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     On Saturday evening, May 28th, despite the inclement weather, the hall at Port 
     
     Hill was the scene of a very interesting event, when many of the residents of Port 
     
     Hill and Ellerslie assembled to tender their warmest congratulations to Rev. H.R. 
     
     Coleman, B.A., who has returned from his holidays accompanied by his bride. 
     
     Mr. Coleman was married in Toronto recently and after an extensive trip through 
     
     Eastern Canada, spent two weeks with his people in St. John, N .B. 
     
    

    
     At 8 o’clock Mr. J.L. Maynard, church warden, and chairman for the evening, 
     
     made a few opening remarks fitting to the occasion, and called upon Mrs. R.F. 
     
     Ings, Mrs. Percy Birch and Misses D. and K. Williams for musical selections, 
     
     following which Mr. Geo. Walsh welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Coleman on behalf of 
     
     the people of Ellerslie. The bride and groom were then called to the platform, 
     
     which was handsomely decorated with streamers and flowers, when Mr. W. J. 
     
     Dennis, church warden, read an address and presented to them a well filled purse 
     
     on behalf of the congregation of Ellerslie and Port Hill. At this juncture the little 
     
     Misses Marjorie Newcombe and Marjorie Maynard presented Mrs. Coleman with 
     
     an exquisite shower bouquet of carnations. The address was as follows: — 
     
    

    
     To Rev. and Mrs. Coleman, 
     
    

    
     "The members of your congregation and your friends, have met here this 
     
    

    
     evening to bid you a welcome to our congregational, community and social life 
     
    
   
   
    
     and to tender you our best wishes. 
     
     "Already, Mr. Coleman, you have entered into the work here with all the 
     
    
   
   
    
     optimism and hopefulness of youth. Your vision has been broad and one of uplift 
     
     and improvement. Your energies have not been confined to your pulpit. Your 
     
     influence has been felt in our community and social life. And now, as again you 
     
     take up your allotted task with a partner by your side, we wish you well. 
     
    

    
     "The work of the Christian ministry is neither easy nor simple. It has to deal 
     
     with life, its joys and its sorrow, its emotions, its stern realities. Life is complex 
     
     and many sided, and the task is to meet it and touch on every side. The earnest 
     
     of what you have already done, makes us very hopeful for the future. For this 
     
     work you have the highest ideal, that of the Son of Man, Who came not to be 
     
     ministered unto but to minister. And if any man needs an ideal it is surely the 
     
     pastor whose profession is the highest and the greatest. 
     
    

    
     "We ask you now to accept these gifts and our warmest congratulations and best 
     
     wishes; and we trust that you may go forward in Faith, Hope and Love in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Master’s service." 
     
     Mr. and Mrs. Coleman expressed their thanks in a few fitting remarks, after 
     
    
   
   
    
     which refreshments were served and a social hour was spent which afforded all 
     
     to become acquainted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rev. Coleman’s ministry in the Parish of Port Hill concluded in 1933 when he accepted 
     
     a request from the Parish of Westfield, New Brunswick. A year later he became a chaplain in 
     
     the Royal Canadian Air Force. In this capacity, he served at Pennfield and Scoudouc in New 
     
    
   
   
    
     Brunswick, Halifax in Nova Scotia, and overseas during the Second World War with his unit, 
     
    
   
   
    
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