Buckley Parish Church Magazine"
Saint Matthew's Parish Church, Church Road, Buckley
March 1910
Ernest Jones, son of Joseph and Frances, mentioned under "Holy Baptism" is in the hot spots as "Jones, Ernie, 26.12.1909 - 1978"
BUCKLEY PARISH CHURCH MAGAZINE
MARCH 1910
Clergy- Rev. D. R. Pelly, M.A. Rev. J. Lewis-Williams, B.A. Rev. D. D. Williams, L. Div. (Temporarily)
Churchwardens - Mr. Alfred Everall and Mr. William Nunns
Sidesmen - (Parish Church) Messrs. C. Dolby, G. Hewitt, H. Jones, H. Lamb, G. Millington, H. Piercy, W. Peters, W. Tarran.(Good Shepherd, Pentre-Drury) Messrs. T. Powell and C. Ellis.
Organist and Choirmaster - Mr. James Tyson. Parish Clerk and Sexton - Mr. J. Hayes Jones.
Hon. Sub-Organist - Mr. W. Williams.
SUNDAY SERVICES
Celebration of the Holy Communion -
Every Sunday 8 a.m. Great Festivals 6, 7 and 8 a.m., and 11.15 a.m. (Choral)
1st Sunday of the month 7 and 8 a.m.
3rd Sunday of the month 8 a.m. And 11.30 a.m.
Matins and Sermon - 10.30 a.m.
Evensong and Sermon 6.30 p.m.
Meeting of the Catechism 2.15 p.m.
SAINTS DAYS
Holy Communion 7.30 a.m. Matins 8 a.m. Evensong 7 p.m.
WEEK DAYS
Thursday - Holy Communion 7.30 a.m. (unless a Saints Day falls in the
week)
Daily - Matins 8 a.m. Evensong 7 p.m.
Tuesday - Service of the Intersession, directly after Evensong
"THE GOOD SHEPHERD" DRURY AND PENTRE
Sundays - Morning Service 10.30 a.m. Evening Service 6.30 p.m.
Holy Communion, 4th Sundays in month 8 a.m.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS - Superintendents.
St. Matthews - Boys, Mr. Jas. Tyson, Girls, Miss Emily Jones, Infants, 2.15 p.m. Miss Price. The Good Shepherd 2 p.m. Mr. J. Hughes. Lane End 2 p.m. - Mr. S. E. Gregory
EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS
HOLY BAPTISM
February 10th Florence, daughter of Joseph and Mary Hayes.
February 10th John Henry, son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth Jeffs.
February 10th Ernest, son of Joseph and Frances Jones.
HOLY MARRIAGE
February 5th Samuel Thompson and Mary Langley.
LAID TO REST
February 9th Norman Messham, aged 2 years.
February 17th Richard Jenkins, aged 1 month.
CALENDAR FOR MARCH
Festivals. March 27th Easter Day. March 28th Monday in Easter week. March 29th Tuesday in Easter week. All Sundays. Fasts. All week days until Easter.
CHURCH AND PARISH NOTICES
Conformation Class for Girls every Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. Confirmation Class for Boys every Thursday at 7.30 p.m. March 1st Tuesday - Evensong 7.30 p.m. Preacher Rev. R. Wynter. March 7th Monday - Evensong 6.30 p.m. Mother's Union Litany 7 p.m.; Mashonaland Missionary Meeting 7.30 p.m. March 8th Tuesday - Evensong, preacher Rev. R. Wynter. March 11th Friday - Monthly S.S. Teachers, Meeting after Evensong. March 15th Tuesday - Evensong 7.30 p.m. Preacher, Rev. R. Wynter. March 22nd Tuesday - Evensong 7.30 p.m. preacher Rev. E. W. Powell. March 23rd - Nurse Fund Collectors' meeting at Vicarage, 4.15 p.m. March 24th Thursday - Confirmation 11.15 a.m.
PARISH NOTES AND GENERAL NEWS
HOLY WEEK and EASTER. We print below the list of Services for Holy Week and Easter for any of our readers who may not have received the notice which was distributed at the beginning of Lent.
Services in Holy Week - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Holy Communion, 8 a.m. Matins (with Litany on Wednesday) 7.30. Devotional Services for Children 8.40 a.m.; Evensong at 7 except on Tuesday 7.30. At Evensong on Tuesday the Rev. E. W. Powell, Vicar of Brymbo, will preach, in preparation for Easter Communion.
Good Friday. - First part of the holy Communion Services, 8 a.m. Children's Service 9 a.m. Matins and Litany 10.30; Three Hours' Service 12 - 3 p.m. , conductor the Ven. Archdeacon Wynne Jones. Evensong and Sermon, 7 p.m. The Offertories for Good Friday will be for the "Jerusalem and East Mission".
