The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

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WINUFTLN C11•1111.—Tb• sew beadle.; is oesseiblea
browlyes Boehety, will be opened es is 12th
peeeeeber.

Naval, Paosorrow.-11r. F. Hallett, sae of Kr. B.
0. tfakii, ham Matti, hese promoted serglaesr,io
lI.Wa Novi.

—Tx—, old Wesleyan Merl, in Boed-street, bas realised
Am sod the •13.11tooppr's Lore sod sehiel-reouts
~g).deire £l5O. Both propertir WON purebred foe
the Reformed Methodist body.
Mamoru Riots Nrw Causer.—Amoursil ib• lutist
osetributioes towards tits funds requited for building
the no. rank. pier the railway ertioti. Ii /BO tub
sorbed by Beery Edwards, Er., XP.

ELBOTION 01 IlsisaaL 0111C11011 Fos 711 Urfolt.—
Oa Tuetdsy, 26th last., Masers. Simpson and Grille,
Jun., aleened goodies' oaten (or ths solos work•
house. sag the parishes al Wyk. Regis awl Meleombe
Basin
BALL-01 Thses4a3 a fashionable bail took
ease, at the Royal Hotol, und.r the pateeease .1 0.
126•Sleesses, Beg., G. Bishop, Bag., sad the °Moen
al the 13th Regimes*. Benle's quoted's baud was is
selesissen

llrurAirr Foirra4r.-0,4 Monday afternoon the
tune& of a colon tof the 13t1 entrain* took
place. The re(uneot.J band polaying it- "Dead Mareh"
sail about 100 soldien followed &sowed from the
barracks to Wylie church, where he was interred. The
nsual tine volleys were heed over the grave.

Wocuuna Men'e Cum—On Monday evening Mr.
Josspb Drew delivered hie lecture on "Labour, the
czman's capital" at the Working klen'a club, when
wan more than en average attendance, and
MM. jpilimpiplag enunciated by the lecturer ware on the
whole wall-received.

A erw Syne or PAYING Rare —On Sunday a man
Tepresentiag himself am a painter took a siOt's
in a street near the railway unties. and deeam=ge
fallowing morning as, rying away with him netritta
'satin suit of clothes the property of his Itadlord. W.
Mod saintly add that the !vet slimily objects to
this mode of squaring aismunti The polioe smilect.
ties are fa full possession of tha faits of the use.

Ilswo or ewe 13rw itionnort—Thie hand
tar hore at the emir *- -mac al
titapriay to great the a rr.- paes.
of the town have freely earivaseed their policy, laid
their verdict is not very omnplimentary to the railway
company. The 13th band playing here would certainly
be both a great treat and attraction, and it would not,
surely, be money thrown away, I/ a subscription wenn
art en foot to defray tha weekly expenses of the baud
boot and to Portland.

ATRLETIC Ana cIATI.N. —At the meeting of the
Town Council previous to the last, the mayor stated
that he had received a deputation from the members
of the Athletic Association requesting permission to
use the premises in St Nicholas-street, belonging to
the council, and now unoccupied, for the purpose of
making it a gymnasium for the winter season. The
council then agreed to grant the request, and lines
then, through the efforta of come of the members. •
complete gymnasium has been fitted up with trope.,
parallel bars, horizontal bar, swings, vertical roves,
hand rings. he. In addition to these, gloves have been
provided, together with bagatelle table, At. There
appears to have been no efforta spared to make the
gymnasium as attractive as possible. Outdoor amuse
meat* have not been overlooked, and foot-ball, hockey.
Ac.. will keep the blood of the members from stayed-
ng in the cold days of the forthcoming winter.

