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TEE CANADIA!~ STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE,, ONTABIO THUBSDAT, SEPT !70m. lUS Missionary on Horseback Founded Bible Christian Church af Ebenezer By FRANK PICKFORD COURTICE: One of the old- time religious sects neyer heard of nowadays is that o! the Bi- ble Christians. Today, at Eb- enezer, a mile south o! Cour- tice at a cross roaçs, stands al church founded more thani 120 years ago by a mîssioflaryl who camne on horseback with1 a pack on his back and a Bible li bis hand. The Bible Christian Chunch had its beginning in Devon- sbire, England, in 1815, as a resuit o! the preachings by aý William Bryan. By 1831 there were some six thousand mem-1 bers, and in that yean two were chosen as missionaries to spre- ad the gospel li British North America. They were Francis Methe ral and John Hicks Eynen. Tbe former vias sent to Prince Ed-l ward Island. John Eynon ian- ded at Quebec June 17, 1833. He and his wife, Elizabeth Dart moved ta Cobourg and there set up their beadquarters. From Cobourg tbey travelled a circuit of more than 200 mil- es to preach the gospel. In Jan- uary, 1845. a churcb was open- ed at Bowm-anvil]e, and by lhe end of 1845, fourteen churches had been established. Warm Welcome Sometime between 1834 and 1838, John Eynen rode into aý littie communîty of English settlers at Ebenezer. (Howl they hit upon the name "Eben- ezer" is not known, but it means "the stone o! help"l.> Most of the settlers had cm- igrated from Devon and othen parts o! southern England, and they welcomned the itineranti preacher with warmth and fri- endliness. At first, they wor- shipped with him in homes or sometimes a barn, until in 1838 they organized a "'bee" and with voluntary labor and donatezd material they buiît a log chapel. Eighty-six-year-old Mrs. R. E. Osborne, now living at Bow- manville, recal]s much of those early cays as told to her by ber fatner. James Rundie. The log chapel was buiît across fromn the present church on the northwest corner and no- thing renains of it today. The first Sunday School was held in this chapel in 1844 wbich served the commiunity as a place of worship until 1848 when a frame church was buit on the present site, James Run- die donating the land. Present Building The present brick building was built south of the old fra- me church in 1866 and has been added to and improved since that time. The old f rame church was used as a Sunday Sehool until 1876 when a wing was added to the south side of the brick church. The bricks were brought from Mt. Carm-el Church which was demolished. In 1878 the choir and organ oc- cupied a gallery at the back of the church, but in 1892 the choir and organ were moved to their present location. Before that happened how- ever, union took place with the Methodists o! Maple Grove in 1884 and the Bible Christian Church as such no longer ex- isted. Today, it is the United Church of Ebenezer. The first organ, pumped by hand, was used in the church Religion for Today Wealth of Heart A Weekly TaIk Jy Rev. R. I. Nicholson In aur talk lni this column on left i hlm. "!Gencrosity was Juiy 9, 1959, we discusscd the dead in bis nature. Charity hadu r- subject, "Wbat Is Truc Weal- been starved out o! bis soul. He th?", anid our closing sentence put away love for his fellows; he was'as follows: "True opulence would not chcnish it, that he consists net in the possession of might make a fortune; in the silver and gold, and stocks and. making of bis fortune, the po- bonds, but i the possession of er of love, bein~g unused, atroph- that wealth which nu income ied within him. "He hived only te tax can diminish, nor bandits make money. When he died in caxi stal- wealth of xiind, 1906, hie left one hundred mil- heaint, chiaiacter, and soul."1 lions of dollars, but hie was a This week we shail talk about veritable paupen lxi the qualities. 'Wealth o! Heart"- a true weal- of heu.rt that make life worth thi we may ail possess. No maxi livinlg. Is rich,'howevcr vast his fortune, Lord Francis Bacon of Eng- if he is poor i heart. If he lacks 1anid, was a great and most dis- sympathy, tendernees, generos- tinguished man, in the reign o! ity and love for hi$ fellowmen, Queen, Elizabeth. He wivas richT O lie la poor indeed. in mind but poor in heart. He The world loves the Great- had one o! the most brillant in- hearts and chenishes their mcm- Itellects "ht God ever gave te T ory, but despises the mean and man. lue was an original philos- smail. Luther, Wesley, John opher and scientist. His works Howard, Wii-be.rfocc, Lincolxi are greatly valued by