United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

Page 16 text:

The VOX Award for 1952-1953 has been awarded to ] DA V1D BLOSTEIN First Year, United College Page Fourteen

Page 15 text:

soon brought from the pulpit to Wesley College, on account of his proven teaching and adminis¬ trative ability. Next he went to Edmonton, and the college which he founded with one student over a retail store. Then back to Winnipeg in 1917 he came to rehabilitate a college that had fallen on hard times, and how despite a business depression and other difficulties he won out. He called this his “terrible time.” It was during this period that he became known beyond the church and its colleges. For 25 years he was a Director of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He sat on various gov¬ ernment commissions. He was honoured by three universities. His counsel and sound judg¬ ment were always in demand. Had he not chosen the Church, he most assuredly would have been an eminent jurist and been elevated to the bench. Gateways always seemed open when others closed. Today I noticed people using gateways as escape, avoiding their public and private duty — their feeble alternatives to high ser¬ vice. But all Dr. Riddell’s gateways offered views out and beyond and forward looking. Even gateways came to him through his troubles and sorrows. A son Harold made the supreme sacrifice in the first world war. His beloved wife passed away in 1943. And then Gerald, with a very promising career on the interna¬ tional scene, was so suddenly taken. I was with him in that crushing experience, because Gerald was the very apple of his eye — the child and delight of his old age. Only by the power of his faith did Dr. Riddell come through that ordeal, and because he had also above everything else — the will to live, the will to think and do — even after his frail body was obviously break¬ ing under the strain. Thus the final Gateway was therefore one that looked out upon a golden future — rich with the wonderful promise of God — with vis¬ tas of farther horizons, the spheres of fresh labours of love and service. For when he passed through that last Gateway to the celestial city, I think the trumpets must have sounded for him on the other side. Servant of God — Well done! HONOUR FORMER LOCAL MINISTER DR. HIRAM HULL A MEMORIAL to a popular Hamilton minis- ter, who died in June of 1951, was unveiled at First United Church in 1952. The Rev. W. L. L. Lawrence, B.A., associate minister, conducted a memorial service for the Rev. Dr. Hiram Hull. Dr. Hull, who came to Hamilton in 1941 from the Toronto Conference as associate minister during the Rev. Dr. E. Crossley Hunter’s pas¬ torate, continued, officiating as pastor until the Rev. Dr. E. Melville Aitken, the present minis¬ ter, was inducted. He then served as visiting minister with Dr. Aitken and as such became endeared to thousands of Hamiltonians. A big man physically and spiritually, he has been described as a source of great spiritual strength, guidance and an example to all with whom he came in contact. Eighty years old at the time of his death, Dr. Hull, who died at his summer home, Juddhaven, Muskoka, covered most of Canada in his 60 years of preaching before settling in this city. Insisting on a teaching ministry and pastoral work, he also took an active part in young people’s work, Sunday School work and teacher training. He was a member of the Religious Education Council of Canada for 10 years. One of the commissioners who formed the United Church of Canada in 1925, he was born in Albion Township, Peel County, graduating from Wesley College, Winnipeg, being ordained in 1908. The memorial is in the shape of a handsome, enlarged photograph. Page Thirteen

Page 17 text:

Tar Shack Ghost Town Russian Foreign Policy The Nature of Man The Artful Hitch-hiker Ode to the Editor The Poetry of Pope Poartry City of Brotherly Love The Cosmopolitan Tacerations of a Lecture Winter Unification of Europe Two Poetic Masterpieces Romeo and Juliet Rebirth Page Fifteen