The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-01 00:00:00

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THE BEV. J. B. COX ON ," FLARE UPS.
To the Editor of the "Defog Comfy JrzOrtre,
Bi,,—WIU you kindly allow me spice in your
valuable paper for a few remarks on the speech of the
Its,. J. B. Con, it the anniversary of the Litton Cheney
club. As the first ettreetioa in Oddlellown and
Foresters' societies, he pliers" the show and tan up,
the grand dresses, he., on their seedy thy*, and all the
paraphernalia." I venture to ray that not one in •
hundred of those who join these grand provident insti-
tuting. is at all Wassailed by the "pomp aed einem.
stenos" of Forester,' or Oddfallows' demonstration,
sod ills • little uncharitable for the Reath of Litton
Cheney to think such is the ease. Ido not for •
moment deny that oththal " dare ups" afford gratifies.
lion to the members of each @smithies, but beans@ they
are times of holiday-making. There still appears to be
• residuum of "barbaric taste" in the English mind,
which leads no don "gaudy dresses" on high days sod
holidays. Bending to the Whims of the times we no
longer stain our skins with the soth dye our Baron fore-
father. wad to reader aboloooiVtl winsome and gas.
But I think there is not WO of personal decoration now
than then. Is there not rather mush more?
When did the ladies—Ood bless 'era— ever eppear
In more rainbow colours f When did the
=— all honour to them —nso re zealously
themselves, on their show days (Sunday@ sad
saints' days), with bliss (the old woad-dys and the
Oddfellowe' distinctive isobar), and green (the
Foresters' special hue), and orange (sacred to religious
party processions in Ireland) sad purple, and
Barlett Let our foundation stow layinp, and school
teem, end *bora federal' answer. Why then should not
the Foresters and the Oddfellows harmlessly adorn
themselves—if &dor:meth they regard it— with bine
or pees maths, and the other "grand eireems" whisk
tradition —and perhaps a good deal more the thage—
smoothies with their other? The good taste of these
displays may be • natter for discussion, but to my that
young MOD are led to join the Foreeters or Oddfellows
6thnse of then is • liheL Hundreds, nay &hotheads,
have never worn a malt, or a rosette, and never will;
but, if it is @twin osothionally for some so to do,
why should they not, espeeially when there are such
precedents in favour of gaudy attire? Asa, 111 mistake
not, the Litton club (who rammed this lecture on the
enormities of Forestery and Oddhillowship) do bedeck
themselves with rosettes of white, and blue, and
seariet, appear is waistcoats and neckties of more
brilliant and varied oolong.' than anything Foresters or
Oddlellows can boast, sod carry unmanageable wands
I believe the rector of Litton is • thoroughly good
man, and his efforts on behalf of the village
slab reader him worthy of all prelse, bat, how human
be is He NM der off and &pothole the blue and
grew sashes of the Oddfellows sad Foresters, hut bas
no eyes for the erotism and show diem of the =embers
his own club, to my nothing of the Abbess of the
village maidens, over whim be has jarisdietion. Well.
men, I forgive the Hester, but be was rather too hard
on 00 To young men, however, I should like to say a
word. Is there not something solid in our Foresters
and Oddfollows. soeithies ? Is it not a grand thing,
when a member falls sick to he safe of 12a.
a week for twelve 'months, aid Fs • wok se long
ss be needs it, with • damtor's atheodanes and medicine
too ; sad this he the aware by paying from Ls. 94. to
Fs. dd., a mouth setecthiag to his age when be enters. As
to treaties to the perish doolor, whisk the Rector of
Litton Choosy sompithently oostemplates, that doe•
sot stoma very those: of that working-man indepen-
dents& width, I believe, is the best guarantee for the
welfare of the country. A team, in the Litton
society, the Rector says, is the breaking-up of the chili
sad dividing. Now, that has besa proved beyond doubt
to be a rotten tied thee& pried* ; for, of soarse. If a
member resolve@ his money use in ten years, when old
ege my. on or eleknese comes, where is the espital to
on?tall bask Or if as eMdethe were to appear
thump{ them, where are the feeds to support their
okk nob. says, Uea Oddlellow were to pay in
till he be Afty years old, and sever had any sickness
be would have paid into the mei* £33, and have
nothing out, theath in the shape of fetheral money.
There he is in error. The lodges may be thing ones
in Ave years, and the surplus died amengai the
members by increase of sink pay, or, 11 they be not ill,
and, therefore, do not receive their mosey in that way,
Is would be aided to their fans& mosey. I have no
wish to And fault with the Litton dab. but I think ilt•
rev. gentleman might have set forth its merits without
Indies bolt with ours. Then are new upwards of
429A0 members in the llaachester Unity, and I think
most people will believe they did not all loin for the
m .
mks of a flase-ap." I only bops we may have
amble that number by tads time sant year, sad beg
to saketiribe ewe&
AN OGDFILLOW WITHOUT REGALIA.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1869.

