2008-04

80 Years Ago
March 1928
MY DEAR FRIENDS,
In this number appears an
account of the Parochial
Meeting, and a Summary of the
Accounts for the past year. May
I draw your attention to the fact that the
Parochial Meeting instructed the Finance
Committee to prepare a “Freewill Offering
Scheme,” and ask your sympathetic support
when the Committee make their appeal.
In connection with the World Call, we are
holding a “Missionary School” during
March, on the 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. The
lecturers are all well-known clergymen, and I
trust there will be large attendances. If the
Missionary Exhibition has at all stirred you
interest, the “School” lectures will add
information. The meetings will be held in the
Church House, or, if that is not large enough,
in the Hall. I trust we shall have splendid
meetings, and that our support of the
Missionary work of the Church will be
greatly increased as a result.
seeing the building up of St Chad’s parish
completed, as one’s contribution to the
building of Christ’s Kingdom, it is an
exceeding bitter prospect that is before me,
should I have to leave before my task is
complete.
The prospect is there, however, and the
possibility must be faced.
The work has been a very happy task, and a
Vicar never had more splendid helpers than
I have had, or received more evidences of
appreciation and friendship than I have. It
is, however, the work that matters, and I
could never contemplate becoming a
hindrance to the progress of the parish. I
believe that you will all pray with me that
God will so order things that only His will
shall be done, be it for me “ a broken arc,”
or a fulfilled task.
I shall not take any of the services on Easter
Day, but I have provided ministers, and I
trust you will all unite to make it a record
Communion at St Chad’s.
Yours in Christ’s Service,
G. KYDD CUTHBERT, Vicar
Yours in Christ’s Service.
April 1928
MY DEAR FRIENDS,
I am extremely sorry that all the plans I had
formed for Lent have miscarried on account
of a sudden illness. For three months I had
felt as if I had regained my normal health,
and had put in a full measure of work, and
then all at once came this illness. Until I get
about again I shall not know to what extent it
will modify my plans for the future.
From what doctors tell me it is fairly
apparent even now that we shall have to
engage the services of a Curate, or I shall
have to seek a much lighter job. When one’s
whole heart and soul have been fixed on
A PRAYER FOR SPRING
For flowers that bloom
about our feet,
For tender grass,
so fresh, so sweet,
For song of bird, and
hum of bee,
For all things fair we
hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
For blue of stream and blue of sky,
For pleasant shade of branches high,
For fragrant air and cooling breeze,
For beauty of the blooming trees,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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