The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS AN AGRICULTURAL GAZ:

*this lnitl." V. 11," and underneath wee a " Wel-
eemult" worked in lerres. A red ensign bongos one side,
nod a deg with roes: etenclard on the other, and festoons
Of evergreens and timers gracefully depended in either
direction ; the west wall bore the motto*, "Planks to
oar Mende," and tie door and windows were bordered
with tasteful wrests ; at the south end of the room
were a large Union Jack and red ensign, with festoons;
and on the met wt under • circle of cypress was en.
Pressed tke wish "May we all meet again; and under •
monnniental Grose it boa and flowers was the pro.nise,
"Reward follows ciligetwe." The gas arrangements
were gaily trimmed, and adorned with small silk flags.
The whole effect me very tastefully and pleasing, led
the details ppived great site on bin Cooper's part.
The thee were loot 11, Mr. Darden, Mr. Greening, Mr.
Parrniter,itev. T. 4. Palkner, Mr. Hannah,
When the lads poired in and occupied • great part of
the room, the mese wee very lively indeed, their cheer.'
ful countenances thiering bow much they appreciated I
the treat. The tanks has been laid for 180. and about
that number were present. The chair was approprietelr
filled by J. E. Rohm, Req. Mayor, sad there were
also present :—Rev. T. A. Falkner. H irbert Hodges,
Req., A. Cowden. leg., J. Tudor, Esq , Its.. R. G.
Watson, R. Davis, E.g., R. Burnett, E.g.. H. Look, I
EC, • . .1. F. Hodges, jen EN.. Mr. Roe (Wareham),
Mr. G. J. (1. Grelery, Mr. F. Holland, Mr. Jawre
Andrews, Mr. J. Robinson. with the choir of All
Saint.' church, who sang very sweetly and cornett, th,,
old grace before Meat Hon aphis Dolltilbe." The supper
was well arraged by Mr. Woolston, and Mr. Cooper was
solively engaged everywhere. laying himself out with
' great spirit and kindliness in caring for the comfort of
all. and his efforts were eminently suciossaful, enjoy.
I went being at its height.
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At the e-onolusion of the supper, when sesreely" • I
corner more" could be found by the heartiest of the
boys, one might almost have said "The mirth and fun
grew lot and furious," anJ several rounds of applause
w.re given in • genersl way, to mark the satisfaction
of the boy*, and their gratituie to their friends.
The Maroc Hid be did not wish to impose the
least restraint upon their enf.iyment ; he was very
glad to see theta going on with it at st so good • Psuo ;
but he thought we should get on better if they were a
little milder in showing it—(hear.
Orsos after meat was song by the choir of All
/Witt', directed by Mr. Robinson, in • very sweet
and tasteful manner.
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The M•TO;,—add;essiog the company u his good
friends, aaked them to swept a toast -one that was
always received at every gathering of Engllama° both
ill and young—the health of Her Moat Gracious
Majesty the goseen—(cheers). He was quite sure all
were old enough to understand that loyalty is the
great characteristic of an Engliahmen—(hear). It we.
the loyalty of Englishmen that led England to the
high position ale (runniest. Men of loyal conduct are
always open to all thou good feelings that govern
acedety—we have a gracious Queen to govern us, and
the first duty to 'moiety is to be loyal to the
Queen.—The Maior then led off the cheers, whieh
IFOT• repeated over and over again by the boys.—
(National Anthem).

