Frederic Sandeman De Mattos: Gentle Rogue and Talented Priest Part Two: Parish Work in Neepawa and Beyond
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Abstract
In 1905 Frederic Sandeman de Mattos, or F. Sandeman de Mattos as he styled himself from this period, was appointed as the vicar, or priest in charge, of St. George's Church, a small mission in the hamlet of Westbourne, Manitoba. It was the modest start of a thirteen-year career in the Anglican Church of Canada, the Canadian branch of the Anglican Communion.1 That career would take de Mattos through five different churches, all in Manitoba but in different-sized towns and in different circumstances. He would reap outstanding results in all of them. Although his income increased as his Canadian career evolved, de Mattos seemed no longer to seek money so much as he sought the challenge of a church that needed his help. Without question, de Mattos would have measured the success of his own redemption, after his period of folly, when he had tricked his bishop into construction of a church without finances and then resigned the priesthood to enter into business, by the measure of how he helped a struggling church that had called him. To that extent he had returned to the more conventional nineteenth-century clerical ideal of service in the vineyards of the Lord as a calling, as distinct from the engagement in a clerical vocation as a professional career. De Mattos approached his reentry into the ministerial world with zeal. He distributed a church card monthly on which he listed in advance the topics for the month's sermons. Itfeatured a legend on the front side that read: Church for All People; One God! One Humanity! On the reverse side de Mattos wrote that he, the pastor, is always glad to attend to the wants of all people. Feel at perfect liberty to call on him for any service whatever, whether you belong to church or not.2 By the close of his first full year at St. George's, de Mattos had increased the number of communicants on the church's rolls from thirty in 1905, to seventy-eight in 1906. Similarly, the number of pupils in the St. George's Sunday School increased from twenty to forty-five over the same period. These are small numbers for it was a very small church, but a striking proportional increase nonetheless.3 The excellence of his work attracted attention. Other parishes began to notice de Mattos and to extend offers of employment, or calls. De Mattos's next call, in June 1907, came from St. James Church in Neepawa, Manitoba. Neepawa was a small farmdistribution town and grain center, about 120 miles northwest of Winnipeg on a Canadian Northern Railway branch line. When it was incorporated in 1883, the town had a population of 308 and by 1921 its population had risen to 1,864. A 1906 photograph of the town's business district shows a large collection of two-story structures stretched out along a wide dirt road, with a good number of horse-drawn wagons parked along the sides. The commercial district seems larger than Neepawa's population would justify, but probably reflects the numbers of outlying farmers who came into town to trade. In 1907-1909, the town supported four churches: First Baptist, Knox Presbyterian, Neepawa Methodist, and St. James Anglican.4 The little town also supported two newspapers, and the more important Neepawa Press was apparendy owned by one of de Mattos's parishioners at St. James. Because of that circumstance and the space newspapers then devoted to local news, de Mattos's activities in Neepawa are extensively documented, thus shedding light on how he operated there, his clerical techniques, and even the contents of many of his sermons. De Mattos served St. James in Neepawa for only two years, from June 1907 to June 1909, but practically turned that church on its head by what he accomplished in such a short time. Some of the changes de Mattos introduced in the Neepawa church were rather conventional. He added a Sunday evening service, emphasized classical music to accompany services, especially festive services, added a new altar, a new organ, a new prayer desk and altar cross,8 and introduced the first midnight mass on Christmas Eve St. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".