March 1910

Seagoe Parish magazine.

MARCH, 1910.

Easter,

ONCE again the season of Holy Week and

Easter draws near. Easter Day occurs

this year on March 27th. The Annual

call to commemorate our blessed Lord's Sufferings

and Death and Resurrection should inspire every

member of the Church with a more earnest desire to

imitate the Divine example of Self sacrifice which is

set before us on Good Friday, and to rise to that

newness of Life which Easter Day so vividly brings

to our mind. The season of Lent through which we

are now passing, if rightly availed of by our people,

should bring us into a fit state of mind for a reverent

celebration of these Sacred Seasons.

We are glad to notice signs in our midst that the

old carelessness which existed here, as well as elsewhere,

with regard to the special observance of the

seasons of the Christian Year is passing away, and

the members of the Church of Ireland are beginning

to realise what a precious inheritance they possess in

the orderly remembrance each year of the leading

events in our Lord's earthly life. This ought to

prove a great spiritual help in living the Christian

life. It is as though each year we accompanied our

Lord to Bethlehem, The Wilderness, Gethsemane,

Calvary, and as though we stood with the disciples at

the Sepulchre and again watched Him go up in the

clouds of • the Ascension and came back to wait with

the Apostles for the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost.

The modern habit of regarding Good Friday as

one of the Easter Holidays and a time for social recreation

will, we hope, find no encouragement in

Seagoe Parish. The day on which we call to mind

the Passion and Death of our Saviour should be spent

in quiet meditation and worship. The following

special Services will be held in Seagoe Church :—

HOLY WEEK.

Service in the Church each evening (except Saturday), at 8 0'clock.

Addresses will be given on subjects connected

with our Lord's Suffering and Death.

On the Wednesday evening a special address

will be given on " Easter Communion."

On Good Friday Service will be held in the

Church at 11-30 a.m. and 8 p.m.

EASTER DAY.

8 a.m.—Holy Communion.

11-30 a.m.—Morning Prayer, Sermon and Holy

Communion.

3-30 p.m.—Special Children's Service for the

children attending Seagoe, Edenderry, and

Levaghery Sunday Schools.

7 p.m.—Evening Prayer and Sermon.

The Collections at all the Services on Easter

Day will be in aid of the Sunday Schools of the

Parish. Penny Collecting Cards will be issued to the

children in the Sunday Schools on Sunday, March

20th.

TO COMMUNICANTS.

We invite all the regular Communicants of the

Parish to be present at the Holy Communion on

Easter Day, if possible at the 8 a.m. Service or if not

at the mid-day Communion.

We hope, also, that many others who have. been

Confirmed, but who have in the past been careless

about attending Communion or who have perhaps

never come to it even though they felt how much

they needed it, will come forward and kneel around

the Holy Table in their Parish Church on Easter

Day. No one who professes to be a Christian can

afford to neglect the Saviour's direct command—" Do

this in remembrance of me."

Special Lent Preachers,

The Rev. O. W. Scott, Rector of Gilford, will

preach a Lent Sermon in the Church on Wednesday

evening, March 9th. On Sunday evening, March

6th, the Rev. R. D. Patterson, Rector of Ardmore,

is the special Preacher ; and on Sunday, March 20th,

the very Rev. R. S. O'Loughlin, D.D., Dean of

Dromore, will preach at Evening Service.

The Easter Vestry,

Every household in the Parish should be represented

at the meeting of the General Vestry which

takes place on Thursday, March 31st, in Seagoe

School, at 7-30. The General Vestry in each Parish

is composed of those who are subscribers to the

Sustentation Fund and who are over the age of 21

and have signed a declaration that they are members

of the Church of Ireland, resident in the Parish and

not connected with any other Parish. It is the

Parliament of the Parish, and a General Election

takes place each Easter. The Select Vestry, which

carries on the business of the Parish during each

year, is elected by the votes of the General Vestry.

Perhaps you have never thought of the importance

of the Church Vote, but every Churchman should

register and record his vote for the twelve men whom

he thinks will manage the affairs of Seagoe Parish

most efficiently during the coming twelve months to

Easter, 1911. The following have been your

representatives during the past year :—W. R. Atkinson,

George Calvert John Montgomery, T. J. Montgomery,

Robt. Gracey, T; E. Maginnis, Wilson Irwin, Thomas

Martin, Major S. W. Blacker, T. J. Atkinson, J. H.

Stevenson, Joseph Murray, with the Churchwardens

—Jas. Albin and J. G. Gracey.

SEAGOE PARISH MAGAZINE.

