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i er a, SEAT bs Ba aS a SE uk SNe A A i lM appointments The Reverend Philip Romeril was born in Liver- pool on December 4th, 1896. He volunteered for the army at 17 and served in the Second-1st. West Lancs. - Field Ambulance regiment in France until 1919. With a grant from the army, he was able to attend Methodist Training Colleges at Didsbury and Richmond, and was working in Godal- ming, Surrey and the Isle of Man before being ordained in 1926 at York. A month later -he was married to Isabel Lowe of Seven Oaks, Kent, and they continued in the Isle of Man until 1928 when he was sent to Snaith in Yorkshire. From there he was invited to take charge of a Church in the Scunthorpe Circuit, and he was in Ashby during the year of the depression. While there he did consider- able work with the unemployed in this centre of the Steel Industry. In 1935 he had another challenging job, this time where he worked in the Nottingham Mission Circuit, and was also Prison Chaplain. At this time he was in great demand as a preacher, and while taking weekend in John Wesley's . birthplace, Epworth, he broke down with an abcess on the lung. 'His: lungs had been weakened by mustard-oil gas during the war. This required an operation, after which the Doctor gave him one year to live! That was in 1937. | : In 1939 he went to Guernsey in the Channel Islands, which was considered a healthy place, and on his first Sunday their war was declared. In less than a year the islands were occupied by the Germans. He worked in the Labour Department of the Emergency Controlling Committee which was formed to be a cushion between the civilian population and the German forces. He did this work as well as his. Pastoral work, and included the congre- gations of the Salvation Army Corps which were closed down by the Germans. There was a great in Nottingham 'response' at this time, when people knew the Priority of the Spiritual Life as danger threatened the physical and material things. By this time he had four children, his wife was ill, his- mother 'also failing, and a friend who had been cut off from returning to England after a holiday, were in his care. In 1943, his wife died. He withstood all these pressures and after the war was over, and the islands were liberated, the Guernsey Circuit asked him to begin his term again and stay for another five years. Instead he chose to get married again and respond to a call to work on the Mission Field. He went to the Bahamas in 1947. After two and a half years fighting racial inequality in that District, he resigned, and after a year doing Deputation work around England he was sent to Jamaica. He was appointed Superintendent of Lyndhurst and St. Andrew's Circuit, and for five years carried a heavy load of seven churches in the Hills besides Lynd- hurst in Kingston. He was Manager of all the schools operating in the hill churches, and became chairman of the board of education for St. Andrew's; he was on the board of Mental Institution; and also served on numerous Com- mittees of the Church. He also had a weekly broadcast called "Vital Interlude" which brought him in touch with people outside the church island wide. Lynd- hurst Church was a very active one, with Mens Fellowship, Women's League, Girls League, Samaritans (Young People). The fellowship which included men and women, old and young, a strong Sunday School, and always a good congregation, which grew by 120 members a year. These five years in Jamaica were perhaps the climax of his career. He worked ceaselessly and happily with people he cared . for and who responded so over-whelmingly with love and affection. 3 Reluctantly he left Jamaica when his term was up, with his wife and Dennis. 'Theatre One' presents. © oo * oo oe © eo 0 0 TrekeTs only $4.00 OBITUARY: Rev. Philip Romeril Then after travelling through the U.S. Midwest preaching as he went, and another few months in ik England on Missionary Deputation he ventured into Canada. "He was sixty years old and when he arrived' in Toronto, in January 1957 when the temperature was 20 degrees 'below. He was met by Dr. McKay of the United Church, and while sitting in 'his office the telephone rang. It was Lawrence Malcolm of - Nestleton asking for a preacher for the Blackstock Charge for the coming Sunday. This led to a very happy 12-%. years in Cartwright Township. In spite of the fact that he preached four times each Sunday, the pressure of work was far less than that to -which he had been accumstomed. Then in 1969 in his 73rd year he decided that he should retire. He spent his retirement visiting relatives and friends in England, Guernsey, various parts of Canada, the U.S.A. and all his previous circuits. He had a heart attack in 1970, but this did not stop him for long, he continued to preach when- ever he could. At the age of 79 he became Pastor of the Church of Scotland, in Guernsey for six months while they were without a minister, and in 1977 he returned to settle in Port Perry. He conducted his last service at Kedron last Whit- sun - the Day of Pentecost - when the theme of his sermon was '"'God's Leap Forward." By then he could not see to read. This is a short account of his activities. It does not convey his caring and love for people, or his keen mind which kept abreast, of current affairs, and theolog- ical thinking. He prayed constantly for God's kingdom to come. You might OFFICE. SUPPLIES For all Your Requirements PORT PERRY STAR 235 Queen Street . 985-7383 Friday Saturday June 21 9:00 PM Town Haw 1873 Dirseted by Joun*H. 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