FREE AND OPEN CATHEDRAL

Evening Star, Issue 17544, 27 December 1920, Page 7

FREE AND OPEN CATHEDRAL

The Bishop of Chester, having returned from his holiday in Brittany, wrote on the way in wliich the cathedral had been made free and open, and on the Dean’s scheme to attach its chapels to important Church organisations. Dr Paget says: ‘‘l am indeed glad to see and to hear of the way in -which the Cathedral is being made, more the home of our I greatly admire the way in which it is t-hrowii open to us all, and the ! way in which various groups amongst ns, ; men and women, girls and boys, are in- ; vded and helped and encouraged to make some place in it, some quiet altar, some oeautiful chapel their own. That is the ; way, Mr Dean, to make them love tiic place more and more. It is, I feel sure, just what onr Lord would desire for His House! The Bishop has nothing, fortunately for him, to do with the current expenses of the Cathedral, but he cannot . lint rejoice at the increased offerings. i TV hetlicr by way _of regular contribution or money cast daily ‘ into the Treasury,’ our visitors and onr regular worshippers are showing their affections for our beautiful, ever-open House of Prayer ! ” The Dean himself has this request in , the ‘Diocesan Gazette’: j ‘By kind permission of the Dean and | Chapter.’ Please forget to put this chilly , and inappropriate sentence on any notices of services or meetings to be held in any pait of the Cathedral, The Cathedral is not the private property of the Dean and Chapter. It and they only exist to wel- i come and provide with gladness for all who can and will make use of it and them.’'

' HE SAW THE JOKE. Lrskine and Lord Balmuto were walkin'* m the country when they met Lord Balfour! Balfour was suffering from lameness. Ero 1 tMI him what had happened, and Balfour rarormed him in labored and tortlions phraseology that ho had fallen in getting oyer a stib on his brother's property. “Weil, Balfour,” Erskiuj smiled, “it was a mercy that it was not your own style, or you would certainly have broken your "neck.” Balfour grinned his appreciation of the witty pun, and went limping down the road. But Lord Balmuto didn’t smile. His face was puckered with perplexity. In silence they walked a miio or more Suddenly Balmuto hurst into a roar of laughter, exclaiming ■ “I hae ye noo, Harry! I hae ye noo!” The meaning of the witty pun Erskinc had uttered to oßalfour had just dawned upon the Scotchman.—Exchange.