Clinton News-Record, 1977-05-05, Page 18As the summer months are contact your• local
rapidly approaching, farmers agricultural office or write:
should 'be thinking about Junior Agriculturalist
where their sumrrler help is Program, Ontario Ministry of
going to come from. To help Agriculture and Food, 4th
them in. this aspect and to Floor, 195 Dufferin Avenue,
case the student employment London, Ontario, N6A 1K 7.
problem, ' the Ontario Application deadline for
Ministry of Agriculture and Junior Agriculturalist is May
Food is again sponsoring the 1. 19 , and the deadline for
.Junior Agriculturalist host farmers is Mav 15. 1977
Program.
In three years of operation,
this program has been highly
successful. This summer 300
Ontario students from urban
areas, aged 16 to 17 will be
placed on farms from June 20
to August :'0. During this
period; the student gains a
first hand understanding of a
farm operation and ap-
preciation of rural life style.
The host farmer gains a
helping hand for the summer
and an economical means for
easing any farm labor
shortage. The host family
themselves develop a better
understanding of city life
style by relationship with the
u,rhan student.
The farmer is only ex-
pected to provide for the
student's room and hoard
plus `:t per working day, with
the Ministry providing -M6 per
working day.
For • application forms or
further- information, please
Rev. Stewart of Seaforth, who marked ;0 years in the ministry last Sunday. looks at a
letter of congratulations from Knox Presbyterian Church in Goderich, which he attended
first. The Goderich native has preached at many churchs over the last seven decades, but
still is optimistic about the church's future. (photo by Wilma Oke)
By Mary Chessell
The Varna United Church
Women held a dessert euchre
and bake sale at the Township
Hall on April 20.
There were 21 tables in
play, with prizes going to
Debbie Rathwell for most
lone hands, Nora Heard for
high score and Linda Smith,
low score.
There was a large display
of baking and a few craft
articles. Thanks to all who
attended, and to those who
worked hard to make it a
successs.
Concert excellent
The annual concert at
Huron Centennial School,
which was held last Wed-
nesday and Thursday
evenings, was 'excellent
entertainment, as usual.
The people who write the
material, those who -make the
props, the music teachers
who train the choir, and all
others who work hard to
make it a success, are to he
highly commended.
The students who took part
in the skits knew •their nartr
well, and seemed to enjoy
putting on a good show.
*. Social notes
Chexles and Bernice Reid
are observing their silver
wedding anniversary on
Saturday. Anyone who wishes
to join them for the
celebrations may call
members of their family or
this correspondent for par-
ticulars about the party.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kuhl of
Caryndale 'visited Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Chessell on -Sunday.
Also visiting were Mr. and
#Mrs: Norman Chessell and
family of Stratford.
Doug Reid apparently
pulled some of the ligaments
in his hack while working
with machinery last week. He
was in hospital a couple of
days for x-rays, and is now
recuperating at home.
Congratulations to Jack
Hunt who was presented with
a diamond and sapphire pin,
the Sun Oil Company service
award for 30 years of service
at a dinner and dance at the
Valhalla Inn, Kitchener, last
Friday. Mas -ter of
Ceremonies was John Wise of
PAGE 18—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1977
Minister sees 74 ears,, in pulpit
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by Wilma Oke
Standing up on his mother's
sewing machine and
preaching enthusiastically to
-an imaginary audience when
four or five years old in-
dicated at an early age the
career little James Ure
Stewart was interested in
following.
Saturday, Rev. J. Ure
Stewart marked the 70th
anniversary of his ordination
as a minister at his home in
Seaforth. Sunday he was the
guest minister rn the 'pulpit .of
Northside United Church
here, something he has been
doing regularly in various
churches around Western
Ontario since he retired in
1951 and still does so today.
The youngest of three, he
was born of Scottish parents
ancestry on June 18, 1882 at
Saltford on the northern
outskirts of Goderich. His
parents established a Sunday
school in the local school,
later in 1876 they were in-
strumental in erecting their
own church school. The
family attended church at
Knox Presbyterian Church in
Goderich. The Stewart home
was a popular stopping -off
place for young men from
Knox College in Toronto, who
would come to Goderich to
preach in nearby churches.
Mr. Stewart says it was a
different life for young people
in those days. Sunday was a
day strictly reserved for
church and rest. Sunday
visiting was discouraged at
the Stewart home, unless
friends were willing to ac-
company the family to church
in the morning, Sunday
school in the afternoon and
church again in the evening.
Only necessary work was
done in the home such as
cleaning and blackening all
shoes on Saturday night, even
peeling the potatoes. Feeding
and watering their animals
and other necessary tasks'
were permitted. His father
even shaved the night before
and ho whistling was allowed.
That would have been a sin.
