The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-06 00:00:00

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-Mei certain that so listreeleetien is needed hairs see
utivr..lll4lo4l the purpose far which I 050 w
* haw_ Ao roister!, at Whitsuntide sad these
mum! aItSIWII Of {JD FordiagMs Benoit liceeety come
rood, so regularly do you upset, prior to the more amus-
ing potties of the symingb esserMiement, your interim
report of bare foots aed figures reepeatiog the llamas' ited
other proceedings of the socielp DWI last WbitTeesdey.
Of nommity this stelseneet cased be omitted, for were
there no amounts to be kept, modes be be amoseted for.
or bIi•DWIS done. our deb mess collapse. end these sera-
abie gmbernigs—to which, I me sure, we all look foreerd
with the 'molest of pleasure—would ones to an sad like-
wise. Fortemitely, we are fir from being is this position,
sad therefore, nit year kind Waled* I will eudeetour
se Weir se may b., ta Tne shoddy devolving at me
tea maiming. flo lilt. isaport lave I to °Mode*
, that • Toll few words. snake far all I bate to meet
And first lagerar oar aunties. Toss wili all be
lid to hem wa am still hasp ey gaidia, but yin 55
5547.
this restiat We sew hays sordid osi ea;
=7ll benefit members, es oppose& to 413 at this time
left rem, two new numben barite Soloed us end mo• lett
ies. mu is, of mar" but • small hareem to ear forms
but es yesr after year our ranks have been steadily
**outsold, we oettsinly ere joetilled in ecemiderlog this
as • good oaten for the future. We mast remember it is
met always the swiftest who win the roos—tho tortoise Us
outstripped Use ha,.; mid "Slowly and Steadily" is dim
the motto for dooms. Hoteilr. I have eo rimoval by
death to report to yore Am yaw, but salutes' has bed very
We in our mks. Possibly you will remember that when
but I preeseed my report. I was then obliged to refer to
lbs enpemeadeeted strain our roomer badman"' front
the =dimmed midair of some of oar members. I wird
I am tumble to qualify •11•1 lOW••••••• W 5511 • e
4000 Wit this year. Some Met Walt-Teselay ht=
is our ad Ilea no lees tam 17 members, to whom • Nun
if MI lfs. 64. has beet diudrititited—an Lemma of is..
oa what was expended order this bed for the previous
year. However vs most not fagot dust it was to meet
mesh coultteactes as tame that our dab w first ss started,
mad we m hops tbet in tbe (dam we may revert to the
almost total immunity from sicks•es woo 'algid for
mad Foam. leery Motive liat ID lights and its shadows,
sad our picture too of Si. Foedlegton Sedge flocotety has
Its bright aspects m well as its dark onea 111. gratifyiag
for as to be able to report that as our numbers ham in-
mend, so our receipts from benefit members hoe in-
emend likewis. Dories tbv_past most we have reeeived
from benefit members £ll IS.. 90., while our
receipts in the previrms you swung& to £IO Its. lid.
You will permits, thsreforihtbet our readpb from benefit
members alone were nearly sulkiest to meet the du*
drain to which our fonds hams bees subject. Certsialy
this is a natter for codratulstios. But I kers • few
more light touches to heart to the foreground of our
sketch. Our kind sad liberal rouorters &oh disarm
and will, I hope. through me amept, our wannest thenks
for their coettnued substantial interest In our welfare. I
allude to out honorary niembero wbces snbeoriptions to
our tee, medgement, and bet funds have amounted
during the past year to the sure of .Cl 7 54 Oddly by
the inetrumentality of these very kind Meads. our
reserve food on deposit is now represented by the
substental dowse of =5 Oa IL. a sum of which a small
society such as oars mar well point to with mid*, since it
Is quite evident that so out as our guarantee fund—if I
may term it so—increase* so it doe. oteadilY 1•61.7
year. so long we may be moored the Fotdingtoa t
Sothety mod not fear bankruptcy in a Maeda point of
view. During the few years at hoe been my privilege to
oartiOr the poet I do in this society, as year altar year bee
oome round, I have bad Is Mese manual interim Mons
to allude to the removal, either by death or farm other
dreumitanom of nearly all the principal offeisis of the
slab. This yea: to iso exception to this rule, sod, although
Is it pleasant to reflect that no one hes been taken from
es by death, yet I me sure we all miss Imre this miming
the face of our Ms medical officer, Dr. Norton, who for
some five years contributed an no smell degree to Si.
welfare of our society His attention and unvarying
kindness to Mose members who were brought under his
care cannot be too highly sunken of, and I feel I should be
wanting in my duty this evening were I not thas publicly,
on behalf of he benefit members, to testay to tho
esteem in which he WM held by VINT mentistr.
welcoming among us his successor, Dr. Handle, we feel
certain Dr. Norton's mantle has fallen on most 'Seidl
shoulder", and we sr- convinced that the untini=l
feeling which has always existed between the
onion of tee club and every member will costiam. I had
so. completed my brief sketch et this position of Si.
fordiuston Benefit axis'', and although it may not be
quite eo bright at some I have presentsd in ererion,s..l.....Alinses
yet at any rate we may hose we have no mote Sod
*queasily is it is quite evideet from the number ;TM
friends maimed here this evening that a continued sad '
warm Interest is still taken in our datum by Mom who
hare rallied round us for many years. Use thing I should
very much like to see sad that a • Imam incesseella 00/
numbers, and tido me only be brought shout by lIINk
benefit member using his own individual iduenos an all
with whom he may mime in contact. Let each member
determine to use his utmost efforts S. (strode*, to us at
least one recruit during the next twelve months, sad then ,
whom your secretary preesate himself with his well•known
report he will be able, with confidence, to predict a long
and coati:toed prosperity to the Fordingtoe United Beam
fit
, Tbalitual said mud of the gnome of the club
depended upon their secretary, Mr. Norm, who had
worked very hard, sad he Amid like to show bow
thoLtpreclated his labours by giving him hearty
aP
&771CIITSZT said he did not know bow to thank
the meeting for their kind reception, and he wished he
deserved it more, If be had ooatributed in any degree
to its success be was amply repaid by their kind
reception, sod by Mr. Leonard's Battering remarks.
