REMINISCENCES OF A TRIP HOME.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2374, 2 June 1906, Page 5

REMINISCENCES OF A TRIP HOME.

Flic Rev. H. S. Leach, vicar ol St. Peter's, delivered in St. Peter's scln-dmum last night a very interesting lecture on his trip to England, which dealt almost entirely with tin* cathedrals am! churches lie visited while there. He opened his remarks with descriptiu not Glastonbury Abbey. Glastonbury is built on the si.e ol a British church said to owe ttorigin to St. Joseph ot Armu.tl: . . whose miraculous thorn, which hie- - lined ;ii i l lll .. I>. i . with the shrine ot Si. Due .n i. it- : to at true! mult it tides ot devotees. Du.’ tan was horn .u GU-t. . Imr_ . and was tor a time abbot <*! it-- monastry. which w::s louncl.-d about t. ■ beginning of the eighth century. I 1.5.19 the tnolinstciw was s,'i/.e:!, i . abbot hanged, and its wealth rofixeatfid bv Henry the Eighth. I'he lecturer gave a livid description a visit to hi. native country Yorkshire I hi* prettiest county in La .- land, .'.n I oi his stay at Birkenhea .. w here I In* “All Blacks wn.i a gl. ;.- oils victory, and where (in* price m .. single ticket ol ndnii xion re;u ed £lO. Lichfield. Derby, Che r, New castle, Norfolk, Nottingham. Oxioi ( aiulu idgc, \\ indsor. Isle i I \* igin . Canterbury Portsmouth, and Sonih>i 1111 >l l >ll were nl-wi visited, and also the modern Babylon, not lorgdtin,; WCstminster Abbey and St. I’mi. s Cathedral, and a ritualistic dumb lit High Holhorn. where “Fat hoi Stanton is the officiating clergyman, and where incense is burned and other High Church practises are indulged in. Mr. Leach's description ol the chief Anglican eat lied nils a:..1 churches in England, with their many an hitecturul beauties, were heartily appreciat .'<!. He b'.'ougli! hath wit:; him a line collection ot | lining; apliiv repro u lions n tn.;.- otiildings, well ovlier ■ mvenira ot a. p that was thoroughly cn o_,ed, at wlticit won! lm\ >ex (ltd t.> two yit rs it Im , vt accepted . .i u.> mi., invitati(: *. ho re* iv • . 1 1 nit *a i soiuti Ii t u;' .. ad I. otn lbe t i .< - c I Pnhi.it a i •oole, and those ot ot . n N \> /.i ;. In. >d t * '»:1 1 s. 11* had lit rviews with (In* Right Hon. via. M.dinar, ax-Raimi* Viuisler ot England, and owner ol the Balfoua (*-• ;t o in Pahiutnn, and the Lord M ,vi r ol London, and had the pleathn win shot by King Edwin