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Exhibition: 200th Anniversary of the Black and White Canal
Aqueducts on the Garstang Rural District length of the canal
Bone Manure Works, Ray Lane
Bridges along the Lancaster Canal in the Garstang Rural District
Garstang Gasworks
History of the canal
ICI Hillhouse Works
Lime Kilns along the canal
Packet Boats
The canal during World War Two
Garstang Market
History of Garstang
The Market Cross
The Town Hall
Old maps and aerial views
Poppy Trail
Barnacre with Bonds
Bilsborrow & Myerscough
Cabus
Calder Vale
Catterall
Forton and Shireshead
Garstang St.Thomas's Church
Garstang Town Hall
Garstang United Reformed Church
Garstang War Memorial
Great Eccleston
Inskip with Sowerby
Nateby
Nether Wyresdale
Out Rawcliffe
St. Michael's on Wyre
Stalmine with Staynall
Stoops Hall
War Memorial, Burnside Avenue. PR3 1SE
Dedication of the War Memorial. Photo from the Chris Oldroyd Collection
There are 18 names on the memorial, 15 from WW1 and 3 from WW2
WW1 Names
Thomas Patrick Longworth
Sapper 66057. 106th Field Company, The Royal Engineers
Thomas enlisted on 26th January 1915 and was sent to the Western Front on 26th September 1915.
He spent two periods of home leave in 1916 and 1917, before returning to the Western Front in June 1917.
He was killed in action on 9th April 1918 in the River Lys Valley near to Bethune.
Thomas is one of the many who have no known grave. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial near Zonnebeke.
He is also remembered on the Garstang and Bleasdale War Memorials.
Ernest Halton
Private 1416. 5th Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
Ernest was born in Carnforth in 1889, the son of Lawrence and Elizabeth Halton.
He was killed by a train near Didcot, along with Private James Walton, while both were guarding the railway on 30th
September 1914. He was 22.
Ernest is buried in the churchyard of St. John's church, Calder Vale.
Henry (Harry) Malley
Corporal 12175. 50th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
Henry was born in 1894 at Bleasdale, the son of William and Jane Malley of Sunny View, Oakenclough, Lancashire.
He enlisted at Garstang as Private 21514 of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, and later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.
Henry was killed in action on 22nd March 1918 in the Somme area. He was 24.
He is one of the many men who have no known grave. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.
He is also remembered on a family grave in the churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Calder Vale.
Samuel Piper
Private 7700. Royal Army Medical Corps
Sam was born on 28th August 1895 in Bamber Bridge, the son of John and Annie Piper.
Prior to enlisting he was a weaver at a mill in Calder Vale.
Sam was killed in action on 26th September 1916. He was 20.
He is buried at Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, France
Lancashire Evening Post 15th November 1916
KILLED WHILE BRINGING IN WOUNDED
Pte. Samuel Piper (21), the R.A.M.C, was killed on Sept. 26th while bringing in wounded under heavy shell fire. Pte. Piper had been in the army for about five months before the present war broke out and went out with the original Expeditionary Force. Before joining the Army was a weaver at Calder Vale Mill, Calder Vale, near Garstang.
Albert Ray
Gunner 25695. 12th Battery, 27th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Albert was born in Preston in 1890, the son of George and Emily Ray.
He died on 23rd April 1917. He was 28.
He is buried at Vimy Communal Cemetery, Farbus, France.
Albert is also remembered on a family grave in the churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Calder Vale.
Private 30580. 8th Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Frank was born in Preston in 1894, the son of James and Elizabeth Ellen Walton. He was the brother of James Walton who is also named on the memorial.
Frank was killed in action on 26th Sept 1917. He was 23.
He was one of the many men with no known grave, and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
James Walton
James was born in Preston in 1892, the son of James and Elizabeth Ellen Walton.
He was the brother of Frank Walton who is also named on the memorial.
James was killed by a train near Didcot, along with Private Ernest Halton, while both were guarding the railway on 30th September 1914. He was 22.
James is buried in the churchyard of St. John's church, Calder Vale.
Richard Whiteside
Private 21568. 10th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Richard was born in Calder Vale In 1895, the son of Henry and Maria Whiteside.
He was killed on 14th July 1917. He was 26.
Richard is one of the many men with no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
Robert Kendall Whittam
Private 19330. 8th Battalion Border Regiment
Robert was born in 1884 in Staveley, Westmorland the son of Robert and Jane Whittam.
Robert was killed in action on 28th April 1916. He was 31.
He is buried at La Chaudiere Military Cemetery, Vimy, France.
James Crompton
At present no information is known about James
Herman Fletcher
2nd Lieutenant. 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Herman was born in Eccles near Manchester in 1891, the son of Richard and Mary Fletcher of The Polygon, Eccles.
Prior to the war he was employed at Messrs Jacksons paper makers at Oakenclough, Lancashire.
He attended Manchester Grammar School and enlisted in the 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Public Schools) Battalion in 1914 as Private 4828.
He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in October 1916 and posted to the 7th Battalion of the North Lancashire Regiment.
Herman was killed in action on 13th November 1916 during the Battle of the Ancre. He was 25.
He is one of the many men who have no known grave. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
John Greaves MM
Serjeant 23834. 55th Battalion Machine Gun Corps.
John was born in Claughton on Brock in 1893, son of Richard and Ann Greaves.
John was awarded the Military Medal. The entry appears in the London Gazette 25th May 1918.
He was also Mentioned in Dispatches. The entry appears in the London Gazette 10th October 1918, after he had died.
John died of wounds received in action on 10th August 1918. He was 25.
He is buried at Houchin British Cemetery near Bethune, France.
Pioneer 126377. HQ Signal Company Royal Engineers.
George was born in Garstang in 1899, the son of Francis and Margaret Harris. He had a twin sister, Mary.
George's brother Sergeant Dan Harris 24 K.O.R.L regiment, was awarded the Military Medal. He was wounded in France and invalided home to
a hospital in Oxford. After being transferred to another hospital in the South of England he was sent to a convalescent home in Blackpool.
George was killed on 4th February 1919. He was 21.
He is buried at Belgrade Cemetery, Namur, Belgium.
Lancashire Evening Post 7th February 1920
In sad but loving memory of our dear son Pioneer G. HARRIS (126377), R.E. Signals, 4th Army Signal Company, died of pneumonia, February 5th, 1919 aged 21, and was interred in Belgrade Cemetery, Namur, Belgium, on the 8th. Only those who have lost a loved one know the meaning of the word gone. From his sorrowing Father, Mother, Brothers, and Sisters, 10, Christian-road (late of Calder Vale).
Thomas Hoggarth
Rifleman 94923. 2nd/6th Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment
Thomas was born in 1899 in Calder Vale, the son of John Thomas and Elizabeth Hoggarth.
He was killed in action on 1st Sept 1918. He was 19.
Thomas is buried at Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France.
Thomas's obituary
Lancashire Evening Post 3rd September 1920
HOGGARTH. In loving memory of our dear son Rifleman THOMAS HOGGARTH (Lewis gunner), 2/6th Liverpool Rifles, killed in action September 1st, 1918 aged 19 years. R.I P.
