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And opportunity always connotes responsibil­ l\ettor· ~ JLttttr ity. The Church has been open every day-the The Rectory, opportunity has been there, the lessons through December, 1934. God's word read and expounded, the gifts of grace Dear Brethren: through the Sacraments-and we have either ac­ Once again in the round of our Church Services cepted and used them or rejected them through we finish one Church year and begin on another. indifference of non-attendance. And the solemn We turn back our prayer books and begin afresh warning of the Advent . Call, with the notes of another year of God's Grace. death, judgment, heaven, hell, are sounding in I wonder if we realize that it is by the Grace our ears and warning each soul that the night of God that we are alive? Why is it that when is now far spent, the day is at hand, the night of others have been called home we are still here? this life is slowly waning, and the day is at hand Every week your clergy are called on several when each must give account of his life to God. times to minister to the dying and to say the last Repent, says Mother Church to her children, offices over those who are laid at rest. It becomes old and young. Change your life, mould your an ever present reality. And we who see the ranks character more and more after the ideal, wipe out of our friends get thinner, year by year, as we add the defects, clean out the cobwebs of neglect and year to year, feel a tinge of sadness and lone­ indifference, for the time is at hand. liness, despite our Christian faith and belief in "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call the hereafter. ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked But perhaps that is God's way of making it forsake His way and the unrighteous man His easier to go. We go on losing friend .after friend, thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and and the knowledge that they are waiting for us He will have mercy upon him: and to our God, on the other side of life should make us more for He will ·abundantly pardon." willing to join their ranks, despite all that makes this life attractive. When we come to think of And this second coming of Christ in judgment it, as a man passes the meridian of life, he has prepares us for His first coming in humility at more friends on the other side of life than on this Christmas. side. Relatives, friends of boyhood days, men who Christmas makes us all akin and we recall the have walked and talked and worked with us in happy days of childhood when "Heaven seemed every department of our life. Men who have had nearer to us." things in common with us and those whose views There is a spirit which the Christmas season of life have differed from ours. Yes, verily, when brings which we could wish extended through the we "cross that bourne from which no traveller whole year- thoughtfulness for others. This year, returns" we will not be strangers in a strange perhaps more than ever, we are called on to land, but will have many to welcome us and to share with others in appreciation of God's grac­ give us the benefit of their experience. ious gift to us of the Christ Child. Yes, it is by the grace of God that we still live The Deaconess has told us of the many in need and evidentally for some good purpose. and of our Christmas plans. Let each one try to The Church, in her wisdom, gives us, week by make someone happier at this season-for God week, some needed lesson for our spiritual profit works through us-and let us each seel{ grace at and it becomes an all important question for us, His altar throne when He comes to us on Christ­ as we begin another round of Church teaching, mas Day. have we profited by this last year of teaching? Are That the true joys of Christmas may be yours,. we farther advanced spiritually and morally by That you may seek Him and find Him is the sin­ tlie lessons which God would teach us through His cere wish of your friend and Rector Church? W . L. BAYNES-REED.

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A.Y.P.A. NOTES This, more than any other time in the year, is On November 6th, St. John's the Season of Kind Thoughts and Good Wishes A.Y.P.A. took great pride in carry­ toward others. The Mothers' Society tender to ing away the banner for the largest the Rector and his helpers in the work of the A.Y.P.A. at the Local Council Fel­ Parish, and to all the Societies connected with lowship Rally, held at St. Anne's the Church, wishes that God may abundantly Church. The evening was well bless them and their work this Christmastime planned and well supported. and help them to do more for His Glory in the The guest speaker's topic was illuminating and year to come. interesting to everyone. To our out-of-town members, Mrs. Godwin, Mrs. The Corporate Communion on November 11th Gorrie and Mrs. Westby, we wish Peace and Con­ was well attended, and we hope to see this attend­ tentment and Happiness. They may rest assured ance continued each month. they are not forgotten by our members. The play, "Spooks" was entirely successful, and The Euchre conveners thank the faithful few full credit must be given to the very clever work who have attended the Tuesday afternoon Euchres done by Mr. Elwood Hammersley, the director. and those who have helped by donating prizes. Also to the brilliant work of the cast as a whole. Their help is very much appreciated. Everyone worked very hard for the successof this play and none were more pleased at the success of it than the cast and the director. The A.Y.P.A. MOTHERS' UNION as a body, wishes to thank the congregation of the The Mothers' Union held their monthy meeting Church for their whole-hearted support. in the Ladies' Parlor on November 22nd, with In the reading of our Fall Paper on November Miss Shatter presiding and 52 members present. 20th, a very interesting article from a mysterious It was indeed a great pleasure to have so many donor was read and fully appreciated by the mem­ members present to welcome our Chaplain, Rev. bers of the A.Y.P.A. A. Briarly Browne. The meeting opened with The Parish Bazaar was indeed very interesting the singing of Hymn,"Gracious Saviour Who Didst and proved a source of good entertainment for Honour," followed by prayers and the Litany. many A.Y.P.A. members. The Mystery Booth, Members brought Christmas Cards to be sent to run by the A.Y.P.A. at the Bazaar, did very well, our Links at Copnor and Stratfieldsaye, England, and what parcels remained were quickly sold on and Porto Antonio, Jamaica, and Church calendars Tuesday night, November 27th, at our Centennial to three former members. The Chaplain gave us Social. a very helpful message, taking some of the things The costumes for the Centennial Social con­ our Lord asked us to do. He said our Lord, when sisted mainly of rags, although there was a sprink­ .He wa:s on the earth, gave very few commands, ling of costumes depicting days long gone by. but what He did ask us to do can make a great difference in our lives if we obey Him. MOTHERS' SOCIETY First: "Learn of Me. I am meek and lowly in During November four meetings were Iield by heart." Meekness· means cheerfulness and health­ I the Mothers' Society with a very good attendance fulness. We must learn of Christ and trust Him at each meeting. with all the difficulties in our lives and we will The visiting speaker for the month was Miss find rest for our troubled souls. Emery, who is continuing the work started by Second: "Follow Me." If we want to follow Christ Miss Connell so many years ago. Her address on we must listen for His voice. Jesus said,"My St. Andrew, 8, who followed our Saviour, even on sheep hear My voice and follow Me." Listen for to the Cross, was enjoyed by all the members the voice· of Jesus. There are times in the lives present. ·of each one of us when Christ speaks to us. Some We have a number of sick members, including service He may ask us to do for Him. Let us our Secretary, and we hope for a speedy recovery listen for that voice and follow Him. for all of them. Third: "Eat of Me." Christ gives us Himself The Society, as a whole, has had a successful spiritually in the Holy Communion, and as bread ·year. We have made many new members, we and wine are food for our bodies, so our souls have helped a little towards the success of the are strengthened by that spiritual food. He is Bazaar, and we have_also a donation for the Build­ sufficient for all our needs. Let us be faithful in ing Fund; so that, although this has been a year our Communions and feed on Him. He will give of trouble and trial, we still thank God for the us His strength and power to face all the diffi­ many benefits we have received. culties and problems in our daily lives.

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W.A. REPORT FOR NOVEMBER, 1934 ST. JOHN'S (NORWAY) CHOIR As the November Board Meeting fell on All A sentence occurs to me but the derivation of Saints' Day, November 1st, several of our mem­ it escapes m·y memory, and, if before the com­ bers were present at the Communion Service, held pletion of this contribution, either by reference or at Holy Trinity Church, on that day. Others strenuous exertion of what gray-matter remains attended the service held in our own Church, and to me, I discover that which at present is elusive, St. Andrew's Day, November 30th, was observed I will share with you who run and read such in­ in the same way, only fewer were present. On formation as I may have, and this information will November 7th (business meeting) Mrs. Lucas, be put in parenthesis; so-( ) . If, at the end Diocesan Dorcas Secretary, was the ~peaker. She you observe the letters "Ed", rather than take gave us a great deal to think about in her address, credit unduly, these letters "Ed." will denote and we hope she will come again soon, for we that I have relied on the Editor to fill in the gap. always enjoy her talks. Up to the present, unless you have gone ahead of In regard to the Social Service work, a great me, you are still in ignorance of the sentence. many welfare slips have been filled in and return­ Curiosity, however, excites the imagination, and I ed. The members have done well, for each slip will assuage what curiosity may have arisen in a means a call on a family, and this, of course, short while, and not emulate a writer who gave helps the Deaconess and the Canon. Mrs. Good­ his contribution to the public over a period of win, former Social Service Secretary, on account eight years. However, as this author has been of illness, has been forced to give up this work, deceased many many years, and I am only refer­ and we truly miss her. Mrs ... Perks has been ring to him as an author and not by name, readers appointed to this office and we welcome her back of the present day will have a distinct advantage on the executive again. over those of previous generations in so much The W.A. Booth at the Bazaar was a success, that, without the delay from author to printer, and we wish to thank all who so kindly helped in printer to bookseller and bookseller to the reader, any way, and especially our convenor, Mrs. South­ the book can be taken when found from the lib­ gate, who, besides her work as President, took rary shelf and give entertainment to the reader time to manage and oversee the work done for the in continuous fashion. But I have woefully disgres­ Booth. Full particulars will be given under the sed, and disgression is excusable if one returns P.A. report. to the point where the digression occurred; there­ Mrs. Glands, a former good member, passed on for the sentence is this :-"When I would do good, to higher service a few weeks ago, after being ill evil is present with me." (Thank you sir, but I for some time. Our sincere sympathy is extended have found it-Romans 7: 21). Why this thought to Mr. Glands in his bereavement. comes to my mind is that in travelling or walk­ ing, something comes to my mind and I mentally say, "That's fine, I'll elaborate on that thought EVENING BRANCH W.A. and make it my article for the next issue of the The Evening Branch of the W.A. have been Parish Monthly." This is the good that is in me; fairly busy this month. Last Wednesday, Nov­ but, how about the evil? This comes into the ember 28th, we packed a bale for the West, of picture by the fact that I am riding or walking second-hand clothing and toys. and have no opportunity to take pencil and paper, Then we feel that we were very successful with and these thoughts, like "water which has passed our Booth at the Bazaar. The amount of $45.00 the mill" never seem to return in the pellucid being raised. Great credit is due to our collVen­ state they are first experienced. er, Mrs. Osborne and her committee for it being I would not, for any considration, anticipate in­ such a success. telligence by detailing now the works that are Also another effort on the part of all the mem­ being gone over and through to make the musical bers, we have been able to raise the sum of $13.00 part of our Christmas Festival one to entrance the towards our missionary funds for our Spring bale. ear and delight those who attend and maintain 'l'his money was very badly needed and will be a the traditions of our Choir. Suffice it is to say, great help. One of our members kindly put this that one anthem at least will be given for the opportuni'ty of selling 100 pounds of tea in our first time at St. John's, and carols that are wen way, and so making the above amount. known and some that are not so familiar will be We have had several new members join us given. Each season as it arrives brings its own lately and swell our little band to about twenty. particular style of music, and those closely allied We are always glad to welcome anyone interested to Christmas have an enchantment all their own in missionary work. and it would seem entirely out of place were the

Phone Office: Howard 4768 Evenings by Appointment l\tmember pour QL:burcb in pour Ifill DR. W. G. DAVIS I give and bequeath to the Rector and DENTIST Churchwardens of St. John's Church, Nor­ Corner Queen Street E. and Elmer Avenue way, Toronto, the sum of $------··------­ Above Mitchell's Drug Store free of legacy duty.

