The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

lying dead onvthe floor of the room down stains; think,
ing she might have fainted he threw water over her her,
and called some neighbours, who speedily came aad
found life was extinct The body was not cold.
Deceased appeared to have been sitting on a chair, aad
to have fallen on the edge of • bucket, as their way a
oat on her head and blood on the edge of the bucket,
title was aubject to • tough, bat was in her usual health
on her huaband leaving her an hour or two previously,
and to supposed to have broken • blood vessel internally
as blood lamed from her mouth. After corroborative
evidence being given, the jury returned a verdict of
" Died by the visitation of God."

BRADPOLE.
mmerows. —A meeting on behalf of the Society ter
the Propagation of the Gospel was held in the school
room of this parish on Thursday—St. Andrew's Day.
The attendance was large, and csouipd almost entirely
of inhabitants of the village. The promedinm cora.
menoed with prayer, and the chanting of Psalm layS.by
the aboir.—The Vicar, the Rev. Prebendary Breathey.
then addressed the meeting in a short speech, in whit(
he expressed his.gratitleation at seeing so many of Ws
parishioners assembled, end remarked also on the epee..
priateoess of the day for the ooession on which they
were met together, the Saint whom the church on that
day commemorated haying been one of that gamed bead
of missionaries whom oar Lord himself sent forth to
screed the knowledge of His Gospel throe/cheat the
world. —A f ter • few words from the Rev. J. 8. Cuth
the Curate of 13radpole, the Bev. H. C. Hui
Rector of Bettiscombe, rose to advocate the, claims
the society. He began by remarking that from the
Psalm which had been chanted that evening they might
gather what was the true method of missionary work.
In that Psalm they prayed that God would be rosesifei
to them and bleu them and show the light of His counts,
canoe upon them. And in the nest verse was given the
reason, the great end, for which they should seek them
blessings from God, viz., that His way might be kno Ira
upon earth, His saving health among all nations. In
these verses ,was contained the argument of what he
was going to say, which was that God implanted, and
was continually implanting, in.. Tarim, wants of ono
kind or another, in order that through them we might)
he led to have intercourse with the inhabitants of other
lends, end to make His name known among them.
This is what oreght to be the effect of colonitetion.
Those who are led either in the pursuit of trade and
commerce, or for any other purpose, to emigrate to fir
distend lands, ought to be 'elect missionaries to spread
the knowledge of Christ among the inhabitante of those
lands. But it was sad to think that rather the opposite
of this was too generally the cue—that Englishmen had
corned the vices and sins of so-called civilization rathee
than the blessings of Christianity into the countries
whither they had gone. The rev. gentleman then went
on to show how this evil result was in part the souse-
queues of no sufficient provision being made for the
spiritual wants of those who thus went out, and how,
where such provision had been made, far different in-
sults hed been obtained. He illustrated his remarks by
an account of the Colony of British Columbia and the
Church's Mission there, sod also by references to the
Sandwich Island., and to India, especially those parts it
it where public works, such as railways, &a, were lining
4:myriad on. In the last instance he mentioned how the
navvies who had been sent out to construct these works
had been in many oases converted by the labours of
missionaries, from being instrumental of great evil, into
instruments of great good among the people. The rev.
gentleman concluded a most interesting and eloquent
speech of an hour and a halfs duration, by earnestly'
impressing on his hearers the blessedness of those who
were allowed to help in any way in the great work of
bringing souls to God. A vote of thank, to the rev.
lecturer was proposed by T. North, Fag., and seconded
by T. Beach, Esq. Two hymns were then sung and the
benediction given by the Vicar. The eellection amounted
to LI 14s. 6d.