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10:30 a.m. -
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11:00 a.m.-
'Worship Service and Sunday School
November 2nd at 8:00 p.m. there will be an informai time of prayer.
_ All are invited for a time of reflection and prayer.
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October 28
Trinity,-Blyth St. John's, Brussels
No Service 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist
MORNING PRAYER
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Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
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BRUSSELS
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9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
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Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2001.
From the Minister's Study
By Rev. Ethel Miner Clare
Knox United, Belgrave
In the prologue to his book The
Different Drum, Scott Peck relates
the story of The Rabbi's Gift. This is
the story of a monastery which has
fallen on hard times.
No young people have joined the
order for some years and now only,
five monks remain in the decaying
monastery. All are over 75 so it
seems certain the order will die and
the buildings disintegrate.
In the woods surrounding the
monastery, there is a little hut that
the rabbi from the nearby town visits
whenever he feels the need -for quiet
and solitude. One day as he was ago-
nizing over the imminent death of
his order, it occurred to the abbot that
perhaps he should visit the rabbi and
see if this man could offer him
advice that might save the
monastery.
The rabbi welcomed the abbot to
his hut. But when the abbot
explained why he had come, the
rabbi could only shake his head and
On Oct. 15 the ,Brussels WMS
held its Thanksgiving meeting in the
church parlour with the Kincardine
WMS and the Presbyterian Women's
Guild as their guests. Nineteen
attended.
President Helen Elliott welcomed
the guests and read a Thanksgiving
hymn and prayer. This was followed
by everyone reading the WMS pur-
pose.
Mary Huether read-the scripture, 1
Chronicle 6: 8-30.
Mrs. Tanna-Dodds sang two
Thanksgiving solos Joyful, Joyful
and Praise Him.-Isobel Gibson led in
a prayer of Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Elliott had several messages
The Christian Farmers Federation
of Ontario is moving its office out of
the city and on to the farm.
After spending 15 years at a loca-
tion in downtown Guelph, the CFFO
is moving its office to Gencor, a
genetics co-operative located on a
600-acre farm north of the city. The
new facilities allow the CFFO to
share meeting rooms, equipment and
ideas with several other farm organ-
izations housed in the building. In
addition, plans are in the works to
hold a majority of the organization's
• board and committee meetings at the
facility.
"I'm pleased with the CFFO
Executive Board's decision to relo-
cate our offices to Gencor," said
John Clement, the Federation's gen-
eral manager. "The new location
will bring greater ,expcisure to the
CFFO and should create more
opportunities to help us better serve
our members."
The new address -for the CFFO
office is RR5, Guelph, 5653 Hwy 6
North, NI H 6J2. The organization
can be reached by phone at 519-837-
1620 or by fax at 519-824-1835. An
open house is in the planning stages
and details will be announced as
they become available.
MedicAlert
ALWAYS ON CALL
www.medicalert.ca
For more information
1-866-8413-3259
say, "I know how it is. The spirit has
gone out of the people. Only a few
come to the synagogue any more."
So the rabbi and the abbot wept
together. Then they read parts of the
Torah, the Hebrew scriptures, and
quietly shared their faith understand-
ings. As the sun began to set, both
men knew it was time for the abbot
to return to the monastery. The men
embraced. Once again the ablvt
asked if the rabbi . had any advice he
could offer that would help the dying
order.
"No, I •am sorry," responded the
rabbi. "I have no advice to give. The
only thing I can tell you is that the
Messiah is one of you."
As he followed the path back to
the monastery, the abbot kept repeat-
ing the rabbi's words to him. "The
Messiah is one of you." What could
he have possible meant by that?
When he arrived at the monastery,
the other four monks gathered
around him and asked, "Well. what
did the rabbi say?"
"He couldn't help us," the abbot
of Thanj during the meeting
with the moral being people should
not live in isolation but should share
blessings with others.
Leona. Armstrong introduced the
speaker Rosemary Terpstra of Grey
Twp. who spoke on her working hol-
iday in January at Nicaragua.
She and 19 others mainly from
Innerkip Presbyterian Church went
on this very worthwhile mission.
The group paid their own expenses
of about $1,400 each.
They took 61 suitcases of clothes,
books, toiletries, etc. for the people
there.
She had -pictures of the country, of
their feeding stations which the
answered. "We just wept and read
the scriptures together. But just as I
was leaving, he said something mys-
terious - that the Messiah was one of
us."
In the days and weeks that fol-
lowed, the old monks thought about
what the rabbi had told the abbot.
Was it possible that the rabbi's words
were really-true?. Could it possibly
be that the Messiah was one of the
monks here at the monastery? If so,
which one? As the monks thought
about this matter, they began to treat
one another with extraordinary
respect on the off chance that one
among them was indeed the
Messiah. And, on the off chance that
each monk himself might be the
Messiah, they began to treat them-
selves with extraordinary respect,
and to respect the gifts each had been
given.
Because the forest in which the
monastery is situated is beautiful,
from time to time people dropped by
and had a picnic on the grounds and
wandered along some of the paths. A
natives can use three times weekly,
the pottery for which they are
famous, coffee fields, flowers, mis-
sion women of Innerkip helping the
poor children and the Innerkip men
helping the natives with their build-
ing projects. She took 24 children's
dresses, 48 short-and-shirt sets and
17 dresses which she had sewn her-
self.
She stated that she felt very
rewarded for being able to go and
help and people there felt likewise fq
the group for their help. Rosemary's
two brothers have been doing this
several years. The next meeting will
be Nov; 12 at 1:30 p.m. at the home
of Isobel Gibson.
few even went into the dilapidated
chapel to mediate,
As they did so, without even being
conscious of it, they sensed an aura
of extraordinary respect that sur-
rounded the five old monks. Without
even understanding why, they
returned to the monastery more and
more frequently to picnic, to play, to
'pray. People began bringing their
friends to show them this special
place.
And the friends returned with their
friends. Once again, the monastery
became a vibrant centre of spirituali-
ty and healing, thanks to the rabbi's
gift..
In this time of uncertainty, how
different our world would be if we,
too, lived as though the Messiah is
one of us.
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BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
October 28
Worship Service & Sunday School 11:00 a.m.
Guest Minister: Rev. John Roberts
7:30 p.m. Service
Rev. John Roberts - "Man of Note"
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Office: 523-4224
Story tells of a Rabbi's gift