The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-02-25 00:00:00

TRZ COLONIAL AND CONTINENTAL CHURCH
SOCIETY.

At All Saints and last Fordingtca Churches, last
Sunday. were preached sermons on behalf of the above
, the oollectioes at All Saints amounting to .0
and ad to £s7s. it
The public miliazn,wciz.hold on Monday evening,
East Fora:setae commencing at sight o'clock,
by which time about 50 were present, mostly *coasting
ladles The Rev. H. G. Moyle presided, end they rum—
" Shine, Mighty Clod, on Britain Shim," end the rm.
Chairman offered prnyev. The Rev. Mr. Jones, of All
Sainte, supported the chairmen; and the Rm. Mr. Walker
WY also present
Very reluctant indeed, mid the Quintus; were his
dear father and brother not to be present; but they wars
kept away by want of heath. He read the Psalm—" God
be mercil ul unto us," remarking that England is, as it
wen, the centre of the civilised world, and therefore be
applied this Psalm-prayer to her. He had been to the
ends of the earth, and sew our countrymen thers—soner
times their good Influence, but more frequently their
example, in drunkenness, dishonesty, and otherwise, is
evil. When the heathen dew this, they wore sceptiod as
to whether there was more knowledge of right or
In Zealand than in (Bina. But this society
our countrymen may be roars sober mote honest, and more
among the Imethen• Whim working along the
streristair *inapt be had sem the neemeity of flu work of
this society, and bad endeavoured to supply the need,
until it pleased God to remove hint
The Rev. Mr. Dtxos, deputation, called attention to
the Proof.' Britain lfasonnor, on the covers of which
were represented scenes f amiliar to the agents of this
society—the Arctic Indian on his snow oboes, the railway
In the United States, the pl4-digger with his cradle, the
lag but of the settien, ancl the churches under the shads of
the mountain" of Europe, the centre being • view of the
English church in the Rue d'Uuessan. Berk Then the
deputation told of the sodeM's beginning, se the New-
foundland School Society, and the Colonial Church
Society for Atm:ork be:L.l
.la. After the combinat
ireelly ion
end
athe .thezu
Bimetal" work and name ware added. Baton the swift
been. its work the meat of Nom Scotia was full of
wreckers who lived by decoying ships end
them ; but now Kerrey a wrecker remains on eroaring•st—
• result attributable to the spread of the gomed, which is
the society's object • great work bad been done among
the Trench Cansdians, • inimical among whose has been
established, sad be knew of nmerd churches which bee
been built; its work was also extended to the North
American Indians, ased to Use Australians, who are found
alter lapse of time to approximate to the Americans
tanim.... The work of the society la ler=
on In the outlying districts in the
of Australia An 'migrant goes out to the bash
away from the large towns, there Is no church'
(*We belle and a service to be heard at only Ls=
at • Cohan, of three miles. He goes, sad there
a earvioe conducted, most likely by an agent of this
Oooloty, end without whom the,, would be no service at
all moseelbla In South Africa, la • very Important work,
In led* sad MOO( the slalom in foreign ports, who have
bwriblo tomptatises, and often the mimics has been the
memos of swim mikes both bodily and from
destroolion. The Continental work is very
tint, our ciountrynem need the Word of We to
them, the ihst station being that of Taterlachea,
the Swiss mountains. English people &bread
anima' who go to work, Invalids who Rims ma
other pieces for the sake of the mil temlnts.
Over Mciespielocks have been fee
readmits, six or "even for bed /Ea:
eheedeteelee for viaitom are la at
leaving all their religion wiezettly=
Ocatinent, wham the AM
tho newly arrived h ledued by
=Tmats , he hankies=
mirvies use In that elem, he in many
mess goes to pewee ameneeest, and gradually falls In
with the enelems et the sountry • but when he bears of
en IMAM emytels, he Melee It 'end continues to do so,
in the Me dr Agawam Perk, Is en Beata
and Ahem& dime mkt* his mimed, 'ATM
only me yew pew A. year of
&stem of Pker by the lithlssooieiyfyom
Ilt et wspgart were to fall to the mound, our country-
men on the Ostinent would usiNjiate their conduct to
that of the e,edl, armed them ; but the society would
be more nleejthan ever. Hip believed God Ii watching
over it for geed, sad will mth e anew it to fall to e
sad be esonioded the., thee ovary opportunity for
seolety Is sa ageseteetity of ping • work
11:6164t10=4.
Th e was glad that In Fordington Church
the callactiohh ho weeder were rather better than usuaL
The meeting tweleded lath. usual way.

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Lac-rum—An inwmittai WIWI'S MY given in the above
nanairooes, by the Rey. Janes Duthie. of Kenetsiater
(Western Temperance on friday list, the 8.,.
ma. in the chair, the sub sot being flan the well-
tartemperencs• *rear ohs B. Genet. The Her.
. gave • very Nisi of Mr. Googlis 111.. Ide
work. ha. The attendance wen good, considering the
unlavotwitide weather. At Ow ekes • vote of thanks was
Avon by the Rua. W. A. Kyd (Puelletown) tar the Bev.
lum DWAs. tTb. lectors Ira vary aisob enjoyed by
thole grendat•

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