The Fordington lideAt Society was founded by those
who they very much loved, and, in order I. keep It
going, he hoped the fMr se z would induce their
husbands and others not only to put their bands into
their pockets to help it, but also to get morons, at the
society waded new blood in its ranks as badly as they
wanted money. He tooted they would aid the dab
In the manner be had
A most interastZnreNtsdr from the Rev. Handley
Mode was read the evening by Mr. Pearce.
It woe dated Ridley Ha I, Gembliity 36th, DM.
It was as follows :—" My Dear Ford a Friendr,—
A kind levitation has molted me to te a few words
to be read at the Whitsuntide tea; and though it is
not may to-day to find time ..I should deb, I must
try to make time to obey such a denim You will sot
noed many words from me to explain my deep and
unsillsrable love for Fordiagton. It is nearly two
rem eines I last saw It; and I am not quite sum
whether, with all the past in my heart. I could well
bear to see It. But that very feeling is born out of
the depth of beart-love with which I am moved by Am
very name of F rdiegton. It la the pima of my berth
and of nearly 40 years of sty life. It to the plans
where lie the graves of the blessed whom I have lost,
and it is the plea where dwell many, very many,
whom I ever reckon, and must reckon as dear
friends end true. Bo I accept gladly MA grate-
fully this Invitation, end mod to you all, to for
as my paper can convey it, a heartfelt greitlng
sad Godspeed. May this year's tea mambos be, if
possible, brighter, happier, fuller of pure pleasure and
neighbourly kindness than any that leave gone before
It. May the club itself show every sign of prosperity
end steady growth, gaining recruits es time moves on.
who may more than fill my gaps in the ranks. May
this Whitsuntide gathering, in church sad schools...3m,
be one which old Fordingtoo folks of soother and
distant day will look back on and tell their grandsons
about, as a Virhitsanale indeed. I don't know how
=toy members now remain who remember the first
days, but throe who do will never forget them. I mu. t
be careful not to run on to" long, but once set col og
about my dear home of old it is not easy to stop. I
could tell you &boat a thousand thoughts awl
memories if I began. I °mild atm. long lines of dear
and honoured ammo of lays past. I could sand greet
legs by name to many a valued friend wirmo my mind's
eye erects to me sere awl there at the tables he the
dear double schoolroom. I could speak of the thank-
Inloese I feel •• I think of the Doffs, Room and of the
name it boars, and of the loviog memory of your
departed friends (and more than friends) which it
proves. I might indulge myself —se I often do, for I
cannot help it—in • fancied walk through Fordington.
But It would do no good to you, and it too bitter-sweet'
to me, for memory Is an aching thing sometimes. N',
I will just assure you how in a better way Fordington
I. continually peeing with me. I mean in my prayers.
When in daily prayer I specially ask far blessing on
neighbours my first thought is always Fordington.
Yeeo to um you would be always neighbours, thoogh I
lived in Africa or Japan. • acid forbid we should not
prey for you.' Yee, may blessing from above, all that
fillcd means by blessing—Divine, eternal grecs a'orl
good—rest on Fordiagton ever more and more; on
pastor and on peooe, on church and school, on hearths
and homes, on rich and or • the blessing which
canes from heaves ead l.sds, through the Lord Jade,
straight and steadily to heaven. There at last is home,
Is it not?
'We dream awhile that home Is heaven:
We find at length that heaven is home.'
Lit your hearts be there as the true rest, the real aim,
the beet-loved thought. As it happened. I *rallied out
this &Sarno on for an hour with • much valued home
friend. I may name him—it was Mr. Francis Galpin.
We had much to speak of. But you may be sure we
found tine, for many • word about Fordington. It
was no effort to do ;we bed Do diculty to bringing
up
the subject. Why? Because both of us loved tbe
Should it not be thus with cm, if. In any true
seam at all, we look for tbe Better Land? If we love
that home, will not the thought or it overflow some-
times to our lips sad word.? But I must does. The
pen has run 00 .4 VI I were stmcling on the Platform
sad talking to you; as in the days that are no more.
It is time to my farowsiL God ideen you, dear
V ends. I feel very wow to You Weed.
'Ptosints friend.,
your walla.' For my Yersata% oust
brethren's, sod csnappidons% and Mende sakes, I wish
you now PrwolwritY. And let toe ay, at the last
word, how my afteetioo for rOralfton sod My
Warm and wiehee are shared by that dear wife whom
uou rata me last at the time when sorrow awl change
had clouded my path. Her heart, with mini, hiodood
In tisk message wit are one indeed in the greeting we
send end the blessing we ask on that dear name,
Fordington.—l am, your truly affectionate friend,
" H. O. G. Monte."
A moat ° =able satertaboment was then per-
=ng of singing and recitations.
s beardtal seared wog-. Than Is a GINE