CHURCH ABBOCIATION NIHTINO.
• earreetag of thin seelety was held In Ith 14.47 s
Btheairoom, on Heathy moth& fee the of
selabillahleg • breath emir la Weyinearrr
scrim with the rusty already in ..t.....
The With. I'. A. °reeves prodded. There was • laws
thleadease, probably ftom six to sum Imadred prisset.
On a ruse were several coloured &awry illarediee
of the shambles ind other retheate employed by the
Ritualists in their earemonials.
Ille proosedinp were opened with ohm* and prayer,
thee which
The Chairmaa said that jib. had had a wish to
sleepy their time that night at any lime* hit would sot
have bean able I. do so. as be bad nearly last his miee,
sad in far ho ought not to have hem 1b.,.;
but WU he did thank God to ese se lame • mitrring
of User whom he believed were prepared to unite heart
and soul in straggling, by the help of God, to ionised.
those Protestant sad Evangelical prioeiples whir
underlie the whole stability, snores, and glory of the
beloved Established National Church of this land. He
was not sorry, however, that he had a good tames for not
addressing therm at any length, roars he felt bet
speaking to thee as their minister from thee to time fee
this topie, there might exist the feeling that he a. a. in-
diet hial speaker exigmersted the importance of these
things, and that hit bad • tearer to exaggerate the
geetteess of that errs in whirs he believed our beloved
, Church to be plead at this time, and that therefor.
oat of the =oaths of two or three wieners every word
might be established. He was truthful they had this
opportamity of heariag from two geutleonte, ped,,egyi I
' ladepondene, who were is the habit of going about from '
parieli to perish in various parts of the wintry, what
wee the real seed and neereity for mush Char It Aro-
statics es they were about to rethink in Weymouth.
Therefore, wittiest oesupying any more of their time be
word cell spoil OIL P. lowa the °remising secreinty
of the sosiety, to describe to them the nature and
°predate of taw work sittemphid to be reefed oat,
and also to lay before them the valeta feels whir
proved the mereity of sash a work. Then be should
°all •poa the jilm. Marl Cook, of IA beard, tu enforce
whet Hr. Hoer had said. He oeuld only eaustly
how that the rums and supplications they had already
offered up OS behalf of our Church end country, might
be beard aid aastrered, ant idisit God might, in his
goatiaml pity, erase sad defead his Cithroh--(liear,
her).
dr. Poseliesthy Kam then addrereed the meeting, to
show what were the Mirth estesevisted by the Church
Aseociatioa. He bad then deleasted to so throughout
the lon gad breadth of the land for the roams of
societies in conneeticie with the aentral
liariisi al ..;•;r: Is LIT, ph,„..,:paals tiloneetb, eseZ :ea,
-,... ease now he was in south of England, and he might
. band a -.... my this saltiest had been taken tip en maw by the
people in the towns sod counties through
.which he had
. passed. He would first prooeed to sapient what Rit-
ualises was. It was an essay to bring both the people
of Ramrod to the arms of the Church of Bose; and this
sod was radeeveared th be attained by an introdustim
of Romieh practices into the Chetah of England. This
object was no longer • matter of disclaim) on Usi part of
IL. Ritualists thirstier. Not only so but they
eadeavonnid to defend the course they had taken and
were sow prating. In a tract from which he quoted.
the premise of wearing eesiments was justified i and
histrionic display in Church ethemonial we. de-
fended an the ground of suractiveness ; just as a
theatre with Militant reek effects drew scowler people
. there is the throes of "ear.," utd es • well lighted
gin palms 'meld he fall when • dark one would be
. empty. Ceatrary to what was averred by the tit-
*Latham, be held shot there weak lawe had tree in the
rebries of the Prayer Book regulating the divans and
, sermionies to be observed in the Reformed Notional
I Church of Rng'end. The Acts weed in the
i trim of Elnablett and Marie. 11. prescribed
. everything that was lawful lobe seed, and unless these
, laws were roweled or sew ones were sale by Congo.
. eagles, they held good. Not Italy .as the ritualistie
Fish ohjamenable in abseil, but it was dangerous,
