The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-13 00:00:00

WORLDLY TE4OIIERS.
To tAt Editor.

Bir,—l am grieved at reading a letter which I
appeared in your lest issue, reopen. ins the encourage- i
meat given to the young men of Dorchester and
others, who may be residing in the town, as to how
they may employ their leisure hours during the dreary
winter evenings, being enoouragedtojoin the Amateur
Minst,els. Now, sir, lam not surprised in my visite
round the town that so many people are worldly
minded, and make such bad work of it in • dying hour,
when they are encouraged to live contrary to God's
Word. Some who are professedly Christian teachers
will have something to answer for at the her of God,
who stand and point our young people to the world,
and as it were saying "ml. is the way, walk ye in
It," whereas they ought to point to Christ and
rehearse the Master's words in John sir. 0.6. v., "I
am the Way the Truth and the Life." New, sir, some
of your readers may wish to know what we cell the
world, and we would refer them to passages like
this:—" If any man love the world, the lore of the
Father is not in him." lam not surprised that three
who nit at the helm of all such things as minstrels,
Guy Fawkes procession., should be so loved by the
world, because our Master said "The world loves its
own," that is everything where God and prayer is
excluded. I would not say a word against music of
any kind, for I love it with all my heart when it is
played for the aim of God. Let any Christian
teacher read Camdens iii, 16 aad 17 mew and
decide the matter without controversy; and, if they
feel this to be a rebuke for their wordltetzindedness,
let them blame the Word of G d for It. written.
I entered • reading•room last evening in • lags near
Dorchester, and there were cards and dominoes on the
tables, and after that place claim up at night the
publican says he gets more lads and boys into his
home smoking and drinkint than ever he did before
it was open. What is the moron f Because it proves
to be • nursery for the publichouse, and one man said
"that reading-room is • curse to our village." Why?
Because it wee ~persed upon this ground that prayer
should never be offered there, What I am speaking
through your 'columns against is worldliness, and It
ought to be fought against by every one who names
the name of Christ. I am prepared to meet any
worldling on this Oct with an open Bible, to show
them II they want red life it must be found in Christ.
I as. from the War Ors of the 3rd February a remark
from the Earl of Shaftesbury, stating that the chaplain
of one of the Wesel London prisons informed him that
the three principal games that brought girls and women
there were drink, trashy novel reading, and tawdry
favhionabli dress. This is a part of what I condemn as
worldly, and her helped to ruin multitudes. I see,
I according to your lad issue. that a poor boy has ann.
gamed suicide, at the age of 15 rears. through iamb.
Hug and card playing, at Sheflidd. Parente look well
after your children In thole evil days, ad i from all
I worldliness, false teachers, black hase„_ and every
thing wrong, "Good Lord deliver ne."—Yours truly,
Won's'.