scholaws, and Gladstone, werc men whose but thse man bimself is depiscdi hiear pwers ta touey tet- ad ungraful. Heused bis g lies Pwee nia hy ie syteband l. H f.ew seavaius N ed. John Wesley loved ail men position as an officer o! the o i es and declared: "The world la my Crown, to enirich his owxi pocket. parish." Wordsworth, though He took bribes from the rich a- poor in this world's goods, was gainst the poor. He dcscrted and riehi i heart. He lovc iebetnaycd his greatest benefactor , mountains and lakes, the birds the Earl o! Essex. He accumulaI-'1 5(S "To me the meanest flower o!flthe poorest men thal ever that biows can gve lived for he lacked justice, sym- jThoughts that do o!ten lie pathy, kindncss, gratitude and toc deep for tears."1 love. HRis heant was as dry and Russell Sage, an Amenîcan hard as flint. AO capitalist, born in 1816, in New Walt Whitman, the Amercan1 York State. lived to be inctv poet, was cccentric, but he had years of age and macle money by a heart as big as the world. He the millions, but no heart was once said: "I love God and flow- ____________ens and littie chdldrexi." "There T U was ne bankruptcy for hum- net se long as Qed sits upoxi is' ZIONIbrone, and flowvers spring up in (Intended for last week) Blcssed is the man who lov es Mrs. Lloyd Halliday left by such things- fHe is neyer poon. f o plane on Tuesday to visit her He la neyer alone, lie neyer ne- r m sister aI Calgary. aily grows old. For he who loves Mrs. Robert Killen spent a children partakes of Ibeir hope !ew days wiîb bier daughter and buoyancy, and hie who loves Mr. ifrd rnk Trnt.flwe aran doftha rat Miss Eva Carruthers, Cooks- and delicany, and hie who loves(S a dr ville attended the Preut-Carn- God partakes o! His stnrength eron wedding on Saturday and and purity. ia a~ee visited ai. Ray Cameron's for Probably no hean oIIie Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gerny Earl of Shaftesbury. Durin g hitl and daughters, Niagana Falls, public life o! fifty yeans hlicr.s visited bis aurit Mrs. F. B. Glas- identified with more bovemnent pel, for the uplifting of humantv' NLsorunestucz hrdatM t w ll be Ioct MLfrtue sruc had a Mn Tanl any otler man who ever and Mrs. Frank Pascoe and Ilived. Hie resirgned honons of std- family on Saturday nigtwln te, luxuries o! home, trne for thcy iost their barn and î- intellectual culture-. and spent in-, shed and soine animnais and ail his income te heip the help- their !lock of pullets, aise their less 'lThe lower clown they were, faMn.acn rs.y homas stevc.C Mar. mahînd b fie. thegreater thein dlaim te his and iînScaborogh, ere "He grewv old and feeble pre- supper guests at R. C. Staintons matureîy. Hie carnied thse sorrews oni Satunday and aise called and suf!enings o! a nation and at Rusell Sîainton's.l his great heart broke under ' f When the dnaw for the $50 Wbien dying he said: "Illfeel oid bond was beld by the Zion aecepn n n nwIIh Commuity ark, n. Abertmust soon die. 1 hope il is not McKay cf Brooklin won the wrnbtjcno ert Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M c-t leave this world with all liheab e#r r EwnPagav, ttnedth msryinit"Whn n1885 he ab e t *'on -Prout - Cameron wedding aI died, a nation wept. A funeral Zion United Church on Satur- service was held in Westministcr day anid were gucats at Wes Abbey, which was throngcd not- Camerons over the weekcnd only by the greal and noble of Mn. and Mns. Wilfred Frarik the land, but by ail classes o!fh and David, Tononto, w e re Peeple Who boved him. The weekend guests at Robent Kil- strects were lined with thou- T e b lex's. Ae sandsanaxd thousands o! poor pe- Mrs AexMcMaster, Jean ople who desircd te do bomage w ea and Ross, Mrs. F. B. Glaspeli te their henefactor- the maxi ed es a visited Mn. anid Mrs. George with the great heart. flilts at Wililams Point. Dr. N. D Hillis states lxi one Mn. and Mrs. Wes Camneron, o! bis bocks, liat wbile tbe mind Mr. and Ms-s. Bernard McEwcn is exalted to-daY, lthe heart la visited at Jack Camenon's, just as important. In fact the Millbrook. intllet would not be able tn Phili Gery Tronoisaccomplish very much without D ated visiting bis aunt Mrs. F. B. the warm driving power of the Glaspeil for a few days. heart. The heart therefore, Mrs. John Cruiksbank visit- should be cutivated as well as ed ber granddaughter Linda1 the mida. Truc wealtih is wcalth Stixison at Sick Childlren's Hos- of heant. Hi l rich indeed whose pital. Toronto. heart is tender, sympethetic, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Fisher and and generous, and wbe, like Kirk w e r e Sunday supper Abou Ben Adhem, loves bis fci- guestâat