With aching hearts, we shook his hand. Tears in our eyes. Kissed his cheek, but little thought It was our last good-bye." Eternal rest give unto him, O Lord." May he rest in peace." Sadly missed Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, and Sister-in-Law, Calder Vale.
John Jose
Private 12774. 7th Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
John was born in 1883 in Redruth, Cornwall, the son of William and Mary Jose.
He married Anna Maymon Reed in 1904, and they had a daughter, Veda born in 1908
John was killed in action on 25th July 1915. He was 32.
John is one of the many men with no known grave. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Thomas Lindsay
Private 30410. 12th Company Machine Gun Corps
Thomas was born in Withnell, Lancashire in 1891, the third son of John and Martha Lindsay. Two of his brothers were also in the army.
He joined the army in July 1915.
Thomas was a well known local footballer, who had played centre forward for Fleetwood and Nelson.
He was killed in action at Ypres on 8th August 1916. He was 25.
Thomas is buried at Essex Farm Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium.
Lancashire Evening Post 10th August 1917
LINDSAY. In loving memory of our dear son. Lce. Cpl. TOM LINDSAY. M.G.C killed in action at Ypres August 8th, 1916.
'Tis sweet to know we'll meet again, where partings are no more. And that the one we loved so well has only gone before.
From his Parents, Brothers, and Sister. Calder Vale.
James Magill
Private 3781471. 13th Battalion Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
James was born on 2nd June 1912.
At the time of his death he was married to Jane Agnes, and they had a daughter Kathleen Hester Magill who was born in 1939.
James was a cotton weaver, and prior to the war the family lived at Assembly Rooms House in Garstang.
He died on 6th September 1943, aged 34.
Janes is buried at Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar.
An inscription on his grave reads:
MEMORIES. "THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
Thomas James Lever Rushton DFC
Flying Officer 108867. 107 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Thomas was born in 1914 in Garstang, the son of James Lever Rushton and Phyllis Rushton.
He died on 9th July 1943 in Egypt. He was 29.
Thomas is buried at Alexandria (Hadra) War Cemetery in Egypt.
The inscription on his headstone reads:
"WE GIVE THANKS FOR GOD ALWAYS FOR YOU …MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS"
Thomas was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1942.
The DFC citation in the London Gazette of 10th November 1942 reads:
"This officer has completed numerous sorties, including many daylight attacks on shipping, aerodromes and industrial targets. In June 1942 he participated in a night attack on an aerodrome in the Netherlands. In spite of heavy opposing fire and searchlight activity, Pilot Officer Rushton bombed dispersal areas and hangars, causing much damage. Although his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire which rendered it difficult to control, he flew it to base safely. This officer has invariably displayed great courage, skill and determination."
More information about Thomas can be found on the Barnacre page of the Poppy Trail.
Francis Wrennall
Lance Corporal 3862397. Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) 2nd Battalion Glasgow Highlanders
Francis was born in Garstang in 1912, the son of William and Elizabeth Wrennall. The family lived at 56 Albert Terrace in Calder Vale, and Francis was a spot cutter in the cotton mill.
He married Dorothy Bowman at Garstang in 1943.
Francis died on 8th February 1945, aged 32.
He is buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery in The Netherlands.
"FRANK" LOVING HUSBAND OF DOROTHY. LOVED AND REMEMBERED ALWAYS.
St. John the Evangelist Church, Calder Vale. PR3 1SR
St. John the Evangelist is a Grade 2 listed 19th century church, which was consecrated in August 1863. The land it stands on was given for the building of the church by William James Garnett. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, nave with north aisle and south porch, and lower chancel. The tower has diagonal buttresses and a pyramid roof behind an embattled parapet.
Three of the 20th century windows are said to be by Morris & Co.
There is also a memorial window and tablet inside the church which bears the names of those who fell in WW1.
Richard Whiteside, who is remembered on the Calder Vale War Memorial is also remembered on a family grave in the churchyard.
In the churchyard are the graves of Ernest Halton and Thomas Walton.
Preston Herald 7th October 1914.
CALDER VALE.
Pathetic Scenes at Interment of Local Territorials.
The remains of Privates James Walton and Ernest Halton, both members of the Garstang Detachment of the 5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (Territorials) and belonging Calder Vale, who, it will be remembered, lost their lives with such tragic suddenness on Wednesday of last week as the result of being caught train on length line which they were guarding close to Steventon level crossing, were interred with military honours on Saturday afternoon last in the small graveyard attached the Calder Vale Parish Church, where they had attended.
GALLANT TRIBUTE
The unfortunate young men were particularly well known and held in high regard in the village and surrounding districts, and it was therefore not surprising to find such a large gathering of mourners, relatives, intimate friends, and others by whom they were known – not only from the village, but elsewhere – paying their last tribute to their memory. Walton was normally employed at the Grizedale Lea Reservoir and was an operative at one of the local-mills.
The bodies were brought by rail to Garstang and Catterall Station the previous night, and were afterwards conveyed to the church, where they lay overnight in readiness for the solemn committal the following day.
The ancient and picturesque little village had, as would be expected under such circumstances, undergone quite a change from its customary gay appearance, for, from the arrival of the military (a section of the North Lancashire Regiment Territorials) from Preston, who acted as firing party and bearers, until their departure almost immediately after the last sad rites, practically every blind was drawn in tribute to the deceased, a fact alone which spoke volumes for the remarkable esteem in which they were held their fellow comrades.
The graves, to the right side of the yard looking from the main entrance, are in close proximity to one another, being within foot or two apart. During the whole proceedings, which, can be readily imagined, were of very heartrending character, hardly a dry eye could be distinguished.
THE TRAGIC NEWS.
The news of the young mens' death came a terrible shock to everybody who knew them, for a letter had only been received in the village from one of them the very morning telegrams announcing their fate arrived in the afternoon. So sudden was the tragic news that first it could hardly be realised, but it spread with such great rapidity that in consequence work for the rest of the day at the two mills where they were known nearly all the hands, was almost at a standstill.
The church, during short service held prior the interment, was crowded to the doors, marry people desirous of gaining admission having to be turned away disappointed. The coffins, each covered with the Union Jack and several beautiful wreaths, were brought out separately amid many manifestations of sorrow and grief, the bodies bring laid to rest one after the other.
Whilst the service was in progress, and during the committal, the firing party was lined along the path leading to the church porch, afterwards taking up position behind the graves, and firing over them the usual three volleys. The Last Post having been sounded on the bugle, the local band, of which Walton was a member, played St Cuthbert," Lead Kindly Light," and Nearer My God to Thee." On returning to the village "The Fallen Heroes" was rendered.
The last rites were conducted by the vicar the Rev. C. H. Wilson.
THE MOURNERS.
