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

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL G

worldng men of Dorchester alsould strive bard to talcs
ttir • go•dly number of the prime aid orialcates, and
thus bring honour to the county town. The com-
mittee of management are very anxious that every
town and village in Dorset should be reprs.rnt.d at
Weymouth nest .Tuly. Full particulars of clamed may
be had on applkation to the wocretaries
W. M. TillaiLTOX I Weymouth.
J. DOVST

it *Mid WPM be mew lain. Some eight or nine months
alms we held • mirintglit tea meeting in the band-room.
tit. meeting waa held at midnight DOMUDI It would be
lintiessibie to collect ea audience until the pulilichouese
ere closed. Fifty-two women were gathered in from the
streets, and these were our guest.. After tea, which had
ample justice done It. aad held • short service. "Rock
of Age." was started. and sang well. I then reminded
them that many must have sung it before with very
. different sasociationa fiullle in Sunday echools and "me
with loving perents &AI relivions. Many were visibly
affected. I pointed out the misery of the life they were
leeding. arid sdied all who were willing to abandon that
life to stay behind. To our setonisinnent 2D stayed and
expressed their deterunnation to heroine changed
characters. What to do with them we scarcely knew.
After rime delay we got 17 removed to different refuge., :
but there were three remaining for slo,nr no refute could
be found. They begged most piteously not to be turned
out upon the streets again, and oilored be cloy there for
the n ht to As there was nothing else 111 done we coll-
een —made them up beds of the chwpel cushions, and
sent day removed them to • refuge. We neve tha joy of
knowing that Many of those women are now ding well.
Tiwwwilthe of the population of Spitelfields weskits of
Jews, one-filth of bed cheracters and oniellf di of honest
folk. There are in London 50,000 Jews, but only 22
Myiiagoguee. and many of them very small. Therefore.
most of the Jew" are only Jews nominally, still their
hatred to Christianity is jest aa intense as it was in the
days of our Saviour. The Church of England employe
Scripture readers to do this Home Miedonary work_ Not
king stare ODO called upon coo in Liverpool. I asked him
the nature of his work, when he aunred me that it was
only to read the Scriptures. If a perion were dying he
we, obliged to call the clergymen, who was often very
difilcalt to And, but he was not allowed to pray with any
paean, as that was 'needing the priest's province. Sew
short time since • curate actually brought the charge
against his Scripture reader that be had been found
trying to comfort • dying man. It is much easier to
engage in preaching to intellectual congregations than to
take part in the onerous but glorious work of a Home
Missionary. After urging all present to become Home
Miseloriaries and to give liberally to support so good •
cause, the rev. gentleman concluded, said much applause.
The collection amounted to £21.. 61., being ail Os 3d. in
advance of last year. The usual votes of thanks were
passed and the benediction terminated • most successful
meeting.