Easter Eve. - Matins and the first part of the Holy Communion Service, 8. Evensong (choral) followed by Service of Preparation for Holy Communion 7. Offerings of flowers and plants for decorations should be brought to the Church early in the morning.
Easter Day. - Holy Communion 6. 7 and 8 a.m. Matins and Sermon 10.30. Holy Eucharist (choral) and Sermon 6.30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week - Matins 7.30. Holy Communion 8 a.m. Evensong 7 p.m. The Lent Self-Denial Boxes should be sent to the Vicar on Easter Day or during Easter Week.
Clerical Staff. - We are often told that the blessings that God gives to a Parish are frequently seen to be in direct response to the interest taken in missionary work, and the sacrifices for it which are made. The truth of this has been unmistakably brought home to us in Buckley lately. Almost before we had realized all it would mean to us, when we gave Mr. Williams to the Mission Field our anxiety about the future was relieved by being enabled to arrange that by the end of June three Clergy would once again be at work in Buckley.
Our readers already know that the Rev. A. Hughes comes to us from Oswestry, and we have just heard that he will be able to begin his ministry here on the first Sunday in July. Since our last issue the Vicar has also arranged for Mr. George Davies to join the staff after his ordination to the Diaconate on Trinity Sunday. This is a cause of profound thankfulness.
Mr. Davies is a B.A. of Lampeter, and since taking his degree has spent two years at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, preparing for Holy Orders. Mr. Davies comes from a family of clergy and has a brother, a Priest, who is working in Rhodesia. He hopes himself to work in the Mission Field after three or four years of clerical life at home. We shall hope to welcome him in Buckley about the end of May.
The Vicar has not yet made all arrangements for the work of the parish from Easter to Trinity, but he hopes to secure temporary help during that time. Canon Pelly, who will be in Buckley during April and possibly part of May, has volunteered to help during his visit.
PROPOSED COMMUNICANTS GUILD. - It is some time since it was first announced that we hoped to form a Guild for Communicants, and the delay in taking further steps has been because much consideration was necessary. A Communicants' Guild must be built on firm foundations, every detail has to be most carefully and prayerfully thought out, and there must also be reasonable certainty that members will be sufficiently numerous and steadfast to ensure permanency to its work and organisation.
Recently notices have been sent to invite our women Communicants, of over 21 years of age, to join the first section (or ward) of the proposed Guild, and we hope in time to have wards for men over twenty-one, lads under twenty-one and girls under twenty-one, but these will depend on the success or otherwise which attends the formation of the women's ward.
Those to whom the notices have been sent are asked to consider what the objects of the Guild are. It is proposed as a help to Communicants to place the Blessed Sacrament in the right place of honour and respect, from which it has fallen by the neglect of several centuries. The Holy Communion is the only Divine Service as It alone was instituted by our Blessed Lord. The other services, such as Matins and Evensong, arranged at different times by the Church, were originally meant to prepare for and lead up to the Great Divine Service - The Holy Sacrifice. Unfortunately, we English people have largely lost site, for a time, of this truth, and the custom of the last few centuries has made us forget the far older and purer customs of early Christian times.
This then, is the first object of the Guild, viz. - that attendance at the Holy Communion may be accepted as the chief duty of Church people on Sundays and Holy Days.
The second object which we have in view is the better preparation of mind, soul and body, for receiving the blessed Sacrament of our Lord's Body and Blood.
People often rush heedlessly to the Altar, and then wonder why they experience no blessing. Unless we empty ourselves by due and careful preparation, of the things of the world, there is no room for the gifts of God. The Guild rules will give us an opportunity of perfecting our preparation.
If sufficient people send in their names as desiring to join the Guild, the first meeting will take place after Easter and members will be admitted.
C.E.M.S. - On Thursday night, February 3rd our branch had its monthly meeting in the Schools. A lecture was delivered by the Rev. E. Worthington Powell, Vicar of Brymbo, on "The work of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa". To few missions it is given to have such a thrilling history as this. From the moment that Livingstone gave his charge to the British Universities of Christianising the Natives of Central Africa, it is but one long record of faith, devotion and self-sacrifice. The soil, which has been consecrated to God by the blood of the heroes of the Mission's early days, is now yielding its fruit abundantly.
Mr. Powell will be with us again in Holy Week to address the Communicants.
C.L.B. - by force of circumstances the Staff of the Buckley Company undergoes a change. The Commanding Officer will resign his commission, and the Chaplain has been pleased to appoint Lieut. Gregory to be Commanding Officer, when he will be gazetted with the rank of Captain. Mr. Gregory will also act as Correspondent until another is appointed.
