[January AD 1888]
Eakring Parish Magazine
‘The Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth’ I. TIM iii 15
‘Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints’ S Jude 3
Parish Church of S. Andrew
HOLY COMMUNION – Every Sunday at 8 am; but on the first Sunday of each month after the Morning Service. On Christmas Day, Easter Day, Whitsunday, and Trinity Sunday two Celebrations, one at 8am and the other at mid-day.
BAPTISMS – On the second Sunday in the month, at the 3 o’clock service.
MATTINS – Sundays 10.30am ; Weekdays 10 am
EVENSONG – Sundays 6.30 pm ; Weekdays 7 pm
CHILDREN’S SERVICES – 1st, 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month at 3 pm
CHURCHINGS – Before any service. There is no fee, but an offering is usually made, as directed by the Prayer Book.
In the Parish Room:
MISSIONARY MEETINGS – 3rd Sunday in each month at 3 pm
SUNDAY SCHOOL – 9.30 am and 2 pm
CLOTHING CLUB – 12 to 1 every other Monday
LENDING LIBRARY – 4 to 5 pm every other Wednesday
VISITATION OF THE SICK – On information being given to the Rector.
W. LUMLEY B. CATOR, Rector
Mr John Hurt, Mr Thomas Burne – Churchwardens
Mr J Edlington, Organist
Mr G Maude, Parish Clerk
Mr S Broome, Sexton
Magazine printed by John Whittingham, Printer, Southwell
Our Words and Work for Eakring January 1888
Christmas-tide Services – The Church looked particularly bright and cheerful on the morning of Christmas Day with the new white Altar Frontal, Dossal and Falls for the Litany Desk and pulpit, and the tastefully executed decorations, which evidently manifested that those who for many years now have devoted so much care to the Church at these holy seasons were not backward in their zeal on this occasion. The Services were well attended, 26 communicating at the early, and 30 at the midday celebrations, and there was a large congregation at Evensong when the Anthem ‘Let us now go even to Bethlehem’ by Hopkins, was well rendered by the Choir. A goodly number also attended the usual Midnight Service on New Years’ Eve.
Statistics, Advent 1886 to Advent 1887 – The last Christian year does not compare unfavourably with the previous one – in most respects indeed there is perceptible a gradual improvement which seems to show that the Church is gaining the affections of the people. In spite of the general depression and the Jubilee collections, the Offertory collections amounted to £45 8s 5½d compared with £44 3s 11d the previous year; the Sunday collections amounting this last time to £36 3s 1½d giving an average of 13s 10d each time, compared with £35 6s 3½d the time before with an average of 13s 6d each time.
The following attendance averages show also that the services of the Church have been appreciated:
Sunday mornings – Adults 46, Children 34
Sunday evenings – Adults 75, Children 40 (afternoon and evening)
Sunday (whole day) – Adults 121, Children 75
The average number of Communicants for Sundays is about 10.
There have been 10 Infants baptised and two as Adults; 4 marriages and 13 burials, 7 of the latter being persons over 80 years of age.
On May 3rd of last year the Bishop of Southwell held a confirmation in our parish church, when 53 persons were confirmed, 17 males and 36 females – of whom 13 were from this Parish viz 6 males and 7 females.
Christmas Charities – Sir John Savile has kindly continued the Benefactions of his predecessors at Rufford towards the Parish of Eakring at this season of the year. In addition to the Annual Subscriptions to the Clothing Club and other parochial institutions, the usual amount of coal has been given by him to the poor; nor has Mr Charles Greenfield (of Little Carlton) been behindhand this winter in bestowing Coal on those who are really in need as he has done now for several years. The Rector’s usual gift of meat was given in time for Christmas Day, and the sum of £3 13s 6d out of the Offertory money has been divided amongst the poor.
