The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-23 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.

THE DoHarr RIFLII3. —Agreeably to the battalion
orders, a party of this tarps met at the rifle-range on
Monday last. The twelve competitors to shoot for the
St. George's Vase at Wimbledon being those who made
the 12 highest aggregate scores. The ranges were 200,
500, and 6 0 yards, five shots at each range. The re-
sult was as follows:-
200 yds, 500 yds. 600 yds.
Colour Sergt. Meaden • 8 retired 8
Sergt. Davis - • - 15 9 5-29
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„ Groves - . 11 9 2-22
Corporal Hideout • - 17 a 10-35
Groves • - 16 12 12-40
, Furmage • - 14 8 4-26
L &coral Martin • - 9 retired 9
Private Horlock • • 14 i 2-21
„ Bartlett • - 16 3 4-23
„ Payne - • - g 10 7-22
Bugler Hunt - • - 15 13 5-33
Private T. Hunt • - 17 10 11-38
„ Harfoot • - 15 10 4-29
„ G. Nesbitt - • 16 11 10-37
„ Elms - - • 11 9 8-28
„ Richards • • 16 7 11-34
„ Light - • • 9 2 2-13
„ Applin - • • 13 3 7-23
~ King - • • 6 4 0-10
„ Hideout - 7 6 3-16
„ Cook • - • 14 4 5-23
MISSIONARY SOCIETY. —At the evening service in
Blandford Church, on Sunday week, there was a large
congregation. The anthem, "How beautiful upon the
mountains,” was very sweetly sung by the choir. The
Rev. Mr. Lyon again preached an excellent extempore
sermon, taking for his text Isaiah Ivi., part of
7th verse—" My house shall be called the house of
prayer for all people." After showing that the passage ,
was capable of two different readings, namely, that ,
God's house was to be a house of prayer, and that it
was to be such for au 4 people, he proceeded to state
that God's house, or temple, under the Christian dis-
pensation, was the Church of God, composed of true
believers, to which temple all, irrespective of country
or nation, were invited to become a part, and were
made so by the ieficience of the Holy Spirit. The
rumen which had attended the mission cause proved
that the Gospel produced the same sanctifying effects on .
the heart of man as it did in the days of the Apostles,
and that success was also a satisfactory denial to those
who asserted that the mission cause had failed. The
collection after the services amounted to £2O. The
annual meetings took place on the following Monday
afternoon and evening at the Townhall. The afternoon
meeting wee presided over by Sir J. H. D'Oyly, Bart.,
of Stapleton House, and there were also present, the
Rev. Canon Carus, of Winchester Revs. C. J. Glyn,
R. Farquharson, W. H. Lyon E. L Stuart, J. Penny,
R. Watts, J. G. Davis (Dorchester), C. D. Evans, J. R.
Qairk, Phinn (of Critchell), T. D. C. Wickham, J.
Mansfield, and other ministers. The room was well
filled, many of the principal residents of the district
being present. The Rev. J. R. Quirk opened the
proceedings with prayer, after which the Chairman
said it Was with very great pleasure he wooded to a
request from Mr. Quirk to tare the chair on that
occasion, and he was always glad to do anything on
behalf of the glorious society whose intereste they had
met to promote. He then called upon Mr. Quirk to
read the report—The rev, gentleman congratulated the
meeting on the increased interest which was being
shown on behalf of the Church Missionary Society.
Through a mistake in the printed statement which had
been circulated they were not credited with sending
so much to the society as they did. The total amount
was £79 88., being an increase of £lO over the preceding
year. The same might be said of the surrounding
villages. which had raised £2O this year against £l4 the
previous year. One pleasing part of the statement was
the interest manifested by the children in the Sunday
school in the mission cause. Stimulated by the ex-
ample of their teachers, of whom he could speak in
terms of the highest praise for their regular attendance,
the children had materially aided the funds of the
society by their weekly offerings, and he was glad to
say that this year they had made an hoellent beginning,
having collected on the previous day £2O, about 26
more than last year. (Hear, hear ) He trusted that was
an earnest of greater zeal and interest being taken in the
good work.—The Rev. Carr J. Glyn then addressed the
meeting, remarking that be was sure all must have been
highly gratified with the interesting statement jest
read to them, as showing that increased interest was
being taken in the Mission cause. There was an obli-
ration laid upon by several passages in God's word to
be earnest in this work, and when we reflected that there I
were eight hundred millions still living in heathenism,
we ought seriously to inquire whether we did all we
Gould for the cause of missions. Some there might be
who were not able to give money, but he believed it was
not only money, but peraonal services that were required.
The good *amaritan not only bound up the wounds of
the stranger, but took him to an inn, and ordered him
to be taken care of, and those who could not afford to
give could get others interested in the work. He re-
joiced to be present in answer to the rector's kind invita-
tion, and it was a great mercy at the present thne to see
their way clear as regarded missionary work. The rev.
gentleman then referred to the prayer offered that mis-
sion work abroad might stir up the Church to greater
diligence at home, and said that he had no doubt such ,
bad been its effects. Were it not for the annual ser,,
vices and meetings on behalf of missions the Church alk
home would lose much of its interest on behalf of others.,
'`ie then pointed out that the Church Missionary Sociabet,
...; based upon such principles as had stood the test of
opposition, and that the Gospel of Christ in all its ful-
ness and freeness was preached by its missionaries and
agent'. He also referred to the gnomes which had r•
tended their labours in Sierra Leone, India, and
parte of the world, and instanced the ease of the 'leo,
consecrated Bishop Crowther, formerly • slave, sold h.
tabooed, bat now, after being • melees native missionary,
appointed as Bishop of Western Africa, as a proof that
U. black man, as well as the white, wee capable of

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