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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 9 Take the tragedy of life says a great English writer, Katherine Mansfield, be overwhelmed, make it part of life-Pass from personal love to greater love. In these last few years it has been borne in on me that quietly and unobtrusively more and more people and especially young people, are questioning themselves and finding themselves wanting, they see many of the ways of the world to be false and utterly destructive, and they are seeking a new way of life-trying to search out the right answer, the truth. What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, two thousand years ago. He did not know it and he had not sought it, but the answer stood before him in the form of a man who went to the Cross for an ideal. Since then the world has recognized the answer was there and has given its own decision in the fame it has accorded the two men. But has the world taken that Truth to its heart? We should indeed take new courage and hope from this upsurge of seeking which seems common to all faiths. Criti- cal days produce great men and women. To-day those men and women are appearing not as stars in the firmament, not as great political leaders, or even religious leaders, but in small groups all over this Continent and in other parts of the world. They are banding together in a common pur- pose-to find a better way of life for the world, more real friendship, more real understanding. They are reading and re-reading the Bible and they are learning that Christianity is more than a name, more than a Sunday service-they are finding that it is a certain way to salvation, salvation of their own lives, salvation of this temporal world, salvation of our souls in the world to come. Last week there was completed and published the first major new Translation of the Bible since the King James' version nearly three hundred and fifty years ago. For four- teen years a large group of distinguished Biblical scholars has worked incessantly on this new version and they have brought into their Translation the results of research and discoveries over many years. Several million copies will most certainly be printed and sold.

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8 TRINITY COLLEGE S-CHOOL RECORD The old struggle between the haves and have nots is -being whipped up to white heat, and no Marshal Plan, Colombo Plan, Unesco, or United Nations can cure the trouble overnight. In a very real way the sins of the fathers and grandfathers are being visited on the sons and grand- sons. What a piece of work is man, said Shakespeare, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a God -all doubtless true, for we have untold, undiscovered latent abilities, but if Shakespeare were living today and had witnessed the march of events through this century I am inclined to think he would be less enthusiastic about man. What a mass of folly is man, he might have said, with one hand he prepares the most luxurious dwelling and with the other he makes ready to blow it to pieces. He learns the secrets of the universe but peace and content are strangers to him. He knows the whole world but himself he does not know. But this is our Harvest Thanksgiving serviceg what have we to be thankful for? Food, clothing, shelter-yes indeed. A prosperous country, friends and a large amount of free- dom-no doubt about that. Our families, our health, our opportunities, the love and kindness which surrounds us are all important, all very precious. Do not let us, however, be self-satisfied or complacent, we live in dangerous times and such times demand courage and effort rather than complacency, a searching self-examina- tion rather than self-satisfaction. And that is what I feel we should give a sincere thanks- giving for, the fact that so many of our people are awakening from their sleep of selfishness, are realizing that a man's life and future consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth, are beginning to see beyond themselves to the long horizons of this world, and again beyond those horizons to the largely unknown and unseen yet deeply felt borders of the world of the spirit.

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10 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD People are turning in larger and larger numbers to this, the most influential Book of all time, they are beginning to see the error of their ways, the evil that is in the best of us, and they are seeking a new way of life everlasting. May we in this Chapel throughout this year read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the Word of God, the word which has turned ordinary men into inspired and noble souls. And I hope many of you will develop the habit of reading at least a few verses every day, in the quietness of your own rooms if possible. When the majority of people recapture the fundamental verities or truths, then there will be real hope for the peace and friendliness of the world. All else is secondary in im- portance. Who will achieve Universal peace ? asked Bernard of Clairvaux, a most infiuential Christian of the Middle Ages. And his answer was the disciplined, the dedicated, the pure in heart and the gentle in Spirit. May we ever be seekers after the truth, seekers of the Kingdom, and in the words of the prayer may God sow the seed of His Word in our hearts that we may bring forth the fruits of the Spirit. There will then be cause for real Thanksgiving. DONATIONS FROM THE CHAPEL FUND The following donations have been made since the last notice: Bolton Camp ................................... ........ S 25.00 Moorelands Camp ..................................... ..... 2 5.00 St. Paul's School, Palampur, India ................ ..... 2 5.00 Church Bible and Prayer Book Society ............ ..... 1 0.00 Society for Crippled Children .................................. ..... 1 0.00 The Canadian National Institute for the Blind ............ 10.00 The Diocese of Moosonee ........................................ ..... 2 5.00 For a new Church at Kirkland Lake lCanon Jim Wattonl' ...,............................................ 25.00 For the welfare of Indian boys at Moose Factory ........ 50.00 The Chi1dren's Aid Society, Port Hope .......................... 25.00