Tárogató, 1943-1944 (6. évfolyam, 3-12. szám)

1943-09-01 / 3. szám

TÁROGATÓ

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OUR ENGLISH SECTION.

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A POEM FROM THE CLOUDS

John Gillespie Magee of the Canadian Air Force mounted the skies one glorious day, took up a pencil and paper, and wrote this as he sat at the controls. He came down safely, but has since been killed.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds—and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark or even eagle flew,

And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

—Canadian Girl.

A PRAYER

Help me to love my fellows more;

To love myself a little less;

And thus unlock God’s wondrous store Of undiluted happiness.

“Love of God and Love of Country are the Two Noblest Passions in a Human Heart, and these Two Unite in Home Missions. ■—Henry Van Dyke.

FACTS UNITED CHURCH PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE VARIOUS PHASES OF HOME MISSION RESPONSIBILITY

3. 6 Institutional Missions minister to Anglo-Saxons in the more crowded down-town sections and the industrial areas of Canadian cities.

4. On 51 Indian Missions, ordained ministers and missionary-teachers serve 18,000 Indians; and in 41 Day Schools and 10 Residential Schools, operated by the Board of Home Missions and The Woman’s Missionary Society, in co-operation with the Dominion Government, about 2700 Indian boys and girls receive an education.

5. In 20 Hospitals and 2 Hospital Units, operated by the Board of Home Missions and The Woman’s Missionary Society, 22 doctors and 116 nurses serve an average of 9,000 patients, and about 24,000 outpatients, annually.

6. 17 Missions are carried on among the Orientals in Canada — 9 Chinese and 8 Japanese.

7. 7 Marine Missions serve fisher folk, lumbermen, lighthouse-keepers, and other isolated groups, on the coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific.

8. 200 Student Missionaries hold service in 800 centres for 20 or more Sundays each summer, and carry on mid-week activities on their fields.

9. 10 Fresh Air Camps are conducted during the summer months, providing rest and recreation for 10,000 mothers and children from the congested areas of our large cities.

10. Rural Work, with special emphasis on depleted areas, is sponsored by the Home Mission Board; and also the holding of Rural Life Conferences in Ontario and the Maritimes, and Summer Schools in Newfoundland.

11. Grants and Loans are provided for the building of new churches on the frontiers; and also in rural and urban communities.

12. The Newest Projects: Inauguration of co-operative work with other Protestant communions in camp and war production communities and new war-time housing areas and the appointment of a Chaplain to carry on a co-operative ministry among the men in the camps along the Alcan Highway.

1. 761 Ordinary Aid-Receiving Charges and Home Mission Fields (comprising 3,000 congregations) receive grants from the Home Mission Board.

2. 15 Churches of All Nations, in our larger cities, minister to as many as 30 nationalities. Many thousands of New Canadians are in attendance, weekly, at the various activities of these churches.

—Home Mission Monthly Bulletin.

DOGS PROTECT BRITAIN

The dog sentries appealed for by the British War Office last May are now guarding air fields, stores, factories and gun sites, besides going out on patrol and carrying messages.

At first the Army asked for Alsatians,, are-