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

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TRINITY COIJIJEGE SCHOOL RECORD 17 OUR NEW CHAPEL The Headmaster gave the first regular address in the Memorial Chapel on October 28 and spoke as follows: There have been many memorable days in the story of this School, for we have had, as a School, a more colour- ful and unique history in our comparatively short span of eighty-six years than any other similar foundation of which I have heard. In its way, yesterday was memorable with its closely contested and well-played games, the maroons vs. the blues, and all mixed up with the green grass, in the background those lovely rolling hills folding into the horizon and at the south the wonderful view over the ever-changing lake. Those impressions many of us will remember. The destruction of the School by fire in February, 1895, and again on that Saturday afternoon in Miarch, 1928, were occasions which will always live in the memories of those Who witnessed these events. The opening of the first Chapel built for the School, on Palm Sunday, 1874, was a milestone in the life of the young School, Dr. Bethune simply says this event was a great joy to us all. Then the re-opening of the Chapel after the fire of 1895, rebuilt and redecorated, must have been an even deeper joy to all. The opening of the- new School, so well constructed, in April, 1930, was another red-letter day. The lirst visit of a Governor-General to T.C.S., that of Earl Grey in November, 1907, is well described in The Record . He and those with him attended chapel and sat in the stalls immediately to the right of the entrance doors, with the Bishops and some of the Clergy in the stalls to the left. The Service, I am sure, lasted two hours. His Excellency had been received by the Cadet Corps and the boys wore their uniforms in chapel, the old-fash- ioned army type. Dean DuMoulin, an Old Boy, afterwards Coadjutor Bishop of Ohio, preached. Provost Mlacklem, of

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16 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD is above every name. And so He became the Lord of Life and Death, and it is when His trumpet sounds Reveille among the silent valleys that men wake and listen and rise up and turn homeward for who is so dull as not to see that this home-bringing of a nameless man is also a sym- bol? Christ is the same in the life of today, a strange presence that flits across our life. Our dead may have said: The Old Chapel We had forgotten you, or very nearly, You did not seem to touch us very nearly, Of course we though about you now and then Especially in any time of trouble, We know that You were good in times of trouble But we were very ordinary men. And all the While in street or lane or byway, In country lane or city street or highway, You Walked among us and we did not see. We think about you kneeling in the garden, Ah God! The agony of that dread garden, We know you prayed for us upon the Cross. If anything could make us glad to bear it, 'Twould be to know that you could also bear it,- Pain, death, the uttermost of human loss. Though we forgot you, you will not forget us We feel so sure You will not forget us. But stay with us until this dream is past. And so we ask for courage, strength and pardon And you'l1 stand beside us to the last. Amen. ,

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18 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD Trinity, and the Rev. J. Scott Howard, were among the visiting clergy. All the speakers at the Prize-giving after lunch spoke of the occasion as being the most memorable in the history of the School. Some of our more recent Speech Days, the visits of the Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone, some Inspection Days, the opening of our new artificial ice rink, so generously given, and the opening of the New Tuck, were times we shall remember. But the events of last Sunday were to me the most memorable of all the occasions I have known at T.C.S. and the most precious. In the presence of a world-famous man, His Excellency the Governor-General, accompanied by his gracious consort, Lady Alexander, we took part in a Service most of us had never before known, the service of consecration of a house or buildingg the Bishop set it apart forever from all pro- fane and common uses for the worship of God. And the building was this beautiful Chapel, given to us by over eight hundred T.C.S. people in memory of our gallant Old Boys, those lads who did so much to save us from evil and mischief, from the crafts and assaults of the devil in the form of worldly dictators. In essence, those Old Boys, and many others like them, counted not their lives dear unto themselves but risked all, and many gave all, for one all-important purpose, and that was to preserve the dignity of human life, the abiding and incomparable worth of the soul of mlan. They fought and died in far lands to give us another chance to learn the unparalleled value of the Christian life, that jewel of great price, and as a world family another opportunity to live together in unity. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene. says Andrew Marvell about King Charles the First when he was about to be executed. There was nothing common or mean about the sacrifice of one hundred and eighty-five splendid T.C.S. boys for our