IPat Robert&. kiwMen. in 1873. "Before that," said Mrs. Osborne, "the choir lead- er used a tuning fork. Thomas Worden played the base viol and Robent Courtice played the flute. Hle was the choir leader and afterwards, when the or- gan was put in, he continued to play the flute right up ta the time of his death."' Mxs. Osborne's father, James Rundie, camne ta Canada from Cornwall, England, with his parents when he was eleven years old. His parents settled at Ebenezer in 1834, and be died there li 1902 at the age of 79. Stili Occupied ILs wife, Mary, gave him eight sons but only one daugh- ter Elizabeth. The bouse where she was born a hall mile east of the church is occupied by her grandson, Murray Osborne, but the original 18-inch-thck walls of clay-plaster and lath have been faced with brick for many years. The village o! Courtice, when Mrsr. Osborne was a young girl consisted o! a store and post office where the present IGA building stands and most sup- plies were bought either in Oshawa or Bowmanville. High- way No. 2 was at that time just a dirt road, often impass- ably muddy after heavy spring rains. There was no grist mili near- er than Bowmanville or Ed- monstone. -The one at Edmon- stone was south of where the Tremeddan Motel is now, King Street East, Oshawa, and it was to either one of these milis that the farmers took their wheat to be ground into flour. Mrs. Osborne scoffs at the easy life children have today. She believes more discipline and a littie hardship would do them no harm. "When I was a littie girl, I walked two and a ha-If miles to school, and thought nothing of it," she said She was married when she was 21, and has kept a copy of the Canadian Statesman issue of Jan. 10, 1894 which reported the ceremony. OSBORNE - RUNOLE "At the residence of James Rundie, Esq., Coulton avenue, near Ebenezer, D a rlin.gton Township, on December 7, was a scene of more than ordinary interest, .when Miss Lizzie, only daughter of Mr. James Rundie was united li marriage with Mr. R. E. Osborne, the worthy young proprietor o! Lake View Farm, South Darl- ington, Rev. J. H. Oke, bro- ther-in-law of the groom, per- formed the ceremony in the presence of a number of frien- ds. . . . the young couple were escorted to the home of the groom by a number of young people'where a few hours were spent very pleasantly before retiring to their homes." Honeymoon? "Dear me, no," said Mrs. Osborne, her eyes twinkling, "We had a hired man, but it was many years before we had our honey- moon."1 "We worked hard, but we had fun toc," she continued. "It wasn't at ail unusual to have 20 sit down to dinner on a Sundey. Afterwards we'd gather round the family organ and sing songs and have fun. Of course, Sunday was a busy day too. We'd have class meet- ing at 9:30 i the mnorning, church at 10.30, Sunday School at 2.30 and church agam uat seven in the evening". The church was always well. 'attended as long as Mrs. Os- borne could remember. Many members of the congregation were from Courtice, and in the little burying ground to the south of the church, moss- grown headstones mark gra- ves of thbse who lived and died around the church at Eb- enezer. Courtices, Osbornes, Fuses, Harris's, Truils, War- dens, Rundies and Gimblets. Oshawa Times. WHAT MURRS SAY BIG REWARD BACKFIRES (Reader's Digest) An American, visiting a smail English town, lost a valuable dog and he asked ta have a notice printed in the local even- ing paper offering £100 for the dag's return. Evenlng came, 1but no paper appeared. The tAmerican waited, and finally strolled around ta the newu- paper office. The only -one there was a night watchman "Isn't the paper caming out?" asked the Axnerican. "I doubt it, sir. The whole staff is out looklng for a lait dog!' RUU MNIET AVAILABLE FOR NGETSAGES SALPE S. JOIE Barrister sud S.lolto 65Slmeoe st. S. OmhaWS RA 5-3528 tir, 'i. ONTARi o THE LIQUOR NOTICE 0F LICENCE HOLDING ACI AN Municipaliety of tihe WN, 0F BOWMANVI LLE hereby given thaf pursuant fo The Electîon Acf, bclion 88) a pol will be opened on IDAYU THE 2O TH DAY 0F SEPTEMBER 7.M. un fil 5 p.m. and from 6 p.m. un fil 8 Plume di Time) i place for the Municipality of the Town of Bowman ville a~ted at ICIL, CHAMBERS, TOWN HALL rpose of receiving the votes of voters who 'expect to be n the Municipality on the day fixed for polling. ýaIlot box will be opened and the votes counted ut 8 p.m. of IL the 3Oth day of September ut the said place, 1at Bowmanviîle, this I6th day of August, 1959.0 Returning9 -Officer . 1 TEE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVnJ.Z, ONTARIO TRIMDAT, SEPT rrlà. IM PAGE Twb