Some Reflections on Reverend Dale Bisnauth’s Life

Apr 17, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I met the Reverend in September,1973 in Jamaica. I had gone to study Theology. He was my warden and one of my tutors. He said to me to study Theology, History and Sociology. I asked him why? He said to me that I might need a secular job to survive. I took his advice. I indeed needed a secular job when I returned to Guyana.
I so admired him that I wanted to be like him but I did not have his intellectual capacity so I settled for myself. However, l consoled myself by naming one of my sons after him.
After the completion of my third year at the College, I was an avowed Marxist.I believed that the working class should own the means of production and it was the means to change society from capitalism to socialism. I believed in no God and that God was the figment of our imagination.
The church in Guyana was not happy with my ideology and had wanted to recall me back to Guyana. Reverend intervened and I completed my studies but I modified my ideology through philosophical and religious enquiries.
Reverend was on the side of justice. He fought for the restoration of democracy in Guyana. He wrote for Catholic Standard and denounced rigged elections, oppression and the denial of human rights.
For Reverend , God is found in human beings. This is what Gandhi said. “If I could persuade myself that I should find God in the Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately. But I know I cannot find him apart from humanity. I recognize no God except that God s to found in the hearts of the dumb million.”
On behalf of the people of Leguan, our sincere sympathy to his extended family. Farewell Reverend. I shall always remember you.
Albert James

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