r-^a'f-^^S&^i'-'i M


On Wednesday Next, February 9th ® *


WILL BE REPEATED IN THE


WESLEY CHAPEL, Clitheroe. AT SEVEN O'OlOCKj THE


' CHORAL SERVICE


WILL BE GIVEN BT PAST & PRESENT SCHOLARS. C F IO RUS O F O VE R 3 0 0 V O I C E S .


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Cornets :—Mr. T homas Birtwell, and Mr. Fred Margerson, O rganist :—Mr. H. N. Rowe,


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Conductor : P. H. Fielding, Associate Tonic Sol Fa College, London ---------------:o:------------—


Collection for Day School Funds. fBione?.


letmcation. A R T ,


D { A W IN G A N D P AI N T IN G From the Elementary to


1'he Higher W alks of Art. MR. B. CAWTHORNE, attends


SCHOOLS, CLASSES & PRIVATE PUPILS Aildresa: Littlevoob, Clitheboe


Old Pupils, Exhibitors at the Royal Academy, and at the City Art Galleries ol Manchester and Liverpool.


L adies’


Boarding and H igh School, WELL’S U006E, OLITDEBOB


Pwkcii-als:-MISSES WALK. Prospectus sent on Applicatioii.


Next Term, Thursday, Jan. 20th


GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, KING STREET, CLll’ llEROE.


Principals: Mrs & Miss Whidborne,


Fomorly Mistressoa In tho Torquay amt Paignton High IjchoolB.


(AfiBlHlod by Vlailiiig Toachera.)


Solo and Class Singing, Pianoforte - and Theory, the Principals.


Drawing and Painting, Mr. E. Caw theme. Danoiug&Calist,henios,Mi8sILAf. Whidborne


Tho Binging Class held on Wednesday Even­ ing, and Classes for Special Subjects are oiien to Students not attending the regular school ceui'BC.


Resident PnriLS abb Reclived. Prospcclaa oil Application.


T erm Commences January i 8th NOTICE


Carlton Dining R ooms UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT


»ll S. EDMONDSON


Begs to inform liia numorons FrioncU an<l tlie In­ habitants of Clithcrou tienerally, that he has


taken over the Inininusb lately carried on by Mr. T. Adamson, at the Carlton Dining Hgomh, 4, Market P lace,


ED THS MOST NUTC.1TZOUS COCOA.


E P P S ’ S OBATEFTTL-COMFOBTINa.


P -NICIC & WDISfi PR SATE FOR BRFASFAST AND SUFFER. CATERED FOR.


C O C O A STORAGE FOR CYCLES. EST PIANO tho following agent* S. EDMONDSON, CARLTON DINING ROOMS,


4, Market Place, CLITHEROE.


bargains™ FURNITURE


LABOEST BTOOE IK TOWN. GOOD AS KKW. AT HALE COST.


80 PARLOUR SUITES, 20 SIDEBOARDS 20 SOFAS & COUCHES, also PIANOS. Furniture taken in Fxchange.


CEP SF- SO HA OA HP, 4i & 42, PHY S WINSOll & NEWTONS’


OIL COLOURS, MOIST COLOURS, MEDIUM, MEGILP.


AT THE TIMES OFFICE. EH T. The " CLiTjniBOB Tnina" may b« had e>


Mbs. WHBWELL, CasUe Straat. Mb. ROBINSON, Coatle Street. Mb*. PORTER. WelJgat*. Mua. DAWSON. Bawdland,. Me. J. HARGREAVES. King Stieal. Mb.*. CHEESBOROUQH, Moor Lane. ' ’ RAILWAY STATION BOOKSTALL. Me. WEIQLBT, Brownlow Street Mna. PINDER, Waterloo. . Mb. FRANKLAND, 20, Bosaall Street Mk. BROOKES, Billington, -Whalley. Mr. KISSACK, Barrow -Whalley. Messrs. BALDWIN fc ROBINSON, Chatborii. Mr. TA-YLOR, Downham. Mb. STONES, Waddington. Mb. DUCKWORTH, Rimington. Mb. NU-TTER, Qisbnm. Mr. j . IRELAND, Dnnsop Bridge. Mb. BRENNAND, Slaidbum. Mbs. d e a n , Boltoa-by-Bowland. Mb. ASTLEY, Blaokbnm'. Mb. BROTHERTON, Sabden. Miss CALVBELEY, Newton. Miss HIGSON, Sawley. Mb. T. s e e d , Grindleton


THE " Tihbs " is also to be had from Boy, in the Streets, and at the Oifice.


