The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

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DORSET CHURCH ASSOCIATION.
Pbe In yew ya.damteafblU neention was UM
M the Guildhall, D•rird!ost,os maim_ L _MM.& While
Slim was • sureemen immmosoo• lael_rb• 11"..
O. W. Skarn emDA Mrs. 0. W. bmme, the Rev. IL
W. Peers emennen of the samoei), Mks Poems,
Me Rev. O. Templer, the Bev. H. Meele, the Rev.
IL Ladle, es.l Mrs. Ludlow, the Rev. R. Hesdised,
the Rem. W. Evans, the Mayo, of Dovebener (G.
Qum.. Ifn. eni Mks Owns, R. if. RUM, See.,
Kin idke. G. WM, le+, G. Azelrews, Esq. (Wey-
mouth). Dr. AMMO% Req. gamer
Deendeb,
Loveleer. J. liasost-517k. Geed, Mr. A.
knee, Kr. J. 4 Mr. H. Leak. Mr. T. Reenembe,
Mr. AIM, Kr. T. Poway, Mr. Z. Semi, Wm E.
Cesopkill,X. Mmatiett, Mr. Howe, Mr. J. Bsedlee,
Mr. Bawler, ke.

The Rev. C. W. anima was milled to the chair. The
flev. H. Moak,
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The Obskeme, In his latreduslory remarks, observed
as& ha MI we were liviap Wised is very serious times
—times al which we meld swab perhaps estimate
their tearful earkramess. The time had ow arrived
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when we mod nob be seatent with I" playlets at
" as it wees,bgb when we must, if we desire to
see lb. el Wird *anthem to be the blesslag
whisk be firmly believed it had hitherto been to Ude
land, rise up ewer, one, and determine to contend
earsesYy far "the faith ones delivered to the astute"—
(applause). God forbid that they light with carnal
weapons. They boil, he believed, every thing
they meld wish few on their He wee sa maildent
as that be aniseed that they had the Holy flesipeures oa
'hair alder— (applanae)--sod he saw train the arguments
astuutbonrard by the great Roesanising party in the
of Inglaail, 'pled whose they were spesially
called upon to meetend, that that perky do DM depend
oh the Holy Seripturea—Osser, bear). They (the
lloomnieing party) traded to • varying kind of tradition
for the support of their views, while they (the Evan-
gel/eel party) took their stead spas that blamed Word
whisk II iththangeable—(spplases). He then *Med the
order ef the evthing's moseediage. Referring to the
ewe of Martin it. thertimseelde, now before the Dean of
Aral", he apersteal of the statement of the
ore her the of UN obit by Kr. Stepheam sad
mid lie Itheght asabeey displayed by the
opposite menial, as shown bybis (request interrapelose,
i.ted that a most damaging ease had bees made out
spinet the ritualists. He them adverted to the mast
Progestimit CailiMlDOs at Willie's rooms, deeeribiag the
extraordinary enthusiasm which pervaded the great
amembly, sad the declaim they arrived at to support
the Marsh Amociation in • propitiation for preaching
false doctrine, by • guarantee fund of £50,000, where
only £10.0:10 wee asked for, and that on the panto(
Dorset IMO of the sum was undertaken to be provided.
In conclusion, he mid he did not care at all about the
question of vestments limply as eestments, but ooly I of
the fah* doctrine they symbolised—(oaisers). When
pimple told there that the Lord Jesus CbriA was bodily
present in the Lord's Supper, sod that His body and
blood were verily and indeed received by every partaker
of that Supper, though the most ungodly persons
possible, he felt that the time had come when they
meet fight —(applause). It seemed well to wise men
that they should light with legal weeponaand the Church
Assielation had spoken out boldly and nobly on the
subject, and he way quite sure that the county of Dorset
would not be behind in the good work it had commenced
—(obeem).
The Rev. R. W. Team of Dorthester St. Peter's, read
the following report. He antiouneed with regret the
unavoidable absence of J. Du Boulay, Eeq, J. C.
*wad, Esq., and (1.3. Andrews, Req., and he stated
that the Dorset guarantee fund idready amounted to
*lose upon GOO—(lond applause). This lathe report:—
" meeting the members of the Dorset Church
Association at the cod of the fine year of the ezistenee
of that amodation, the committee cannot ninth from
expremlog their deep regret that such an organisation
should be required; but, however glaciers their r
they feel that the duty of all true Protestant membersof our Church is blooming every day more plain mod
more argent, and they are thankful that they were led
to form this association at the oommenostomat 54 this

