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. burning grass ignited ARRAN FE SANE PAGE EIGHT THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930 T0 BUILD REPLICA ~ HISTORIC CHURCH Oldest Anglican Church In Ontario to Be Rebuilt After Fire (Written for The Canadian Press by G. H. Williamson) When you travel from Kingston to Bath by the old Bath Road along the shore of the Bay of Quinte you pass some old homes that were erect- ed hy United Empire Loyalists more than a century and a quarter ago. Then Bath is reached aiter a drive of 18 miles. Until five years ago when the St. John Church folk burn- ed grass in the churchyard, Bath boasted of containing the oldest An- glican edifice in Ontario. But the the historic ucture that Saturday afternoon, one more Upper Canada relic bec\me prey to flames. It has been ided to restore the old church by erecting a replica of the building that had stood since 1793 and in which generations of Lennox county fami- lies had worshipped. All classes and creeds contributed to the building fund and a new St. John's was rear- ed on the sight of the old. Rev. W. G. Swayne is the rector. The old St. John's, the fearned irom some of the writer veteran * members, was begun in 1793 and the f SRB ITR GEE FERN SR We first service in it was held in 1795. The edifice was a frame building with a rough-cast exterior. About 1893, just a century after the parish was established, the old building was overhauled, the square pews and other ancient features being removed. At the same time the massive tim- bers were found to be as sound as when they were put up 100 years be- fore. The walls, however, werc found to be spreading. An architect was consulted and he gave it as his opinion that nothing could be done except to rebuild the church. Then a village carpenter became the church restorer. He put some cross braces from each wall to the opposite raft- PHONE 22 For Your Drug Needs THOMPSON'S 10 Simcoe St. 8. -- We Deliver For location and surround- ings we offer for sale or ex- shange on the highway-cl a to ers and the old building bade fair to stand another century, out for the fire which razed it to the ground. The timbers in that conflagration were seen to be most massive and took a long time to be licked-up by the flames. Old St. John's was once lighted with candles during the time of ser- vice. That was before coal oil lamps became common. There is still a pair of candlesticks left to the con- gregation of today. About 30 vears ago it appeared there was only one candlestick left joi the oll lot and this wa$ used by the sacristan as a pedestal for a coal-oil lamp. The other capdlestick, however, was dis- covered in the Bagl tinker's shop and purchased for use of the church. The two candlesticks were saved from the fire whicli destroyed the old edi- fice and have a place on the altar of the new church building. An ancient silver chalice and paten are interesting and a story is at- tached to them. It appears that when the original church was being built. Archdeacon Townson of Rich- mond, Yorkshire, proposed to pre- sent these two articles to St. John's Rey. Langhorn, founder of the par- ish, suggested it would be better to give the money to the building fund, as a silver chalice and paten would be liable to be stolen. But the arch- themdeacon insisted upon present- ing them, The vessels years after were stolen, but the thieves were caught at Gamanoque with other plate which they were about to melt down. The old parish registers are report- ed as complete and kept in the vault of the Synod of Ontario. An old leather-bound book called "The Churchwarden's Register" contains the minutes of every vestrv meeting held from'the year 1800. There are also some quaint "churchwarden's ac- counts" in it--like the following: "On Easter Monday, April 15th, 1805, settled the accounts for sweep- dda il bhi | + - 3 ¥ TIME TABLES i ¥ as, eofpoolodrdode Jefe dodenlon, . P. R. TIME TASLE Effective Jan, §, 1930, (Standard Time) Goi: est , Daily (Except Sunday). . Daily n, Daily (Except Sunday). (Except Sunday). ing East i (Except Sunday), . Daily (Except Sunday). . Daily (Except Sunday). Daily. - CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS fective Jan, 5, 1930. (Standard Time) East Daily, except Sunday, Sunday only. Daily. : ing, fire wood. washing the surplice, and wine, amounting to one pound and nine pence collected by a rate of one shilling, and halfpenny on the following members, ete." Im the same year the custom of devoting the com- munion offertory to the poor was de parted from ard the money (twelve shillings and eight pence halfpenny) was spent on a 'pickaxe' for the churchyard, The minutes lay stress on the fact of the churchwardens be- ing chosen "before twelve o'clock noon," which appeared to be a church law reyunirement. The old minutes also record that a public meeting was held to consider the expediency ' of building a new "Protestant Episcopal * Church" in Bath. Committees were appointed for all purposes and were instructed to circulate subscription lists in Kingston, York, Montreal and Que- bee, and to ask the Lord Bishop of Quebec to render such assistance as might be in his power. However, the people did not build a *"Protest- ant Episcopal Church." * The founder of the parish of Bath (1787) was Rev. John Langhorn, who 1s described as a accenrict man, Ca- niff says he was a lover of rubrics, a hater of women, a devoted mis- sionary, a despiser of money and a friend of the poor. Mr. Langhorn resigned the parish when the War of 1812-14 broke out between United States and Canada, Le is said to have done so heeause he was sure the col- ony would be lost to Great Lritain and he did not care to hve off Bri- tish 'soil. lle returned to England. Some years afterward he is reported as starting back to Canada but the ship on which he sailed was wrecked. Bath remains, a little old fashioned village, a survival of the days when Upper Canada was young. 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It would be a blessing if the righ people had it.--Montreal Star, CARP, TRAPPED IN ICE SAW THEIR WAY OUT Winsted, Conn,, Mar, 4--A school of fish, dozing near the surface of Highland Lake, was trapped when sudden cold spell froze the waters angl caught them prisoners in the ice, Fortunately the fish were carp, bred from birth to the carpentry trade, Nothing daunted by their pre- dicament, they used the sharp teeth of their congealed fins to saw their way through the ice to deep water, Soviet Russia mav have formally | ¢ BEQUEATHS ESTATE TO POOR MISSIONS Vatican City, March 4---The will of Cardinal Merry Del Val, former secretary of state to thé papacy, who died last week, opened in the presence of his brother, Marcus Al- fonso Merry Del Val Spanish Ame bassador to London, and of many ecclesiastics, revealeq he had left all his estate to the congregation for the propagation of the faith Male Boarder--What're we having for Lreakfast? 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