The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-08-16 00:00:00

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The edueamim.„ 00UNTY SCHOOL
from that of the Premeat day is very different
I)°theborti' 'nen, such seminaries as
gun swing. *cubing bi"ewited by Dickens), were in
minds es Well am the t_ .Iteir barbarian practices the
Luckily, the novelist wwlies of the unfortunate pupils.
them that egtimmtim,,l)s,ned People's eyes, and taught
these den my or not to be a mere name, It,
atte.MPta shomigeterelli it iS not fltrlOrdifiary that
adherence to Old shatmtalthada to break up the rigid
uovernment has led useless charters.
Shall be Provided fm?"46l/ determined that education
its requirements, mira.elerY ohee in society wording to
11°F°1t "Meow" us! says the Commissioners'
Tile different olameme "sil sebum varied and complex.
of We, require cliffs° Society, the different occupations
ones woula hay boonreet kinds of teaching. Many who
tion at all, now,enot ,*tootent with next to no educe-
= education suited ton7rerluire education, but require
accept that which ea. tinit. special needs, and will not
Dorset Was no eyes before provid..l for everybody."
Venerable T. SamoT,,___P"°o to the general want. The
deacoa of the nonnt...', entered on the ofiloe of Arch.
of the educatOnal in 1863, with • full consciousness
Hon to do all im ht4.69.pois, re meat, and with • determine.
su cieeeded, the mum,. _ to relieve it. How he has
leg round, him, re'' ti know. He began by gather.
nucleus of • Corn Presentative men who formed the
having for it.
'" obi" twel 00 the Limited Liability system
tem .
the re e establishment of • School (on
yeoinesn, —trade. tutnen,silsg thlish public. schools) for the sons of
The shares In this
,nierottarite, and professional men.
each ; the `-'oollaany were fixed at £1.2 10a.
nominating bOY th
r of two %hams to have the right of
b°3'
should
get his ectrieas titiconhootl, !Laud tl7.ruhchne;eir rate'
than • noti.no
Council or governing h,r„ty
ni•ster. Free': tnerashareholdere the
Ordutucwati'lg deterniih was chosen. First of all, it
ed that the School should give an
eth lee
se".`"sg to the doctrine and discipline of
Church of kagland, and ono not confined to any
party in the Church, high, le, or broad. This hu trn firfirmlytarried out Then : that instruction should
brangethv e ih rending, writing, arithmetic, the lower
ie. ce of mathematics, history, geography, book.
•rnngi lend surveeing, agricultural chemistry, English
literature, and the Laths and French languages. After
settling this,
the great difficulty lea, to find a country
site for the School, and that obstacle was only sur-
mounted last year. For Rix years the institution has
been in extremely uneoinfortable and inconvenient
quarters in Dorchester, and that probably is the reason
why the number of pupils has not increased more
rapidly. Many, in the meanwhile, were the sites pro.
Posed, amd uteril were the objections to each one. To
the Present site (the equal ..f which is not possessed by
any Edueational Establishment in the West of England,
however, hut one objection could be made, and that
was—the want of funds to erect • building upon it.
The School was not established for profit, but to giro •
cheap and sound education. Funds, therefore, were
not abundant. With a little energy, the Council over.
came this difileulty. An appeal was made to the county.
The Earl of Eldon kindly gave £lOO toward, a
building, and this liberality was imitated in a less
degree he many persons. With the money thus ob-
tained, the Council started the building.
The dedicatioe sten* was laid on the 22nsi of June,
1869, and from that time the works progressed rapidly
and sueeseshilly, to that the establishment was fully
road) for osscapation at the commencement of the
second half of the present
Notwithatamdieg the drawback of carrying on the
school in lodgings—as the Rev. H. Harper forcibly pat
soesiderable number of boys were brought to-
gether; and, under the esteemed Head Master (the Rev.
IL G. Watson) with Mr. F. Mondey as second, and
other good aids in Mr. Edwards, Mr. Wells, and Mr.
Timbrell S 4 assistant masters, it has been shown, by the
rePorte of the exeminers each half, the school has made
gratifeing progress. Under the happier circumstances
now inaugurated we shall expect and no doubt find far
higher results.
The new building is • handsome well-built structure in
the Venetian style. The principal facade, facing the
mouth-east, epeeists of centre partition of three stories,
with side wings and end payillions of two stories. The
head-master's residence, the wheel department, and
the domestic °Moss, are designed to be entirely
separated, and yet so arranged that they are
convenient to each other, and that the head
master he, control over the whole building.
The Heed Master's residence occupies the east ei.d. The
principal or school entrance is in the centre pavilion
marked by • bold projecting hood carried on stone
corbels. The entrance hall is successfully and orna-
mentally treated with white and red bricks and stained
woodwork, and in the wall is inserted • atone on which
Is the following inerietion -

TEI mut OF FRI I,SD IS Tlll NSOINNINO
,F WINDOM.
This County School wet soletnnly deditated
to the glory 14 Almighty God in the
religiewt, moral, and maul, and liberal
education 1 4 hop., in accordance with
the ptincipler, doctrine, and dlwi-
pline of the Church England by
The Venerable the Arehdeacott Sanctuary.
JUXIS XIII., A.D. NDOXLIII.