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year, and tbat it his been so warmly sopported by men
of ell classes and in all parte of the county. Banos its
irmation ninety-two members bare joined it; three
lectturos have been given, one by the Rev. W. S.
Moorvieff, and two by your Secretary. A considerable
newest of information on Church matters has been

ellif-U—ed by the• Association Monthly Intelligential.; and
before the pouts closed £4O will have been oontributed
to the Central Association. We may well be thankful
for so hopeful • commencement. But we must now
look to the future. The Central Association has taken
a great onward step. It hu determined to fight hence-
forth under none but purely Evangelical and Protestant
°clones • it has pledged itself to me of the most
luilitential meetings of Churchmen ever gathered,
at Willie's Rooms, on November 26 and 27, to bring
the doctrines is well as the ritual of the liomonisiog
party within our Church to the test of the
Courts of Law, provided that ElO.OOO be guaranteed
them to bear the expenses. This proposition has been
met with an undertaking to guarantee £50,000 by men
trots different parts of the land, and your represents.
tires at that meeting, confident in the hearty Protestant
tubas of the men of Dorset, have not hesitated to
guarantee E5OO from this county. The money so
guaranteed will not be called for at once, but as it is
required. • certain rate at each coil; it is confidently
expeeted that one fifth will be sufficient. Will the
People of Dorset support us, In no part of England is
the evil so threatening as in this county. More
especially since the declaration made in the House of
Lords by the highest Borgesiastical authority in this
direees, that no word or doctrine of his late charge will
be retracted. In no part of Eogland do we so much
need the support of a strong nod influential body, such
as the Central Church Association is well qualified te
become. Wo therefore not only trust that our sub-
scribers will continue their support, but that they will
ealist others in the came, and that men will not be
wanting to guarantee • sufficient sum to justify what
your rep...lent...levet hove undertaken. Itt. hoped that
branch associations may be formed in every town in the
county, and more frequent lectures may be given, when
the number of subscriber* justifies such an expense.
Your committee would have the people of Dorset
remember that the struggle in which they are
engaged, is ono of no ordinary character; the
elements of discord, that have for three hundred
years continually disturbed our land. are now is.
coining proportions so vast, and taking op a position
se threaten:ex, that all hope of peace is at an end;
It is a question of existence or destruction to our
church. Indifference at such times is treason; and es
two hundred years ego it was the yeomen and middle.
classes of England that saved our church and country
from popery and slavery, so we look with confidence to
them again to shew the same loyalty to their Protes-
tant church and their open Bible. And may Re who
Las so long blessed and protected our beloved country,
deal with us not according to our ingratitude aid unfaith-
fulness, but may He seater these clouds of rupentition
and infidelity by a large outpouring of he load, and
the wide diffusion of the light of his Truth."
The financial statement showed subscriptions, ho.,
112 34.; lectures, 61 174 ; meeting at Weymouth,
E 2 2s. 74.; a friend at Weymouth, ft ; tutu',
£.52 2s. 74. Of this sum £3O had been forwarded to the
central association.
The Rev. W. C. Templer, rector of Burton Bradetock,
moved the first resolution :—" That the report now
read be adopted, and printed for circulation anion, the
members of the Association, and that the following
gentlemen be requested to join the committee for the
ensuing year —Rev. T. Grooves, Rev. W. Templer, Mr.
Rey.W. Eliot. Rev. P. C. Plann, Bev. R. Smith,
Rect.!. Quirk (Blandford), Mr. J. Mercer, Mr. Ed-
munds, Rev. C. W. Bingham, Rev. H. W. Hawk's;
Bev. E. Headland, with power to add to their number."
This rev. gentleman spoke is his own earnest impressive
manner, thoroughly enlisting the sympathies of the
audience. He read a portion of a letter he received
from the Rev. H. Fox, the aged aux of Allington,
enclosing £5 for the guarantee fend, in whieh he alluded
to ear martyred reformers, and the attempt made now
to asperse their memories, with eatoniahment and indig-
nation. He referred to the doctrine of the Real Presence
Is the Lord's Sapper &nth* chief pant at Wes clearly
indicating how contrary it is to the teaching of the
Church of England, and in what a terrible position of
dependence the sacerdotal poweaclaimed for the priest-
hood would pimp the laity. He dwelt on the one
sacrifice ono, for all offered by Christ, and urged the
panesount importance of personal faith in Hits Strong
in the power which each a belief in the gospel gave them,
he felt that they were invincible—(applause).
The Rev. H. Houle seconded the resolution. He
insisted upon the position taken by the Evangelical
Party heti in sersordante with Holy Scripture and the
trashing the Church of England, and therefore, as a
loyal member of that *bomb, he was constrained to
oppine those erroneous simians@ which have been
wnt forth in high places in connection with her. He
urged the importenee of their studying the meaning of
the Scriptural prayers and phrases contained in the
Liturgy, and their being Increasingly anxious really to
wrestle with God when they joined in thou eerviars—
(applause).
The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
The Rm. F. ft. Cooke, of Lekeard, proposed the next
nutrition :—" That this meeting °maiden the Central
Church Amosiation to be the best organ is Wm for uniting
sad mmentrating the efforts of all Protestant Church-
men, a resisting the iutrodastion into our church of
Ritualistic practices, sad of the doctrines which are
thereby avowedly symbolised, and elide,s itself to use
every exertion to increase the number of members and
enlarge the income of the Dorset Auxiliary Association."
He delivered a muterly address on ritualism, Its roots
and its fruits, which was frequently and loudly
applauded- We have only ',pea to indicate its leading
pants. After denoting the characteristics of the
um uslises, he promeded Se speak of its awes. Some
said it was merely the re-action after the slovenly
=tanner in shah the =wasps of the chetah were eon-
ducted for sio many you; and others attributed it
no the general improveenant of teats in these days.
diet them things he raiMaled as having but small
influence in the matter. OEM ems roue of ritualism
Ire considered was seal—seal to glorify God and
to beautify His how. Yet oat of the malls
of this kind of seal less to lead ems not to
enemas Immure to the Word of God. In its*.
Put " the vacs of the Oberob," which amid be
interpreted to suit any views. Then there was
Lowrance of what the Worded God requires and of the
difference between the old and the new dispetteationa.
Nett he referred to the Ignorance manifested by the
ritualists of the teaching of experience. Rome had
tried • ritual.= far superior to the poor attempts of the
Anglican priests for centuries, sad the results bad been
most dimatroue both socially, morally, and spiritually.
Then the ritualists displayed grievous ignorance se to the
vitamin and doctrines of the Primitive Church, as he
plumed by reference to the Acts of the Apostles. He
then spoke of the valuable use they make of the word
''Catholic," the seatimentaliam of ritualism, its objec-
tivity. and the &arm:Sion it is to many just beginningto ask what they shall do to be saved, bemuse it pro.
rides them with *city of occupation, although it mires
them nothing which can satisfy the maul. As its fruits
he mentioned the perpetuation of the bad root, he had
named, the driving us further away from the sound
bodies of Christians in the country, and drawing us
nearer to the corrupt churches of Rome and Greece.
lie expressed an earnest desire for unity, but it must be
hand on God's imniatehle truth, with Mist as the

