The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-14 00:00:00

A NOVEL SERMON.

When I call it a novel sermon that was presohad at St.
Karr's, Lanese. on Sunday livening last. I mean that It
1111111 out OdUS ordinary ruck. Too vicar, Um ft v. J. L
Williams, is an • Imtrable preacher, a moat I o,ular mats
and a staunch Canservattie, but still with autficinit
Liberalism in hie nature not to c.a., hi* congtekitione
to the CJi and dried diacourres which ICJ oft,. lion
what Mrs Malaprop would call "a At of thr gape." Ile
so every one in Pole knowa, an ardent bicyclist, and
ha thee urasi pirtike of that en rip which that ruins-
what inch :taut pureult do ibtlearly angenters He may
h Perhaps, anal tt is .t la...cher, but, at all *yenta,
he tinter tires hie 13 Tooas who no to Locatleet
Until ch go with the sop ctatiou of being ititereritelar well
as ina•guetad, and they are ireldtan dtapprtnted. Toe
church is generally filled, at t• ma ioc,nvenientiy crowded,
and on occasions people rira usable to get in. There :a a
that-rata choir, and the echo .liniater preeldee efficiently
at the organ, no that the is nice. to not of the depres.ive
character which characteris.a those of outdo churches

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On Sunday erentug the pre It little church " on the
top o't In hill" ems crowds I. the conkrenst.on doubtlessly
being attracted whth the wirla to hear whit iii, View bad
I, ray about the attrinpt on tbe Quern's file. And here,
perhers. I may remark the Vicar Induces to his dis-
counts, ma a rule, Mamas how the prevailing topics of
the day. Not in a seusstional or cut of thr way style,
but alter the manner of the Her. H ...in he endeavours
li. street
.a in real frau the trews.

T.oei who were present most have been 01011.• than
gratified. Tit re was no etudied discourse, pumping—if
I may mei the word -Into you the dogma with which
we are all stipfo.• I to he arquointed—if you do right
you go to 11-aveu: sled it ym di wrong You go some-
where rl.e but • lb. roughly prectical,_ plebe, and
honeet exhortation &livered, extempore. Mr. Waimea
look for ids text Matthet xv. 231—' it deualiter
I, grie...n.4 vex with • devil." Without snort-
ing toot pets Ms now. • iays were !extol with devils,
tne preacher dre • at teal i on t . the wretzhe I e iedition or
the atorMin the* pre. ent day. He spoke ot the horrible deeds
e 'remitted in 'rola-id, and the hi rrible needish sets of
the Nihilists in Russia. le L .ndon, too, be remarked it
it woo • ,t.rt:ieg fact that in ono fortnight there had
been taken from the T iame • no Lee, than sleet dead bodies,
aud despot oesr tie low poitmes of the groat city, ba:
wont w. re conoidered tke aristocratic quarter.. Al;u ling to
the Tie not °lir tee on the Q lam he expressed his belief the
perpetrator of it would be found to be of unsound mind,
earl he woe sure his congregation would join in the Judie.
fasten that •ol felt idiot neither personal hatred or
swiltionel motives had scything to do with it. With
referee* to the Northereptwa eloctioo, the preacher sold
they need not feet the return of Mr. Bradlaugh indiceted
any spreading of atheistic doctrines, it must simply be
regarded MI • ttiamph, • liberal victory.
If, Mr, we bed 'ace preechere as the Row. J. Is. Williams,
the Vicar of L mglieet, I think we should have fewer
empty pews in our churches.
" Visrros."