VICAR'S LETTER.

DEAR PEOPLE,

I have written elsewhere and preached often about the Oxford Movement Centenary. Please read the article which follows, and do your best to observe this unique happening next week. The newspapers will have pictures and articles telling us of what is being done in various parts of the country. A leading Roman Catholic Jesuit preacher, Father Woodlock, has been given space in the dailies, and he says the Oxford Movement is a failure. I think this is really it great compliment, for, from the viewpoint of the Papists, it is a failure. Our Church is not drawing nearer Rome, and this such a leader admits. England is not moving towards submission to the Pope and the claims of the Papacy. We have no desire for the uncatholic tenets of modern Rome. It is a bitter pill for Romanists to bee how the great Orthodox Church representatives are joining with us in our thanksgivings.

We pray for Unity - but unity when it comes will be with a reformed Rome, and never by absorption unconditionally with that Body.

Mrs. Mutter and I had a nice holiday in the Highlands. and I am giateful to the four Priests who conducted services in my absence.

Your sincerely,

CECIL G. MUTTER.

MOTHERS' UNION.

The next Serrvice for the Union will be in the Parish Church at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 18th. The Vicar and Mrs. Mutter invite the members afterwards to tea in the Vicarage Garden, and it is hoped to have a special speaker present.

G.F.S.

In August - the date to he announced later - there will be a Sale of Work on the Vicarage Lawn, run by the members and candidates of the Society. In addition to the Work Stall them will be a Jumble Stall, amusements, and a sale of refreshments.

CENTENARY OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT.

We shall do our little part in observing this by special Services next Sunday, June 9th. Holy Communion will be at 8 a.m. with prayers of thanksgiving for all that the Movement has accomplished in the last one hundred years.

Communicants who attend this service will be given a little memento of the occasion. If we but realised all the blessing the Oxford Movement has brought to our Church in the way of quickened life and beauty it is certain that our Communicants would make a special effort to be present, and take their share with the countless worshippers in the great Anglican Branch of the Church, both at Home

and in the Dominions, and in all the foreign lands where our Missionaries have penetrated and preached the pure gospel of our great Reformed Church.

At night we shall end our Service with a Te Deum of Thanksgiving sung before the Altar. Many of our readers must be very tired, and glad of a rest on Sundays after their strenuous labour in the hot sun in the orchards. It is hoped, though, that all will make a real effort to come, and the services are truly restful in our cool church. Think over it, and act accordingly.

At Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday, the 11th, the Archbishop cordially invites all who can to attend the great Service in the Nave at 11.30 o'clock. It will be a Choral Eucharist for the whole Diocese. The celebrant will be the Very Rev, the Dean of Canterbury.

Then at 3 p.m. Festal Evensong will be sung, and the preacher will be Doctor Frere, the Lord Bishop of Truro. Bishop Frere is, perhaps, the greatest of our liturgical sholars, and was for years the Superior of the Mirfield Community. His knowledge of the men of the Movement is unsurpassed, and it will be a great privilege to hear him.

At night, at 7.30, there will he a Service at St. Michael's, Sittingbourne, for the whole Rural Deanery. We hope Hartlip will be represented there, when Canon Sopwith, of Maidstone, will preach.

If any would like to make a thankoffering for the great Centenary Central Fund, which is to be expended on the Church's work, the Vicar would be pleaced to receive it. The box in Church will be used for this purpose next Sunday.

WOMEN'S FELLOWSHIP.

The members had a party in honour of their leader Mrs. Noble, on Thursday, April 20th. The hall looked very gay and Mesdame Friar and Ongley, as the oldest members were called upon to make a presentation to Mrs. Noble. This consisted of a Pyrex dish on a silver stand and three beautiful crystal vases. Mrs. Noble suitably responded.

Following this all sat down to at delicious tea, whilst music was supplied by a gramaphone. Afterwards recitations were given by various members.

WOMEN'S FELLOWSHIP AND SUNDAY SCHOOL OUTING.

This will be on Tuesday, July 25th, leaving Hartlip at 8.30 a.m. for a day in Margate. Grown-ups pay 5/0 for their seats. It is absolutely necessary to book seats at least a week before, as one must know exactly how many to accommodate and arrange teas for. We have to pay for the charabanc, and not so much per head, but a fixed amount for each conveyance, and to make it pay each seat must be occupied.

Collectors will be calling for donations towards the children's expenses. Now that we take the children so much further afield, and as the numbers have increased in the School it is hoped for a liberal response. The Day School will be given a holiday. Application for seats should be made to Mrs. Noble, Dane House, or to the Vicarage.

BAPTISM.

June 4th. - Alan Arthur, son of Henry and Ivy Andrews.

BURIAL.

June 10th - Thomas Asling, of Wormshill, aged 22 years.