The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-23 00:00:00

BELFRY BABBLE.

Westminster Clock Tower,
Tuesday, Sept. 16tb.

" Dorset people do not seem to have taken to
Tabnage " I heard a lady from that county say, who
bad rciased • ticket admitting to Sunday's merinos
and Monday'. "Bright Side of 'Phings." that she had
bed had "enough of it" on the Sabbath, and should
not attend to sj2a loiter. Weymouth and Portland
seem to hare had more than enough " and "less than
enough." He preached forth. rrimitire Methldists
at " Old Surrey "on Sunday morning last. There is
a report gelng about here that Spurgeon invited the
eloquent American to preach at the Tabernacle and
that Talmage'. reply (or that of his clever apnea) was
to the elect that "fifty pounds would be his fee for
so doing. This reoeired the immediate and distracter-
Laic reply 1,00 the Tabernacle, " We shouldn't think
of Airing £5O for that which we can get done equally
well for nothing."
Mr. Thomas spurgeon, youngest twin son of the greet
Baptist preacher, has been ordered back to Australia
for his health's sake, and he will very reluctantly take
his departure about the 25th inst. It is a sad blow to
his parent., as they had hoped great things of their
witty lad, and need 11. valued oompanionehip and help
more now than at any other time The young man
has been cautioned against much oratory, but if he
"torn. af tar" his father I fear medical orders will be
of little avail in checking his tongue. His father is to
preach the sermon for the Baptist Union in Scotland,
but he b.s bargained that no more ticketa than the
place will actually hold shall be issued, and that the
arrangement as to the building shall be under the
entire control of his Metropolitan Tabernacle Master-
of•Multitudes, whose nerve never fails, and whose
faculty for packing sixteen into space for six la of
worlclwide notoriety. Kr. Marcel, I think he is
called.
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e British workman hes been sketched off in Fre
and otherwise maltreated by pen and tongue, in lb':
matter of his striking attitudes, but I think there are
two sides to every bell* and • change does one all the
good in the world. This is whet I heard • huge
fellow saying quite recently : "Yes, I've been on the
intinent working, and am come over to fetch my
family. They know how to serve • fellow, do those
foreigners. How did I come to go? 'You see It was
like thi.. I worked over at --- fourteen years.
He was • decent chap, but he said he couldn't do no
bettei foe ms. Still I was settled and easy, when
that " (we forbear to shock our reader's nerves as
blasphemy is so uncommon in Dorm') " Gomm
to me and says, 'Blll, Fre got • job down in Warwick.
shirr, and if you'll just look erten 'em a bit for
me, I'll give ye --."l'hat was • pound a week
more than I was having. Like • fool I sold up and
lalt London with thirty pounds in my pocket, my wife
on my arm, and the four youngsters • pulling behind.
I wee down there just • week, when along comes
The meat was droppiog off me like pees. ' he
mys, ' I with ye'd look alive • bit and get this done.
It, • long while banging about.' I looks at him.
" What d'ye mean. I says. ' What I says,' he says.
'Look here,' says I, 'U you were in my country you
wouldn't see daylight for • mouth. What did y'
ewe to get me up 'ere for, if ye couldn't trust me.'
I'd a rived at him then, but I thought of my missal
and those four kids. Saturday I wasoff about twenty
pounds to the bad."
My near neighbour, the Rev. Newman Hall, is in
everybody's mouth again. It was rumoured that it
had become advisable because of the conduct of some
Christian friends (I!! !) for him to make • statement
from the pulpit. A great crowd filled the church to
overflowing on Sunday, and he prefaced his sermon
by a straightforward repudiation of current rumours,
and referred his congregation to their officials for
details respecting every question which the recent
trial might suggest. Two things trouble the public
mind, lirirsti, as to his right:et • divoros • second,
as to his right to marry n. First, titan, bow
world any man enjoy the bliss of paying £250 per
&DOWD Out of his hard earnings to keep • woman like
Mrs. Hall, for years, in the innocent (I) companion•
ship of Mr. Richardson. Answer that, my growlers I
And, secondly, seeing the husband could enclose such
a being, Le there any reason why he should not marry
a better, seeing that the Sermon on the Mount, which
everybody want. him to keep in spirit, letter, and
fancy (end yet nobody else la very ready to trouble
themselves about it in directions where it plainly
imam then what to do) may. (Matt. " Who-
soeeer shall put away his wife, mew fey the omen of
foonicati•ot, causeth her to commit adultery, In, lc."
0, the ,hypocrites, they "bind heavy burdens and
grievous to be borne, and lay them on men'.
shoulders; bet they themselves will not move them
with one of their fingers." There are" blind guides,
who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel," even in
the neighbourhood of
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