St. Patrick's Day.

The children of Hacknahay Day School, assisted

by some friends, are giving a Concert in Hacknahay

School on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, at 7-30 p.m.

Miss Wilson, the popular and energetic Principal of

the School, .is busily engaged in practising the children

in Action and Character Songs and Recitations

for the Concert, and those who wish to spend a most

enjoyable evening should at once secure a Ticket.

The Prices are—Reserved Seat Tickets, 1/- ; Ordinary,

6d. Some of the items will have special reference to

“ The Sweet little Shamrock." The profits of the

Concert go towards the School Equipment Fund.

Baptisms.

“ Arise, shine, for thy Light is come."

Feb. 5th —Emily Johnston, daughter of James and Sarah Neill.

„ —Oliver, son of Robert Henry and Margaret Anne Best.

„ —Joseph Browne, son of Richard and Ellen Jane Maxwell.

Feb. 9th —James Twinem, son of James and Sarah Boyce.

„ —Margaret Susanna, daughter of James and Elizabeth Twinem.

Marriage,

' Thy vows are upon me."

Feb. 1^st —James Hara, Bocombra, to Sarah M'Cormick, Drumnagoon.

Burials,

" The dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God."

Feb. 5th—John Coulter, Tarson, aged 87 years.

8th—Margaret Major, Lr. Seagoe, aged 70 years.

23rd—Robert M'Cully, Lr. Seagoe, aged 93 years.

Offertories,

" An offering of a free heart will I give Thee."

Morning Evening

£ s d £ s d

Feb. 6^th —Quinquagesima 2 18 0 1 0 0

13^th —1st S. in Lent 1 15 1 0 12 0

20^th —2nd S. in Lent 0 13 4 0 8 6

27^th —3rd S. in Lent 1 7 6 0 12 0

Weekdays 0 9 2

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£6 13 11 £3 1 8

The Coming Confirmation,

After Easter we begin our Classes for the Confirmation

which the Bishop will (D. V.) hold in the

Parish on Sunday evening, June 26th, at 7 0'clock.

All who have not been confirmed and who

are 14 years of age, or over, are invited to

join the classes. We hope our Sunday School Teachers

will bring the subject before the children in

their classes. Classes for Adults will be held in

various centres.

Band of Hope,

DRUMGOR.

It is with great pleasure that we refer in this

issue to the Temperance Work in Drumgor District.

On Thursday, 10th February, a most successful meeting

was held in the Church Hall. We have always

held that each district in the Parish is quite capable of

organising and carrying on this work without any

outside help, and we were delighted to find our ideas

correct on this point. Without any assistance the

young people in Drumgor and neighbourhood set to

work with a will and provided a programme which

did them much credit.

Various recitations and songs were contributed

by the younger children attending the Sunday School.

In all these items a high standard was reached.

At the conclusion of the songs and recitations, a most

instructive dialogue entitled, c' The Trial of the

Intoxicating Liquor," was done by the young men of

the district. We tender our congratulations to them

on the success of their efforts. During the evening

an address on the A B C of Temperance was given by

the Rector, when he took the opportunity of referring

to recent events in connection with this work.

Votes of thanks having been passed to Miss

Archer and Miss M'Mullan, who were responsible for

the musical part of the programme, and to all who

had contributed to the success of the meeting, the

meeting was closed with the Benediction and several

cards signed.

Concert at Carne

A very successful Concert was held in Carne on

Thursday, February 3rd, at 8 0'clock. The proceeds

were on behalf of the Fund for providing a new

Harmonium for Carne Hall. A number of per-

formers from Portadown kindly gave their services,

and almost every item was encored. Several of our

Seagoe favourites were also to the fore. The success

of the Concert is due to the indefatigable efforts of

Mr. David Murray, the Superintendent of Carne

Sunday School. We append a list of some kind

subscriptions received, together with the total receipts of

the Concert—

Miss Armstrong £0 10 0

Major Blacker £0 10 0

Rev. J. Taylor £0 5 0

Rev. W. R. Crichton £0 6 0

Mr. Joseph Murray £0 5 0

Per Mr. T. H. Wilson £1 5 0

Per Mr. J. Lavery £0 5 0

Tickets sold £3 10 0

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£6 16 0

Less Expenses £0 6 0

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£6 10 0

SEAGOE PARISH MAGAZINE.

