■ Private i | fitting Room, i


RINGS iCKBliRN.


0FIST” I ' '


Testimony iectoir. I


ICS. I


such a iloul |thing a^ 111 in bowing the im6e to


Imeans let us appeal to I justice. j'By all means igs and pdress gheV.


jwhat whem reason ani jscorried-jwhen lies b^ Irument of policy—whe; |re artiflcialiy created -when hatred land unl- [latlonai [ egotism ar^e .ppealed to arid stimu- dllemma'of a Christian t he is faced [with thie , s—a lessar or a greatek '


[tlon now pevailing war the lesser of the twa


. hold the view; that not vell-being, but the verjy of civilization, as we ;


to appraised I it, is alt, beat, I arif not a pacifist,


jarrei with the Munich fha*; it betrayeri at once • ■ and Eurppeari security. paying a heavy price


fat


Irayal. ' i ^ [ lake another line. They lorns of the dilemma^ |rism triumphantl They' I a: middle! way--the way non-violence. Thdy evil


by


with uridlscourage:ab|e (juenchless: faith


facing, aridna abl


The


leal of a warless world |e and fine thlnkihg are my orin .Ideal no less.


they overrslmpllfy the tterly mistake the Nazi of destrrictiori. We ate


|e with a conscienceless EStructlve nlhlUsts. No pters : them. [ Superior orce is i’all they f e ^


Jld tb. nSuch,! at leaCT, ju^gmerit—a j judgment


or ha5tl’.y| formed. Hold- |view, l!w(j)uld scarcely be plead the pacifist cajse j tribunal! whether in ' or elsewhere.j


|gh I do riot subscribe to ; doctrine, I do [accept t i e Hf coriscience as a man’s absolute riuthprity—coot


lat is, properly enllgtt- [idequately iristructed. I consent becoming a


le violation of riny. man’s ius 'scruples or convid- jte the contrary. • I should Isist, any such violation ] quarter whatsoever. | I pare ri inan’s scruples, put |ect them! when they are held arid maintained. . of equal probity and


le carried.iri quite oppos- lons by |a| concern fo r '


less, as I they; conceive less. Real democracy divergence even in the


psent perils. That is one aes o f reril democracy. I t other kindred qualities [democracy so “ seeming-,


lontrasted with the soul-, entatlon [of i the dlctator-


|t we must be careful all We may win the war


Jtler in the field and yet var agalpst Hltlerlsm[ in.


jmls. Spiritual values and pllencles pre now rit strike, Ely fold. jl.believe it. ]^ t ^■Itual ivplues and moral are v e^ precious, they


|ry delicate. Tpey will [not live careless and thought- ling... It iwould be sad to I tyrarinyl of Hitler abrbad the fight for freedom


- ' I ■ . I i'


iat' brickground sketched i so summarily, the critics


|to may rierhaps s e e ^ e ly In my attitude, iw a t jarticulaf case involved


rike was no less than the |,a man tb reverencej his : as his king. Formypwn ili defend any man’s right


|;ain thritlihlgh loyalty. , shall always insist on I’s duty to do so—whether


toured as aiserifing soldier ed as I a ! conscientious


|o such soldierly service, 'yours, I :


I I JOHN ERNEST STOREY.


') officiating. nt py t and iJohn; Alice


Floral and


i Sydney;. Mr. B ,huri Peggy, George on and i Edna'; A iy Nephews and J.j ;Chatbum,


areti; Edith;‘ A. ilrs. ;G. Wood and u s, Ribblesdale S t iwery, Elsie and G


irnes and


brose Nieces lura, ibin-


Mary; uare;


rirfion* IDLETON


I’S INSTITOTE.—Ac th& upnthly j meeing,


j


rik demrinstratiph on the of cream cheese was [given


jShuttleworth. The pheese, |equently sold, the prpcee® Jreri to the W.L's wool fufiO*


,


[FRIEND another,


Similar to th^t I week.. Hrisays;—


forwards a copy of chain letter,” very reproduced last


i “ "liese chain letters indicate the .IhUdllke faith pome ueoule have in four seasons, spring, summer, au - ’


,


i wet and dry seasons. Intemperate latitudes, the year is divided into


?he magic of! stunts' of this kind, tumn and winter. This is due to the ■hlch becampja craze during the | fact that duringthe year the height


last war. jvho breaL .


