The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-11-03 00:00:00

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tainniesit was provided at SL .I..his'os MbPsien.r.p.ms.
The ba wis• laid at seven o'clock, and about 100 sat
down. The entertainment 0men...m.4 at, eight o'cleek,
and was ole•nell by Mr. C. Hart. The following woe
the programme " No, Sir," Mr. and Mrs.
I hbben ' • Chairman's report; song, !Ind...John," Miss
Tate ; nading, "The Shakers, Mr. Diblem ; duet,
"The llappy Hunter," Mrs. Crielpi and Mrs. ;
wpm Mr. Jean.; address, Mr. Steele ; recitation,
The Schooner lieepenet," Mr. Brake; song, "The
Better Land," Mist' Tate • song, "The Englishman,"
Mr. Diblem ; duet., "What are the Wild Waves Kay.
Mg," ; Mrs. !Ebben and "r. Howell; recitation, 'The
'try Pint," Mr. Tweed ; song, " A littb• Summer
Shower," Mrs. Milan ; recitation, "Charlie Fence,"
Mr.., ; reading, " Only a Tear," Mr.
Nes sling ; song," Over the Mr. Howell ;
reading, Mr. Alceck ; address by Mr. Blaney.
The chairman in giving his report, said he wee grati-
fied to see such a good compiny here to-night. It
was le mouths ago, when the idea was started by Mr.
Fillmore, r. Kerridtre, and a few .4 the men on the
railway. Our motive is le spread the mow of
Temperance among the railway men here. We have
a sober Ipply 14 men her... If the mon hold imether,
there i• not much fear of them going wrong. The
men have hung together well. We have had a
go.PI .1..al .4 help born Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore,
Mr Blaney, and lady Cileon Gale, who gave •
good selection .4 lesiks with which we started a library.
—The address from Mr. Steele, of 'Batelle...l.w. very
well received, a few ..f the remerks of which we
briefly aninntariee. 11,, 111\111 he was exceedingly
pleased to meet with th.• friends to-night, because he
wan 1.13.• of the,., There in no dark cloud hanging
.iver the temperance cause, although it has it..
it im a great and noble enterprise; there is nothing to
trouble us who belong to it; nothing that muddles the
head, and makes black appear white, and the straight
road crooked. The geepel truth and teneaptrance are so
united that I.ne sevens to lie the offspring of the other.
We railway men want clear visions to be able to see I
clearly, men in our position want clear •isions, '
because if they had not, it would 11.11
exceedingly dangerous. We want men of good sight.
Some men cannot see clearly sometimes, because they
take something that muddle* their vision. He had
never met a man yet who draek intoxicated liquors
at all, but that he sometime or toth.tr stepped over the
mark. Temperance is just the thing that fits every-
OUP. and the thing for everything. There are many
men and women that are dowu very low, but one
touch of this tpepel temperance movement will begin
to raisetleen 111% and they will levin to ascend higher,
pinging the songs that Jesus alone can infuse into the
breast, and make man in harmony with hintself. Ito
join the cause, the temperena, came., and give up the
drink.--In the address by ate Blaney, he. said he had
lived lent: enough to Mel the curse .4 drink, and the
blessing of total abstinence. He had been a teeto-
taler inure than 20 years. H. believed that wherever
wo are placed we are better without the strung
drink. we have many medical men sided with us.
Temperance is the beginning of better days for
hundreds and thouaanda

Firm Norgwaan DISMONNTRATION.—On Tueaday
evening a public ?fleeting WWI held at the Crown
Hotel to consider the of having a bonfire
and Ilmnon.tration on the fith of November. The
chair wait taken by Mr. Robert Elcock, who gummed
the meeting by aaying that the style of the Is.ntire and
demonstration would &pew! entirely upon the funds
raised for that object, and that matter would rest to a
very great Patent with the gentletnon who cativarsied
for aubscriptions. Ile only h!ijesl that they would
take AA much intermit in it as Mr. Lloyd Jones, who
hail left the town. (Cheers.) He worked very hard
for it while he waa herr. A resnlutinn to the effect
that a Isinfire and demi inntration Phonic' he hull was
then put so the nweting, and WAA carried unanimously.
After this a corionittee of management was* formed,
iin which the following gentlemen were Award to
nerve Gould, Coles, Batty, Kiver, Randall,
Plotner„, Barlow, Bartlett, Fit, foickhani,
AV. Chtssell, IA? Itrecht, Tiller, Jones, Itampling, J.
