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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-10-24, Page 19ft (.(1l)ERIt 1,1 SM(�ti:�►l,•�►,lAit. "I11t)ItSI)AY. OCT . ... OF3!'wR 1974-•-pPAQE TA, Special Servi-ce A special service was conducted last, week at St, George's Anglican Church officiated by Bishop David Ragg of Huron (second from left) Also attending the service were from left • • the Reverend Hugo Muller, Diocese of Moosonee, Bishop Phillip Elder of Guyana, South America, and" Canon' Errol Shilliday'of Sarnia. (staff photo) JO JESE FAREE11 MRS. MARY JOHNSTON Mrs Mary Johnston Of Goderich Township, 'died Tuesd v, October 15 ,in Gn.orgetown an,d District Memorial Hospital, following, Y,.f an illness of three months She was 78. •. d - The fc,rmer Mary Sowerby,. she was horn July 1, 1896, in Go rich Township to parents Thomas and Sarah (Johnston.) rc 1t a �, •h .,qh I wall, through the valley • Ir., 0,,01 ,» ;41 tru'h 1 shull low no •Ih ", rrI with mr' - Jain Psalm Sowerby• She was a lifelong resident of Goderikh Township.',. She was predeceased July 2, 1970 by. her husband, J Reginald Johnston. Surviving is one son, Harold . of Georgetown; five grand children and three great grand- children; two sisters, Mrs: Er- nest (Ella) Bogie, Goderich and Mrs, Erizabeth Sitter, Goderich, and . one brother, SUNDAY SERVICES BEREA-BY-THE-WATER LUTHERAN CHURCH Meeting at Robertson Memorial. School (Blake and Eldon Streets, Goderich) REFORMATION SUNDAY 4 - Sunday School for all ages 9:30 A.M. Divine Worship 11:00 A.M. ,,Sermon: "LUTHERANISM GROWN UP" Marvin L. Barz, Pastor 524-2235 "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" Romans .5, 1 - FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec) MONTREAL ,STREET near The Square REV, W.H. McWHINNIE..F.R,G.S. • •Organist: Mr. Frank Bissett 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School .,11,:00 a.m. Morning Worship' COME AND WORSHIP WITH US ALL: ARE WELCOME Sr, The .Free Methodist Church Park St. at Victoria Pastor: H. Ross Nicholls 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Topic: "GOD MEANT IT FOR GOO.D" '7:00 p.m. Bible Study Anyone needing bus"transportation phone 524-9903 Everyone Welcome CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH BAYFIELD ROAD AT BLAKE STREET EVANGELISTIC — FUNDAMENTAL ° REV, R. tfPUBACHER, Pastor " 10.00 a m. BIBLE SCHOOL FOR ALL AGES 11:00 A.M'. - REV. ERNEST KEEFE • MISSIONARY FROM QUEBEC • 6:30 P.M. "WORD OF LIFE CLUB" 7:30 P.M. - ENJOY THE FiLM "FOR PETE'S SAKE" WED. 8 P.M. - MID -WEEK SERVICE EVERY VISITOR AN ,HONOURED GUEST Knox Presbyterian Church 0 -. THE REV. G. LOCKHART ROYAL, B.A. Minister THE REV. RONALD C. McCALLUM, Assistant WILLIAM M. CAMERON. Director of Praise SUNDAY,' OCTOBER 27, 1974 r 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Divine Worship SERMON: "THE REALITY OF GOD" (Nursery and Junior Congregation) "-Enter to Worship • Depart to Serve FROM THE MINISTER'S $.TUDY ALBERT J: COOK Minister, 4 Ashfield - St. Helens United. Churches Bishop Gerald Kennedy of California tells of visiting the Bell Laboratories in that state, and seeing on the desk of one of the executives there a most unusual invention. It was in the form of a small wooden casket about the size of a cigar bolt. On one side of this.box ti was. an single switch: When you flipped the switch, there was a buzzing sound, and . the lits slowly rose. As it did, a mechanical hand emerged; Slowly, but surely, the hand reached down, turned off the switch, and went back into the box. Then the lid came down, and the buzzing stopped, and the whole operation was over. That is all there was to it, a machine that did nothing but switch itself off. " , . a This is -a iiarable of what goes on in too •many human lives: people who waken each morping for no other purpose than to fall asleep again each night. .Day after day, they go through the •same, monotonous, meaningless motions. They seem more mechanical than human. They are not dead, but they are not really alive either, bec4iise they have nothing to livor. They are like the man whom Robert Frost describes in one of his poems, who had: Nothing to look backward -to with pride, And'nothing"to look forward