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TN answer to a number of people who have made inquiries the Editor wishes to make it quite dear that these articles >Y nine


not " ghosted.” , . To make the position perfectly clear it is necessary to e»U ‘


once again that all the arUcles have been written by Elaine hcrscl have not, as some people have suggested, been written by a reporter a Elaine lias been interviewed, and then asked certain leading questions- The widening interest being taken in the articles is cvidei.it rom •'


fact that we are receiving inquiries from various parts of the coimtrj as - ing us to forward copies of the “ Advertiser and Times ” containing a


the “ Girl in the Shadows ” articles. God washes whitest of all


( ,'O O D FRIDAY, Easter, Whitsuntide, Christmas . . . great Christian festivals or just occasions for celebration? Let us face the truth! To most people they are not times for glorifying God, but good excuses to get away from work for a day or two, to have ft ho l-


Listen to people in your house talking about Easter. Will they be talking about going church’ or will' they be thinking in terms of holiday, a day in the country- away from it all.


Easier to most women means a new hat. a new frock for the kiddies at Whitsuntide. A few peop c will observe the old custom of Lent fasting, and this is the most ridiculous 01 an.


Fasting, in its proper sense, is something you use, eat or drink frequently of which you deprive yourself. Otherwise, of course, if you deprive yourself of something you don’t really need, you are feeling no hardship and thus having no cause to wonder at the fasting of Christ.


l i works out rather differently. People are again not thinking about what they are doing.


Many, many people do it for show and for a. fuss.


Jane gives up chocolates, and when being oflered one at a party exclaims in a loud voice: "No! No! I ’ve given them up


• for-Lent. i'll Softer in silence!" I have heard this many times,


and every time I hear it I ask mvself litis question: "Is this wiial Christianity's coming


Jane has probably no-hardship hi giving up chocolates, site will probably make up for it in sweets and biscuits. She just enoys being able to say that she is "suffering” and feels some self-gratification from it.


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The Council is to support tl'e _ A local brush manufacturer


who asked the Counoil to be afforded the opportunity of sup­ plying street sweeping brooms will be told that tho Council are not preparod to abandon their


long-standing practice in this matter. The Borough Engineer. Mr. J.


Newton Bell reminded the High­ ways. Committee that for mam- years the Council had obtained brooms from Blackburn Work­ shops for the Blind. These had


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by Clitheroe Parish Church Organ Society (or a contribution from the Council to their tund6


the Council last month. The consideration of a request


’.iso in many other spheres of ■ublic service in the Borough. Councillor Grice resigned from


A vie"' of Cardigan Avenue, off Kirkmoor Road. mj,e rapav_


Association of Municipal Corpor­ ations in its endeavours to secura that the membership of "-aten committees is confined to elected members of borough councils.


Turning back to Christmas, we . find it disintegrating into what it began as. Christmas was only fixed at its present date, because it happened to coin­ cide with a Pagan Roman festival. “Saturnalia,” so both celebrations could be held con­ veniently on the same day.


Now Christmas it appears to me is becoming more and more like the Pagan festival with which it began.


Christmas! Turkey, pudding, crackers, a tree, parties, pre­ sents . . . what a vision it conjures up. Although it has its snags! People go carol singing . . . for money; go to parties . . . to get drunk; buy presents for friends because it is exoected of them, and anyway they know they can be sure of getting some­ thing back, and if they don’t— well, it's a poor show, and “remember to cross him off the


Wlmt's the point of it all? Well you could go and ask your Vicar, and he will no doubt tell vou that Christmas is to cele­ brate Christ’s birth. Now turn round and ask yourself what s tlie point of it all. and the answer is "to celebrate.”


