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an NHS doctor at Clitheroe Health Centre offering acupuncture and the advent of a wide spectrum of alternative therapies, from electro-crystal treatment to osteopathy.
After all, the past few years have seen
under no illusions that her healing methods will be universally accepted.overnight. But the increasing . flow of people visiting her for treatment at her peaceful home in a quiet cul-de-sac in the village of Worston is proof of changing attitudes to health in the area.
Nevertheless, Mrs Christine Worthington is CHRISTINE at work in her study
determined 41-ycar-old wife of an illustrator, believes the stresses and excesses of Western life are to blame for many of our physical ills.
: Mrs Worthington, the quietly-spoken but
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■ believe spiritual healing can restore the balance,” she said.
“We are out of step with the rhythm of life, but I
Spiritualist churches in the area, hut she points out that she is not a Spiritualist. She is a member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers, a ' non-dcnominational group at present undergoing a five-year investigation by the medical profession, which is eager to evaluate its success.
have been spectacular. One involved a six-year-old girl with the chronic skin disease psoriasis, which causes itchy, scaly red patches on the skin. She had suffered from the complaint for weeks and her mother turned to spiritual healing in despera tion. Within two days, the condition had completely cleared.
Certainly, some of Mrs Worthington’s successes
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Often.it depends on a person’s need to be well. But we are often unblocking a hidden anger or distress in the person, which might have been experienced years before and has remained hidden inside them . . . the cause of many illnesses.”
will work in a certain case,” says Mrs Worthington, who opened her centre in January.
. inches above the body., “Healing is a gift which we all have,” she
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believes, “but our matcrialisticiworld has made us . out of tunc with the more spiritual side of our being. Gone arc the days when the priest and the healer would be one and the same person . . . now we tend to cut off religion into another department, which is very sad.”
alongside the National Health Service — in fact it is a recognised therapy by the NHS and doctors are allowed by the General Medical Council to refer patients for spiritual healing. '.. though, as yet, few do in this area. “I think medicine has its place, but
Mrs Worthington believes that healing can work
unfortunately, with recent cuts, doctors are very overworked and some people tend to visit them for every little ailment,” she said..“Tablets treat symptoms but not causes of illness . . . and I
herself drawn to healing after years of people turning to her with their problems. It led her to an interest in psychotherapy and she is presently studying the subject on an Open University course. She has also taken courses in flower remedies and is a qualified reflexologist to cope with patients who prefer a more physical approach to healing. “When a mother soothes an injured child, she is
A native of Bury, Mrs Worthington found ~
practising the first essentials of healing,” she' explained. “Healers just follow that through, channelling energy which the body’s higher self ' knows exactly how to use to heal itself.” . . Mrs Worthington also practises absent healing,
requested by patients who cannot attend in person: “Distance is no barrier to healing.” shc said. “In fact, the little girl with psoriasis was a distant healing.”
; the problem lies in a patient’s body , /a power she has even used to heal animals..
- She is hoping to soon spend one day of her week at a new alternative therapy centre soon to open in Burnley.
“But it would be nice if we could one day sec such a centre in the Ribblc Valley too,” she added:
THOUGHT for the week
JESUS asked His followers to be sure to let their lights shine out so that all who saw their good works might glorify God. We who claim'the-hon oured title of Christian arc to be the lights of the
world, passing on what we have received from our Lord.
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it shine out; to help .others-see more. clearly. Have you ever .'wondered about that word of Jesus about not hiding your light under a bushel? In those days, a tiny lamp, was left burning during the hours of dark ness. To .enable the .light to be shielded from those needing sleep, this was covered by. a bushel measure. This could quickly be. lifted , off if light was required during the night.. There were no bed switches then. There. is great truth in that old hymn some of
We are asked not to hide our light, but to let
She finds she is drawn intuitively to sense where . ' , •! ’ " - -
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believe healing can work alongside, by treating the cause also.”
“Nobody can say for sure that spiritual healing
Ruth begins a new in n in g s at th e abbey
AFTER living just a. stone’s throw from Old Trafford, the new assistant manager at Whal ley Abbey is determined to become one of the first women in Lancashire County Cricket Club’s hallowed pavilion.
(26). has recently joined the staff at the historic tourist attraction. She has previously served on the staff of Rydal Hall confer ence centre in the Lake District and came to Whal ley after taking on the role of parish a s s is ta n t at North Ferriby, Hull.
Miss Ruth Bannister
to work for the church, but in a behind-the-scenes capacity," she said.
“I have always wanted
Bannister (pictured right) was brought up in Staf fordshire and gained a BA degree in Anerican Stu dies from Nottingham' University. ,.,
Born in Essex, Miss ‘ , , It was
while.doing post-,. with nine: ,^ es he lived ...
women into the pavilion, I am looking forward to watching Lancashire this year,” said Miss Bannis ter, who says she is enjoy ing w o rk in g with Mrs Dinah Hadleigh, the man- .ager at Whalley Abbey, in
interested in cricket. “Now they are letting
The little and large at show
held at the new auction mart site on May 18th and is set' to be a resounding success for th e s e c o n d y e a r running.
! Finally, new for this year is a revolutionary new clay pigeon shoot ing system, which uses a laser instead of a cartridge.
will be a'visit from the Harness Goat Society and the Blackpool Don key Association. With te r r ie r rac ing and sheep shearing, there will be something for everybody at the snow.
includes a heavy and Shetland horse show and a demonstration of carriage driving by the Equestrian Society.; Also, on the agenda
The entertainment
A HOST of activites has been planned for the forthcoming Clith eroe Country Snow. The show, will be
area and always wanted to r e tu rn to th e North West,” she added. Miss Bannister’s other
“I am very fond of the ■<>v .