dealing with this Mural. Fantail partite
amend to Mk their bone of swam ea lbs pesiting
they have takes ie nopeet to
This wee saileethedly less as togarthiliatireitrililissrelb,L
the animist a whisk involved importeat imam,
pan's', *eel, and sada. He gave the leaders es
both Ades credit for sleaerity in the jades mid
t ighteessmet of their ears. Wale deploring the d
eadowsteat sad dissaablishasat of the bin shank,
he quoted approvingly the words of cur Bishop is Cloa-
voosties, when be mid that it would he wens the
nationality of the chetah were to he maiatabted by it*
siotineisg all sandal opialese—beng estalthibui with-
out a weed. Be Maimed that the primed dithesities
1 of the Irish Marsh would result in its Wag laviitorlited
and made mare salve for good; aid that it maid be
the *oar for se through the bleats of the liks rough
Forage. They most look lasts is the Isos, and he
pointed to the following as porteediag a further
ooeflia-1, tee Christians of the United Kingdom of
Grin Britian and Ireland—to my nothing of the
saloons -ere divided into several important bodies.
holding no communion with each other; 2, the State
no already allowed the establishment of two Murtha
on. in England, another in inotlitlid 3,the
Sale has given toleration, or the felled liberty,
to all religious; 4, the Queen in person has neither the
will nor tia power to establish any on church at tb•
true churn; 5, Parliament is spoielly inoompetent to
decide oe queen* of relied. because it has ratiouneed
Its religious oonstitatioa, by regmalog no religious pru.
feudal from its members; 6, that the nationality of
the Marsh has already been donated from in several
ways, vie, by planar all pasts far educiatioe on a level
of equality, by the anowledgmest of all religious
desontinationa, and by the abolition of chnrobrites.
With these and other fans before them they had to
madder what course the). should take. Their motto
should be Pro wriesios Doi. He was eonvined that
what would best dame the true interests of
the Church of Busload would tend most to
the odvanesaaant of the well being of the state.
He urged them to faith and unity, and observed that
al wished to place the each on • vantage ground,
but were not weed what that position woad be. It
as codas the Irish Church woad not regain her old
pelotion, end In thought that the alternative which
would have bola offered her woad have mon 'anomaly
endangered bar end much more have hindered her
And it was char that the principles which
Oti" otbe disestablishinat and diad&wment of the
Irish Church, woad, under similar eireamataacts, lead
toe similar resat in England. Adelina{ this ha did
sot think the event near in this sonny. In England
the established church bad still • well-askoodedged
held on the heats of the people ; and, though it would
be fame to mart that the majority meld determine of
the truth of God, yet it was true that in this *dry
the majority had the power to determine whether one
should or another which professed to teen that truth
be the established mama religion. He
tenanted that mgdilatmul would be made in the
present relations between Chetah and State, and be
thought th• emporiums of the Irish Church womb be to
their instroctioa and ribrastage. He thought it woad
tend to the removal of them seasdale whin hays existed
to the present, I. connection with the sale by motion
or otherwise of advowsons and presentation to livipp—
treating IA a mere marketable commodity, the curs of
so many ham= souls—the fewer the better, and their
purchase being made sometimes for sons irrespective of
their @teem for the high dunes connected with them.
The right of presentation was a solemn trust, and not
• men legal tiammetin, and in its exercise trustees
stood before God Gauged with the burden of personal
revocability. Tbe freedom of the Irish Church he had
good bon would lona in bawd results. He then spoke
of the compulsory abolitioe of church ram, mid, while
admitting that the old parochial imehinery loft still for
oollesting cburob.raiee ought not without very good
ream to be pot aside when a rate was granted with the
good-will of the parish, he indicated the Medellin of
the weekly offertory, and spoke appraisal, of the
proemss it is waking. He pointed out that it was
essential to the acmes of the offertory system that those
who contributedsbould have • there in the manegemeat.
Viand= fete were the nest subject of
remark,
and the Antenna spoke in fevour of a ::
reduction of sookodasticel fees. He advocated as
Manus of the episcopate, and indicated the importaase
and edema* of yearly ionlrmatiou: The Odense
dithelty was again reviewed, and the end of Goa
rotation approved. Education was next adverted Is.
sad the erndeseon expressed a hope that the praise
ming objection to • rate for education would not be
lightly pat made, as be believed it would
extinguish voluntary efforts, and would result rag!
emularisation of education by the eliminain
of the teething of al dogmatic truth. He thought
*heel canna would be the extension of the preen{
systems of denominatioal grants No doubt then
wen many places where proper Naimoli were not to be
load, and these should be seppleometed, tad the
question wee whether the SUM should originate snails
luf useful and secular education, when voluntary efforts
had not provided schools. The remarks of Mr. Friar
on this subject had remind much attention. Be (Hr.
true!) was not hostile to the principle al • rate,
provided it was Incorporated into the present system
and did not throw the control of the schools into the
hands of the ratepayers, but let the rats be levied on •
certain area, and distributed to all mutated schools
within it, not displacing the pretest inansgemeia, but
supplementing local efforts and eanalling reluctant
OWDIATS of property to °attribute to the work of educa-
tion. The Leadsmen then cant attendee to the
claims of the Damen Ohara Babies Society, aid
referred to the restoratioa of Salisbury cathedral. The '
mad utignalos of labourers and dairymen woe the
nest topic, and the Andaman recommend the nese
of loiters commaidatery to the pagan of the new
whither those persona remon. In
rellimArehdemon observed that the times in which the
lot was ad were very eventful ; their priasiplos and
prance were narrowly tested; yet let them not mot- '
plain, but rather endeavour solo live and work that
they might command theinseives to ovary man's son-
denim in the sight a God. He urged their relidoe on
the spiritual gin of the olareh rather than en the
advantages It derives from the State, and contended
for the right of the eburoh to wand its own affairs.
Finally, he indietted encouraging signs of the vitality of
the shank, sad urged to *read bathtub's'. Then,
said L• Oar hibosr will not be in vain in the Lord."
"Not might, ace by power, but by my Spirit, math
the al Heels"