Con- siderations, we have found during our many -years of experience, seem to .take care of themselves. . ru BR OPHLIle efrOice, "FLOD IV]. LODGE , DIRECTOR 1,3 MONTREAL St. PHONE 120 PLAIN BUT 'OLESOME " Avery pleasant -looking, but not too beautiful, little lady entered a London store. Noticing a. striking poster ad- vertising .. their _. beauty service, she asked the. liftman whereabouts in the store the 'beauty parlor was situated. 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Be Quick.m.Phone Dick For the BEST IN CHESTERFIELD REAJPHOLSTERING New patterns and colours now available to match your rpom. Highly. skilled- workmen on all our work. "A CUSTOMER, ON EVERY STREET" is your assurance of satisfaction. JUST PICK UP YOUR PHONE AND CALL 567W N. OBLIGATION. 7 day service—No 'Waiting. Jack Sudermann of john Dick & Son 43tf - if my eecleSitustieal eolored brother did thrash' it out, thrash it tett." we capitukete. Many a woree thing could noticed reemeing on the pulpit the have beadle:a hhal. Lessoa , Quarterly iontaining the Sun- i 'I•gg Man) Mg Cigar, BIG Car" day school lesSOns and asked him if QM we went in eearcheof the parent he used them as serinon material. He Baptist chttrela, locating it down the replied very sagely, "If it ie good for street, a frame strnettire resembling ther children it ought to he good for its Methodist cOnteraporary and lack. the parents." A logical deduction.' I in also the beauty died artistry which rather timidly asked him what, his ei 'little paint brings. ., ere, too, iVe stipend—a better word than salary— were in the process of exploring the was, eliciting from him 'the answer, interior when the Baptist °preacher $1200. 1 eleought immediately Of that came in armed with a huge cigar, monstrous cash register at the "Pigglye one end of which: was ,"lit." I'm sure Wiggly" impatiently checking off the it exceeded—the cigar—the physical ales'. Allowing for the etaudard of proportions of a five:, or ten -center. living of the colored folk being on a It was too long to be placed in such lower level than that of their white a low Category. He Was a Much contemporaries, this return or service younger and larger man than his seemed to the writer to be pitiably Methodist brother, pessessing the low. The following week these colored physical proportions of a prize -tighter. brethren were to stage a „relly cover- I thought better of it than to elite" Ing a fairly large area which the into any controversial debate with, this "white" parson from. Canada was giant of a man, for as fascinating cordially invited to attend : Oh, yes, as Vlorida was I did hope to get back I must not forget this: Manx years home to Canada again. He confirmed ago lie had euffered the las -of 1i1s the information given 'me by the wife by death, and now, hIS faneily Methodist minister relative to the fully grown, he made his hothe Ve,ith "split" withouta scintilla of bitternees them in the.summertime in New York in his veice, speaking kitidly of his City. secession btethren. He was just get - Romance, in the Making? ting ready to go out into the ccnintry As we tendered ourthanjts by. way to preach, his satchel reposing 'near of leaving to explore still further the the pnlpit, bulging with• sermon ma- sightsof this "East End," we Met a terial. I didn't dare ask him how charming colored lady Whom we had long in terms of time his sermons seen in company with the parson on lasted. the verandah admiring. the wisps of Between the church' and the parson - smoke curling artistically from the age reposed the garage, which was a bowl of the faempus corncob. She in- mere skeleton in form„pessessing balm formed us that she was setting out to branches as a covering seeking to keep gather nebneys with which to finance out the burning heat of the. sun. In their rally. Hew artful she was in it standing at attention we noticed a seeking to put us "off the track," for big Buick car of ancient vintage pro - next Sabbath afternoon we returned jecting at both ends of this impro- tb continue our explorations and sure vised garage. It reminded the writer enough the modern colored version of of a fast-growing boy having out - Romeo and Jullet greeted our eees. grown both his .cap and shoes and The corncob pipe was still ih action all. that goes between. I ,say it was and the wisps of smoke,as artistic as of ancient vintage, for its headlights ever.Those admiring eyes danced were quite bulbous and projecting, with glee. I wonder how much she made of sxpensive chrome and veing' collected for the rally. The writer is in, size almost with the sort of lamp positive that although this task loineed one sees op a locomotive. As a matter ARInletg, VII • • A carefu0"eneuteY regarding the lueation of the "colored"•,-seetiOn or the City of Stuart elicited the infermation that one 'emust "croes the track in an easterly direction." Why is it that the lees pretentious homes tapering off into bevels are located in the eastern part of these compounds, for ehie is the run of the Creator' e worldre- ceivingCthe initial euabeace and warmth of the sun tie it begins its daily ascent • and declension? Did..fashiou. iuitiully deeeee this, Perpetuated by tradition down the years even until now?