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The February 2012 edition of Village Voices is now available

 
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Vice and Immorality Leave Guyhirn Print E-mail

as reported in the "Cambridge Chronicle" 17 June 1854

"The anniversary in connection with the Wesleyan chapel at Guyhirn was celebrated on Sunday last, when sermons were preached to overflowing congregations and liberal collections made.

On Monday the children of the Sabbath School were regaled with tea, after which the teachers, parents and friends partook of the friendly cup, the little chapel being beautifully decorated with flowers for the occasion.

The evening was most agreeably and profitably spent in listening to the recital of pieces of prose and verse by some of the children, and to the addresses of the friends of religious instruction, who had assembled to encourage the teachers in their work of faith and labour of love.

To those who knew the locality a few years since, the moral and social improvement is most striking. Formerly proverbial for vice and immorality, the inhabitants are now distinguished for sobriety and piety, and afford a gratifying example of what, by the Divine blessing, men may do towards working out their own reformation".

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