The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-28 00:00:00

SAO BATHING FATALITY AT WEYMOUTH.
Ti illellST

Was held 011 Monday Damning at the Park Hotel,
before Mr (ill.. Symonds, coroner, an.l • jury.
Having viewed t's body at decemed's I idginge, the
following e idene3 wee taken :
John Pb Sip. said he lived at No. 301, Long Acre,
Neich ills, Birmingham. The deosassd nom. w.th him
from that town to Weymouth on Monday morning
week, the 13th inst., at,d had been stopping here ever
since. They had being lodging to.:eth.r. He I-st saw
deceased alive on Saturday evening betwtso fire and
six o'clock. He left him (witness) at their lodging..
Deceased had partaken of • very hearty tae, bread and
butter, watercress, and cake, an I left home al on for
the purpose of gofer to bathe at Gre.nbilL He had
bathed twice before .t the some apt doting his visit.
He was in s pretty goad state of health, but in
February last bad an attack if rheumatic fever.
He did not come on account of his health, but for
holiday may U. wan a telegraph clerk in the
Central P. • at Birmingham.
Thom.. knight, • by, said be lived et 3, Albert-
etr.et. 0., is urday evening after tee be WA, on the
beach near (1.-renhill. when he saw thceased come
there for the ',typo.e of bathing. He sin him strip
an I get into the water. As soon as be got in be dived,
swam a Ii t e distance, then turned and made for the
shore. He swam about nine or ten yards from the
beach. Alter he heti gone a little way he saw him
sink. He had 114 notice I him struggle before. Its
saw lAm come Up the sewed time, and beard him
" goggle" twice, es* Mos hold up his hands, sad
heard him " ...co." Witness was not far
from hint then, wog dose to the water's • ge.
Witness Mooted for belp,when some fishermen launched
a boat and west 0E A young gentleman ran
down from the top of the beach, gut into the water
and dived and brought him up. He should think he
was only in the water three or four minutes before be
was drowned.
Lawrence Tbornby Leech said that on Saturday
evening be was on the Greenhill Gardena, when he
heard somebody shouting. He at num jumped up,
got over • gate, and ran to the beach, where he saw
some fishermen. Ile thought a child was being
drowned. When he got into the water he dived and
brought up deceased, who was lyieg on his face. He
was directed whereabouts to dive by some men in •
boat. He should think there was about Bft. of water
where he found the deceased, as tia• tide was high.
H. know tt• place, ea be had bathed there 20 minutes
before. The beach shelved very rapidly, and he was
able to plunge in. He couldn't say if the deceased
was dead at the time, but Me body was quite warm.
He did not think the people who were near muld
swim. The body was only • few yards from the shore.
Dr. Moorhead stated be was mat for to go to Green.
hill, and on arrival he found deceased on his right side,
some men keeping him in that position. On making
an examination of him he found there wee CO pulse
either at the wrist or heart. There was some warmth
in the trunk of the body, but not at the extremities.
He, with the 11//asi&DOCI of SM. men, endeavoured to
restore animation, but without 'noose,. He was told
deceased had been ashore half-an-hoar previous to his
arrival. The fact of decttased having bad a hearty
mal before going to blithe would aff et respiration,
and the rheumatic fever from which be bad Bullard
would lay the foundation of heart disease, and then
add to the danger of bathing on • full stomach. H.
did not think he had had cramp. oth-rwise he would
have cried out and M,D13f0,1 to scramble ashore. He
thought death was caused from heart disease, end
persons suffering from that ought not to bathe.
The father of (Nomad said be ld not know hie son
had any heart disease, but he suffered from rheumatic
fever about twelve month, ago.
The Coroner, in summing up, said he did not see
anything to take this case out of the ordinary list of
accidents, but it ought t he a warning to persons not
to bathe after having their meals
The Jury returned • rer lid t of " Accidental Death
from Drowning," and gave their fees to the boy
I Knight. They accorded • hearty vote of thanks to
I Mr. Leech for hi. gallant conduct.

