Outside Number 33, Stonegate in the city of York sits the devil. Something of a tourist attraction, he is well photographed and admired. He is also well looked after judging by the brightness of the paint.
The Authorised Version renders Ephesians 4:27 as Neither give place to the devil and the NIV as Do not give the devil a foothold.
Returning to Burnley bus station after visiting some members’ home, I took a short cut through the houses and stumbled across Burnley’s Salvation Army Corps. The Skipton bus was departing in ten minutes’ time, so barely had I time to take my photographs and then my leave.
‘Quarterly gules and in the first and fourth quarters a cross potent argent’. This is the description of the Crosse family's coat of arms, who lived in Wigan, Liverpool and Lathom in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, from whom I descend. Heraldry enjoys its own peculiar and arcane language, for which translation is called:
‘Gules’ means red.
'Argent’ means silver.
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Salem Chapel, Martin Top
near Rimington, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 4EG
Salem Congregational Chapel is a registered charity No. 252401 (England & Wales)
Sunday Worship 10.45am & 6.00pm