Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 dark children, attracted by him as Canadian, American and English children were, laughing at and with him although they did not understand a Word he said. The dullest and stupidest of us were kindled a little by his fire. -L.w.B. CThere has been a wide demand for copies of this addressg it has been printed in pamphlet form and copies may be had on application to the Secretaryj i N T '

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 17 but the picture is etched in my mind. The tractor has taken all the romance, artistry and poetry of rhythm out of ploughing. Some weary farmers would say the tractor had taken the sweat out of ploughing. With a horse- drawn plough, a man had to be highly skilled to keep his furrow straight and the right depthg rocks and roots were serious obstacles, often the land tilled was uphill-but who ever saw a ploughman turning back? If he did. he would not cultivate, he would not sow, he would not reap. And so it is with life: Our path may be uphill, it may be full of obstacles, the stones in our way may be heartbreaking. We may often want to give up, to turn to something easier. But if we do, we shall not cultivate ourselves, we shall not sow new seed, we shall not reap full success. More important, we cannot have full con- fidence in our ability if we give up. Jesus says he who even looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God. If you were looking back when ploughing, it would be impossible to keep a straight furrow. Your path would not be straight forward. But what is really meant is that such a man is not giving himself wholly and entirely to his task, he is a divided man, he has certain regrets. he is not sure of himself. The worm of regret is as devastating to mental health as the cancer of self pity. In this new chapter of your life you have put your hand to the plough: see that you go forward, straight for- ward and finish your task with full success and no regrets. We are told we shall then be more fit for the Kingdom of God. What is the Kingdom of God? No one knows every detail of it but from reading the New Testament we know that it must be a life of understanding, of sympathy, of comradeship, of fair dealing between man and man. In these Chapel Services you will have a wonderful opportunity to learn much more about the Kingdom of