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HONOUR THY FATHER AND MOTHER
THAT THY DAYS MAY BE LONG IN THE LAND
THAT THE LORD THY GOD HATH GIVEN THEE

Polson Peace Prayer Priesthood
My father's faith expressed to God who rescued him out of the land off bondage preceded the birth of our family but not our unique family name Polson. This was granted by government deedpoll (document still in our possession) when dad changed his name from Themistocles Raymond Trevor Polyzoids: To Raymond Trevor Polson. His parents were naturalised British subjects of Greek stock which makes my sister and I half Greek though neither of us have ever been to Greece or speak the language. This change of name took place in 1938 the year of the Neville Chamberlain 鈥淧eace in our time鈥� initiative. The following year the second world was declared, the six year event which not only encompassed my father鈥檚 salvation but also marked the historical period immediately prior to my birth as a time when good triumphed over evil in line with all the favourite epics of fiction, but which was remembered annually as a national thanksgiving event. Virtually every conversation of my elders and betters in those formative years of my life was punctuated with the phrases 鈥渂efore the war鈥�. 鈥渄uring the war鈥� or 鈥渁fter the war鈥� to denote the backdrop of time for every event under the sun during those mysterious pre birth years that go to make up the surrounding reality into which one is born. It was 鈥渄uring the war鈥� that dad was in Egypt and caught polio. He was terminally ill for two weeks and prayed to God to be spared, offering his life to his service. He was miraculously healed through a blood transfusion (a complete recovery was rare in those days) so in a very real sense my father was saved by the blood out of the land of Egypt. Therefore my God and my father鈥檚 God is the Israelites 鈥淚 am the Lord your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt: you shall have no other gods before me. Finally my father was a man of righteousness and peace the character of the king of Salem and was much loved by all who knew him, and Polson like Melchizedech of old has no lineage or parentage, but because of Jesus abides for ever.
Polson means 鈥渟on of Paul鈥�

The above is an extract from the introit of OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON which is an autobiography of Andrew Polson

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