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A
glimpse at life in Wolvey at the end of the 19th century
through the
Wolvey Parish
Magazine
DECEMBER,
1898
The Jubilee Memorial.
The
date of the planting of the tree is arranged for Saturday, December 17th
at 2-30 p.m. The Committee gladly assented to a request made by Colonel
Loyd that his eldest son, Mr Richard L. Loyd, might plant the tree, and he
will be accompanied, of coarse, by his father, Colonel Loyd.
We
hope that all the villagers who possibly can will be present and give
Colonel Loyd and his son a real English welcome. We now have the chance of
making the chief landowner our chief friend, as he should be, and as he is
willing to be, not by mean or false words, but by responding in a manly
and loyal spirit to the kind and generous spirit he is showing in our
midst.
What
we want very badly indeed is "more backbone," in other words, to
say and do that which our conscience approves of, "without fear or
favour."
The National Schools.
As
we mentioned in our last issue, a Concert will be given in the Schoolroom
by the children attending our Day School. It will take place on Friday,
December 16th, and will consist of songs, recitations, and dialogues.
This, we believe, will be the first Concert of the kind in connection with
the School, and we venture to prophecy that it will not be the last.
We
have had some experience of this kind of thing, and can testify to the
popularity of a "Children's Concert." The parents are as much
delighted as they are amazed at what their children can do in the way of
singing and reciting. We would advise those who intend being present to
secure tickets without delay, as there is sure to be a great demand for
them. The doors will be opened at
The Church of England, "by Law Established."
"The
Church of England was established in this country by the first Christian
Missionaries, who came at a very early period.
"The
establishment of the Church took place in men's hearts before she became
established as the Church of the country; when she had established herself
in the affections and convictions of the people, then, and not till then,
did the nation, accept her publicly as the Church of its choice and
adoption.
“She
was established not by human power, kingly decree, or Act of Parliament,
but by Gospel labours of faithful and earnest Missionaries, blest and
prospered of God in their work.
"But, some say, was not the Church of England established by Act of Parliament? N0! In fact, she could not have been, for she existed as the established Church of the country hundreds of years before Parliament came into being.
"The
words 'by law established' means that her Constitution, Doctrine, and
Liturgy, having been drawn up and agreed to by her representatives,
received the sanction of the State: that the observance of them is
enforceable by law on those who are her Ministers or members, and that
hers is the recognised ecclesiastical, organization and form of worship
through which the heads of the State perform all public religious acts.
"It
would be just as true to say that the various bodies of Nonconformists
were established by the Toleration Act as to say that the Church of
England was established by Act of Parliament.
"The
Nonconformists, at different times, left the Church of England and
established themselves. The Toleration Act recognised them as religious
bodies, and, for the first time, gave them liberty to worship God
according to their conscientious convictions, outside the communion of the
Church of England.
"These
bodies then drew up trust deeds for the legal possession and succession of
their property, which deeds, however, would be of no validity without the
authority and protection of the State.
"These
trust deeds contain the conditions upon which the Ministers shall
officiate at the different Chapels, namely, that certain doctrines shall
be preached and certain religious ordinances observed.
"If
a Minister of a Chapel violated the conditions of trust as to
doctrine, discipline, or religious observance, the State, through its Law
Courts, examine the trust deeds, decide what are the conditions laid down
in them. and, if need be, enforce compliance with them, or turn out those
who refuse to obey the conditions. But who would say because of this that
the State made the law of such a religious body, or dictated to it in
matters of religion? And, further, if any religious body wished to alter
the conditions of its trust deeds, or make them plainer, it would not do
so without going to the State.
"And
yet many Nonconformists taunt the Church of England with being tied hand
and foot by the State, because she has to go to the State to get an
alteration of the laws by which she is governed”!
(To
be continued).
A
Sale of Work
will
take place in the Schoolroom on Saturday, December 10th, and will be
opened at
Binding
This Year’s Magazines.
The
year's numbers of this Magazine can be bound in a neatly designed cover
for 1/3 per volume, if left at the Vicarage before the 31st of December.
Last year many of our readers complained that they could not have their
Magazines for the year bound because the local news was printed on the
cover. The printers therefore most generously consented to print the local
news on a separate sheet of paper.
We therefore hope that a large number of our readers will decide to have the twelve numbers of this year's Magazine bound in one volume, at the very small charge of fifteen pence. All parcels of Magazines left at the Vicarage before December 31st next will be sent up to the printers with our own.
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