| Summary: | Edmunds, S. Walter. Interview with Reverend S. Walter Edmunds at his home at 3 Haven Street, in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, conducted by Dale Gilbert Jarvis. Interview covers the construction and details of the Happy Valley Church, as well as a discussion of church organization and ritual. 0:00 - construction of the church in Happy Valley, 1953; 0:35 - wood ordered from Saunders and Howell; 1:06 - house designed; 2:29 - description of woodwork; 3:08 - wood burning stove and chimney, changes in heating; 4:19 - gas lamps and then electricity for lighting, generator; 5:10 - other changes to the church, insulation; 6:55 - pedal/reed organ and electric organ; 7:38 - church bell, use as fire alarm; 8:00 - church used as school; 9:00 - church annex building;10:40 - size of congregation; 11:27 - size and extent of the Moravian church in Labrador; 13:17 - trends in church membership; 15:23 - Moravians in Newfoundland; 16:00 - establishing missions historically; 17:09 - number and placement of stations along the coast; 18:00 - reason church established in Happy Valley; 19:22 - Unitas Fratrum and makeup of church provinces; 20:36 - British Mission Board; 21:35 - church in the 1970s asked for affiliation changed to Moravian Province North, in North America; 23:39 - Canadian district; 24:00 - new Moravian congregation from West Indies in Toronto; 24:30 - differences in practical approaches; 26:24 - Moravian holidays, practices and day or renewal; 28:25 - Moravian choirs; 28:50 - covenanting days; 29:24 - martyrdom of Jan Hus; 30:10 - Protestant reformation predated by Moravian church; 31:06 - relationship to other Protestant orders; 33:10 - deacons and presbyters and bishops; 34:10 - provincial board for administration; 35:00 - role of the bishop; 35:59 - choir system and graveyard, burial, grave markers; 39:00 - grave marker of founder of Bethlehem Pennsylvania; 39:34 - burial and dead house, burial custom; 42:20 - highly respected people allowed to have funeral in church; 42:44 - use of dead house in decline; 43:29 ...
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