thumb se it inealeatad by symbols the dextrines of
the Mune of Room Turning then to 7..'oesubetantia-
tioa and 'Frinenbetantiatiou, he said the itithelisto
• offered the wrier of the mar upon the altar—them
. holding with Routh that there was an unidoody as well
. as a bloody sionflin—oontrary to the teaching of the
Reformed National Church of England, which Mild that
when Christ preoccupied the words Teidriati (it is
Gourd) on the erre the wrier for the redemptioe of
mankind, warn complete. To tomeify the moos, aid
Increase the authority of the priesthood was the
re's. why the Orr was so nobly doweled, and
was placed I° the ebamel, the moot oonsrievons
part of the church. It was argued that they did not
worship the " host." This was quite falterer. Tie
Idolatry was the same as that prattler by the Pages,
who what bowiag before an Mame of Jupiter did not
believe the statue to he Jupiter, who he thumb% was in
lily:apse. This armistice then had been crated by
the want, of the case. The English Church !Joie., a
rituidistie society, had 4,000 members and of them
2.000 were mat in holy order*, 800 of them holding
b ,netiese and the rest orates and those out of employ-
ment, thus one-tenth of the clergy of the present day
were Ritualist.. TM obj-et of the Church hears.
lion was to pat down Ritualism. Lord thaftesbury's
hill last swim was toe means of obtaining a
11.yal Coe.misthon, and so much of their verdict
ea had been published was condemnatory a
Ritualism. In reclusion of his speech, which lasted
upwards of an hour, be earnestly entreated them te
become oembers, and do all that lay in their power
towards helping the Church Ammiatioa
Ti,. Rae. F. 8. Cooke V Unheard, then eddies's.'
the meeting. He said that the matter that lir celled
them together eras a very interestiog one, as was proved
by the large usambly he saw present. It wee an
'interesting tubing both for time and eternity. They
I were spealciag of «stein mitten not merely referring to
I postures, elicitor a man should stand wit or west, but
i the whole foundation of our Uthologic steal was eon.
1 goreed in this matter. It was • question whether GM's
troth or man's frinoW ghoul Lathed ; whether we shoold
enettem to walk in she " old paths" which the finger
if God had traced for us, or whether we should take
thou bye-paths, that seemed to be so much more
pleasant, but which id no further and farther away
from Him who is our shepherd and our goide. He felt
• deep respontibility of addressing them; but be felt
more that the great emu of enith might suffer through
his inadiethacy. It Was a solemn metier to 'peek of
I these thieg., and he confroset to • isms of hue:dithers ;
I and he *as ashamed that it thottld be thought needful for
Ihim to stand before than and endeavour to uphold the
principles of the Reformed Church of &slur. Wee
It come to this, that alter 300 years of preo hog God's
Gospel to the faithful, they had become like Least of old
to loathe this light bread, to lust after the fifth-pots of
Egypt? There were thou:tads at the preeent day who
dspieed the pure Gospel of the ,iavionr, and who lusted
aeon after the thinp front which God in His merry
li d once delivered them; out who would fain lead
ham oor thumb to the Finn from which God had
mooed it, and who were not 'thaw d to my it was a
sad d.y when we left the land of Egypt. If we believed
this question concerning t..• Gospel of God's troth,
then indeed •• mast not prove unworthy descendants
of those who gave theuuthes too the stake for the
Iherty of worship, and for upholding the purity of
Christ's Gospel. There were some rightuiuded and
kind-hearted people who said there should he pros in
their day. But he believed the battle had bogus, and
though the roll of the thunder was not heard, and
though the skirmishing might be thought slight, yet
before long there would be a general arum along the
wads 1i.., and unless, we would he cowards we
should have to again fight the whole battle of
the lieformation—(applauw). He loved peace, but
when he tuned to the Book he found the Gospel
Iwas not to be altogether peace; for when the Muter
came he said "1 am not imme to bring peace, but •
sword." He found on* mimic, confirmation of this