PLEASE PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS 4 THE .PARISH MONTHL Y tune of, let us say "Christians A wake" rendered at passing to the great beyond of a very dear former any other period than that of Christmas. member, Mrs. Glands. She was beloved by every­ The Glee and Madrigal Society is going strongly, one who knew her, and her charming personality comprising over thirty members. We have already will live with us. Our deepest sympathy goes out held several practices, both combined and individ­ to Mr. Glands. ual, that is, the ladies have had their own prac­ The President, Officers and Members of the Par­ tice night and the men too, have met and gone ish Association extend to our Rector and all mem'­ over their own numbers, and an extensive and bers of the other organizations a very Merry effective repertoire has been accumulated, which, Christmas and a Happy New Year. in the new year, it is hoped to present in part to those appreciative of Glee singing at a Concert which is to be arranged. DEATHS IN THE PARISH It is usual at this season to give-expression of Baby Jennings, the child of Fred Jennings, died goodwill, and from us may I say that to one and aged 10 months. John Allan Morgan, a decorator all we wish you every happiness this Christmas of Rhodes Avenue, died, aged 75. Mrs. Clara J. of 1934, and that 1935 will be heralded by peace, Hasler, wife of Harry Hasler, of War den Avenue, happiness and prosperity, and that these three died, aged 68 years. William Walsh, of Scarboro may be your constant companions throughout the Beach Boulevard, an employee of the C.N.R., died year. of heart trouble in North Bay. He had just been promoted and his family was to follow him to North Bay in a week's time. William Edward PA RISH ASSOCIATION Walker, an overseas veteran, of 42 Golfview Ave­ The month of November has been a very busy nue, died of tuberculosis in Christie Street Hos­ one, with all the teas, bridges, etc., for the bazaar, pital. Mrs. Crissie Glands, wife of A. V. Glands, which were all greatly enjoyed. of the Steele Briggs Seed Co., _died after an opera­ The Bazaar, "King Street in 1834" was formally tion. She had been actively connected with the opened on Thursday, November 23rd,_ by Lady Parish Association and the Woman's Auxiliary in Kemp, who was escorted to the platform by Canon their Parish but moved to Elwood Avenue, Forest Baynes-Reed, our President Mrs. R. Conner, and Hill Village, a year ago and had been in bad the Bazaar convener, Mrs. P. Huxtable. Also health for some time. Her personality and her invited to the platform were Mr. and Mrs. G. C. labours in the Parish were greatly appreciated by Elgie, Controllers Ramsden and Robbins. many friends. Canon Baynes-Reed introduced Lady Kemp, who, Mrs. Gallagher, wife of Charles Gallagher, of in her charming manner, pronounced the Bazaar Edgewood Avenue, died in Detroit and was brought open. Little Isobel Thompson, daughter of Mrs. home for interment. Mrs. Mary E. Hope, wife of W. Thompson (mostly known as "Ann Clay") Mr. A. Hope, of 111 Elmer Avenue, died in hos­ quaintly dressed in a little old-fashioned dress of pital following an operation. W. J. Farmery, Prin­ 100 years ago, presented Lady Kem p with a beau­ cipal of Gledhill A venue School and a former tiful basket of mums. After the opening ceremony, Principal of Kew Beach School, died at his home which was largely attended, afternoon tea was on Leuty Avenue of pneumonia. The interment served to our guests, Mrs. Conner presiding. took place at Locust Hill. James Henry White, All who attended the Bazaar this year will a plasterer by trade and a Past President of Cam­ agree that the decorations were ve::- y outstanding. bridge Lodge, died at his home, Osborne Avenue, We owe many thanks to Mr. R. Ambler for des­ of pneumonia. igning and drawing the plans, and to Mr. Jones, Benjamin Bailey, of Sibley Avenue, a charter our artist, who worked day and night to get it member of Todmorden Lodge S.O.E.B.S., died, completed. The ladies were all dressed in old­ aged 7 4 years. fashioned costumes, suitable to the age Norman Edward Murton, an insurance agent, of On Saturday evening, Canon Baynes-Reed, on Kenilworth A venue, died very suddenly of heart behalf of the ladies of the Parish Association, pre­ trouble. He had served overseas in the war and sented Mrs. R. Conner and Mrs. P Huxtable with was an active member of the Men's Bowling Club. bouquets of yellow and mauve 'mums, little Isobel To all who mourn, we extend our sincerest again making the presentation. They both re­ sympathy and pray they may have comfort and plied in a suitable mann er. Many thanks are due consolation in their sorrow. Mrs. Huxtable for so ably convening the Bazaar. We hope next month to give you a full report of the Bazaar. All subscriptions t o the Parish Monthly are now We were all terribly shocked to hear of the due. Prompt pay m ent will help us.

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An Unemployment Centre By Rosamund Essex

~~~~~~~~~~~~ OWHERE to go Archbishops, representing the whole English N and nothing to Church, should be followed up with every effort do! For years now and energy. Poverty through unemployment is the the streets of Poplar most pressing social problem of this generation, have been lined with and to lessen even a fraction of this suffering was men who lounge felt to be work in accordance against the walls and with our LoRn's own compas­ are too apathetic•even sion on the poor. to talk to one another. The Rev. G. S. Shaw of All Their infrequent con­ Saints', Poplar, took charge of versation, when they the new work. The premises of do speak, is about the St. Stephen's Old Schools money, the sixpence were lent, and in a few weeks' lost yesterday, the time unemployed men were scheme to save a few working together to put the pence on food to­ place to rights, to clean, to morrow to make up paint, to mend broken windows, the rent. For Poplar and to set up a counter for a is very poor indeed. . canteen. SothePoplarDeanery THE REV. G. s. SHAW A recent survey states Unemployment Centre, Lower that nearly a quarter North Street, came into being, and has been open of its people are living every day since then for the use of its two hundred THE DOCK GATES below the poverty members. A carpenter's shop was first set up, so (W. F. Taylor) line. that the men could make or mend their own furni­ Unemployment has made Poplar a district of ture. It gave them something to do and something idle men. The docks are half empty, and the to think about and to plan for. It gave them a new factories are working only half time. Young men interest in a life that unemployment had made so and · old men, dockers, labourers, carpenters, sea­ sordid an affair. The'' snob shop,'' or boot repairing men, skilled mechanics, apd factory workers, once room, came next, and soon other activities were steady men who earned a good wage, have been suggested by the men themselves. An unemployed thrown out of work by the present world-crisis man seldom has the price of a haircut over from in trade, through no fault of their own. Long the week's budget; so in the Centre a hairdres-ser unemployment, sometimes for as long as five or even seven years, has brought many of them to that pitch · of poverty when worry and under­ nourishment have made them nervous, unstable, uninterested in anything but where the next meal is to come from. For men such as these the Church in the Deanery of Poplar planned its Unemployment Centre a year anci a half ago. It was felt that the lead ~======which had been given by the POPLAR: THE THAMES AT BLACKWALL [W. F. Taylor 156 l.tlh ~lu.N lJecember, l~j4 member cuts the other members' hair with the to work on a milk round, and he came to Mr. Shaw hairdressing outfit that Church people have given. to ask for an old pair of shoes (as he had nothing One of the most necessary things in the Centre is but some broken leather between his feet and the the canteen. ground) to tide him over till he could buy a pair Good food is himself. Good socks and a pair of shoes were given the first to him out of the store, and this has made it necessity for possible for him to go to the first job of work he the men. It has had for five years. is not per­ The opportunity of taking part in such work as haps widely this is a privilege, which is its own reward in enough un­ addition to the help it gives. The good-feeling derstood how and friendliness which it engenders, the sense desperately among the unemployed themselves that they are , in need of not forgotten by their fellow-Christians, and the proper nour­ mutual understanding which grows up between ishment un­ the helpers and the helped, all tend towards a employed greater realization of the Christian ideal as applied menare. The to life and its difficulties. The Church in England scale of the has started in this a pioneer work, the full benefits , " dole " or of of which will perhaps not be fully realized in this Public Assist­ generation. ance Relief is Be that as it may, the Church people who followed the lead in Poplar, who set up the Centre A STREET IN POPLAR enough to , cover the bare and have worked in it and for it, have received necessities of life; but if the family is so unfortunate encouragement beyond any that they could have as to have extra expenses for illness, if breakages supposed. During its existence, hundreds of men o~cur in the house and have to be replaced, if have already passed through the Centre. It has travelling expenses in the search for work are paid, tided over short t~mes of unemployment for some. if, most usual of all, there is a high rent, then food has to be cut down to a level that slowly starves a healthy adult body. It is a fact that some of the men of the Poplar Deanery Unemployment Centre have no more than fourpence-halfpenny a head a day to spend on food and clothing together. Mr. Shaw has arranged, therefore, for the canteen to provide good, cheap dinners. A mug of tea, fresh milk and sugar can be bought for a halfpenny (the families themselves can seldom afford anything but tinned milk) . Tart costs a halfpenny, a big plate of fresh meat and vegetables is threepence, and the men can take the food home in cans if they wish. The canteen is one of the ways by which the men can be kept from that ill-health, from nervous diseases and debility, that result from a too constant diet of bread, margarine, tea, and tinned milk. One of the ways in which Church people, both THE UNEMPLOYMENT CENTRE, POPLAR [W. F. Taylor of the Poplar Deanery and from outside it, have It has provided shelter, warmth, food, and good­ helped the Centre is in the provision of clothes fellowship for those who have been out of work for the men. There is literally no money left for months or years. It has given opportunity over for a man's clothes when he has laid out his for help and advice on spiritual as well as on few pence in buying clothing for wife and children. material difficulties. It has been the place of Yet a man cannot even look for work with any many friendships. hope of getting it if he appears before the employer with torn jacket, dirty ragged trousers, and broken Ji}Ji}p/p/Ji}fi/Ji}Ji}Ji}Ji} shoes. In the winter he has no warm clothes and no protection from the rain. , NO ROOM A store is kept for these men, and the following HEY knew not Whom they turned away, recent account of one of the Centre members shows That night at Bethlehem, what help in necessity it can give. A man, whom TOr surely all the inn had come, for convenience sake we will call William Smith, In haste to welcome them. a member of the Centre, has been out of work for as long as five years. He has a wife and two LoRD, let my heart's gate open be, children. During his years of unemployment he I ask, from day to day; has been ill sometimes, and undernourished nearly That I may not, by word or deed, Turn Thy dearSoN away. always. Now he has just been given the chance M. Baco11 December, 1934 THE SIGN 157 To be a Pilgrim: Some Words' for those New to ' the Road By C. R. Newby, Principal of St. Christopher's College, Blackhea~h III is ·quite possible to build · up a happy useful and "Since, LoRn, Thou dost defend prosperous kingdom of men on earth without any Us with Thy SPIRIT, thought of GoD. He does not necessarily deny We know we at the end the existence of GoD by argument, but in practice Shall life inherit. Then fancies flee away! he assumes at any rate that there is no need for I'll fear not what men say, GoD, and that what h appens in this life is all that I'll labour night and day matters. He argues that all that we can certainly To be a pilgrim." know is what concerns this life, that anything ST month we thought of two attacks on the concerning a future life can be nothing but an Christian religion made, the one by the unlikely guess. The strength of his position lies ir;t materialist, the other by the moralist. his emphasis on the brotherhood of man. · He does L This month we will consider· two other not show why men should be brothers, but he does " dismal stories," perhaps more subtle in their show that in so far as men will try to live as brothers effect because a less direct challenge to the manifesting the qualities of hard work, care for the Christian Faith. weak, sharing of property and opportunity, they will The first is the attack on any kind of organized re­ be happy. Thus far he is right, ·and the Christian ligion. It takes many forms, coming sometimes from thinker will go the whole way with.him. The secu­ a person who seems seriously to want to be religious, larist wants to" build Jerusalem in England's green but more often from some one who either consciously and pleasant land." So does the Christian thinker. . or unconsciously is unwilling to face the discipline But he also looks to a kingdom on a spiritual plane, which is the natural outcome of adherence to a body and sees the kingdom, even so far as it is realized of people with a common way of life. in harmonious living here on earth, as but a dim Let us examine some of the reasons which people anticipation of a state of timeless existence of who have been baptized and perhaps even con­ pure joy when he shall have come to the complete firmed offer for absenting themselves from public realization of the goal of his being. worship and for giving no support by their presence The secularist has found a part only of the truth. or their time or money to the Divine Society of For that reason he cannot offer a solution of which in name at any rate they are members. problems which must baffle any one who leaves They say that the Church has had its day; it GoD out of his reckonings. If this life is an end has nothing to offer to people of the twentieth in itself, then pain and suffering, self-sacrifice and century. You seldom find that such people have all forms of loss, have no value. If they have no made any study of the history and teaching of the value then a whole world of experience leading