The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-17 00:00:00

GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1883.

porches a-oonnt, £11613 ; ditto on free accou at, 11.30;
ditto by Crowe, A.. Mation • n free account 226 10s. ;
ditto St. Poter'a Portland, 168. 13.1. ; balame,ll..
Total, 2215 2s 1014 rbe ahstirman was sorry to
observe there was. diminution of 217 in their remit-
tance to the moiety as compared with last year. Their
fir= work therefore W3S to make that up. end go
forward. There were throe maio reasons why they did
not help forward the Bible S ociety more. The first
real.' was laok of interest, the mooed reason was
lack of intermit, and the third reams was lack of
lets ed. The lint dose of ale leak Of Interest was
b it they did not understood moth about the society,
and unless they kinw =tithing about It it was very
certain they would not take much interest In it.
Another reason was because they did not reshot the
importune of the work. Perhaps they had n 4 oosnie
to see that there was but one way of elation
souls to Chris', and that was by spreading
• knowledge of the Word of God. Tin third cause
was that they bp I not really learnt the value of Go l's
Word for Morosely". If they w add only say that they
Word had been a light Ii Mei: feet, and • lantern to
their path, and that Go I hal done gest things for
, them, whereof they tej doted, he was gun they would
be ran ly to do all in their p ow r to make others share
'in its blessings. He hop of lb at from that night they
would have an inane in the society and in God's
Word, and be awakened by what they would bear from
those wh i wiull address them. (Applause.)
R.. D. B. R. B•bilem obeervial that when In was
asked to take the position of clerical secretary to the
Weymouth Branoh he did not know that his duties
would be so light, for he found that all Me work was
diichatged by the lay noretary. But be toned that
the clerical secretary had to put in an appearance on
the platform at the mends)/ every year. Now be had
no objection to coming on the platform, but be did not
like having to make • speech. Still be thought
thia was a society deserving of the hap of
.a Ourtstlan don. mina' tom He thought it
most be • pleasure for a Christian man to
*sprees the sympathy which be would not help
feeling for such a society IN th• British and Foreign
Bible Society, whose w rk was to spread abroad
throughout the who're world the light of Divine truth.
The object of every tninionory scionty was to win
the world for God. and to rain men out of the
degradation which sit had brought into the world,
and to let God's truth shine upon all. There was no
way of doing tb at but by spreading broadcast the
written word of God. They believed that was the
great moan. of bringing the nations of earth out of the
darkness of the boathooks= into the glorious light of
the Gospol. Poop= told than that this was act the
great means of earls( the world. They my that if
they educate men in Nino& Molwalurlso and art, they
would make them good coitsese—thn they
Mason tho brain, the head, the eye, and the de, and
leave the heart alone. They were to educate leery
faculty of their nature, but leave the soul to be over.
grown with weeds, and to lay blank and fallow and
uneducated. Thad things did much for mankind, but
they would not make oleo pure and generous and
true-hearted or make then gen. IbM •001,11.17 was •
protest nainat the a cal seising **it. jaw, .I.e•sl
work they had to do wan to spree I abroad the Woad
of God, which would mesh for Mogi. A feriaus
onslaught had lately been racist upon the BMW in
their large cities. whee infidel end treethinkini; pudica.
time were nattered abroad broadcast. Tbe great
weapon used against the Bilge was "ridictileT. built
was very nay to caricature the Word of Gad, and
those atheistic teachers were doing great mineldef in
the east end of London, and in others of their great
cities. It was true that many of the artisan-alder in
the east of London were losing their faith in the Word
of God, believing in then qoad-soitatillotembers, and
accepting—what they celled the fruits of philosophy—
the fruits of a fain philosophy. Therefore it was
their duty to be just as soalons in spreading Bible
truths as the enemies of God were in spreading abroad
their own pernicious and pennon literature. He
thought they ought to be more earnest la leaseing the
truths of the KIN', and thus take away the ageseloes
for the enemies of God to blaspheme. The meats of
the society had ecettersti throughout the dark parts of
the earth the precious truths of God; but they wanted
their dal and interest to be further stimulated
in the great eta which mains great seal
and deny, for he believed there wen lb thousand
millions of people still without the Ward of God, stud
they must not keep the good things of God sellishiy
to themselves. Let them be persevering in their effort*
to help the work of the satiety, and In prayed that
their seal in the came might be rekindled, to streagthen
the hands and cheer the hearts of those who war, carry.
ing on the work of this groat and noble society,
(Applause.)
Rev. W. Lion, in explaining the absence of the
Rev. J. Trafford, who had been asked to come and
speak said that the steamer had not brought bin back
from B nuttemoutb, or he might have told them some-
thing of the operatlon of the society in India. He
was very glad to be present, but was sorry that lir.
Scott was not able to be present. He knew they all
emitted t hear Mr. Paull, therefore he would not
detain them any tomer.
The Deputation, the Raw. W. K. Pam, thin
addressed the meeting at length, touching upon several
point& in ounueoti in with the society's labours. In the
course of his remarks he said when he waa at Wiry.
mouth nine years no he heard on excellent address
from the Rev. Talbot Greece., and he had hoped that
night to hear au excellent address from their worthy
Rector. He was glad to bear they had such a good
collection at church on Sunday—it was Prim as much
as the year before, and he hoped that would go some
way to make up the deficiency. He thought there
ern every gronod for satiefaction and thasaldulnen at
the last meeting of the Bib!ei Society in Exeter
Hall; but, at the same time he thought there
was ground for renewed effort, for though the
treasurer had told them there was an kimono of
£lO,OOO it the contributions of the pas: year, yet they
had expeoded £17,000, so that eaglet they we= very
thankful for the advance in their blooms, yet they
were very anxious with regard to the future. To
account for tin increase in expenditure, there had been
• groat extension of the operations of the society last
year, and never since the ocadety began had it
extended It. operations as in the past year, for they
eetebliebed six new agoutis.. When the late war
broke out in Egypt the society presented • oopy of the
New Testuneot to every Euglish soldier who left
their shores, and the letters they had since received
had testified in a marked degree to the good which
had been done. In addition to this the society rave
to every soldier in the Indian Contingent a copy of
the New Testament in his own tongue. Among the
new &patios established was in Cairo, for Egypt,
Abyandals, and Palestine; ono at Singapore, for
Malaysia' another at B..dad, one in Japan, and two
more in China. He thought that amounted foe the
Increase In expenditure for 1882. But the society did
not domed upon it, past laurels, an I asked for a cion-
tinuan. e and, if possible, an increase in the contribu.
tions. The deputation then touched upon the work
of the s.c sty In England end on the Continent, and
°occluded by thackb.g the bleeds for am:Jo/there
that
evening, and mired them to see in the Gout year
whether they mold not do something to the
committee to carry out all the plans before them. He
thanked the ladies especially for the work they had
done for the society.
The meeting then terminated.

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struck.—Tbe inquiry was sdjourned.