The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-04-29 00:00:00

11ITI8H MO FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of this noble society wee held
at the Alington Hall, on Monday evening, when the
Rev. T. W. Kelps presided. There was, we are
parry to say, • very meagre atteindanoe. Mr. Knipe
was suppgrted by the Rev. T. Heave (treating,
Rev. C. F. Poem Rev. W. Allen, and the Rev.
J. Thomas, of Derby (the deputation.)
A hymn having been suns, and prayer off wed by
the Rev. W. ALLts, the enemas addreicsal the
meeting. Although it was somewhat discouraging to
me so small an attendance, still he was not altogether
out of boort, and he trusted the intereet in the
British and Foreign Bible Society was not declining
but rather ingsaing in Horatian". He knew then
were • great number of aph e who regarded It with
great &Section, who remembered it in their prayer.,
sad were anxious to forward the noble work. There
was everything to eacourage them with regard to
the fields that were continually opening. They who
could look beck to a woe or two a Pon of the work
of the society, remembered bow many fields that
were osioe apparently hopelessly closed to them
were now open. The whole of Italy wee now
open to the work, whereas it was not so many
Cs:ago, since it was • podia/ thing to
• Bible In their bona, not only in the city of
Rome, but In any part of It gly under the dominion
of the Pope, or Austria, or any of the other manifold
powers that then held sway in Italy. Now, through
the lain and breadth of the land, colpoortenn wont
without let or hindrance, tarrying the Word of Life.
And Italy was not an exoeption, for may of the
other countries of Europe were now opus, and Salo,
the last home almost of extreme bigoted opposition ts
the work, was now largely open to the work, and with
the most blessed realte. Fuwerly there were
diSonities in Franca, but they had been wonderfully
reinoved, and the sale of the ioriptoree oe polished
by elate soetety wse now very large indeed. And if
they went outside Europe, to Mexico and the Spulh
Republics of Sloth America, they would find the
same happy choose. In noes and may other lands
there WIMP now a free course for the circulation of the
eariptures, and where the fountain of life is flowing,
and where the words of truth were heard and
milted, God never foiled to prove by outward
and visible signs that His was still the solos that
in the inspired Word, and there were
spokew aye good *Soots shown where the truth
was thus proclaimed. He was glad to goy that much
a the melon suspicion misrepresentation, and mis-
undeestaading that formerly existed about the Bible
Society had been broken throuhb. He believed there
were many men, members of his own Church, and
others, who had in undue and unfair prej adios—pre-
Judie* honestly—hold naiad this aunty. He need
sot go into questions as to detail, but they had board
and believed Wags that had been said about the
bjtidicious conduct of noes who were the agents of
She society. He believed while there were many
things to regret in the tone of thought that had been
adopted by many In these der, both in and out of
the Church of England, yet he believed, on the whole,
the feeling was not more hostile, but, on the whole,
mere Madly towards the muse of the British and
Foreign Bible Society. Let them Meek God for
these things, for they had much to *stomas* them.
Let them do what they could for this society, and he
maimed the earliest hope that the interest in the
work would not fell in this good town of Dorchester.
In the course of Datum ons by one of the old and
tried friends of the society were in God's providence
taken away, and be referred with feeling to the lose
they bad sustained by the death of Mr. Matthew
Derma& He was an old and tried friend of the
ocelety, and he wee quite sore in his later dna be
sever regretted what be bad dose for the society. As
one by one of the old heroes In the fight were laid low
in the duet till the Master comes again, let them
endeavour to inspire the yaw, and those who bad
not taken up the weapons in this noble warfare, to
labour and pray for the British and Foreign Bible
Society. (Applause.)
The Rev. T. Nan, the secretary and treasurer of
Ike Dorchester Auxiliary, said this was the fourteenth
snood financial statement he had bad the pleasure to
submit at their annual public meeting. Be very
heartily sympathised with the observation of Mr,
Knipe, and especially with regard to the lose they bad
'atoned. Speaking personally with regard to their
old and beloved friend Mr. Dual& (and he Knight
say they had had the mournful pismire that afternoon
at then annual committee meeting of
kindly resolution of sympathy with Milase.l26 a
eveTeU
In connection with the loos she had sustained, and
t auxiliary of the society, bad sustained
oreini, an
but silrieg for himself personally he was quite
sure their late friends sympathies were of the roost
cordial character in masa of the British and Foreign
Bible Society. Hs did act know there was any society
that he esteemed and loved more, because there was no
book he loved more thaa the Bible itself, ad be (31r.
Nave) was very happy to be able as his pastor to
speak to friends of the Bible Society, to notify how
the truths of that blamed book sustained him in his
last boars. Nothing cheered his heart more nothing
gave him such blessed joy, as to know the:t he wee
nub*, as he knew be was, on the simple atoning
death of the Lord Jenks Christ; and ad were
then speaking of the Bible that night, as wells, the
British and Foreign Bible Society, he wee very happy
to speak of his beloved friend who had goes as •
eery Wilda' sad bright illustration of the power of
the Bible, and of the troths of the Bible, to sustain
thews In the darkest Gad most difficult hour of human
we. Re deeply sorrowed for his loss in many ways,
and be sorrowed as seminary of this auxillary6ler the
lON they had sustained In the death of Mr. yodels
as a member of their committee. He could only
express the earned hope that others would follow in
the work, sad that the Spirit of God would rest upon
Um tows of Dorchester. Whatever might be their
tt7'about other societies. he sincerely hoped nu
never fall to have • practical gmpathy spa
Interest In the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Kr. Nears attar mestioning that the receipts were
SIO ism this year owlet to Mr. Knipe not having as
M balance
his odlection at St. Peter's. passed on to hie
sheet, which was as follows :
Dr.. 110.4.—tellt. AprU—Belsoos on last park account,
M esS l ;rale eion ea mesei moues, Lees lid; hay —Ooral
Onale dileolation, se td ; Auanst—Moodesord Aelocition,
en es 1d; e•ps•-b•r—oorsru Bible Lifts ;
Ilerrsabey—Peetloe al salon at Luther Cosimmor.tlas
M. lag, 16. 51; Dem.. —Dory.. sameitles, AS lie ;
?Waco& Amodeglon £l6 1011 ; list. Tehnierg--na.,..i.,
£7O. 4flni.il.rets—seet AseeMani, 11416. 54 ;
Plitagraniide by Lovelies, 144 74; Martlastewn Am-
▪ gm PaSi; Atbelbainion, £lO Ss 6d • Oionnolgesa
Meoiation, 418 is 3_ • (booing. M Si'
Me lee Doc Wad
Noma, Le eaSi; Loins alaXiatiou, en 7. &a
• es Anoxia lon, Al Its ad ; Wes Piers, per 'la mensetaii,"
£l6.' sena& ntbserbeis. Alt lie; J. T. Gadget... At ;
lOW. Mall lie 60. Or., 11111.6.—April—Pald he hall, Limed
el Deputation to firstling, as; Clio to Cliainillener;