Roberta, W. Randall, H. Randall, and 11. Pend ;
treasurer, Mr. K. Kleock ; secrectary, Mr. Stevens,
The committee will provide Issika, itc, fie the men-
ramming gentlemen, and a ,public miwting to discuss
the business of the object and to make further ars
ratigoinenta in intendol to be hell at the Cniwn
Hotel on hfonilay evening nest. A large luuuiuuluer 01
faggot, have already Is,n promised, besides •havitio
noel ~tlopr uotelbwitilllen. A collectien WAN made at
tho door in aid ..1 the funds.

11.,.0.T.U.—0n Monday evening, at the meeting
of this society, held in tho Miosion Room at st.
I John's' after "(wining in the usual way with singing,
Mcripture reading, and prayer, a short addrusa was
given by Xlr. U. Fillmore, after which NIL Be
lickham was voted to the chair. A cods of rules,
which had been propane' for the establishment of a
thorough bond ,Ildr Teetotal Hlate Club, yas then
submitted t, the inwging. Wei are 1118.1•4/11 to state
Shore were twonty hers enrolled. The following
were eleeted to "thee : - sir. E. Imekham, president ;
Mr. C. Jacobs, isecntary ; Mr. A. Prince, awistanti
weretary ; Mr. tnitoiror. Committee
nien—Miwars. U. Gene, W. Women, F. Prince, W,
141. Site IS is intended to hold the Arid meeting on
Wednesday, Ihmeinber thh, to le preceded bye public
be, after which the business of the club will be trans.
acted, and other numbers onntred on the books. We
underetnad th• op 1s novieled Wm.!' 14 mid GO.

WIMP:Mae Awn Riannir OCMPIL
Irwtott.—On Friday evening, Oct. 23rd, there WI. A
public tea provided at St. John's Mission Room in
connection with the shore society, at which also. ea
!lemons sat down. After the tea • lecture was
fiy Mr. T. Atkin, late tvlitor di the British boa,
a nee Affrorafe. author of "The Philown by of it.
Movement," and other works. Th.
chair was taken by Mr. T. It. Russell, trasurer vith•
Band of Hope Unien, who, in opening the mem oz.
said lie was very phased to meet such an 30•Itenr, n,
wan preterit. tin winhed he could see • great mi,tv
more take an interest in the temperance tirroo,.o.
hut he hoped they wmild all cteite their inon.
against the drink. Ile then called upon Mr. Aes..l
to deliver his lecture. which he did in a 'flan,
willnot ,„„,. if ("memo, I.y lea hewer, .e,„
subject was •• What mr ith iii, S••ript
I and the ent lie talent
into partnership for the gem' i 1 Gh
the people of the
land. When our "plowings went to the Bit& foe
argument, it was only natural that we shmild Niko
imr stand by it, knowing that God in revelation
would not contradict revelation in nature. We 011111,4
knew Gal mom fully than lout !outlying His week aid
ills word. Then again, hi. (the lecturer) saw isaho,i
mentionoi in the Bible in fayeur or intoxicant..
What he contend...l for was thin that wherever !I,
were mentioned in the tlioir um wan dimwit...ye'
of and entirely emobintied, hut he did n' .t wish to
assert that intoxicants, were not need by geed ne,,.
lett it is q • char that the newt terrible cona
quencee attended their use. Ile said if anyone coal
preve to hint that Gal er any ef His angel'. hal
that intoxicating were geed, lie would
up the point Ilesidee. he ledievel that c
was impossible t.s pia OW mo.mm4,
in Pomo w.mis that were in wet Timor
hundreds of years ago. For instance - the
wtral "beer." hi old time it did net mean 11,.
RAMS as it !mann now. And hare we not beer tlvit
will intoxicate and leer that will not ? e know flat
the Bible rightly interpret.' will always ',armee...
with temperance. The Bible proves only that whirl,
is Wilily lips.' is not intexit-ating, whatever i•
intoxicating is not gee', Ind evil, and therefere the
filth, is against it. The Bible alipreve* only if ~„,
using that which is geed for food, and dinappreoe
only of that which is not geed fir food. Tiny
not read their Bible much, if they had nit found it
that a man may glerfy Gel by his eating and drink
int. aa much an hi. could by his preaching. What is
the nature ef intexicating leptons ? It is alceliel.
