St Andrews Church Newspapers 1926

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Newspaper Articles for St Andrews Church 1926

THE CHURCH OF MOULSECOMBE

St. Andrew’s Church at Moulsecombe was visited on Sunday last for the first time by the Rev. E. E. Winter, Diocesan Missioner, whose inspiring addresses were listened to with close attention.
In the afternoon Mr Winter spoke to the children and the crowded church was a very clear indication of the urgent need which exists for the new church. Towards this object a sale will be held at the Royal Pavilion on October 20 and 21. Many leading people have promised patronage, and every effort is being made to ensure that this second sale on behalf of the building fund shall be an even greater success than the first sale, which was held last year.
Two other events are about to take place which mark the progress being made in this new outpost of the Church. On Wednesday evening next, at 8, a lantern lecture will be given in the Church Hut by the Rev. Edgar Rogers, O.B.E., Chaplain-General of the Church Lads’ Brigade. A company of the C.L.B. is about to be formed at Moulsecombe under the leadership of Mr Trend, an old C.L.B. officer, and there is every indication that this new work will fulfil a useful purpose. All who are interested in the valuable work that is being done by the Church Lads’ Brigade are heartily invited to the lecture, admission to which is free.
Donations towards the initial expenses attached to the formation of this new company will be gladly received, and may be sent to the Rev. W. H. Carpenter, the Parsonage, Moulsecombe, or to Mr J. A. Trend, 24, The Crescent, Moulsecombe.
The other event of interest is the harvest festival on Sunday, September 26. The festival is to be marked this year for the first time by the use of cassocks and surplices for the choir.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 18 September 1926

MOULSECOMBE CHURCH LADS’ BRIGADE

Animated scenes were witnessed at the Church Hut, Moulsecoomb, on Wednesday evening, on the occasion of the inauguration of the St. Andrews (Moulsecombe) Company of the Brighton Battalion of the Church Lads’ Brigade.
The Chaplain-General and Secretary of the movement, the Rev. Edgar Rogers, O.B.E., M.A., Who made a special journey from London to be present, gave a very interesting and instructive lecture on the aims objects of the Church Lads’ Brigade. The lecture was illustrated by lantern slides, under the skilful management of Mr West.
The new company has already enrolled 18 senior and 21 junior members. The company will be under the command of Mr J. A. Trend, assisted by Mr E. H. Barton, both of whom are highly popular among the lads. Great enthusiasm is being shown by both officers and other ranks, and it is felt that the life of the newly formed unit will be a virile one.
Captain Standing, acting Colonel of the Brighton Battalion, was, unfortunately, unable to attend, but a detachment of the St Peter’s Company, looking extremely smart in their dress uniforms, gave a spirited touch to the proceedings.
The chairman, the Rev. W. H. Carpenter, said that Moulsecoomb is fortunate in possessing both the man and the material for the building up of a body of young Churchmen under the banner of the Church Lads’ Brigade. “If first impressions possess any significance,” he said, “then high hopes may be safely entertained for the St Andrews Company in Moulsecoomb.”
Brighton & Hove Herald – 25 September 1926

BAZAAR FOR MOULSECOMBE CHURCH

The second sale of work in aid of the Moulsecombe Church building fund will take place at the Royal Pavilion on Wednesday and Thursday next.
The sale will be opened on the first day at 3 by Mrs Nugent Hicks. On the second day the sale opens up 4. This is the day on which the Diocesan Council meet at the Dome, and it is earnestly hope that many Council members will again take this opportunity, as they did last year, of showing their interest in this important work.
Many influential people have come forward as patrons, including the Dean of Chichester, the Archdeacon of Chichester, the Archdeacon of Lewes, Canon and Mrs Hicks, the reverent Dr. R. J. Campbell, Miss Burrows, the Earl and Countess of Chichester, the Marchioness of Ely, Countess Brassey, Lady Bagot, Lady Barrett Lennard, the Hon. Mrs Colvin, Rear-Admiral Beamish, C.B., M.P., Mrs Dormer Pearce, Mrs Douglas Clark, Mrs Fiessinger Davison, Mrs Thornton Down, and Miss Williams.
A speech in support of Moulsecombes great need will be given at 5.30 on Thursday by Dr. Campbell.
A correspondent writes:
“It needs to be emphasised that Moulsecoomb is a great “home mission” in our very midst, but it came into existence for the sake of Brighton and the neighbourhood, and that the responsibility of providing for its spiritual needs rests on the shoulders of all. The people of Moulsecoomb are manfully facing this great task, but it is obvious that it is only by the assistance and co-operation of those living in parishes already supplied with churches that the requirements of this rapidly growing suburb can be met.”
Many generous responses have already been made, but further donations will be thankfully received by the Rev. W. H. Carpenter, The Parsonage, Moulsecombe.
The feature of the sale of work is simplicity. The stalls will be filled with cheap and useful articles provided by the work and self-sacrifice of Moulsecoomb church people. There are no raffles. Miss Jouanno’s Orchestra will be in attendance.
Brighton & Hove Herald – 12 October 1926

Moulsecoomb Diocesan Mission

Moulsecoomb needs a church. It was to augment the funds already collected for building this church that a band of willing workers, under the inspiring leadership of the rev. W. H. Carpenter, held a sale of work of the Royal Pavilion on Wednesday and Thursday.
The sale was opened by Mrs Hicks, wife of the Vicar of Brighton (the Rev. Canon F. C. N. Hicks, D.D.).
In welcoming Mrs Hicks, Mr Carpenter said Moulsecombe needs a church to promote its social and spiritual life. Since the church fund was started a year ago, no less a sum them £1,300 has been raised. It is there aim to get £2,000. When this amount has been raised it will be possible to approach the various church building societies and to arrange for an architect.
Various sections of the community have provided the stalls, continued Mr Carpenter, and it was due to their generous gives that the sale of been made possible. There was one individual stall – a fruit and vegetable stall – which had been given by Mr J. H. West.
In opening the sale, Mrs Hicks said that people gave so much to the hospitals, out of their great heartedness, that the claims of the church are apt to be overlooked. If people only gave the same amount of the churches there would be less need for the hospitals. Mrs Hicks congratulated the organisers of the sale on the absence of raffles. “It is my personal feeling that raffles cause suffering . . . . one person out of thirty may win, and the remainder are downhearted because they do not.”
A correspondent writes:
“Thursday – Trafalgar Day – saw the second day of the battle waged by the gallant ship of the Church in Moulsecoomb to gather financial victories. After Wednesday’s success, when £108 was realised, all hands stood by for further action. Many kind friends came over from the Diocesan conference to the Kings Apartments in the Royal Pavilion – among them Canon and Mrs Hicks, Dr. R. J. Campbell, Lady Brassey, Miss Burrows, and the Rev. R. J. Lee, vicar of Henfield.
“The sympathetic speech on Moulsecombe’s work was made by Dr. Campbell, who gave great encouragement to the workers by his promise of a greater measure of active help from Holy Trinity, when once their own responsibilities were settled.
“The vicar of Henfield also spoke in glowing terms of the work of the Rev. W. H. Carpenter, who, prior to his appointment to Moulsecombe, had charged for a parish in the Henfield district.
“The great objective now before the people of Moulsecombe is the raising of the second £1000 for the building fund. Donations will be gratefully received by the Rev. W. H. Carpenter, at the Parsonage, Moulsecoomb.”
The stalls were:
Mr J. H. West’s fruit stall, the C.E.M.S. Stall, the Church Traders stall, the Sunday School’s stall, the Girls Friendly Society stall, and the refreshment stall.

Brighton & Hove Herald – 23 October 1926