4LL. JIA^T ? ^'^-iik - 1^^S ^M'^^^ r:x-Il May 70
";E CAHTOT condein:'. peac.-.;fal demonstrations when the ?j.l-v/hitc South African
cricketers play here thi.3 summer. The situatron in South Africa is
too "bad for that - the inequalities,, hardships ana indignities for ncn-
Ti/hites which belong to t.'.id Afrikaners' policy of separate development?
fie tortures 5 the injustice of such measures as the Suppression of Communism
Act| the whole notion of basskap and kafir on which South African
society is now based •- all this ;.s plainly repugnant to the law of Christ,
and international cricket should not appear, to condone it.
But for the Christian in his stand for truth wickednesses at hone
Inke priority over wickednesses abroad. Under our very noses 75*000
children are being done to death each year, and the figure is likely to
go on rising. This-is the present effect of the recent abortion Act.
'Those who defend it must somehow explain how it ia murder to kill a newborn
baby but not one in the womb, which has limbs and organs and other
human characteristics and the same potentiality cf -i:-mheo;: . And medical
men who practise it have to square their conduct wit::1 their Hippocratic
oaths 'I will maintain the u^aost respect for human life from the time
of its conception'.
Do you remember the twenty Pentecostal is ts who demonstrate.! outride
the Langhan Abortion Clinic last year? All honour to them. Public
lemonstrations are not a]ways the wisest and most effective way of
c~,.\r_'ling for the truth. But where i;hey are, it would seem right to pro- •
test eb^ut the evils in one's own back garden and only after that to
object to one's neighbour's.
J.S. Nightingale
WELCOME iiOlX
We are glad to repor4: that Hifs Crighton of 2 Crosspath Cottages is
home again after spending tlio winter iia Attar sham Hospital with bronchitis
ai-d pneumonia. '7o hope That next winter's v/esth^r will be kinder to her.
porrs ABROAD
All owners of voullry need to keep a t-harp look—ou^ for the fox
which has already killed c,',; ':.5r Touglas Ivsey's chioken.-ti i;,:->d r-vaged.
Mr iTorris's at Brickwic!..
2 It 1 £ H_ u B_ c_ H_ ?.£_t'^ .^_42 .Qr-^r.l'x 11 lHr?£
-•^ I'_iiy-,S!. Ill^^iLs '•i-''.^pie Laic Ai'nf. tfs I/- OhiYdren 6d,.
Your help an-, nc^al :. lep.rj "ill be rnur:h ^.pproo :.- ted • Ani. <i;::v?9
ii liet of at't."!'.U' 4 Sv,U:::icldors .1-1 chc- ae;\ ; it-.3;,;^ ^r l:i ;iurr.h
'•' '" ' MS. RAYMOND POSE?
We heard with distress that Mr Raymond Pusey had been taken into
.omershan Hospital with heart trouble. However he is now.showing good
signs of recovery and after sufficient time for rest we hope for his
speedy return to full health, uc send him all our best wishes and hope
that this anxious time for his wife and family will; soon be over.
HORTICUmm^L SOCIETY'S A,jyi.
The Horticultural Society1s Annual General Meeting will be held in the
'Parish Room on Friday, 15 May at 8 p.m. uo come along with your. ••
: criticisms and new ideas and ma'ce the next show an even greater success.
MISS EJITH.HARRIS
We knew we should have to say goodbye to Miss Harris of Marlin Villa,
Magpie Lane, this month, but we regret very much that her leaving
Coleshill has been made so much more difficult by the stroke she
suffered in April. She is making slow progress and hopes to move to
Abingdon to be near her sister. Her sister Ada who lived with her at
Marlin Villa died recently. Among her other services to the church we
have to thank Miss Harris for her gift of Araersham parish magazines
dating from 1951 which will be a useful addition to the church's
'historical material. He wish Miss Harris a good recovery and happiness
in her new home.