The principal mourners were: Walton; Mr and Mrs. James Walton (father and mother), Private H. Walton, Mr. Frank Walton, and Master Fred Walton (brothers), Mr and Mrs. George Walton (brother and sister-in-law), Miss Emily Walton (sister), Mr. and Mrs, Wilkinson (aunt and uncle), Miss Elizabeth Kendall, Miss Mary' Kendall, Miss Davis, Miss P. Kelsall, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kelsall, and Mrs. William Richardson.
Halton: Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Halton (father and mother), Mrs. Lawrence Halton, (sister-in-law and wife of Private Lawrence Halton, brother, who was unable to be present on account of being away on active service), Lance-Corporal Ward Toon, Mrs. Gregg. Miss Gregg, Miss Elizabeth Gregg. Mr. and Mrs. R. Tvldsley. Mrs. Tyldsley (Nelson), Mrs. Toon, and Mrs. S. Hardman.
Amongst those in attendance representing the Army authorities were Major Bates (present on behalf of the commanding officer, Colonel Lord Richard Cavendish), Captain Wright (commander of E Company, 5th Btn. King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, in which deceased were privates) and Captain Hogarth. Captain Seward, and Lieut.Quartermaster Singleton, of the 5th Reserve Battalion of the same regiment.
FLORAL TRIBUTES.
There was large number of floral tributes, including the following:
Halton; ''In loving remembrance, from his sweetheart and family.
In loving remembrance, to Ernest Halton, from his comrades in the 5th King's Own E Company) Royal Lancaster Regiment.
"With loving sympathy, from his brother and sister-in law"
"In loving remembrance of our dear son Ernest, from father and mother".
"With deepest sympathy, from Mrs. Geldeard and the Chapmans.
"With deepest sympathy, from Mr. Horace Daboo and Miss Lizzie Gregg".
"With deepest sympathy, from the canteen and hutkeepers at Grizedale Lea".
"With deepest sympathy, from the foremen, engineman, tradesmen, and staff, Grizedale Lea".
Walton's wreaths included:
"A token of love from Lizzie and family"
"With deepest sympathy, from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whiteside"
Whilst amongst others were:
"In loving remembrance, from their comrades in E Company, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment"
"With deepest sympathy, from Captain W. O. Wright and Lieut. H. Coupland".
On Sunday morning, before large congregation, the vicar made sympathetic reference to the memory of the deceased.
Lancashire Evening Post 9th November 1920
MEMORIAL TO FALLEN AT CALDER VALE
A memorial window and tablet, bearing the names of those belonging to the parish who fell in the war was unveiled and dedicated Sunday afternoon in Calder Vale Church, in the presence of a crowded congregation.
About 80 members of the Bleasdale Foresters in uniform, attended the service.
The Calder Vale band led them in procession from the vale, and accompanied the singing in the church. Colonel Trist DSO, MC, of Rossall School formally presented this gift on behalf of the Foresters.
The new vicar, the Rev. A. J. Woodhouse responded and the Rural Dean dedicated the memorial and afterwards preached.
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Taylor Swift has done it again.
The pop star's latest surprise album, evermore, has topped the Billboard 200. It also garnered over one million in global sales and boasts over half a billion worldwide streams in the less than a week since its December 11 release, landing the record the top slot on several other charts including the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart and Top Alternative Albums Chart. It's also the #1 Streaming Pop Album this week.
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Johan Cruyff, father of modern soccer, fades on the sidelines
Johan Cruyff talks to the media after casting his ballot in Barcelona's recent presidential election.
On the face of it, Johan Cruyff lives a retiree's life. The 68-year-old grandfather is so detached from day-to-day work that intimates say he doesn't have email or a mobile phone. He migrates between his mansion in Barcelona and a second home in Amsterdam, where locals like to report sightings of "Johan" cycling around or eating fries.
He hasn't had a full-time job since Barcelona sacked him as coach in 1996. He doesn't want one, either. However, Cruyff does crave influence. Arguably the spiritual father of both Ajax Amsterdam and Barcelona, he still wields soft power at the two clubs. Ajax is run by a clique of ex-players whom he installed. And Josep Maria Bartomeu, reelected as FC Barcelona's president in the elections of July 18, wants to get Cruyff back on board in some sort of role. Yet in both Catalonia and the Netherlands, Cruyff's influence is waning. The man who invented modern soccer may have to content himself with watching it on TV in his mansion.
To understand Cruyff's significance for Barca, you have to go back to his arrival in 1973. He and coach Rinus Michels had already turned little semi-pro Ajax into Europe's dominant team by creating a new style: one-touch passing, constant attack, a 4-3-3 formation with players forever switching positions, even a goalkeeper who played like an outfield player in gloves. The same style took Holland to the World Cup final in 1974. Foreigners (but never the Dutch) called it "total football."
After Ajax, Michels brought Cruyff to Barcelona. The club they found was very much No. 2 in Spain, behind Real Madrid. For a while at least, the Dutchmen made it the nation's No. 1. In 1988, Cruyff returned to Barcelona as coach and institutionalized Cruyffian soccer throughout the club. Watching the youth teams one day, he spotted a skinny kid controlling central midfield. Cruyff stuck the kid in the first team. He didn't care that young Josep Guardiola was slow and physically weak. "Pep" could pass into space, and for Cruyff, soccer is a dance in space. In 1992, Cruyff's "dream team," quarterbacked by Guardiola, won Barcelona's first-ever European Cup.
Even after Cruyff left in 1996, Barcelona remained Cruyffian. The Masia, the youth academy, produced Guardiolan passers like Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas and Leo Messi. These kids had spent the sunny mornings of their childhoods playing piggy-in-the-middle-style passing games.
When Joan Laporta became president in 2003, he let his ally and hero Cruyff choose the head coach. First came a former Ajax teammate of Cruyff's, Frank Rijkaard, who helped Barcelona win the Champions League in 2006. Two years later, Guardiola took over as a novice coach and created possibly the most successful club team in history.
All this was in the Cruyffian tradition, but Cruyff's influence waned after 2010 when Sandro Rosell succeeded Laporta as Barca's president. Rosell is on Cruyff's long enemies list. Cruyff, a supremely difficult man, always wants his own way, especially when money is involved. I know, I crossed him once in 2000 (long, unhappy story). Like many of Cruyff's enemies, I was then savaged in articles in his pet Dutch media: De Telegraaf, the country's biggest newspaper, and Voetbal International, the biggest Dutch soccer magazine.
But he couldn't beat Rosell. Cruyff refused to enter the Nou Camp while his enemy remained president. In 2014, Rosell resigned after irregularities emerged surrounding Neymar's transfer, but his right-hand-man Bartomeu succeeded him. This January I asked the bespectacled, mild, friendly but shrewd Bartomeu whether Barca couldn't make up with its spiritual dad. Bartomeu said, "Johan Cruyff should be not at the level of the president of Ajax or the president of Barca. He should be" -- and Bartomeu raised his hand high -- "in an upper position. I would like, of course, to put him in another position."
