The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-05 00:00:00

SAD MUTH OF AN INVALUI

An inquest was held on Saturday evening before
Mr. H. Lock, deputy COMM', on the body of an
elderly widow, named Keturah Hall, who met her
death under the following circumstances She was an
invalid, and her origin was unknown to her neighbours,
but she seems to have had good and liberal friend. at
Colyton House In October last she came to reside
at Mr. James Spencer's, Shirehall-place. She was
then suffering from yellow jaundice, and was under
the car. of Mr. A. Emmen, who, however, could hold
out no hope of her recovery. She wee in the habit of
sleeping with a small table station* I by the aide of her
bed, upon which she placed • paraffin lamp to enaliie
her to see to take her medicine. Sometime. this
remained lighted during the night and sometimes not.
On the moraine, of Saturday, about halfpaat seven,
the attention of Annie Slover and another woman,
working Mrs. Cole's, the laundress, wall attracted
tb• curtains of the bed-room in a blase.
U.r. Spencer was at once informed of this, and on
ge stairs the bed furniture was discovered to be
burning. With the aid of mats Mr. Spencer and the
women succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The
deceased warn then discovered lying on the floor in her
night-dress ineensible. She wee removed to another
room, and Mr. Samson was won in attendance, but she
died soon after. There were one or two marks of
burns upon her head, but the medical testimony was
to the effect that these were not the cause of Ugh,
, but that it resulted from shock to the system and
I suffocation. The jury, of whom Mr. Ling was fore-
man, returned • verdict to that effect, and kindly
gave their fees to the County Hospital.

