The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-13 00:00:00

CANON WILBERFORCE AT POOLE.

That woll.knosna divine and eloquent champion of the
temperance cause, Canon Wilber(orce, addressed two
Tem large ineetints at the Amity Hall on Thursday last
At Use afternoon gathering tbe endings numbered atom&
000, and at the evening one quite twice the number were
present
The Rev. Gentleman was evidently eufLring from a
e.et,,ver.e4 cold on his lunge, but he buckled nuurfully to his
work, and, after • short time, spoke with all his usual
th and rigour. He le • very Saint speaker, a good
elocutionist, while his choice of Wiring* is of a bleb
ordrr. He does not, it need hardly be said. sesame the
mountebank style of Murphy, nor does he favour his
ardente with each outrageous yarns al that gentleman
did', for hist ode, the Isle the man who earned £lO a
week, and coati only take his wife home s;geoany•vvarth
of live foe their Sunday dinner' neither does bo indult.
In the intemperate expression' which mar the utterances
of too many temnerenos (=tors. lb simply attests the
evil on abroad Chrietten =ale
At the afternoon serene( the Rev. G. Truster (Primitive
Methodist, of Bournemouth) wedded, bed throe were
Mg) on the platform the Rey. J. A. Lawson (Rector of
Poole), the Km. H. T. Cavell (Vicar of St. Paul'.). the
Rem J. Diem, 3. B. Dyson, and A Howell lorrwleirartek
l(r. Strout (Captain of the Seleation Army), Alderman J.
J. Norton. and Cauturillors G. Curtis, J.P., and W. Mate,
Mr. Haw= and others
le thesauruses"( Ms aftersoou'eaddrees the Canon, discard-
ing all philosophical,
said
and utlierian argu-
ments—which he maid were all very well for a meeting of
ecieutillc men, but were futilely out of place et a mooting
of Christi= men and eromen—said if they were followers
of Christ the woad not stick at the sawlike of • ban-
gless of wine because the doctor told them it would save
Mem from the toothache. No, if they were saved by a
crania= Redeemer they would not stand aloof from this
smti-wiinlag moralism% simply became it might cost
then some little ledouversiesoe or eallwacrillce. The
reales why he loved Use Moe Ribbon to much and why
he wished to me it on tbe basest of every Christian, was
became God was ea abundantly blessing it up sod down
the coastal., not la letradadar • utilitarian Improvement
In society if that were all he (Canoe Wilberforce) would
not be there that daemon with a chat lallamed, and
with plenty of work to do at horse. With regard to the
Id.. that they would probably suffer in their health if
they did so he said that was an old blue-mouldy mistake
7(irfill ter)—ead quoted the remarks of Lord W 0140167-7
t our army, in addition to wearing lb. Q een.
uniform, all wore the Blue Ribtiom, and suck to it. they
would be the most powerful fumy in the whole w.rrld.
(Apolausa) Then, if a pledge woo taken for a right
prineiple, did not they think the Master could t care
of their bodies f Could they therefore wonder that he
Implored them ***** one to put it on, aol that he would
like ti eas them all such enthusi ads as a frier t of his,
who had even had Ramo en his debt-shirt. (Leuthter.)
Because he said that Wasps &Ire might break out in the
night end he might 'be taken by surprise All over the
country be had seen souls brought to the Lwd through
the means of the Blue Ribber', and be implored then
therefore not to lit Ilia movement drop down into the
mare old-fashioned secular, utilitarian teetotalim,—vrith
the Pie in the sty and all that sort of thing,—but as
Christians to coins f irward and take tie pledge and best
their part in this important movement.
The 'velure. hall wee very quickly filled in the even.
lag, there being a perfect rush a. WOO as the doors wasp
opened. TM Rev. E. Swans presided.
During an impressive orati on of about an hour la Week
the Canon, addressing himself to the question of
" moderation," maw= hie hearers that they could no
more think of bearing the giant evil of intemperance by
being moderats drinker' than mull David of old ham
beaten (4,lliath by shakily heads with him. If any of
Shim bad say 'harts oint stock breweries he would
advise them lo sell out tughterl—for lb. sari% of lii
Renee was tuadergoing great ohaege. Toe temperance
movement was taking hold of the working clew% Mt*
whose land; more an mom every day, were the destinies
of the nation being placed. It did not require much fore-
sight t a see that if or= ths working Glasses understood
their true position In regard to the tom question
the liquor anal would be doomed as • log of Me past
(Applause.) The blur ribbon meant soinetliag at which
"the trade" might well tremble. The working classes.
he :saint tined, guttered most through Um evil of hates.
permute, and that was why he appeabad to them first sad
kronllo4l. The roe. Cason then referred to a manifesto
thleft OD 544 1..4 lwlb. VA,. Elder
A-my, established to oounteract the Blue Ribbon Army;
let, he mid, they might as well try to counteract
Nimes with • penny titi-pd. (Laughter and applause.)
Ogeositioa was bett.r than stagnatioe, but he asked
those omega to emu the bit of blue ea • direct Protest
&mama this manif so of the Tallow Rrb'urn Army.
Trey had &own ys now as their coloure—tdm Oen of
doom, sad it reminded him of the yellow flag he bad
sometimes Men an the on s s of the vowels coming Into
fialltarep!on—a sire that wither fever and death was
, on board. And that ably was not &Weed to enter Use
pert until the yellow Sag had been displaced by the
Rion Petra Maud applaue). He made a few remarks
to the smell a, who, he said, all ought to be
total abstainrirTa rcr, koew by experience that this
else had beneetted v.re greatly by the moment, as
people almost inv I
r hot c meads:l.l tbrtiftuie "T Ib4ir
, ebts w nee of °creel
! Tpl7aces"""of th"e GlOnoooenncdlreuiluirds":" alwhosa.dredhoesvueryppli"yetbr.l
Was it sot from the ranks of the moderate drinkers?
If there were any such In the rO3Ol he would strongly
advise them that feeling they " could not do without a
Bide was the sironsteat rraeOn why they should beer=
, • total abstainer.. (Apelsose),
The result of the two meetings wail the taking of 104
, new pledgee