.! I am' assured that those ! ak.the!chain will have bad


luck; The cprious things is that Everybody at this office is willing to take the risk! ; On the other hand, the recipientiis exhorted to ‘ copy this letter arid see what will happen within four driys of waiting. Do not keep this lettier; It must be mailed ! within 24'hours after reading. Send


of the sun and the temperature of the air vary considerably. The cause of the varying height of the sun is the tilting o f the earth’s axis. On June 21st the position of* the earth with regard !to the sun is such that the North PPIe is tilted towards the sun, causing the latter to appear higher in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern,


this and four ether conies to friends 'and to be overhead at the Tropic of you wish good luck. It brings pros- 1 Cancer. On September 23rd the Verity four driys after waiting; Mrs. Cafleld wori If! 4,000; Mrs. Ambrose ijSlhOOO. ' Mrs. Sterks broke ; the rihaln and lo^ all she had.’ The marvel is'thajt the world is not over crowded wltri! mansions and Rolls


Royces, and that such things as Public Asslstpce still exist.”


■ ' ' A


LTITLE three-year-old, hearing her pareritri discussing events of


\ t


sun is overhead | at noon at the equator. By' Deceriiber 21st the eqrth in its jourijey round the sun has reached a pqsitlon opposite to that of June 21st, ’ although it is then three mllllori miles nearer the sun than in Junej the fact that the North Pole is now tilted away from the sun gives wiriter in the North­ ern Hemisphere sjnd summer in the Southern. ^ By March 21st the ver­ nal equinox, the earth and the sun


the war, looked'up from her play on ^j.g jq jjjg Relative position as the rug’ and 'ariked: “Mummle, who is my Auntiei Aircraft ?”


I^OING hopefully to the butclier’s ^


I ' i i *


woriian reader of a Yorkshire C' Jporary reports that she fqi the p o p closed: but she lingered to


for; the I weekly (?) joini, a on-


und


look in the window, decorated with ia l f ! a leg [of mutton and some Etririgs of sausages and a large white card, pri which was the mys­ terious niessrige;


■! gohe| All the to alaktoih. i BACK 5 o’clock. home she mused |


abcmt this i riiessage. It sounded oddly familiar—the kind of thing one’s mlridjhas at the tip of the tongue. Could it be the place in the


Arqtlc Nortri pf Finland, where the las( Russian


Division was cub up ?


But no; the butcher could hardly get back! from there by ,5 o’clock. Po^ibly it was some dialect word fanilllar to the oldqr generation.


A ND a Rlbbeutrop fable. “ It is


^ strange to tliink,” said Mr. An­ thony Eden, in his speech at Liver­ pool, “how tnany hours I used to


_____


Yet it hadri’t the right Yorkshire spend in the Foreign Office Jlsteri- smqck about it.


, | ing to the present German Foreign


likely to: read the classics in his spare time, much.less to obtrude his scholarship on his village customers. No; it was [(she says) Greek to her


; until she was nearly home. Then th4 penny; ^ e liope


was fair.'


ijropped. the butchers allocation


pound to me at qo dangers and horrors of Bolshevism.’’ “We used to be reproa,ched because


rjTHE discussion in the ’bus had “*■ been' general, and had ranged over manj^war topics from weather to ! dislocation in the distribution of meat and I coal. As the terminus -------


we did not understand. We were told how dangerous was this Bol­ shevism to us here at home. We did .not appreciate the realities of the situation—oply Hitler could do that. Only 'he stood as a bulwark between Britain and Bolshevism. But for the Hitlerian St. George the Red dragori would have swallowed


us all up. 'That was the fable,that was


was reached one philosophic soul l What has happened now. The Red summed UP with, “Ah, well, it seems I dragon'has taken the Hitlerian St. a body carl get used to owt! But it’s | George for a ride.” a pity wei can’t get used to liking it !”


^


of us have had evidence of the riilgration of mice to our


houses or!sheds (writes Sir WiUlam Beach Thoriias in the “Spectator” ). Here is a quaint example of their Ingenious ways of fending for the winter.iiAlgardener, rendered idle by the feather, left: his garden boots for some while In a shed. When he at last went to put them on again! ihe found both without laces.