I asked if he had made overtures. "Well," he replied, "sometimes I had a few contacts, but Johan Cruyff, ehhhh, does a lot of things." Bartomeu had been reduced to getting Barcelona's charitable foundation to do a shared project with Cruyff's. Bartomeu mused: "To have his name related to Barca would make our club better. Better on the image point of view, I mean." After Saturday's presidential election, Bartomeu again expressed the hope of working with Cruyff. But he seems to want Cruyff as figurehead rather than decision-maker.
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Cruyff probably won't buy it. He has spent the Rosell-Bartomeu years sniping from the sidelines. When Barca signed Luis Suarez last summer, he said in his column in De Telegraaf: "With Suarez it can never work ... I don't see how with Messi, Neymar and Suarez in the team you can still have good positional play. Three individualists -- Barcelona is choosing individual actions and not team play." After Barca's Treble, those surely count as famous last words.
Frustrated at Barcelona, Cruyff took over Ajax in 2011. The sitting directors didn't stand a chance against the father of Dutch soccer. Cruyff chose a junta of ex-players to run Ajax for him: Frank de Boer was already club coach, Marc Overmars and Edwin van der Sar became directors, while Dennis Bergkamp and Wim Jonk took over the youth academy. Cruyff started out as a Sixties rebel against authority and this was a Sixties idea: the talent should run the business. Ajax, he said, ought to be playing beautiful soccer and winning Champions Leagues again.
It hasn't happened. True, Ajax won four straight Dutch titles through 2014 (a streak that was just starting when Cruyff's men took charge) but the Dutch league scarcely counts nowadays. In the Champions League the club got humiliated nearly every season. The play deteriorated, and last season Ajax finished second, often jeered off the field. Meanwhile, as happens in Cruyffian organizations, conflicts broke out.
Cruyff decided Overmars was buying too many players instead of promoting youngsters. No matter that Ajax can afford to buy: it is Europe's most financially secure club, according to the financial information provider S&P Capital IQ, with nearly €87 million in the bank. No matter, either, that the many homegrown kids in the first team don't look like world-beaters.
Regardless, Cruyff wants fewer transfers. So he has installed his old teammate, Tscheu la Ling, as special adviser at Ajax. As a player, Cruyff inevitably quarreled with Ling, but now he seems to venerate him. Overmars does not. Jonk no longer speaks to some of the other ruling junta. Ajax is an unhappy ship that's going nowhere.
As a player, Cruyff represented the Netherlands and played much of his club football at Ajax and Barcelona, both of which he went on to manage.
But Cruyff's influence spans all continents. Through his son-in-law Todd Beane, he has a business selling Cruyffian reform to clubs worldwide. Those that have purchased the service include Chivas in Mexico, South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Australia's Melbourne City. In 2012, Chivas was persuaded to appoint John van 't Schip, another ex-player from the Cruyff stable, as coach. The club sacked him, and special adviser Cruyff, within six months. "Van 't Schip was presented as the new Pep Guardiola," Chivas' billionaire owner Jorge Vergara grumbled recently to a Dutch newspaper. Now Van 't Schip coaches Melbourne.
That leaves Barcelona as Cruyff's last great hope for direct influence in top-level soccer. He had hoped Laporta would beat Bartomeu in last Saturday's election. Laporta still loves Cruyff. He once told me that the soccer he grew up on was the Dutch game of the 1970s. In the election campaign, he and Cruyff could hardly criticize the current regime's results, so instead they complained about Barca's lost "values": no more players coming through from the Masia, Qatar instead of Unicef on the shirts, Neymar's murky transfer, and FIFA's transfer ban on Barcelona for making under-age signings. It wasn't enough: Bartomeu, lifted by the Treble, won reelection with 55 percent of the vote. Laporta got just 33 percent.
Bartomeu would still love to have Cruyff back, but presumably only in the sort of role that Alfredo di Stefano long held at Real Madrid: a club treasure, always seen at the stadium and beloved, but no longer heard. The truth is that Barca doesn't need Cruyff's advice anymore. In 1973, 1988 and 2003 he came to save a struggling club seeking direction. Now Barcelona is all-conquering. And with the "MSN" attack, Barca's traditional intricate passing-and-pressing game has lost importance. When Messi beats three men and feeds Neymar to score, that isn't Cruyffian soccer.
Happily, Cruyff's influence is bigger than any club. Barcelona's Masia, Spain's tiki-taka and the attacking overlapping one-touch German world champions are all ultimately his babies. Fabio Capello said recently: "Guardiola's era is one of the three greatest legacies in soccer's modern history: [Arrigo] Sacchi's era [at Milan], the era of the Dutch and the era of Barca." All three are Cruyff's legacies. As the old man sits in his mansion watching TV (with the sound turned off so that he can give the commentary himself), wondering why Barcelona no longer listens to him, he can console himself with the thought that he invented modern soccer.
Simon Kuper is a contributor to ESPN FC and co-author, with Stefan Szymanski, of Soccernomics.
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Amid new rules for cross-border funds in Europe, BBH's Killian Lonergan sets out the gamechangers for distribution and how fund managers are partnering with external providers in their distribution efforts
In September 2021, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) reported that net assets in UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) reached €20 trillion for the first time ever at the end of June.1 Roughly a quarter of those assets are in cross-border UCITS funds.
Within this successful trajectory, €170 billion has poured into cross-border UCITS, with €135 billion from European investors in the first half of 2021, compared to total inflows into UCITS of €235billion. As that growth looks set to continue, several recent changes will impact how cross border fund managers set up UCITS cross border focused funds – typically in Dublin and Luxembourg - and distribute them in Europe, and how they partner in the ecosystem of industry participants.
New Rules for Cross-border Funds
In August 2021, most of the provisions of the EU cross-border fund distribution directive2 came into effect. Although each European country has not yet transposed the directive into local law, the directive will impact managers looking to distribute products into Europe. Many fund managers have only recently started looking at the practical ramifications of how it affects them.
While most of the European regulatory output in recent years has had some impact on distribution, this latest directive was constructed with the specific purpose to effect cross border distribution. The passporting nature of UCITS has historically been its calling card, and that meant that fund managers could register their funds in one domicile and sell them in another market. However, in practice, the reality was that countries across Europe have created many different rules and regulations within the UCITS world and discovering and reacting to them has been a frustrating process for many fund managers. This directive was written in an attempt remove some of those jurisdictional nuances and in theory make the selling of cross border funds more cost effective and to the benefit of the end investor.
Change of Agent Rules
As fund managers have reflected on the directive, probably the most frequently raised aspect has related to paying agent or facilities agents. Approximately half of the European jurisdictions had requirements for a local paying agent to be engaged by fund managers, but the extent of their role differed from country to country. For example, for some countries that meant simply stating on your prospectus the local agent in place, but in practice they played an almost non-existent role in the investor experience. In other countries, such as Italy and France, the paying agent is involved in the day-to-day operating of a fund in terms of opening accounts for investors and working with the transfer agent.
