of the leading treble's initial solo to sharpen. Considering the number and variety of musical programmes sung by its members during the week, the numerous rehearsals, two concerts and Junior Carols, the Choir's singing was, on the whole, remarkably good, but even a momentary tiredness of voice soon vanished at the Choir supper which followed.
m.J.Q-
BE COURTEOUS (The following is the text of the sermon preached by the Dean of York in Chapel on Sunday, the 28th October. The address was found so helpful by the congregation that, with the Dean's permission, we publish it for a wider audience.) Here is excellent advice from your own St. Peter, Ch. 3, v. 8 in his Epistle. Finally, be ye all of one mind, be sympathetic, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous All qualities, you will notice, which are departments, facets, aspects of the master grace of Love. Tonight I am moved to speak about one only of them, because of an incident which happened in Stonegate during the week. A colonel, now retired, well-known in York both for his past military service and his delightful personality, as he was getting out of his car, dropped a half-crown. As you might expect, it did not stop conveniently on the pavement, but rolled away just, only just, under his dashboard. He stooped to recover it, but old wounds and the stiffness of age, made it just too difficult for him to reach. A young man, well dressed, passed by at that moment; and the Colonel asked with his wonted politeness if he would oblige by picking up the coin for him. The young man took a look at it and said, "I can't be bothered", and walked on. Behaviour of that sort, were you to see it, would fill you, I know, with disgust. As it did me. Yet someone may say "Grossly bad manners, I admit, but only bad manners". Only bad manners? Bad manners reveal much more than themselves. What that young man did by his bad manners, and most effectively, was to advertise how odious a person he was I Similarly, good manners are much more than mere manners, they reveal the inward character of the person who exercises them. Courtesy is a window into a man, which everyone he meets can look into. One of the oldest and most famous of English schools has motto "Manners makyth man". Winchester, however, isn't as 26
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