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4 * -. . v ,..-~ **.v ,'., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 1939 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO 'PAGE F~OUR1 DUTY 0F ELDERS 19 0UTLINgD BY DR. RID DELL The first Fellowship o! Eidersc of. Uic United Church of Canada for.Uiis district was held ln Trini- ty Church on Friday night, when eiders of congregations of Dar- ltagton, Clarke, Newcastle sud Bowmanviile gathered under Uic auspices of Religious Education Comnuttce. Bey. S. Davison pre- sidcd over Uic gaUiering, which ia one o! a serles from Coast ta coast at which Rev. J. H. Ridddil, D.D., former Principal of Wesley College, Winnipeg, la giving Uic rcsults of bis study of Uic "Nature sud Function of Eldership" wiUi great acceptance throughout Uic church. Introduced by Mr. Davisori, Dr. Riddeil told how he had been callcd ta this particular service by being asked to preach and as- sit in Uic ordination of eiders at Winnipeg. As a former Mthodist he admitted he then knew nothiiig at mil about it, but was not too old ta learn; and finaly found himacif called ta taterpret Uic eldership ta " some bewiidercd Methodists, sud also ta somne for- gctful Presbyteriafls." The speaker traced Uic origin of Uic office !rom Uic original Grcek word, Presbytcr. He de! ta- cd "eiders" as those "-who have learned to understand men." "«The eiders," be said, Ilwere ta a minis- ter what Uic Cabinet is ta a Prime ministcr."l Outiuiing New Testa- ment references, be showed how eiders bridged the gulf between Jew sud Gentile ta establish Christian !dliowshiP; werc ap- pointed by Uic congregation i"streté.hing out Uiir hsuds!" The Magna Chai-ta o! Uic eldcrship la found ln Paui's farcwdll ta Uic eiders o! Ephesus: "Take hecd ta yoursclves" sud "Take hccd ta Uic fiock' over which Uic Holy Ghost bas made you overseers." Their work, he said, was ta over- sec the congregation. Tracing Uic risc of the eariy church, he show- cd how ultimately full tixnc work had ta be given by Uic "'ruling eiders"; these werc what Moffatt calis "Efficient prcsiding officers, worthy of ample remuncration." He outiincd Uic work o! John Calvin ln Geneva sud John Knox in Scotiand in ordaining eiders; sud compared Uicm as simlar in function wiUi Wcsiey's class lea- ders who wcre "O0verseers of groups o! 12." Great tribute was paid to MeUiodist local preachers, "la glorious institution." Hec touch- cd a familiar scene in outiining Uic work o!fUiceider among thc Selkirk Settiers, and of James Sutheriand, "Uic first ta ever lift bis voice on our widbspread prairies for God sud truUi sud life."1 For forty ycars Uiey kept thc Christian !ellowship alive un tii Uic arrivai of John Black in 1851. Congregations were warn- cd ta use care in clccting eiders, sud some phases of Uic work of su eider at Communion services wcrc touched upon. In closing Uic speaker Uianked God for opcning up this work, which was a labor of love, without fée, sud was mak- ing bis life of retirement vcry happy. He Uinks wc are on Uic edge of a great revival, sud Uiat there are as good men as ever in the- church, but we ought ta be trainlug them. Discussion foilowed Uic very impressive sud informative ad- dress by Dr. Riddeil. A vote of Uianks, on behalf o! Uiosc present, was extcndcd ta Uic speaker by Bey. H. W. Foicy.. The feeling was unanimous that another meeting of eiders in this district shouid be held carly in the new ycar. Canadian Appt R.mantlc Hlstory In a recent address at Montreal on "What Uic Apple Industry Mesus ta Canada," R. L. Whccler, Assistant Director, Marketing Service, Fruit sud Vegetabie Di- vision, Dominion Department of Agriculture, reviewed Uic Do- milnion-wide efforts of Uic Federal sud Provincial Governments, ta conjunction with Uic fruit trade of Canada, in distributing this year's appie crop, sud at Uic same time gave su entertaining bistary of appie culture in Uic Dominion. It is known, said Mr. Wheler, that appie trees were pianted ta Nova Scotia carlier than 1633, for in Uiat.year Pierre Martin set out a nuniber of trees in Uic Annapa- .,jan y roets Bishop Inglis, a Church -of Eng- lnd prelate, was fond o! gardening and fruit growing. He became farnous for his apples and people refcrred to Uiem generaily as Uic Blshop's Pippins, which were, o! course, his Yellow Bellflower ap- pics. Thus, iocaiiy, the varicty becanie known as Bishop's Pippin. In New Brunswick, one of the earliest r#)enig varieties, Crimn- son Beauty, was originatcdi that Province by tic late Francis Pea- body, and is now grown through- out the North American conti- nent. The early settiers in Que- bec, like their Acadian brothers, brought appie sceds from France and from them it la assumcd that the Fameuse or Snow apple origi- nated. Ontario, also a pioncer in thc apple industry, orlgmnatcdit.hc fanious Mclntosh Red at Dunela, in thc St. Lawrence Valley u<uth o! Ottawa. The most recent com- PLACE 0F ETHIOS ty. Law at bcst la but a criais cal a~aervanvcu wuMu are neceasary ta their I~ppplnesu. - ...~.L*L __ mercial expansion of appepo duction has been ln British Cu-, lumbia, where,, durlng Uic past 35 ycara, there has been 4 large development of Uic applehIndustry, in Uic Okanagan Valley, Uic Kootenays, and around Creston. 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