What's changed in the directive is quite significant in that the rules state that a fund manager does not need to have their local paying agent physically present in a particular country. It now needs to offer a facility for a paying agent across all European countries. So, for fund managers who have had as many as a dozen paying agent relationships across multiple countries in Europe that they're distributing in, they can continue with those relationships, but they now need to figure out who their facilities agent or paying agent can be in all the other European countries they're distributing in. This means that fund managers who have historically been distributing in those other countries now need to have a facilities agent in place. The facilities agent needs to be able to provide a service in the local language of that country or in a language that has been approved by the regulator.
This has somewhat complicated managers' ability to continue distributing into these countries where they have done so for many years but haven't had a need for local agent relationship to be in place. On the other hand, managers with multiple paying agents operating for them in Europe have commenced looking at options to consolidate those relationships into one, in an ideal case, or as few as possible. Fund managers begun to have those conversations with their paying agents in the last few months about whether they can offer those services across multiple markets.
In addition, some parties have begun providing new services in the last few months, extending their service remit across all European countries. While the new directive went live on August 2, 2021, the transposition of that directive hasn't been completed by every local government yet. So, there's still time for managers to appoint their facilities agents, or at the very least progress their conversation with their existing network of agents in the hope they will extend their offering.
Change of Pre-marketing Rules
Another frequent topic of conversation for managers relates to the new pre-marketing rules. The directive creates a uniform definition of what pre-marketing is and a uniform set of rules of what you need to do and when to engage in the pre-marketing process. Pre-marketing enables distributors to gauge the appetite for their product in a country, by registering with the local regulator and intending to pre-market in that country. Under the new rules, the need to initially pre-market your fund should be uniform across countries.
The potential adverse effect of this is the impact on reverse solicitation. For example, once pre-marketing has been triggered by a manager, any investor opening accounts and investing is deemed to have done so as a result of this pre-marketing. This is regardless of whether or not the investor had been in discussion with the manager or not, and the later example, known as reverse solicitation. Regardless of what prompted the investor to take action, the new rules stipulate that while in the pre-marketing window of 18 months, a full fund registration by the manager with the local regulator is now required.
The third most frequent topic of conversation is around fund declassification. While this is only in place for AIF's and not UCITS, it means if you're closing a fund in a particular market you cannot reopen that fund or a similar fund for the next 36 months under that pre-marketing notification process. As managers think about closing or opening funds, they need to consider if there really is no immediate or short-term asset raising opportunities for them in this jurisdiction. These are the three main considerations relating to the directive for cross border managers as it relates to distribution and their activity in Europe.
Rethinking the Distribution Ecosystem
Given the breadth of what it takes to operate a successful distribution strategy in the UCITS space, an associated ecosystem clearly exists and success across its component parts is necessary to provide managers with the best opportunity to sell their product. This ecosystem caters to a vast array of roles and responsibilities, from the product creation, to sending out transactional contract notes to investors and making sure that money gets moved.
With this in mind, fund managers should constantly be reviewing the different partners, be they internal teams, or external service providers, who currently play a role for them in any aspect that touches on distribution. Many years ago, asset managers were more comfortable owning all of these roles and responsibilities themselves, but we've evolved to the point where the vast majority are happy to have third parties working with them. There are about a dozen different roles in the distribution ecosystem that continue to grow in their importance in helping managers be successful in their asset raising endeavors.
Looking at some of these roles, one that stands out is the KYD, or 'know your distributor' component. The concept of KYD has come to the fore in the last few years where the UCITS board is more than ever expected to display a more hands on knowledge of their distribution network. Showing that they understand their distribution footprint, who is distributing their funds for them, how they're doing anti-money laundering checks and how are they performing know-your-customer checks is now part and parcel of a proper KYD undertaking.
While some fund managers continue to own the KYD process in house, we see more and more fund managers engaged with third parties to operate that due diligence process on the distributors. For example, if you have 100 distributors working with you across various distribution channels you will have to do due diligence on each of them. This takes time and effort, with very little efficiencies available. Engaging a KYD third party firm to help in this space has proven hugely beneficial for many managers.
Given that it's very often the same institutional investors that most fund managers target across the world, if you were to engage with a KYD firm it's likely they've already done the due diligence on 90% of those already for other fund managers. So right away, you've got 90% of your due diligence done. For those remaining 10% they'll happily complete the KYD process for you because they'll get further payment from you and have a greater distributor reach for all existing and new clients of theirs. With such a win-win business model, it's not surprising that we're seeing managers gravitate more and more to these external providers.
Other partners we see fund managers engage with are fund data providers, often used in the distribution of prospectuses, KIID documents, or sending out the NAVs. Given that investors continue to expect more data from fund managers, there is a need to consider who is to perform these key functions? As some of these data providers extend their own offerings, an increasing amount of managers are consolidating more investor related information dissemination with fewer partners.
Finally, another part of the distribution ecosystem we're seeing interest growing in is the use of third-party marketeers. Whether it's for assistance in penetrating new markets or to increase brand awareness in existing markets the use of third-party marketeers can make perfect sense to a fund manager. Yes, there's some heavy lifting at the start of the relationship in gaining product knowledge, aligning culture and indeed agreeing on target investors and distribution channels, but managers continue to utilize these service providers across much of Europe.
Killian Lonergan is in the Market Intelligence team at BBH
In a series of upcoming video interviews, the Market Intelligence team will introduce an 'Exchange of ideas' series with service providers in the cross-border distribution ecosystem to share insights on how fund managers can navigate the new rules and best sell their product.
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1 https://www.efama.org/index.php/newsroom/news/monthly-statistics-may-2021-net-assets-ucits-and-aifs-reach-eur-20-trillion-first
2 https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ck0bec5tyeu050b59qnrcmmad/new-eu-cross-border-fund-distribution-rules
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Famous Faces and Influential People of Preston
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Posted by Jack Robert-Connor
The city of Preston is steeped in history and character. And it's no surprise that the city has seen its fair share of influential figures.
So, we thought we'd take a look at some of the most memorable people to have been born in or to have lived in Preston over the years.
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Nick Park is the creator and animator of children's classic Wallace & Gromit. Born in Preston, Park grew up on the Greenlands Estate.
Pursuing his childhood love for film-making, Nick Park's wit, talent and artistic flair took him from success to success. The Wallace and Gromit film series has won three Oscars, while Chicken Run remains the highest-grossing stop-motion animated movie ever made, making a whopping £84,336,223.
Sir Tom Finney
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Born in Preston, Sir Tom Finney played for Preston North End throughout his entire career – making 433 appearances and scoring 187 goals. Finney also played 76 times for England, scoring 30 goals and was renowned for his sportsmanship.
Best loved as 'The Preston Plumber' to his fans, Finney didn't stray far from his humble beginnings, continuing his plumbing business while playing. And, as recently as 2019, The Shankly Hotel in Preston is sponsoring The Sir Tom Finney Soccer Centre.
founding fathers of the United States, Franklin lived in Preston city centre for short period.
Today, a blue plaque on Orchard Street pays tribute to Franklin. He is best remembered as an abolitionist who wrote numerous essays on why slavery must be abolished.
