AN EPITAPH DISPUTE

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3182, 6 January 1928, Page 8

AN EPITAPH DISPUTE

•'PEACE, PERFECT PEACE."

OBJECTION BY A RECTOR

An objection by the Rector of Scarning, Norfolk, to the words, "Peac6, perfect peace," being placed by Mrs Ringer, a widow, of Bereham, on her husband's tombstone lead to an interesting appeal at Norwich Consistory Court lately.

Mr Hales, for the rector, Mr Watt, explained that he had no personal feeling in the matter, but had made a rule for his own guidance that people be asked to choose appropriate words from the Scriptures.

It would be helpful if the Chancellor would consider some such rule for the guidance of the incumbents. In the present case the rector suggested in place of "Peace, perfect peace/ taken from the hymn, the words, "Peace, be still," from Mark 4, 39; or, as an alternative, Isaiah, 26, verse 3, "Thou will keep him in perfect

peace.''

Tor the widow it was urged that "Peace, perfect peace," had been allowed by the rector's predecessors.

The chancellor, Mr F. K. North, explaining he could only administer the law, remarked that on a tombstone at St. Martin's, Leicester, erected by relatives to a murderer, were strong observations on the judge and the administration of justice. It was a gross contempt of court. The chancellor added he would carefully consider the question.

The total quantity of timber cut for sale on Indian reserves in Canada in the fiscal year 1926 was approximately ninety million feet board measure. In addition to this the Indians cut for their own use about seven million feet of timber for building and fencing purposes and twenty thousand cords of wood for fuel, besides an unreported quantity of ash, maple, hickory, etc., for the native manufacture of snowshoes, baskets, axe handles and similar

products,

In these days, when the wholesale destruction of native bush associated with the pioneering period has hardly ceased, and a proper appreciation of New Zealand flora is limited, it is refreshing to discover that an Invercargill property owneT is sufficiently an exception to make a pecuniary sacrifice in this respect (says the Southland Times). Growing in the section where he was erecting a house was a fine cabbage tree in such a position that it either had to be removed to permit of the erection of the building or unusual steps taken for its preservation; The property owner rose to the occasion and built the house in the form of a " U," the two wings enclosing the plot in which the cabbage tree will probably long flourish as a tangible tribute to his appreciation of beauty.