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T/ie iiet). Charles Sisk Family TelFOf^
Our Sta>{ lu England
The Reverend Charles Sisk, his wife,
Peggy, and their three sons recently
returned from a six weeks stay in England
with a great deal more knowledge than
could be found in any history book.
The trip was made possible by Rev; Sisk,
pastor of the Mocksville Charge of the
United Methodist Church in Davie County,
exchanging charges with the Reverend
George Palmer of England.
During the six weeks of the exchange,
the two families exchanged homes, also
and learned many new friends in the
process.
Rev. Sisk ,told of the lady, Mrs. Mae
Bradley, Rev, Palmer had asked to look
after them. She was a lovely 68 year old
woman, who he says "mothered us."
1100, and is equipped with a huge pipe
organ. The average attendance. Rev. Sisk
says is between 65 and'70 people.
Another was quite small, with a seating
capacity of about 100. It too, had a huge
pipe organ. The congregation, an average
attendance of about 40, was mostly elderly
women and a couple men. "You should
have heard those women sing."
Rev. Sisk told about visiting Central Hall,
one Sunday night when he didn't have
services. This downtown Methodist Church
in Manchester had six or seven stories, he
recalled. "They invited us to have tea and
biscuits (cookies to me) following the
service."
"You know some of our Methodist
Qiurches are already dead," he com-
T, j. . u Ar. lua 1 mented, "but just haven't lain'down."Mrs. Bradley told us what to do ana we ;
did it.">' 'j >
• ' .VRev. Sisk says they l^came so attached
to her that she is making plans to visit
Mocksville sometime next year.
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"The British people,, in general, were'
warm, friendly and they went out of theirway to help us," the Rev. Sisk said. j
However, the Sisks wer^nly able to i
cover about one-third of their itenary J
during the six wwks, but agreed they had a.
full schedule. |
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The attendance in church was im
mediately noticeable, only about 7 per cent ;
of the people in England attend church.
And the congregations were mainly
composed of older people. Very few young
people attend.
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But singing is an entirely different story.
"The British sing the great hymns, and lots
of them, like they really have something to ,
sing about," Rev. Sisk said.
"And they sing'all the verses, many
which had six or seven," he continued. "I
found one in the hymnal with 17 verses ... 1
didn't dare ask them to.ping this one,'' he ^
mused, "I wanted to pr6ach. j ']
One of Rev. Palmer's' churches, the^Tyldesley Methodist. Church, s^te about., ^
"In Central Hall, caring for unwed
pothers, alcoholics, drug addicts, they are
fulfilling what Jesus Christ called us to
do."
Rev. Sisk told how differently the
English people and the Angleton,
Methodist and Presbyterian all wear
clerical collars.
^ "I had only my louij ties," he said, "And
I'm conservative."
Even in London he says there were no
bright or loud colors. The colors were very
drab, mainly Sha^ of gray and other dark
colors.
Mrs. Sisk, knowing of their traditional
I dress, took mostly blues and navys, with . ;
the exception of her pale gold all weather
^ coat. . '
i "Peggy stood out above everyone, even S
on the street," her husband teased. "I
could find her very easily and I didn't
worry about losing her."'
•They saw very few pant suits, which are
•, so popular here but the dresses were
1 another story.
"I tried not to notice," Rev. Sisk smiled,^ "But they were very short."
? The weather is much cooler,there. If the
V-.temperature there gets above 72 or 73
■ degrees, they're having a heat wave. And
* they wear heavy topcoats most of the time.
However, he said the people there said this
summer they ^d have the coolest and
dampest weather they have had .in , 27
'^ears. The SIsks only saw the sun shine
■'three full days during their entire trip. You
never knew what to expect with the
weather, it seemed to change every hour.
Rev. Sisk commented that he agreed
with comedian Bob Hope, who once said,
"If you don't like the English weather, wait
five minutes and^it will change,," _
The thing that charmed the Sisk family
most of all came during their tour of
London where they saw the Queen of
England.
' Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and
Princess Anne were in London to welcome
the King and Queen of Malaysia.
"The Queen's Guard was a beautiful
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ERPRISE RECORD, raURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1974,
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Our Stay In England
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(contirmed from page 1B)
display of Eng^h Pag^try," Mrs. Sisk
said. "The Qipen arr^d in a fabulous
open carriage and yoii could sense the
respect the people' had for the Royal
family."
Rev. Sisk says the English people were
amazed at what the U;.. S. was going
through, politically, for the past two years.
"They were much more harsh with Mr.
Nixon than we are,'* Rev. Sisk said, "And
many of the English people just out-and-
out called him a crook."
He explained {hat their government was
considerable different. The first wrong
thing to happen and their official would
automatically resign, and in many cases
completely drop out of sight.'
Mr. Sisk says they were in London the
Week before the bombing in the Tower of
London, and said matter of; factly, "We
stobd in the very room where the bomb had
been placed,"
Our country seems so young, at 200
years, he says, in con^arison to the
buildings in England which are thousands
-V\ of years Old."'" ^
A city in England must have cathedral,
he (old, or it isn't really a city regardless of
the population.
The transportation there is fantastic,
with trains^ subways and.Uusses^«^gigy_{9ok
a bus to London, which was 175 miles, we"
had no business with an automobile,"/skid
Rev. Sisk, "we would not have-,^found a
place to park it." '»
They have motorways instead':of In-
.terslate Highways, with three lanes. The
, insidev.lane for slow ' dtivers, average
. speed traveled'the middle lane and the
outside lane if you drive about 80 miles {i^r
hour.
"U took me two weeks to get used to
driving on the wrong side of the street, but
you either learn to drive or get off the
road."
"I got a fist shaken at me a couple of
times," he continued, "but I soon learned."
Driving Rev. Palmer's little Austin Maxi
was quite different from the station wagon I
he had been accustomed to driving. j
Some of the things they soon learned the '
meaning of were^"prams", which is baby .
carriages - he adjled that they used lots of
them. "Biscuiti^ were cookies and.'. -
"scones" were biscuits, the yard was a ^
and the livingroom was a
"lounge."
Everyone, almost without exception, '
grew flowers and scrubbed their doorsteps.
The windows has no screens, but were j
always sparkling clean.
For many years to come, the Sisk family
. will long remember their trip to England. '
And as they look through their many
photographs and gifts from their friends in ;
: another part of the world, they will alway^
;be reminde'd that the same God watches ^
over all. '''
And regardless of race or color or from
what part of the world you visit. Rev. Sisk
believes "people everywhere respond
; basicallyvto kindness and sympathy."
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