- Slipping on one of the boots he


felt a certain roughness, and on in- vestlgatlori of the cause pulled, out the I missing laces -cut neatly into abriut two-inch lengths, and among the laces ri good quantity of spinach seieds, earih of which must have been carried j separately from an upper


;Bheif. 'The|mouse is a great hoarder against’ wlrit.fer hunger and discom­ fort; but it is the old story:


'The [best-laid schemes of mice arid! irien


(langiaft agley. 1' : I . -


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; The gPrpener has lost his [laces and the mouse its two-course riieals.


AtJR I picture of the Fuehrer is gradually being completed, says’


a “Glasgow Herald” gossip. Here is another Irevealing extract froin the most reclnti collection o f revela- tions; 1 [


' I,


; It is little known that the Fuehrer has eight false |


and!has a number of golp fill­ ings


'! A legacy, no doubt, from one of


the earlier times when he bff. off more than he could chew.


. A READER Is anxious to know the ■actual: date when the Spring:


quarter !ls ushered Ifi., The question; bas arisen out of an’ rirgument. quote front the Encyclopaedia Brit-; tanlca ;L_ i


^ • Spring: [ in the northern hemis-


Pheie it is’ reckoned astrononricaily from the! vernal equinox (about March 21st) to the summer solstice (aboutlJurie 21st)._ Season Period I into which the!


year Isidivjded by the sun’s changes declination. Near the equator:


teeth


rpHE wartime headquarters of the. National Unjon of Teaches is at


4. J-


This story [is tqld in “The School­ master,” the Union’s journal. The handy ifian at the Manor,


speaking to a iriember of the N.U.T. staff, made thiri comment:— [“The Cotswolds are indeed rural.


Between 1914- 18! we, knew nothing whatever of the terrible horrors of war. This time, !however, you people arrived during the first week.


*


rrHESE blackout stories never stop.’ I The scene of this orie was a ’bus


stop shortly after darkness had;: really set in. When the right ’bus came along and the usual small mob swirled forwards to board it, a patient figure hovered ori the out­ skirts}’ clasping a' folded p r am - | perhaps the unhandiest object pro duced by civilisation to make life.


€Rsi&ir The figure waited, perforce, until


the last of the crowd had got on the bus, and with a sigh of relief


hoisted his burden on to the plat­ form. At thqt point, probably because the conductor hadn’t noticed what was happenirig, the bus started. The usual man on the


platform displayed the usual pres­ ence of mlnd,'[and the belated one was caught, bir strong hands and lugged sprawUrig to safety. Where­


upon there was bitter and startled


language. “ HU What [do you think Pm do­


ing? Boarding the Altmark? My wife’s on this confounded 'bus, but


I’m riot catching it !” One toubh of blackout makes the whole world kind,


VOU have probably noticed what


songs make, especially with child- | experts ranged from 1938 onwards, fen. I ain told of an example o f I jllines o f thlb character have been this th e ! tale concwnlng a .small I sown during recent months in ipany eirl whb had been to the p anto., ' 1 ]^ast Coast estuaries, and r several ; ’The other, day, she ulayed f o r ) have been 'icriptured.” It is doubt-


. a big appeal some of the new I be examined In detaU by Admiralty to (Continued from preceding Colurim) __________


* .


explosive, i! The enemy have ' evld- eritly been experlinenting , for at I least two,^afs in the production of j the new;est type of these waporis.


j Dates sjiariiped on the first mtae


fT N E ^ lO ^ to hpr ^ VtQ/* cf:Qrf.prt frrih


some hours' iri, the! sunshine In the fpl whether they have been exten- earden anil after her prayers at. I slvely used in the deeper waters off hiaht she aslled as Is her custom, I the Westi;Coast o f these islands, if there wa$ anything else :; she j ijrobablysoriieof thq ships'reported ought to say. ■


You for a hanpy day,” suggested Her w a t p were h c t u ^ hit mother. Solemnly the child clMed does'ffrqd, by unobserved U-boats.