Christmas Examination at the Board School – An Examination of the Scholars attending the Board School was held on Dec 21st and 22nd by the Master (Mr Speight) who distributed small prizes to the successful competitors, of whom the following is a list:
1st Prize 2nd Prize
Standard VII Herbert Speight Walter Burne
Standard VI Annie Palin Albert Walker
Standard V Mary Ann Burne Elizabeth White
Standard IV Edith Garland Ellen Whitworth
Standard III Annie Colton Jessie Walker
Standard II Alice Bradley Lucy Dobb
Standard I George Robinson Mary Osborne
Infant Class Alice Drabble Ada Louisa White
Registers
Baptism - Dec 11th 1887 John William, son of William and Sarah Paulson
Marriage – Dec 5th 1887, Charles Cartwright and Agnes Walker
Our Words and Work for Eakring February 1888
Concert in the Board School – We were able to secure a good deal of fresh talent at the Concert which was held on Tuesday the 3rd ult in the Board School. The Programme included some very good songs, a Part-Song and a Glee, besides instrumental music. The room was fairly filled and the appreciation of the audience was repeatedly manifested by the encores that were called for. We might, if we had space for it, mention several of the songs which were sung with great taste and with a very clear and distinct pronunciation of the words (which is of so much importance and often not sufficiently attended to) but we forbear to particularise where so much was worthy of commendation.
Mr J Edlington, our worthy Organist, for whose benefit the Concert was held, is to be congratulated on the support he received, and also on the way in which the choir acquitted themselves in the Part-Song and Glee. The proceeds amounted to £1 16s 3d which Mr Edlington received without deduction, the Rector being responsible for the expenses.
Church Supper and Entertainment – The Parish Room was only just large enough to hold the large party who availed themselves this year of the Rector’s invitation to the Church Supper, on Tuesday the 24th ult; the number, including old and young, who sat down to supper we believed amounted to 78. After supper followed the usual entertainment, to which the other members of the families of those who had supper were invited. Several songs were sung chiefly of a light and comic character, which seemed to afford much amusement to the audience.
The Rector and Mr Cruft gave addresses referring to the progress which had been made during the past ten years in the Parish in regard to Church work, which should prove a stimulus to greater efforts in years to come. Mr Cruft specially mentioned with commendation the great improvement which had been effected in the Choir. The party separated after giving hearty cheers for the Rector and having spent, we believe, a very pleasant evening.
Sunday School Festival – The day after the supper, Wednesday ‘The Conversion of S. Paul’ – followed the winter Sunday School Festival, when again the Parish Room was filled, after the usual service at the Parish Church, when an address suitable to the occasion was given by the Rev W J Cruft, who took for his text Acts ix 6. Several of the parents of the children were present to witness the distribution of the Prizes by Mrs Cator of Ollerton.
The Rector was able in the short address he gave to speak very favourably of the attendance and working of the School. Seven received full marks for attendance, not having missed once during the half year ended 31st ult and six received a second prize having only missed once.
After tea followed the usual amusements and in our next number we hope to give a list of those who obtained prizes.
Lent Services
We have been giving accounts of concerts, supper, tea etc but now a more solemn time has come when it behoves us to make the utmost use we can of the extra Services and other opportunities within our reach, to endeavour to come to a more thorough knowledge of ourselves and our short-comings and to stir us up to more resolute strife against sin, and to greater devotion to God’s service.