BLANKETS. BLANKETS. BLANKETS.


large, aoft, llooiy, mid doliglitfuily comtortoblo, some as supplied to the bcotcli. Nobility and Gentry, makes a hand­ some and useful mariisae present, price 25/- porpsir, worth


35/., Mnt curtioge paid, S IN C L A IR & C o „ Blanket Manufacturors, 133, Trongato, Glasgow.


Direct from tho nialrars. Buy .SINCLAIIl'.q Gold Modal Scotch Cheviot Bath llianiioln. tlio very boat Biankols man«- faytured, being made of die lincBl Scotch Ciieviot Wool


WAT"— Borrower* or those in


ItJ L L / It X j X want of Loans from 15 upwards are invited to apply by letter


or personally to the itidcrsigned who gives courteous attention to business privately, and at. a fair rate of interest.


No Fees or Charges of anv Kind. ALAN LLOYD, ■»9, Princess St. , 'M anchester. il^Moi^'sy, Icbmajy


MONEY LENT h PRIVATELY. A PRIVATE GENTLEMAN, having


considerable sum of uninvested money at his disposal, is prepared to advance the same to all Rcs])cctable and Rosixinsible Persons in any pint of England or Wales, in sums of not liiss frlian ;£to to ;£i,ooo, on Borrowers’ ow« SIMPLE WRITTEN- PROMISE TO REPAY,


. Without Sureties or Security,


j - No Delay. No Law Costs. THE STRICTEST PRIVACY IS GUARANTEED.


•And, if Desired, a Written Undertaking will be given to this effect. Advances also made on Mortgages and


Reversions at Low Rates of Interest, repaya­ ble by Easy Instalments or in one Sum, to suit the Borrower’s Convenience; or, if de­ sired, the Capital can remain as long as the Interest is Paid. For full particulais (free of charge) apply


liersonally or by letter (stating amount re­ quired), to


MR. W. STEWART, . 2, COOPER STREET, MANCHESTER.


now at PLANE TREE FARM, CHAIGLEY, in lots to suit imrchasers.


Sale at 11 a.in. prompt. Terms of payment to be fixed on day of Sale. Intending purchasers can view the hay at any


time To be taken off the premises.


T^S^ol^^PropHctoi mid Ma’nag^Mi^^ Yokke.


FOR SIX NIGHTS ONLY',, Most Expensive Engagement of


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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. MONDAY NEXT (Feb. 7th) V


Autlior of ‘ ‘The Lady Slavey." "Gay Pansionno. " ’ The Ladv Slavey" was a laugh from start


" T H E NE W By George Daiicu.


Mn. CiiAS. M.AirooNA’a No. 1 Comi’ANY, M E P H I S T 0 . ” .


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No OHO should Miss SeeingThe Lady Doctor! Evoryono Bhould sea


Notliwitlistaiiding tlie enormous expense of Uus Engagement,


Catchy Songs. Novel Dances, oto., . ■


Usual Popular CIiea.p Prices. „ . IMPERIAL CIRCUS. Mill Lane, BLACKBURN.


Propraetor.s......Tho Imperial Circus Co.,_Ltd. Manugmg Director...Ylr. Frank Maciiaughtcn. General Manager..........Mr. Frederick Baugh.


IMP.QRTriNT NOTICE.


