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Speaker 1: Let's meet Rector Mickey Mantle from Saint Thomas's Anglican Church

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Speaker 1: in Sydney, and he's on the line. Rector. Now do

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Speaker 1: I call you Rector Mantle? Rector Mickey, good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Well you call me Mickey if you're my friend, and

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Speaker 2: Rector if you don't like me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's go with Micky. I'll be your friend.

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Speaker 1: So how exciting You've met the King and Queen and

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Speaker 1: presented them with a gift. What was the experience like?

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Speaker 2: Firstly, yeah, it was fantastic. We had a full church.

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Speaker 2: It was a real privilege to have the King and

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Speaker 2: the Queen there. We as Christians pray for the King,

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Speaker 2: pray for his physical health, pray for his spiritual health,

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Speaker 2: and so it was really huge privilege to have him

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Speaker 2: and the Queen with us. We were thrilled. My children

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Speaker 2: gave them gifts for their grandchildren a wallaby rugby ball,

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Speaker 2: a kookobar cricket ball, a book about their great grandmother,

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Speaker 2: the queen and her faith in Christ. So it was

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Speaker 2: it was great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about praying for his physical health, how

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Speaker 1: did he seem given you know, the cancer diagnosis and

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Speaker 1: pretty gutsy to come to Australia given that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a real He's a real man of steal,

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Speaker 2: isn't he. The these royal rules, they're tough, they keep

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Speaker 2: on turning up and they are servant leaders. I think

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Speaker 2: his mother really set the example. She was a clear Christian.

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Speaker 2: She saw the example of class as a servant monarch,

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Speaker 2: and he's following the same van. He looked weary, to

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Speaker 2: be totally honest, A little bit, well, let me put

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Speaker 2: that he he was tired after jet LaGG as he

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Speaker 2: might be, but I think looked in good health.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good, that's positive and tremendous reception. As you say,

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Speaker 1: the photo on the front page of the Australian today,

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Speaker 1: the kids, I don't know of any of those are yours,

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Speaker 1: but kids in the front welcoming them as they arrived.

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Speaker 1: I imagine that's you walking alongside them. And a pretty

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Speaker 1: momentous occasion.

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Speaker 2: Yes it was actually archbishop alongside. I was at the front,

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Speaker 2: but leaving the service. But it was a real momentous occation,

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Speaker 2: and we as a church will hold a deer and

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Speaker 2: special in our in our history. We have a connection

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Speaker 2: with the church. His great grandfather in eighteen eighty one

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Speaker 2: laid the foundation stone the man who became George the

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Speaker 2: Fifth when he was a teenager on a world tour.

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Speaker 2: So this is the next chapter for us, and will

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Speaker 2: let it be remembering it. Were able to give him

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Speaker 2: a gift as well, which I hope you'll read. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you know. Arthur states, mister eternity, that

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Speaker 2: copper play writing eternity that was on Oh yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he was that that word that appeared at them. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He chalked all around Sydney. The story is he was

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Speaker 2: a I suppose a vagabond. He was a drunk, he

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Speaker 2: was a criminal. He went to St. Barmbas Broadway and

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Speaker 2: the Gospel of Christ, the forgiveness of sins, and his

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Speaker 2: life was changed fromatically. He was an illiterate, so he

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Speaker 2: wanted to shout out eternity, but Christ off as eternity

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Speaker 2: for anyone who will receive it. But he couldn't. He

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Speaker 2: couldn't write books for to go out because he's a literate.

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Speaker 2: But what he could do was to chalk the word

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Speaker 2: eternity to prick people's consciences and to lift their eyes.

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Speaker 2: And he did it all over the Cidy. He became

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Speaker 2: an icon. And the interesting fact is that the author

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Speaker 2: of the definitive book on mister states Arthur Stace, he

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Speaker 2: is a guy called Roy Williams, and he comes to

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Speaker 2: our church. And so Roy was able to inscribe a

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Speaker 2: message to the King to help him and encourage him

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Speaker 2: as he looks to eternity and to yeah, make that connection. Interestingly,

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Speaker 2: Arthur Stace's I think it's great great grandfather was chaplain

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Speaker 2: to Queen Victoria. Really, so there's another nice link there.