to with hope. women never get past twenty- nine; and°men stop counting at thirty-nine. But, of course, life, or the lack of it has nothing to do with years:it has to do with the meaning which one at- taches to what he is doing, and how well he is doing it. We all must go through 'the motions of earning a living, and providing ourselves and our families with the basic social necessities, But if we make these things the chief business of living, we insult the image of Cod within us, and treat our- selves as something less than human. beings. This is. what Jesus meant, when he said to his disciples, "Is not life more than food, and the, body more than clothing". We require these things in or- der td stay alive, but life must have a larger purpose than the pampering_ of our bodies and the hoarding of grown-up toys. „I Something that gives meaning and depth to the lite filter birth. The only purpose forliving I know ol""that'is large enough to banish boredom, to . inflame • a man's days from their begin- ning to their end and'. out beyond into eternity, is the pur= pose which St, Paul` described When he said, "For me to live is Christ", You `say, "But what does that mean?" It means that (rod created us in such a way' that enduring. satisfaction can come only by c•ommitiug ourselves to his pur- pose, It means that life at its best, life that sends the, blood racing through our veins so that we tingle all over with ex- citement and express our en- 'joythent of 'saying "This is Living". Life like that comes to us when we -are 'in harmony with the same concerns that in- spired our Lord. leovit Wdeldmea All.- of us have a favorite writer, and I ..guess* the .author who has contributed the most For some people, it must be in helping' me along my §aid in all honesty that life has Christian pilgrimage is C.S. never begun. Lewis. •Organically,' of course, it ,, I have talked to others who began at -the moment ofconcep- claim Lewis `does nothing' for .tion; . or, at that moment when them, but for ' some reason or r'.thedo ,ctor separated us from ,other, perhaps because he and I y Ncr the security of our mother's share many of the same sins, no wothb,• 'w,ung,, us out in,the air one else, seems to hit the nail on by our ani'tles, :and with a sharp the'head as hard for me as does Lewis. - pat on the back, ,caused us to take that first'ga'sp of breath . For •instance, when I was re - into our' lungs, From that reading his - Beyond Personality moment we were off and run- lately I came upon this: "When ping. , ,, - Ks, , I come to my evening prayers Although life began for, us all and try to.reckon up the sins of with a slap and -a cry, it is the day, nine times out of ten nevertheless an.. ironic fact that the most obvious one is some there are all around us persons sin against charity;, I have whose bodies are warm, and sulked or stormed or sneered. whose blood pressure is nor- And the excuse that im- mal;' but who, for all hignificant mediately springs to my mind is purposes, are dead. that. the provocation was so This is a danger we all face. sudden the", unexpected I' was For example, the young caught off 'tnv"guard and had business. executive. He has no time to collect myself." agencies for "making money for Now, this is exactly what himself and others. Yet, under- happens to me again and again. neath all the excitement and I wilt bite my child's head •off fascination of his job, he finds a over some offense and later ex- vQid that needs filling:"A char- case myself because he carpe at ming wife,.a $40,000 income, a ane, unanticipated ,when I was new car, a new home .... all tired, - or hungry, or worried. these are somehow not enough. about something' else. The ' void is still there. He. discovers he has not yet begun to 'live, • Or, take someone else in his' Or someone may dump a nasty, unexpected problem in my lap which I do not'' accept graciously and I will excuse my middle years, at a point in his behaviour, once more, by life's workcwhen it is too late tosaying they should have given change 'jobs, and, too early th • me warning about what they retire and he must settle for were going to do. , what he has. Boredom has set I keep telling myself •if Only in. He sees