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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 5 He first brought up the point that it is too bad that to- day's people have forgotten September 29 as the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels. He told how happy he was that Trinity College School still called the first term of the year Michaelmas term instead of merely the fall term. He next explained how polytheism, in which the Greeks believed, provided numerous inferior gods, While the Hebrews knew that only one God existed. It seems that the Greeks knew nothing about angels, while the Hebrews did. The latter had a separate order of spiritual beings described as watchers and holy ones. These were known as angels. He then went through the Bible and showed that angels were not just an invention He did this very convincingly by pointing out four different times during a thousand years when angels are said to have taken form. And likewise the Divine Son of God sets the example of implicit trust in the ancient promises-'He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways'. YVINDS Canon Lawrence gave his second sermon this term on October 12, choosing for his theme the similarity of winds and spirits. He pointed out that in the Greek language there was only one word for the two ideas, which undoubted- ly led to the confusion of the early translators. Long before Virgil, people expressed respect for the Winds. By a strong East Wind the Red Sea was turned back and the children of Israel escaped from oppression. Such a wind could be nothing but the Breath of God. But not every wind is friendly. How many a tragedy is implied in the vivid line Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind! ? But how often have men, discouraged and broken, been reanimated by an influence mysterious as a breeze and dynamic as a storm? Such a rumour came across the hills of Galilee and summoned from their retirement the distressed followers of the Nazarene. Beyond doubt He had died, but the wind

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4 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD In conclusion, the Canon pointed out that, as on a fishing trip when there are too few Hshing poles, too few ministers mean a smaller catch of men for God, and he appealed to the boys to consider becoming fishers of men by entering the ministry as their life work. NEWFOUNDLAND On September 21, the School was privileged to hear an address by the Very Reverend R. S. Rayson, Dean of New- foundland. The Dean began his talk by telling us something of Newfoundland's early history and the development of its church. In 1787, the Dean said, Newfoundland was under the diocese of Nova Scotia, which extended from Detroit on the west, to Bermuda on the east, with Newfoundland thrown in as an extra. In 1837, Newfoundland became a separate island diocese, and the first Bishop was Edward Field, who founded Queen's College in St. John's. The people of Newfoundland, said the Dean, have not yet come to consider themselves Canadians. They also re- tain the grand old Scottish custom of having one's eldest son enter the ministry. He also gave many examples of hardships endured and the bravery of Newfoundland's clergy. When will we learn that a free world has to be a Christian World ? asked the Dean. Clergymen are desper- ately needed. Although you will make little money, the spiritual reward is great. You cannot feel better when you come to the end of life, he concluded, than when you know you have done a share of the world's work, and carried a. share of the world's burden. ANGELS On Sunday, September 28, we had the pleasure of hear- ing our own Chaplain for the Hrst time this term. Canon Lawrence's topic was chosen from Psalm XCI, the topic being He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

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6 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD carried an assurance that He was their leader still. Holy Breath they called it, or Holy Spirit. The likeness of Spirit to wind had been suggested by the Master. The wind makes tired men ready to set out anew. And in the realm of the Spirit moves the life-giving Breath. By the Spirit of God, men, even old men, are reborn! In conclusion, the Chaplain said, In St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians he said, 'Walk in the Spirit! What is that but to get out into God's clean atmosphere, turn one's face into the refreshing breeze to be enlivened by the life-giving influence of Him who said, 'Behold, I make all things new'! 1 ADDRESS BY THE HEADMASTER OCTOBER 5, 1952 The fruit, the vegetables and the grain which decorate the Sanctuary today are symbols of all we owe to natural forces for our life and well being. At this time of year, the autumn, we think especially of the harvest, and we give thanks that the fields, through a miracle of growth which we can only say is God-given, have once again provided food for us, in one form or another such festivals have been known for many thousands of years, probably ever since man appeared in any numbers on the earth. In this country few starve, but in other large parts of the world, drought and disaster quite often spell starvation and slow death to hundreds of thousands. h At the turn of this century man thought the golden age was at hand, he was becoming all powerful through the advent of science, the secrets of nature were being unlocked and man was controlling his destiny as never before. The world was bound to be a place of peace and prosperity, wars and calamities were a thing of the past, the Pax Britannica would keep nations in order and man himself was becoming a. God. That seemed to be the comfortable and complacent belief of the Victorian age and it carried over into the Hrst part of this century.