Church, nor of the lives of those who through the ages those who have knowledge of these things to feel until to-day in the name of the Church have made that they are of deep and lasting value is nothing this world a better place. Nor have they taken but delusion. Among deluded people we should the trouble to listen to or read the writings of men have to number every kind of Christian from and women of many degrees of scholarship who St. Paul to this day. are convinced that the teaching of CHRIST applies In the last resource experience wins over to all men, and that it is GoD's will that His argument. You cannot convince the pilgrim who children should seek Him not as individuals but has really got on to the well-marked road to GoD in the fellowship of the HoLY SPIRIT, the Holy that he is following a will-o' -the-wisp into a Catholic Church. desolate bog. Many a happy pilgrim has no power Others complain of the services of the Church, to argue proofs for the existence of GoD and of saying that they are dull and lifeless and reminis­ immortality. None the less he will be unshaken cent of an unprogressive and somnolent age. They in his certainty that he has here no abiding city, say that from such services they derive no benefit. but that he is on the way to the city where he will There is a fallacy in each of these arguments. The enter into his full inheritance. reality of a service is dependent on .the degree of The pilgrim song ends on the note of free-will. reality which is brought to it by those who attend. A giant garbed as scientist may marshal his We do not iwprove the worship of the Church formidable array of figures; or a hobgoblin as by complaining about it, or by withdrawing new moralist may plead for self-expression; an ourselves from it. Moreover, our worship is an individualist may repudiate the Divine Society; offering to GoD. The first object of attendance the secularist may proclaim that there is no GoD ; at church is that we may give, not that we may get. while the pilgrim trudges along the road of daily It is the common experience of all who seriously surrender to the will of GoD. But the pilgrim is hold this view and persevere in church-going that, holding out the hand of fellowship to those who while the main object of the attendance is an follow the same road, and he is learning as he offering of love, actually they do receive of the travels with them the way of worship, that there riches of GoD something which is abundantly more is great reason for him to sing joyfully- than what they are able to give. " I'll fear not what men say, Another attack on organized religion comes from I'll labour nig-ht and day the secularist. He has convinced himself that it To be a pilgrim." 158 THE SIGN December, 1934 Personal Sketches from Marks and ·Scars Recent Church History " My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles Who now will be my rewarder."- The Pilgrim's Progress VI. GEORGE HOWARD WILKINSON bishops-are still living and growing t o-day. He was pre-eminently consulted by those in authority and Bishop and Man of Prayer also by those who d esired authority b etter to By one of his Editors understand its duty. H e seemed t o be everywhere where anything was done by any m an or woman of HE character and work of G . H . Wilkinson power, and it was once said that if in the country (I833-I907) could only be adequately there was found any liv e centre of work, somebody had sketched by the pen of his friend, Dr. been inspired by a pilgrimage to St. P eter's. Scott Holland. Apart from what the Bishop As Bishop of Truro, I883-92, he completed the didT as a giant's work on the foundations of many Cathedral and founded the Community of the modern structures, behind that remarkable face, with Epiphany, while his influence was wielded in the its irregular eyebrows over the wonderful eyes, was the episcopate to a special degree. After some of the personality of a spirit which lived, some- darkest shadows had fallen on him, he times dazed, sometimes irradiated, as ended his life as Bishop of St. Andrews, the result of the" Heavenly Vision" to Dunkeld, and Dunblane, and Primus which he was never disobedient so far of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Here as man might see. again his practical and creative achieve- But it mayhelpsomeof us to-day- ment wrought revolutions both in as it did in his lifetime- to know that material and in spiritual things. one who lived so close to the Invisible On the practical side of his work, Glory suffered-as other saints have his wise devotion entered into every done-from periods of darkness when detail- not by laying down rules but GoD seemed far away and religion had by flashing out considerations on which little or no · power. He took it, it the mind of statesman or tradesman, seems, partly as penal, but also as mai~servant or woman in society, as it educational and as contributing to his might be, had to take some action. "It sharing in his Master's redemptive has to be done." But to consider per- work. sonally the way in which it had to External circumstances gave him a be done by any person, perhaps by fine appearance, money, position, honour hours of devotion or by an ejacula- from men, creative opportunity, richest BISHOP G . H. WILKINSON tory prayer in a shop or at court, was friendships, love in the home circle, and (Elliott & F•·yi all important. Thus whether it was above all twenty years of happy married life (1857- a sheet of hints (afterwards expanded into his book 77) . His inner life, fully evangelical and entirely One by One) for bishops, or any of the simplest Catholic, by degrees obtained every earthly help, and practical manuals, once sold by thousands for this the great teacher was thanldul for the ability of working beginner or that " old soul," his counsel was sure to which persisted alongside of the darker moods. He be very real. He liked people to be strong and quiet, was thankful for the grace which enabled him to ready either to live out fully the ordinary life, with all bear his serious sorrows and illnesses; more and more its joys and sorrows, or to go out, like the future consciously for the current of objective sacram ntal Mother Cecile, in South Africa, to arduous and unknown life which bore him onward in days of "dereliction." enterprise. Just "on the other side" he knew­ So Dr. Scott Holland notes that just when illness and though he might not always feel-that there was advancing age might have completely broken him, he power to be given in answer to prayer. There was to was " radiant, confident, alert, and full of a great be " no dictation to GoD," but a telling of the need peace." Still at work and prayer, still himself, his and a thanking for whatever was the answer. The sudden death, December I I, I907, in the Representative abiding monument of this conviction is in the Day of Church Council of the Scottish Church, was the " close Intercession for Foreign Missions. of a life lived on the very edge of the Unseen." The same revelation always appears of one who prayed His earlier experiences were preparatory to that much. With entire simplicity he would kneel down which survivors of the time have described as " miracu- and pray with all he met whatever the place or the lous days " at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, I86g-8z. The occasion. But he did not expect to override natural circumstances in Church, State, and social life in that cause and effect. For himself, and as to the "unre­ third Victorian period are practically unknown to most moved thorn" in his life, the story is told in a note people to-day; not only a few but many of the really on our LoRD's prayer at Gethsemane: " He makes an religious men and women were brought up to live under appeal to the fatherly love and omnipotence of GoD . conditions of intermingling narrowness of outlook and He does not give up the work of human salvation ; fervent spirituality which have now ceased to be. He asks only if the Cross is really the indispensable There were remarkable individuals; but Church means of gaining this end . ... This repugnance .is organizations were few, and above all most kinds of legitimate . .. sacrifice begins where conflict begins." co-operation had still to be learnt. Mr. Wilkinson's Thus to the furthest limits of the Anglican Commu­ perception of the value of the contributions nion-and elsewhere-the message that this saint made by each school of thought in the Church " declared, the sermon that he delivered, was himself." puzzled some, but contributed to very great advances But if, even for Dr. Holland, directly after the Bishop's in methods, especially in foreign missions, home death it seemed " impossible to describe him as he evangelization, and in what is now called moral lived," surely now no pen can rightly give an impres­ welfare. Much "women's work" received its first sion, not only of the personality, but of the creativ-e encouragement. Developments in such matters from achievements of that gently austere and sympathetic those inspired by him-including archbishops and I;Ilan of precept and prayer. December, 1934 THE SIGN 159

A Plain Little Girl ~Y 'fri~~m~seo~;: Story "GOOD-B YE," said Kathleen grandly. "It's Kathleen .. . What a lot of packages there were ! a pity y ou're so shy, else Aunt Gracie Glove-box for cook ; work-bag for Jane ; and three _would have invited y ou too." handkerchiefs embroidered with " B" for Mrs. Baker Sue said nothing. She would have liked who came every day to help. very much to go with Mother and Kathleen to Aunt She smiled happily. She was sure everything was Gracie's on Christmas Eve. what every one would like. Suddenly a thought struck "I wish I had curls a nd blue eyes like Kathleen," she her. sighed when they had gone, " and could chatter and "Mrs. Baker's Mary," she exclaimed. " I should make everybody love me." like to give her a present." Presently the dinner bell rang. Mary was a little invalid who, like Sue, was eight " Hallo," greeted her brother, Jack, "why haven't years old. Mary had so little, and she had so much. you gone to Aunt Gracie's ? " Sue had gone to the house once ; she had never " She only asked Kathleen," answered Sue. forgotten the bare room and Mary's little white face. "Beastly shame," said the boy. "You're only two " What shall I do? " she thought. " I've spent all years younger than Kathleen; you ought to have my money." She felt ready to cry. Then she bright­ gone." ened up. Was there anything It seemed a funny meal among her own things ? with only those two in the She went back to the big dining-room. Sue did schoolroom and looked not enjoy her dinner much. through her treasures : her There was a lovely pudding work-basket-books- paint­ too, but she did not want a box-grocer's shop- all the second helping, though Jack other toys- then- Beauty. had three. " Oh no, darling, I can't "Oh, I say," exclaimed possibly part with you ," she Jack when they had finished. crooned over her. " I've promised to meet Joe Beauty was so lovely to Partington at two. That cuddle when you felt shy and means you'll be alone all the lonely. She was never hard afternoon. I've a great mind and uncomfortable. Sue felt not to go." she loved Beauty more than " Oh yes, of course you everything else put together. must," said Sue. " But it's But she knew that if Mary dear of you to want to stay could choose so would she. with me." That little sick child. Beauty " I don't like leaving you must go. She must take her a bit," persisted Jack, "and that minute. I wouldn't, if I didn't want With a little sob, she to take him his Christmas put on her warm wraps. present. I'll show you. Then she picked up Beauty Think he'll like it ? " and went out . It was Jack produced a bulky " Laid her down beside the bitterly cold and there was parcel and displayed a box of sleeping child " a long way to go. She hur­ carpenter's tools. His friend ried along on her sturdy was clever with his fingers. little legs. " Jack ! What a lot of money it must have cost ! " The front door was open and Sue went in timidly. cried Sue. It was nearly dark inside but she remembered the " Oh, well, I've been saving up," dismissed Jack. room. She tapped at the door. No answer. She shyly " One must give a decent present to one's best friend. opened it. The room looked emptier than ever, and Good-bye, kid. I think it's rotten of them to leave there was no fire. Then she saw Mary asleep on the you behind." bed. Such a sick, lonely little girl, with Mrs. Baker There was a glorious fire in the schoolroom, but she out nearly all day. felt lonesome, even with Beauty, her best-beloved doll. "How she will love Beauty," thought Sue. "Oh, However, it was Christmas Eve, and it was pleasant I am glad-glad-glad." to think how jolly everything would be to-morrow. She kissed Beauty, laid her down beside the sleeping She went into the pretty bedroom to look at the child, and stole away. The afternoon was closing in, parcels she had done up ready for everybody. Her eye but it no longer felt cold. rested on the picture over her bed. It was the Holy " I am glad- glad-glad," she repeated as she skipped Child jEsus in His Mother's arms. She always thought home. The way seemed quite short. Sue had hardly that His eyes smiled at her. time to say it often enough. " I love You," whispered Sue. " I wish I could give Soon after she was back in the schoolroom, Jane You a nice present on Your birthday." brought in her tea with her favourite blackberry jam. Jack had said, " One must give a decent present to Afterwards, when Jane had carried off the tray again, one's best friend." She always thought of that dear she was alone. But now she enjoyed it. She switched Child JEsus as her very best Friend. But how could off the light and curled herself up in the big chair. She she give Him a present ? wished she could see Mary wake up and find Beauty. She opened the drawer containing her precious parcels It was so cosy by the fire. The clock seemed to tick and fingered them lovingly. She had tied them up a long way off. Sue saw pictures in the fire. Beauty herself, and written on them in her best writing. was there. Cigarettes for Daddy; lavender water for Mother; Suddenly there seemed a bright light close beside chocolates for Jack ; mother -of- pearl beads for her. In the midst of the light there stood a Figure- 160 THE SIGN December, 1934 a Child Vlhose eyes smiled at her. In His arms He " My little girl all alone? " said Daddy. held B eauty. "Yes, " said Sue, " at least, no, not r eally. I'd like " You did it unto Me," He whispered. to t ell you." Sue gave a glad little cry and sprang up. Everything Daddy sat down in the big chair. looked the same as usual. But Sue knew Who it was Bit by bit she told him everything, as she nestled she had seen. So after all she had given a present to in his arms. Then they talked together in hushed her best Friend. tones, for they felt that the CHRIST-Child was still very By and by the door opened. near.