G R A N D O . P E N I N G N I G H T . , MONDAY NEXT, 7th February, 1898. ,


FULL ST.AR COMPANY OF EQUESTRIAN AND VARIETY ARTISTES. ;


THE CLITHEROE


STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY,. LIMITED,


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PIMLICi ? ROAD, ________


The most modern and perfect Sanitary ‘ „ , _


Now Mugiiifioeiit Scenery. Aiigmonted Orchestra.


The Lady Barber! .


. t, Monet lent on note of hand ALONE.


VTitliont Fees, Costa or Sureties, Repayable by Instalmeuts, or in one sum


Speciai. T erms to Farmers.


Stock or to p iy Rent, will find it to their advan­ tage to write to »« for terms before applying else-


Fiirimirs requiring Moiioy to increase whem.


W. STEWART & CO* 2, Cooper St., Manchester.


offleo. not necessarily


TENDERS to bo pent to mo not later than 12*0 ^youlcl be said. "'rii™ h^heBt*^V an^^


.lOHN EASTIIAM, Town Ci.euk.


Clitheroc, 27th Jaauary, 1898.


Cattle Market, Clitheroe. SALE OF 360 YARDS OF HAY.


mciciy iviu.Luia,., w.u- ..vucce,, — — ........ Ill* kuuiiiwiovtby.. ....o, . . o t i o n , with a demand for pavuig mtli setts, ana a


But if the Toivn Clerk and Borough Sur-


“ uio Farm Bailiff will show the premises, and for vcyor will pardon us, .we will point out to further particulars apply to


scheme, whatever we may come to. do let it be week ’


but as a guarantee Ot good _________ ______________


and i^hes is the order of this the


jhem that this is precisely what the Corpora- a settlement. Don’t give us something of nounce that ns ^ tion cannot p r om i . with the slightest degme


out. As proof of this we will cite for them and tumble private street as hitherto. the case of the two tenants of farms at Hen- ,


thorne. Certain members of the Corpom- tion— thoroughly staid, well-meaning, ex- The scene in Pendleton Churchyard on Mon


H. COATES has received instructions perienced members— have over and


d.iy last was of an impressive and deeply in­ teresting cliaiacter. The occasion was the


in their eyM, assured the coiisecratioi^of^the additional ground pm-


Town Council tliat they were bound by every chased by R. J. Aspinall, E.sq., of Standen 1 o-morro'' (^ ird a ) ) . Mr. ,J°|) - Mr. Aspinall to the church,a portion of which British School, Rimington.


mise, to retain those two farmers upon their oft-repeated phrase, “ we urged them to trust . , IS the result? . Becau ^ ‘


r fu . anH niaaaihli. foithfiil nro- Holl, from Colonel Starkie; and presented by •'•I'.thor of “ Clock Almanac, at the Neuby tie o onou , .


__ family burial ground. The To-morrow (Saturday): Sale by auction of holdings. This promise was not in black weatlier was spring-like, brilliant sunshine en- furniture in Russel St., by Mr. A. Duerden.


and white, because, to use Alderman Sefton’s hancing the beauty of the simple and deeply 'X'o-morrow: Harmonic Room at the Boar’s reverent ceremonial. Ih e congregation as-


b lm g ^ m lm b e r s ,^ h ^ S S


Corporation. Trust the Corporation, we the pathway betiveeii the church gate and said, and you will not be disturbed.” What door, under the care of Mr. Hatfield, school-


Head open.


Sunday: Mrs. Hyslop, of Shaw, at the Spi­ ritualists’ Hall.


, , , T, ____urnc Hiastei’. Thc congregation were placed on Sunday: 1 wo lectures m the Socialists Room ^ . id either side of the pathway approaching the by Mr. Tom Hurley. Afternoon subject, „


to finish, but “ Tho Now Mephisto is a per­ fect Roar.


