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This then is the grandfather
poem that I told you about.

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My grandfather was
a Baptist minister

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who came over to
Canada at the age of 12

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after having worked for
three years in England

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all by himself.

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Matter of fact, a little
more than that because he

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started before he was nine.

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Then he came over to England
and went to University

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and became a Baptist
minister, and roamed all

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over the Canadian prairies,
building churches.

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I mean, with his bare
hands and other people

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helping him, and building
churches, and then preaching

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in them for a little
while, and then going

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and building one farther West.

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And he finally wound
up in British Columbia,

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having started back
East in Ontario.

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Grandfather.

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Grandfather Jabez
Harry Barring strode

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across the Canadian prairie,
hacking down trees and building

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churches, delivering personal
Baptist sermons in them,

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leading holy, holy, holy Lord
God Almighty songs in them.

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Red haired man squared
off in the pulpit,

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reading Saul on the Road
to Damascus at them.

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Left home, big walled
Bristol town at age eight

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to make a living.

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Buried his stubby
fingers and roots

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gnarled Earth for
a suit of clothes

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and 700 grueling meals a year.

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Taking an Anabaptist cane
across the back every day

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for four years until he
was whipped out of England.

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12 years old and
across the ocean

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alone to apocalyptic
Canada, Ontario of bone

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bending child labor.

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Six years on the road to
Damascus till his eyes

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were blinded with
the blast of Christ.

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And he wandered West to Brandon
among wheat kings and heathens

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Saturday nights.

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Young red haired Bristol
boy shoveling coal

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in the basement of Brandon
College 5:00 in the morning.

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Then built his
first wooden church

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and married a sick girl
who bore two live children

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and died, leaving
several pitiful letters

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and the Manitoba night.

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He moved West with
another wife and built

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children and churches,
Saskatchewan, Alberta British

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Columbia.

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Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty.

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Struck his labored
bones with pain

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and left him a postmaster,
prodding grandchildren

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with crutches.

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Another dead wife
and a glass bowl

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of photographs and
holy books unopened,

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save the Bible by the bed.

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Until he died the day
before his 85th birthday

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in a Catholic hospital of
sheets white as his hair.

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