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From the Burnham Deanery
Magazine.
BURNHAM DEANERY MAGAZINE
Badgworth, Berrow, Biddisham, Blackford, Bleadon,
Breane (sic), Brent Knoll, Lympsham, Weare, Loxton
Extract
April 1927
EAST BRENT
Good
Churchmanship in the best sense of the words – that is the
combination of life-long habits of regular Church attendance with
consistent Christian character – is not so common now-a-days that we
can afford to pass over with a bare mention of the fact, the passing
away during the last month, of two of our old Rooksbridge friends,
Emma Phillips and her brother-in-law Arthur Phillips. Until failing
health made it impossible Emma Philips was a regular Communicant at
the Chapel of the Good Shepherd. And the distance of nearly 2 miles
each way seldom prevented Arthur Philips from walking to the Parish
Church and back on Sunday evenings. May they rest in peace, and may
we have grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may
be partakers of the heavenly kingdom.
Burials
Mar 7th
Emma Phillips, aged 84
Mar 25th
Arthur Phillips, aged 80
This extract kindly submitted by Marion
Nicholas. Loxton.
www.loxtonsomerset.org.uk
The following extracts kindly
submitted by Richard Popplestone, a relative of Frank Page.
EDITORIAL.
March 1934
Day Nineteen send to Brean. The Editor
declines to be held responsible for the opinions of his Correspondents.
PLEASE WRITE One
side only. Names plainly EASTER DAY
NOTES—Direct to Printer. April issue on 5th. Heavily overwritten unless
April Notes are short, much excess payment will be involved. (ED.)
RURAL DECANAL NOTES. EAST BRENT
AND LYMPSHAM N.A.
This newly formed Association will come
into force on and after April 1st, 1934, as the D.N.A. year always ends
on March 31st. The representatives of our two parishes have unanimously
elected our Rural Dean as Chairman, Mrs. Wickham as Hon. Treas. and the
Rector of Lympsham as Hon. Sec. The latter hopes that the
representatives of each parish will thoroughly canvass every house in
their respective districts, and get more subscribers and, if possible,
larger subscriptions. The chief difficulty will be the financial one.
EAST BRENT.
Hours OF HOLY COMMUNION.
March 4th 8 a.m. March 11th—MOTHERS’ UNION CORPORATE
COMMUNION 8 a.m., 9 a.m. (R). and 11 a.m. (Choral),
March 18th 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. (Plain).
March 25th—(Palm Sunday. Annunciation of B.V.M.) 8 a.m.
March 29th—(Maundy Thursday). 8 a.m.
April 1st—EASTER DAY 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 9 a.m. (B) and 11 a.m. (Choral).
Please note alterations of usual hours, March 4th and 11th.
SPECIAL SERVICES AND PREACHERS IN LENT.
THURSDAYS 7 p.m.
March 1st—Prebendary J. J. Langham.
March 8th—Rev. E. B. Williams.
March 15th—Rev. Stanford F. H. Robinson.
March 22nd—Prebendary G. W. Saunders.
SUNDAYS 6.30 p.m.
March 4th—Rev. J. F. M. Whish.
March 11th—Rev. P. Marshall.
March 18th—Rev. R. C. V. Hodge.
AT THE CHAPEL OF THE GOOD
SHEPHERD 2.45 p.m. March 4th and 18th—Rev. E. A. H. Strong. March 11th
and 25th—The Vicar.
HOLY WEEK, March 25th to 31st.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. Mattins 11.30 a.m. Evensong 7 p.m.
GOOD FRIDAY. Mattins 11 a.m.
Evensong 6.30 p.m. Also at Chapel of Good Shepherd, Evensong 2.45 p.m.
Collections on Good Friday for Jerusalem and the East Mission.
Easter Eve—Evensong 7 p.m.
MOTHERS’ UNION. The week of
March 4th is to be observed throughout the Diocese as a special Week of
Prayer for M.U. members, followed by Corporate Communion on Mothering
Sunday, March 11th. In East Brent it has been arranged to celebrate
Corporate Communion at three different times on March 11th to give every
member a chance of attending—8 am, at the Parish Church. 9 am. at
Rooksbridge. 11 am, at the Parish Church.
We are also having special intercessions
at the Lenten service on Thursday, March 8th at 7 o’clock.
On Wednesday, March 7th there will be a
meeting at the Vicarage at 3 o’clock with address by Mrs. Hay Wilson, a
missionary of the U.M.C. A. in Africa, on African Mothers and their
Babies. A book stall will be provided. Tea at 3d. We much hope members
will make an effort to attend on all these days.
£1 was collected at Evensong for the
Tuberculosis Care Committee on Sunday, February 25th.
THE SPIRE FUND.
One of our critical readers, was heard
to say about the subscription list of last month” I make it, not..