HISSING COPIES
Perhaps someone could supply the few copies which are missing from
Miss Harris's gift of old magazines. They are the issues for May 1952,
January and February 196-4 and those from April 19&4 ^° January 1965.
i*E TOUR ANTIQUES GENUINE ?
' People who like to watch .the television programmes on antiques and
wish they could have expert advice on their own treasures will want to
go along to the Amersham Community Centre on Friday, 15 May, at 8.30 pm.
There they can have their antiques examined and pronounced upon by the
experts, Mr and Mrs John and He.^na Hayward. The tickets cost 7/od.
and can be bought at the door or from The Bunny Shop, Old Amersham.
The proceeds will go to St. Mary's Church Restoration Fund.
: MODEL RAILWAYS AND LOC;JL, HISTORY
The; Amersham Model Railway Society will hold an exhibition- in the New
Hall at the ^jnersham Community Centre on Saturday, :.16 May, from 11 am to
7 pm,: and the Ainersham Society will present its seventeenth exhibition
of;local and natural history in the Town Hall, Old Amors-ham, from
.Wednqsday, 20 May until Monday, 25 May, between 0:1 am and 8 pm,
IN HOSPITAL TOGETHER
Mrs ^ntosiewicz of 12 The Bit and Mrs Mountier of The Red Lion have
been in the same ward in Amersham Hospital where both have had operations.
They are making a good recovery but will need some time to convalesce.
Unfortunately for Mr Mountier both his daughters were ill for a time
when his wife was in hospital which complicated the running of the Red
Lion, Mrs xintosiewicz's four children have been looking after themselves
very well in their mother's absence.- Vie look forward to seeing both
ladies back in the village and fully restored to health before long.
VISITOR FROM CORNWALL
A surprise visitor to The Parsonage in ^pril was Mr R.G. Barrett who
left Friars Vane last year to retire to Cornwall. He was looking very
well and he and his wife have settled down happily at Looe. If any
Coleshill people intend to visit Cornwall he and his wife will be ;.':..-..
pleased to soe them. Their address is Westhaven, Hannafore, West Looe.
Other Coleshill emigrants to the West Country are Mr and Mrs Coombes
and their children who have left Cedar House and removed to Somerset.
May we add a correction to the address we gave for the Revd. and Mrs
J. Charrington which was given wrongly in the Oxford Diocesan Magazine
and reproduced in the newsletter. It should be:- Bosbury, St. James's
Close, Pangbourne.
COLESHILL LEADS THE COUNTRY
Miss Williams has received a letter frdnrour missionary society, the
U.3.P.G., part of which deserves reproducing in fulls- 'Thank you very
-much for yet another of your generous and wonderful gifts of Green
Shield Books. We are truly more than grateful for your magnificent
consistent loyal support. It is• marvellous how you do it. Please do
again express our gratitude to the good friends at Coleshill. They are
quite definitely the leaders in the whole country for the Green Shield
Stamp Projects. We can never thank them enough!
FREE BOILER AND FUEL
The Newsletter is happy to advertise another attractive bargain.'
A Coleshill householder is offering one hundredweight, of free fuel to.
anyone who would also like a Janitor boilur. Will anyone interested.;
please ring Amersham 5233 •J ' .: <
OTHER INVALIDS . • • • •
Mr Roberts of 10 Chase Close is making a good recovery after the stroke
which sent him into High Wycombe hospital. We are sorry that Mr Djean of
9 The Bit has been unwell and has to rest and that Mrs- Saunders of
Rushyniead Cottages has also not'been well recently. Miss Baxter has
been in Chesham Cottage Hospital so that she could be looked after
properly while Miss Williams has been staying for a time in
Bournemouth.' •
. • ' A TEACHING CAREER
Lorna Pusey retired as the senior Sunday School Teacher at the end
of last month in order to prepare for her A Levels and. her future
career. She is going to Balls Park Teacher-Training College near
Hertford in the next academic year. The Sunday School children will
miss her k gr'eat deal and we thank her and her mother for their work
for them. The'Sunday S-e-hool will continue as usual. - _ . . . .
