The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-08-05 00:00:00

HOSPITAL SUNDAY.

Collections in aid of the—Weymouth Hospital were
mat. in moony of the places of worship in the toovro on
Sunday last. The Rev. e@novi Stephenson, preaching
a, St. JAG', Church, advocated the claims of the
hospital on the public in an called mlure.s. Feud'
inc hi. "Macaws' On the word', "How many loaves
have ye !' the preacher said ; Tore are many Miele
for the rxtreme peverty in this rich country-61kein.
permits, and want of thrift and such-like Genie. may be
named at once, but how much of it in to this—that
threw who have the power, and wh .in Got has called
Ito help, have failed Him. Hi had giveo them the '
pr ,vision for the needy moltitu les. He who cares for
all, who could never sulfa one to lack, toss put the
abundance Into their heeds in trust—in sacred, • detain
trat for thin .pedal porpoes ; hut it haa h en used
for other purposes, and the courseqoent re.poneibility
seems little thought of. We have c whittles and
o ornualsel ,ne and organizations of all kiwis t empire
het, the causen of our social miseries, —well %you'd ii
he for no if ee c oold apt one of them toe' II oore, bet ire
it is too late, how f ar the wealthy and infl wootial are to
blame for the s ores. Hs, into whose ears the cry of
the poor ever entero, has asked, 64 of o,ld, the q lest' o,
'How many 1..• -ea have ye !.—the question wnich
sends a to Our own store, oar onu IrUfSoln uur Dowers
which call us to active elf ct ; but it has Lordly been
heeded, except with *owe c ;anion .1 Thieriptions or
petty ill. which, with hit. in. l.yp gri•y, men call
tneir mite, es though they were following tn. it p• of
Him who gave all that lie had, even all Hi. Mang.
I know there are many m.gafioent excepi mom 4114 me.,
know nothing about but, 0, how many of u, need
Isere the firet principles of Culloden beneficence, end Ss
we progress with the timed weak ti,influenoe, audio:or y,
the matter grwers more and more important, and we
must see how greatly we neel the Spirit which would
lead us to soy—" Lo.d, are are the loses& here are
my pweessions ; take them, ill them with Tay blew.
log, and teach me how to ae tam -4. To wouldw
have me do." Profitable as Li. suhj•ct w•.teld be for
any day, there is • specie' sews on f..r •eleciing it to-
day. It 0,111d4 in the I; opal for the .lop, when we
have one of the mint important opp..rtunitice in the
year for exerdsicg the grace of which I have been
speaking. Tail i• Hoopital Sooday in Weymouth—
the worshippers in tho H. u.e. of Gui in the town are
to be asked ti aid this inva.uable charity, one of the
greatest blowing. to the poor of the town and neigh-
bourhood. Y our rcspouie year after year hue been a
liberal one, and I trust it will be too to-day. It ie
time for divining liberal things, for cluing wha: we
can. Tne support of the hospital is largely dependent
on the remit of this days appeals. Moreover, it is no
small matter ; it is not or • case of solitary suffering
we plead, but for the gamy sick pour of the whole
surr unoling neighbourh 00.1, not one of whom ought to
fir •in anent without the required aid. We
hare wealth and power eo nigh to help them if we will.
If we will ! Oh, ye.; bit if there the will, the yeah-
neon the disciples hat when they want that
day to their own impoverished share and t. oh the
whole and put it into the blonde of Jeans? Ye.; le
there the will, the will to du sotueihiug worthy of the
occasion for Jesus sake! Then do it at once; it ix
never • safe thing to lease a generou. feeling to the
cooling influence of this cod world. DJ it sow; not
measuring your gift by whet the premium low said -or
left nasal I, but because UM. plead. Himself on
behalf of taws with whom lie is sulfating.
For lore of Him y cacao: turu in, and bee uid it