the years stretching • people would inform me in ad - out before him as a tread mill vance that they are about to be of futility; .and he wonders if he °troublesome, Or irksome or will ever make it to retirement. argumentive then I would have And deep down, something _ time to get myself together and. within .hien cries out, "Please be able to deal with them •don't let me die before I live". lovingly with understanding How often We, have heard it and gentleness instead of flying said that "life begins at forty": off the handle, as I often do, Someone has -suggested that , and being angry, frustrated or this may be why it never does impatient. begin for so• 'many.' , Because But, of course, as Lewis -- points out, these excuses don't hold up at all. Surely, he says, what we do when we are taken off guard is the hest evidence for what sort of person we are, Surely what pops but before we have time to put on the disguise is the truth. • If you go into a building that has rats you will most likely see them if you go in very suddenly but the suddchness doesn't 'create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same Way, Lewis goes on, thesudden- ness of the provation does not make me an ill-tempered per- son; it only shows me what an ill-tempered person I ani, Now, the Christian very soon realizes he cannot handle his temperament himself. it is only as he grows in Christ, or to'put WELCOME *SERVICE ti would like to call you wit , • "housewarming gifts" .and in- formation about your new location: The Hostess will be glad to arrange your subscrip- tion to the Signal -Star Call her at 524-7854 MAYIAG • AUTOMATIC WASHERS & DRYERS • • PORTABLE WASHERS & DRYERS • WRINGER WASHERS • PORTABLE '& BUILT-IN DISHWASHER • IN SINK, FOOD WASTE DISPOSERS From the Dependabil'i'ty Peopte HUTCHINSON APPLIANCES 308 xucoxq TRAO(�If�15 ACCEPTED 624 -7831 it the other way 'round, allows Christ to grow in him, that he is able to deal with all those mi +erable sins like a red-hot temper, impatience, • pride, etc., and get them under control. When Christ says, 'Be per- fe -e that's what he meanA and He will tolerate 'no corn promise. It's not easy and is; most Often, a long and painful process. But as Mr. Lewis says, 'It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird, hut, it would he a jolly sight ,harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at the present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an or- dinary, 'decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad'. And the only way we can he _hatched into something better is" to turn all' facets of our lives over to God. Bishop Ragg officiates at celebration The Rt, Rev. T.D.B. Hagg, Bishop of Huron officiated at a unique celebration • of • Holy' Communion' for people of the Deanery of South Saugeen in St. George's Parish Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 16th. The service was the setting for the presentation of the outreach and commitment of Anglicans for 1975. Speakers were the Rt. Philip Elder of Guyana and the • Rev, Hugo Muller Of Noranda, Quebec. Bishop Elder sprite• of the ex- citing prospects fcir develop- ment in the newly -independent country of Guyaria, and how the church shares in the hopes • of the people. Mr. Muller told of _-the terrible cost of the,Cree people as a result of, the .Lames Bay Hydro. Project which has destroyed their land and Way of life. Canon E.J. Shilliday of Sar nia presented on audio, -.visual which in .-,_var,iety of ways depicted the concerns of 'the Christian Gospel for" people 'in all phases of life. • A poster display prepared by the diocesan A.C.W. showed the programme and outreach projects of the Anglican Church in Huron Diocese. The budgetneeds of the Diocese of Huron for 1975 vital $989,021,, 'of which South Saugeen is asked to, provide $44,863. REis peop1e heipiii' ppople d 'Send your ( e4 dollars to CARE Canada, Dept. 4, 63 Sparks Street, Ottawa, K•1. P S-A. For Pete's Sake! to niake local debut For Pete's, , Sake!, a film credited as "unique in • its capacity to reach out to meet the problems of people,.will he .shown on- Sunday, October 27 at Calvary Baptist Church, Goderich, The full-length cornedv- 'drama, filmed in