The Finance Committee met in the Schools on Thursday, Feb. 24th. A balance sheet of the Company's Accounts was presented and passed, which will be published in the annual Statement of Accounts. The sum which has passed through the Company's hands seems to be very large, but it really contains all the initial expenses of the Company, also the Officers' own payments for equipment, and the lads' contributions of seven shillings a head for Camp expenses.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD.- As we go to press we are glad to announce that the Rev. D. D. Williams, recently Assistant priest of Bistre, has undertaken the care of the Good Shepherd Mission Church up to time when Mr. Hughes arrives at the end of June. Mr. Williams will also help on week days at the Parish Church. He begins this work on Sunday March 6th.
BELLRINGING. - We wish to remind our readers of the North Wales Association of Ringers annual meeting, which is to held this year at Buckley. Our own ringers will be very grateful for help in entertaining their visitors. Contributions in money or gifts in kind can be sent to any of the ringers, or Mr. Hayes Jones.
The following contributions of money or goods to equal value have already been received - Mrs. Jones, Clayton House 2/6, Miss Jones 2/- , Mrs. T. J. Hopwood 2/6, Anon 2/6, Anon 2/6, Mrs. John Usher 2/-, Miss M. Bellis 2/6, Mrs. Thos. Hughes, Rose Cottage 1/-.
PURCHASE OF FIELD ADJOINING CHURCH YARD. The small Jumble Sale which was held in the Infant School on Friday, February 4 realized the sum of £5 5s 3d to which a little more may be added later on. The proceeds will go towards the fund for purchasing the field adjoining the Churchyard. Those who helped at the Sale, and in the preparing for it, are sincerely thanked for the efficient way they carried out their duties.
Contributions for this object will be gratefully received by the Church wardens.
WHIST SOCIAL.- We wish to express our grateful thanks to Miss Leach, and those who helped her to arrange a very successful Whist Party, before the beginnings of Lent. Our thanks are due because the Sick and Poor Fund has benefited to the extent of £1. This donation puts the fund out of debt for the first time for nearly three years. We hope that the offerings on the first Sunday in March will be sufficiently liberal to enable us to be free from debt when the accounts are made up for the year at Easter.
CHURCH COTTAGE. - An excellent likeness of the Rev. W. Dampier has been presented to the Church Cottage, which now possesses pictures of all the Vicars of Buckley. Mr. Williams will be glad at any time to show them to any of the parishioners who are interested.
LADY DAY. - As the festival of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary this year coincides with Good Friday, the Festival will be transferred to the Wednesday in Easter week.
NURSING ASSOCIATON. Mrs. Pelly gratefully acknowledges the following Benefit Subscription: - Mrs. Tom Davies 1/-, The Collectors will meet for the Quarterly Meeting at the Vicarage on March 23, at 4.15. As it will be in Holy Week there will be no tea after the meeting.
CHURCHYARD FUND. - The following Subscriptions have been received: - Mt. Thomas Williams 2/6, Mr. Swire 2/-, Mr. Geo. Williams 1/-, Mr. Isaac Lamb 1/-, Mr. Edward Messham 1/-, Mr. James Shone 1/-, Mrs. M. Lloyd 1/-, Mrs. A. Lamb 2/-, Mrs. R. Bellis 1/-, Mr. W. Davies, Station Row 1/-, Mr. Jas. Hughes 1/6, Mr. J. Davies 1/-, Mr. W. Wilson 2/6, Mrs. Stephen Hicks 1/-, Mrs. Wilson 2/6, Mrs. W. Lamb 1/-, Mr. F. Gittins 1/-, Mr. H. Tomlinson 2/6. Mr. Mackintosh 2/6, Mr. James Millington 1/-,Mr. John Davies, Drury 2/-, Mr. George Shone, Common 1/-, Mr. George Lewis 1/-, Mrs. Jones, Alltami 1/-, Mr. Daniels 1/-, Mr. Gray 1/6, Mr. Robt. Hughes 2/6, Mr. Timothy Hewitt 1/-, Mrs. Thompson 1/-, Mrs. Price, Red Lion 2/6, Mr. Joe Williams 1/-, Mrs. Bateson 1/-, Mrs. S. Evans 6d, Mr. E. Jones 2/-, Mr. Jelicoe 2/6, Mrs. E. Davies 1/-, Mr. Jos. Taylor 1/-, Mr. Jas. Kendrick 1/-, Mr. W. Jones, Glan Dale 2/-, Mr. S. Dunn 2/6, Mr. Edward Bellis 1/-, Mr. C. Bellis 2/-, Mr. George Parry 1/-, Mr. John Griffiths 1/-, Mr. John Fennah 1/6, Mr. A. Fennah 2/6, Mr. T. Burrows, 1/-, Mr. H. Humphreys 1/-, Mr. Thomas Hughes, Alltami 1/-, Mr. Enoch Shone 2/-, Mr. W. Iball 2/-, Mrs. Hayes, Common 1/-, Mr. J. Lindop 2/6, Mr. Robert Hughes 1/-.
Author: Saint Matthews Parish Church
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