Kindly remember me,
Who bids thee thus farewell!
Long may thy peaceful happy lot
From grief or woe be free;
Yet, tho’ thus blest, forget me not –
Kindly remember me.”
Mr. Nightingale exchanged the rectorship of St. Clements for that of Iden, near Rye, where Georgianna, his wife died, in the following year (May 22nd, 1862) at the age of 43. Mr. Nightingale was not a strong man, and this bodily condition, added to mental depression at the loss of his wife, was the only cause that could be assigned for his sudden death by his own hand, some time later, an account of which is given elsewhere.
<y>Divine Service Expenses were appealed for at St. Clement’s church by the Rev. W. Bennett on the 25th of August, and a collection of £24 18s. was the result. This amount was slightly less than last year’s collection.
The Congregational Church Mortgage Debt of £850 was made up at the anniversary services on the 8th of September, after sermons had been preached by the celebrated Rev. Dr. Vaughan. In addition to this amount £100 had been raised towards the purchase price of the freehold (£700) The major portion of these two amounts had been collected within eighteen months.
The Church Pastoral Aid Society was pecuniarily benefitted by £12 7s. collected at St. Clement’s Church on the 22nd of Sept.
For the Halton Church Schools, the Rev. J. Parkinson obtained £18 11s. by a sermon on the 13th of October.
The Tabernacle Funds were aided by a collection of £22 14s 3d. on Sunday, Oct. 20th, after sermons by Mr. Gad Southall, of Plymouth.
For the St. Mary’s Schools, the collections at the Chapel of St. Mary’s in the Castle on the same Sunday (Oct 20th) amounted to over £52.
For the National Schools the sums contributed on Sunday, Oct 27th, were £13 14s. 7d. at the All Saints Church, and £19 11s. at St. Clement’s.
The Jews’ Society Funds were benefited(sic) on Sunday, Nov. 17th by £7 collected at All Saints, and £52 10s. at St. Mary’s in the Castle.
The Baptist Missions Fund, received an addition of about £11, from a Sunday service on the 27th and a meeting on the 28th.
The St. Clement’s Church Fund
At an annual meeting of the subscribers to this fund for providing the means to meet the expenses in lieu of church-rates, it was seen by the churchwardens’ report that the subscriptions had been £75 9s. and collections £25 6s. 8d., the total being about enough to meet the year’s expenditure, except the cost of some external repairs, which would be included in the next report. It was satisfactory to find that some of the subscribers were Dissenters.
Induction.
The Rev. H. Brereton Foyster, the new rector of St. Clement’s, was inducted to the living on Friday, Sept. 27th, by the Rev. J. Parkin, M.A. The new rector preached in the church for the first time on Sunday, the 29th.