~~~~~r.J~r.J~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "And the Life of the World to Come'' Wer~~~tR{~esey " And this is life eternal, that they should know Thee for the loveless life dwindles and is extinguished the only true God, and Him Whom Thou didst send, (St. Luke xvii, xviii; St. Matt. xxv. z8, zg). Our soul even Jesus Christ." life, if it is dominated by love, as was that of jEsus, is to be made immune against all the powers of destruc­ HERE is a certain tyranny about words. tion, and already in this stage of being has become They make us suppose that we understand eternal. When the young man asked our LoRD what when we, in fact, do not. They have led he should do to obtain eternal life, he was referred many of us to a complete misunderstanding to the old commandment which enjoined upon him ofT a great deal of the teaching of JEsus CHRIST, and the love of GoD and the love of his neighbour. " This in nothing more, perhaps, do and thou shalt live." than with regard to the ~~~r.J~~~~~~~~~~~~~~r,; To trust CHRIST's assur­ subject of this, the last ance of this law, to accept clause of the Nicene Creed. § GOD INCARNATE §it as made by Him Who This difficulty had to be claimed to be divine, was encountered even by our 8 THE winter night was still and white 8 to believe in Him, and LoRD, for He had to em­ ~ When GoD the SoN came down to earth, v '' he that believeth on Me ~ But through the darkness shone a light C shall never die," and fur­ ploy words that held one ~ ·v meaning for Himself and ~ And angels hailed His lowly Birth. C ther to fulfil this law of another for His hearers. v His birth-place was both bleak and bare, v love which JEsus lived in A striking example of this 8 Where halted strangers from afar : C its perfection was to keep is given in St. John's Gospel S Some only saw a stable there, 8 His saying, "if a man keep in the conversation recorded My saying, he shall never between our LoRD and the 8 In M~:;. ::~:sa::::de' flowe' g see death." Jews: "If a man keep He lay, a bud not yet unfurled, My word, he shall never 8 § How AND WHEN IT IS v But, ah, what purity and power c OuRs see death." As is our own C Broke with that blossom on the world ! habit, the Jews used the 8 The life of the world v Flesh of our flesh, yet undefiled ~ words " life" and "death" to come 1s something C As when He reigned where angels trod : N to describe conditions of the v Some only saw a little Child, v which was from the begin­ body, whilst in the view of C But some saw GoD. C· ning in GoD. All that is the CHRIST the only real 8 Ph,•llis E . Noble 8 good, true, and beautiful life and death are those of Sb~~~~r.;~~~~~~~~~~~~ff. is not something that is the soul. going to be; it is, "as it We sav we believe in the Resurrection. Holy Scrip­ was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be," ture shows us that St. Paul did. Well, the question is, and how words do fail to define what we mean ! Be­ what did it mean to him ? It meant first of all living ginning marks a time when it was not. But it came and dying with CHRIST (Phil. i. 19-30). He speaks in into our world of time-when JEsus, the same yester­ other places (r Cor. xv, z Cor. v) of conditions of the day, to-day, and for ever, was revealed in the power body that shall be which is part of this Christian living. of the Resurrection. The early disciples became men and women transformed by that faith. They had THE DIVINE LIFE come to see what "life in CHRIST" meant. They That which has made Christianity an invincible power knew that all that was good, true, and beautiful was in the world is the conviction that somehow or other the in Him of Whom we think at Christmastide as the life of love is the best, the divinest, life we can conceive, little Babe of Bethlehem. They had dimly seen the and that every one who even for moments knows what perfection of the Man CHRIST JEsus. They believed it is to lose himself in others, is doing what GoD does that He was the Word, and the Word was Gon. So eternally. the Incarnation was the revelation to mankind of a It was because our LoRD made people convinced He fact that was eternally true. By the Redemption was living this life that He made such an impression which it made possible we are made one with GoD, upon them ; and He meant all His followers to partake and we may partake of that eternal life here and now. of this life. "I am come that ye might have life, and Life is a gift of GoD. As GoD makes the offer of Divine might have it more abundantly." Life, it is not a matter of uncertainty whether we get As we read the great meditations contained in the it or not. Divine Life is a gift bestowed by the Gospel of St. John we begin to see more clearly what operation of that law of love. was our LoRn's doctrine of immortality, and it is indeed much more simple than we may have supposed. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE According to the Pauline and J ohannine teachers, life The offer of GoD, as St. Paul shows (Rom. v. r), if in CHRIST is life rooted in love. Love is the sole creative accepted, brings peace of mind and the experiences force. The universe is the expression of Divine Love, which belong to an assured faith. Since love conserves and, in the natural world too, life is created by love. life, natural fears should lessen for such of us as in this Also, love is the force that creates life, and preserves it, stage of being have been learning to .love, and are December, 1934 THE SIGN 161 partaking of that force which is life eternal. The sheer By a changeless decree life eternal is life which belongs beauty of the Divine Life becomes known to those who to the Christian who is "in CHRIST." He has a life have tried to express love in the service of GoD and which is not concerned with death, because it is part man (Rom. viii. 31 ff. ; xii. I, z) . They do His will and of the Eternal Reality. "And this is life eternal, that learn His doctrine. th ~y should know Thee the only true GoD."

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Church Fittings and Ornaments By .A. W. J. V. ALTARS AND THEIR ACCESSORIES appearance of the altar was intimate, rather than remote by grandiose pomp and impressiveness. True, HERE are two styles of altars favoured there were the screens enclosing the chancel to keep at the present time-the one, called for out the unconfirmed and unbelieving, but once inside convenience sake the English and the these the altar became n ot the priest's alone but the other the Roman. Before it is decided altar of the faithful. We retain the idea in the invita­ whichT to adopt two important considerations tion of the Communion Office-" Draw near with faith." should never be overlooked. First, the traditional This intimate atmosphere is fostered and emphasized and historical aspect of the matter. It has t o be by the old English altar which makes it peculiarly remembered that when the forefathers of our suitable for retention in our own Church. Happily, this Roman brethren is becoming ·more generally recognized. left the English The ideal, then, is an east window blazing with Church in 1570 at beauty with a sill not too high but allowing a reredos, the command of or triptych, of suitable dimensions to be built beneath the Pope and be­ it and above an altar not immoderately raised above came the first Non­ the level of the chancel floor. Alternatively, the back­ conformists, they ground may be a dossal of tapestry, damask, or other stepped out into textile material, not too highly elevated and never the full daylight of above the sill of the window. This is suppkJ.nented the Renaissance. by wings of the same material suspended from metal This had affected brackets or, better still, from fixed oak riddel posts and literature and rods. If the posts are painted the colour should be in music, and was de­ harmony with that of the textile fabrics. veloping an art and The appearance of the whole east end of the sanctuary architecture of its depends largely upon the size of the holy table itself. own. Not infrequently mistakes are made in this. A wide Already on the chancel requires a long table or-as the Revised Prayer Con tin en t this Book, reverting to the ancient name, beautifully terms same spirit was it-GoD 's Board. If narrow, a short one is necessary; finding expression but in either case the height is restricted by practical in the arrangement considerations. The standard in this case is the con­ of the altars in venience of a celebrating priest of not more than the old Gothic medium height. And the altar should be no wider than churches, and even such a priest can reach over comfortably. While length in the forms of is immaterial in this connection it will be obvious if the vestments in use, so table is three feet three inches high-as many are-any AN EARLY NINETEE NTH-CENTURY that the chasuble width more than twenty-six inches will be out of reach ALTAR became attenuated of the average celebrant. Generally, while keeping this (Rode Hill, Trowbridge) into a sort of bib practical consideration in sight, it is best from the or apron and the mitre developed to almost grotesque aesthetic aspect that the height should not be too great proportions. Naturally, the ideas of those who for the length, or vice versa. A tall short table appears founded the Roman Church in this country would stumpy and a low long one looks too much like a mere be most influenced by what they found in eccles­ bench. · iastical practice on the Continent rather than by The pro­ what they had left behind in the English Church. per orna­ Again, in this country churches built after this time ments for were in the new sty le, and so their altars were arranged an Eng­ to suit. That means that for a Gothic church the old lish altar English form of altar should be retained, while in one are across of the Renaissance, or of the Classic type, the so-called and two Roman arrangement would be more appropriate. candle­ The mistake to avoid is to invert this order of things, sticks, for if this is done it is very difficult to give the sanctuary with or a satisfactory appearance. The overpowering pro­ without minence of a large altar perched up on many steps vases for with a huge reredos behind it, or a baldachin or towering cut flow­ canopy above it, is . quite out of place in an ordinary ers. In Gothic church of average size, although probably quite regard to in keeping with one designed in the later styles. In a these last small church of mediaeval design such a form of altar it is re­ is especially undesirable. markable The second of the two points mentioned above is that , in­ also not understood or is overlooked as a rule, but it is stead of a fact that in the pre-Reformation parish church the them, use A RENAISSANCE ALTAR 162 THE SIGN December, 1934 is not Many other things have a bearing on this matter. made of For instance, what is behind the cross may improve living or mar its appearance. Where the b ackground is plants in permanent, as a reredos or triptych, every care should pots as is be taken to see the cross is in consonance with this done 'in from every point of view. Where the Crucifixion is s o m e d epicted immediately above an altar no cross before churches. it is necessary. After all, dying flowers PEEPS INTO CHURCH FIVE HUNDRED are not so eloquent YEARS AGO of the life- IV. "THE PROCESSION OF THE BoY-BISHOP" giving S a c r a - IN old times the Christmas festivities included the men t as Feast of the Boy-Bishop which was observed in AN ENGLISH ALTAR 1 i v i n g cathedrals, collegiate churches, and (in England, at (Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford) ones. In any rate) in a good many parish churches as either case two lots are sufficient, for altars should well. The ceremonies varied in different places, but never be crowded. It is quite reasonable to have their generally speaking they were something like this. containers of glass or pottery, with excellent results, On December 6th, the Feast of St. Nicholas (the and the ubiquitous brass may be given a holiday. children's saint, whom we know as Santa Claus), the Far too often the cross and candlesticks are choirboys chose one of their number as bishop. Other also of brass, when use may be made of some of the boys were chosen as his officers, and at Vespers on new metals and alloys with advantage, for when other St. John's Day they came into office. The Boy-Bishop fittings and ornaments are of brass it is making a wise took the place of the real bishop and for the next and significant distinction to have these different. twenty-four hours, until Vespers on Innocents' Day There are several matters to be considered when making or "Childermas," he performed all the bishop's func­ a choice of these altar ornaments. First, if there is no tions in church, except saying Mass, while his com­ rood screen in the church and the nave is long the cross panions impersonated the other d ignitaries. He was especially should be bold and of good size, because it vested in a little set of pontificals, mitre, cope, and then becomes the centre of attention immediately any crozier, and attended by his youthful companions went one enters the building. If there is a rood screen the in procession round the church, as shown in the picture. crucifix above it is the central point, and the view point A sermon was written for him to preach, and the cele­ of the altar cross should be considered only from inside brations included a feast given to the boys, often by the the screen and its size should be suitable for that aspect. real bishop, and a collection of money for them.