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Speaker 1: How about that? And the word eternity just in the

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Speaker 1: most beautiful cursive writing.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely perfect copper place. This man, who's a deliterate, nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: could write that word and it's become a Sydney icon.

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Speaker 2: There he printed for us to remember that though we've

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Speaker 2: got this absolutely christine, beautiful city, eternity lies before us

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Speaker 2: and we've got to consider the offer of Christ for

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Speaker 2: eternal life to those who will receive it.

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Speaker 1: Tell me leading a church service with the King and

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Speaker 1: Queen present, any nerves involved in that more than usual? Perhaps, Listen.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be funny about it, but not

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Speaker 2: really honest, because there was a lot of preparation. It

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Speaker 2: was all fairly straightforward, but though we want to honor

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Speaker 2: the King, absolutely, we've got to remember I was still church.

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Speaker 2: I wanted it to be a real church for us

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Speaker 2: as a church family. We kept to the same passage

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Speaker 2: that we were preaching on in Acts, and we kept

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Speaker 2: on doing our normal things in a sense, and I

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Speaker 2: tried not really to worry too much about the King's

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Speaker 2: presence and preach and teach. Rather so not preacher, I

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Speaker 2: speak and lead my congregation in the hearing of the King,

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Speaker 2: who needs the King of Kings as much as anyone,

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Speaker 2: and it was a privilege. But it's important not to

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Speaker 2: be overawed by these things, because I don't think that

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Speaker 2: would be honoring the King. He wouldn't want us to

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Speaker 2: treat him like some aliens. He's a real human being,

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Speaker 2: blessing blood. He's a man who's facing facing the trials

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Speaker 2: that we face with the health issue and all sorts

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Speaker 2: of things. Of course I don't want to go into

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Speaker 2: but he's had troubles with his is his own experience

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Speaker 2: and family life. He's like us in some ways, and

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Speaker 2: so we're all humbled to the same level really before

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Speaker 2: the Lord. And that's the great thing about the King

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Speaker 2: of England and his mother they are people who really

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Speaker 2: hear the gospel, the offer of class all the time.

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Speaker 2: They've got hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions praying

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Speaker 2: for them the Younger Prayer Book. So it's a special

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Speaker 2: experience for us to have him join us, to hear

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Speaker 2: God's word, to encourage each other to sing him of truth.

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Speaker 2: Great for us.

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Speaker 1: I wonder you gave him kangaroo jerky. I understand that's was.

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Speaker 2: It us, That was somebody else. No, we gave him

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Speaker 2: Wallaby rugby ball to the boys and cricket cricket ball.

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Speaker 2: That might made mind you because the Charlotte might be

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Speaker 2: into that too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, might have become a brickler.

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Speaker 2: And we gave this book about the Queen their great grandmother,

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Speaker 2: and the book about Arthur Space and the connection with

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Speaker 2: great great grandfather was the chaplain to Queen Victoria. There's

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Speaker 2: links for us.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, I just wonder how the jerky would go with

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Speaker 1: his doctor's orders. But perhaps Queen Camilla could enjoy that.

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Speaker 2: But part of the carnival died. It's probably very good

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably absolutely right. Look great meeting you this morning,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time, and what a wonderful day.

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Speaker 1: To celebrate and remember.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, it's been a privileged to be on

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Speaker 2: the line.

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Speaker 1: Director.

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Speaker 2: Come and come and visit us and Thomas's North Sydney

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Speaker 2: if you're in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: I will do indeed, thank you for the invitation. I'll

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Speaker 1: look you up. Rictor Mickey Mantle from Saint Thomas's in Sydney,

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Speaker 1: where the King and Queen went to morning church service

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Speaker 1: yesterday Saint Thomas's Anglican Church in Sydney and were presented

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Speaker 1: with a number of items there