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not put upon paper, there is an attack made ground, headed by the choir, under the “^pocial Democracy: ^ AVliat it lueans.” upon those farmers twice a year, on an aver- care of Mr. Robinson. Alt the appointed Evening: “The Education of our children.” ace ’Viid to tins may be added, there is I t ilimbt but that some day, when tlie old


^ procession of the Vicar,;clergy, war- Monday: Sales at the Auction Mart “ d sidesmen proceeded along this same


blood shall-have been cleared out or the where tliey aw\'uted the Bishop, _\vho shortly conformist Couiicil. rnimcil the “ trust in the Cor iporation” will followed, attended by the Rural Dean. These , ,


, Louncii, tne trust: i. r 1 1 1- nf fhp ^ entraiice ^h^


be as worthless as chaff in the wind so far as chuiohwanlens. sirlesmmi. m,d rhp Hruwar of the Poultry Soadty in the l iTeclinical regards those fanns at Henthorn.


stood iiithe old ground while tlm Vicar, cler-t^Ion^ay: Monthly Meetmg of gy, churchwardens, sidesmen, and the donor


, , , , , ,• of the ground presented the petition, which School.


tion has no soul to sai-e, and no body to kick, clergy choir, congregation, and schoKors then to ” at the Theatre Royal, Blackburn. _ .


• insecurity that we would ask the private pro- ducted the be.autiful sen'ice authorised for ^


themselves to the tender mercies ot Uorpora , cl r,„li.y abo.11 1. IV hik th


pertyKiwners to consider before committmg \


It is piecisely on .account of this feeling of .


, f ,L" f„„i:n„. , ’ . . in ___________ _ conclusion there w.as a recession into church, m tne ivesic) i.,napei. n the Diocese of Manchester. At its . much feeling. After the address, the Catholic Brass Band.


i. a Wednesday: Repetition of the choral service \Veslev Chanel •


, -d r jg^^jg ^^g^g sigeed, and the hymn “ God Wednesday: Social and dance in the Liberal


tions. The weakness of the proposition that of tlie Living” (Church H)’mnsj w'as sung Club, in connection with the Clitheroe is now before the ow'iiers is that there is no


e p,e».t irSelSliab. brir^.°lp °b™S ’.te


officials remained at the head of affairs we service to a close. After service the Bishop .are willing to admit tliat such an undertaking Hiid clergj, Mr. and Mrs. Aspinall, and church as they have given would be carried out, with-


out doubt. But the life of a Town Clerk is but a span. New men will succeed him, as


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T., ..-K-yf lUBi- -..rill ^


QLITHEEOE his successor abide by a road made to the bed-fellow the satisfaction o f the previous Surveyor? For


aiisuvr Ift- IIS ash hmv the nrespnt Surveyor ‘


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- Surveyor. Mr. Barrett. T T I I


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The above Laundry will shortly be opened. Inspection tnvited any Wednesday Jiom 3 to 5 p.m. Secretary, A. C DEWIIURST. '


anco, and modorato prices, are nnsurpassod -by any In the profession. FORREaSr, Surgeon Dentist, York Street, Clitheroo, exactly opposite tho Publlo Hall,


F O R R E S T 'S Tooth for durablUty, natural api>oar- Zbc Himes, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY /^th, 1898.


THE STREET IMPROVEMENTS SCHEME.


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. i a meeting winch w'as held yesterday of i,is peregrinations he proceeds by way of self) into tlus Larger disli, 'which contained I’l^ R , E E T L O J V T E N the members of the Town Council, it lyja* Brow'iilow Street to the Recreation Ground


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I’equustod that no renort of the-nrnrppfllnirrc o h l i i l U ! " T


-'o If i r 1 ..


1 1 T- ■ Verity ttx)k out both pies. Iransferrofl the fhe famous B la c k b u rn Prize Choir. from the sni.aller one(intended for him- ---------------IT I ~


P'® for the fnmily. When the lady o f •- , . an opinion that the „ono in the little one she was quite am.azed. ’ith which he have.al- He knows how the streets of Klondyke were " ways obeyed such injunctions will rise to the paved, and they answered admirably. There-


•ihould be given through the newsp.ar^rs. ro.adivay of Brownlow Street won’t do at .ill. Mr. Verity seeing this said, “ When T .stnv ’ Iherefore, the loyalty W


serve us all alike.”