Seagoe Flower Show,

We propose to hold a Flower Show and Industrial

Exhibition in connection with the Parish Sunday

Schools next June. Every child whose name is on

our Sunday School Roll Books will be eligible to

compete. A parishioner has kindly undertaken the

task of arranging the Flower Section, and has drawn

up the following class liat for entries ;—For children

(on Sunday School Rolls) whose parents do not

possess a garden, Prizes are offered for Best Pot of

Double Geranium, any colour; Single Geranium,

any colour ; Fuchsia, Musk, Campannla, Mignonette,

any Foliage Plant, grown in window ; any Flowering

Plant, grown in window; Best Window Box of

Pansies, Mignonette, Mixed Flowering Plants, Best

Bunch of Wild Flowers. For Children whose

Parents possess a garden—Prizes are offered for

Best Pot of Double Geranium, any colour; Single

Geranium, any colour ; Fuchsia, Musk, Fern, any

Foliage Plant, any other Flowering Plants, Best

Window Box of Mixed Flowering Plants, Best Bunch

of Sweet Pea, Three Bunches Sweet Pea (30 spikes)

each different (20 in each), Three Bunches Roses,

each different (3 in each); Six Bunches Hardy

Garden Flowers, each different; One Bunch Shirley

Poppies and Grasses, One Bunch Annual Coreopsis,

One Bunch Wild Flowers. Entrance Fee, 2d in

each class. Rules for Competitors may be had on

application to the Sunday School Superintendents.

Mr. Leonard Twinem

We regret very much that we are about to lose

the valuable services of Mr. Leonard Twinem, who

has for some years past acted as superintendent of

Seagoe Morning School and has brought it to its

-present high state of efficiency. Mr. Twinem sails

for the United States in a few weeks. We feel that

ewe express the thought uppermost in the minds of

all the Seagoe Teachers and Children when we say

that his departure will be a real loss to our Sunday

School work in the Parish. We heartily wish him

God-speed in the country whether he goes.

Seagoe Across the Sea,

The Rector is always glad to hear from Seagoe

Parishioners who are settled in distant parts of the

world. This Magazine is a useful bond of union

between Seagoe at home and abroad. A letter

describing the town or country where you live, the

church you attend and the work in which you are

engaged, would be very interesting for insertion in

these columns. Many of our people are settled in

the United States, Canada, Australia and New

Zealand, and we would like to know how they fare in

these far-off lands. If any Seagoe people enclose a

-Postal Order for 2/- they will receive a copy of this

Magazine for twelve months. Mr. Ernest Holland,

of Brooklyn, U.S.A., sends us a most interesting

Parish Magazine of the Church which he attends—

St. Bartholemew's, Pacific Street, Brooklyn—of

which the Rev. Frank M. Townley, M.A., is Rector.

The Magazine is well edited and the Parish seems to

be in a high state of efficiency.

Items,

We need an organ and organist for the Carbet

services.

The Rectory Purchase Scheme is proving a great

success.

Mr. John Lavery has presented a Church Hymnal

with music for use at the Carbet Services.

Edenderry Sunday School is now so large that

there is scarcely room for the classes in the Parochial

Hall.

C.M.S. Missionary Boxes must be handed in

before March 10th, also all Missionary Collecting

Cards.

The District Sunday Evening Services are being

largely attended, especially in Drumgor and Carbet.

The flooding of the Bann has been unusually

great this year. A large lake has been formed between

Seagoe and Drumcree, and all the meadows near

Levaghery are under water.

Miss Dawson has kindly presented to the Parish

some most interesting documents illustrating the

history of Seagoe Parish which were in the possession

of the late Dean Dawson.

Mr. Robert M'Cully, whose death is announced

in this month's Magazine, was one of the oldest if not

the oldest resident in Seagoe Parish. He was baptised

in Seagoe Church on Feby. 15th, 1818, and was in his

93rd year. He remembered the cutting of the new

Lurgan Road, an event of the long distant past. Mr. John

Coulter, whose death is also announced, was one of

the few still living who assisted in making the railway

through the Parish in the year 1840.

Girls' Social.

The Girls' Bible Class Social was held on Tuesday,

February 8th, in Edenderry Hall. There was a, large

attendance. The Rector presided. After Tea an

interesting Programme of Music and Recitations was

performed. A stirring address was given by the Rev.

F. J. Halahan, Rector of Drumcree. At the close of

the evening a large number of Prizes were distributed

to the successful members. In Miss Armstrong's

class four Special Certificates were awarded for not

missing a class during the year. Maggie Smith has

only missed one Sunday in four years. Mrs. Magee

and Alice Hawthorne got special prizes for only

missing once in three years. In Mr. Chambers'

class one Certificate was awarded for a complete year's

attendance, and two Special Prizes were kindly given

by Mr. Chambers.