The choir than, asnompanied by Mr. Robinson en the
pianoforte, Sang" Hark ! Apollo strikes the lyre," in
their usual exisellent style.
The MAYOR said he wished to offer a few remarks
with referent» to their meeting to-night. He believed
this wu the third occasion on whiah they had
hadthe pleasure of meeting together, to partake of
what he hoped had beeen an acceptable repast. He
mild arum them that all who took an Interest in
einablishing.thla night-uhool had felt very great pleasure
in the mucus which bad attended their efforts. Thy
had every reason to believe it had been attended with
very great guavas. It had been the means of entend-
ing benefits, not only to those present, out to all those
who had attended in the last three years-(hear). He
bade them all a hearty welcome, speaking in the earn.
of thou who had supported the institution, and all who
had nontributei that evening. As to the result of the
school, he was very glad to be able to announee that
whereas in the first season the number atteadiorr wait
Si. in ton second it was 120, and in pug
130. Of that flUist..r an examination bad been passed
by many w:.ry creditably indeed-such an examination
:01 showed that those who had been the subjects of it
had acquired a good deal of elementary knowledge.
This year the number who had been examined was 96,
and that shiustd souse amount of prolleieney, for it was
obvious that 16 emild not have pulsed out of the num-
ber on the ho.,ks unless they had been well quelifie tln
the different anbiects. With retard to education, thos-
whc unfortunately are unable to obtain even the
smallest degree of edueetion, such as may be confined
to reading and writing, found the want of such a die.
advantage that he noel not observe bow important it
was that young people should have an opportunity of
acquiring it 11.• soon as possible. The subject had
attracted a great deal of attention, and we are about to
have • new ',stein, or an extension of our present
system, which will give every child the means of having
an elementary education. and if every opportunity is
embraced by peewee such as be saw around him. and
by the youth of the country generally, the most
beneficial effects will follow. Fie booed what is
about to be done will not supersede schools of the
present kind-(hear)-and that the effect will be not only
to givean elemeotaryeducetion,but that good religious at
teschine will be oneneeted therewith-(applause). On
that Point be thought there was • great concurrence of
opinion, in this country, althdugh absolutely every one
Might not .glee with Whet he Raid, and that we au
not likele to 300 our system of eduestion disconnected
from roligious feeling-(hBer). All present would agree
that that precious book, the Bible, is the beet that can
be introduced iota the schools of this or any
other kind -(applause). He had little to any except to
congratulate them to-night. There were some golden
words on the wall, " Reward follows diligence," and
he hoped they would all go away impressed with thein.
If there was any doubt that reward does follow diligence,
be might point to the example of men who with
no more opportunitiei than they had, had won high
ptions in the world, by their diligence alone. He
hoped they would all meet again, and that the
school would continue to have the success it had
hitherto attained he wins very glad to find that they
were come there to enjoy themselves at the termination
of their labours during the third elusion of the night
school (applause) -and he hoped they might live to
have many more of such pleuant meetings --(renewed
and longeontlnued cheering).
The choir then sang " in summer's cool shade." the
" re-echoes" being very nicely given indeed, and the
laughing part proving quite infectious to the boys.
The MAYOR nail they had not been seeasimned to
prolong their meetings by many toasts, but there was
one which they were .1 days In the habit of giving. It
was necessary to remind them that in the midst of
enjoyment they felt at seeing each other, there is one
oocesion of deep sorrow. It had pleased God to sillies
the rector of thin parish with a serious illnens. Having
alluded to the interest which the Rev. J. Fisher always
felt in the night school, the Mayor sell he was sure
they would with him most heartily tract and pray that
It might please God to restore Mr. Pi-her to health,
life labours in connection with the school are deserving
of the highest pridee-(applanne), The Mayor also
believed that the school would never have attained to
the efficiency which it had, if it were not for their
worthy friend, Mr. Feltner -(great applases).
The Rev. T. A. FALK:0111, in replying spoke in high
terms of the zeal of the teachers of the night school,
and concluded by proposing the health of the Mayor,
thanking him for presiding and for the interest he took
in the work there.

Mr-. Andrew, pang an Irish ditty, and, being encored,
gave "Work. boys, Work," when the lads heartily
Joined in chorus."
The lIAToIt acknowledged the tontplintent paid him,
and enlarged on the adtant•ges of education, and the
peculiar escallcnalea of night whorls.
Glee, " Hark the curfew," very efficiently sting by
Mr. Robinson's choir.
At this stags of the proceedings, a teetimonid was
preaented to the Examiner, for the peat session. A
youth named Taylor read the following address, • copy
of which wee giv.n to each of them :
" To the Ker. R. H. Watson, and flerbert Hodges. Ewl.
..ointlernen. - We the urider•igned • holes in the Dorchester
Night School. beg your accoptinee ol the smompanying small
present... ,I;ght te kens of our gratitude to you, for the kind
manner in shell, ou have conducted QUI examinations at the
i.e Ithe lov.ent end preceding sessions of our ~hod ; for
shild you oarefulh curled out the Instructions forwarded to
you from Her Majesty Committee of Council on Education,
you did it in such • way as to make • pleasure of what might
other•ise have been • tack, and to make us hope that as long
a. we are scholars in the school, you will continue to be .iur
e xaminer."