In She Bible, for on one memorable ...aim, when two ot
the A poetise were tome to far, one rebuked the
eta r for slaying fast and loom with the mud of
Christ. What would persoes of the present day say
if when embracing the delightful opportunity of hearing
two of the Apostles, they had heard the one rebuke the
other for playing lest ant loose— he used the words
adeiseily—with the liberty and suffigiencry of the
Gospel? It would have been said what a lamentable
thing: what will be rid by those outside; here the
Apostles °sour agree anunard themselves. But ender-
stood er morunderstood, the Apostle of the Gentiles—
taught of th iiit— thought it his duty to stand firm
when the .uEniescy of the Gospel warn questread, and
h 0 could not gm pbs., "annul for an hour," even to
his brother Apostlu Peter. Peter knew the Gospel, bet
did not act up to it. It was no falling off fr so Ilse
imth on his part, but he la 4 sot the 00E114Y at the
nght time. But'Paul 'toed fast for the Gentiles and
declared thst whether eireennoised or uncireamoleal
they were all is Christ Jesus. It was not now a goes-
glue of law. The law had delved ita Davies purpose and
, had pooled away, and now (hi. and tlith alone was to he
upheld. In like manner they must not give pier tabs
sabfered to their brother ministers, Those might
bo eell intentiord ' • but it they knew them to be in
error, it wu their duty not to yield, and there could
not be pea..; peace after truth—firth pure and then
peaceable. We Meet first maintain them foundation. on
which rose tree peace and onion could be built; mid
then when we were all of oat heart and mind we .hoeld
have tone peace. Borne ties ago, if some one had
spoken to *nether about Treetarianiam, that person
would have manual there was no °session to trouble
about It; it was an ineignifirat movement; it was
, only a few Jona( libee feet froth from Oxford, and Ailed
1 with notioes of lisordotel diva,. Was it to be sup.
potted that the Chime of &gaud was Is he sheiten by
this inovement—by e few yelleff Mee who wore • few
more buttes. or logger oars than other people? Bet
what was the ease sow? Toneerly they were very
stria& about the minim end the gown; hut the move-
ment had advanced, and themilwhe at the meet were it
Ohs top, wow were Mort at the bottom. Now nothieg
but the °bauble, delmetras, Mar, and a hundred
other things would mealy them. Let as er how one
of dune thief champions argue. He ter "the Prays*
Book rewire wean trap to be does, sad the way
of dreg them. It there told them in so many words
how they were to be dem, gad referred them to times
past from which the. eisirgy were to learn how to do
them. It menet he than to slay me elm looked ioto hie
Prayer Book that three were a great many things to he
done in She 'emir of the aura not reentiosed in the
rutile,; it wee gaits dear ther;fore • sisegenten semi
Ind out how theme things were dose before the Rabe-
station, aini before the but Prayer Beek." He would
show tho fallacy of this positioe by lastardeg • will
that ere beteg al minimums! to should he disputed
and so me one endeavours to Trona it, by interlining it
with reams wills end codicils that bad been sweatily
re, • oked. Now, at the Refonnuicio, the Prayer Beth
O'estinetly revoked all the torah books that went before
it. There sr • clear revocation and annulment ; and
4 it WY empliatnally and distinctly deplored that the
ministers should make use of that book and no other.
The Ritualists were not satiated with this, but they
mast g i bee& to the eeseandetioe of popish rabbi*
that had bra previously ant aside. And admiring the
duantombed beauties of coed anthem, thought it de-
sirable to had their locks Wok to the future matures
The various ways in whir' this was sodomite:al to he
effeCted were by minthally aseastonsing the people to
the nee of Impish phrases, earth as iatroducine berm
maim Christ the hoe of Huy, Inate.d of Soo of Kea.
ana of 0 al, or Sc. of Dore. Then haring another
pradiug fur the interesthea of Bt. Pet-raid Bt. Pani.
Th.oe were ado by Ads trial sash brew as "Rock of
Ages," and thus the putties were respecting to the Mae-
Cation. Another weds, rill mete Werth% was
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