is into the !Aerosol hood you put your off it
must be the best yoo ceo &vim,. 0 that such a optic
were ever animating us, awl then in the day when
they shall have judgment wi:hout matey who oh owed
Ito rnerey, we slo ill, through the merit, au I avec of
our Redeemer, inset from his lips toe well- lone and
the Talc ins Come ye bloomed chit ir..o of my Father
inherit the king hoe, prepared for you ; for I we* Wok
and ye vitite.l ute."
The itev..l. L. Addison preached at Trinity Church,
and chola as bin subjict the pueblo of tbi unjust
steward. After urging hie hearere to goon from good
to better to bring oat fresh malts to their form or
laloour and the elf ids od thole departed, tim c op-
tionally strive to deliver over t 'thole who came of ter
• purer Church with brighter so. vicei, ',owls lie t
taught and ruled, hoppital, Woe and 11l re extensiiely
awful, wiser laws, and practi.le ill Go reltof of the
po iv, the pre.cher continue I—' Hoch hea been done
In thin generatioo, hut far in ,re than one gene, ation is
weeded to ace nuptial whit reinatue to do. To woe
that each pOor mon in town or cootutry boss at le..st •
house where ti.Cincy earl be observe'. and Co /6.inil Of
comfort an to tusks him live to be lhere tattier oh ka
at the gin oh op. Hire a10..e ii an enor-
mous task which a ill his bedire us.
Shell we shring from it or go f orw•rd
in the strength if the L ,rd and it-
-daily moire .4.-ins 61SIOICO or otrive t i no-k ; it.
Short is tie thu of our Wwwu.lehip. Who the hour
shall have struck which bring, in the 201 owntury
upon the world, think how few of us will bear it. Tote
I own will be to • large ext-nt ii. other baud., If you
could see it as it will be then you would read other
name. cc yiu pass doseu it. streets—the old f smilsor
faces you are ac-miitotne Ito greet woul I n..t be then
to voile upon you—all will bare changed—for the
better or the worm, very mooch—according to our die.
f iur duty now. We shell bane ions to give
the account, whocu all meet give, of uur otewardship.
to t Las think theu if th wh • CJIII.I Aft,r ut—pot
every groat an I holy work, like this h ospitel, loot o
their hands In • bettor at ite than we rectiveil it.
That indeed is already accompluhe.l-1 or there con be
no coomparigin of our hospital 61 I remember it years
•gO, an it i 4 now. But we cannot stop —two) will
be still more p our sick ti aid—we must rife to the
height of our ointy, we inu t furnish that all. We
went • large nuonber of reuolar sub.cribere The
amount need not he great, but It will be such as can
he depended upon. fliers is the great value of •
multitude of *moll Nuto-cription.. And Wok bow
easy you may make it to yourselves. The should
putting away of on. penny each week will toe 4.. 41.
in the coorow of the year—a very agpropriste • ,b•
ocripti on iiselned—sod g owl an I useful to yooursvolv.e,
because it Is An6.tiroi and revalue gi wink—a mg-slur
putting away of • one:hint for Corl's service, auol to
help His poor sick poople. 0 thick of this, dear
brethren. lam sure many of you, who only Lelp this
blessed loptitoti no by epamnodic elf ort., on owooe such
appointed day as this, will find • hlawing to your own
souls if you ad opt the hilt I have given you. The
acrobat, of the 6.6TC:eI. or your clergy, would be glad
t receive y our ii USW. Stay Gil our Father put it
into your swans to serve Him thus and blew. you
everm ire."

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Toe f .Ilowlng magnate have been recaised :—St.
6iary's Church. 1:25 8.. G I. ; Children's :441,,iJ0 in c .n•
'section with .11th.,. 11..; tiode 1:2 2. :
Bethel. 104. 74.; Trinity Church, Ell 10.. 'J 1. ; Christ
Cinrch, A:l3 51. ; St. Gs ,rge's Church. Portland,
kl 19.. 31. ; tiloneester-strest Chaps!, I:9 13.. 11. ;
c dlectsd by Portlsni Q terrytnee, £2 151. 61. ; St.
John'. Church, £37 GA. 5.1.