parents, girlie had started frbin home (to the “ I should say * Thank to have been'sunk by mines In these


northeni ipart of [the town) 'with the.set Dumose of going to Sinday schqbL However, she [was recognised by a friend bf the family and taken back. Her fljrst surprise river, mum- mie asked, “How tor had you got?” ’n;e maiden answered, “ As tor as that; shoplwhere my. coat changed


colour.” ' i ’ l ; "■ \ ' ■


’ is now; possible to reveal the secrets of the latest[type' of mag­


netic mine which the Germans are using. Its distinctive feature is the provision of two detonators instead ol pne. There is a contact detona- tbr, which explodes the mine in the tisual way if it strikes a ship when dropped from an aeroplane or “ fired” from a submipine, and an­ other detonator which Is actuated by magnetism. When a ship passes over a mrignetic mine,, a pivoted niagnet In the mine isjattracted and trie movement of thq magnet pro­ vides the liecESsary electrical con- t k t for an'explosion,’ [Naval officers and’ ratings who


examined the first magnetic mine to be fished out/ of [the Shoebury


nlud flats in Essex unwittingly ex­ posed themselves to [great danger. Having found one detonator, they OTOceedqd with un[ examination, which Involved the removal o f sev­


eral further fitting^ T h en the second detonator waq discovered. I The mines hold qbout 7001b. of


retailed to us over and over again. ^


I equinox. There is a lag behind the 5Uh in temperature variations of the seasons I so that the hottest month Is July and the coldest Jan­ uary in the northern latitudes and vice versa iri southern latitudes.


on September 23rd, the autumnal


IVTARCH, •IVX -pn- fl


Hitlers month, is here. For the! benefit of those who


attach importance to his habits (writes Janus in the “Spectator” ) it may be recalled that he. went into the Rhineland on March 7, 1936, invaded Austria on March 1^, 1938, and marched into Czecho-Slovakla on March 15, 1939. None of which, let me add, necessarily provides any convincing reason for believing ‘he will do anything in particular in Mrirch, 1940.'


f I ■ ■ '. I . !! I n a u ( ■ By“ 9ois,”


temperature is so evenly distributed that the year is usually divided into seasons accordingi to rainfall, the


!


her eyes again, land sang “ TJiank yoii for a hap-hap-happy day, toodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oocLay."


^ N interesting survey of favourite


• i times for listening to radio programmes is. given in the B.B.C. Handbook for 1940. An inquiry conducted -by the B.B.C; showed that evening listening begins soon after 5 p.m.; by 6 p.m. nearly 80 per cent, of listeners are available; by 7 p.m. over 90 per cent., and at 8 p.m. thfe potential audience reaches its peak. At about ,10 p.m.! bed-time reduces the’ nuriiber of i listeners, and fully half the public have sw'ltched off their-sets forlthe night by 10-30 p.m. : At 11 p.m. ithe audi­ ence has dropped to 20 per cent, at most, and only a small fraction listens after midnight,


i


TN the ’bus to town the other day -■■j (writes a correspondent to the “■Yorkshire Evening Post” ) an elder­ ly |frlend told me I needn’t/talk so loud—he wasn’t deaf. As he had told me while walking to the Ibus to speak up because he wqs a little hard of hearing, I felt thqt his atti­ tude was a little inconsistent. i These feelings must have shown in my face, for he vouchsafed a(n explan­ ation. “ I • bqlieve I hqar. much belter in ’buses than elsewhere,” he admitted;


CLITHEIlOE ADVEETISER AND TIMES, FRIDAY.! MARCH 8l 1940. | INSCRIPTIONS


LADY WttRSLEY-TAYLOR’S! ARTICLE IN “ THE H O S IE R .’ ?


The current issue; of “ The;


Crosier,” the quarterly ^apfer of the Diocese of Blackburn, i contains a series of valuable contributions!: Among them is one dealing with The Church and the War” by the


Bishop, who discusses [the pacifist position, another by Canon J. E. W[ Wallis, chancellor of ithe diocese[ who provides : suggestions for a colour sequence for i Blackburn Cathedral, and aithlrdjls from the’ pen of Lady: Worsley-Taylor, a: member of the Diocesrin Advisory! Committee for the! Care of Churches, who usefully dlscussel “ Inscriptions and Epitaphs.”* i Lady Worsley-Taylorj points out;


that “ We no longer Il^je In an age! who creates all things with that’ rightness’ which is fiom of true!


craftsmanship and natural skill and feeling; an : age wlien. In ri churchyard so lovely that it seelns to make death natural|and beautiP ful too,’ the old grey honest-looking toraostones were as local and homep made as the quaint inscriptions and verses which recorded!the lives of those who lie beneath them.” She then adds : i“.For the last


hundred years we have [been getting more and more entafigled in the cogs of our machinery, i Our tomb­ stones have become imachlne-ma: and the rest pf all! t|ie things common use