^ don’t waint to have better foo l your f^nHy; they work and so do I, .so


‘ ‘ ® , . .Uca r „.hi.K


than Clitheroe can ever offer him. How wall fo w'as the lot of the boy Amos to luve as a vious efibrts; from the rising to the falling of travelling pieachers who came


w'ith probable dreams of office far greater ,,


i ,. . , ff u- Yi with truth be staled that with respect to every


Laundry .in tho country. This Laundiy has regarded that arrangement in Brownlow mgs.^ “ Locals” came from those circuits were more of i t , there is not a dull moment being under the Factory Act, perfect Sanita* Street which was entered into with the late tion is guaranteed.


^ nesd.ay night fortnightly and on Sunday morn- or bit of special business that we would there ’ ’’ tke afternoon W'ent to Clitheroe, and from beginning to end. The performances


^ The sen'ico was held on Wed- musical number, dance, situation, witticism.


' Pr^cjied a f t em ^ ic


^ law m.ade of the Medes and Persians, but of .an to


years. How can such a proposition be looked for dinner. The old dame was busy about ^


,.TT , upon .as a settlement ? I. . . . . . 1


1 1 1 1 , stayed at a certain cottage house one day ___


Let us suppose the present Suri’eyor were ^^‘-


the oven, W'atching the potato pie brown. Mr. This week will have been missed from the ‘^^ty hapjiened to discoi er that there were streets an old familiar figure in Mr. Christo-


, , • . . . J to obtain a situation such .as that to emphatically a potato pie IxTcluse i K ,1 n ------------T " you am tirci of lakUig nauHoous and mraierioua


“ le house di.scovcred nie.at m the big i)ie and proaorii.ii n" ana ooi»iioundo, nuich do you no good, but you II wxia


forlo»i»>™'’*it‘j '\ “ “ 'taS 'irSJ;'” ***. *o.,(rom whatororcausa arlsla*. NO srOMAOU MEDIOINK, NO JELEOTllIOlTY


Sent lu ciiveloiio on rocoljit of two stainiiB for postage. A. J, LEIGH, 03-93. praat Russal St.. London,W. ‘taaaiaoa a QUICK AND OKB'IAIN care


. two pie.s, and one of these w.as .a larire one— pher Tattersall, who died at his residence in Castle View.’ Mr. Tattersall had been ailing


whicli his .abilities entitle him, .and the Town meat in. The smaller pie contained .a good some time, and died at the ripe old age of Council proceed to tlie .ijijxiintmont of an- other, and this time get one who has been


of meat inside, and when, by and by, ?*• Most people will remember that his son 'vo'iian wamt out of the hou.se, hfr. js Mr. William Tattersall, the conductor of


Onepre.acher are creating a perfect furore in Preston this ^ lemarkable ch.aracter, and being un-


“ ‘‘" ‘I Tommy,” from Blackburn, week, and hundreds have been disappointed at their inability to gain admission nightly,


no fimality, .and one which always places the ‘Tible to re.ad, his daughter would read liim Miss Nellie Hodson,who will be well reinem- owners at tlie mercy, as we have said, not' of a , ^


Mr. Bootli foils us, further, and Mr. Chas. Macdona has evidently paid ''ll ‘’ 'll DEATH OF MR. TATTERSALL. .


ever-clungmg governing board, of which one that he knew the Rev. John Verity. He was every possible attention to the production. quarter may be entirely new each year, and ^ mi'll!, very eame.st, and good-heart- the whole clianged from end to end in four


he was preaching at Low ^loor


from which he took his text, and bered in the ** Gay Parisienne ” is -playing • I?’® M


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entertained at tea at theVicarage. THEATRE ROYAL, BLACKBURN. ---------- * * * ---------- ,


Mr. Chas. Macdona’s Company.—A company of unusual excellence will appear


de.aling with the liistory of tlie at Blackburn Theatre Royal, on Monday


they view the arrangement of their predeces- mention of a Mr. John Booth, of Barrow. Mr. Mephisto, Mr. Geo. Dance’s (author of the sor? The Borough Surveyor is a young man,


Piimitiie Methodists, last week, we m.ade next and the five following nights,in the New -^tnos Booth, his soiij infonns us that his " Lady Slavey ” and the “ Gay Parisienne ”) -11 “ ’S H s e d to entertain the pre.achers. Dance has undoubtedly surpassed .all his pre-


latest sprkling inusical comedy, and Mr.