The services on Ash Wednesday Feb 15th will be as follows:
Celebration of Holy Communion 8am
Matins and Litany 10am
Commination Service, Evensong and Sermon 7.30pm
The following have kindly promised to preach on Fridays during Lent at Evensong 7.30pm namely:
Feb 24th (S. Matthias Day) Rev A M Y Baylay, Vicar of Thurgarton
March 2nd Rev A Fraser, Vicar of Harby
March 9th Rev F Boag, Curate in Charge S. Alban’s Sneinton Nottingham
March 16th
March 23rd Rev C Turner, Curate, Hoveringham
Registers
Baptisms
Jan 6th Herbert, son of Richard and Susan Hurt
Jan 6th Wright, son of Henry and Mary Ann Walker
Jan 8th Robert Wilson, son of Robert Blanchard and Sarah Anne Jackson
Jan 10th Clara, daughter of Thomas and Alice Farrow (private)
Burials
Jan 20th Charlotte Bellamy, aged 40 years
Our Words and Work for Eakring March 1888
S. Andrew’s School Prize Winners – The following is a list of the successful Competitors for prizes for the half-year ending Dec 31st 1887. For Attendance throughout the school:-
1st Prize – full marks 104; never missed
Alice Kirkland, Annie Colton, Geo H Ellis, Walter Ellis, Walter Broome, Alice Drabble, Mary Broome
2nd Prize – 102 marks; only missed one Sunday
Joseph Kirkland, Arthur Betts, Elizabeth White, Clara Jane Broome, Ada Louisa White, William White
Class Marks
Class I 1st Prize Alice Kirkland, 728 marks
2nd Prize Elizabeth White, 727 marks
Class II 1st Prize Annie Colton, 728 marks
2nd Prize Edith Burne, 696 marks
Class III 1st Prize George H Ellis, 728 marks
2nd Prize Alfred G White, 716 marks
Class IV 1st Prize Ada Louisa White, 721 marks
2nd Prize Elizabeth Godfrey, 694 marks
Class V 1st Prize Alice Drabble, 726 marks
2nd Prize Beatrice Ellis, 657 marks
Re-Opening of Southwell Cathedral – Thursday Feb 2nd, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, deserves to be marked as a Red Letter Day in the calendar of the Diocese as the date when the ancient Minster Church was handed over by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Diocese as its Cathedral Church, they having been responsible for several years for the due preservation of the fabric and for other expenses connected with it; and having expended a considerable sum of money in the work of restoration thereof spread over many years. The Dedication of the new work therein was celebrated by a Celebration of the Holy Communion at 9am and a solemn Service of Thanksgiving with Te Deum and Sermon by the Bishop of Lichfield at 11.15am and Evensong at 3pm with sermon by the Bishop of Salisbury (son of the late Bishop of Lincoln). The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Southwell performed the most important functions in connection with the morning Services – several Bishops joined in the procession and the services, and there were crowded congregations, many of the Clergy and others came from a considerable distance, having put themselves to great inconvenience in order to be present on so important an occasion.
Election of Proctor for Convocation – February 13th was the day fixed for the nomination of a Proctor to represent the Clergy of this Diocese in the Convocation which is held in Westminster, in the room of our late Rural Dean and neighbour the Vicar of Caunton, Canon Hole, now Dean of Rochester. There being two candidates nominated, a poll was demanded, which resulted in the election of our friend Canon Gray, Vicar of Blyth, by a majority of 43 over the other candidate, the Rev Canon Jackson, Vicar of S. Stephen’s Nottingham.
Confirmation at Farnsfield – On Monday 20th ult the Bishop of Southwell held a confirmation in the Parish Church of Farnsfield at 3pm, when 29 were confirmed (9 males and 20 females) of whom 6 males and 4 females were from our Parish, the rest from Farnsfield. Several of the friends of the Candidates from Eakring having expressed a wish to accompany them, we made up a goodly party, filling both the Carriers’ vans and in spite of the heavy fall of snow during the day and night preceding, and the cold wind which prevailed, the journey there and back was accomplished without any mishap or serious inconvenience, though the progress along the road was not very rapid.
Newly Elected School Board – On Thursday the 23rd ult the first meeting of the Board since the election took place, on which occasion the Rector was chosen as Chairman, and Mr John Hurt as Vice Chairman; the other members of the new Board are Messrs Cooper, Palmer and Hallam for Eakring and Messrs George Greenfield and Marshall for Rufford.
Presentation to Dean Hole – On Friday the 24th ult, S. Matthias Day, an interesting ceremony took place in the Hall of the Old Palace at Southwell, kindly lent for the occasion by the Bishop of Nottingham (Archdeacon Trollope).
Those Clergy who had been in the habit of meeting from time to time for consultation under the hospitable roof of the genial Dean at Caunton for several years when he was Rural Dean did not like to allow him and his excellent wife to leave the neighbourhood for the new home at Rochester without some tangible testimony of their esteem and regard. The present Rural Dean of Southwell, in the absence of Canon Trebeck, was voted to the Chair, and in the name of his brethren of the Old Deanery of Southwell, presented the Dean of Rochester with the Speaker’s Commentary on the Bible, 10 Volumes, handsomely bound, and with the Arms of the old Chapter of Southwell outside, and handed to Mrs Hole an album containing a series of handsome photographs of the Cathedral of Southwell.