Dick Kerr's Ladies
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The women in Dick Kerr's Ladies F.C are certainly some of the most influential figures of Preston's past. Boldly taking to the pitch, this was one of the earliest women's teams in England.
Most notably, the team came out on top in front of 25,000 people while defeating a French side 2-0 in 1920. The memorable match made history as the first international women's match. The team had formed during World War 1. Dick, Kerr & Co. had joined a company in 1914 while helping to produce ammunition for the war.
The hardworking ladies were given permission to play as many believed that competitive activities would boost morale and aid production. England's Lionesses have a lot to thank Dick Kerr's Ladies for.
Leo Baxendale
1976. Leo Baxendale receives the Ally Sloper Award at "Comics 101" from Bob Monkhouse and Denis Gifford. pic.twitter.com/SC9jmAdt6b
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One of Preston's most successful famous faces, Leo Baxendale was educated at Preston Catholic College. His first job as an artist was for the Lancashire Evening Post where he created cartoons and adverts.
The talented artist went on to create many of the most iconic characters of children's comics. He introduced Little Plum, Minnie the Minx and the Bash Street Kids in The Beano.
During the 1950s, Baxendale offered children hilariously imaginative escapism during a period of a strict education system and conformist social norms.
Recognised in the British Comic Awards Hall of Fame, Baxendale was said to have had an "incalculable" influence on children and upcoming comic artists.
Freddie Flintoff
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Preston born cricket star and broadcaster Freddie Flintoff played primarily for Lancashire serving as fast bowler, middle order batsman and slip fielder.
An all rounder with undeniable talent, Flintoff went on to become England's "Man of the Series" during the 2005 Ashes.
The cricket superstar also served as captain and vice-captain for England, yet regular injuries took a toll on his career. His retirement from cricket was announced in 2010 yet he played for Lancashire again in May 2014.
Since then, his career has changed direction. Fans are now able to enjoy his expertise and personality as a TV panellist and presenter and new host of Top Gear.
John Inman
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Born Frederick John Inman in 1935, the Prestonian actor and singer was best know for his role as Mr. Humphries in 'Are You Being Served.'
Inman was born in Preston and lived here until he was 12, before moving 17 miles up the road to Blackpool.
The Preston born actor played the Mr. Humphries character in the sitcom from 1972-1985. This infamous role made him a household name and won him multiple awards, including BBC TV Personality of the Year.
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Q: Case insensitivity option in complete.ly It would be great to be able pass a caseSensitive option on the function call. By default it could be set to true (the current setup), but you could pass {caseSensitive: false} as the option param and it will return results in a case insensitive way.
I think this is something many users would find useful?
My use case is:

I have a list of properties that are in upper and lower case. I want the hint list itself to remain this way and if a user begins typing 'uhi', 'Uhi' or 'UHI', it would show hint results containing 'Uhi Property'.

I don't necessarily want it to alter the hint list to lowercase and is a bit messy for users to create code in the onChange event. Would be great if this was a standard option. :)
The Draw a Robot example on the complete.ly site (see: http://complete-ly.appspot.com/examples/draw.a.robot.html ) is the closest example here as it converts input & hint text to lower case but doesn't cover the above really as options list isn't lower case to begin with (Uhi Property) plus we don't especially want to convert the hint list to lower case either.
Thoughts appreciated.

A: using match will do the job:
var string1 = "aBc";
var match = string1.match(/AbC/i);

if(match) {
}

where the 'i' stands for case insensitive

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Off to a bunch of goals for this year, the first being to get into a blogging habit.  I'm going to try to take on projects I can write about here.  For my first, I've launched a post today on recovering a harddrive from a Seagate Central NAS.  Little bits of linux work,but a nice small project that I thought should be written up.

My holiday projects have been turning up well.  Did a bunch of coding in Swift in preparation to relaunch Library List.  Also looking to build up some additional Android chops this year.  I wrote up my Elasticsearch/Nginx/Oauth project, and I got a bit more work done on that to start capturing production data.

I have a few days left, I'm going to try and get some interesting coding before I have to get back to work projects, but I hope to post at least a project a quarter as the year goes on.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped a day of mostly listless trading with a mixed finish Monday as gains in industrial companies, banks and energy stocks outweighed losses elsewhere.
A surge in sales at Tim Hortons helped lift quarterly earnings for parent company Restaurant Brands. The company, which also operates Burger King, posted quarterly profit that topped Wall Street's forecasts. The stock added 2.1 percent.
Tesla got a boost from Canaccord analysts, who upgraded the stock from "Hold" to "Buy." The analysts noted that results for the last two quarters and the electric car maker's outlook have removed "significant concerns" about the production and profitability of the Model 3, the company's car designed for the mass market.
Meanwhile, LMC Automotive estimated that the Model 3 was the top-selling luxury car in the U.S. last year, outselling the Lexus ES by more than two to one. Shares in Tesla gained 2.3 percent.
The Mexican-food chain is still rehabilitating its image years after a series of food-borne illnesses scared away customers and drove sales lower. Chipotle shares rose 3.5 percent.
Loews' latest quarterly results put investors in a selling mood.
The commercial insurer tumbled 6.1 percent after it booked a fourth-quarter loss due to higher catastrophe losses.
Activision Blizzard shares sank 7.6 percent following a Bloomberg report saying the video game company plans to announce layoffs on Tuesday, when it's scheduled to report quarterly results. The report, which Bloomberg posted late Friday, cited unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Shares in rivals Take-Two Interactive and Electronic Arts took a beating last week after the companies gave investors a weak outlook for the current quarter.
On Monday, Take-Two slid 3.8 percent. Electronic Arts, which recovered Friday on strong sales of a new game, declined 0.4 percent.
U.S. benchmark crude fell 0.6 percent to settle at $52.41 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, the standard for international oil prices, dropped 1 percent to close at $61.51 per barrel in London.
Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.65 percent from 2.63 percent late Friday.
The dollar rose to 110.40 yen from 109.77 yen on Friday. The euro weakened to $1.1276 from $1.1324.
Gold fell 0.5 percent to $1,311.90 an ounce. Silver lost 0.8 percent to $15.69 an ounce. Copper dropped 0.7 percent to $2.79 a pound.
In other energy futures trading, wholesale gasoline slid 1.9 percent to $1.42 a gallon. Heating oil declined 0.8 percent to $1.89 a gallon. Natural gas rose 2.3 percent to $2.64 per 1,000 cubic feet.


In some instances, your fiance may want for you to be involved with every step along the procedure, down to what type of flowers, what color flowers, and how many. In many instances, it may seem to be a bride cares more about the specifics of her marriage than the wedding itself, but it doesn't mean you do not need to be involved in the wedding planning procedure. These words which he said simply signify that he's trying to find women with the qualities that maybe or most probably you don't have. Men just do not think the exact way as women. They are definitely the most fickle minded human being on earth once it comes to women. There are a couple things you may attempt to keep the peace in this period of time. We take those to heart every year and make thoughtful modifications to the design.