‘II discovered it in a


dales ’bus, where a couple of farm­ ers two o f three seats a^ead were ca):rylng on a cortversatlon which Interested ma. When I mentioned sopie of their remaito to my; wife afterwards she was surprised, because to her the farimers were out o f ! earshot, arid hernearing is nor­ mal—or ;[what is gener^ly called normal.”.;


. • :


so often wrongly leads us imagine that foreign! things ai[e grander than our own! has decreed that our graveyards! should beconje ri dreary vista of the! products- of Italian quarries. Lifeless marble


and faphlon, whicp I iheroe. | Before joining up, he was Cell


J 1... vj 1 aiid formerly of George Street,’ Cjll- Gunner J. Goodbier, whose homej l


in the employ of Messrs. Ri Bros., of Nelson and Skipton.


Gunper Jonathan Cook, another


local “Terrier”, with the B.E.F.] is the 19 year-old son of Mrs. and the


crosses with flat formula,s suggested late Mil! Jonathan Cook, of ,79, Mpor by the monument maker and with Lane,, clitheroe Connected | v?ith lettering which has bqen described the Congregational Church | and as ‘ like an auctioneer’s advertis?-!- Sunday!School, he was on the s’ ment on a bam.door.’ l”


After observing, |that the same I tinn S. remarks apply to mapy pious gifts i


' A He didn’t say so, but the idea"^


serimed to be at the bwk pf his riilnd that the ability to; hear best in! ’buses is the true normality, in the opinion of right-minded persons though he did go sojjfar as to


admit that' the vibration of [the vehicle might in some way augment the trans'misslon of souild. ^ I t ’occurred to me (continues the


correspondent) that the'fact that we were sharing a seat rnight have mOre to do with it, lo t I ! once knew persori !who could one sofa


beside her, though the vrprds them selves remained. indlstingulshabie. Anyway, whatever the explanation of! the phenomenon, I rpsumed my coriversationjwith my friend in the ’bus in more [subdued tones.


npHE ^ v»or


story told by .Lady Astor recently about the British skip­


per, who, when captured by the Glaf Spec surprised tlie Nazis by taking, his ;golf clubs! with him alioard the raider, .recaps that dur­ ing the last ,war the captain of the Blue Funnel liner Trollus, which was captured by the Eniden, caused similar astonishment !among his I captors by asking permission to save


Toddlngton Marior in th^Cot^wolds. |


o f the standard of design' and work­ manship which are fltilrig to their purpose. It is [usually from lack of guidance and khowledge; Making the point [that..“ Many [


good workers, trained [in the o[ld tradition of handlcjrafls that all the work Is a coriipourid ,iof body and soul, and not [an evil flrridgery,'are still to be found, anditlielr work [is often little, if anjr, more expensive than the machirie-njade artlcli” Lady Worsley-Taylor! -Jadds thjat “ The best of mbdejirn'' craftwrirk ' compares not unfavoutubly with the best work of our forefathers. The names of such workers are riot difficult to obtain.!’ ; After insisting that ofir memorials,


in common ■qdth all [other contri buttons to the life of the church, “ belong to posterltj^ and not |to ourselves,” Lady 'Worsley-Taylor proceeds to., give prrictical advice from which’the follovirlng “ poinijs”


are taken ■ “ In some inEtances a very worth


piano. 'Permission was duly (says the “Liverpool Post” ) piano was t r^ fe r r e d in


mid-ocean tb the Emden’s prison sliiip, Markoinanla. Another British officer captured was allowed to save his motor-bike in siriillar fashion. But even’ the Emdetfs skipper


drew- the line somewhere. He flatly refused to allow a passenger on the liner Diploiriat to save 19 cases of curiosities - phich were stored in that vessel’s holds.


