Small wonder - Telegraph When he rowed in the winning eight for the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, John Erskine Clarke might have thought he would never equal the achievement. That was in 1849, but the same energy informed his future life as a parson. The east wall of his church in Derby fell down during a service, so he rebuilt the whole church. His lasting legacy was to launch a parish magazine in 1859, the first of its kind. Like Church of England parishes, covering every inch of the countryside, parish magazines reflect national life. Personalities jostle for space in their pages - a Lynda Snell on falcons or a Christine Barford on baking - and no item is too trivial for notice. News of the demise after 115 years of Haworth parish magazine is seen by some as a straw in the wind. But volunteering is a British virtue, and wherever there's a volunteer, the mag will go on.