The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-28 00:00:00

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.

The claims of thie noble society were advocated on
&sudsy et St Peter's and All Sainte' churchee by the
Rey. R. G. Fowell, Association Secretary, the Rev.
T. W. Knipe. and Rev. H. F. Jones. The collections
M St. Petite. amounted to .ClO 5e., and at All Sainte'
to MI sa.

The manual meetings of the friends of the society
were held on the following day in the Alington Hall.
In the shwa rn Mr. R.. If. Eliot presided supported
on the platform by
_Rev. T. W. Kola ate Rev. J.
fintart Scott (it. Mare's. Weymouth), and the Rev.
R. G. Bowls, the two latter gentleman attending as a
dilatable. The attendance was not lama An
prayer having been offered, the Gammas
2:ieilertaillr. Knipe to read the report.
The Rev. T. W. Kites regretted both the absence of
the secretary, the Rev. Lee Warner, and also of a
secretary's report. Frost the statement which be
(Mr. Knipe) presented to the meeting it appeared the
sum total remitted from Doreetshireaurruntad to E 6137,
while the total receipts from the country at large were
£48,549. That amount included sums locally
contributed to meet grant.. This was employed in
the support of 535 additional curates and 167 lay
meats in parishes with an astes population of over
7,000 souls. Six grants were ma& within the diocese of
Salisbury. The rev. gentleman further remarked
webeariptioss were now due, and be earnestly hoped
Dorchester would show no diminution of interest in
the important waek of home maims undertaken by
theElharoh Peet tel Aid Society. He made f•cling
alinsion to the line ii. clad by the Dorchester branch
of the Society daring recent years—espedally to a
lady who had largely Inle-vemeid hayself in the Society
for a many Years, and raised it hp is W. mew
position of being the beet county society in all England
—Mrs. Reginald Smith ; be also referred to the death
of the Be,. Charles William Bingham, who for 5
years pest bad very rarely mi-sed the annual meetings.
The cause in which the society was engaged was he
cause of eternity, and he urged thrm to work for
eternity, to live for an eternal Saviour, and in the
brightness of an everlasting hots. He preyed God
to Mess that mmeti.ig, and tbe great cause in which
they are gat ber. d together. ( %poisons. )
The OItAIIMAII main led them once more of that
feature of our uto lern civilise ion, which was at once
the amen and neoeeeity for the work of the society—
be meant the very great deve'opineut of large cities
ad huge towns, and that asp-daily with regard to our
OWD country. The population of England was feat
becoming • town p pule% I the tide teat steadily
Sowing on, as otatisime showed, fr. im the country to
the towns, and the p palstion was ranidly erowing up
around their barge cent, • of manufacture. It was quite
Impossible that the ordinary parochial machine, y could
overtake the need, anii Iti he people were to be touched
and influenced by the Gospel. it must be by some such
volunteer agencym this cidety—nottompereede but to
supplement, and try to 611 up the ordinary parochial
machinery. He was quite sure the society now needed
their help net as muck as at any former period of its
history. Much had been dons, but still there remained
mach to be does, as every yet, Increased the needs
and the Importance of • work like that. With regard
to the funds of the society, it had suffered more than
some of the other leading societies during the last few
years. All had felt the premium of the Some, but
some of the other societies, such as the Bible Society
and the Church Missionary Society, had rebouode4
is It were, to their former positions. But tbe Church
Pageoral Aid Society had not recovered its ground so
effectually as some of the others. This wet an
addition .1 reason why they should stir themselves up
to do all they could for the society. He wad quite
rare in Doreetshire they ought not to let down the
good work which Mr. Knipe had alluded to, and he
urged them to follow the bright exampies of those
who had gone from amongst them, and do all they
could to hold up the hands of the society in the week
so far as they could. In Doreetabire they had no
large towns and no large manufacturing centres, bot
It was our privilege to send • very considerable
measure of help from our sparsely scattered population
to help those who were in need In the northern and
midland counties and large centres of Industry. He
trusted they would still be able to keep up their old
reputatloe„ and send considerable aid to the parent
society. (Applause.)
The Rev. J. HUMS Baer said he was very glad to
be ersmint to speak on behalf of the Church Natrona
ma society. He specially wished to refer sc one
point, via . the umlaut need of such • society as sue as
the wisest isomest. NO doubt they were all aware,
of the misty, It was ia the year 1636.
It that siges thin were three Winos souls without