C. E. T. S. It was decided at a meeting of the C. E. Temperance Committee, held a few weeks ago, that the monthly meetings of the C. E. T. S. in this parish should be discontinued during the Summer months. It has always been found difficult in the long Summer Evenings to gather a meeting within doors, and it is thought that a fresh start made in the Autumn will give new impulse to the meetings. Meanwhile the event in Temperance matters to which we must now look forward is the Temperance Fête which it is hoped will be held in the Parish as usual some time during the month of July. All members of the Society who have paid up their subscriptions will have free entrance to the Fête. A Festival service in connection with the Diocesan Branch of the C. E. T. S. will be held in Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday, June 21st, at 3 p.m. The sermon will be preached by the Venerable Archdeacon Earle. The Headington Church Choir with other members of the C. E. T. S. are going to take part in the service. The Rev. F. A. H. du Boulay, curate of this parish, was ordained to the office and work of Priest by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, on Trinity Sunday. Parish Registers. BAPTISMS. May 24.-Thirza Georgina, daughter of George and Louisa Tilbury. 1234567 Church Calendar. JUNE, 1885. Moon, Last Quar., 6; New Moon, 12; First Quar., 19; Full, 27. S Evening Service, 7.30. Choir Practice, 8 p.m. 1st Sunday after Trinity. Morning Service, Sermon, and Holy Communion, 11. Service at All S. Barnabas, Apostle and Martyr. Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 10 a.m. Evening Service, 7.30. Monthly Communicants' Meeting at 8 p.m. Evening Service, 7.30. Choir Practice, 8 p.m. 2nd Sunday after Trinity. Holy Communion, 8 a.m. Morning Service and Sermon, 11. Evening Service, 7.30. Choir Practice, 8. p.m. 3rd Sunday after Trinity. Morning Prayer, Sermon, and Holy Communion, at 11 a.m. (C. E. S. John the Baptist Day. Morning Service and Holy Communion 10. Evening Service, 7.30. Evening Service, 7.30. Choir Practice, 8 p.m. 4th Sunday after Trinity. Holy Communion at All Saints' Chapel, 8 a.m. Morning Service S. Peter, Apostle and Martyr. Morning Service and Holy (HEADINGTON) PARISH MAGAZINE: An Organ of Church Work & Local Intelligence. The Rev. C. E. Adams, Diocesan Inspector of Schools in Religious Knowledge, will visit us for the purpose of examining our children on Wednesday, July 8th, at 9.15 a.m. It is hoped that parents will make every effort to let their children be present at School on that day. The Children during the past year have been most carefully instructed in Religious Knowledge during the first hour of each school day, and we hope that the Examination will show that they have remembered and profited by the teaching given. The following subjects have been specially taught during the year.-The Catechism, repeated and explained. The Life of our Lord, The Parables and Miracles, Acts Chapters i.-xiv. The early parts of the Book of Genesis and the Life of David. The tenth Chapter of S. John and the 27th Psalm have also been learnt by heart. The reports of the recent Government Inspection have not all been received at the time of going to press, nor is the amount of the grant known. This being the case they will be published, all being well, in the August number. C. E. T. S. The Annual Temperance Fête in Connection with the Headington Branch of the Church of England Temperance Society will be held, it is hoped, if all is well, on Thursday July 23rd. The arrangements for it have not yet been made, but will be published shortly. Every Member of the Society, in order to be entitled to share in it, will be required to have paid up his or her subscriptions due, before the day. A Word to Husbands and Wives. If I were asked what particular virtue or good quality in married people was most necessary to the making of a happy home, I should say Forbearance. Neither man nor woman can be perfect; and it is best even in the honeymoon not to expect it, because disappointment is certain to ensue. Just in those early days everything does seem very perfect, I know; but when, a little later, it comes out that Bill has a temper, or Sally a tongue, what is to be done? You can't put Bill in the corner till he is good, or order Sally not to speak for the next five minutes, as you would do if they were children. No, that is impossible. But if Bill is forbearing, and lets Sally pour out her stream of sharp words without a sharp answer; nay, if he thinks 'she's a bit tired with a long day and the baby crying,' and actually sets to work to put the things straight she is fretting and storming about, peace will not long be absent from that house. In the same way when Bill's bad temper-he has had it from a child, his mother will tell you; she has leathered him often for it!—breaks out, and Sally rather surprised and disheartened wants to cry, or to reproach him, if instead of that she answers gently, bearing his perhaps unjust accusations, forbearing to 'give as good as she gets,' then all goes well, and God's angels watching over that house are glad. 6 Give peace at home,' one of our very oldest hymns asks of God. Yes, He can give it, but He expects us all to try and keep it. And forbearance with others' faults will do this, better than fretting for impossible perfection. Sometimes one is in fault-sometimes another. Two American soldiers lay out one night camping under their blankets. Said Jack, 'What made you go into the army, Tom ?' 'Well,' answered Tom' 'I had no wife and I loved war, Jack, so I went.' ‘Ah,' said Jack, 'I had a wife and loved peace, Tom, so I went.' 'One for you, Sally,' says Bill. That was a woman's tongue drove him to the war.' Well, but now I have a story for Bill. Here it is :— A labourer's wife in the country called on the new parson. She looked troubled, hesitated, and at last out came her want. 'Please, sir, could you unmarry Peter and me?' 'Unmarry you, my good woman? Nay, I've no power to do that, and I am sorry you should wish it; did you not take your husband for 'Aye, sir, but it's been all for worse, and never for better since I had him.' And the poor thing went away disconsolate. Now it seems to me that both these stories would never have got into print if married couples had more forbearance. Husbands and wives, will you think of this, and practice this virtue? it is one which can be learned after marriage as well as before, and it is a virtue that pays directly. Sally begins-the women generally take the start in most things-she stops nagging at Bill, and he says at bed-time, 'Well, we've had a real pleasant evening; don't know how, but it minds me of our courting days, when we used to sit so snug together by your mother's fire.' And after a while Sally thinks, 'What's come to my Bill? He hardly ever says a rough word now, or looks black if supper's a bit late; it's a deal nicer for me, I know. Why, the matter is this: both are trying to bear and forbear, and there is peace at home-God's peace, in that cottage. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear, And something every day they live To pity, and perhaps forgive. FROM "THE BANNER OF FAITH" MAGAZINE. June 4.-Edith Ellen, daughter of Edwin and Ellen Stone. (Privately). 11.-Harry Oliver Sumner, son of Walter Sumner and Julia Elizabeth Gibson. 28.-Florence Edith, daughter of Vincent and Emily Louch. 28.-Amy Jane, daughter of Edward and Mary Jane Tolley. 28.-Mary, daughter of Harry George and Martha Mary Jacob. MARRIAGE. June 2.-James Trindell, and Bessie Pickard. BURIAL. June 12.-Edith Ellen Stone, aged 8 days. |