Well indeed has it been said that a Corpora- w-.as re.ad by the Vicar. The Bisliop and Itlonday .and next week: “The New Mephis- . ,


foimed into a long procession, and proceeded ^fondai': Opening night of the new Imperial J,g^y ground, while tlie Bishop con- Circus, Blackburn.


r .i f ° • . S o ^ m e L r ^ d a y U an un- of certainty that the promise wMl be earned highway or the earth beneatli of a rough lucky day...................... COMING EVENTS.


(Further Particulars in Advertisement Columns of this Issue).


their T


Meadows of the Sewage Farm, the narrow strip adjoining tho


LOT 1 —The GRASS or ^ifenUiorn M proceed with the original scheme of sett- notice, what will be the position of a property the burgesses. Ansivering fuWher fenquiries, the owner m Brownlow Street w'ho wants to sell.


he tlLITIIEROE CORPORATION invito Tenders for—


i’ Willow Beds, a^d


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Mart. Mutt be thoroughly accustomed to Calving strictures w / J . ^ ..• _ ..tlH WnvA T>-rMirn1mV Street, what With Sewers rlnwn onrl ° “canVas^llfil.f


W “ .S '’e‘h.“ i ,K S “.;> “ K ;S i r i “ "rrere“ iy ' ............... -.--1.1----„.,ue„mn,1 fn nnliriniy StnCtUrCj


testimonials to be aadrCBsed to the SEoaaTAnT, 38, King Street, Clitheroo, on or before Thursday


Written ai plications with not more .........................-


noon, Kchruary 10th, 1893. 13, CASTLE VIEW;, CLITHEROE. 1_ “ r L " t ~ these 1 do not understand that any such emo p Brownlow Street, what with sewers down and ”°


quences. While we are debarred, however, from re- xnu-r.


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would have cost less. Then the Klondyke man receives a call,


TIMES, PRl


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lore, BtomJow Street ptopett,enraers must Mis. Lolthonse aud family «fch


th e CLITHEROK au ct ion m ar t “ ^ ’ ^jJ^j^jarictureswhfcUiieie^kceaamder for sold nusgetsol a t.mlneh«;^^>l“™J,^3 te»vement, There COMPANY, LIMITED.


,„uh the Girls’ High School -♦ ♦ ♦ -


Y k h t or wrong and from neither of sewbrs up, streets up and streets doivn. wishes M rL n d Miss Whidborne, we have much “ “ • ’ • £ X i i " s s « i T , 2 p r i r t S —-------'♦♦♦-----------


passed III Class College i distinction in English.


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------- ------- --- nariimr the proceedings of the meeting, we and the next Surveyor has been Borough Sur- ^ a pleasing characteristic oi our towns ^ _ ^ ^ owas veyor at Kimberley, and he wants the road people that when they see a good thing they


■ CHRISTOI’HER TATTERSALL, Deceased or could be laid upon US with lespect to cri ■


i i lR JOHN DUCKWORTH has received in-


excellent HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, com- S g l n ^ WninK


Carpet’s, Pictures, oak Drawers, oak Corner Cup­ board, Washstands and Dressing lablcs, iron Uedsteads and Bedding, Pots, Pans, etc. Sale to commonco at 2-0 o’clock prompt JNO. DUCKWORIH, Auctioneer, Accrington.


Chairs, inahogany CLITHEROE SEWAGE FARM,


M s t r S s from the . Executors to Sell by and m order that tms nu.y ^ Anmlo^n Saturday, Pebruary^lM^


CoTimrmbn came. ticisms upon the result of these proceedings, ■ ^but enough of this. Sufficient has been said to show that m the . , . D will, at least, be necessary, that an outline tempoiarj The property-owners and their solicitors fV.r> too much of it.


know they see it,and they feel they can t have . r .,.