£15 8s. Od., but £12 18s. Od.” he was right. The explanation is that the
following three kind contributions given on Jan. 25th were accidentally
omitted. Mr. E. E. Hutson £1; Mr. E. J. Jesty £1; and Mr. W. Watkins
10/-,
We are glad to report now a further
addition of £12 1s. 9d., made up as follows :—Mr. G. E. Hudson 5/-; A
Friend 10/-; A Rooksbridge Friend 5/-; Mr. F. Woodward, Senior £1; Mr.
J. Connell 10/-; Whist Drive £2 16s. 3d.; Miss Luttrell £2 ; Searching
Registers, Wedmore 10/6; Bridge Drive £3; Sale of Garden Fête goods,
Mrs. D. Ward 5/-; Miss Maud Watson £1.
Total £12 1s. 9d., reducing deficit from £43 15s. 5d. to £31. 13s.
8d.
Our best thanks are due to the following
ladies who kindly gave the prizes for the Bridge
Drive—
Mrs. Tom Tilley, Mrs. Say and Miss Enid Day.
PAROCHIAL
CHURCH MEET-Jan.
30th. The accounts £28 1Os. lid.
The following twelve were
nominated and elected to serve on the
CHURCH COUNCIL
for the ensuing year:
Mrs. Say, Mrs. Hutson, Mrs. Gill, Mrs. E. E. Huett, Mrs. E. J. Fry, Mrs.
Yeoman, Messrs. F. Woodward, Senior, B. S. Champion, It. Yeoman, P.
Huett,
E. J. Fry, F. Cantle. Mr. E. F. Hutson was unanimously co-opted at the
first meeting of the new Council. The ex-officio members are the Vicar
and Church wardens, Messrs. P. Ward and H. W. Frost, and the
representatives on the Rural-decanal Conference, Mrs. Rose Huett, Mrs.
Wickham and Mr. and Mrs. D. Ward.
The
SIDES MEN
were re-elected as follows:
Messrs. F. Woodward, Senior,
E. E. Hutson, Charles Hodder, B. S. Champion, F. Cantle, IT.
Lull,
G. Hill, Sidney Ham, P. Huett, E. J. Fry, B. Yeoman and W. G. A. Frost.
At the first meeting of the
New CHURCH
COUNCIL
on Feb. l6th the following
officers were
re-elected:
Mr. F. Woodward, Senior,
Vice-Chairman; Mr. E. E. Hutson, Hon.
Sec.; Mr.
E Edwards, Acting
Sexton; Mr. B. A. Fear,
Organist; Mr. E.
Cooke, Steeple-keeper; and
Mrs. Dixon Ward, Hon. See.
for the Duplex
F.W.O.
The Council expressed their
sincere appreciation of the way in which Mr. Fear had met them on the
question of his salary. Mr. F. Woodward, Senior, consented to act as
organiser of au appeal to the parish for the clearing off of the Spire
Fund deficit.
ECONOMY SALE.
An Economy Sale will beheld
at Rooksbridge below the Chapel of the Good Shepherd on Friday, April
6th. All interested in bargains of every description are cordially
invited to attend. The Sale will he opened at 2.30. Admission 2d. Tea at
moderate charges.
BAPTISMS.
January 26th—Pamela
Lilian, daughter of Herbert and Freda Elsie Thomas, born December 2nd,
1933.
February 15th --Rex,
son of Harold and Gertrude Alice Hill, born December 29th, 1933.
MARRIAGE.
February 13th—Francis
William Page and Gladys Alice Maud Crease.
BURIALS.
January. 29th—Elizabeth
Tincknell, aged
61.
February 10th—Edward
Bedding, aged 85.
CALENDAR.
4.
3rd Sunday in Lent.
Holy Communion 8 and (plain) after Morning
Prayer. Preacher (11 a.m.): The
Venerable the Archdeacon of Wells.
11.
4th Sunday in Lent. Holy
Communion 8. Preacher (11 a.m.):
The Vicar of Berrow.
18.
Passion Sunday (5th Sunday in Lent).
Holy Communion 8. Sung Eucharist 11.
25.
Palm Sunday. Holy
Communion 8.
Holy Week—Maundy Communion:
8.
Pu.
Tb. 8. Evening Prayer
Morning Prayer, Litany and
Ante-Communion 8. The
"
Three Hours” 12—3.
Conductor: The Vicar of
Cheddar. Evening Prayer and preparation for Easter Communion 7.30.
31. Easter Even.
Morning Prayer and
Ante-Communioit 8. First Evensong of Easter 7.
April 1. Easter Day.
Holy Communion 7 and
8. Sung Eneharist
11.
Festal Evensong and Sermon 6.30.
Daily Celebrations during
Lent. Mondays and Thursdays 8. Tuesdays and Fridays 7.30. Wednesdays and
Saturdays 7. (For Intentions see services notice-sheet.) Lenten
Thursday evening services 7. Preacher:
Padre Weston N.B. Lady Day
is transferred from March 25th (Palm Sunday) to April 10th.
