HARTLIP PARISH MAGAZINE.

JANUARY, 1912.

Dear Friends,

We are sorry to lose Captain and Mrs. Thompson from our midst; they were pleasant neighbours, and practical helpers in things parochial. Our best wishes go with them and Master James.

We advisedly altered the form of our Week-night Services this last Advent, by having sacred LANTERN Lectures. On December 7 the Rev. G. P. Tonge (Mission to Seamen Chaplain) gave us a descriptive account, by the aid of beautiful pictures, of the Church's work amongst our sailors in local ports; and also the men on board the lightships on the Kentish Coast.

On December 14 the Rev. W. C. Procter spoke on "The Purposes of Christ's First Coming, and the Preparation for His Second Advent." By means of very fine pictures of towns and villages in the Holy Land (which he had visited) he traced the steps of our Lord; and then, by views of dense town parishes at home, showed how the Church Pastoral Aid Society, by making grants for additional Clergy, was in every sense preparing the people for His Second Advent.

Tuesday, December 12, the Tait Missioner of Canterbury Cathedral, though working at very high pressure, very kindly spared an evening to come and talk to our Sunday School staff. Out of his ample store of varied and practical experience he was well able to give some helpful advice, and speak some encouraging words to those who bear the burden of Sunday School teaching; the need for which teaching was never greater than at present.

I was amazed the other day to discover that one or two were not aware that we have a CLOTHING CLUB, now some seven years old, which meets at the School on Monday mornings. The amounts paid in may be from one penny, and any, or every week, if you like.

The Heating Fund has, as one ventured to hope, reached the three figures before Christmas, which is most encouraging. This has been mainly by large donations. Now what we are anxious to encourage is donations from those who cannot give large amounts; such, I need hardly say, are quite as welcome, because they may be given with an equally good will, however small. The heating system is working pretty well, and this will be increasingly evident the more that ex-

perience is gained in its management, and the more we become accustomed to fresh air, accompanied by heat.

And now a closing word as to the year that is fast slipping from our grasp. We cannot keep it, nor stay its progress if we would. The year 1911, ere you read this, will have gone, gone where? Gone into the great Record Book of Him Who, neither slumbers nor sleeps. It will have gone with all its mistakes, all its blots and blurs, all its hasty words, and still worse thoughts, its broken vows, its neglected Sundays, and its prayerless days, and neglected Bible. Surely, dear friends, it behoves us to mentally recall the days of 1911, and candidly and manfully review them and try to realise where we have failed to be what we probably vowed a year ago we should try to be. It will be very humbling to do so, but it will be very beneficial, and thereby we will discover our weaknesses. One of the best helps to play the man in the New Year will be found in the picture on our Kalendar, "Will ye not enter in?" If we only try thus to worship, Him in Spirit and in Truth every Lord's Day, then 1912 will be one of the happiest years in our life.

That this may be so, in the experience of all, who shall read these words, is the earnest prayer of

Yours sincerely,

J. S. McMILLAN.

OFFERTORIES FOR NOVEMBER.
				£	s.	d.
Nov.	1	-	National Society	0	3	3
"	5	-	Church Expenses	0	17	3
"	12	-	Sunday School Fund	0	15	3
"	19	-	Church Expenses	0	14	9
"	26	-	Church Expenses	0	16	5

CALENDAR.
Jan.	1	-	Circumcision. Holy Communion, 10.30 a.m.
"	6	-	Epiphany of Our Lord. Holy Communion, 10.30 a.m.
"	25	-	Conversion of St. Paul. Holy Communion, 10.30 a.m.

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