W. J. Hutchins.. winhun Cox. Wllllead Damon Samuel
Biamek, Ralph 00110 P, Henry Tarr, John Charles, Robert
We.,itt, Allred Wii erhert Dufall, Henry Hoar'',
Charles Tree, Jaime (Mutter. Edwin Churchill, Charles Trost.,
Wiliam Mundell, 4. 11. Taylor, Alfred Hoare, Robert Tarr,
James Salisbury, William Scott, Charles White, llenry Gillett,
J. Squibb, C. Feeler, John Bartholomew, Robert Painter,
Albert ills, Robert Will., Henry Curtis, James SealUi, Sidney
Curtis, William Bedlam, James Ba ham. William Rendall,
Thomas llosre, Hon's Newbury. Thom., Dubin, Charles Cox.
George Duilsburv, F. Reader, Charles Scott, Charles Vallans,
John Taylor, Chad. Turnbull, Chad,. Churchill, Reuben
Noah Martin, Jesse Morris, licorice Cull, Humphrey
Moors, William Newton, Samuel Wallbnchre, John Medway,
.True
Dorohester, Mmeh 314. 1870.

Friend'

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The present/ were then handed to the gentlemen by
a youth seined Flutchina. They oorin•ted of. for the
Rev. R. G. Watson, an electro sugar bean, and for Mr.
H. Hodges, a silver pencil-ease.
This part of the proeeedings created gnat interest
and was marked by mach cheering.
The Rev. It. G. WATSON and Mr. Flamm returned
thanks, congratulating the boys on their peat spacesu at
the school and encouraging them to strive etill further
to advance their education.

Mr. Alderman [Act -pr.orosed i vote of thanks to
the teechers who had so eftioisotly usd kindly assisted
is the ercuk of the school during the put season.
Mr. Coots' replied and availed himself of the oppor-
tunity to urge on the boys the importanoe of attending
more rerularly next year, so that they might all be
presentable for examination.

Mr. Holland sang an amusing song, to the great gra-
tification of the company.
The MAYOR proposed • vote of thank, to the donors
of the supper. and to Mr. Robinson and his choir for
the exoellent musk they bad provided for their enter.
taininent—(applause.)
" ilome, sweet home," by the choir, brought to a
close • vary pleasant end suooesafal meeting.

this Church Association, which he believed to he the very
strength of the °bush of England in this country
at the present time. He really did not know
what we should have dons, or what WO
shoeld do without it. It hi. hod Poi
diMculties to straggle with ; in this county, be wag
sorry to say, it had not been supported at all as he shoeld
like to see it supported. When his Mead Mr. Pears.
with Mr. Reginald Smith (who was absent through
being obliged to be away from the county—he believed
, one Protestant errand) and himself first met in London,
and it wag proposed to feint • guarantee fund for the
' Cis oreb Association, they promised on behalf of Dorset to
guarantee £5OO. He felt a little nervous about it he coo.
(eased. ant that feeling had not gait, gone away, because
he learnt from Mr. Pears that the amount subscribed
still fell short of the guaranteed amount. But ODD
gentleman in the county whom they fruited to have
with them in the undertaking—Mr. Dishy of Sherhorne
I C.stle—h•d personally guaranteed £250. Not having
fill
shorthelp theisnho ut coL7eon
ot yr
cgs
itr,
a.np
; should be made us, for be thought it would be • little
rrhse . he
wee believed
an x i th
astt still
dissraoe to Dorset if MO could not be provided for
Denying on the important work of this asaociation. He
felt that the Church Association was • grand rellYing
Point for the Church of England in tbie country. Not
long since he had en applicstion from a gentletnan he
knew in the neighbourhood of London asking him to
join with others in a meeting for the establishment of
an Institu•ion for supportieg Evangelical opinions
lln eonnection with the Church of England. He an-
swered at once that we had the eery in.titution he
! nooks of in the Churoh Association (bear, hear);
that the establi.hment of another society instead of
; drawing the Evangelical party together would tend to
I its disunion ; and that ell of th 3M ought to rally round
I the Cburoh Association—(applause). The association '
I had been admirably supported -if not in Dorset—
! generally throughout the country, and had done good
work, in spite of many hindrances, and—if he might
say it without improprie•y—apiritaal wickedness in
high plume—(3(o.r, hear); but be hollowed that tithe
amoeiation was supported we It ought to be, it would be
the means, under God's blessing, of estsblishing the
Protestant principle, of the Church of England in the
oonntry. That was what they longed and looked for;
and it was certainly rather painful to see so small •
, number present at that meeting. He thought they
ought to rejoice at the moms of Mr. Newdegate's
motion in the House of Commons with reference to an
examination into the monastic institutions in this
, eountry ; be for one began tofear that the very laathpark
of Protestantism bad been trampled oat in the Honer
, of Commons, and he was very Kiwi that Messrs. Died-
stone and Co., had been beaten in the matter, though it
was only by a very small majority. He felt as •
Protestant, and • member of the Church Association,
. that they ought to rejoice In the little ray of light
, which seemed to be gleaming in on the House of Com-
mons in that direction; bat it was no thanks, he was
sorry to say, to the members for the county of Dorset,
, for, on looking over the division list, be found that
neither of the three members' names appeared on the
aide of Protestantism. No doubt those gentleman bad
. very good reasons for being absent. bat be thought
, they ought to have been ther•—(hear, hear).
He yes glad to notice that Mr. Guest, M.P. for Poole.
. and Mr. Hembro, M. P. for Weymouth, voted on the
I right side, and he thought they ought to be very
thankful to them—(hmar, hear). In an association of
this sort, which was not absolutely a religious amortise
tion, snob as the Church Missionary Society, or the
. Bible Society, he thought they had • right to @peek of
them politieral matters. He suggested that they should
, ask the county members why they were not present to
. support Mr. Noodonatee motion, and thought they
. were entitled to an aoswer—(hear, beer). He wes quite
. ready to join with others present, and any who chow to
,aesoeist. with them, in asking the three county mem-
I berg why they did not swell Mr. Newdegate's majority
a little beyond the elosedingly fine and anxious point
to which it airived—)hear, hear). In conclusion he
t introduced the lecturer.