„rdpr tliat this ma.y be forthcoming, it current proposition for mailing roads to plea.se Wehaveourselveshad abundantopportuni- permanent officials, and yet' ties ot testing this, but the latest example is


should be given of the resolution to which the mo.re tempclrary permana^ i ^ p___Sunday. Its able pioneering by Mr. That is the pomt.


____,r..^,.h,-nwnprs and their solicitors Under such an unsetUed state of affairs, tjon next Wednesday. ,em cJM mm Ore Coundl Cbrnnb^ « h«,r „ a , .0 renai.d


there can te no finality. That is Uie point, ^


that the Council had decided that if the pro- selves how the property market ^ uertv-owners in priv.Tte streets ivould set those ted? Is this move, depending upon the Uan- 6


trPPts in order to 'tiie satisfaction of the sitiveness of pubUc officials, and of the diges- streets m orue


Surveyor,the notices that had now been served tion ot a lown Lounou, uijon them would be withdrawn. Failing to give stability to the property-mar do this within six months, the Council would the security arising merely from a withdrawn


, . ^ r ’ ,.„.raticms in the Choraf Service at the Wesley Chapel, fo, ;ts repeti-


county Council FJMions »ill bo on „ several years the bur-


of'Clilheroe have been ably repre- Mr. R. C. Assheton, and we are


, Town CouncU, such a one as will glad to be able to state that m response to Quests from many of his friends in Clithe-


Assheton has consented to services at the disposal of


To THE Editor oe "T r Sir.— In the very intel


last issue, on “ the writer says: ComI


with a-Methodist, the mI had noticed Ihe marked I of worsl-iip of to-day w


He said he hail


foere was much more sj ago amongst the various]


is to-day, and that he trt little spiritual life m an<


chapels in the town at I fear that there oil


the statement resiiectingT life at the present time no means confined to tl one locality. This oi and prayerful consider, all who consider the in vital consequence. I’oi whose religious experier a century, I can come tc than that the cause ct tl: tual life in congregatioi the wave of ivorldlines.* over the churches, resulti ture so earnestly warns ormity to tlie world, plainly, “ LoA'e not the things that are in the wo: the world, the love of


him” (I John, ii., is)- “Be not conformed to tl


z). Our Lord Himself people, “They are not oi am not of the world” ( In a pa])er read at tHj


of the Evangelic.al Protel tober, the writer com| character at the close of f that of an earlier date.. presses what lies at thJ will, with your kind pti extracts from i t :


I “ To commence, ^ Ixi Meeting in the Methodist


Free Church in connection mth the Non­ .


members


with our fathers in the (i) A far more decitled world than now- exists, gather from reading, o: me from intercourse w iti men forty years ago, go known not only by the their unworldly practice from all the gaielie.s an times, and were in th.it re by all around them as Now' I fear we -see little tween the employments, the enjoyments of profe ordinary'worldlings. . . . day evening, when going I thought would be the entered a class-room whci teachers, with the glove each other about in the m


• 2. I believe in fonru much greater and more gious duties than now. for instance, w<i.s regard thing. People reg.arde bath by secular reading ploy’ment, or by neglct much tis w'e woulil leg. Then, again, I believe f real Christians w.as a m sacred obsen'.ance than in these days. After ministry was in those di of supreme concern. i arranged to make it pra i.an forefathers couldi ministry of the Word, f.aniilies seem to regird moment; they utter a r. attend a Ritualistic or < almost as readily as an 1 have no compunction ; away from a Gospel m country .and reside whe truth of God are ]>ract 3. I think in the o


the curtain interest never flags and it can


more simple appetite f less craving after sensai differences betw'ccn be matters of great niomei Now we have tho met hair-splittings put forth tance to divide brother from church, and even | household.


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personal experience wat tic of Christians. Tl and men of prayer. T der spiritual burdens o deliverances, Raving sw or dark cloudy days of experiment.al CluistLans have substituted wh.at i


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