What is thin alcohol? It is a pitied,. Such • poison
is alcohol that it is not only a man, lett it is the
met nubile of all preemn, became it in lighter than
water, and being taken into the system. it immediately
sprearls itself all over the frame. It is a well-knosn
fact that if there is a aim on any part of the leely thi•
steeled not enly aggravates it, Inn makes it Irene A
friend of the lecturer (a medical man) told him that
at a peg lateen examination it was necessary
remove a portion of • man's scalp, and when he took
the twain from the head the npirit alcehel noiel
It like wattle free a pining.% that the
of man is not strong enough tedigest it. Tionpornie..
ale, appeal' to the nursing neither who provide. Ile.
food for her offspring. 'The children that the
strong drink thr..ugh their methers do not '(tin
and if they do they only retain a liking ler it. In -1.1
time we find what great evils wiping drink
for when Nadal, and Alithu, two yeting men ef ilio
children of Israel, were Sppointerl to be prirm.. {II,
got drunk, and rushed into the pretence f
the Lowl, and offered strange fire ,11.'n 11.
altar, and for this sin Gial rent lii, fire
down from heaven and slew them. And then it..
edict went forth that the priesta were to drink no
wine or strong dank when they went into the Taber-
nacle, lest they die, and had Hamences mother been
permitted to drink strong drink he would probably
have been a pigmy. It would be well ler nueing
mothers to take caution from the Angel that •iii...l
Saronen'e mother, and than we slnsild net hear it..
acceant that one half .1 the little children torn ine,
the world go mit again before they reach the age
five years. I 'or the sake of the child that the meth.,
bears, she ought not to take the poison. In the Now
Testament we have an account of a man who wee ti
Irritate the way of the Lord: and in the Isl chsptor
"r Fit. Luke's Gospel, it says of him—' He autail
drink no wine or strong drink, and he shall be great iii
the sight of the Lord.' Mr. Atkin then went en to
say he had been accustomed in travel • good deal in
his ; he travelled with his eyes open that he might
'tee, and with his ears open that he might hear and
learn. Ile was fond of everything old - aimed every-
thing but old wine, and that he hated from his very
soul. 11.. believed there was tin more powerful way
of working for Christ's Church than in the Sunday
Scheel. He went into Sabloth nchre.l libraries, and
Its almmt invariably found a cepy ef "Albert Hamm'
Notes" there. Ile would rather have • few hooks like
that than a whele cart lead of the rubbish that is got
up now-a-days. Ile would challenge any man in Eng.
land to prove that all the lust, debauchery, and crime
that now Point ever sprung from gine' wine. It in
contrary 110 the ecripturen to assert that good wine
overdid bring forth had fruits. Our olin.menta
rota lii prov• that the first miracle our lewd wrought
was to turn 120 if:alien', of water into an much good
aid wine, but they were very well went that lie del not
turn it into "Old Port," or any ether filthy atoll.
that we see now. The laws of creation produce win-,
lint they du' sllt ',emitter alcohol. Marriage.. in
former clays, such an that ..no in Cana
generally !aided seven dap., it in therefore finite ele.ir
that when ini, lard werked the miracle, the gueo•
atetentliled had already well drunk, be filled
to have well drunk. t remember that tho
moral character of the WIDTH'S HANllliirier Was liicrfroi.
111411 it not been si,, the nerilne weitlit be ready t
aircue• Ti,,' lecturer behieei that the en,.
which Christ mad.. WWI MS lion. as Ile Himself. N,,11.•
1010 Are familiar with St. Auguatine's works woiii,l
ever dare till MT that our Lord made thou deoitn.yer,
"strong drink " Most of yet have no doubt heard f
the Rev. Mark Guy Pearce. When the temper:me.
workers used to go to him and ask him to join their
ranks, he would say, "I an quite centent tu.walk
with Christ in Cana of Galilee, but • eliort time
al terwards he gave in. and came and nignel the pledgo
let yeur moderation be known to all 1111`11. 1"111,
net like their mederatien c, lo kfI.FWIL
It is not likely that a Suntlar imperintenitent,
hef,we he ••prnorl the LAI OW oicholant
how many glasses .1 wine he had managed to wit
away during the week. lie (Mr. Atkin) believe'
that the word meleration warn not the right word that
eight to have bean in the Hook. In the revised version
it is said " r.et your gentlento• be known," bethought
wait • much more suitable word. And as regent,.
Timothy using a little wine for his etomach's sake, the
wine warCto he used medicinally. The person who
says that gives him license to take wino,
as he had the same complaint as Titnothy hml
if not, them of what use would be the medicine. Ti..
Scripture is good for all doctrine sod nitrite!. lir.
Clarke tells us that soma "(the wine that waa made in
the ncripturen that via• intoxicating, was given to
criminals about to be executel in order It, deaden the
lemma and In cause the pain of death not to le. it,
severe. Swanking of the Hechabiten, the lecturer sail
that the promise of God, that they should not want
a man to stand before Him for ever, was being atilt
fnlfilled, for the ancient Itechabites still remain wan
dewing about in tents, numbering sixty thenaleol
strong.—After • vote of thanks wee accorded to the
lecturer the meeting closet' with the lkixology
lienndiction. The room was crowded.