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BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION WEEK 2 & 3 2022

2022 WEEK 2 & 3 BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION

Charles was just a day past 13 when he decided to run away and find one of his brothers whom he had heard might be on the next farm. 

He quickly found him and they both decided to go and work on the mines just out of Queenstown Tasmania, the first day they were both picked to work, but only his brother was able to, as Charles still didn’t have any shoes so was not permitted to work without some. 

This meant without a job there was no food and no place to sleep. So he curled up each night outside a shop front, and would scrounge for food during the day, and drink the polluted water from the Conglomerate creek. After a few days a man passing by spoke to him found out the problem and invited him to his home to share his pot of soup, he also lent him a pair of shoes, that Charles had to fill with newspaper as they were too large, but he got a job, earning the first money he had ever had, he purchased a pair of second hand shoes, and returned the others to the Salvation Army Captain, the man that had lent them to him, he became a regular church attender, when he wasn’t working. 

Now Charles had a new foundation to build his life on.

When the mine in Tasmania hit a quiet spot, Charles, his brother and 2 other men decided on something unexpected. 

They had heard work was available in another mine, the 4 young men now with mining experience, decided to go and get work.

I don’t know how long it took now how they got there as none had ever left Tasmania before, Charles was not aware that any other places existed but he went along with his friends.

They went to Mount Isa to work on the mine, all 4 were employed , Charles eventually went back to Tasmania as did his brother. 

Once they got to the Victorian border to go on the boat back to Tasmania, there Charles met a lovely young lady, who wore the same uniform he had seen worn in Queenstown at the church he had attended. He struck up a conversation with her, she had moved to Victoria to study but had to return home to care for her mother who had been taken quite ill. She told Charles she lived in Hobart and told him if he needed help anytime to knock on their door, her parents would be very welcoming to him.

And they were, invited him in and talked with him about his life, he didn’t tell them very much as he had something else on his mind. 

Charles was the true gentleman, pulled out the chairs for the ladies to sit on, opened and held doors for them to walk through. 

Anything else I could add in this part of the story would be conjecture. But what I do know is Charles married the young lady he met on the boat, he fathered 5 children and was a genuine gentleman, where he learnt gentlemanly manners from we have no idea, but he had a very hard childhood and could have easily ended up bitter with life in general, but that was not Charles.

He had a terrible foundation to build on but he reinforced the foundation of his life repurposed it, then was able to build well on it..

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