The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-31 00:00:00

WIXBOJRNE.

CAPTAIN CLARK Kea:lmq, late tiulelstream Guard%
wan oil. of the neon p.e.ent at the complituenta. y
b.nomet at K .ightsloridge on Wednesday, to the
raffia r-, non-commi nine, piffle-rand men of the Fr.(
Life Hoards, n. their r-' urn from b gritt.
nit CAMS.% AcelnlNT AT Cditi, °Kermit.—
Mrs. Yeatut.n, who WAS thrown frotu her ca-naye oast
Tueseley week, is, we Sr • h pm to my. 1,,,,,"„(a,
favourably t.w ands recovery. though it must be
abed Mil that nine tostill inn C:111CAI c lulu' in.
D0•411tAtM41.1171./11.11.001i1l aloNALCAnitcuNi.
—The aoitti.nual ...sewn .4 the ah .ve uraociati ut t •ork
;dm o at Wituhorne ou Tillll, lay hoe, but was n 4 very
Largely 'Mende I, 114 a anion rot minister.' 5,1 f.ien to
enure unable to got to the town on a n .u.ot of the tl
The lousiness meetieg of minis...us ant .I.le4atos tann-
in nice•l at helf•past nine in the to woe
atter +el by the following : E. .of Pool -,
ermine:an of the araowati .n ; new. Ilee.es, cm; •ny,..f
I:land(ord ;T. Seas..., Doretemer ;(i.4e. Sheri, else; .1.
Revues, Won), 'roe ; F. Clark. Ch arm .oth; I).
T um, C Tire; Butc'oer, Uprrey Whitehonse,
CriuMestyle ; J. Wood. Weymouth ; Seoby
(wagerer) awl Bennet, Waseha u; Lancaster, Poole ;
J. Finder, awl R. Hicks, tilaudford. The
brasierso wan til • routine and private oh oractsr. At
twelve o'clock there MA4 a special service in the chapel,
at which the sermon war preached by the R .v. W.
Jackson. At two o'clock Rime was • public losuche ;
and at half-prast five a tea was p-ovided in the echo .1-
ro to. Apu .lic meeting wan held in the chapel in the
°veiling, over which t e Rev. E. Evans presided.
There MAAI a very fair attenolauce. After the proc,s,i.
logs had been opened with eh:ovine and prayer the
pre-ideut (the Rev. E. Evan.) delivered his inaugnrsl
addoess. having for his subj "The per••.ual element,
in our Church life and work," and takinz for • te it
the wonlo, " Now ye are the body of Chriet, and
unmoor* ii particular." We memo I, he sai I, to be
pe 4004 through a period moth, history of the I 'hristian
Churchcs of .our laud of moo', earnest activity 311 I
f 'pectstion. Them never was a time when more
trackd and mote vigorous elf oda were put forth for
the prmeeation of the faith, whom all the churches
seemed tn•ne alive to their responsibilities, ;nom
imbued with the spirit of their Master, more anxious
to to live au I serve as to be able at Last t render a
good account of their steward-hip. No oce community
c .uld claim the monopoly 01 zeal in th, work of
building up the saints or ~1 evangelieing the in. weer, •
who. Were yet gmbtiLln. Imt if there Wai 011< direction
more tbau author in which 111.1 10.11 ..nd me iv ity of
the churches wa• tin oviug it wan in that of directly
evangelistic ant a,Nre nine effort. All the churches
felt teat they anw4 r,cruit their ranks from the great
Mot of tluoo whn were outside. He knew not
how tlo account f ic this, except by the supp
that the +1..1y tat w 4. VA Will.: 111.11 the churches
aud goickerrint an I MIA: mg their life. Mr. Evans
eontinued Ids addrees at mute I,ugth and ceueln to I
by mying that be thought it could not be denhel
that there were many resourcas of etrength lying un-
used sin •ngthem—en usoml,and spiritual energira,
with I ," p Itiell oi service iothesn, lying wholly
ur.eutploa el. If. howe.er, the per. in il element in
church life were omire fully recognise! th,e won:tl u
have t make this comMaitot, but the Kingdom of
Christ w .ul,l e lily grow, and there would 1,,
a lance 6,saraerona believers, whilst faith would be
etrengthened not am heal life Inteneified.—The Rev,
IT, It. Manes I, of Remit, der. delivered an address on
" Saved by Christ; how te know it and the Ilev.
Retch, rdlressed the meeting on the subject of
" NVork of Christ ; how to do it." rho nmetieg closed
with (hod. icalogy.