brilliantEast mancolor by World • Wide Pic- tures, will be shown since begin- ning at 7:30 p.m., and is open to the public at no adrriission charge. Filmed entirely on location in Denver and the Colorado Rockies, For Pete's Sake! is the story of Pete Harper, a family man and service station 'owner, who is knocked, flat by unexpec•- ted problems, but finds the. strength to stand up again, to face life anew, ,For Pete's Sake! has been seen nationwide by over three million persons in theatre premieres, ana has been cited hy'one film critic as "the per- fect mixture — it's drama at'its boldest, comedy at its lightest, and , action at its liveliest. , For Pete's Sake! is a family film, riot only because it is t;i►i►d family entertainment; but because through its .storyline; families can see and feel exac- tly what is needed to develop deeper': understanding and' build stronger. ties." • • .For Pete's Sake! stars Robert Sampson, who also starred in world wide's The Restless Ones: -.Pippo , Scott. as Pies _ .wife, Marge,.:,is well-known' for her Broadway appearances and `nu'rri'rous television roles. John Milford .and' Sam Groom tire heath familiar to television, ,audiences. • Other 'featured players in- clude Johnny •Jensen as Pete's son, Irene Tedrow as Grandma Harper, and Nicolas Suroe'y as Skip, the leader of a motorcycle gang. A cordial invitation is exten- ded to all families'. of th'e c•om- munity. by Calvary Baptist. Church, who has made arrangements for this, special showing of For Pete's' Sake! 4 Sunday, October 27 HURON MEN'S CHAPEL AUBURN SPECIAL SPEAKER FRANK KLEES SPECIAL MUSIC BY THE MARTIN FAMILY• RECENTLY RETURNED MISSIONARIES A SP,ECIAL THANK YOU To all that attended last Sunday's special film ' Evil Prevails When Good Men Do Nothing COMING NEXT SUNDAY WAYNE McLEAN r, Thomas Sowerby; °Goderich Township. - . Funeral service was Friday, October 18 at McCallum Funeral Home .with. Canon G.G. Russell officiating:, Interment was in Maitland .Cemetery, Goderich. Pallbearers • were Robert Sowerby, Forest McClure, Ar- mand Lassaline, . Jack John- ston, Everett McLlwain and .Ken Sowerby. v SUPE R A S ""1 • c N� Aln` t 4.t' -.:r - ..-,,,. 'Bob McCALLUM Representative 11 Cambria Rd., Goderich 524-1345 The family that prays together....Stays together THE SALVATION ARMY. 1'8 WATERLOO ST. S 524-9341 SUNDAY SCHOOL — 9:45 A.M. FAMILY WORSHIP -- 11:00 A.M. EVANGELISTIC SERVICE — 7 p.m. WEEKDAY Home League (ladies) Wed:, 8:00 p.m. Prayer & Bible Studies Thurs. 7:30 ,p.m. OFFICERS - CAPTAIN G. HERBER - CAPTAIN "M. MacKENZIE . "All Are 'Cordially invited to Attend". • ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1974 20TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY .n, HOL'° COMMUNION AT 8.:30 A.M. MORNING PRAYER AND SERMON AT 11. A.M.. , THE RECTOR AT BOTH SERVICES •CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME AND NURSERY AT 10 and 11 A.M. Rector: Canon G.G.' Russell, B.A.,B,D. • Choirmaster -Organist: Joseph B. Herdman Don't just watch us grow. Come and help us grow Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle Affiliatedwith the Pentecostal •ssembiies of Canada CORNER OF ELGIN AND WATERLOO •STS. - REV. PETER G. ST. DON, Pastor , SUNDAY, OCTOBER '27, 1974 10:00 a:•on.--SUNDAY SCHOOL Are °Free Bus Transportation You 111:00 a.m.—MORNING SERVICE Reading 7:00 p m _EVENING SERVICE The Quotes? Tues. 8:00'p.m. BIBLE STUDY AND PRAYER 'Friday 7:30 p,m. --Youth Service "One way to make .the world better is' by improving yourself" FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT CHURCH SERVICES CALL 524-5506 Victoria Street United -;Church HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP • REV: LEONARD WARR 10:00 A.M. Bible Scholl for all grades 11:15 A.M. - Worship Serv,'rce Sermon: ;"COURAGE TO STAND ALONE" —W E— Mrs. J. Snider Organist '& 'Choir Director North Street United Church The Rev. Ralph E. King, 'B.A., B.D., Minister Miss blare McGowan - Visiting Assistaint Mr., Lorne H. Dbtterer - Director of Music SUNDA' OCTOBER 27, 1974 Sunday School ages 10 arid up at 9:45 a.m. Ages 3 to 9 from Worship at 11:00 a.m. Worship at 11:00 'a m r: Sermon: "ON BEING RESPONSIVE & RESPONSIBLE" Nurs#ry facilities Come and Worship with us,