~~~r.J~r.J~~~~~r.J~~~~~~~~~~~~~r.J~r~~~oon~r.J~~~~~n~ t~ Over the Teacups Report on September Competitions First Prize entry, sent in by Miss F. Bond, 9 Totteridge A. Snapshot : river or seaside scene. Avenue, High Wycoml:>e, provides a good, yet not too solid There were a .record number of entries for this subject, meal, welcome to hungry and rather tired folk. The Second and it was not easy to award the prizes. After careful Prize goes to Mrs. Collyer, Langford Hall Cottages, Newark, consideration the First Prize goes to Colin Denwood, r6 Fell Notts. Miss M. Austin, Mrs. Courtenay, Mrs. A. Barker, View, Cockermouth, for a very beautiful and unusual Miss P. Furber, and Mrs. R. Warburton are commended. snapshot, and the Second to D. G. Shel­ don, 526 Inglemere Lane, Cakes are in general Hull, for a picture of request this month. We shipping. give a recipe for the well­ The photographs sent known Scotch speciality, by Mrs. A. Sample and Bup Loaf; a little goes Robert Townsend are a long way, but it is very highly commended, excellent. and commendation is 8 oz. butter, 8 oz. also given to Miss G. castor sugar, 8 oz. flour, Akeroyd, Cecil J. Corbet, 4 eggs, 8 oz. raisins, Miss M. H. Cox, Mrs. 12 oz. sultanas, 6 oz. Homewood, Miss L. Hol­ shredded peel, 4 oz. lowell, R. J. King, Mrs. ground almonds. Put the Orme Smith, Miss F. butter and sugar into a Soko, E. Stevens, Mrs. SUNSET AFTER THE STORM basin and stir with a D. Thibaut, Miss Ware­ (Photograph by Miss G. Akeroyd) wooden spoon for five ham, Miss V. Weaden. minutes ; then add by Many of the other snaps were both technically good degrees the eggs well beaten, and part of the flour. Mix and topically interesting. Altogether a most encouraging the fruit with the remainder of the flour and gradually stir result. into the cake with a few drops of flavouring sauce. Press into a well-papered tin, bake in a moderate oven. This B. Supper for six hikers: time of return uncertain, giving three cake improves by being kept two or three weeks. recipes and cost. Brownies-a quickly made cake. To begin with a little criticism : one must remember 2 eggs, ri cups Barbadoes sugar, t cup flour, t cup cocoa, that if the hikers have been out all dav, they have very t cup of either sultanas, walnut kernels, or peanuts, t tea­ likely had enough potted meat, sliced beef roll, and spoonful vanilla essence. Beat the eggs slightly, add sugar, Scotch eggs, and want something different for supper. In then other things. Spread evenly in a buttered shallow spite of the uncertainty as to time, we feel something hot tin about nine inches by six. Bake about twenty minutes is called for. not an all cold meal. With this in mind, the in a moderate oven. December, 1934 THE SIGN 163

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CHAPTER XXIII some day I might commit some desperate act in a temper. She's had a lot to endure since our marriage, THE BEAR IN Hrs DEN Dick. Not only work I mean, but poverty, separation IS heart warm with generous thankfulness from her people and friends; but to discover she 's been towards lVIr. Housman, and the little frightened as well ! It's got to be put straight at once. manager, his real rescuer, to whom he had I propose to go to her father, own up where I've been tried to stammer something of his grateful in the wrong, and ask him to make friends." feeling,H Harry dashed away during the lunch-hour to "My dear Harry! Not an easy task ." keep his appointment with his father-in-law. But at " I don't expect it to be easy. But it's got to be the gate of the yard in which Mr. Wainwright's office put through. I mean to give her definite proof was situated he encountered Thoms, the chief foreman, that I can control myself, and from now on I intend who stopped him with a friendly grin. "The Mayor to." left a message for you, Mr. Harry. He's engaged on " Thanks for telling me," was all Dick's quiet answer. Council business just now, but he'll be here at five­ Over the meal they kept to less intimate subjects; but thirty, if that suits you." at parting Harry held out his hand. " Wish me luck, " Right ho, Thoms. How 's. life going along with old man! " you? " · " The best in the world ! I always knew you had " Going along a treat, sir. And you? " it in you to be a great fellow, once you got a grip on "Fine, thanks. Good-day." He turned rapidly yourself." away, and almost ran into Dick, who raised astonished As Harry walked up the well-remembered stairs to eyebrows at meeting him in this spot. Mr. Wainwright's office at five-thirty, in spite of his " Rullo, Harry ! Did my sight deceive me, or were outward calmness he felt his heart thudding uncom­ you actu<;~.lly coming from Wainwright's worshipful fortably against his ribs. presence? " He had prepared a dozen openings for the interview, " Not absolutely. Shall be basking there later, but every one went clean out of his head as he closed though. Dick, are you due anywhere ? You are the the door, and the Mayor swung round to face him in exact chap I was keen to see next." his chair. " I was toying with the thought of lunch. Come and "Well, Harry? " join me, dear boy. Is anything up ? " At the unexpected mildness of his tone Harry " There has been plenty up for the last few months." flushed scarlet. Harry's cheerfulness sobered. Dick gave him a quick " Mr. Wainwright, I've come to apologize for my glance as they turned into the Abbey Hotel. " But--" behaviour to you, and-and to beg your-your " With Housman, you mean. I heard of that. forgiveness." Though I don't know what the trouble was. It struck "You have? " The Mayor frowned. " Realized me that you've been treated rather harshly." that you've got to have my help at last, have you ? "Mr. Housman has been awfullv decent to me all So you're ready to eat humble pie to obtain it? " through, Dick," Harry exclaimed. -" I'll never forget "Yes, sir." The flush faded, but his eyes were how much I owe him for giving me my second chance bright and steady. "If you put it that way. I do after I'd made such a gratuitous mess of my job at want your help badly to make Molly happy again. Simpson's. When he fired me he was quite justified, She is longing to be friends with you and her mother." because he believed I was to blame for trouble that " What about that letter you had the audacity to occurred at the office. But this morning he told me return to me ? '' the mystery was cleared up, gave me back my post, " Most of what you said in that. letter was true." and a jolly good rise into the bargain." He spoke slowly. "So I could find no other way to " Oh, that 's splendid news, old man ! " answer it. "Rather ! But there 's more I wanted to tell you " Look here, sir, will you let me explain a bit ? I ... direct, Dick. You know better than anybody what don't want to answer your statements in that letter an ill-disciplined young cub I've been, but honestly, I in detail because argument isn't going to help. There believe I've got my temper under control at last. If is no question of cash in this, either. Molly and I I'd only put the curb on long ago Molly might have have managed to pull through so far as money is been spared months of fretting--" He stopped, but concerned up to now, and to-day, as it happens, Mr. Dick did not interrupt. They were alone by a window Housman has just given me a substantial rise. So in the great room, and in the strong light the face of in future, between my salary and what I make from the younger man showed thin and careworn, its my fowls, we shall be quite comfortable. As for the sensitive ardour transmuted to a grave and resolute tea-garden, it will be for Molly to decide whether we firmness. shall keep it on or not, when she hears of my changed " She's so marvellously plucky I never realized till prospects at the office. But I do feel that this estrange­ quite recently that she 's been haunted by a fear that ment between you and Molly has been practically all December, 1934 THE SIGN ' 165 my fault. For it started when I behaved like an CHAPTER XXIV ill-mannered cub to you, in this very room, two years ago. But for t hat you would probably not have FRIENDS AGAIN objected to our engagement in the first place." B UT Molly had already learnt of that final act "I shouldn't. Though I thought you both too young. of Saturday evening's drama which set her But it's no use going back over ancient history, Harry. husband's conduct in a light wholly different Perha:ps I've been to blame too. I didn't. make enough from that in which her timorous distrust had allowance for your youth. I blamed you for temper, clothed it. but I've shown plenty myself, I'm afraid. You have Harry had scarcely left the Cottage that morning when shown a manly spirit I didn't give you credit for in a ring summoned her to the door. She opened it to see coming to own up like this. Did Mary persuade you . Reggie Everard, red and embarrassed, on the step. to come ? " " Did you want me ? " " She knows nothing about it, sir. I didn't want to " Only to bring you this." He thrust the Gazette raise her hopes in case--" He paused. " Besides, I into her hand. " In case you .hadn't seen it, Mary. had another motive." He flushed again. " Molly's I say, don't look at me so stiffly. I thought it always known I was hot-tempered but I never guessed- was most frightfully decent of Tremayne to roll up I mean it wasn't till last yesterday and set me right Saturday when a rotten with my cousins. I'm just thing happened that I off to the station, haven't :iound out she has been a second to spare. But I secretly afraid that some was keen to be first to show time I might do some vio- you this paragraph. It lent thing in a rage. I doesn't say half enough worship the ground she about what a thoroughly walks on. I had to do good chap he is, though it something to reassure her, hands him bouquets about to make her realize abso- his cool rescue of me from lutely that her fear was the fishes." utterly groundless. So I He dashed off, waving decided to come here to his hand, but so absorbed you.'' He stopped was she in the glowing astounded, for the Mayor paragraph that she did not had broken into a chuckle even notice his departure. of sheer amusement. That day seemed tre- " To beard the old bear mendously · long to her in his den was the best impatience. Harry had proof you could give her warned her not to expect that you're not a danger- him to luncheon as he had ous character, eh? Was an appointment. She sup- not she satisfied with your posed it was with some plucky rescue of that possibleemployerandask- young lout from drowning ed no questions, for when on Saturday? Don't hehadgoodnewstorelate trouble to deny the story. he would tell it gladly As soon as I 'd read the enough, she knew. Young account in the paper this as shewas, hertrueinstinct morning I went straight to had taught her that while the Gazette offices and had sympathy expressed aloud the luck to interview the sometimes acts as an irri· reporter who was an eye- , . . . , tantonfrettednerves,there witness of the whole affair. , He turned rap2dly away, and almost ran 2nto D2ck is balm in golden silence. He said he'd never seen a cooler, more gallant deed." But that evening she awaited his coming in her " But, great Scott, sir, the ass can't have told the prettiest frock, tea laid, her house decked with flowers yarn correctly ! " Harry protested. " Poor old as for a festival, Dickon in his best bib and tucker Reggie would never have landed in the river if I kicking and bubbling on a rug on the grass. had not shoved him there ! " Harry was late in coming, and those final minutes "And quite right too. Impudent monkey, taking of waiting seemed longer than the whole day. She left liberties with your wife ! " the baby's side at length to turn down the gas under "He hadn't m eant the smallest cheek really. He the kettle in the kitchen, and so, in the end, he caught and Molly played together as kids. He was simply her unaware. ragging-and I was a hasty ass to--" He stopped, She felt his strong arms round her and with a joyous for Mr. Wainwright had risen, and was patting his cry she turned in their embrace, not giving him time arm with a kindly look in his twinkling eyes. to utter a word. " If you want to make friends with me, my boy, I'd "Harry ! Can you ever forgive me," she burst be very glad to myself. Family quarrels are wretched out," for being such an unmitigated goose on Saturday? things, and the only way to end them is just honest To think of you listening like an