The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

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Tirirei Ps Nur. el Boaresiontlaid the work of
the Mbeirmiew MOM, was or of the
readier echoes* UuMerewitteted the of man. or
it was It enterpriell as (Mk se glorious, as holy, sa
blessed, as the world had over ger. Sweatt years ago
the society woe foneded : sines then hundreds and
thorands of pounde had been collected and spout—
hundreds of men and worms* kuid left their native loads
imosemee., haanhes badger to spend the beat el
ulstr "r°6l's 'Philo wiry of theta had menaced
their sees in this tars. Whet was it all for 1 In order
to proprate that Chriettea faith which we held: sot to
1.,,. it epee the skeeewl•see if re world rite point of
the sword or by re t gra of permerioa ; bat, to
mirruide mea to reserve that belief in whir oomph*.
If that they thee might lie spread &bred was a rsltgton
they kael devised for thearetre, or lilt wars a More
opintoo of mad ore of tha mar leaned, then, ha
11, the wit& of the Cherie Mireeary flosiely
would be • mad scheme : het. if what thy/
argil to sPrograbread woes theist rev es it was
proved te ber by the historleal feats on oldish it rested,
a Divine revelatiot for the *tarsal Were& eimmakini,
Shea dui wort of tibia seirty became. moat more eider-
@else, tad every man, yews, and oOil alsoald thank
God they weee permitted Si tire • par in It betrayer
burble. It was for that may week the (lurch of
Christ was feared, sad Is this reaper it differed very
widely from the Jegrisit 'burr of elk, which was
eb""lallof 411 its laws rierstoo•re by • spirit
of ii
erelll the world. Chriatplsoted his Omer
la tka world, sav,o,isd by the ridir menses of the
lkood Erich weeding tryst and precious
tworthr, given for it guidance an inspired and iefellible
book, and for ha peirpotael strength and wanton rent-
mere to he oregued tat all Kraal eget forth withlthis
goatmand rid this trogeoliarged upoo it," Go ye Into all
the world,wid prewab the gospel to every errors" Not
withdraw yourselvee from the world's evil lest ye he
contaminated but go into the very midet of it, and
strive by the light of tee troth to win men from dark•
nem unto men who started this 'wiry felt
this was the prianple of Christ's 'hair in the world,
sod therefore set theraselires to spread die gospel
the assess; and there wee dui fast connected
550( 50.
taia at the dine the reissiocumy spirit.,,.
begtaidng to grew ia the church of Christ the world
IVY begiarag to Open sit 16 were to the reception of
thee gospel whir • Chriotisa people Were prepared to
send. Sad, just as in the aid times God's provideetial
ore prepared the world tot the prirehing of the gospel
by his trot itPollitleo, be in these latter dans
H. had trimmed the Wiy for the dianiesination of His
truth. Led, as when the Apostles oersted great
masses IFfe treated nabs than, esid, Is like meaner
meat enemy had attended tie preashlng of the
miniseries agartget the nations of the earth. There
were people who called Shipmaster Christiana, who were
always speating of the failure of mindomary work—they
rid that arise who writ to distant lands, end
they who famished the rands were may foollah, no
doubt very ramble but most misguided, very well.
miring bat very sheet-sighted, for brew the brig of
modern ealighteamant, and much babied dui march of
modere pregreee ; but, ea against rah peters., he
would present • few fare from the field of
eater to show that Gan
od had gives abundt moors
to labottrs Of His inialatering nervaate--that
inhudigto had not bees • failure, hula marvellous ettOesel.
Nearly the whole world had boas explored from a
insaionary point of view to see whore it was possible
inissionarias could go with any prosper of serer gad
almost all important part, of the wotld had been
tiesured by selatosarle., There were in existence,
realuirag all the Mistime inl.doser7 Societies, sltdus
1,000 minion stations ea the err, besides about 3,000
ontrtatione, phials risky -ander the sharp of
astir beechen There wore 2,ooo'ordained missionaries,
and 5,000 native members, 300 native pastor with
aerobe& in the year 1816 a adiairat was sent to two
bodies of Indians in Neer America, numbering root
40,000. Till that Ilitte rey had resolved no ray of
Christi= light. Is 1860 thee had berme almost
tindery
.• Mutation people. Christianity wee thole
only sbilglou, and Is ON of the tribes the Bible, by the
law °litho land, was right in all the sehools—in this
repeat, if re vier of sort in this country prevailed,
that Wien tribe would have • bitter abate to be or
Mewed Chrbdian them oar ow. land --(a2.1:771
m Amongst the the Lord's-day was amenity
They had 16 foreign gemsboks, sad 40 native &slitter
Tertyrix years of minion work had truieformed thank
bite • Christian people., In Minnesota there was a
risiag against the white amid, in consequent* of whir
2,080 Wiens were held le militory reatody. Most of
tam were asedsaned to death, but all lave 40 were
spared, and, within these years, missionaries having
gone amongst them, 500 were regularly admitted meas.
