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THE NEW B^RN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, April 3, 1959
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At last we greet you from beau
tiful Melbourne, Australia. Next
week we shall begin our series on
life in Australia, but we must give
you a glimpse into the life of one
of the outstanding men we have
met.
If any of you have any doubt
about the power of religion in
daily life, you should meet this
man. Father David Wells is a priest
in the Church of England. The
Church of England is a protestant
body resembling closest an Episco-
I>al church. Father David, as we
came to know him, had joined what
is known as a “community” within
tile Church of England.
As prerequisites, vows had to
be taken to a lifetime of poverty,
celibacy (never marrying), and obe-
diance. If this sounds the slightest
bit stuffy, you should meet the
man. Father David is thirty-two
years old, but he doesn’t look a
day over twenty-four.
Sometimes he acts much young
er. We got to know him quite well;
every night we’d retire to the cab
in with a plate of sandwiches and
a bottle of lemon squash, all set
tled to shoot the bull until one or
two o’clock in the morning.
We can say here that our religi
ous views did not always coincide.
The main difference which always
seemed to crop up was that our
background allowed for a far more
individual interpretation of relK
gion.
Yet, the way we sat and discuss
ed religion with him did not seem
irreverent. He was totally willing
to come down to the layman’s level,
and yet, he had the deep back
ground for theological discussion
with anyone.
He was a fine athlete too, enter-
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ing into almost all the ship compe
titions. In the deck tennis finals my
partner and I had reached the
quarter-finals when'all of a sudden
my partner jumped ship in Bom
bay.
Father David was chosen by the
sports committee to replace him,
and we went on to win the doubles
match. This brought on one of our
funniest situations. There was
about $3.00 prize money for the
event, and he was presented with
a gift certificate.
If you remember, his vows
pledged him to poverty, which
meant he couldn’t use the certifi
cate for himself. We finally re
solved the problem several days
later, by my buying the certificate
from him, and by his purchasing
the next week’s lemon squash for
our bull sessions.
I also met Father David in the
semi-final rounds of the Scrabble
Tournament. This event was taken
quite seriously on the ship as ari
intellectual game, and there even
developed deep theories on the
best way to play.
Scrabble, by the way, was the
rage in the States a few years back,
and scoring is done by participants
forming words in similar fashion
to a cross-word puzzle.
It was Father David’s turn to go,
but I had found a spot which
would be worth forty-eight paints
to me (a handsome amount). Star
ing intently at him, I was all ready
to put down the letters D-E-V-I-L.
You might guess what happened.
He, starting intently at me, drop
ped his word into the same slot I
had been planning to use. His word
—S-L-O-B. We laughed about that
for weeks, although sometimes I
don’t think it’s so funny.
- Father David was born and rais
ed in Melbourne, and he tells us
when he was a boy his gang would
spend the weekend with each other.
Inevitably on Sunday morning the
host parents would ask what de
nomination the boys were, hoping
to take them to church.
Father David said the standard
reply of his gang was “Bush Baptist-
very devout.” Of course, there was
no such thing, but the parents,
ashamed to admit they weren’t fa
miliar with the denomination, and
wishing to respect the boys’ de
voutness, would not have the boys
accompany'them to church.
Father David left Australia to
enter a partnership of accountants.
It was while he was in England
that he made the decision to join
the community at Kelham, Eng
land. That was nine years ago, and
he had not seen his parefits since
then.
Needless to say, this trip back to
Australia ended in a heart-warming
reunion. Originally, his first name
was John, but since they call them
selves by first names at Kelham,
and they already had one John, Da
vid became a necessity. He says
that won’t cause confusion at home,
though, because his parents have
always called him “Tony.” He re
ceived no little amount of kidding
for that.
Just before we landed, he had me
show him all the card tricks I
knew. He said they’d come in han
dy with some of the boys he might
be working with. Father David be
lieves you can best work with
someone when you first become his
friend, and get down on his level.
I guess this is one point we
strongly agreed on. He used to sit
back in the cabin and make nice
compliments to Jean. Needless to
say, she ate this sort of thing up.
Every night before he left the
cabin he delighted in getting me in
trouble with her.
His best method was to turn to
me and say, “Why don’t you ever
say anything nice to this pretty
young lady?” That usually kept me
in the doghouse .for a day or so.
Actually, Father David wasn’t so
smart as he thought he was, be
cause I’m perfectly capable of get
ting in the doghouse by myself.
We hope we have been able to
give you a little insight into this
man. Beneath the humor was an
almost saintly manner, as his very
thoughts were controlled by his
beliefs.
He is undoubtedly the finest all-
MIRROR
MEDITATION
A man of right spirit is not a
man of narrow and private views,
but is greatly interested and con
cerned for the good of the commu
nity to which he belongs, and par
ticularly of the city or village in
which he resides, and for the true
welfare of the society of which
he is a member.—Jonathan Ed
wards.
around person we have ever known
intimately. A strong man, and a
strong man of God. Our lives will
certainly be richer from knowing
him, and we are happy that we will
be seeing him off and on while
we are here in a foreign land.
Again it is time to close. We
thank you for taking time out to
read this column. Next week we’ll
prove to you that there is a housing
shortage in Melbourne, too. Until
then. Cheerio.
—Robbie.
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