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October 1923 : page 2 (of 2)
Hartlip Parish Magazine. October, 1923.
The Vicarage,
September 25th, 1923.
My Dear Friends,
In the Summer evenings we rightly want to be out of doors and we turn our thoughts chiefly to outdoor work and amusements - gardening, cricket, bowls or other wholesome work and recreation. With the end of 'Summer time' and the coming of the dark evenings we make our plans for indoor occupation of our time. The regular weekly bellringing practice is started and perhaps there are one or two of the younger men in the parish who would like to take up ringing. They would be welcomed in the belfry and given every help. We want through the winter to have full attendance at the choir practices a and to yet further improve the singing. We are proud of our choir but there is always room for improvement. Without good practices we cannot get on. Our organist, Mr. Lilwall, is keen to do all he can to make the singing as good as possible. We have just lost the valuable help of Dick Chambers who has been our leading boy for some time. He has left the parish with the best wishes of us all for his happiness and in the life he has chosen. The treble part is now rather weak and we should like to have some more boys in the choir. We could do well with some more men too. We shall be glad to teach the singing of tenor or bass to any young men who would like to learn. It is not difficult to pick up and it makes singing enjoyable and interesting.
Mrs. Creaton would like to arrange for a weekly afternoon meeting for women through the winter months. She will be pleased to see all those who might like to come to such meetings at the Club Room on Thursday, October 11th, at 2.30 when plans may be talked over and the most suitable day in the week for the meetings arranged. She hopes also to re-start the G.F.S. Candidates' Class and the first class will be held at the Vicarage on Saturday, October 13th, at 2.30. All old members will be welcomed and any other girls over 8 years of age.
At a meeting of the Entertainments Committee held on September 19th, it was decided to have fortnightly gatherings in the Club Room, through the winter on the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month, and two or three larger gatherings in the Schoolroom. The meetings in October however, are to be a Whist Drive and Dance, on 3rd Tuesday (16th) and the other meeting on 5th Tuesday (30th).
These, and other things which may be going on, will give almost everyone the opportunity of taking part in the Social life of our village this Winter
and we ought never to forget that we are intended to be social (and sociable) beings and in taking our part we are not only doing what is good for ourselves but are helping others also. We fulfil our highest social duty in public worship. To be a hermit may be all right for a crab, but it is not good for a Christian.
I remain,
Your Sincere Friend and Vicar,
D. H. CREATON.
THE CHURCHYARD.
We have now made a definite move towards the enlargement of our churchyard, and a meeting of the Parochial Church Council as held on September 23rd, to consider some suggestions. The discussion was adjourned so that the Council might meet again in the churchyard on October 7th, and then on October 8th there is to be a furthur discussion in the Schoolroom, when we hope to put into shape some definite scheme to be submitted to a general meeting of the parishioners. It should be understood that the Church Council is now the body legally responsible for the upkeep etc., of the Churchyard and therefore anything that is done must of course be done through the Council. At the same time this is a matter which concerns the whole parish (church people and nonconformists alike) and we are anxious that nothing should be done by the Council without the full approval and support of parishioners generally.
We have perhaps no task more beautiful and sacred than the care for the reverent burial of the bodies of our Christian brethren departed this life and of the ground in which they repose and we shall all be of one mind in trying to carry out the most necessary enlargement of our Churchyard in the best way possible.
COLLECTIONS IN CHURCH.
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| £ | s. | d. | ||||
| August | 26 | - | Church Expenses | 1 | 10 | 6 |
| Sept. | 2 | - | " " | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| " | 9 | - | Quota to Diocesan Fund | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| " | 11 | - | Vicar's Fund | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| " | 16 | - | Lebombo Mission | 2 | 7 | 8 |
| " | 21 | - | Vicar's Fund | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| " | 23 | - | Church Expenses | 1 | 8 | 5 |