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1932

• "Christian Education ... During the 1930s the United Church also presented an evangelical face to its people through its Christian education program. Both “uniform” and “graded” curriculum materials were available to teachers in the church’s Sunday schools ...  The “Uniform Lessons” were the older of the two, consisting of weekly Scripture lessons intended to cover the entire Bible. These uniform lessons had been developed by editorial staff of the Canadian churches, based on outlines from the International Sunday School Lesson Committee, an interdenominational organization that had had Canadian representation from the Methodist and Presbyterian churches since the late nineteenth century. Alongside the uniform lessons, the United Church offered a “Graded Series of Lessons” which had been used since before Church Union in 1925. The United Church Board of Religious Education released a Canadian revision of these graded lessons in 1931. Unlike the uniform lessons, which followed the same basic lesson for each age group, the graded series provided lessons designed specifically for the different departments of the church school (primary, junior, and so on) and were therefore used particularly for younger children for whom the uniform lessons might prove difficult ... For this reason the Board of Christian Education, which replaced the Board of Religious Education in 1932, phased out the uniform lessons for the primary department in favour of the graded lessons in 1938. With this exception, both curricula were available to teachers in the United Church throughout the 1930s and into the postwar period ... Kevin Neil Flatt, The Survival and Decline of the Evangelical Identity of the United Church of Canada, T 1930-1971 , PhD Thesis, McMaster University, December 2008, p. 39- http://files.efc-canada.net/min/rc/thesis/Flatt_Survival_and_Decline_Evangelical_Identity_Of_UCC,1930-1971,2008.pdf

January 19, 1980

MEMORIAM OF WILLIAM KRAUSE

Bill was born in Tiegenhagen, Russia on March 15, 1921. While yet an infant, his parents F. W. Krause and Maria (nee Kornelsen) travelled with him to Germany, the home of his father's people. At five years of age he was baptized at the Lutheran Church in Germany. He started school in Germany, but at the age of seven, at the urging of his uncle Jake Kornelsen, the family came to Canada, and lived for a while on the seventh Concession, Wheatley.

From there they went to Port Crewe and after two years in high school, at the age of 15 years, he decided it was time to help his parents earn a living. Since his Dad was working on a fishing boat [Crewe's Fishery], he joined him. At 17 years of age, he, his parents and younger brother, Rudy, moved to Point Pelee, where they bought their own fishery.

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In 1942, he was married to Annie Mathies in the Oak Street United Mennonite Church. Three children were born to them:

• Eric Richard - January 26, 1943

• William Alexander - May 6, 1945

• Kathleen Ann - March 8, 1956

He joined the Faith Mennonite Church when it began at the Margaret D. Bennie School, and was the contractor when the Church was built.

Although he had a limited formal education, his own interest in all things, combined with his talents, have resulted in the building of houses, boats, furniture, fish nets, etc. Bill was a Builder.

When he became ill four years ago and was told he had leukemia, he accepted it although he felt he still had a lot to do. He continued to fight to live as long as he could, taking one day at a time.

Peacefully he went to sleep on January 15, 1980, to wake eternally.

Sincerely,

The Bereaved Family.

1980

Der Bote ("The Messenger") is a German-language Mennonite newspaper published  in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by Mennonite Church Canada.

Der Bote Obituaries: 1950-2004 Indexed by Erica Suderman