angelic lamb while I forgiveness on both sides. Now tell me-that reporter lectured .and lectured as if you were a mad dog, and told me Mary saw you kick that fellow in. But did it never breathing a hint about leaping in and fishing ever occur to you to mention that you also dragged him out, and telling me to shut up and not be an him out? I thought as much." He laughed aloud unutterable donkey." at Harry's blank expression. "Modesty and Pluck are She was compelled to pause for breath, and Harry twin-brothers. Well, there 's no time l1ke the present. almost broke into a shout of laughter, then checked Let me come home with you now, my boy, and grant me himself and spoke with briskness. the pleasure of giving the child the full story myself." "My poor darling, you seem to have gone clean off 166 THE SIGN December, 1934 the deep end into a tame zoo ! But I haven't time t o bricklayer when I married her, too, and a pretty good disentangle all your weird animals now. Quick ! one at that. I was taken aback, my dear, and right Listen ! I've got the most tremendous news ! Old down angry, but that was because I jumped to the Housman has found out-though I bet it was Mr. conclusion that you were being shoved into bearing Hedges really- that he blamed me unfairly about the burden of the home while your husband idled and the letter. Oh, sorry, I'll explain that affair later-any­ qua rrelled. And that was why I wrote as I did, harshly way he 's behaved like a sportsman over it. Hauled and unjustly, as I'll own now. You are less me in to-day and told me I could keep my job, and not generous than your young man, for he jusf sent only that, but gave me a pound a week rise ! What do back my letter without a word, nor ever reminded you think of that, my precious child? A whole quid ! me of it to-day, except to say that a lot of it was A quid pro quo- as Will would say if he were smart true." enough to think of it, which I doubt." " Daddy, did he ? Oh, but don't you see I had to "Harry ! 0 Harry, how simply glorious ! " explain my side just this once? Because I'm your "Yes, but wait a bit. All is not yet revealed. Who own daughter, and had to be honest with you. Now do you think came home with me and is prancing on we can forget everything that has been horrid, and the lawn at this moment ? " only remember that we're friends again. Dickon ! " " Bother l I don't want any one but ourselves." She laughed as she swooped down. " Dickon, "Yes you do, this one." He quickly sobered. "It's come and meet your Grandfather ! " your Dad, Molly. I She picked up the wanted to do something baby ~nd put him to show you I've turned into the Mayor's over a new leaf about" arms. - he grinned - '' the mad dog aspect of my Dick Tremayne, in character to which you the Mannings' garden, so touchingly alluded was at that very rna- just now. So I went ment telling Evadne of and asked him to for- his me e tin g with give the winged words Harry. we had exchanged. "And as I came here, And the long and short Isawhimand theMayor of it is that he was verv marching together down decent, and here he is. the High Street-the Come along and greet cynosure of every citi- him." zen's eye," he ended She could not resist triumphantly. the arm that was round " Love conquers all, her waist, but she even self,' ' she said moved with mingled softly. "But Dick, if emotions, scarcely pla- you had not spoiled cated even when she him so, had taught saw that the bulky, him to control him- familiar figure of her self as a little child, father was on his knees he wouldn't have had beside her baby. such a desperate fight " Here is Molly, sir ! " to wage with himself Harry called out, and , as a grown man. It stopped, to let her must have meant a advance alone. Mr. "She saw that the ?ulky, fami!iar figure o~.her father tremendous struggle to Wainwright scrambled was on hzs knees beszde her baby curb a temper grown clumsily to his feet, his face reddened by stooping, strong in years of indulgence." and perhaps a little with shame, as he held out his "Yes, it just shows his real grit. I agree, Evadne, hands. I deserve some blame." " Molly, my dear, will you come and kiss your " I don't blame you in the least," she said, flatly old father? I'm afraid you feel I've been rather contradicting herself. "You've been a perfect brother unkind." to him always. But I do sympathize deeply with "Not to me, Daddy," she said a little tremu- children who are taught at home that everything lously, yet still aloof, her grave eyes raised to they say and do is right. Because later on they his. " Or at least only in forgetting that Harry and have to find their level in the outside world, and I are one." learn the hard lesson of self-discipline from their own "Well, well, I'll own I've misjudged him. He is mistakes." turning out a fine young fellow, as I saw when he talked " Well, Evadne, Harry is fairly on his feet at last, to me so frankly to-day. So as he has made friends and your last baby has left your wing. We're both surely you can." free. Five years has been a long probation, my dear ! "Daddy, I want to make friends. I've longed for What about it? With your wisdom and my mistakes it all this time." She went close and put her arm to guide us we ought to be capable of training sons and round his neck. "But Daddy, you do realize that-in daughters in the way they should go, eh? What do all these months-I've grown up, am independent. you say? " Not the Mayor's daughter, but Molly Tremayne. I'm "I say, my dear Dick," she replied with proper no more ashamed of working as a waitress in a tea- spirit, " that I expect to be proposed to in formal garden than you were of working as a bricklayer when terms before I can accept what I gather is a very you were young." tentative and vague offer of marriage!" "You little bully. That is exactly what your Dick's answer was quite explicit. mother said when I told her about it. And I was a THE END December, 1934 THE SIGN 167 Some Points of Church Life To-day Current Interest THE Right Rev. THE Right Rev. J. V. Macmillan, chester, Balliol ,...,.,.....,.,__,__ Derwyn Trevor D.D., who has been nominated to the College, Oxford, Owen, D. D., see of Guildford, has been Archdeacon and Cuddesdon, who has been of Maids tone since 192 r, and Suffragan and was ordain­ Bishop of Tor­ to the Archbishop of Canterbury, as ed in 1905 to a onto since 1932, Bishop of Dover, since 1927. Dr. curacy at Wit­ has been elected Macmillan began his ministerial career ney. He was Archbishop and in 1903 as a curate at Farnham, the afterwards in Primate of All parish in which he will reside as Bishop turn curate and Canada in suc­ of Guildford, and from 1904 until 1915 Vicar of St.John cession to the was resident chaplain to Archbishop the Evangelist, Most Rev. C. L. Davidson at Lambeth Palace. He was East Dulwich, Vvorrell, Bishop Vicar of Kew, 1916-2r. Dr. Mac­ and Vicar of St. of Nova Scotia, millan is Chairman of the Missionary ] ohn the Bap­ who died a few Council of the Church Assembly, and tist, Kensington, months ago. Dr. is also particularly interested in the before being ap­ Owen, who has Church's work among young people. pointed to his spent all his present position CANON A.!LHOWE BROWNil ministerial 1if e .. as Vicar of St. (Bp.-electof Bloemfontein) THE MosT REv. in Canada, was St. Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness, John the Divine, (Elliott & Fry) DERWYN T. OWEN, D.D. ordained in which has recently observed its dia­ Kennington, in (R ..ssell) 1900 and con- mond jubilee, was consecrated by 192r. He is also Rural Dean of secrated Bishop of Niagara in 1925. Bishop Robert Eden in r874, and was Kennington and a Canon in South­ thus, with the exception of the rebuild- wark Cathedral. .. 16 A picture of the Blessed Two important additions have Virgin which disappeared from been made to the beautiful church the church of St. Mary, South­ of St. Augustine, Kilburn, which is ampton, seventy or eighty years well known as one of the finest ago, has been found and restored works of the famous architect, Mr. to its place. It is believed to J. L. Pearson. The first consists of be the work of the Spanish decorations of the Lady Chapel in painter, Joanes, who flourished the north transept in memory of about the middle of the sixteenth the late Prebendary P. H. Leary, century. Its history is a strange vicar of the church from 1907 to one. Some years ago Mr. George 1930 ; the second of a new screen Parker, a well-known Southamp­ in memory of Mr. D. 0. Leefe, who ton man, saw two pictures in a was churchwarden during nearly second-hand shop, and bought the whole of Prebendary Leary's them for £40. In 1921 he sold incumbency. one-the picture of our Lady­ Thechapelhas been raised by two to an American for £roo, but steps, and paved with grey slate, the buyer never claimed his and yellow, black, and white mar­ purchase. In his will Mr. Parker ble, and a new reredos has been left both pictures to Miss B. erected, carved in wood, partly Harding of Southampton, . who, gilt and coloured, and framed with on discovering that one of them sculptured Hornton stpne. was once the Church's property, offered to restore it. 4 Mr. William Skinner, the Dean's verger of St. Paul's Cathedral, has THE Ven. D. C. Crowther, the INVERNESS CATHEDRAL [Valcnti11e & Sons now retired, having spent fifty-six African Archdeacon in the Diocese ing of St. Paul's after the Great Fire of the eighty-two years of his life in .the of the Niger, has just celebrated his of London, the firsf cathedral to be service of St. Paul's. As a" testimony of ninetieth birthday, and in spite of his completed in Great Britain since the respect and affection" he was presented great age this wonderful old man, who Reformation. The ancient see of with a cheque for £r86 and an album ha., laboured in the ministry for sixty­ Moray, which is included in the present containing the names of eight hundred four years, and has been an Arch­ Diocese of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, and thirty subscribers, among them deacon since r876, is still working had its cathedral at Elgin, where its being the Archbishop of Canterbury, the enthusiastically, ruins may still be seen. The diocese Bishop of London and his three suffra­ and has charge now extends from Banffshire to Caith­ gans, fifteen other bishops, thirteen of nearly four ness, and Inverness is a more convenient deans, all .con­ h u n d r e d self­ centre. The cathedral was begun in nected with St. supporting r866, opened in r869, and consecrated Paul's from the churches in the when free of debt five years later. At Dean to the bell­ Ibocountry. Dr. the recent festival services there were ringers and Crowther (Arch­ some present who witnessed the wandsmen, the bishop Davidson consecration sixty years ago. vergers of eleven conferred the other cathe­ degree of Doctor J6 drals, the City of Divinity on IT has been remarked that the police, fifteen him in 1920) is Diocese of Bloemfontein is fortunate City companies, a son of Samuel in its bishops. Bishop Chandler, who and the Order of Crowther who presided over it for nearly twenty years, St. Michael and was raised to the was succeeded by Bishop Walter Carey; St. George. The episcopate in and its good fortune has been main­ presentation was rB64, the first tained by the appointment of Canon t h e 1as t func­ African bishop Howe Browne to succeed Dr. Carey. tion at which Dr. of the Anglican The bishop-elect, who is in his fifty­ Ingewas present VEN. D . c .' CROWTHER Communion. fourth year, was educated at Win- as Dean. MR. WILLIAM SKINNER (Elliott & Fry) 168 THE SIGN December, 1934 ·Hints for some of our Our Query Corner Correspondents *.** RULES.-(1) All anonymous correspondence is destroyed unanswered. (2) True names and addresses must be given. (3) No names are published. (4) Correspondents must give the name of the local Parish Magazine to which they subscribe. (5) As several months at least must elapse before a question can be answered in the magazine, correspondents desiring an answer by post should enclose a stamped addressed envel<;>pe. (6) Attempts. will be made to answe~ all reasonable questions in such cases, and to deal as far as possible with others of the same class If sent for answer m these columns ; but 1t must be recollected that THE SIGN goes to press very much earlier than the local magazine and t.hat it is impossible to answer all questions here: (7) Those who are answered-and others-are asked to recollect that many of th~ quest~ons are such as can only be adequately answered m a large treatise : our notes are s1mply " rough charts " to serve till a larger map can be exammed. (8) The pages marked THE SIGN are a general Church Magazine, and the local pages only are edited by or under the direction of the Incumbent of each Parish.