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Iv MP ie but poor success. | 'around' in 'thé woods sur. all that time the body had and the corpse was kept When the Mit was h group of people Bad to struggle Around' and above the storm cannot depict, . Here and there ruins and tragedies: that changed and some freaks 'of the storm's Last Sunday evening Rev. John Save some pictures of his ministerial life, These sketches were made at the suggestion of his friends who thought the occasion fitting as Mr. Harris celebrated his fiftieth year in the Methodist ministry on Sunday uly 6th; X * His opening picture was a scene at Lyttleton in.Devonshire one hnndred years.ago under a big tree in the town (a tree under which the Druids had worshipped, and the Lollards = had gathered) the young' men had as- sembled" to carry ott their athletic sports undef the direction of Jeremiah Harris, a stalwart of six feet two in- ches with muscles to match. Just' as they were ready to. go on with "their games, a man appeared with a better physique even than that of Jeremy. He desired speech 'with' Jeremy who learned that' the. Stranger was a Méthodist preacher who wanted to give his message to the, young 'men. There were murmnrs of dissent, "but Jeremy Harris silenced them by ap- pealing to their traditional courtesy to the men of Devon, 'of which the Methodist preacher was: one and by promising to knock any person down whointerfered. The preacher preached and twenty-five men were converted. A circuit was established and remains an active evidence of that ministry to this day. Jeremiah: Harris was a near relative of Rev. John Harris, In his: boyhood days Mr, Harr s read: Kingsleyls Westward. Ho, and ht the spirit of pride known to "men of Devon" who "had S. Jserved Queen Elisabeth in fighting | the: Spaniards, 'He used to. wonder why Queen Victoria had no 'need of men of Devon" to fight Spaniards, His castles in the air and dreams of doughty deeds were suddenly ts. of soil, drainage, | ) nexperienced 'man; who did not presume. to class himself with. Dr, Pascoe, put into 'this [important post and made charrman of the district. To add to his temporary dismay there was a large. Methodist church across the street from him where Rev. John Burwash preached. It was a bit mortifying to' see the people hurrying in crowds along the sidewalk to the popular church and to note the thin stream on their way to his own 'church. But the Harris ancestors did not make a practice of sitting down to: die; and time proved the value of the service rendered when the district was. transformed from a. dependant missionary post to a self stpporting church community, Again Mr. Harris. was transferred to this locality and' for years worked under the Superintendency of Rev. Jesse Whitlock -at one time he: was station 'where stony land "and poor: crops. were outstanding - features - and salary was a thing scarcely to. be thought of. © Here Mr. Whitlock 'and : he patched up thi church, fixed # up. and lighted it, and held a revival, with many conversions as a result. Big circuits and. much. work were common in those days, Take the one at Bowmanville with its eight churcnés including the outlying points of Tyrone Liskard and Orono. On this circuit Mt. Harris labored assisted by Mn. Richard and Mrs. S. T. Bartlett, later Secretary of Sunday. School work, A church paper was at that thie. pub- lished at: Bowmanville and. its" editor died: This work, too was assigned tto Mr. Harris work was pléntiful. For many years Mr. Harris went to the posts assigned him without ques- tion. 'Later.on he did at times express an opinion; but the result was not al- ways without regret. What is. a Methodist minister for but to. do the duty assighed him without question? No criticism was made of those minis- ters who did what was possible to se- lect their stations but the speaker gave unmistakable evidence that for him the ideal was to carry the Gospel 'message where the church bid him. Then followed his summary "of the whole' matter: The fifty years of ministry are pas: iq ing of 5¢d Could 'my boyish ideals have A She handing of been realized and 1 had become a work out of them or an Earl in the setvice of my Queen 1 'would have laid it all in the dust to e the honor of preaching 'God's to my fellow men, and enter § their lives and learning their and aspirations; ann »