HOW TO OPEN ^ FLOWER SHOW - bv. Stephen Potter. . • ,
(with acknowledgements to the Schweppshire Guide to public speaking)
•La everybody knows, there never was such an expert in flower-showopening,
such a perfectionist in this difficult art, as Lady Margaret
Horley-Lampe. "A great pleasure to come amongst you once more" is of
course the right way to begins but it is not exactly what she says -
it is the absolute Tightness of her general Flower Show .qualities.
To begin with, as the daughter of a Duke but married to a Mr., her
position is ideal^ and her choice inevitable. It is true that in 1953
her sequence' of sixteen consecutive appearances was incredibly broken •
in favour of Miss Daphne Dote, the film actress, from Ruislips but
fortunately this breach was healed by the resignation of that unsuitable
Show Secretary, Charlie Uiggins, Lady Margaret knovs exactly when
to arrive, by which entrance, and across what reserved paddock, in her
completely un-self-driven car. Flower Show colours, we observe from
her, are strongly pale and emphatically matching. The accent is on the
good grey of her suede gloves. Her coat, pale in a very slightly
contrasted direction, is English summer weight - i. e,: suitable for all
purposes. ( '
"All of us.who have the interests of the Flower Show at heart" is a good
thing to say before a slight criticisms but Lady Margaret was so
outstandingly suitable that nobody minded, or indeed noticed, if in her
speech she wandered to the extent of mentioning her plan for a washingup
machine in the canteen of the kennel club. But the Complete Opener
should know by instinct that it is Goatley, cashier of the little bank
in the High Street, who is this year's Secretary; she will remember
that Miss Edelscote must be'complimented, as she has been for the last
twenty years, for producing the best Lauschia phipps-vaughanii, though
it is faintly annoying that as always she slightly mispronounces Miss
Edelscote's name. She, is delighted^ once more, that the younger people
are taking an interest in-flowers: and though she somehow infers that
flower shows in general aro not subject ^o the petty differences of
local politics, she makes it fairly clear which politics these are.
CHAMPION TEa-MaKERS
All Saints' has long had reason to be grateful for the teas provided
by its Mothers' Union but outside opinion has now confirmed that they
are the best in the nmersham and Aylesbury deaneries. This was the.
judgment of the Guild of Servers of the Sanctuary when they paid their
second visit to Colcshill in April. The servers, who come from churches
in a wide area round ^ylesbury and Amersham, met with some of their
clergy to sing the Guild Office and to hear an address on the merits
and defects of the new communion services used by the Church of England.
Mrs Douglas Pusey was heard to say that she was thinking of making
more of her chocolate eclairs for the Church Fete .so we advise you to
go to the cake stall early.
Mothers' Unions The A.G.M. will be held at The Parsonage on Thursday,
21 iy[ay at 2.30 pm.
TOO OLD AT 21?
Since the new legislation gave eighteen-year-olds the right to. vote
and other legal marks of maturity the problem has arisen of when to
celebrate one's independence. The twenty-first birthday is so hallowed
by custom that one contemplates its supercession by the eighteenth with
some regret. But in an age when the force of custom is growing feeble ;
one can expect to see the significance of twenty-one quickly disappear;
that is unless -there is a strong rearguard action by parents who, now
that their offspring can also marry without their consent at 18, hope
by postponing the celebration to avoid its expense altogether.
Needless to say none of these calculations entered into the «elebration
of William .^dams's twenty-first birthday at Longfield last month.
The event was voted a great success and William was not thought to be
too old for the occasion. We should add that Mr and Mrs Adams were
also celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and their
daughter Karen her sixteenth birthday. Congratulations to all of them.
EVENSONG ON 8 JUNE
There will be no evensong on Sunday, 8 June at All Saints as the
Rector asks Coleshill people to go to evensong at St. Mary's when the
Lord Bishop of Oxford will be there. This will be Dr Carpenter's last.
visit to the parish before he retires as Bishop of Oxford at the end
of the year. He has been our Bishop for fifteen years and this will
be a good opportunity for Anglicans in the parish to show their
appreciation of his episcopate.
