The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-20 00:00:00

LYTORXTT MINSTAR.

TEI DORSET AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES'
TEMPERANCE ASSOWATION.
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Ow Tuesday eveulag an ezcsllsat sermon was
prescbsi in toe Wesleyan Ofi wel. ,_ytobett
I. behalf of tale association. by MO Res. B. /Issas, of
Poole.

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On Wednesday the quarterly meeting was held.
Ater a very clod Ittonh,oo, girlie by Mr. D. Ballow,
and catered by Mr. Kilord, oi Prole, the delegates an
others assembled in lite schoolroom for the purpose of
traumatise the official businmpa The Rev. Pelham
Stokes_ presided. and there were alto prirent—The
Revs. Kendall (Lulworth). 0. L Memel. Werealck
(Wareham), Howell (Poole), Mr. J. J. Norio.), Mr.
Mate, Mr. Jenkins, and Mr. W. Baleen.
The Bon. Secusrair (Rev. kfr. Vaughan) read the
report. It atated that during the pet .1. mouth. the
society had been as active arid as attooseeful as ever.
They bad held at least TOO meeting., many of which
had been wiry well attended. dome 1,000 new pledgee
had lawn taken. 11,000 copies of the Mirror (the organ
of the association) oad hese circulated, /We worth of
book. bad been sold, 30.000 triune bad been given
away, U fresh *societies had been aMliavid, and only
Iwo Mimi off the plan. Tor,r specisl meetings had
been attended with great success; fies of tbooo of a
week each had been held, and the sixth was now on at
Creirkerne ; two bad been held since their last
quarterly meeting—Ringwod and Yo.yiL Tb h.Te
hall at Ringwood waa crowded, ana 650 new pledgee
were taken. At Yie.vil an overflow meeting had to
be held, and 600 new p edges were taken, many of
the takers of which had been very intemperste, and
the superintendent of p,lias owed that if they were
kept his work would be eonsiderably lea sued. The
Mirror was becoming more sod more popular with the
'tropic. Mr. G. D. W. Digby, of Slierberne
ha I kindly granted the use of his grounds for their
next anon& fete.

The Sworn—iv said it w uld be seen fr on the
Mirror eccouuts that they are • little over £4 ou the
wr .rag site.
Mr. Noma suggested the result, of each minion
should be stated, iiiisiessi of lumping them together.
The SIORRTART gave the foll. swing det si's :
Expense.. Receipt...
E s. d. E d.
Swamies 11 10 4 8 9 0
Beandoster ... 8 2 7 7 4 5
tiberboree 21 12 0 18 3 0
Rlisgwo 11 010 11 12 7
Yeovil ... 21 14 3 21 1 10
Mr. Baxt.tg remarked the defaulters seemed to be
Sherbo scant Swanage, as usual.
Mr. NORTON referilog to the it in of £22, his
/aureate. to see Moyer Food, said at Vie meeting at
Balishu y. be thought Mr. Vaughan told them his
liability Ira. £9 for nine months. When he wee, to
school thea remora y reckoned that after that rata it
would be £l2 for 12 months, but he found I.i, liability
was at Toe money would 13- paid when it became
due—(hear, besr)—aud he believed w:th the 01 in
hood would ab int make there square.
The SICILITART .emuked he thought the receipts
bore a very g.e4 comparison with thoe. of la t year.
The ordinary reoeipte lest year thia time were
£ll5 144. ; this year were £127, so that really they
wars abet £l2 in p icket.
Mr. BALLUI wm extseumly nhli,:ed to Mr. N irtoo
for his guisroeity, but what struck him was whether
the Ell could not he laid out to better advantage.
Mr. NoitrOsi said, but he had not proinieal to give
it to them fo,• any other oj cr. (Laught,o )
Mr. BALL.IIII : But I kuow you will Bit's& good one.
A considerati.so t en stowed as to the Mirror, and
Mr. 11.11 am a Isoismed • pala r their own, bus this
was hsrelly c •naiderat (*.alb's.
Mr. Noirron Gild if their friends wanted to roe more
local matter, they should send reports, either to the
printer Of the secret•ry.
Oa the moUou of Mr. NORTON, seconded by 14. v.
0. W. M•sam.. It was revilved that 'he ae,xetariea
id the various societies be requested t iam to forward
items of news in their di4rict to the litirre, for preBi.
cation.
It sem. seemly.l to boll the seen., fee on the lot
%too lay fa Ausruet in Sherhorne Pok ; and, on 'he
propodti in of Rev. Mr. Malian, .ac,,nde I by Mr.
NORTON, the next juarterly 'need g at Corte raids,
toe date beiox left to the Secret • ry I. a' rause.
On the pr ipoodou of Mr. Rattail. are •nded by
Mr. Enitsirs,ia Exass. a cordial rote .1 thanka was
Imo.° to the RAT. E. Evens for his very excellent
Nr02..11 on the to eiriou. eveniutt.

