Middletown transcript., 1917-02-24
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH NOTES

11.45, Sunday School session.
73O, Evening Prayer and Address.
Wednesday, 7.3O, Evening Prayer
and Sermon, by the Rev. VIM. H.
Gibbons, Assistant Rector Of St.
Johns, Wilmington, Del.
Friday $50, Evening Prayer and
Meditation.
Meetings. The Ladies Guild on
Thursday afternoon at two o'clock.
The Woman's Auxiliary on Friday af-
ternoon at 2.30, and the Junior Auxili-
ary at four o'clock.
NoTE- The Woman's Auxiliary will
meet every Friday afternoon during the
Lenten season to sew on the materials for
the Missionary Box. During the session
a missionary topic will be read Wo-
men of the parish who are not members
are cordially invited to attend these
meetings.
THE LENTEN SERVICES
Let US have good attendance on
Wednesday evenings and show our ap-
probation to the visiting Clergy who
bring US helpful messages. The only
week-night service (save what the
Bishop may appoint during his visit to
the Parish, March 7th., to the 18th,
inclusive) will be on Wednesday. Let
us keep Wednesday evenings during
Lent free from secular engagements so
that nothing may interfere with our
presence in the church If the season
of Lent laden with spiritual blessings
comes and goes, leaving no blessing
upon your life, WHOSE FAULT WILL IT
Be?
WHAT'S THE GOOD OF LENT ?
None whatever, unless we take that
holy season seriously. There is no
magic in the forty days of Lent. If
we "give up" certain things, harmless
in themselves, for the sake of finding
time for emphasizing more important
things, let us see to it that we ''take
up" those more important things, and
do them. The trouble with most peo-
pies Lent is that they make it merely
negative, instead of positive. Lent is
the time to say ''No" to many an in
clination, but it is also the time to say
eyes" to the calls of religion that we
have grown careless about.
Lent is the time to "deny";; yes, but
also the time to ''do other things. In
short, plan to make your Lent construc-
tive as we'll as destructive, positive as
well as negative, and the result will he
real growth in the religious life. Re-
member, too, that Lent is not a police
regulation; the church does not say
'you must; rather does she invite
with the words ''you may. In short
Lent is an opportunity for spiritual
progress that you cannot afford to ig-
nore How much like an investment it
is, put little into it and you get little
out of it. put much into it and you get
much.
SUNDAY IN LENT
Although these Sundays occur in the
midst of season of penitence and fast
ing, it should be noted that the Sundays
themselves, while IN LENT, are not a
part of Lent. Our divine Lord rose on
the first day of the week, and His Re-
surrection, so fraught with hope and
blessed promise to our souls, makes
Sunday ever day of gladness. 1t is a
shadow of the coming Easter, glimpse
of joy to gild our grief. This season of
the Church is much employed, and very
properly, in preparing for the holy rite
of Confirmation, and also by those who
| have not yet communicated, in making
themselves ready, by Gods grace, to
kneel with the faithful at the Lords
Supper on Easter day.
/ The door of St. Anne's Church is open
all day. continual witness of Gods
love and of His promise. Cultivate the
habit of stepping in to pray and talk
with Him.
CHURCH PENSION FUND OFFERING
The offering last Sunday for the
Church Pension Fund, from thirteen
contributions amounted to $31.75.
This makes total to date of one hun
dred-twenty-t three dollars and seventy
five cents, and pledge of one hundred
dollars.