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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1973
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
PAGE 15
Presbytery meets in Kirkton
Rev. Fred Feist, President of
London Conference for 1973-74
and Minister of St. John's United
Church, Stratford, asked the
members of Huron- Perth Presby-
tery, at a meeting held in
Kirkton, to think of the Church
as an "Open Hand." This is the
symbol he has chosen for his
term as Conference President.
In explaining his choice of this
symbol he said, "flow you use
the word Church has far reaching
implications for the shape and
direction of your life . "
Jottings
by Jack
(continued from page 13)
Other changes extend benefits
now paid to widows to dependent
widowers, men who were dep-
endent on wives who h• ve died
and are entitled to payment. At
the discretion of the board such
benefits may also be paid to
common-law spouses of six years
if there are no children, and of
two years if there is at least one
child.
Geo. Kerr, Provincial Secret-
ary for Justice, tabled a green
paper on Sunday shopping 'and
uniform weekly store hours in
the Legislature. It gives no posit-
ive indications of the prcvinces
inclinations. Rather it outlines
the advantages and disadvantages
of four possible options for act-
ion on Sunday retailing, and five
options for dealing with the
uniform store hours question. It
would appear that the Ontario
Government will not take a
firm position on legislated cont-
rols over the sensitive matter
before next spring.
Energy minister Darcy Mc -
Keough responding to NDP dem-
ands said there is nothing the
Ontario Government can do to
control the amount of uranium
expprted from the province and
the price to be paid for crude oil
from Alberta. Control of uraniurr
exports was seized from this
province by the Federal Govern-
ment in 1947, but Mr. McKeouglt
said uranium sales should be
controlled by a board similar to
the National Energy Board. He
said there is precisely nothing
the Government can do to prev-
ent oil companies froni raising
prices.
Denturists were given until
December 7 to register for ex-
aminations in order to continue
their practice as dental therap-
ists. Health Minister Richard
Potter said that denturists not
allowed to practice as dental
therapists. Health Minister
Richard Potter said that dentur-
ists not allowed to practice ex-
cept as dental therapists, would
be proseucted if they did not
apply for examinations to be
held later this month and next
month. They were given until
December 7th to register. Both
Liberals and New Democrats
opposed the restirctions on dent-
urists and want the law with-
drawn. Both party leaders tried
to catch the Government in an
admission it would not, or
could not, enforce the legislat-
ion.
The house is scheduled to
start its Christmas break next
week, However, Education Min-
ister Thomas Wells told the
Legislature that he would ask
Premier Davis to recall the Leg-
islature if mass teacher resign-
ations take place. Mr. Wells
said it was crucial that free
bargaining now going on not be
interrupted. However, he did
not want to see any schools
closed in January.
He outlined the three reasons
why he chose the open hand as
his Theme. "The open hand expl-
ains something about the church;
that people are important; that
we must be flexible, adaptable,
and open, and approachable.
The open hand suggests, in the
second place, that we hold
something very precious in our
hand that the world needs; that
is, moral excellence. But the
greatest treasure we hold is Jes-
us Christ and his inexhaustible
magnificence...In the thid
place, the open hand takes hold
of sorne)thing, We as a church
are to be involved, we are to
take hold of the needs of the
world and of the community,
and of our own church. If we can
not do the big things, at least
we can start on the little things.
And most important, we are to
take hold of the hand of God and
discover that here is the kind of
confidence which allows you to
walk with your head up, ready to
face anything as it comes."
Presiding for the day long
meeting; was Rev. Doug Warren
of Crediton, Chairman. One
of his first priviledges was to
introduce the new minister for
the Clinton, Wesley -Willis Past-
oral Charge, Rev. John Oestroi-
cher, B.A., B.R.E., Also pres-
ent for the day was one of two
intended candidates for the
Ministry, Mr. William Richards
of Fordwich.
During the rest of the day,
members received many reports,
voted on matters of local and
national Church policy, and
debated issues affecting the life
of the Church. For one hour
before lunch members divided
up into five Division meetings.
Each of these reported in the
afternoon session.
In the Division of Communic-
ation report, it was learned that
the Resource Centre has been
set up in Main St. United Churcl:
Mitchell, Rev. Ray Lindsay, of
Monkton, the convener, noted
that the Centre has filar -strips
all the "Faith Alive" cassettes,
sprne of the "Thesis Theological
cassettes, and most of the print-
ed "Resource Kits" for Christian
Education work. These are all
available for loan, free, to
churches in Presbytery.
Singtime, the United Church's
weekly religious program shown
Sundays on CKNX-TV, should
be in color sometime in February
announced Rev. Barry Passmore
of Wingham., the program
director for the show. In answer
to a question he said that the
program costs about $10, 000 a
year.
Rev. Ross Crosby, of St.
Marys, reporting for the Divis-
ion of •World Outreach, was plea.
sed to say that 15 new mission-
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seas posts for 1974. This requires
however, increased monies from
the Mission & Service Fund.
Members were encouraged
though, when Rev. Don Deas,
from Mitchell, in presenting
the Division of Stewardship
report, showed that 1973 givings
to the M & S Fund were up 4.6%
over last year. It is still nec-
essary to raise 40rfo of the nat-
ional Budget for 1973 of $11, 500.
00.
Camping is a major summer
activity of Presbytery, and Rev.
Glenn Wright, of Exeter, was
again able to say that this
summer's camps had been a suc-
cess. 537 children attended the
two Presbytery camps; Meneset -
ung, near Goderich, and Bimini,
near Stratford.
One report was referred back
to a committee for further study,
This was the report of the Salary
Policy Committee, which had
been set up at the last meeting
to recommend a salary scale.
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