-foe-Climax-en then sal t he aboul.l like to say
• few write with regard to the Association. He
thought t ey ought to conaratulaie themselves up to
the great success .1 he temperadice movement in con-
nection with their organic ddon. It wee not the up-
hill work now it was when their gallant members
first fo mod themselves Into a society. Now, they had
bat to run up a handbill, and they could not keep the
people away. They ought to bo very thankful to hear
that 11 fresh siideties had been affiliated to the
awl:dation, and only two had ceased to belong to it.
Of course, they lied • very p twerful orgenisaion
running cl die behind them, the Church of Ragland
Temperance S. ciety, but to all such societies they held
out the right hand of fell .wah p. (He .r, hear.) Hie
himself t p.rt in the Yeoril Mission and he was
very glad he went, especially after what bad happened
to Kturrne—that poor unfort Jos e fellow. The world
wee only too ready to kick a man when he was down;
but he we quite sure it was a mistakets give up any
man, however degraded he might be, until he died. for
there was hope for every °tie. If the L stel Jesus
Christ hal given them up, where would they have
bean, fast them thereto• tray for biro, and no leave
him until he was reformed. (Hear. hear.) He was
very much pleased with the clergy of Yeovil, for when
his-rived he found that the vic.r h d been pi ming in
the seats of the church some 800 little pamphlets,
re. her decrying this blue ribbon miaaion. He very
kindly asked him (the evoker) to prat& in his church.
I. was unpropitious weather, anti there was not al trio
congregation, hut Ursa present were In earnest, and
...me of the brewer.' families were there. (Hear, hoar.)
After the sermon he had a long conversation with the
vitzr, anti it showed him they had never attempted to
drive people, but tried to win them with a kind manly
word. Toe vicar repro...al hi o.elf as ' so much
obliged, you have Jost taken the line I didn't expect,"
sad he added " now I tell you what, I have not see'
it in colte this right light, and I hops in the future I
shall be able to di' something for you." He (Mr.
Pelham at data) did not know whether the vicar came
at all to the miseion.—To the ametary : Did he
The SIOILIT•IIT : Yes.
Yoe CRAII1111.11: That's right. I &molar! to hear it.
(Cheers.) Ile continued. It was related when the first
railway was introduced into China the people brought
1111 their sacred crockery sit•d pot it on the line to try
anti atop the train. So it was with the at ,vernest, tht
piiblic.ne and brewers were trying their utmost t • num
them, but they were oa the wining %id-, and had the
By Biaß,ht of the People of England. (Cheers.) He
then Alluded to the fact that they were about to I as
one of their vicapresidents, Mr. Werninck, who goes
too curacy at ()Hit
Mr. Man, an behalf of the meeting,
_thanked him
for his oast services, awl wished him God-speed.
Mr. Witallllol baying briefly thanked those prenent
for their good wiches, • vote of thank, to the Chair-
man, proposed by Mr. Noma, and Genoa led by Mr.
Teuton, having been c .rrie I with acclamation, and
duly ookottwledged, the Benediction brought the pro-
oadinge en far to • close.
Af terwania another short meeting was held, under
the chairmanship of Mr.Noirroo, who, with Mr. MAn
sad others, delivered airlines's.
A model tea was the., partakes of, there being •
capital attendants, and a public meeting was altee.
wards held, the Rev. Pelham Stokes In tile chair.