There's a calendar for everybody. To start with, he doesn't like to continue to keep his schedule very full in any respect. Although I want to maintain a schedule like Buffett, where I can spend the majority of my time reading, it's not really possible at the present time. If you don't need to participate in each step of the procedure, you want to produce this clear, but you might have to to be somewhat involved, if you don't wish to go married in a pink tux. Everybody wants to have a great and lovely relationship and men are the same. This often results in stress and guilt, which could spiral into more bad feelings, and not as much action.


As a professor of complex constitutional and statutory law issues, I'm not used to having people answer my questions in one word!
On June 23, 2016, in a nine-word order [PDF] with no concurrences or dissents, the justices affirmed "by an equally divided court" a lower-court preliminary injunction [PDF] barring implementation of DAPA's immigration relief. In splitting four-four, the court left a host of complicated, important and deeply troubling questions on the table. Unless the justices take the unusual step of granting the administration's request [PDF] that the case be held for rehearing when the court has nine members, it remains unclear when or if these issues will make a return Supreme Court appearance. In the final analysis, then, the enduring legacy of the DAPA dispute could be its graphic reminder of how the dynamics and timing of federal litigation interact and sometimes clash with the quite different dynamics and timing of American politics.
To recap matters: The Supreme Court was the administration's only hope for un-stalling the high-profile and highly controversial DAPA program — the 2014 Department of Homeland Security "Guidance Memo" offering "deferred legal status" (i.e., three years of freedom from deportation, with potential eligibility to work and eventually receive social-security benefits) to millions of undocumented aliens who are the parents or children of the "dreamers" offered deferred status in the prior DACA program (itself not under a legal cloud). A federal district judge located near the Texas border found DAPA invalid on administrative-procedural grounds; the court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against DAPA implementation. On appeal, a divided 5th Circuit panel affirmed the ruling and injunction, adding that DAPA was also illegal on statutory-authority grounds.
In granting review in January, the Supreme Court upped the ante by adding an oral-argument question [PDF] going to the heart of the president's constitutional authority. Also suggesting that the court seemed poised to render a major decision were the numerous amicus briefs filed by high-ranking state and federal officials, the longer-than-usual oral-argument time the court scheduled, and the appearance during the argument of counsel representing the House of Representatives.
Yet, all that ultimately came to naught — in one of several split decisions in the aftermath of Justice Scalia's death and the Senate's failure to act on President Obama's nominee to replace Scalia.
The Constitutional Dimension: The DAPA Dispute could have contributed deeply and broadly to modern understandings of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law. To start at the top, the dispute raised core constitutional questions about reconciling the president's constitutional authority to prioritize law enforcement with the Congress' power to define legal statuses. These questions didn't predominate in the April 18, 2016 oral argument. But constitutional clouds brooded over the entire enterprise. And they occasionally touched down in multi-question exchanges, such as one between Justice Sotomayor and Texas' legal advocate over whether Congress had acquiesced in previous similar exercises of presidential power to defer deportation of unlawfully present aliens.
Whether a president is acting with Congress's implicit permission, or is instead making and executing his own policy, matters greatly under pragmatic approaches to separation-of-powers doctrines dating back to the 1950's challenge to President Truman's seizure of steel mills during the Korean War — and used to decide questions of modern presidential authority, such as those surrounding President Carter's foreign-claims-settlement actions to resolve the late-1970's Iranian hostage crisis. Enlightenment from the DAPA Dispute about how to judge the meaning of Congress' actions and non-actions in the immigration area could have contributed more generally to understandings about how to draw the power lines between the president and Congress.
Finally, the justices were poised to clarify a range of specific, but potentially important questions about the reach and meaning of federal laws in the areas of immigration and government benefits.
But, of course, none of this clarifying happened.
In the normal course of federal litigation, the many interesting and troubling questions raised by the DAPA dispute could return to the Supreme Court at a later date. After all, the lower-court DAPA rulings ordered and affirmed a preliminary injunction based on the challengers' predicted likelihood of ultimate success. In many cases, after district-court trial and final orders and a circuit-level appeal, the parties can again petition for Supreme Court review.
But the political timing and dynamics of the DAPA dispute are anything but "normal." Put to one side the fact that Congress' political stalemate over comprehensive immigration reform led the administration to search for non-legislative options in the first place. Still, there's the reality that we are at the end of the administration championing DAPA as the way to afford relief to millions of undocumented aliens who have lived for decades in the shadows of American law and society.
A Trump administration would certainly rescind the DAPA Guidance. And although Democratic nominee Clinton has expressed support for the Obama administration's immigration initiatives, legal officials in her new administration might find it advisable to revise the DAPA approach in light of the legal objections surfaced to date.
Thus, although the DAPA Dispute has immediate and heart-felt implications for millions of individuals and their families, DAPA's enduring legal legacy is likely to be as a prominent example of how political dynamics and timing intersect awkwardly with their legal counterparts.
Glenn C. Smith is a professor of Constitutional Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego. He is the co-author of CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR DUMMIES, a Dummies™-brand guide for law students, legal practitioners and interested laypersons.
Suggested citation: Glenn C. Smith, The DAPA Non-Decision: The Meaning of Missed Opportunities, http://jurist.org/forum/2016/08/glenn-smith-dapa-decision.php.
This article was prepared for publication by Dave Rodkey, an Assistant Editor for JURIST Commentary service. Please direct any questions or comments to him at commentary@jurist.org.


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houses, which were written by different authors very near the time that Jesus Christ suffered death, which all agree in proof of the fact of the resurrection of Christ. The four Evangelists were written as histories of the life, preaching, miracles, persecutions, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Acts of the Apostles contains a history, founded on the fact of the resurrection, of the preaching, travels, miracles and persecutions of the Apostles who published abroad to the world the Gospel of Christ. Those books were, in very early times, translated into different languages, have ever been considered, since they were written, as containing a just and faithful account of the facts which they relate, they have been written and commented on by a vast number of authors in every century since, and are quoted as undoubted authority by more authors than any other books in the world. These books also contain an account of the insti. tutions of certain ordinances which have been practised from the time of their institution until now, and the Gospel according to those authors, is believed by many nations, of many languages, (that is the Gospel is believed to be divine.) The sacrament of the Lord's supper is a standing evidence of the truth of the thing of which it was instituted as a celebration. Besides those books there are a number of epistles, written by the Apostles of Jesus Christ, which in a very masterly manner set forth the doctrine of the Gospel, founded on the fact of the resurrection, which contains the purest religion ever propagated among men, teaching mankind to deny every species of ungodliness and all hurtful lusts, to live sober, Godly lives, to exercise love and charity towards all mankind, not excepting our enemies. This religion teaches us the will and purpose of our Creator in cleansing the world from all sin and of delivering it from all consequent evil, and finally of perfecting its most bittter enemies, in a divine knowledge of its principles and in reconciliation to holiness.
