#Jesus keep me near the cross organ cracked#

Many of these social events took place at the Peerless Hotel over the years.ДЄnother social evening I remember well in the early twenties. During World War I, she also received a silver sugar bowl with sugar spoons. A set of dishes was presented to her in early years for her contribution. My mother was very active in church and community work. Seventy-nine years later, our daughter wore it on her wedding dress in June 1972. The end of the horn has filigree and a small ruby stone set in its center. This is a gentlemanВ’s watch fob, and would signify good luck or having plenty. There is a small mother-of-pearl В“horn of plentyВ” worn by my mother on her dress. The bodice design had a focal point, ending at the slim waist. Popular were leg-of-mutton sleeves, pleats, frills and lace trim. Wedding dresses of that era were very elaborate in detail, as seen in my parentВ’s picture of 1893.

The bowl was taken to the church to hold the baptismal water each time a christening of our family occurred. I have a ruby glass bowl with gold leaf design, which we called the В“christening bowl.В” This was part of a wedding gift to my parents, married in 1893. He opened the door and shouted В“timeВ’s up!В” The В“God be with you.В” came in a hurry from the United minister. After waiting outside with a few Anglicans, he became impatient. On this particular Sunday the United minister was still preaching overtime when the Reverend E. The Anglican minister would arrive by bus from Chelsea, preach his service, and return to Chelsea on the same bus, which had been waiting in Wakefield about half an hour. I remember my mother telling me about two church services performed one after the other.

It was heart breaking for her to see her eldest son, Delmar, go off to World War I, at the age of 18. Not only having her share in looking after a post office, general store, public telephone and the hotel, my mother gave birth to ten children. Whenever the hymn В“Jesus Keep Me Near The CrossВ” was played, he would squeeze her hand! When my father was В“courtingВ” Alice Cross, they sat together in church. 1913.Д«oth my mother and father were in charge of a Sunday school class. However, she got her new coat!ДЄlice Cross Wilson accompanying her husband, friends, and children in their touring car c. Our young organist saw no signal from her sister, who deliberately did not close her book, as a joke! With eyes on the notes, she played on and on. Everything went well, until the minister had to walk over and ask her to stop playing. It was arranged that another sister would sit in the front pew and signal the end of the hymn by closing her hymn book. Wanting the new coat so much, she practised diligently. One of my sisters told me that mother had promised her a new coat if she would play the organ on Easter Sunday. To make some of those steep Gatineau hills В“in high gearВ” was quite a feat. Another hymn В“Jesus loves me,В” with one verse ending В“When at last I come to die, He will take me home on highВ” was interpreted as going to Heaven in В“high gear!В” There were few automobiles in those days, and when men gathered in the general store much of their conversation was about cars. В“Shall we gather at the river, the beautiful, beautiful river,В” was to us none other than our beautiful Gatineau River. We children had our own interpretation of the words of some hymns. To the sounds of the organ, and the many hymns we knew by heart, we drifted off to sleep. Through a stovepipe hole in the large dining room of the 30-room Peerless Hotel, the music, and heat, wafted up to the bedroom above, where at least four of the younger children slept in wintertime. After we children went to bed at night, she would practise her hymns for Sunday. This included both United and Anglican services. My mother, Alice Cross Wilson, was church organist for over 40 years at Cascades. This little girl was really scared! The sounds were so frightening.

#Jesus keep me near the cross organ cracked#

I remember the first grade being dismissed early, and how I ran all the way home, past a grove of tall pine trees that whistled and cracked in the wind. Our family went there until the new one-room redbrick school was built in 1919. Two of my uncles, George and Wyman Cross attended this school. The little white church was built as a schoolhouse around the year 1858, and used for church services on Sunday.