The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-21 00:00:00

FUNERAL OP DR. MOFFAT.

The remains of the How. it .bert Moffat, D.D., were
interred iii N er cool Cr:nasty on Tours Icy afternoon, in
the pro•ence of a rut usenaleisee .ef friends, gathered
from all parts of the metropoles. and from distant places
in the ciunery. Provioue to tho interment, • service was
Mel I in the Wesl.e in Oh ipel,Tu'se bill. selich Is near the
meadows of Mr. Bran Spicer, Upper Lawn, whence the
funeral corteu proceeded, the relatives being in the
tlrrt carriages, and deputations trim various religious
societies I.lllewing in other,. The congregation
rue to their feet when the coal 1, marred with
wreetas, mai born, into the church and reeled in front
of the clancel, mid a bower of rare plants and African
palms, which were euggestive of the deceased's career in
Africa. Tee mourners were seated on either side the
central elide, and as Chez entered Ilendelsaohn's hymn,
"Oh rest in the Lard, was rendered on the organ.
Service was opened with the einging of "How sweet
the name of Jesus @ovule.' and the Ric. Dr. M'Ewan
read • ludo. from S:ripturi and offered up prayer.
The Rev. J. C. liarriun, of the Cinjr.gatton.l
Church, Camden Tows, then delivered an addrees in
which be dwelt on the deceased's personal qualitled.
After the Benediction, the funeral prooseion wu re-
f 4rEned, the relatives, among them Mr. Unwire. of
Brighton, father-indaw of Sir. .f at who is in Africa,
and the daughters ant gran Idaughi.rd carrying wreaths,
following lonuillately behind the coffin, and aucceeded
in the order in which they bail r ached the church by the
member. of the deputation. &melt whom were Sir B.
Frees, Sir Henry Peek, ALP., Hr. S. Morley, Wl'.,
Sir W. ll'Arthur, H.P., and a large number of Comers.
gstional ministers. The coffin was conveyed In an open
beau, and behind it chine, alter the c etches containing
the relatives, many private carriages. Blinds were drawn,
and crowds were collected on the way to this cemetery,
where °lnside:ably over 2,000 people awaited the arrival
of the aortlge. The deceased was buried betide his wife in
• vault *mob lies close by the pathway, the it,,. J.
Guinness R igen performing the service at the and
delivering a brie( and impressive addreea

BURNING OP THE SCRIPTURES IN SPAIN.
On the fecctiesl day of St. James—the patron Pint of
s,pm—she %di of „Lily lest, 1.391) aisles of the Go,*le
were committed to the Runes an the Custom house at
fiercelna. Toe Liberal (Sp tenth paper) gm,u the follow-
ing explanation of toes st 4 12, p cc:felon see" Lu the year
16 • beck eon print. cll to- the Precarteset schools at
Grvcia ( s euburn o• sre • one). with the lit.- ' A Semple
blec.hod of Teeching to It al n.' Mini c totes
were sent Lu L but threugh a mistake one or two
theueant were Not I. to% to So its. The OWOW claimed
them at the Gate hen.% but when, titer much corres-
pvtnlence on the subject. an ex whitens duty was
demanded. be left thens wsere they were. They were to
teen sold, hut the Cut.iii. h use people said that
a !slam's' qu• scion wet involve I. and therefore they
suu4ht Cl* advice of tle Torso Council. This body
decided that the tale could not he suillorwe I without
vnolatcon of the 11th Article ef the ()Institution (which
grants the smallest amount of taleration to lb- • - '
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P!t..fltl).

consequently it aPpeare that even arithmetic, if it io
not intended for It iwan Cath.ilica. in opposed to Roman
Catholicism, the Siete relig one. Th book contains no
doctrines of any particular let ft is merely a reading.
book with lertour on arithmetic, an i the pagieviea for
reeding are tho Holy Gotp-Isa without note or comment.
SN by order of the authorities. the Holy (Impel. were
Publicly burnt in Barcelona. Hal intimately, this fact
will he prx.lainami throughout turopo, for when the
arusul prorouted biome( at the Cuatom.houre
and fiered to par all costs, in order that the books might
be ,ant back to Rutland, he was told that it was tro late.
Any commentary on thia Oftlit feIICAI %YOUR roquirn more
space than its narration. 'The narration Is sufficient
oh,. our tendert how religious toleration is under-
atood here." • Berea] inn paper. the Piabirtida.i.
speak. even more strongly on the nthject:—" We
are ouch barbarians here that we burn the 11.oly
C ....rely 1.. Cause they might be read hy
ProLeetanti." And forth. r on. in an ironicel tone. "We
congratulate the diren'o f the Cuitom house In Bar-
celona on the happy i lea of ha: ii.g ealected the day of one
, patron mint (St. Jame-) for ow rtiebration of this auto
de ft. In honiur of the Kitiglit on, the Whim II ine tie
i Catholic church's In Spain ralfrd Woods of income, and
I the Catholic State in Spain mut up clouds of =tote,
through the burning of the inopirial writings of Hatth"w
I awl J inn. . . . The Gusool, were burnt forth. simple
reason th ,t the, were app ;rout y intended al • fouti•••
book or ProteataLt Ehorle. Lelia...6rd. we Ibltull with
, shame. ao Liberal. we rt., eoragart, no freemen of this
nineteenth cauturtrove turn fore 0tt..1,a100 Iran approach-
ing future." Theism., paper gives • dmoription of the pro-
-1 ("waling, and adds: "We went away mat at been, and
thinking of what enlightened '(rope would in a few days
be saying about unhappy Spain."