GLOUCESTIM SrHICST CH A PEA SCHOOL
ANNIVERSARY. 1
The anniversary of the Gloucesterstreet Gammen.
tional Sunday School wee celebrated on Sunday last, I
when the children sang peels' and appropriate hymn.,
wird r the lea lerehip of Mr. H. J. Rogers, who pre-
Wed at the organ.
The Rev. J. Woof) occapied the pulpit, and took
for his ter in the evening Jeremiah lii., 4, ' Wilt thou
not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art
the guile of my youth r ant alto by way of explana-
tion. the weldknown words of the Lord, "Suffer the
little childr, n to one unto Me, and forbid them not,
for of such is the Kingdom of ." Hs had. be
said, chosen that text because he mental to 'peak to
the y wig peoole. He did not know whether that
wool I be • die app ,intment to the older ones of the
congregation or not, but fr the present he would mk
them to fancy th motives all little one*, and to bear,
as far as possible, for thernselvee in that condition.
But be rather thought that there need not be any pre.
paration by way of apology for hie bikini that mouse,
because he generally found that w ,rde fitted for the
young people were perhaps more appreciated than
those which had been prepared for persons i,f maturer
year.. Our Lord himself onderstood this, and he put
Ms seal to a cocoliti ro 1.1 chines that th-y all ought to
recognise, namely that simplicity, humility, and little-
De.' in their eetimetion were the characteristic,' which
were necemary for higher position in th- Kingdom of the
Lord. He did not ask little ones to become big
people In order to come to Him, hot He lurked the
big on.. to become little ones, for "unless you
become as little children you 0411 in no wise inherit
the Kingdom f H-aven " "For of snob is the King-
dom of lie .yen I" A king loot in infants, they
might say, hoe foolish ! was there any power in It?
A kingdom must be feeblenem itself where all its
citizens were children. Yet si it was and the
young ones would anderstswi by those limed, what
power there was in simplicity ant teachableness,
and humbleness in thought a ri feeling, and how
therefore that God could make choice of the weak
things of the world to confound the things which
were mighty. As to the text, if they Fsta the little
i
word "saying" la the middle of it, t WY more
intelligible. " Wilt thou not I r this time cry unto
me, saying, my father, thou art the guide of my
youth." In other words " crying " unto God was
approaching Him as a father, as our Lord taught
in His prayer—praying unto Him. Need be say
what be meant by the word "prayer." It meant
earnest seeking or asking, and that it was not so
much what they raid in prayer, but what it was
behind that made them try to say sometisieg.
' Elder people felt themselves when they tried to pray.
that they "did not know what to pray for as
they ought." and their thought* only came out in
brok,u sentences, f hey did not need to some with
beautiful words in order to pray, but just to pray sa
I the words occurred, and the whole purpose of it wee—
k '• clod, my father, thou art the guide of my youth.'
Yes, s guide. They wanted to go into life with tome-
I one to guide their path. Their fathers and mothers
they had now, but by and by. they would pant away,
I and there was no one who would hays the authority to
take them by the hand as their perente had done, but
"when my feller and my mother forsake me, the Lord
• will take me up." He wooled theen to feel that they
, were In the hands of God to guide th It pith. There
I were around them numerous pitfalls, and when throe
in older years might not be near at band to give them
oouneel, they Lei the counsel of Him who never erred.
I Wr en he looked at the dangers to which a young life
was 'abject, it redinded him of the beautiful words of
• the poet, who in some Ilaes addressed to a babe spoke
thus:
. . . . . . . . .

Thou bright thirr, fre:ti fro.ni th: It of God,
Than dear and laughing babe.
What wilt thou be hareatto
That was • question they could not help &eking them.
selves, whither a child would become good or wicked,
noble or bad, something to be t rood of or ashamed
of. In the first place, he wanted them to take hold of
this truth—that they were low, wl. Their fathers end
their mothers loved them, and s w did everybody
and one reason why they loved Gol was beams he
we' their Father. He was the F.ther of the children,
of the little ones, of them and of him. It was when
they were young they made the dearest demands on
their parents' aff-ctions, feeling. and attentions. If
there we. • sick y or a crippled child in • household
the deformed little one seemed to hays the most care.
as if the parents' hearts would pour out such a burst of
love ep to make the little one forget its affliction. And
so it we. with their heavenly rather, if they were
weekly and rick and especially needy, He came to
them with greater love and would comfort them as a
tender Father. That was just why the Lord Jesus
Christ was so Instinctively known to the little ones,
because of the love Be always had for them when on
earth. If he brought before them a dark, sour-faced
man, they would naturally *brink from him, but at the
mention of Jeans they felt that they could look up into
his face and love Him, is CIIUMI of the life of kindness
he bad shown them. Giving their hearts and affections
to Gid was like going to heaven to them, for when
they felt they were His children they had no strange-
ness or hesitation in regard to Him as "the guide of
their youth." Did they ever think what God bad
given to them in His manifestations in ii hues, and the
revelation of Himself in all things. They Gould
c nicelya it possible for G d to have en arranged to
yowl His nature that instead of speaking to them in
tenderises., gentleness, and kindness, to have visited
them with the thunderbolt, to hare let the hurricane
sweep our earth, and to bays let such thundering
menifest•thns of His avower be seen, as to oars them
ti fear and tremble. But Instead of that He bad given
them gentleness sod beauty all around, it was He th •
bad given tone and variety to there( of the bird, and
beauty in form and colour to the lowers. He
"crowned the year with His goodness," and made the
earth, and sky, and sea foil of grandeur; He had flung
out worlds, and hung them es ramps on high. If their
parents were dying, they would naturally give their
children to the cars of the good rather than the
brilliant and gay. God was gomi is every emergency
of life. He was to them infinitely more than an
earthly parent, and it ahonld be theirs to take Him
down into their hearts and love Him and honour Him.
He amid nt conceive It to hew anything but most
painful to God to see people, His owe children, never
caring for Him or praying to Him. How would they
like to have a child in ther hour who newer spoke to
them or asked a question They might r wsfl have
a dumb animal as snob • child as UAL God had
Placed each of than In Ha honsehokk and 'algid