There are likewise the writings of Moses, which are the most ancient in the world, which bear the marks of credibility, the writings of Hebrew historians and Prophets which all agree in directing our minds to the person, ministry and offices of Jesus Christ. These writings are kept in the hands of the Jews, who accordingly as those Prophets foretold, rejected their expected Messiah,
and have ever held Moses as their prophet, in expectation that God would send them another leader. These books having been kept and held sacred by the Jews, is present positive proof that they were not written by Christians, since the Chris6th. The hope of life and immortality inspired by the Gospel is one of the greatest blessings, and in fact the greatest, with which our race of beings have been favoured. There is not a sincere believer in the gospel in the world, but would be willing to part with every other enjoyment in this world, rather than to part with this. The most wretched, poor, miserable, despised of all mankind, speaking in relation to what we call earthly things and circumstances, will break out in songs of joy and gladness, with praise and thanksgiving to God, the moment they release the hope of the gospel. It appears reasonable to conclude that a fact on which such a glorious fabric is built must be something more than a mere fraud.
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It is sometimes said, though it cannot with propriety be stated as an objection to the resurrection, that the thing is incomprehensible and therefore is not entitled to belief. But this is reasoning as much to the expence of every principle in natural philosophy, as to those of the gospel, or even the particular of the resurrection. There is nothing of which we have a perfect comprehension of all its relations. We cannot comprehend how man first came into being, yet we are capable of demon-' strating to our understandings, by the the order of propagating our species, that there must have existed a man and a woman who had not a natural farher and mother as we all have. know to our full satisfaction, that there never was a house built of timber, brick or stone, but of such timber which was once growing in the tree, before it was converted into a house ; or of such brick as was formed of clay or earth before it was converted into a building; or of such stone which lay in its natural quarry before it was erected into an edifice by art. As well as we know these self evident facts, so well we know there was a time when there were no such buildings on earth.
By such refutations our minds are carried back to events which are as mysterious to us as the resurrection of Christ or of any other deceased person. Therefore the incomprehensibility of a thing stated to be true, is no argument that it is not true.
The foregoing observations in regard to the evidences which the Apostles had, and we at this day are in possession of by which we belive in Christ, are by no means considered as a formal dissertation on a subject of such magnitude but they are here inserted only as a few of the numerous arguments in favour of the fact of which an opinion was to be illustrated from the scriptures. And this, though not contemplated at the be
ginning of this subject, was thought proper to accompany the illustration, which we will now pursue a little further, The whole of the 15th chapter in Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians seems to have been designed to confirm and establish the Corithians in the belief of the resurrection. He first states the truth of the gospel which he had before preached to them, which they had received and wherein they stood, and by which they were saved unless they had belived in vain. He then reminds them of the manner in which he began to preach among them. " For I delivered unto you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures; and that he was burried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the scriptures." Note, the scriptures to which the Apostle here alludes, must be those of Moses and the Prophets, as the scriptures of the New Testament were not at that time compiled into a book. He goes on, " And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve : After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once ; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep." Here St. Paul gave his enemies as fair an opportunity to detect him, as was possible, admitting Christ did not rise from the dead. No body but a mad man would make such a statement knowing it to be false. He still goes on.
" After that he was seen of James then of all the Apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time."
He then states the low opinion which he entertained of himself on account of having persecuted the church of God, and then proceeds to reprove some among them for saying that there was no resurrection of the dead.
In this reproof he writes this remarkable passage, " But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God : because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." This passage fully accords with what has been before stated, that the resurrection of Christ Jesus is a fact on which the truth of the Gospel rests. It shows also that the Apostle was not only sensible that he was acting the part of a false witness on the supposition that Christ was not risen from the dead, but that he was ready and willing to be put to the test of his honesty and veracity, as an evidence, or a witness in this case. He had just before, as has been noticed, informed the Corinthians that Christ was seen of more than five hundred brethren at once, after his resurrection, of which number of witnesses the greater part were then alive. But it is worthy of observation that the truth of the resurrection did not, by any means, wholly depend on the testimony of those who were eye witnesses of the fact, for its
support and confirmation in the minds of others, for if that had been the case the people must have had to depend on human testimony, but it is evident that this was not the case. At Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost, Peter preached to a multitude of people the resurrection of Christ, and adduced the testimony of David, in whom the Jews put great confidence, to show that the resurrection is the fulfilment of his prophecy ; but there was such an additional manifestation of divine agency on that occasion, that no mention was made of the veracity of Peter, but those who'heard, being Jews devout men out of every nation under heaven, marvelled that they heard every man in his own tongue wherein he was born. The happy result of this day's preaching was the addition of about three thousand believers in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to the Church.
This first of miracles, wrought for the purpose of accompanying the testimony of the Apostles with divine evidence of the resurrection, is here noticed that the reader may, from this instance, trace the wonderful works of God which attended the Apostles ministering in confirmation of their testimony in evidence of the resurrection.
There may be queries, rather of a speculative kind, in some minds, respecting the bodies which we shall have in the coming world, and the Apostle in the 15th of Corinthians, may not be perfectly understood as to that point, but there can be no question about the ultimatum at which he directed his argument, and that, to us, is all which ought to be considered important. He shows the order of the divine economy as it is written. " The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. The first man is of the earth, earthly, the second man is the lord from heaven. As is the earthly, such are they also shat are earthly, and is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." He likewise shows in as plain a manner as possible that this resurrection into the image of the heavenly man, would be as universal as the dearth in the earthly man.
For this purpose he speaks of Christ as the first fruits of them that slept.
" For since by man came death, by man came also the
resurrection of thc dead. For as in Adam all die, Even so in Christ shall all be inade alive." That this Apostle believed that there is immediate enjoyment after death in the presence of Christ, seems to be shown by his words to the Philippians see chap. i. 23.
" For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better." This is evidently the greatest excellency of the gospel. It gives the soul of the believer victory over death, and presents, to the eye of faith, the blessed society of Jesus the brightness of the father's glory, pro,nising to the weary sin-sick traveller final sanctification through the blood of the everlasting covenant. With great propriety did St. Peter call this faith PRECIOUS. to call the most valuable things of this world precious, how much more shall that be called precious without which the present life is a barren wilderness, and which promises immortal life and riches in the world to come? If people in general were not blind to their own interest, would they not be daily seeking after those things which are laid up for them who love him, who is the giver of every good and perfect gift ?
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OF THE SECOND DEATH. The second death, spoken of in several passages in revelations, has been generally understood to signify a state of never-ending misery in the coming world ; where far the greatest part of mankind will experience the pain of positive torment with every possible aggravation, as long as God exists, as a just reward for the sins they have conmitted in this life. This sentiment is supposed to be held forth and vindicated by the general tenor of scripture where it treats on the subject of puuishment for sin, or of rewarding mankind according to their works.
For some considerable time past this sentiment has been doubted, by many in this country, as it has by some perhaps in the most of Christian countries ever since the days of the Apostles. However, even among those who have been fully satisfied, from the general tenor of scripture, that the opinion of the endless misery of God's rational offspring is not a truth which the wisdom of God saw fit to incorporate in the body of divine revelation, there are many who are still so much under the influence of traditional sentiments and notions, that when they read of the second death they hardly know in what light to view it.
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