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Letter from the Editor

As ever in September my diary for the winter starts tofill up and turn into the kind of timetable that takesthree colours of highlighter pens to keep me

organised and ending up everywhere Im meant to be onschedule! But even though I start to wonder if Ill get a chance todraw breath before the end of the pantomime season in January,its exciting too.

It does mean Im in organising mode at the momentall of myChristmas shopping has been done and wrapped and the cardshave been written, and are now in a box on top of my wardrobeso I dont have to think about them until December. With less

chores to do while Im busy, my premium free time can be spenton people instead of things.

However, its not all workI shallbe off on my travels as well,catching up with people anddoing some less run of the millactivities. Mine is a family ofautumn birthdays (except for me!)

so itll be a fun season as well asa busy one. Plenty to look for-ward to!

Keeping up with the season andthe theme of the last few editions,there only seemed to be onepossible choice of film poster toillustrate this with!

Eleanor ickenson

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Lets get together

I've noticed how enjoyable the hour orso we spend chatting after the service is

so I' d like to suggest that we have

lunch together after the service once amonth.

What about the first Sunday of each

month? Instead of one person havingto arrange and cook everything why

dont we make it a 'pot-luck' bring and share picnic lunch we allbring something to share, it doesnt have to be anything extravagant

or difficult; some bread and cheese perhaps, some fruit, or somethingfor pudding. I know that some people wont have time to bring

anything and thats fine tooeveryone is just as welcome. Therewill be plenty and I will provide a little extra just in case. We can

view September as a trial run; after all what have we got to lose? Ifwe find it is a dazzling success we'll be able to do the same thing on

Harvest Festival 5thof October.

Another idea I've been talking about with a few folk is taking anouting together. We could go on the train maybe? Perhaps

somewhere in the countryside nearby or in the Dales and have lunch.

Any further ideas on this gratefully received.

Jo James

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Heritage Open Weekend

Mill Hill Chapel will be open 10-4 on Saturday September 13th

Full details at www.heritageopendays.org.uk

Other places in Leeds you can visit include:

Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House

The City Varieties Music Hall

The Hyde Park Picture House

The Leeds Library

Railway Roundhouse & Complex, Wellington Road

Beckett Street Cemetery

The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Fulneck Moravian Settlement

Gotts Park Mansion

Headingley Carnegie Stadium

Leeds Civic Hall

Makkah Masjid Mosque, Thornville Road

The M&S Company Archive, Clarendon Road

Quebecs Hotel

Rawdon Quaker Meeting House

St Agnes United Church, Burmantofts

St John the Evangelists Church, New Briggate

St Lukes Lutheran Church, Headingley

St Bartholomews Church, Armley

The Bath House, Gledhow Valley Road

The Queens Hotel

United Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Shadwell Lane

The Leeds Club, Albion Place

Temple Works, Holbeck

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The Summer Day

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

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20-million-year-old grasshopper named after David Attenborough

A 20 million year old grasshopper which wasfound trapped in amber has been named afterSir David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough has said he is tickled

pink after a 20 million year old grasshopperdiscovered trapped in amber was named after

him.

The University of Illinois has been studying a

collection of amber discovered in theDominican Republic 50 years ago.

They have found dozens of new flies, stingless bees, midges, ants, wasps, bark beetles,

mites and spiders which have been frozen in time, and provide a fascinatingevolutionary snapshot.

The pygmy grasshopper named Electrotettix attenboroughi which translates asAttenbourghs amber grasshopper - is particularly interesting as it shows the point

where the creature was losing its wings.

"Grasshoppers are very rare in amber and this specimen is extraordinarilywell-preserved," said Sam Heads, a palaeontologist at the University of Illinois.

"Sir David has a personal interest in amber, and also he was one of my childhoodheroes and still is one of my heroes and so I decided to name the species in hishonour.

"Fossil insects can provide lots of insight into the evolution of specific traits andbehaviours, and they also tell us about the history of the time period.

They're a tremendous resource for understanding the ancient world, ancientecosystems and the ancient climate -better even, perhaps, than dinosaur bones."

Sir David said: Its the nicest compliment you can receive from a naturalist. Im

tickled pink.

The process of screening the amber is slow and painstaking. Much of the amber is

clouded with oxidation, and theresearchers must carefully cut and polish

"windows" in it to get a good look atwhat's inside.

The discovery is reported in the journal

ZooKeys.

By Sarah KnaptonWriting in the Telegraph Science News

30 July 2014

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the people and their livestock survived the winter. Offerings of food anddrink, or portions of the crops, were left for the Aos S.

The souls of the dead were also said torevisit their homes. Places were set at the

dinner table or by the fire to welcome them.The belief that the souls of the dead returnhome on one night or day of the year seemsto have ancient origins and is found in manycultures throughout the world. In 19th

century Ireland, "candles would be lit and prayers formally offered for thesouls of the dead. After this the eating, drinking, and games would begin".Throughout the Gaelic and Welsh regions, the household festivitiesincluded rituals and games intended to divine one's future, especially

regarding death and marriage. Nuts and apples were often used in thesedivination rituals. Special bonfires were lit and there were rituals involvingthem. Their flames, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective andcleansing powers, and were also used for divination.