*** 2595. Can you explain why three person can be appointed in his place than of THE SIGN. Subject to this saints' days are placed immediately after without waiting for the Easter meeting. proviso, we may say that as far as we Christmas ? · "A new appointment of a church­ have been able to ascertain the custom The various commemorations in the warden should be made at a joint of whitewashing the outside of churches Church Kalendar are not intended to meeting of the Vestry and Parochial formerly obtained among Celtic peoples. be arranged in the order in which the Church Meeting." For instance, St. Davids Cathedral, events happened. We believe that the we believe, is known to have been so Epiphany was the first of the Christmas ~~~~~~~~h~~~~~~r.l' treated. As a general rule this custom festivals to be observed. Later on of treating buildings in this way did when Christmas {tself was kept the ~ . THE CHURCH'S ~ not exist in England in the Middle three festivals-of the first martyr, of u PATHWAY c Ages, though instances of it are known. the Evangelist of the Incarnate CHRIST, The Tower of London , for example, and of the. Innocent.s-were observed 8 Wherefore, receiving a king- 8 was at one time whitewashed on the on the three days immediately follow­ 8 dom that cannot be shaken, 8 outside. Speaking generally, however, ing it. For the thought which gave v let us have thankfulness, ~ we should say that there is not much rise to this arrangement you m ight {! whereby we may offer ser- u precedent for applying this treatment like to look at the poem on St. Stephen's 8 vice well-pleasing to God 8 to churches in England. Day in Keble's Christian Year, a book 2600. When were Roman Catholic possibly too much neglected by Church 8 " If we keep this Divine 8 churches turned into Protestant people at the present time. v company, we must come deter- v churches? Except for Easter and the various {! mined to think with Him, work {! days depending on it, we do not think You are mistaken in supposing that there was ever any intention of observ­ 8 with Him, suffer with Him, and 8 any Roman Catholic churches were ing the festivals on the anniversaries v love with Him. We cannot be ~ converted into Protestant churches of the events which they commemorate. {! in fellowship with CHRIST Who )... either in your neighbourhood or any­ 8 gave Himself for men, and think 8 where else in England. If by" Protes­ 2596. Should Christmas hymns be only of ourselves." tant churches " you mean those of sung on Christmas Eve ? 8 8 the Church of England we must explain As far as our experience goes it is v He shall reign for ever v that this Church has been in existence quite usual to sing such hymns as those {! and ever {! continuously for over thirteen hun­ you mention at the first Evensong of dred years, and the fact that the Roman Catholics broke away from it in the Christmas. The only criticism that DECEMBER, 1934 occurs to us is that in " 0 come, all ~ §sixteent h century did not make any ye faithful " the verse containing () Date THE GREATER FESTIVALS ~ difference to its continued existence " Born this happy morning" might C 2, S. 'B~"cnt SunM\?. )... either before or after that time. You seem only suited to Christmas morning. 8 9, $, Secon~ in · a~"ent. 8 will find a useful little book on this .At the first Evensong the altar should () 16, S. 'ltbir~ in 'E\~\>ent . ~ subject in The Continuity of the Church of course be " arrayed " (to u s~ the {! 21, F. St. 'ltbomas. R . .l!D. )... of England b y Canon Ollard (Mow­ technical term), that is, prepared for v 23, !5. jfourtb in :a~"ent. v brays; 4d. ; · post fd.). Christmas. c 25, Tu. \tbristmas 1Iht}?. {! 2601. What is the meaning of the 8 26, W. St. Stepbcn, jfirst Mart-er. 8 2597. Can you give me particulars () 27, Th. St. 3o1m, JE"an. () term" actual lay communicant" in the about the Church Army? C 28, F. 1bol)? ;rnnocents. {! Rules for the Representation of the Laity? The Church Army is known as a 30, S . Rfter a:bnstmas. 8 Working People's Mission to Working 8 This term has not been defined by law, People. Its extensive evangelistic and (j + ~ but the Archbishops of Canterbury and social work includes Training Colleges {! DAYS OF FASTING OR u York issued in rgzr an important ruling for evangelists, social workers, etc. If () ABSTINENCE ~ on this point. It reads as follows : vou desire to train for work with the {! Fridays, 7, 14, 21 )... "We are prepared to advise or Church Army you should write to The 8 Ember Days, 19, 21, 22 8 decide when occasion calls for it that Secretary, 55 Bryans ton Street, London, (j Christmas Eve, 24 (j in construing the Rule the word 'com­ W.r, giving particulars of your age, {! + {! municant ' should be regarded as education, present work, etc., when meaning that actual lay representa­ probably you will be put in touch with § COMMEMORATIONS § tives must be persons who have the head of a local branch. {! 4, Clement of Alexandria, D., c. 210 ; {! communicated in the Church of (j 6, Nicholas, Bp. of Myra ; 8, Concep- (j England at least once within the year 2598. Can a churchwarden resign and {! tion of the B . V.M. ; [16, 0 Sapientia {! preceding the election ." his successor b~: appointed except at (j (first of Antiphons preparatory to (j Easter? {! Christmas);] 17, Ignatius, Bp. of {! 2602. Where should one begin the The law on the subject is not 8 Antioch, M., c. 110. 8 lighting of the altar candles? We believe that the usual practice quite clear; but we think the answer c:.:l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to your question is to be found in the is to light first the candle on the following Opinion which was published 2599. Is there any authority for Epistle side, that is to say the one on in October, 1933, by the Legal Board whitewashing the outside of a church? the right hand of a person standing of the Church Assembly : We do not profess to have expert in front of the altar with his face to­ "A churchwarden can resign with knowledge on antiquarian matters, wards it. In extinguishing the candles the consent of the body or person who which really fall more into the province the order is reversed, the " Gospel appointed him, and some other qualified of such a journal as Notes and Queries candle " being extinguished first. 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ARMISTICE DAY An interesting feature of this service was the Sunday, November 11th, was the sixteenth an­ presence of a platoon of German ex-service men niversary of the declaration of Armistice in the who were placed in a position of honour, first be­ Great War in 1918. We, who were actively inter­ hind the Chaplains on the fore front of the pro­ ested, whether at home or at the front on the cession. original Armistice, can recall the enthusiasm with Would to God that all past enmities be forgot­ which the news was greeted and the intense feel­ ten and all labour for peace. fng of relief and thankfulnesss which everywhere prevailed. Even to this date there is an atmos­ phere which surrounds the day which is absent at THE CHURCH BIBLE AND PRAYER BOOK other times. SOCIETY Our observances began with a service at Mal­ This organization, which dates from 1898, aims vern Collegiate on Friday morning, where, in the to assist weak missions of our Canadian Church presence of one thousand students, Canon Haynes­ by grants of Bibles, Prayer Books and Hymn Reed held a service of remembrance at the mon- Books, is doing a splendid work and is a valuable ument in front of the Collegiate. , aid to the people and clergy. Then, on Saturday morning, Ald. Bray placed a Archbishop Owen, Primate, writes; "the Soc­ wreath from the city to the hundred odd veterans iety is worthy of the support of all our Church whose remains are interred in St. John's Cem­ people and I would ask their co-operation." etery, and the Rector offered a prayer of remem­ The work of the society depends on the money brance. which is given them, and they can only work as In the evening a dinner and remembrance to they have means. the members of _Valenciennes Conclave of Noble Twenty-one Dioceses received grants last year Order of Crusaders. Then at eight o'clock of the and the Society is faced with ever-increasing ap­ same night a service at the Sons of England peals for Prayer Books, Bibles and Lectern Bibles, Monument on University Avenue. which they are eager to supply. On Sunday morning the Church was crowded to capacity with a congregation of 900, some stand­ ing through the entire service. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH (NORWAY) The Beaches Branch of the Legion were present November, 1934. and a dozen officers of the Toronto Scottish. The Dear Sir or Madam: service began at 10.45 so that we could keep the St. John's Church (Norway) is faced with a two minutes silence at eleven o'clock. serious situation. The revenue to support the At the proper time the Churchwardens escort­ Church in its services and activities is not suffi­ ed the Clergy and Scout Master Nursey and Major cient to cover the expenses entailed. Odium, Second - in - Command of the Toronto The regular attendance is greater than it ever Scottish to the rear of the Church where wreaths was-the various organizations within the Church were placed on the Church Honour Roll and the are all raising their fair share of contributions­ Memorial Window to the 75th Battalion, C.E.F., the open offertories each Sunday are fairly good, whose successors are the Toronto Scottish. Mar­ but they do not appear to be commensurate with ine Sidney Peters sounded Last Post and Reveille, the relative size of the congregation. and Archdeacon Fotheringham preached a power­ The principal cause of the present financial de­ ful sermon. ficiency is the uncertainty, irregularity and the In the afternoon a cenotaph was erected on the leave-it-to-chance nature of the open offertories. platform in the Church School and the honours 'fhe Church needs a . regular weekly income just paid again. as the average family needs the weekly pay enve­ In the evening, in the presence of a large body lope. of ex-service women, the tribute of respect was Experience proves that subscription by the given again when the Rector preached. weekly envelope system is the only reliable meth­ On Monday night the Rector drove to Markham od of providing for the needs of the Church in the and took part in a community Armistice memor­ Parish and for the extra-Parochial purposes. It frees ial service in Grace Church, and on Thursday the Church from being dependent upon Church evening in the Annual Memorial Service of Cam­ attendance alone. Rain or shine, winter or sum­ bridge Lodge, Sons of England. mer, the Church's expenses go on. The open of­ In the afternoon of Armistice Day the Rector fertory is not an adequate or dependable source took part in the Veterans Parade to the Ceno­ of Church income. taph at the City Hall but did not wait for the The situation is acute and the Advisory Board service. has found it necessary to present the matter to

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Volume 13 MAY, 1935 No. 151

