Tárogató, 1947-1948 (10. évfolyam, 3-10. szám)
1947-11-01 / 5. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 OUR ENGLISH SECTION. MODERATOR OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA TO VISIT BERMUDA The Moderator of the United Church of Canada, the Right Rev. T. W. Jones, M.A., D.D., of Montreal, will make an official visit to the churches of Bermuda. Making the journey by air on October 24th to Hamilton and returning on November 4th, he will be the first Moderator to visit the Island during the term of his office. He will be the guest of the Bermuda Synod of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Bermuda, which while it did not enter into the United Church of Canada at the time of church union, has since become affiliated with and receives its ministers from that Communion, and is connected with the Maritime Conference of the United Church as the Bermuda Presbytery, with Rev. W. R. Seeley, D.D., of Hamilton as its Chairman. Dr. Jones will preach three times each Sunday and speak at every appointment on the Island, broadcásting on both Sunday mornings from Wesley Methodist Church, Hamilton; address a laymen’s' conference; speak to the Rotary Club, and deliver the closing devotional address at the Annual Conference or Convention, ministerial and lay, where representatives of every appointment will be present. His visit is designed to give the United Church of Canada, through its Moderator, a closeup picture of the state of the work in Bermuda and the problems connected with church work there. CHURCH DEDICATED AT SUDBURY The new $41,000 All People’s United Church, Sudbury, which replaced one destroyed by fire a year ago, was dedicated last Sunday morning at a special service presided over by the minister, Rev. Gordon Fickó. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. M. C. Macdonald of Toronto, Associate Secretary of the Board of Home Missions of the United Church of Canada, assisted by Rev. J. A. Lyttle of North Bay, Superintendent of Missions for Toronto Conference. The preacher at the evening service was Rev. Thos. D. Jones of Streetsville, Ont., the first minister of the congregation. At the Friendship Hour . which followed, greetings were brought from the Home Mission Board by Dr. Macdonald and Rev. J. A. Lyttle, and Rev. T. D. Jones related the early history of the congregation in the 20’s. A Hungarian lay man expressed the thanks of the congregation to the Board of Home Missions. The Church is one of 16 Churches of All Nations operated by the United Church, serving 30 nationalities among fellow Canadians of non-Anglo-Saxon background, and which have 55 workers. Rev. Elma S. Hjelt of Kirkland Lake occasionally conducts services in Finnish at Sudbury and Miss Leslie Bowman is a W.M.S. worker there. Leaving Toronto to join the United Church “Cavalcade” which is now at Edmonton and on which he will be a principal speaker until its arrival at Winnipeg at the year end, Dr. J. T. Tucker,‘40 years missionary in Africa, 35 of which were spent in Angola, said “Africa has been called the ‘bookless continent’ but the United Church Mission Press at Dondi, Angola, printed 8 million pages of Christian literature in 1946, but, it would requide 80 million pages to meet the need.” He also said that the progress towards literacy is an outstanding feature of modern Africa. HIS NAME A little girl was one day reading the Bible, and she came upon some verses that spoke of heaven. “Grandpa”, she said, “my Bible says that those who are in heaven shall never hunger or thirst. I understand that; but it says that ‘His name shall be on their foreheads.’ What does that mean, Grandpa? Who will write the name of Jesus on their foreheads?” . “Why, they will write it themselves, of course, girlie.”