On November 5th people no lon­ ger gasp with relief that our Houses of Parliament were not blown to smithereens. No. they have lost the point, they just celebrate.


list next year." cs on similar lines,


READERS’ LETTERS


QNCE again we publish letters received iroin, our readers regarding articles written in the


" Girl in the Shadows ” series. We regret it is not possible Tor Elaine to


reply in these columns to some of the more personal letters she lias received.


music fins :er out


T-|,0\V wrong can you get! In . your theme of Church


Disunity of course you arc right ™t you are so far behind the times as to be completely out of date, and for one who claims to be ‘ The Voice of Youth’, this is absolutely unforgiveable! I actually talk to Roman


Catholics! In Preston, most Catholic of all English towns, we have a combined Crib at Christ­ mas, Anglicans, Romans and Free f ’irohmon. Catholic Pr i es t ) , .addressed Methodist


Mcelingskxnd 1 preached in a dozen r ,gllcan Churches. The


old days .’of hatred and murder are gone. In Clitheore we now have a


Council o[ Christian Congrega­ tions whose activities will in­ crease as we get to know each other better! Make no mistake Elaine, our


divisions are grievous and hurt­ ful and in some cases deep. BUT WE KNOW IT! The important thing is to do something about, it. One of tire greatest facts of ■his century is the movement of the Spirit throughout the world bringing all Churches nearer to­ gether. In India this is a realised fact in the Church of South India, in Canada there is the United Church of Canada and in the last sixty years nearly three hundred acts of ‘Union’ between Churches have taken place throughout the world. Relation­ ships between the Roman Catho­ lic. Eastern Churches and the Protestant Churches are more cordial than ever before. So please Elaine, instead of “ going on like, this all day ” take your finger out, get informed and get cracking. Come to the Parish Church on Good Friday at 7-30 p.m. The Vicar will be there. I will be there, will you be there? RONALD JOBLING


Superintendent Methodist Minister


e r e c t i o n s m . u r e


| VIR.ECTTONS IF rtr.lv .cS'rinn


contained in Holy Scriptures, if carefully


j observed, lead from darkness I into light and front the shadows i into the sunshine. Jesus said: "I 1 am the light of the world, ho that followeih Me shall not walk


I in darkness, hut shall have the light of life." (John 8. 12.). Fol­ lowing Him. having first trusted Him for salvation, is to discover that "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shinelh more* and more unto the per­ fect day." iProv. 4. 18.). It is the


I am not saying that this is vAat has happened to Chris/ ‘ bul l w’ fil say. this.da-s-j rapidly happening. I ;.wi| hazard a guess at three out ,


haps not even as many as tluA " m


iiath that leads into the personal nd intimate knowledge of God, •fivealed-.to..-men .in His Son


ten people being really than j - (ditional and commerce creops into relj-


Tile reminders of the Eastern star, the tiring camel journey,


the wondering shepherds, are given to us on gaudy card' |


A few religious people still.' Jf course, go to all these services, but most of the large congre­ gations are parenLs who fell the pangs of conscience that perhaps as Tommy's parents are taking him, then they ought 10 take their Johnny. :


After all, their Johnny very rarely sees the inside of die church for the rest of the year.


gion, (I saw a poster in a local town “God washes whitest of all") people arc losing t-ta point of why they are cele­ brating.


1


!U£iT\.yonly Saviour, i f Spiritual enlightenment is con- upon the individual


,


ill that Chi 1st was 00m, prj |[ometh tQ God musl pgiicvc that As Holy Days become holiday


ffnl that Christ was bom net- Exercise of faith, "For he that


He is and that He is the rewar­ der of them that diligently seek


Him,” (Heb.2. 6.). A discerning reader of the New


Testament will soon discover llint physical well-being was no,, die final objective of our Lord s miracles, they were illustrations of things far greater, the spiri- mal and eternal. Subsequent upon this declaration—"I ani the light of the world,” there follows immediately the healing of a man born blind. His testimony is that of all into whose lives the True Light has shone: it is one of assurance, "One thing I know/, that whereas I was blind, now* I see." iJohn !). 25.'i. Tile order is contrary to what


is often said, it is not see and believe, but believe and see. The


i Lord’s words to Thomas reveal this principle. "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." (John 20. 29.).