SEAGOE

Old Seagoe Notes,

THE SEAGOE YEOMANRY.

A SEAGOE MAN AT WATERLOO.—In continuation

of our notes on the Seagoe Yeomanry in last Month's

issue of the Magazine, the following particulars

regarding the famous local force will be of interest to

our readers.

In the Roll Book of the Yeomanry, for 1820 to

1829, this entry occurs on one of the pages and proves

what hardy veterans served in the Seagoe Corps.

Unfortunately the name of the individual referred to

is not recorded.

SIR, I beg to renew my claim to a pension by

answering to your request of how I received my

wound. Our regiment, after being engaged at New

Orleans, stopped but a few days in England and then

sailed to Ostend. We marched from thence to the

Plains of Waterloo in three days where we joined His

Grace the Duke of Wellington. After Waterloo we

went on duty on the gates of Paris till it

surrendered. We then went into Barrack in the town of

Paris.

It was decided by the surgeons that the

Barracks were unhealthy for our men. We were

then ordered to a camp outside the Town to be ready

for a General Review. During this time no medical

assistance could be obtained. We were then marched

to Bapum (?) where I remained in Hospital till

discharged, blind of the right eye and the other badly

affected, which continues so to the present and

consequently disables me of working for a support.

[It would be interesting to have a list of the

Seagoe men who fought at the Battle of Waterloo.

The Rector would be glad to hear of such names for

publication in these Notes.]

STANDING ORDERS OF THE SEAGOE INFANTRY, 1809.

—During the past month we have obtained a copy

of the Standing Orders and regulations of the Seagoe

Infantry, signed by " William Blacker," and dated

Carrick, January 1st, 1809." The document is too

long for full publication. Here are some extracts

from it :—

The Seagoe Corps having increased into a

Battalion and numerous changes having taken place

in His Majesty's regulations for the Army, Major

Blacker deems it necessary and his duty to issue the

following Code which he trusts will be strictly

attended to by the Seagoe Infantry in order to its

preserving that character for appearance and discipline which

it has so justly acquired and so long maintained.

The Corp being now formed into six companies,

each company will assemble separate from the other

on a private parade of its own, to which every man is

to repair with as little delay as possible on the first

order or signal—" to fall in." The Officer of the

company, assisted by the Sergeants, will then proceed

to inspect the arms and dress of the men, taking care

that they stand steady under arms and that every

motion is done in a correct and soldierlike manner.

PARISH MAGAZINE.

It is expected that the Sergeants will feel the

respectability of their situation in being thus raised

above their fellow soldiers and encourage their men

to correctness by showing them a proper example in

their own appearance.

No man is to be allowed to remain in the ranks

who appears without his arms and appointments

complete.

The men are to have their arms in good order,

clean and bright ; they are to parade with neat

snappers of horn or wood, except when ordered to the

contrary. Flints are invariably to be put in with

lead or leather. The belts and slings to be of a good

white.

It cannot be expected that the pouches will be

polished in the same style of those of more regular

troops ; but they are to be kept clean and black, which

will be effected by rubbing them before a gentle fire

with a little bees wax or heel-ball, afterwards apply a

hard brush which will, in a very short time, bring

them to the degree of cleanness required.

[Further extracts will be given in our next issue.]

NAMES OF SEAGOE TOWNLANDs.—Ballyhannon is

said to mean Hannigan's Town. Ballymacrandat

means Town of Randal's son. Randal was a common

name in the O'Neill family in whose Territory this

Townland is situated. Ballynacor means Town of

the Border. This townland forms a kind of boundary

between the uplands and the range of bog in the

district of the Moyntiaghs, Others derive the name

from Baile-na-Corra, the Town of the Weir.

CHURCHWARDENS OF SEAGOE.—This month we

begin to publish a list of the Churchwardens of

Seagoe and hope to continue it month by month until

the list is complete up to the present. The first entry

of which we have a record is that of the year 1683.

1683—George Blacker.

Huan Hatt.

1684—(No record).

1685—David Bell, Knocknamuckley.

Archibald Hamilton, Killikillmain.

1686—James Walker, Kernan.

William Hodgson, Druminakelly.

1687—Matthew Martin, Seagoe Etragh.

John Wilson, Knockmenagh.

1688—John Cappine, Edendery.

Thomas Bell, Turmoyry.

1689—(No record).

1690—(No record).

1691—Richard Tummins, junr., Knockmenagh.

Robert Black, Ballyhanahan.

1692—Patrick Morris, Killenerget (Silverwood)

William Arran, Kairn.