House, Gisburn, had to prove to. the panel of judges th a t he would benefit from an all-e.\- penses-paid trip to Nigeria and be a good ambassador for the Ribble Valley. As a candidate for the
ley, who helped to choose the winning Ribble Valley entrant. ■ T o b y , of Snowhill
UL- A-Nigerian A w ,
sented with the award by the company’s director anil g en e ra l manager, Mr David Kay. Proudly watching was
Coun.. John Cliff, the Mayor of the Ribble Val-
adventure IT’S congratulations for 17-year-old Toby Lister, who is off to Nigeria after receiving a T hw a i te s t r ave l scholarship. ■ He was recently pre
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interests include music and she has sung in several choirs, but has not1 yet had time to join one locally. .
B ea r e s sen t ia l for survival
ONE of the Ribble Valley’s latest incomers has a tall story to tell. ■ . .
vived while his companion drowned.
J And then, just like a cat
graduate work in Man- th..0UG;h the London Blitz Chester that she became
through the London Blitz while H i t le r ’s bombs claimed neighbours’ lives. -What makes him even
more remarkable is that he is as fresh as the clay he was born, showing none of the battle scars expected of a chap with such a past. He is, in fact, a six-inch
tali' teddy bear, who by coincidence arrived at the
S ™ ing for a busy ■ Museum "of'chiidroocL ' summei.
Ribchester, on the anni
versary of the Titanic disaster— April 14th. His proud owners,
great attraction, not only because of his past his tory, but. because he is a collector’s toy, made by Bing, the world-famous German tin-plate toy man ufacturer,” said Mrs Wild. The bear has a metal
lis pedigree, from the wife of the original owner. “He’s already proving a
plus the papers to prove his
David and Ankie Wild, have bought the teddy,
SONGBIRDS are or will shortly be nesting, many of them in gardens whose owners, look forward with pleasure to seeing the young birds. However, as with all forms of life, too many young are produced and most of them will not live to maturity. Whatever the lifespan of the parents, during that time they .........................
there would be overcrowding, resulting in starvation ; and disease.
household was given the tedd; his catering manager for the Titanic, the son asked his father to take it with him as a good luck mascot, but the parent went down with the ship. Later, all that remained
of the father’s possessions were sent to the boy’s mother. The package included the teddy, a Meerschaum pipe and immigration papers relat-
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body and is covered with gold mohair. Until arriv ing at the museum, he belonged to a family called. Gatti; who have Italian connections. . The story goes back to 1907, when the son of the
parasitic and other infections, most die from other causes. Some die accidentally by flying into obstruc tions or. into moving vehicles, but most are taken by predators, either before or after leaving the nest. Predators will always go for the easy meal, taking prey that is easy to catch, either because it is slow or lacks experience or, in. the ease of nestlings, because the parents have not hidden the nest well enough. By weeding out weaker and, diseased individuals,
predators actually maintain the health of the prey population. In suburban areas, the major predators of young birds are undoubtedly domestic cats. With
ousennm was mvm tnr. the number
of.eats forecast to exceed the number of cdcW as a p r e s e n t f c V S n W r e ™ 0” W ^
likely.to die thisi
magpie. This handsome ^member of tne crow family is adept at searching for nests and taking both eggs and young to feed its own growing brood. Some people believe that there are too many: magpies and that their numbers should be controlled^ If any predator takes too high a proportion of
' One predator that arouses. strong feelings is the
the prey population,, it destroys its own food-sup ply and starves. Cats, on the other hand, would still be.fed by their owners, even if they .were to kill all the wild, birds in the neighbourhood. In the cir cumstances, I can see no justification for, interfering with a natural predator such as the magpie.
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us sang as children, “Jesus bids us shine with" a : pure clear,,light,1 like a little candle burning in the night.” We never know but that in life's dark days the lost ones may. continue to be lost if our light does not - shine clearly enough to show the way..
:«:'VYo: draw, back the’eurtains each morning to admit' the light .of day.; The sun . may not ,be .visible, but we:
know
that.it is shining because of-daylight. In a simi- v!i
and His presence in our lives before,we catch the glow and are able to reflect and radiate it. to others needing such warmth and light. L 1 >'
with His disciples, when He will not only be known t to be with them," but IN them. We can really glow
I” St John’s ^Gospel, chapter-14, verses 19 and we read that Jesus promises to come.and Jive
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six ys .La ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ f ^ ...... • -r...........- ^ - > - ■ TONY COOPER Although .‘some young birds do starve or die front ’ .
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maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912 and sur
He sailed on the ill-fated
don during the second world war and later moved to Bed ale’,' in N o r th Yorkshire.
paper story about a recent teddy bear exhibition at, the museum and decided' to get in touch with Mr and Mrs Wild.
The owner read a news \
ing to Mr Gatti and these are also on show at the museum. The family lived in Lon
scholarship, he must have stood out from the crowd in more ways than one — Toby, at 6ft. 6in., is the tallest boy at Glitheroe Royal Grammar School and is studying for A- levels with a view to going to university to study, art, design and marketing. The upper sixth-form
student was a house cap tain at, Oakhill College, Whalley, before transfer ring to CRGS. He joins other scholar
ship winners on July 26th fo r th e f l ig h t from
Heathrow.to Lagos.
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LATEST additions to the stock at Ciitheroe Library include:
“Empress” — (frahum Mas- terton. The story of Lucy Dar
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