MY
DEAR PEOPLE,
Last month I mentioned that
the Easter Communion is a tremendous, corporate, worldwide act of
adhesion to our Lord. It is not to be treated as a coating of Christian
whitewash splashed over a life from which Christian worship and effort
are normally absent. The Easter Altar is to be approached by (1) those
who worship regularly and are endeavoring (albeit with many slips and
failures) to live the Christian life, and (2) by those—no matter their
past—who mean to make a fresh start, In both eases, Lent rightly used
prepares us to meet and greet our Risen Lord. That act of adhesion to
Christ was never more important than it is today. Its tremendous
practical importance has been brought home to me anew lately through
reading some articles on Russian Communism, to which all Communism
elsewhere looks as its teacher and leader.
Those
articles prove convincingly
that Communism is a real world-force, and that it recognizes one only
other world-force to 1)0 feared and, if possible, to he destroyed—the
Christian religion. The most significant and dangerous thing about
Russian Communism is the white-hot keenness it asks for and gets. To
he admitted into” The Party,” a man is required to show himself a
whole-hogger in belief and practice. He must tear from his wall his
ikon ‘‘ (image of Christ) and put Lenin’s picture in its place. He
must scrap his Bible and read Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital.” lie must
reject all belief in God, in a world beyond this world, and in Christ
as The Way, The Truth and The Life, and he must see that his children
are brought up to do the same. He must he prepared to go where and do
what he is told, it is its intense conviction and white-hot enthusiasm
which explains how Communism has become one of the two world-force
which really count to-day.
Every man who is not content to be a
drifter (like a dead dog floating along the stream ) : not
content to he a Nero fiddling while Rome is burning: must make his
choice between Bethlehem and Moscow, Christianity and Communism,
Christ and Lenin. It is the choice between paganism ( human life
organised and acting apart from God and without reference to God) and
the Christian religion with its Gospel of forgiveness, of eternity, of
the good life, of the kingdoms of this world transformed into the
Kingdom of God. It is really the old choice over again—” Whom will ye
Barahhas (Lenin) or Jesus which is called Christ?” The old question
demanding an answer—” Whom say ye that I, the Son of Man, am.
May we so use Lent that our Easter Communion may be a real act of
adhesion to Jesus. May we be able to say with renewed conviction and
devotion, “Thou. art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
The Confirmation is to be held in
Burnham Parish Church on Friday, March 16th at 3 p.m. The Holy
Sacrifice that day (7.30 am.) will he offered with Intention for the
candidates. I hope to be able to prepare them in time to make their
first Communion on Easter Day.
It is with a feeling of relief that
I write of the death of George (“ Tom “) Emery. He suffered greatly.
But he bore it greatly. He was so patient, so gentle, so sorry to give
trouble. having left the house without seeing him on my last visit, as
he was passing through a paroxysm of pain, he sent after me that I
would come and hold his hand for a moment. Even then his thought was
for another—” How warm your hand is,” lie whispered, “ I thought it
would be cold.” However much be
was suffering, he seemed to find great comfort in the prayers. God
rest his soul.
Yours in His Service, A.
CHISHOLME SCHOFIELD.
Churchyard. We are rightly proud of the appearance of
our Churchyard. Will you help to keep it “decently and in order” by
removing all vessels for holding flowers when not in use?
And, please, note that any such vessel of a material or design out of
the ordinary or bearing any inscription must be submitted for
approval.
MARRIAGE.
Feb. 7th—William Joseph Ham and Ella
Margery Frost.
BURIAL
Feb. 24th—George Emery, aged 71
years.
BERROW
MY
DEAR PEOPLE,
In giving a list of the special
preachers during the remainder of the Lenten season, I am hoping that
everyone will try and make an effort to attend our services. The
effort may involve a sacrifice, but sacrifice is one of the keywords
of our religion. It seems early to speak of the two days, Good Friday
and Easter, to which Lent points, but such days make an appeal to all
that is truest and best in us. We should not find it difficult,
therefore, to determine the way in which we should observe and keep
holy Week and Good Friday, and knowing the need of power to live a new
life, we should he in a joyous spirit of worship on the Church’s great
Festival of Hope and Life—Easter Day.
Believe me to be,
Yours very sincerely,
E. B. WILLIAMS.
SPECIAL PREACHERS FOR
MARCH.
SUNDAYS.
March 4th—11 a.m. Rev. E.
C. Williams,
National Society.
March 11th—11 a.m.
Rev. A. C. Schofield,
Vicar of Brent
Knoll.
March i8th—6.30 p.m. Rev.
C. J. Heughan,
Vicar of Highbridge.
THURSDAYS.
March
8th—7.15
p.m. Preb. A. P. Wickham,
R.D., Vicar of East
Brent.
March 22nd—7. 15
p.m. Rev. H. C. Fraser,
Vicar of Mark.
CONFIRMATION. Our
candidates will be presented at the service to be held in Burnham
on
March 16th.
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