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Wilkins, Sir Hubert - February 14th 1938
Identifier
015819
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Thoughts through Space – Sir Hubert Wilkins and Harold M Sherman
On the l4th, Sherman was back again on the target. He recorded:
"Impression you talked three times before different interested groups since arrival at Edmonton-first time before some luncheon club-like Rotary Club-you have found a motor- you plan to take off with it tomorrow or Wednesday, if weather permits. You have dinner with three men and their wives ….. one of Edmonton’s wealthiest and most prominent men has entertained you and given you some assistance relative to the expedition - word Mackenzie flashes to my mind - is there a company of that name supplying you with plane? Seem to see you as guest of Church Brotherhood. . . Sunday occasion - you called on to speak-you have appointment with two men who will take you to some plant or place where you are to see the packing of the equipment.
All of these things took place between February 10th and February l4th.
On the 10th I spoke before the Edmonton Rotary Club and the Alberta Dairymen’s Convention. I had found the new motor, and had arranged to leave on Tuesday if possible-and if not on Tuesday, then on Wednesday for certain.
The express train was late, and the departure actually took place on Wednesday.
On Saturday, I had dinner at Captain Stevens' house with Captain and Mrs. Stevens and two other couples - they later went to a Cavalry Ball, and I went back to the hotel. On Sunday, the 13th, at the invitation of the Reverend Dr. McDonald, pastor of the Knox Church, I spoke from his pulpit after the regular service to the Men’s Brotherhood of the Church, and on Monday, at lunch, I was the guest of Mr. Pike, of the Bank of Montreal, with his two friends, Julian Garrett, president of the Northwest Utilities, and Lee Brintnell of the Mackenzie Airways.
The Mackenzie Airways was furnishing the plane which would fly the new engine back to Aklavik. I was to go with Mr. Brintnell and his workshop manager to see the engine and parts packed ready for shipment in the plane.
To every one of those incidents, which had happened and which Sherman had recorded, though not significant in themselves, I had given some intense thought. They were not of such character that Sherman's imagination could have conjured them, even if he had allowed his imagination to have play.