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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD' 11 In this Chapel we have opportunities to become more at one with our inmost thoughts, with God and with his will for us and for all men. St. Augustine says it is our will which has to be changed and it has to become God's will. Archbishop Temple told a story of Sir Walford Davies teaching two hundred boys to sing . . . Listen, listen, listen, he said, now you shall sing it-only one rule, you must not try, you must enjoy it and let the music sing itself. And they sang well. If we offer ourselves to God, through Christ, we shall learn to enjoy Him and His music will sing itself into our hearts. The Headmaster then gave encouragement to the boys who were entering a boarding school for the first time. There were two important guides to success in facing any new and difficult task: 1. Do what lies at hand, the immediate work, with all your heart and mind and soul. 2. Rely on God and let Him be your ideal, your vision and strength, your shield and breastplate, knowing that He is with you always. Do your best to let your will become His. lt Renew my will from day to day, Blend it with thine and take away All that now makes it hard to say, Thy will be done. .Ti-.1 BUILDING CHARACTER On September 26, the Reverend Canon C. S. Moulton addressed the School in the Chapel. He began his address by telling us that in ten years' time we should take a look back at our school life. Canon Moulton suggested that we compare it with an attractive and treasured picture. This picture should con- tain all aspects of our life here, but at the same time there should be a definite centre of the picture. This centre would

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10 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD But now and then, the Chaplain said, comes a 'vision' which makes vivid and even glorious, what we hitherto could not understand. Such was the case also with the three Apostles. The vision on the Mount concentrated the thoughts and feelings they had gradually collected about the Master and gave light and meaning to what they pre- viously had not understood. BATTLE OF BRITAIN SUNDAY On Sunday, September 19, the Headmaster gave the address. It was Battle of Britain Sunday and he spoke of the valour and fortitude of that small group of airmen who, fourteen years ago, saved Britain from invasion and there- by gave the world another chance to develop the ideals of Christianity and Democracy. They risked all they had and gave all they had, said the Head, and he quoted from the letters of two Old Boys, Dal Russell and George Hyde, who were both numbered with that gallant company. Mr. Ketchum went on to say that now, fourteen years later, it is a sober and staggering thought that many are preparing for another battle which will be completely catas- trophic if it should come about. We are told that the whole Western world might easily perish as a civilized community. It seems unbelievable that man, endowed with reason- ing capacity, could calmly contemplate such a suicidal pos- sibility . . . there is one way to prevent it, a way emphasized lately by all our leaders, Sir Winston Churchill, President Eisenhower, and Mr. St. Laurent, it was emphasized in that wonderful chapter read this evening, St. Paul's letter on Charity. It was, of course, the central theme of Christ's teaching-that man must learn to know God and God's way and he must practise Charity or understanding and friend- ship and love between all. In other words, we must live our religion much more sincerely than we have in the past. Mr. Ketchum then spoke of the two great religious con- ferences held last summer in the United States and said there were signs of religious rebirth.

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12 TRINITY OOLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD vary, depending on our own interestsg for some it might be the football field, and for others, the friends that one makes here. But many, the Canon said, regard the Chapel as the centre of school life. This is not only because of the symbol it represents, but also because without it there would be no meaning to the rest of the picture. We are at School, he continued, not only to acquire an education, but also to build character. Everything we do here helps in the building of our character. The associa- tions of the Chapel especially aid us, for with God, character takes on a meaning and purpose. The minister concluded by saying that While we can not take earthly goods with us to the next world, our character shall always remain with us. .ii THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES On October 3, we were fortunate to have for our speaker Mr. F. A. Brewin, a delegate to this year's meeting of the World Council of Churches at Evanston near Chicago. He came to describe to us the important issues involved in this assembly and his own impressions of them. Mr. Brewin said that there were close to eight hundred delegates from forty-eight countries present. These men and women represented one hundred and sixty-three dif- ferent churches, whose respective congregations totalled one hundred and seventy thousand people, the Roman Catho- lic and Chinese churches were not included. During this mass discussion, Mr. Brewin listened to an average of six addresses a day, delivered by the various delegates, these included a wide range of topics, such as Christ and So- ciety and Christ and Segregation. 'A striking impression was that of the tremendous vitality of the church and the urgency of preaching Christ's word in this troubled world of ours, he continued. The council found an urgent need for unity in the Christian church and although the different churches did not have