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THE CALL WAS

LIKE AN ORDER

A

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and the major. the midshipman,

the cadet and the cricketer had to obey

LL four young men seempat set fair for the SUCCESS

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diverse jobs th

had chosen, when sotne thing happened to ench that turned All their ideas upside-town. All four Were suddenly, separately, con- scious of a end that had to be obeyed, to abandon the they had planned and take up another In the Church.

careers

Simon Phipps was a

Ante-

majur

1 Coldstream Guards. who hoped for

future ICI the diplomatic Service when the war should ent. He was on sick leave, walking in the Wiltshire countryside one day, when the call came to him. I cane clearly as an Army order and Wis #t first

The Church of England is chronically

there short of clergy. But recently

has been a striking increase in the number of men coming forward to train for ordination. What sort of men are they? HUGH CLELAND has been talking to four young men, each of whom has abandoned a career of glittering pros- pects to take up another in the Church.

see every supt of admiral before I could get out,

Appointments such as his are

"Here. Some Urought usually for five years.

Sumarly Sheppard,

1 was going through a religious he said, "the job is to deepen base that would pass some the faith (among the college's told me I could serve God Just 700 students) of those who have as well in the Navy."

it, and to help others and faith.

"Christian life in the Univer

la Jar more vigorous these days than it has been for sOIDO me. But just as we have not with

who hud

been offered several jobs that would allow him to play ericket, wow gold by some that he was a as food not to take them, by others That he could "help SO much more in cricket,"

sily

discovered yet a language disconcerting

mene Arny orders arY,

Try

--

Nicholus Stacey, later come zu Olympic sprinter, was a 17-year-old midshipman. He had began his Naval career in some style by Winning tru King's Dirk at Dartmouth. He landed from the first słup to reach war-

stricken Hongkong, and saw the

Private

means

c which to reach the modern industrial werker, eu most of us have not (certainly I haven't) discovered a language in which

το preach

the modem

LI. four are fortunate in hav- 10

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in

terms too

I think a great

small for

the

all, as one pointed out, had they many of us think of our religion in a questions that are being asked." switched their careers other direction, could probably widespread poverly and hunger. be earning already three to four

Storey is one of six curates of Ports. A month lates, he saw what times what they

today. St Mark's, North End, of Stacey

Flermes mouth, a parish of 40,000, with engaged,

other two

three churches. Part of his work is to run a parish newspaper. а усаг Stacey, Fiennes, and Sheppard When he took it over

curates, Phipps, after serv- ago, its circulation

700.

the Blon Hiroshima.

had left bomb

He knew then that

the single.

his future must be not in Navy but in the Church.

A regular

19-

IKE Stacey, Oliver Twisteton. Wykeham-Fiennes, son of Lord Saye and Sele, had just eceived the kind of accolade the services bestow

upon junior members.

arc

is

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married.

are

was

Immense

THE satisfactions of this life Te absolutely immense,"

ang a curacy in Huddersfield, is Now it is 3,700 a month.

now chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge. The work of curates largely tends to be concerned with young people, as does that of a College chaplain. What do their these four think of the work. of

said Stacey. "You feel you are young people?

Sheppard talled in his tiny selling people something that

such a best top-floor study

huge the mail could make house he shares with a fellow- difference to their lives. curate of St Mary's, Islington. an almost wholly industrial London parish of 15,000.

In his case, it was the Stick of Honour awarded to the officer-codets, Flenmes (pro- nounced Fines), whose father was a regular officer, had been accepted for a regular commis- sion in the Rifle Brigade,

"Suddenly," he says, "I knew that I must at least give myself ordained. the chance of being I'd thought vaguely about it since I was 15, when, at Eton, 1.was in a confirmation class of aix, of whom four nre now

parzona

Sheppard, England was in tile first term Cambridge, reading for Law.

David cricketer,

at

in

He amount

wald: "In Sussex (where his

und

That

THE KREMLIN TWINS' GREAT VARIETY ACT DIDN'T QUITE CLICK

T

I biggest variety net of

By John McKenna

tho Indon smoarent

memorial with The new and reasonable Mr

Krushchev was billed as the whitewash were now excluded.

agreed and, later, The nut WHE definitely predicted

that

Comrade Anished.

Gromyko would soon be grey with worry over, it all. He was trying, was Comrade Gromyko, and so was Comrade Krusheticy. Wouldn't the pres: try a little

all time: "Bulganin and Krushchev. The Kremlin Twins-Songs, Dances and Ideological Cartwheels."

The nudience reacted to the advance bill

any Briush audience reacts to any advance bill-with a hesithy scepticism. It wasn't until word got round thu sugune WILM afraid tha the audience might have come well stocked wiui ripe fruit wal the crowd began to show inuch Interest.

CID men searching the dust- bins at Claridges mane Cinridges a place of sudden interest Team of extra-duly cons-abies

The Kremlin Twins suddenly changed character.

Krusheney, famed in the role of clown to Bulgarin's straight man, recast himself in the role of Peter the Great

with Ghengis STUSSEd Khan.

1007

It did not have the effect It might have had,

Everyone knew that all three cels wore, after all, just acta. The Kremlin Twins were the Premier of Russia and the First of the Soviet Com- Secretary munkat Party. They were in Britain to do a job.

It was all very elvilised and charmning. It was something now, The net was a thoderato At Birmingham, he cut loose how

uccess, bul, of course, it was With a rour and announced that

mistimed. The rudience was Ku sia in guided missiles with H-bomb's for warhendo--and the wrong one. Newspapermen fel londs

are natural cynics. which could take them anywhere. At a dinner,

about twilled

his political prisons, he rounded en British Socialist with a snart.

All this

through to the audience all right. The Audience lid not apprrelate 11 at nii (They were not, in- deest, intended to: the replace Line, ment art was brought on stage after the failure of the original merely to Impress the folks back home.

rushchev,

after all, had to impres ON the Riistans that he was tough Was with the West Juct as Sir Sir Anthony Eden, when he goes to Mo cow, must impress on the English he was,

while there, tough with the Russians.")

at Portsmouth dock uroused curiosity in wart, had been just a dock.

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Bul the theatre managers obviously did their job a little Too well. By the time the aet arrived on stage, O e able to get anywhere near the theatre.

At Portmouth. 11 and were whisked past the crowds at 40 miles an hour A local Communist protested bitterly that he didn't even have time to get his red flag unfurledi.

The Kremlin Twins did their best small joke, calculated wisecracks, bluff, hearty hand- shakes, the small which they had always, before, opened the act,

stuff

with

to

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