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Newspaper
Melfort Moon
Location
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1916
Page
4
A. R. Babington proprietor announces first class job printing and advertising rates. Local reading notices cost ten cents per line. Municipal notices twelve cents for first insertion and eight cents for subsequent. Classified ads for lost or waning items priced at twenty cents for insertion and thirty five cents for each follow-up. Phone number 4. Melfort Sask Wednesday March 1, 1916.
The Toronto Globe notes that church union stalled by a powerful minority leaves Canada with crowding in Ontario and the East while the West lacks ministers. War drains divinity schools. many graduates won’t return. Clergy salaries lag, few earn living wages, and poverty haunts ministers as a profession. The piece urges entering ministry only as a sacrificial calling, not for pay.
The text appeals to a young minister with vision and sacrifice, asserting that Canada presents one of the era’s great chances for service. It argues that due to sectarian duplication the vocation remains one of the poorest in means yet the greatest in value, a sentiment echoed in both Canada and the United States.
Contemporary opinion argues young Canadians in uniform find army life deeply satisfying. Despite lower pay and hard work they embrace discipline and orders, preferring war service to civilian life. The piece wonders how to translate this wartime spirit into peaceful industry and work culture.
Major the Rev. Bruce Taylor of St. Pauls Presbyterian Montreal, chaplain to the 42nd Battalion, noted at the Canadian Club that Canadians outspent English soldiers on drinks at Shorncliffe. He observed a leavening influence as chaplains return from front lines and camps with broader views.
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