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A glimpse at life in Wolvey at the end of the 19th century
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Wolvey Parish Magazine

MAY, 1898

Sale of Work and Bicycle Gymkana - Preliminary Notice.

For the past twelve months, a number of ladies, members of the congregation, have met fortnightly at the Vicarage, for the purpose of providing and making useful and ornamental articles for a Sale of Work, in order to increase the Church Restoration Fund,

It is proposed to hold the Sale about the middle of July, probably the 16th; and our Warden, Mr Tibbits, has most kindly offered the use of the beautiful park: in front of the Abbey. In order to make the event thoroughly enjoyable and attractive, as well as remunerative, Mr MsCausland has undertaken to organize fancy bicycle races, pony races, &c., and a strong Committee has been formed to assist him.

We shall be most thankful to receive goods for the Sale, and we trust that all who are anxious to see our beautiful old Church made more beautiful and more enduring, will do their very utmost to make the Sale a grand success. We have very great pleasure in stating that Colonel Loyd has promised to be present on July l6th, if that date is decided on.

Full particulars will be announced later on, but in the meantime, we most earnestly ask for contributions either in money or goods.

       Church Restoration Fund    £  s  d

Amount previously acknowledged  ....................    189  5  0

Mr T.A.N. Frost                               ....................        5  0  0

Mrs W. F. Hoare, per Mrs Stafford .....................       1  1  0

Miss A.B. Hoare,            do.            ....................        1  1  0

Mr Ed. G.B. Watts,         do.            ....................        1  1  0

Mr A.B. Watts,                do.            ....................       0 10  6

Miss Irene and Master B. Stafford   ....................        1 11 6

Mr J. Allcoat                                    ....................        2  2  0

Mr A. Cooper                                   ....................        0  10 6

By Error (see below*)                      ....................        0  5  0

                                                        Total ...........   £202  7  6

*We have to apologise for a mistake made in. our February issue. Mr Cox, of Copson, sent a cheque for £5 5s., which was, however inadvertently acknowledged in the Magazine as £5.

We should like to call the special attention of our readers to one or two features in the above list of subscriptions. In our March issue we called attention to the fact that one of our parishioners had collected over ten pounds. In our April issue another subscription (£1 1s.) came through the same channel,

This month a member of the same family collects and sends between three and four pounds. That is to say, that two persons, in addition to a personal subscription, have collected upwards of £15 ! !!

We therefore again appeal most urgently to others to try the same plan. If one can obtain fifteen shillings, or even fifteen pence additional, it will all help in the right direction.

Another feature in the above list, to which we would call the special attention of YOUNG PEOPLE, is the amount collected by two young folk, not even in their teens yet, Miss Irene and Master B. Stafford. Stimulated by the example of their mother and their uncle, they determined to do what they could. So they set to work and made a lot of pretty baskets and pincushions, and sold them, with the splendid result recorded above. [We believe there will be some specimens of their work at the Sale .] Now, YOUNG FOLKS, just show what you can do. Nothing could please us more than to be again and again as agreeably surprised as we were when these two Juveniles poured the money into our hands and told us how it had been obtained.

A few facts about the English Catholic Church

We have shown conclusively that our Church is not of comparatively modern origin, but that its birth took place in. the very first centuries of the Christian Era: that just as the Children of Israel were still a distinct nation even when in bondage for over four hundred years, in Egypt, so our Church, while in bondage to Rome, was called and known as, "Anglicanæ Ecclesia," that is, the Church of England; and that as the Jewish Church was the same Church after the Babylonish captivity as she had been before, so the English Church is the same Church now after her deliverance from the Romish captivity, as she was before. There are, indeed, histories "made" to prove the contrary, but we are content to give simple truths and plain facts.

Let us ever most earnestly pray that our loving Heavenly father will keep our beloved Church from all false doctrine, superstition, idolatry and priestcraft, and to ask this blessing in the name of Him Who is our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ.

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