WESLEYAN ROME MISSIONARY MEETING.
The above meeting was held in the Wesleyan School-rooen
South-street, on Tltundny evening, January 31st, The
Rev George Gimmick, of Le:ludas, attended, as the deem
Wien from the Parent Society, instead of the Rey. Cowell
Brown, who was prevented through illness. The proceed-
ings commenced With the hymn—
See
Kitureat • name aspires,
by a spark of /MCC."
finely swim by Me. Gweick, who is a capital singer, and
has been for the put 16 wears precentor of the Annual
Wesleyan Conference. After prayer, offered by the Rev.
W. Allen, Mr. Gideon Wright, Jun., was celled to the
chair. He urged the necessity of caring for the rural
districts, and was glad that the Wesleyan, of Dorchester
were doing so much for the villages in the immediate
neighbourhood. The Rev. W. Allen read the reoor‘
obi& stated the Wesleyan Mission and Continrent Fund
was one of the oldest funds in Metheudism, establithed by
John Wesley in 1718. It aided last year 261 curates, In
addition to those receiving special grants. It supported
118 Home Missionary Ministers, of whom Owen, appointed
1., village ecangsli-tic work :lB to the aria) &ad navy,
and 3to Liverpool Ricer-side work. The total income for
1871 was £36514 lb,. 3d, of which Dorcheeter raimd
18a. The total expenditure was £36,838 Ds. The debt
doe to the treasurers in now £6,614 3-1. The Rev. J. T.
Hanley maid that Home Missions claimed quite as much
attention as Foreign Missions. They were quit... much
noseled as Foreign Miesiona Tree, they had not toencounter
hugs systems of pagan error. Hers the light was alining,
but the revelations of the daily paper. showed bow many
were remaining in darkness. To advancer in home work
was to advance in foreign moth. In England was the
heart which sends the warm streams of life, pulsating to
as furthest foreign mission station. Whilst we well
guard the out-poste we must take care of the arsenel,
Whilst trimming the branches and rejoicing over the rips
fruit we must dig round and manure the old tree. Zee-
land was the great centre of missionary operation.
Physically and morally she was best suited to become the
great vehicle of troth, but to become trot> missionary she
most be truly Christian. The Rev George Curnock said:
I am not the deputation, the Rev. C. Brown, and I don't
think I am equal to him, for he stands six feet two inches
and I only six feet. You have heard that the contingent
fund is the oldest fund in Methodism. John Wesley. in
his early evangelical work, was often hardly put to for
funds. He ItitneeU worked for nothing, but many expenses
were incurred in the hire of preaching rooms, etc. M•
was at this time Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon., which
was worth £l5O per annum. Ile lived on LIE and gave
the rest away. The high Calvinistic party attacked him
sad hit Methodist work, and, in reply, he published
several volumes or doctrinal esrmonx which Met with a
enlist extensive scale, and brought him Lawyers! thoomand
potted& Still a :tiud was (beetled to meet the expemme
of the rising connection. Chapel debts had to be pail
Iffis preachers had to be compensated for time taken from
their business. For example, in 1761 Mr. Brauthani was
mint from Sheffield to /Wroth, and there he took a most
active pert in the great revival thou going on. Mrs.
Bramhani, not caring to he left alone In Sheffield, made
her way to Itedrutb on foot—an extraordinary pedestrian
journey of 400 miles. She was subsequently engaged at
Redruth as preacher and teacher at 4s. a week. That
amount came from this fund. In Liverpool, Manchester,
and other large towns the arrears of rent for preaching-
moms, amounted to sAmo, sad this was met by the
Contingent Fund. The Clonticorent Fund pays the
expenses of our law mass. Kr. Wesley believed that
English law would protect his assistant preacher. from
being thrown Into home-ponds and Insulted In the grossest
manner, and when stniatilOaata against the noteall were
dismissed by the local tuagietratea with the polite hint
that it served the itinerant preacher right, and tie might
bare fare I carve, Mr. Wesley carried the cases to the
Court of Kings Bench, and there It was declared that there
Is protection for 11. thodist preacher. as much as for say
&emit subject. Thirty-five years num • clergyman
refused to bury • child, because it was unhaptised, amert
ing that baptism administered by any other than a church
clergyman was illegal. Toe child WU temporarily buried
in a garden. The matter wan then brought before oue of
the hitcher Courts. The decision was that he must bury
the child, lose his gone for three months, and pay
expense., and also that baptism administered by • Weal*
airsyminieter was as legal as by the Archbishop of Canter-
. Kr. Curoock then reuerred to the Owaton Ferry
tombstone case, Sew* V. isaM, and said that the costa of
all such cases were defrayed by the Contingent Fund. He
continued: Methodist preachers sometuues go wrong, but
their trial and, if neceseary, expulsion, can be secured at
about 30s. per care. Happily such mses ate extremely
rare. It is very different in the Establighmeet Very
meetly the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol found that
mu of his clergymen was lading an immoral life. He
immediately took action against him, but it coot him
L 3.003 before he could get the offender removed from the
dioceses. The Bishop has written to the pipers, stating
that he had literally been fined £3,000 for doing his duty
Om he had to hear the who:l:reseed and wondering
whether other Bishops would perform such costly duty.
The Bishop of London has greet difficulty with the
curate of St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, who, in • regent
lee:tare bemire an Atheistical Mott advocated music-halls,
in, but our Contingent Fund would nave met this Cada
without giving nayon, much anxiety or expense. The
committee are now preparing • scheme for separating the
Home Missionary from the Conttherent Fund. Fifteen
Home Missionaries are hard at work in the army aod
navy. In every camp the" Weelelan Order" is given out
On the Sunday morning, and declared Wesleyan."
have an opportunity of attending • Wesleyan
chapel Our Ministers and many young nice who
have been in our Sunday schools. &ores who are
sons of Methodists and not • few prodigals who
are hiding in the army lite minister proves their
friend, of ten writes to their relations, and brings about •
moonclation. The government would willingly pay these
men if we would let them But if Government paid them
they would become government servants, subject to
Government orders, nod the work could not be carried on
so sell as under the preeent resume. The results in the
army cannot well two tabulated as regiments are constantly
changing, still Our missionaries keep up • correspondence
with many of them although perhaps in New Zealand or
India. Two Homo Mislottaries, the Rev. Charles Garrett,
• Dorset man, and an assietent are employed in Liverpool
river-side work. Many men are at work all day in the
docks and have no opportunity of going home until night,
their only refuge Is the public-house. To meet this cage
three cocoa houses were started, where the men were
supplied with cups of cocoa at e per Cup, and that allowed
I per cup profit The result is most gratifying (0,000 oups
were sold in one week. • limited bebility company has
now taken El such houses, provided with reading rooms
Er,, and the affair is so profitable that • dividend of Ins.
has just been declared. The men feel that they are cared
for and many become steady workmen. Nine Missionaties
are employed in going from village to village stirring up
the people into spirituel life and opposing &Knish
haltiliao•ll where ever they are found. London however,
takes the greatest interest in Home Miasionsry movement..
The Methodism of London cannot hear this burden by
themselves for they are but a handful compared with the
mighty population. Methodism has advanced rapidly but
it is nothing like overtaking the increase of population.
The streets In the neighbourhood of Spitalffilde Chapel,
(Yr. Curnock's chapel) Church-street, on the one side an
Brink lane on the other, are on a Sunday morning, crowded
with people buying and selling. They buy ever) thing on
• Sunday. Sometime ago it was represented to Lord
Shaftesbury that it was necessary for the poor people
to buy and sell then, as they had no larders. Lord
Shaftesbury went one Sunday morning, to make his own
observations The first thing offered to him for sale was
• bull-dog pupu. and the second, • four-poet bedstead,
proving undeniably that articlee of consumption were not
the only things sold. On Rieder week I mat hundreds of
men In that neighbourho•l and not mare than three per
cent, showed by their dress that they knew that it wee
Sunday. ig.ny carried a little cage ender the erns for a
bird fair is held in the adjacent West. • polksman is
steamed at the center of every street bat still robberies
am most common Right robberies were othamitted ens
afternooe between three sad Ithe sitslock, Adjolalng oar
chapel is mouses lodging home. The proprietor
evening makes up MO beds at 411 d., and 01 at di, The lii
beds liter from the (td. In that there is • slight
boarding between east, That man takes
week and ha his six such booths. Some weeks
ago the rector of the parish tasked psrmindos to bold •
service in this house. "Ns said the man," The folks at
ffie corner (the Welliegalla) Might to have the first
drama" Accordingly. &vanilla coreihke_ of the %Vox-
Mg= bold • service amoegst mo men in the large,
inEeinglng kitchen. 711 teen were induced to
=re dispel in the evening. A ragged school Is
ligla •• old Ireeb-heasa Some use ago
the sesairpkpes beams_ sawed. &ad • workman trying to
seeerada Nam. Mad emiskr. had
a bees Med afiliskr soillokis and WNW as the roof,
the taki wading 1_11,40101 kke Ira Tias fact speaks
edam!. I se,