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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 5 for our lives which will not collapse. In this troubled world people are drifting and afraid, there is a definite relation- ship between the decline in the study of Christianity and the lack of purpose in life. Christianity does not now always occupy the first place in our lives. In closing, the Head- master said that we must learn the good life and God's way, and lead more abundant, better lives. Mr. Ketchum's closing words were from the Bible. Love the Lord your 'God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. Do this and you shall be truly Pure in Heart. .11i-. HARVEST SUNDAY The offering of thanks to God for His goodness and graciousness was the theme of the Harvest Thanksgiving sermon on September 30 by the Reverend Canon Lawrence. To illustrate this theme, an experience which the Canon encountered during the first World War was given. The hospital at Etampes, France, held three thousand wounded from the battle of Vimy Ridge, which had been fought a short time before. It was Padre LaWrence's job to assist in the censoring of mail, and while carrying out that duty, he came across a letter with a five pound note enclosed. It was addressed to a London hospital for the blind, and car- ried the message: . . . from a Tommy who is thankful that he is alive. Commenting on the incident, Canon Lawrence said that it was an instance when a soldier, after experiencing a narrow escape from death, had come out Wounded but thankful. Too often, he continued, we fail to show gratitude simply because we take gifts or our heritage for granted. The realization that countless lives have been lost making the World a better place for us to live does not come naturally. The fact that ingratitude is difficult to bear was brought out in the sermon. Using a quotation from Shakespeare,

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6 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD Canon Lawrence showed that even the elements are not as cruel as an ungrateful person. Another illustration used was the well-known story of Christ and the ten lepers. Often, the Canon pointed out, it is better to be a member of a minority, a minority which pauses like the one grateful leper, to give thanks. In conclusion, our chaplain urged us to try and express our recognition and thanks to God, even though we may never fully understand it. By using the old and beautiful Gloria in Excelsis we may make every day a Thanks- giving day. PATIENCE AND CAREFULNESS The Reverend C. J. Frank, M.A., preached in the old chapel on Sunday, October 14. Our last visiting preacher in the old chapel, he remarked on the speed with which the new chapel had been built and how proud we must be to have such a fine new chapel. The school would lose a great deal if it had no chapel services, he said. In the 1895 chapel, Mr. Frank was impressed by the air of mystery. He said that this chapel brought to mind the old stone churches of England in Kent. Simply decorated, and strongly constructed, the church walls seemed permanent and solid. The speaker said that the walls reminded him of the people, strong in character, who remained firm during the bombing of the war days. He was reminded, he said, of a very beautiful clock which had lain in the warehouse a long time. After the war it was taken out and he would often go to watch the craftsmen fix the intricate mechanism. And then he said he felt sorry when he thought of the workmanship of today as compared with the clever designing and careful, patient construction of that clock and the church walls. Everyone today is trying to do things too fast and trying to find too many shortcuts . He said that that is not God's way of doing things and that God does not use any shortcuts , .