Though it was a strict life,
Mr. Stewart has many
pleasant memories of those
days.
There
brighten
Stewart
singing lessons which he says
has been an -asset to him in
the ministry and was while he
was in college. Today he still
enjoys playing classical
music on the antique piano
in their home.
One highlight of his
boyhood was the yearly visit
to his mother's parents in
Atwood when they would set
_ out at 4:30 in the morning for
the 50 mile trip with the horse
and buggy. They took along
food, warm rugs for. them-
selves and hay and oats for
the horse when they stopped
for a rest for two hours at
noon.Two days later -.they
returned the same way.
In 1900, after a•high school
education in Goderich, Mr.
Stewart left his home to at-
tend McGill University in
Montreal. Because trains
were expensive, and money
was short, he would
sometimes make part of the
trip by Arboat down the St.
• Lawrence, where the rapids
that had to he shot provided a
lot of excitement on the
journey, he recalled.
To earn money for tuition
after his first year in Mon-
treal, Mr. Stewart found a job
as an agent for a company
that made stereoscopic slides
and viewers. He sold them the
first summer in Western
Ontario which kept him Close
to his home in Goderich
where the family now
resided -
was
his
took
music to
days. Mr.
piano and
there. Passage was arranged garden and are active in
on a boat carrying cattle for community organizations.
the British market. and- he Mr. Stewart is writing a
earned his ticket by working history of Northside United
as a cattleman. It was not a Church which is celebrating
pleasant trip as he discovered its centennial this year. He
later the boat was condemned has spent hours researching
as unsafe.- He had a small and writing on a typewriter in
bunk in a cabin that had beds his study often uncia midnight.
for a dozen men. He slept ona Today, while alert and
straw tick and the active and full of enthusiasm,•
cockroaches climbed over Booking forward eagerly each
everything. The food was morning to a full day of
barely edible. meeting friends and doing
He travelled widely in things, he is walking a little
England and Scotland both more slowly than he used to.
years but he wasn't a very He has a bit of trouble with
good salesman though, he his hearing but still drives his
says. car.
Mr. Stewart graduated In almost a century of life,
from McGill in 1904 and then Mr. Stewart has seen his
went to Chicago to attend share of hardship but there
McCormick Theological have been good times as well
College. He was ordained on and a lot of happy memories.
April 30, 1907 and became the He has seen a lot of changes
minister of a Fort Wayne in the church in all those
church in Michigan. years. "It will change. It has
While at this church, he changed but it can't he
married Katherine McLean destroyed. Certainly there is
of Goderich in 1908. They then a future for the church. The
moved in 1910 to Napier church is not just a building
where he was Ahe minister, but a gathering together of
then on to Whitechurch in God's people."
1913, to Longbranch in 1916 "Our modern inventions
where they bought their first have brought great changes
in the church, especially the
car and television. In the past
with the horse and buggy
people didn't get far, but with
the car they do. Now there
isn't the evening service for
most churches."
Mr. Stewart said, "The
ecumenical spirit has cer-
tainty developed with more
recognition of other -churches.
The breadth of vision has
certainly developed in the
church today. Locally here
the priest comes to
gatherings at the United
Church. That was unheard of
years ago. I have hope for the
church."
"Young people today are
excellent. They have more of
an independent spirit. In days
gone by what mother and
father said was law, but today
it isn't," he said.
A reception was held at
Northside United Church
following the morning service
Sunday when lunch was
served by the United Church
Women for family, friends
and members of the
congregation who wished to
stay.
He has received many
congratulatory messages
from former churches where
he served and friends from all
over.
car.
A succession of churches
followed in his long career in
the ministry first as a
Presbyterian and then after
church union in 1925, as a
United Church minister in
Belmont, Rockwood,
Aberfoyle, Paisley Memorial
in Guelph, Elmira,
Moorefield, Bright and
Oxford Centre. Mr. Stewart
retired from the ministry in
1951 and since then has hardly
slowed down at all.
Katherine Stewart died in
1954 ar d he kept busy with
projects of all kinds. He has
written his autobiography,
which runs to over 200 pages,
closely typed. Another major
project was the compilation
of a genealogy of his mother's
family, the Mathesons.
In 1961, Mr. Stewart met his
second wife. The widow of
Rev. H. V. Workman she had
placed an ad in the United
Church Observer to sell the
gown and collar her husband
had worn. Mr. Stewart an-
swered the ad and met Laura.
"I went -for the gown and got
the girl" Mr. Stewart laughs
today. '
They were married in 1961
and now live on 80 James
" Street in Seaforth.
They keep busy in their
Farms being sought for -
Junior Agriculturalists
The next two summers he
was offered the opportunity to
go to England by the com-
pany to sell the equipment
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