Wel esemer-Mose. In semelselon he WNW era the
isportense of the preseut crisis miff Whaled vie their
cordial pport of the resolatlee—fapplaas4
R. If. MLA, Sm., of Weymosth, weeded Um reeds.
Rom Be tie:might this. were two goodiess which they
aboold ask themselme et this thee: list. Is the present
mimes of grave end solemn importenee to the Ohara of
Inland end assondly, V so, are we premed to mike
everuaredilles Is orar mem 60 eland by sitarra ael e
has from Me foes Mte bar owl has..? With
merd to the hest emotion, he lumw them were some who
did not eonsider that airs was any gross& for congers
at the present tim.. axed who thought they made • great
deal too mark of Ore ritualists, hat he referred to the
Oonferesse in London, med poleted oat that these
who have earefeliy waidthed the wetter for years were
trapremed with en mimed overwhelm* MOM of the
gravity of the pressat whit, and the foaling was summed
spby Sir Bossy Bina.' et the semelesioa, when he
mid be felt that it was juts question of Cher& of
as Cheroh of Wand in this soentay.
lhatire or
believed to be the &steal position sad in view
of it. he sailed upon this. to sane toselber.
side all hobbies and erotabetu for the &Woe of the
Reformed Mush of Reelend—(appliMl4 When Ruff
remembered the seedless tiwdr forefathers midi to give
to them the Weald inheritance of re* DIA
isseived, it would empire bats Ina effort to
them to mist in defending it now. Is eonoisedoo, he
espremed maiden's thatsthe victory would be theirs
—(lPPlxsto). _

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A vote ol thanks was pawed to the Ohara= end
the Bev. & & Ceske. as the mottos of the Mayor of
Dorebester, seeseded by the Bey. B. Beadles& of
Broadway, who spoke a few seised words in support of
Prot...landau.

111 avilsow=ing the vote, the Chairman lida b.
U
wow M weer spoken of in the report as
having been applied to in this county for the guanuatos
fund was Robert Williams, Esq.—flood applaase)—to
whom ha wrot• simply stating tie resolution arrived at
at the soaferenws, lad by return of post he received
a letter from Yr. Williams offering to guarantee 00—
(load applaasa).
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The Rev. O. W. Bingham then pronounced the
beseaistica, sad the noel's sePirst4d-