.Rector· s JLetter by all, and though political parties com e and go, yet the Kingly office goes on just the same. The Rectory, We think King George has endeared himself ; !:'.; May, 1935. to the people by his intense application to duty, Dear Brethren: by his absolute strictness of life and conduct, Easter has come and gone and been celebrated by his devotion to his family, by his sincere with all the customary usage which the great sympathy with the people in all their sorrowings Festival, with all its human and eternal implica­ and by his desire to share with the rublic in tions, involves. everything that concerns the common good. God grant that we may rise to newness of life, It is not without notice that in these days of otherwise the keeping of the Festival may have transition, while other nations have changed their been meaningless to us. form of government- and some 24 monarchs have The great event of this mon,th is the Silver given place to elected representatives of the Jubilee of King George the Fifth and his gracious people- yet the throne of Great Britain stands consort, Queen Mary. Before this is in print we secure. Recently a great public statesman, Stan­ shall have celebrat ed that event with all the ley Baldwin, said that it was the throne that kept pomp and ceremony that is befitting to the oc­ our Empire intact and that if monarchy were casion. Of course, the great centre of Ute cele­ overthrown our Great Empire would soon disin­ bration will be in London, but in every quarter tegrate and disappear. of the world due observance will be made. Surely our prayers have been heard and the We doubt if ever there was a king who per­ Church must keep on praying for the Royal Fam­ formed his kingly duties with more ability, and ily and the peorle fervently singing, "God Save certainly there never was one who filled a great er The King." r lace in the h earts of his peoples. Think of all the quarters of the world where The kingly office is not one to be desired- at people of all classes and creeds and colours unite least the responsibilities are so great as to make in this thanksgiving to God for the preservation one hesitate to assume the office. To live ever of the King and earnestly pray for a blessing on in the public gaze, to be the servant of the pub­ him. He is King of Great Britain and that great­ lic, to realize the importance of every movement ness comes because the Kingdom is founded on made, every decision given, to t ry to crystalize righteousness. ever y public movement for good, to lead in over­ We have our part to play in upholding that coming all t he obstacles which impede human Kingdom in r unning our part in the great relay progress, to support the right and to redress race of life and handing on the torch to others. It the wrongs; these are some of the kingly duties is our life, our character, our conduct that will call which the office implies. And certainly one must down God's blessings and preserve the Empire. agree that our beloved Sovereign has manfully The t wenty-five years that his Majesty · has .endeavoured to uphold and fulfill them all. And reigned h ave been the most important twenty­ in this h e has been ably 13 uppor ted by his grac­ five years in history. It embraces the period of ious wife, Queen Mary. If one only knew how the Great War, the most momentous time in his­ much public m en are influenced by their wives tory. It is the greatest period of invention that we would be much surprised, and the Queen has ever has been, if we stor to think of the great certainly filled her part and filled it well. advances in scientific knowledge, in machine, in If the motto of the Prince of Wales is, "I surgery, of the great discoveries of radio, wire­ serve", then surely it is good training for the less telegraphy and telephony, of air ships, of office of King, for service must surely be the submarines, of machinery, of the gr eat advances duty of a King. made for material comfort for all classes. Indeed, While the Monarch is supposed to be outside may we not feel thankful for being alive at this all political parties, yet his influence must be felt present time. WATSON'S WHEN MOVING Phone Hargrave 5034 Careful Carrier of Household Goods. Pianos Moved and Hoisted by Experienced Mf n 281 RHODES A VENUE

PLEASE PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS 2 T H E P A R I S H M 0 N T .H L Y Despite the period of depression through which we are passing, which will untimately lead to A .Y.P.A. NOTES great good and to a better world, we can all Once a year, the A.Y.P.A. hold heartily echo the words of th e National Anthem, an Oratorical Contest. April the "Send him victorious, happy and glorious, long 9th was the date set for this year, to reign over us, God save the King." an9. we had six speakers appear Ever your friend and Rector, in the Parish Hall Auditorium. The subjects were well chosen and the W. L . BAYNES-REED. speaker s made excellent delivery on their various topics. EASTER DAY Strange as it may seem, the girls of the A.Y.­ The Services on East er Day were well attended P.A. seem more inclined to public speaking than and while we did not reach the 1500 Communi­ the boys. ,Fiv$ out of the six speakers were girls, cant mark estimated by the Rector, yet we passed and a girl won the contest which automatically all records wh en we recorded 1384 people who elect ed her to speak for St. John's (Norway) made their Communion. A.Y.P.A. at the Local Council Oratorical Contest Easter was late this year and the day a glorious on the following evening. one. All nature seemed attuned \vith the Festival. On Tuesday in Holy Week, the A.Y.P.A. at­ The Choir were in good form and the music .well tended Church in a body and the members made rendered. The Archdeacon preached at both a good showing marching in together to the front Services and his message was a powerful one r ows of the Church. on each occasion. Canon Baynes-Reed celebrated The executive body, on behalf of the A.Y.P.A., the Holy Communion five times and baptized fi ve extend their thanks and appreciation to the con­ children in the afternoon. Rev. F . E. Farncomb gregation for their supr.ort of the Spring play, and Archdeacon Fotheringham assisted at the "Yours Truly Willie." . Communion Services. The A.Y.P.A. is entering into t he last month The attendance at all Services was as follows: of thetr activities for this season, and look back 6 a.m. Communicants ...... 113 with the assurance that the A.Y.P.A. has fulfilled 7 a.m. Communicants ...... 395 its aims in every respect in the past eight months. 8 a.m. Communicants ...... 423 9 a.m. Communicants ...... 166 11 a.m. Communicants ...... 287 PARISH ASSOCIATION This will be our last call to the "Luncheon". Total Communicants ...... 1384 Hope you haven' t forgotten the date, Tuesday, May 14th. Mrs. Stratton, who has convened it 11 a.m. Congregation ...... 857 so many times, is again taking charge and Mrs. 3 p.m. Children's Service in Church 526 Oetiker is looking after the entertainment. As 3 p.m. Children's Service usual, the ladies of the Parish Association are in Parish Hall ...... 400 taking part in it, so we promise you a good laugh 4 p.m. Children Baptized ...... 5 if nothing else. We are going to start at one 7 p.m. Evening Congregation ...... 526 o'clock sharp, so come along and bring your This represents a large number of people who friends. listened to the story of the Resurrection and all On Monday afternoon, May 27th, the girls of the that it involves in human life. Ecclesia Girls' Bible Class, who have taken over A number of people were not able to be ac­ the Fancy Work Booth, are holding a demonstra­ commodated at the Morning Service. tion in the Parish Hall. This demonstration is going to be put on by Brown's Bread. It is free, Bishop Beverley, our new Suffragon Bishop, will and a cup of tea will be served. Come and help be with us for Confirmation on Sunday evening, the girls; if they get 150 people, they get a cer­ tain sum of money. May 26th. Mrs. Coultas, of 117 Hollywood Crescent, is The Synod of the Diocese will open the session holding a Home Cooking Sale on Saturday, June at St. James' Parish House on Tuesday, May 14th. 1st, in aid of the Ice Cream Booth, and would like The vi·siting clergy for the month of April were: as many as possible to go. A Tea will be held Rev. H. A. Ben Oliel, Rev. H. P. Charters, Rev. at the home of Mrs. M. Dunham, 182 Kingston N. Clarke Wallace, Rev. T. P. Crosthwait, Rev. Road, on 'fhursday, June 6th, from 3.00 to 5.30, Rural Dean Hartley, Rev. John Bushell, Rev. F . and 7.30 to 10.00 o'clock. A charge of 25 cents; J. Nicholson and Rev. C. R. Tyner, of Kansas proceeds are for the Chancel Guild and the Fancy City, Missouri. Work Boot:fl. A welcome is extended to everyone.

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AFTERNOON BRANCH W.A. (Norway). This Service was sent out to us by We offer our apologies for the omittance of an the composer, who is organist of St. Mary's, important event which took place at the March Burry Port, Wales, of whose choir Mr. Jones was Business Meeting. This was the presentation of a member before coming to Canada, and the set­ a Bible by Canon Baynes-Reed, which will be used ting was originally composed for a Festival held by some Mission Church to be chosen later. This at All Saints, Llanelly. For the Evening Service, is in honour of five of our members who have Walmsley's "Magnificat" and Nunc "Dimittis," retired from office and whose names Will be in­ a recent addition to our library of music, was scribed in the Bible. These members are: Mrs. given, whilst the anthems for the day were Wes­ Bailey, Mrs. Turff, Mrs. Gascoigne, Mrs. Punchard ley's "Blessed be the God and Father", and "0 and Mrs. Cartledge. Mrs. Jackes, from th·e Dio­ Give Thanks," by Goss. cesan Board, was present and brought the Bible As in all things that are worth while, attention to show us. and work are necessary to their accomplishment; The meetings of the Annual W.A. last week, so, with regard to our music, our usual practice held at St. Anne's Church, were well attended evening and extra evenings were given over to by our members. The Corporate Commumon the pleasant task of contributing our best en­ Service at St. James' Cathedral, on the Thursday deavours to making our Easter-tide Service worthy morning was a most inspiring and impressive of this happy and glorious Festival and sustain Service. If more of our women of the Church the traditions associated with St. John's and the attended one of those Services, it would inspire Choir. them to join the W.A. group. Six of our ladies were in the special choir. THE MOTHER'S UNION We were so pleased to notice that our loved The Mother's Union held their monthly meet­ President, Mr s. Southgate, was able to attend ing in the Ladies' Parlour on Thursday, April Communion, Easter morning. 25th, with a large number of members and pros­ It is with regret that we have to report Mrs. pective members present. The meeting opened Chandler is giving up the flower convenership with the singing of Hymn No. 759, followed by as she is moving fro·m the district. Mrs. Gas­ the Litany. coigne has kindly consented to fill this vacancy. The President gave a most inspiring address on the sixth word from the Cross, "It is Finish­ EVENING BRANCH W.A. ed." Letters and Easter Greetings from our The Evening Branch of the W .A. are meeting English links were read and distributed. The again at t:p.eir regular time, Wednesday, at 8 p.m. meeting closed with the singing of Hymn No. 521 We will be glad to welcome new members. and special prayers for our sick and absentee We would like to thank all those members who members. so regularly attended the Wednesday evening Next month we are holding an admission ser­ services during Lent. vice. On Friday, some of us attended the Annual ST JOHN'S (NORWAY) CHOIR Meeting of the Diocese, held in St. James Parish Falling almost as late as it is possible for Hall. Reports from all branches were given and Easter Day to do, Sunday, April 21st saw a huge officers returned by acclamation. concourse of people throughout the day at St. The final meeting will be held at St. James', on John's. Viewing the crowd leaving the Church May 30th, when we are to be addressed by Arch­ at 8 o'clock, mingling with an equal number bishop Owen. It is hoped that the memb-ers will awaiting admission, and this happening again at make a special effort to be present. 9 o'clock, and for the 11 o'clock Service, all avail­ able accommodation being taken long beforehand, MOTHER'S SOCIETY afforded an interesting sight and a most gratify­ The Mother's Society held three well attended ing experience to everyone, recording, or, to be meetings in April. more vehement, avering the undoubted popular­ On April 4th, Miss Shotter spoke to us of the ity of our Church. Bearing in m!nd the respon­ first two words from the Cross, telling how, even sibility that the musical portion of our Festival in His great pain, Jesus was thinking of others. Service should be commensurate with the dignitv On April 11th, the address was -on the fifth and of the occasion, much work of a pleasant nature, sixth words from the Cross, "I Thirst", and "Into however, had be'en gone through and for the first Thy Hands," showing that Jesus knows what tiine in Canada the Communion Service, composed human suffering means, and also how to relieve by W. T. Richard·s,- was · :r:endered in St. John's it by leaving everything in God's Hands.

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