Jack-o'-lanterns are traditionally carried by guisers on All Hallows' Eve inorder to frighten evil spirits. There is a popular Irish Christian folktaleassociated with the jack-o'-lantern, which tells that en route home after anight's drinking, Jack encounters the Devil and tricks him into climbing atree. A quick-thinking Jack etches the sign of the cross into the bark, thus

trapping the Devil. Jack strikes a bargain that Satan can never claim hissoul. After a life of sin, drink, and mendacity, Jack is refused entry toheaven when he dies. Keeping his promise, the Devil refuses to let Jackinto hell and throws a live coal straight from the fires of hell at him. It was acold night, so Jack places the coal in a hollowed out turnip to stop it fromgoing out, since which time Jack and his lantern have been roaminglooking for a place to rest.

In Ireland and Scotland, the turnip has traditionally been carved duringHalloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin,which is both much softer and much larger making it easier to carve thana turnip. Subsequently, the mass marketing of various size pumpkins inautumn, in both the corporate andlocal markets, has made pumpkinsuniversally available for this purpose.The American tradition of carvingpumpkins is recorded in 1837 andwas originally associated with harvesttime in general, not becoming

specifically associated with Halloweenuntil the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Chapel Management Committee Susan Coggan

Chapel Management Committee meetings will be on:

Wednesday 17th September and Wednesday 15th October

ANTHEMS DURING SEPTEMBER 2014

Sept 7th:Lead me, Lord - S. S. Wesley

Sept 14th: The heavens declare the Creators glory - Ludwigvan Beethoven

Sept 21st: Sanctus (from German Mass, 1826) - Franz SchubertSept 28th: Quest of the ages - Dieterich Buxtehude

ANTHEMS DURING OCTOBER 2014

Oct 5th (Harvest Festival):Fear not, O land - Edward ElgarOct 12th: The Lord is my shepherd - Howard Goodall

Oct 19th: O come, ye servants of the Lord - Christopher TyeOct 26th: Cantate Domino - Giuseppe Pitoni

Flowers

lowers

Welcomers

elcomers

for September

or September

October 2014

October 2014

Sept 7th: In memory of George & Hilda Warhurst,Phillis & Eric Roy Coggan

Sept 14th: Anniversary flowers for Mr & Mrs Brian Rollinson

Roy Perry

Hunslet Memorial Flowers: Anniversary flowers forMr & Mrs Brian Rollinson Susan Coggan

Sept 21st: In memory of Donald, Elizabeth, Jim &Moira Currer Briggs Roy Perry

Sept 28th: Flower Fund Roy Coggan

Oct 5th: In memory of Frances Mary & John Arthur Lucas& John & Elizabeth Hall Roy Coggan

Oct 12th: In memory of Dorothy & Terence Boyle Roy Perry

Oct 19th: Flower Fund Susan Coggan

Oct 26th: Flower Fund Roy Perry

If anyone would like to make a donation to provide flowers in memory of a loved

one, to celebrate anniversaries or remember a birthday, then please contactJoanPerry orSusan Coggan (Flower Secretary). A few dates in the calendar are stillavailable . . . . .

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Facilities Manager / LettingsMalcolm Clarke Chapel (0113) 243 3845

Chairman of the Congregation

Director of Music Anthony Norcliffe Home (01274) 637 535

The Record Editor Eleanor Dickenson Mobile (0773) 631 7215Email millhillrecord@gmail.com

@millhillchapel

CONFLICTor UNITY?

There is no greater cause of conflict in our world todaythan the diversity of race, religion, culture and creed.Israel, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Russia, Spain, Africa,

India, Indonesia and elsewhere : this is fundamentally the case. Yetwhether we are Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Bahai or a

member of any other religious faith, we share the same universe; thesame planet Earth; the same environment; the same human biology andthe same evolutionary process of nature. Clearly then, without amovement toward greater unity as one world and one people, there will beno peace.

Leeds is a modern city, which incorporates people from a variety of

cultural and religious backgrounds. Their children sit alongside each otherin schools, and lie alongside each other in hospitals. Yet the traditions ofprevious generations present obstacles and barriers to the natural andnecessary integration of modern-day communities. It is now imperativethat human beings everywhere embrace a vision of the oneness of Godand of Humankind. Peace and harmony for future generations dependsdirectly upon the success of this challenge. Of course, such unity will notcome easily or overnight, and there will be many objections along the way.Nevertheless an attempt must be made, and where better to begin by way

of example to the world, than in our fine city of Leeds?

This matter will not go away, and it is of little use hiding in ourSynagogues, Temples, Gurdwaras, Mosques and Churches, and thinkingthat we can continue safe in our exclusive, cultural and religious,traditions. As intelligent and responsible adults, we have a duty to our chil-dren and to our world to address the problem now. If you share our vision,or are in sympathy and agreement with our views, then perhaps you wouldlike to make contact with us, and together - whatever our differences - we

might begin to find and establish that vital path to greater unity.