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Author Topic: Caledonia you're calling me  (Read 8462 times)

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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
« Reply #75 on: Sun 21 Jun 2020 23:21 »
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The minister, that goodly man,
Exhorts us "Help the poor"
And he himself does what he can:
Comme St Martin de Tours.

And so, to act as he believes,
He kindly gave away
His jacket, also half his sleeves -
One beggar's lucky day.



Not sure whether you interpretation is accurate, but if so the jacket may be somewhere in the picture above. I doubt whether he followed St Martin's example and cut the sleeves off his shirt!  Earlier this week one of our church ladies had a request from Newton Primary School, (which is in the North part of Ayr and includes some areas that are within the 5% most deprived in Scotland)  The school is acting as a hub for distributing clothes, children's books and games etc.  They needed more goods.  The request was passed around by Facebook and other means and got a good response from Alloway folk.  As you will have noted we have a weekly collection for the local foodbank on a Sunday and it was arranged that people could drop goods off for Newton at the same time.  The picture above represents some of the two vanloads that were collected today.
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