-, Has the western locale' any physical • ad- vantage over its lateral extremity the East? The first charge assigned the scribe was in Northern Ontario, where sure enough across the tracks towards the east was the Shanghai el' the town— due apologies teudered this Oriental city of great renown. The "East End" of, old London is well known for itse less palatial homes. (inc • of those ironies of fate achieved by ethee"blita" was the wiping out of -many of them. Let ueehepe that upon the rubble of the East •End will arise u new vigta of hoinee „ eomperable in terms • of artistry and beauty with those' of its counterpart, the West End. . Here I am digressing again, for if my .memory serves me correctly I .set out for the colored coMpound "across the tracks." It wasre'r long before the ornateness arid tidiness of the "white 'section". was • left behind to be greeted or rather appalled by - weeds which seemed to hem he this dusky race, and roads in a frightful state of disrepair. One, could hardly call this change a transition rather was it a definite break, posseeeing as great a contrast asethat between the hue's of skin them- selves. The "Colored" Preachers Naturally our initial interest was centred in the churches with their colored ministers and people, tied after reconnoitring the territory from all sides Nye located the Methodist church with its adjacent parsonage-. The writer has never considered it tres- passing to invade the sanctity of churches, for it is always interesting to compare Jiotes both with respect to • theeech arehitecture, and -with • the - methods employed- in the. •earrying- out of its program. Thischurch- was of modest pproportione, seating about 200 people and severely lacking any adorn- ment, either outside or ,within, that would constitute an objective aid to• worship. The paint had long since become a prey to the elements and the structure itself clamored for rejuven- ation, We had caught a glimpse of the• colored miniker reclining on the verandah possessed of his bosom pal the famous corncob pipe. If there is such - a thing as holy sinoke he was certainly manufacturing it on this occasion. There .had been a Mutual detection and in themidst of our explorations he came .into, the ehnrele to discover our identity and to facilitate us to the full by way of question and answer. 10 terms of years he .was no 'longer young; as a matter of Met, he was saying an revoir to ruiddle age, his physique bearing the marks of a veteran in the service of his church and his. Christ. What a contrast be- tween the church in which the Writer preached and this one scarcely more thiete a -stone's.- *throw from - the other! One would , like to think\ that thh.; NaSri:t the usnal relationship. , We enquired of this simple yet wholesdine _ambassador of the Cross as to how many additional churches there were catering to the needs of this people. whereupon he replied, two I3aptist and one Episcopal, each with a resident minister. Surprise was ex- pressed' that there should be two churches of the same "coMmunion" 10 a community that wasn't relatively large. Answer—Secession from the parent Baptist •Church owing to dis- agreement ,00 doctrine. This dissent- ing group "milled out' and built chnrele to. meet /heir own supposed pattern. The writer asked the Method- ist minister if that sort of thing could happen in his chureb. his reply being in accents languid and ,long llrawn out, No, sir ° they would have to 4.44.4/J of lad, these colored. people revel in this sort of set-up; in this case, big man, big cigar, big car. 1 wondered whether this all:relent edition of Buick would be giving more than twelve miles to the gallon. However, our Baptist brother was the personification of courtesy. - How beautiful the colored girls are— . athletically proportioned, with 'a, penchant for flambuOyent colored hair ribbons and adornments. More about ' this in our next epistle. —L. .T. 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