, Saul ot Tarsus, afterwards i Paul the apostle was delivered ; from spiritual darkness even as ! his testimony affirms. After- 1 wards he was Divinely coni- i missioned to proclaim the gospel 1 to the nations, "To open their ; eyes, and to turn them irom darkness to light, and from the


power of Satan unto God. that they may receive the forgiveness


of sins,” f Acts 26.18.). Light is available for all who


bv faith in Christ will receive it. Tlie words of our Lord arc final and conclusive, "This is the con­ demnation. that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, be­ cause their deeds were evil- yoi every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometli to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” (John 3. 19.). 'Only believe, and thou shalt


Thill Christ is all in all to thee FRED WHITMORE.


SCO ,, M


\ FTER saying "Bent music A.X. mnom means nothing,” Glen Pate


goes on to' say. " the same can bo said of those terrible Sankev and Moody hymns to which Non-Conformist churches arc so devoted, and the overwhelmingly smug Victorian platitudes of ; hymns like the Rev. Toplady’s j Rock of Ages in the Church of 1 England?"


Glen Pate writes ot such music 1


being “ aesthetically and expres- i sively unworthy ’’ and as giving ; tile writer no satisfaction aesthe- j ticnlly. and goes on to say. “ The j Church does need a change of ; form in tho music, and should j be an expressive art form." As the man said. “ How lah-di-


dah!” If tire church's mission is to


fortify arty people all right. But how old-fashioned it was


of Sankey, Moody and Topladv to think it was to save souls! WINIFRED U. COPELAND.


Whalicy. OTHER


LETTERS BOB-A-.IOB WEEK.


[N these days when voting people have so much pro­


vided for them with little effort on their own part, it is refreshing that the Boy Scout Movement


continues to uphold the principle that its members should help to - cam their keep." Few people can fail to bo


aware of the value of this Move­ ment which has as its aim the training of boys and young men to become good citizens. Tito money earned during Bob-n-Job Week is essential if this good work is to bo continued. At the same time it inculcates a sense of responsibility and of values. Once again I appeal to the


citizens of Clitheroe to give a svmpathetic reception to a Scout or Wolf Cub when lie calls to offer his labour, and to pay what­ ever is felt to be a reasonable rate for the job, bearing in mind the cause for which he works.


Most Scouts and Cubs arc


prepared to tackle anything— such is their enthusiasm. But the selection of the tasks that are set should be one which common sense dictates the boy is capable of carrying out suc­ cessfully.


The kind and generous res­ ponse given by the general pub-


I lie in past years has been truly magnificent and I am confident that we shall have every reason to feel pleased with the results achieved during this year’s Bob- n-Job Week, which is from March 30 to April 4. .


- ; • 1 R; I . K A Y ." ■ •. District Commissioner.


THE WAY RATES ARE LEVIED


R. MA R T I N STRANGE. Liberal candidate for the


Clitheroe Division, among other challenging attacks on the Tory Government, alluded to housing and said housing costs go up higher than the cost of living, .vet tlie Tories choose this hous­ ing programme to boast about. Further, he claims Liberals have been right on every major issue. I would much like 10 be in­


formed when last rates were a major issue and would be interes­ ted to learn what proposals the Liberal party have to make on


this subject. Perhaps Mr. Strange will en­


large on this topic at some future


date. It may be or interest to some


of your readers who have never given much thought to the way i-ates are levied except to grumble at the constant, increase in tho assessment and rates as they affect the average ratepayer. Briefly, rates are levied on the


rental value of buildings and the. land on which they stand. If property Is unoccupied, no rates are payable. When a building is erected where none was before or a property is enlarged or improved, increasing its rental value, the valuation authority can be required at once to make a new valuation and imme­ diately the burden of rates Is


imposed or increased. Blit, when properties arc


allowed to deteriorate the assessor must write them down and when lands lie vacant lie


must pass them by. Somehow, it doesn t make


sense. Is there an alternative


and better way? I hope some of your readers


can give an answer or perhaps Mr. Martin Strange will help to resolve the problem.


JOHN W. THOMPSON. This is your t o w n


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