hers of the Christian chinch, and several were so
impresed that they ream. preachers. A party of
them were sent into exile, and when they started upon
the 121migaippi hymns of prim and prayers to Jehovah
weeded to heaven, and mended and evening this was
continued to to. end of their Toyer.. In the
year _ 1890 some mintomaries were sent to the
birds of the Pacific While they were en the way
idolatry was overthrown. Alter 19 years ene-foorth of
the whole populetiort had joined the Christian °harsh,
and now ope third of them wore kientided with Chris.
sanity. They had 33 native ebnrobes supporting their
own pastors, and sending forth 13 minim:arias to other
ports. About 23 yrrs ago some &glide mindoearies
went to the rends of Polynesia, and now it woald he
difficult to Ind there or Waiter. All their hideous
rites had been elmademed, wars hut armed, they lived
in pear adopted civilised Write, bad recornissed laws,
cultivated the lead, and espied in 'owner's. Large
, numbers every Sabbath agematiled in God's hoar, tied
, had the population were recognised members Of some
Chrietian church. Thirty yoari ago the Inhabitants ot
the Priejse Wen ts were the it..; dreaded on the fees of
the earth, for Shier cannibalism. A story was told o/
at American ship beteg wreaked on the odor, and the
crow, terra( the sharacteer of the peopli, were in treat
tenor Bat, on landing, one of them *kw% ipso
English Bible, and he shouted to his oompani ies, "It's
all rig! t, there's Christianity hare, we need not be
afraid. And it wag pulite true. Mbeionsries 1201 gin.
there takieg the Bible, sannibnlial had be -n airridoned
and tree woe a great change. An goalith officer des-
cribed a a.reine be wiineesed. It ita, atteeded by •
number of mem, all of whom 15 years before w..re
crairls, and amongst them wee &named anaa—foromily
toe most blood-thirsty there-111w sitting with • Bible
en hia knees which he •es reading with the aid of
irritate., and listening to the gepoandiog of 'he mis-
sionary. In thirty years 100,000 roles of the Word of
el el were distributed; iiad sow thaw were 90,000
'ruler attendanta at public worrip, 663 orreries,
45 ordered ministers. la Morreser I. 1890 the
'I first berme suoreenfal. Then there arm le the
, • Queen wise for 96 years permeated the Chris-
igauddy. They were permed, hanged, sod
stoned, throws from • reignites, barns,
bound together with rains and sold into
. Two thoarad eadared daring that terrible
, hat, when the gimes died, and permeation
, Metre were is llacereser a greater number of
ire than over before, When seven yore age the
Aries returned; Christianity rapidly sever
the lull, idolatry was renogneed he the Queen
me Greco umiak and it berme • Christian country.
Nwra Weir sprang from the work carried on in
Less.. Fifty yaws ego a (human labourer ip
a, weed Willlam Jehnsost, who had eery little
lOW, but large expartoria• of the relision of
and rich in graft, went to Sierra 'moue. He
red ordination in Africa, and proceeded to liagent's
in, whir bad a population of &heat 1,000,
rescued from der ships, of 72 different
, huddled together in ham, obese only mode
eienlikweiog One with another was by broken
els, worshippers et devils, lry, brutal savers.
determined SO know nothieg resort them but
t and Him uoified; ited for a year he prayed sad
without ceasing. Before tits twelve meeths
, he found mat and groom &axiom about the
A conoerniag their rods and oriarsity, Its beard of
repoiring to the triode is pray for eelighteement,
he left on report many el the wonderful myings
ham heathens is tirey first obtained light. By and
many Er.ofeased Chrimianity, and timbers were
This was mo'H"Pornoti by groat outward
Their heathen caroms were ern lord,
i honer", churches, manias', was instituted,
the habits of civilisation were adopted-141 the
't of seven years labour by Intim Johnsen ; and,
be died, rough re good work darer fee a time
- revived, and in 1842 there were 12,000 perms in
er attendenoe one ipublie worship and one-fifth of
populates esreceaviug iestrantion in Quieter
as iii 1862 • native perorate was iastitated, ten
Mee at once volareered to Bayport their own
eters. Since thee six dia.-rent emissions had been
one, end now there were 80,000 native ChrilWaae,
30,000 'miasmas as the result of inissionarr
Is that wont unpromlelag WI as It int appeared
He had sanded them indiums, almost at
So show how foolish sad Me it wee to ear that
wet k had felled. 1.1 bee wares,. go from she
'ow to ledieldnal 0 6.44. limbed of man, of
lure of mien ne writ they would hold up their
is astonishment end sr what has God • rought?
reek I. which they were engaged wal not trusties,
d sir as.,. to ray that it was blessed with the
iiso of perpetual sureess--that would be to say
was nothWg human about It, mach snares had
visited to it as could not be attributed to mere
aesnq, but meat he workmenl by the
of teed on the labour e e peednd. The
ears was the work of God, and they
alt take their part in it were doing toe work
He reminded them ref

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