The " wvtoon said it ran him the
greaten possible satirisation to bear from the Charm.;
such hearty sentiments in regard to the Protestant
principles of the Chun& of England, and more par-
ticularly concerning the Church Association and the
proposal to estahlish another Eases,ilea! Society. Re
was a member of the toenail of the Church Association,
and very freqnently attended the fortnightly meetings.
no that he might be regarded as an inilosessdot able to
give an answer to anybody as to the principles and work
of the society. The doctrines involved in the iniatenee
of such an association as this manned them dew'',
to members of Christ's °harsh who believed in the
one sat:irides ones made upon Calvary for the sins of the
world. The subject on which he bad to speak was the
priests of the three temples. Any one who carefully
reed his Bible would observe that there were three di,•
penaations : the first embraced the temple of Solomon
and the temple of Zorobbabel; the second Its the period
of our Bleated Lord noon earth, for He distinctly spoke
of His body as a temple that He would destroy and in
three days rune it up again and the third, the temple
of the Holy Ghost. In the first temple was the
shekingh, that glory or peculiar radiance which appeared
above the mercy-seat. In the second temple five
symbols were absent that were in the first—the ark of
the covenant, the shekinali, tbe spirit of prophecy
in the priests the fire from hereon, and the Urim
and brurmim. When the old Jews Who saw the
drat temple beheld the second they wept beottim of its
inferiority and the absence of throe symbols, but the
young people who never knew the first temple shouted
for joy. Nothing was again seen of the ebekinah till
our Saviour's baptism, when the Spirit of God descended
up in Him like a dove, introducing the second dispensa-
tion. Thirdly. It appeared on the day of Pentecost—and
no doubt the Pentecostal period would continue till our
Lord's return—ushering in 'he third dispensation. At
t, 0 beginning of web dispensation appeared that
remarkable Symbol. Then with regard to the seniors
of the temple under the first dispensttion, he pointed
out with clearness and fulness that religion was mainly s
service of rites and ceremonies symboliring the work end
othw of the Messiah. In the days of our Blessed Lord they
found the temple still in exittenos, but it sea fast pasting
away with all its ceremonies. in seeking to the Yvninan
of Samaria who said to him 'Our fathen worshipped
In this mountain," no., be indicated the transition in
his reply, telling her it was not a (location of position
but of disposition that God is • spirit, and they that
worship Him must worehip Him in spirit and in truth."
Thirdly, under the dispensation of the Holy Spirit they
found all the type' of the former period. fulfilled. If
a Jew asked where is the Christian temple, he would
point him not to nor magnifieent cathedrals, however
eseellent they may be—not to the walls which *on.
mined the worshippers. but to the worshippers them.
selves. "Know ye not" they rear: in the Coo. Ili., 16,
" that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
God dwelleth in your Again also in 2nd ('.or. et,
16, "what agreement !oath the temple of God with
idols For ye are the temple of the living God," Ac.„
The temple of God was the rollective w rirrhippers of
Goi thronehout the world—the blessed company of all
f•ithfol people. Now as to the service,, under the
first dispensation there were Priest and Levine : and
the spi,it of prophecy restraining and directing them 41
This was a very remarkable eirconnt.noe showing the
importance of keeping down spiritual pride and pomp.
These pried& had their altars, and their victims, and
were sacrificing priests, which ofiloe no man dare take
except be were called like them. And under the wooed
iispensation the Lord Jeans Christ himself was and is
the one Great High Priest. He was • priest after the
order of Idelohisedee : His body was the vieMm : HIS
cross was the altar : and He himself the atoning priest:
and when Re expired saying that word—for in the
Greek it wag only one although expressed in three in
English—" it le finished." Re fulfilled all the prophesies,
types and symbols. For illation, the type of the
Paschal lamb was remarkably felfilled in our Loves
