The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

been incense's{ for many yeses pee There were, be
ix hewed, about• million people in Loudon who attended
no plug of worship, And about Ave millions altogether
in populous places throughout the oouptry, many of
which had recently sprung up in connection with misers
or manufactories, and as no adequate spiritual UMW
had been pravided for the inhabitants of thou plasm,
many of them fell away from all religion. It to
provide these means that this society was formed, and
he thought that people in smaller plus. ought to come
forward and help the society to carry on the work. The
Governors of the Church, without reference to any
differences of opinion among them. the two Archbishops,
and the Bebop, formed, with laymen, the committee of
the society. which was composed of half dun and hell
laity. When a request for a curate was made to the
society, the first questions asked were whet were the
necessities of the place, and what the population was,
and the income of the incumbent, and it wee then Oft.
&Wend whetter it required ass stance more then other
places which bad requested it. It did not pretend to
Snd curates for every place, but on receiving an appli-
cation from a clergyman, if proved to be repaired by the
necessities of the place, a great was made either in
whole or in pert, without any reference to what the
clergyman's vie.. were, whether he was what wassailed
• High or low Churchman or not, He hoped he had
succeeded in inducing them to give the society their
hearty support. They did not come there to depressible
any other society but to support this, the object of
which was to send forth pions men to spread the gospel
of Christ. It was a home society, by assisting which we
should be laying our own house at home in order, and so
help towards the work of God abroad, where we were
funding nations which would either help the work of
God or do injury to His name. After some faiths: re-
mark. he stated that at the present time the society
employed 500 curates, which was • very considerable
number, the income of the society had nearly doubled,
but notwithstanding no great was the demand that 150
cues which were brought before the committee during
the past year could not be met for want of funds
There were 150 parishes therefore which were
spiritually destitute, and the clergymen of which were
borne down by their spiritual inability to carry on
the work of God in thou parishes. It was to help the
Society they were met there to-day, and whether they
were few or many let them atavism themselves
that it was God's work and go on with it —The Rev, '
J. H. Jowitt, who had come in during the time the
Arehdearon was speaking, alter apologuing for his
unavoidable &beeves, at the commencement of the
meeting mid that as the Chairman had so well
uplained the object of the moiety, and so laid the
foundation for him, he would proceed to select one or
two instances to show the necessity that, was that this
home minion work should be d ine, as well am what
was done abroad by the Society for the Propagatiou of
the Gospel and other societies. He then alluded to the
growth of Iliddlnaborough in Yorkshire, a large town
which had sprung up lathe last 30 years, end the
manner in which its spiritual necessities bad been met.
He also referred to what had been done by •s=
man le the parish of St. Jude's, Moos-fields, •
containing 7000 people lying mad& the wealthy part
of Sheffield, and occupied by poor people. With the
aid of 80 young men, teenhers in the Sunday schools*,
clergymen worked such a reformation that in au
Reason 485 infanta and adults were baptised there'
the young women teachers also assisted in the good
work. The put work of the society was to help in
seeking the lost; thou were ROO clergymen supported
by another Society with • similar aim,
and with the 500 supported by this society
there were therefore one thousand curates
out of 8,000 in the country maintained by these two
moieties alone, sent to labour where required by the
liberality of our Christian pecrplia Every year the ,
population of the country was ineressed by 200,000,
and as the country population was not increasing the
whole increase was in the towns. He asked them
therefore to be up and doing, and each assist the
society in its home 1111•51012 work. They, In that town,
were personally benefitted by it but he would
not 'build on that, but would pet it in •
broad lent. that those who were on the Lord's side
should see there was not • place in the country which
the Church did not reach. After same further obser-
vations he remarked on some missionary horse which
were on the teble, that he was not one who thought the
help of those boxes trivial, as last year £l5O had been
obtained by these mune and be ooneleded by urging
the meeting to support the society by means of three
bogie and by annual subscriptions— (applause). The
Rev. K. L. Lee expressed his regret at having fixed
the meeting at that hour, and said he had done so
bopi g so have seen more from the country, and he
should have thought many of the tradesmen of the
town might have spared an hour from their beldame
to aims there and hear what hail been done for them-
' selves and the Church of this country by the society,
he should, h , in future have the meeting in the
I evening as well as In the afternoon. He then enlarged
upon the benefits of the society, and expressed his
thanks for the help they had rendered to Bridport,
concluding by asking the people of this town to support
, it and stating he should be happy to receive subeerip
time The Rev. Prebendary Bioadley spoke briefly,
I stating as the senior clergyman in the neighbourhood be
I should not be doing his duty if he did not erprue the
confidence he had always had in this society. It had
always had his warmest sympathy. He had bees in
holy orders 29 years, and had known much of the
society and traced its workings, which had done much
good. He expatiated on its benefit and said the Bishops
on the nomination of the incumbents licensed the
curates maintained by the society without any referees*
as to what was the shade of their opinions. No
, questions were asked an to whether High or Low
Church, the only thing required was that their: teaching
I should be in consistency with God's word and the
I Prayer Book, Archdeacon Seminary addressed the
meeting in conclusion, after which • collection was
made at the door which amounted to 1:3 2s.