,


while memorial might well [be. made by a donor defrriying the.Mst of necessary [repairs] to the falric of the church, [especially where this is a medieval ritructijre. . . . It would be a J good idpa If in some parishes ‘ Meniorial Repair Funds ’ were started!; j a donation to such _ fund might be the; most yalurible contribution [ liosslble! to the peeds


of a parish.' On writing


inscriptions “ A golden rule in this as in much qlse


is to eliminate nil pon-essentials., The name [ot the [ person icbm-


memoratbd should be given iri lull


and usuilly honours.


the-rank or other What should not


be included is a Jist of the na nes and addresses of the [relatives or the donors. A memorial is not an ex­ pression of personal ’glorlflcatioifi or vanity. Lettering, should be easily legible and i o f iinlform Jype throughout. The i^ost Important part—the name for | instance—may be in larger letters,[but two tjjpes, quch as Gothic and [Roman, should never be used togetber,”


j of the Calderstones Mental Institu- j i i


of church futnlshings and orna- Bombardier John Crossley, | of mlents J.ady Worsley-'J'aylbr points Hlpplngs House, West Bradford, out that when! such g^fts fall shorit | also jplned the local, Territqrlals,


but be was tri. AA. Brittery, RJl., arid is training in England. [After leaving the (Ilithe- roe Royal [ Grauunrir School, he was


„g too yriung to serve albripad Ssf erred to the 168 th I Light


is rit 17. Grlmshaw Street, Clitheroe,' joined the local Ariti-Alrcraft Bat­ tery oil its formatibn and is now ln| [ France. He was Iri the employ of( the C.W.S. at their WithgUl plg-| gerles.[


1 i Driver W. Ross, of the M.T.S.', wrib} |


jollied up immediately on the out[-‘ break of war, iwas employed as a| I driver by the Rlbble Motor ServlceJ He is the son of Mrs. Ross, of Wad-| dington. His father, Mr! Robert Ross, was a vlctirii bf the last Great!


War. ;' ■ , : | I ■ ' Gunner Fred Robinson, aged 2l|


is attached tb tbe 56th S/L Regt. RA., and was called up ln ^uly lastl Hq is the son of Mrs. James Robing son; 28, Downhani Road, Chatbumi


IN U G A N D A


Irinon Bradi^s Stories of Changes iri Native Ufe.


WHEN WITCH-DOCTORS FLOURISHED The annuarmeeting and sen^ons


of the Church Missionary Society took blacej during the wefekfend, when the Rev. Canon pr.ai^ley, [of Ambl^side, | was [ thC' ylriting preacher’ On Saturday qveriing. he ga,Ve|a graphic account! oi: his trip to Africa as C.MB. delegate to the jubilee celebrations cf [ the Native Church in; UgandS; [ On Sunday |


morning he occupied the


pulpit at St. James’s Cffiurcb, and also ijreached at evening service at St. Paul's, Low Moor. ,


[ I Welcoming Canon Bradley to


Saturday’s meeting] the Rev; |H. Y. Burnritt! spoke of his keen ilffierest in the work of the ’C.M.S., [arid, ex­ pressed [pleasure that hq should have [found time to'visit Cjlitheroe. Cariori Bradley’s address yas pro fuselyi illustrated by lantern slides


from [photographs taken whilst he was in Uganda in 1927. The party


with Momljassa harbour [and at [on;


out for i Nairobi. Here was | si ■the (Sathedral Church of ^t. set uilori a hill which doniinatod the town.: ! It was a V/bnderful! sqene to see peonle ascending that: hill to take I [ part in exactly tpeJ [same services as congregations I in ; Eng­ land p were wont to attend.] i The Cathedfal could accommodate] 4,000 peop)e,|and it was; crowded [to the


■ which ?he travelled landed at !ce set ruated Paul,


door every Sunday. A RINGED “IBAIDER.” Starlings fly over! from Germany


to Britain in the vfiriter and fly .back in the summer.


!’ J ■ Mr. P. Cox, of Quqen-street, Mar


ket Rasen, knew of ibis but thought nothing of it until Recently, when a


friendly little starlffig hopped to­ wards him for cruipbs.


I “I noticed,” saifi i Mr. Cox, ‘[that


the bird hrid a peculiar little lejaden ring attached to orie leg. Thejbird


allowed me to touch It so tqat I coulda inspect the ring. I imwpund


the ring and founfi' un inscription on It. ;’n ie worditig. was; “Vpgel- warte (blrdkeepet), Helgejland,