crucifixion. In Rob. xi 11-14 they read "Every priest
standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the
same sacrifices which can never take away nine. But
this man (Jesus Christ) after he had offered one worifin
for sins for ever, sat town on the right hand of God.
. . . . For by one offering he bath perfected for
ever them that al's nnnnn and." This was • cardinal
doctrine of the Church of England as opposed to the
tracking of the Church of Rome, Lbg the Somae.!lnif
clergy of our own church. "Christ was once offered to
beer the sins of ' many ; and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the snood time without sin onto
salvation." He is a high priest after the order of
Kelehi.edeo, haying no one before him and abiding
°nationally. The fernieste under the first dispensa-
tion pawed sway by reason of death, but the Lord
Jesus Christ, our great High Priest, ever liveth to
make intereessiop for us. In Hebrews x the Apostle
contrasting the priesthood of Christ with the priest-
hood under the old dispensation clearly set forth the
pasting away of the old erne of ainr, and that there
was now one great eternal High Prison who had passed
Into heaven by a new and living way. Now, If he
were asked the meaning of the word " priest" in
the Prayer Book, which the ritaaliets regarded as e
"sacrificing priest," he replied "prerbyter." The
Apostles never ones throughont the New Testemeet
tailed themselves "sacrificing priests." All who
believed on Christ, both clergy and laity, they read in
the Revelations, were made by Rim "kings and priests
unto God." There was no occlusive priesthood now &I
the sacrificing priests were—they (the ministers of the
cherub) could offer no sacrifice whin the laity could
not —though both were sailed on to present their bodies a
living aerie°e holy acceptable upon God, which was
their reasonable service. The clergy of the Church of
England were set apart by the Holy Spirit for the
work of preaching the everlasting gospel, according to
the apostolic order; for when Christ wont forth the
apostles he said to there "Go ye into all the world and
the gospel to every creature: he that believeth
shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be con.
denoted." When he was ordained by the Bishop, the
authority he rewind from him was "Take thou
authority to preach the word of God (i C., the repel,
Ibe very same authority Jesus Christ gave His apostles)
and to minister the holy sacraments in the oongregation
where thou shalt be lawfully appointed thereinto."
Now in the Church of Rome the ordering of priests was
quite different. In the Ritual/ they found that when
tee Roman Catholic priest came before the Bishop, he
said to him "Take thou authority to offer merifios aad
to celebrant MAW/ as well for the living as for the
dead." He maintained, therefore, that the priest of
the Church of Rome had no command as such to preach
the gospel—he was • sacrificing print in the strict
sense of the word ; although, he observed, this was
arrogating a function that belonged to Christ alone.
The ritualist clergy contended that they were saerifieing
;nests too. But the word altar
Book, save ones in the Coronation service and
not then in the ritualist sense. The lecturer, in
passing. deprecated using the word altar to signify the
"Lord's table," or the "Holy table," as it was called
in the Prayer because it tended to (confound the
common apprehension of things esseatially different.
Calling the communion table an altar, as the ritualists
did, was contrary to the whole tenor of the Prayer
Book. But granting for the sake of argument that they
hail an altar, where was the entire! The ritoalists
pointed to the bread and wine and said that the moment
the words of conseeeration were pronouneed, the bread
became the very body and the wine the very blood of
the Lord JOntl. Christ —the very doetriee of the Church
of Roan, and both erred in this important point—they
forgot that "without shedding of blood is no remission."
But, granting that they had their altar and their
victim, where were there crodentials as sacrificing
priests? In the Bible they read of three orders of
prints —the Pagan priests, the Jewish preists, and the
pri•de after the order of Melehieedse. Disowns( this
subject in Trinity Collets, Cambridge, with ritualists,
they of (num repudiatedderi,inj their priesthood