CHRISTIE-AID WEEK
A Giro transfer has been:sent to Christian Aid for £15s7s:3d, from
ii.ll Saints' Church. We are very grateful to 'all those who
contributed.
''NFEL—IN
•;.'h.r- foJ Lovir.g is an extract Iron bishop Hughes's letter to ills
iioocse of South-West Tanganyika;
"Thore was a touch of comedy rt Kiaolenbo. i?obruary, as I suggested
before, is not the best month for a journey to Manda and most people
nvoid it. When those who were waiting for mo jaw a Land Rover high on
tiic escarpment above their village on the right day and at the right tLv:
they naturally assnnicd it was the bishop. They were afraid that I night
dash, past without realising that I had arrived ".s it is a very snail
'village, so the whole community moved across the road and devoutly knelt
for the episcopal blessing. The Lard Rover duly cane to a halt and out
got a white man - but alas he was a Canadian geologist who was on hie
way to inspect coal deposits near Manda. Perhaps he, coming from the
West and. being familiar \jith various types of protest, thought he had
come across a new variety, a kneel-in, and was wondering how to cope
and what he had done to cause the demonstration. However, Fr. Nelson
Ndii'i/a was quick to note the mistake and they parted with amusement.
By this tine I had just rounded the top of the escarpment and was
wondering why on earth the Land Rover which I knew to be in front of ma
should have stopped at Kimelembe. When I got down to the villa-ge, I
was waved down very tentatively and there was no 'kneel-in1 until it
was firmly established that this was the right chap11
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
I-?ay
7 (Thurs) 4SCEK_SION DAY - HC J 10 a,m. & 7.30 p.m.
Mobile Library
12 (Tues) Meeting of Amersham P.C.C. 8 pm.
14. (Thurs) W.I. - Discussion of resolutions for B.F.W.I.
and trading stall.
15 (Fri) Horticultural ;,.G.M. 3 pm.
'^rc lour Antiques Genuine?' - Amersham Community
Centre, 3,30 pm.
L6 (exit) Amersham Model Railway Exhibition.
17 ^UJSUNDAY
20 (Wed) Anersham Society exhibition begins.
21 (Thurs) M.U. at The Parsonage, 2,30 prn7
24 TRJMTY S2KDAY
Jure
13 (Sab) Church Fete.
'^ We apolo-p.fe for the Inte appearance of ih: s newsletter this mont/io^
O SEDJ SSHIO
JILL SHIRTS' GHUECH. COLESfflLL
Iriest-in-Charge: The Revd.J.S.Nightingale, The Parsonage (tel. 4229)
Pro-Churchwarden & Secretary: N .N .Nicholls, Orchard House (tel. 6734-)
Pro-Treasurer: R.G-.S tubbings, Springfield, Tower Road, (tel. 4-738)
Every Sunday: 9.00a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
10.15a.m. Sunday School
6.00p.m. Evensong
Every Tuesday: 10.00a.m.-HOLY COMMUNION
Every Wednesday: 7.30p.m. HOLY COMMUNION
Every Friday: : 12.00 noon HOLY COMMUNION
Morning and Evening Prayer each day at 8.00a.m. and 6.00p.m.
For other services, please seethe weekly notices in the church porch.
ST. ANDREW'S MISSION CHURCH, WINCHMORE HILL
HOLY^COMMUNION on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 10.30 a.m.
ST. MARY'S PARISH CHURCH. AMERSHAM
Rector: The Revd. A.Campbell,M.A.(Cantab) ,Beaumont, Hervines Road, Ataersham
((tel 7135) or St.Mary's Parish Office, Church Street(Tel 4712)
Sunday Services:' 8.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
10.00 a.m. Children's Service
11.00 a.m. 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays:
HOLY COMMUNION (New Service)
2nd & 4-th Sundays: Mattins
6.00 p.m. "Sung Evensong
Every Wednesday: 10.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
Published by All Saints' Church Committee.