8067104.1’ ! I' I . j ! Cariori Bcadley’ s, next [ stopping


placririas at a scfipol whefe| ijative girlsjl received ■ a i good education, many tiiemselyes becoming teqehers in later years. Others would marry and' let up Christian homes^aii im­ port int factor in : the growth of


the emurch’ n ' ■ !: CHANGER ’ LIVES, The speaker said it wap Surpris­ j


ing what a; big'difference there is in outward < appearances, between theH Christian native [arid heathen. In their healjhen


the state


theyilfved in small mud Iriits of only one room .amidst indescribable dirt and [filth. But the'native, Christian had jjearnti the Importance | of per sonal! cleanliness,', and jthe i girls’ dormitories, for example, ,were spot­ lessly clean. First-aid lessons were an I impoijtant : feature] 'of the curiculum, the pupils h r i^ taught


! elementary principles , of ■ Mst^ as veil a? how to treat snqke bites, The! riativqs, prior to ,thq advent of the j iriissionary, [ had nri‘’'iclea[ of


treating Utoess,pr wounds* |, ^They placed all toeir; trustri|iri|v/ltoh doctors, wbo. of course; kripw noth' tog|!whatever about mei^qtoe. [


j i f ! a man suffered ^riim soriie Illness, he was told , he was ibssessed byi a ^deril.’and .one


|


: poker in order I evil., .spirit.' '


' ' , ■ : ’ •! [The establishment and equipping


of hospitals was an imriortaiit feature of missionary work. Native ri travelled hundreds[ of miles to receive medical aid, [and they wele really grateful for the treatmert they received.; ’The work had 11 i humorous side, too. When a nati\e came for treatment, qifite fref quently his relatives and friends accompanied him! As they refuse d to leave him,' the! whole group had to be housed and fed. It was at tiie hospitals that many of tne n received their first knowledge Df the Gospel; tous receiving spiritual as wCU as physical healing.’ :


THE 'KING:S SPIES. I Canon Bradley went on to speak


bf his visit to the native Parliament House of the .Kingdom of ’Tori'o, typical of islmllar Houses to t ie ■yarlous klngrioms' of Uganda. T tie king sat on a dais, which \yas decor­ ated with Ibopard sktos-^the s i p of royalty—and to a corner,of the room the ro^al band played. , Tb a white man’s ears, the din : v as simply awful; there was no atten.pt at harmony,! and yet i f seemed to please the : natives., In the old days, the king’s [executioners shod to the opporite cp'rrier, with their eyes masked, ;so that they c p '^ not see whom they killed.


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In the old days, too, the kieg’s spies : mixed ' amongst he assembly and; denounced people for trivial (breaches of etique ite.


Fori instance,' if a man’s clotiies touched the royal leopard skins he would be called, out. by the spies and, If the Idn’g was’ In a'[ gooc temper, he' would merely be niuti: lated. was to


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If unfortunately, the ktof an anp^imood, he would bf


sliced to pieces and fed to the; rqya’ crocodiles.


'Ihat cruelty had bis


appeared under the influence Christianity and the word of Gospel.


’ I MANY ' MARTYRS. '


( There had [ been many mair^ ambngst thq ;Chrlstian natips, who had held fast to theh belief j in face ’of bitter persecution, haps the greatest of these wall native, named Apello, who wen i ri a tnlssloriafy i tb' extremely saVag: tribes. He prbached amon^ trieij


for soriie time] j persuaded th e ; king to have’, beaton to death if he would leave the cbiriitry. Apello refqse to go and, after hetag] beaten


taethod employed by the witch [(Continued foot of next Column)


Ob:. ric'i


Ui- ' 8C 1.; _


(Continued from preceding column) mercifully, :his body beasts.


of the body, saw a


the bush to be eaten was left out in.


One of the women whom he had converted, however, crept


from orit the viubge to the middle night to or^er Suddenlyiishe


to bury the thought she


faint movement of a limb.


and wa[s astonished; to discover that the man’s heart .was still beating, although extrem'qly feebly. She


carrledj.hlm backito t i e village and- h id , hliri to the [ijbyaj burial hut,' nursing him baqri! to health and. strength. Six niqnths later, when strong [enough to walki he appeared in ' front of the|[ klng and t h e . villagers, who were convinced that ■ It was hlS' ghostl come, to wreck vengeance upon [ jihen|[: The king was '■'[Islbly sfiaken . and,: to ' a trembling voice, lie begger APcHo’s foj-giveness.


vas .readily


granted on condition that the king and his subjects entered the church


to hear the worq of God. They did so|,ruid Apello:well many souls for Christ. Years later, he died while kneeling[ia| prayer. His only possesrion (a cqw). ije left to the | C.M.SJ ■: -


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