Staff waited several days, and then took the bottles back to the man's house. He was not at home, and Staff told his wife that her husband had mistakenly left the Church money in the Church, and that he knew that he would be relieved to know it had been found. The parishioner served many more years as treasurer in the parish.

( Contributed by Canon Karl Tufts.)

5. "I'm waking them up!"

Staff Tanton was, truly, one of God's special saints! Many of the saints, we are told, were often a bit difficult to live with and, sometimes, hard to understand, but are, or were, always faithful, always concerned for the welfare of others, particularly the needy, and always forthright and prompt in their work and life. Staff Tanton was all ofthat! And more, much more!

If any action occurred to demean or belittle the life, stature or welfare of another innocent person, Staff Tanton could always be counted on to jump into the fray, come quickly to the rescue ofthe underdog, or, like the youthful King David, as a shepherd-boy, throw the rock from his sling toward the head ofthe Goliath facing him, defiantly. Staff also usually won the battle!

The Reverend George Stavert Tanton - "Staff“ to his friends, far and wide "Father Tanton" to most others - served the Lord in the Parish of Tangier for 14 years. They were tumultuous years. not because Staff Tanton caused the tumult, but because he had the unique ability, blessed and endowed by God. to organise, mobilise, and sometimes even galvanise people in such a way that they (we!) became excited, expectant and aroused to sudden and sustained action through the vision projected by this boisterous, wonderfully saintly man ofGodl

Staff Tanton was, above all, a priest, faithful in the conduct ofthe various services of worship which are the life ofevery priest. He was most faithful at the regular Sunday and weekday celebrations ofthe Holy Eucharist in any one of the seven churches (the seventh added during his time) in that rural Parish of Tangier, which stretches for miles along the Eastern Shore, from Murphy's Cove in the southwest, to Sheet Harbour in the northeast, and toward the centre of the province, to Mooseland.

Next, Staff Tanton was a pastor. He knew his people and they knew him; most loved him. His pastoral calls/visits in the homes of parishioners and others in that vast parish usually produced results. The family, or some of them, invariably were in Church on Sunday. All of the seven congregations increased in numbers over the course of his years as rector ofTangier.

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