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WHEN I was a youngster, our dining table gave pride of place at many meals to a pot of jam. We had
no special jam dish or fancy spoon. There it stood in all its glory, with the wheatsheaf trademark adver- B Uie. Cooperative Society from where it had
tising been o
us to co-operate with God in order to harvest the best our lives could produce. Jesus, I read, had said that we should be known by our fruits and that good fruits could only be expected from good trees. There is only one good way in life for us and that is
realised, was due to man co-operating with God to ensure a harvest. In later life I learned that it was essential for all of
use the spade to prepare the soil for sowing the seed and then, fter waiting for God to send the sunshine and the rain to make the corn grow, he would be able to use the sickle for harvesting the grain. This,. I
of corn, I remember, and the words “Labour and wait.” After a while, it dawned upon me that man had to
was plenty of tune for me to wonder why the society had chosen the wheaLsheaf as its emblem. There were pictures of a spade and a sickle, along with the sheaf
was counselled to let my meat stop my mouth at mealtimes. During the “oil-chewing” silence, there
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I must have been a chatterbox in those days, as I # 'ft v**'- \*ei viil l* IIJ^ OliLllLCi liJUILf
our prayer time to listen with our minds for His mes- sages. ror this we need to have some motivation.
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The Holy Spirit is another dimension of God, who is always ready to come where He is needed and
expressed m the world? This kind of revolution must begin with ourselves!
in Galatia St Paul listed the fruits of this indweltag spirit to be love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
Gal. 5.22). Such is the best kind of harvest I know coming from co-operation with God.
■Sowers of blessing via t uhe indwelling oif His Holy
opint and eventually you will have good reason for a harvest festival of thankfulness.
to enable uod to co-ojneratA with umi --
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>erate with you, sending his ic .uuweiiin
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(ir ! i nre.oo\ f“lth,fu.lness, gentleness and self-control )Labour with your prayers and fully dedicated life
l° tbe Christian Churah ’
wanted Have you not been thinking how much better it would be if there were more kindness and love
us to do with our lives. God made us for communion and co-operation with Himself and to attaitn this was necessary for us to talk with Him and to pause in
it
H;fi4S|0bc l'n<;cl b>! rLT,clv.'W from God something of His Holy Spirit to dwell within us.
God s way. To live in that way we need to eo-oirerate with God to be sure of knowing what He wants
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the most sharp-eyed per son to see the beauty enjoyed by Mr William Marshall over the last 75 years.
even qualify
e y e t e s t would not
85-year-old can still see far beyond the reach of the average person when viewing the very basis of
Despite poor vision, this
through the microscope will soon convince the most indifferent observer i of the beauty to be found
there that I got to know of Mr Edmondson Buck, a local photographer who owned a microscope,” said Mr Marshall.
in te re s t , bought the microscope for £3 15s from
stimulated after a look through Mr Buck’s micro scope and the desire to own one himself soon became apparent. Mr Marshall, keen to- further this blooming
His interest was soon
this minute world w;is at technical school, where he used microscojres to study- fibres as part of his train ing to be a draughtsman. “ It was while I was
the lads at the back of the class pulling out their hair to p u t u n d e r th e microscope.” His next encounter with
after the first world war; soldiers were coming back and two came to school, one bringing an ancient microscope. “All I can remember is
eroe, Mr Marshall first came in contact with the world of the microscope while at C l i th e ro e ’s National School. He explained: “It was
microscopic hobby has helped him amass an unusual collection of sam ples from all over the world, so how did it start? Born and bred in Clith
world consists of diatoms, the single cell algae found in fresh water, which form intricate symmetrical designs. Over the years, this
worlds. Mr Marshall’s unusual
n this world within
exploration of minute sin gle cells through the lens of a microscope. A few minutes looking
through Mr Marshall’s rare lifetime hobby, the
life itself at his Castle View home. This is all possible
cor ing top marks in an
D is t r ic t N a tu r a l i s t Society, has spent many enjoyable hours searching out diatoms in nooks and crannies around the Kibble
just a great deal of con centration, but a firm grip and strong eyesight. Unfortunately, Mr Mar
up his hobby, Mr Marshall is now content to view water samples collected
overlapped into his work as a North West Electric ity Board inspector. “I always carried a bottle in my pocket and if near
around the Ribble Valley. His unusual hobby even
from ponds and streams d t
I no longer have a good eye and steady hand to complete the process,” he explained. De
determined not to give
mounting, because the process was proving too difficult to carry out. ‘T couldn’t do it now, as
shall was forced, a few years ago, to give up slide
\ IM\ hi) through a microscope, this picture clearly shows the magnified structure of the dia tom, us seen by Mr Marshall.
complex designs, Mr Marshall said: “Let's put it this wav, the largest diatom will be a 60th of an inch, but the majority are around 1,000th of an inch in size."
Explaining the true size of their intricate and
from all over the world, including fossilised remains from the Indonesian island of Java.
Friends and family have brought diatom samples
species found in the Coe near Brungcrley. This sin gle cell microscopic plant, shaped roughly in the form of a letter eight, is the basis of life. It breaks down matter and gives off oxygen, making the river more conducive for other forms of life.
Among Mr Marshall's important finds is a rare
microscope. However, this manipu lative process required not
t h e
Marshall mounted the dia toms on slides, using a delicate process involving many hours of precision work, before he could view t h e m u n d e r
going to find.” After collection, Mr
you come across by acci dent. I t’s a case of not knowing what you are
and next day vou’irfind a lot. “Many of these things
something new. It’s like fishing: you may wait all day and not find anything
scopic wonders may not be everyone’s idea of a enjoy able hobby, so why does Mr Marshall enjoy- it so much? Mr Marshall, a founder member of Clitheroe and
whetted my appetite for more.” Viewing these micro
the pages of a magazine, Mr Marshall quickly- decided what he wanted to discover through his microscope's lens. “I came across an article in ‘Mec cano Magazine’ on micro scopic pond and fresh w a te r life and th a t
until I could pay for the microscope. It was a for tune then,” he said. After flicking through
Mr Buck, paying at the rate of 2s Gd. (12V4p) a week. “ I waited and saved
water I would quickly fill it.”
ledge of his subject, Mr Marshall has photo graphed his slides and drawn the images found on them.
Apart from a vast know
beauty which surrounds us all.
Life as seen through the microscope
almost completely cate gorised, Mr Marshall hopes his lifetime’s work will act as a lasting reminder of the unseen
Now, with his collection O R K S His microscopic hobby thriving — at 85
Beauty is in the eye of this beholder
Valley and country to cre ate his collection. “Every time you find
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