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October / November 2002 |
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1st September 2002 Chapel Farm Dear Editor, As one who is religiously well nigh `incurable', but also as one who has had a long involvement with all three of the Parishes in which Mark Haworth has had the `cure of souls', I would like to give praise and to be thankful for much of Mark's performance since he came to us nearly nine years ago. Our now former Vicar recently told me that he was `preached out': I can sympathise with this, for I certainly felt `preached out' by too many Council Committee meetings, and too many tedious types at Cambridge and Ely, as well as some closer to home. Fortunately, I was enabled completely to retire, both from public life and from active business: Mark is much too young to retire, and I am pleased that teaching, another most honourable profession, beckons him forward to the future. I know not how well or otherwise Mark is perceived to have performed or to have preached on `regular' occasions, for my Church attendance is now insignificant, but what I do know from personal experience is this: Mark Haworth has always had the great gift of finding the right words for baptisms, for marriage ceremonies, and for funeral services, either in the Parishes or at the Crematorium. I remember many such, and others may recall that I have often remarked thus. Members of my own family have experienced his eloquence, his kindness, his tact, and his wisdom. He dealt with my mother's funeral with dignified expertise, and for this and for many other acts of personal assistance and friendship, I join with all of his other well wishers in Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior and Reach in the hope and expectation that his new career will be both successful and rewarding. Yours sincerely, Geoffrey Wollard |
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