Already large demands 'remade upon us to meet the stringent
conditions which the State bee seen lit to Imisete- -alryady the
higheet edumtion in the land is In danger 4 being robbed of
the crown if ita glory and sapped In the citadel of ile drclnfish
already our ancient univenitirs and colleges are warned that
they must be prepared to obliterate the name of God from their
etatotehooksy-andoodontrm-to-temblexes the-eress—of-Christ-ou-
their banners. Not only therefore, for the zealot.. pr wecut ion
of such enterprises u we have in hand to-day, but to stimulate
us to the effort which mug presently be made, and to nerve us
for the at, uggle which may possibly be at hand, it Pi well for us
ti review our position and clearly to understand our principles
and our oblig Mons in this behalf The preacher went on to
show th it the indiwoluble connectli ins between education and
religion nwts on the fundamental truth. of the Behig and
Unity of Cod. If it be true that to tw there it but idle God,
of whom are all things and we for Him, then it follows as a
deduction of right reawiti no le.a, than a doctrine of Holy
Scripture, that it is our bounden duty in all our ways to
acknowledge Him, with all our power. to du Him seniee.
114 all our life to yield Him homage. Then to be, or desire,
or plan or perform anythi ig, not merely again 4 but
without our allegianm to Hint Is infringement of lila
prerogetite, a treasonable offence against His divine majesty.
Then religion I, not acts of worship, or deed, of charity,
or obeervance of Rms. or knowledge of sacred thing.;
but it is in the surrender of a will, the devotion id a life, the
dedioation of an entire being. Then to fear and keep Hi.
commandments is the whole duty of man. Idolatry in its
grosser anti more material form, halt long ceased from among
11.1. The graven images f the heathen have fallen, like 'baton
ef old. Wore the ark of the Loot We build 110 cottly temple,
we rear no mulptured marble to Jupiter or to Mars, to Apollo
or to
Venus. But, in the costlier s rine. of human hearts, In
the nobler material, of human imaginations, the mills of the
Inethen are dill wershippol and pourtrayed. One cosi pprente
we proles, to acknowledge: but besides him and befere Him
we have gods many -Mantrnott and lame, Science and Art,
Kduration and Civilisation, which, Absal -like, speak men
lair, and steal...ray their hearts, be aptsious promisee,ifrunt their
lawful King. Religion Is for theKtand ty and the church : but
the mutate, the counting-home, the marketsplacr, the whim%
the college, what in her business or hernia. in these? Religion
Ims one day in !oven in which to educate the young ; let her lie
o eitent with that; let secular education have thereat: the two
are quite independent : "the Lord is reslo• the hill,. hut Ile is
not God f the valleys :" let each occupy it, own sphere: let
tach reign supreme over it. territory. Ilut %hat i• this but
poly theism in all but the name? Upon us ',Christians, this
troth has a further and constrainleg hold through our Lord
Jesus Chrid. The strong argument of creation is added to the
yet stronger and dearer argument of rt. it:motion. Ti.rning lu
the human side of the question, and ommlering the subject of
religious education in its bearing upon the nature and destinies
ol man, he tanned that seeder education. while it robe GOd .4
what by a double right is judly due, it dtefrades man fr..ni
the dignity .of his true position and denim to him the chef part
.4 hi. proper birthright. Having dmenbed education at. &eye-
ing forth, et olving, trebling and maturing, xtrengthening and
controlieg the talent, poWern atal faeultio of the matt, he said
this being it, " tender mite:alien" Wan a COlllrncilelioll 111 term,
MU man no moral element, no spiritual emcee., in hi- complex
mysterioui being? Do depth 11101 blood, bones and sinews,
nerve, and erteriea, motions and adeetions, remon and In.
telligetice, thought and tat-loon, C0111p0.111.1.1 In title 1.1.01...,
Coll.oillilt • man? Ilax he no eon:minim, no moral
,eme, to will, no soul? Is the secular and the material the
limit of hi. relations In the present, or of his hopes and
a.pirations in the future? Does the and antence, "Dug
th.oi art and unto dust Pall thou retort]," indeed
Cullipreiletoi the starting point all.i the goal, the origin
and the destiny, the beginning and the end lif man? Rot if
Mall 110 moral, and pintail, and immortal, how pos.illly can
you train and educate him, if you overlook and ignore them
noblest and mightiest forme of his being ? To take no higher
ground, Ls it prudent --is it safe—for • State thus to educate
IL. people? Will accular wisdom and knewledge alone emure
stability for our Limo.., or strength of salvation ? The voice
of experience rinds out, sad yet clear, sorrowful yet trumpet-
tonpued, that any eduattion in worm than worthless which
lon uot recognise and embrace the whole man. Then only Is
education worthy of her name—then only Is she true to her
heavenly mission, as the benefactress of mankind, when she
prop...tea to herself to make man in the exercise and In the
command of all his powers, at unity in himself. Finally, he
argued that in the provision that edtication shall he religious
lies the only valid security that it shall be at once comprehen-
sive and direriminating.
At the conclusion of the sermon the hymn commene.
log, "Go forward, Christian soldier" was song, and the
service closed with the benediction pronounced by the
Archdeacon.