The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-17 00:00:00

TWO MISSIONARY bIEF.TINI;S AT oN(,1.1

" Soaring above societies is the exalted frame of mind
recommended by the • Lod Didens of the Diocese in
hie episcopal letter thouth how that exalted frame of
mind was to he utilised in practiee did not 14011 very clear.
more was rather a diffieulty. ,m Monday night, for one
who is delightsal to her about the triumphs of the
message which should give—
. Glory to (Lal in the highest ;
on earth, goiwill to rum'
For two great societies, both II in the nirion work, and
both wonderfully blessed. had their meeting in Weymouth,
very awkwardly, at the none time. The coneurrenee was
too near, or sot quite near enough; the meetings 911/0111,1
have been held at different times, or at the same place.
In such men I might wi,h hi µsows. Mr. Spottiswoode's
' fourth dimension of space,' for might I not thereby
manage to lie in two places at once: Distracted between
the attractions of the London Missionary society with the
Mayor at (:lona-oder-street, awl of the üburoh Nti.jouncy
Society with the Rector id Si Mary's. not to mention the
missionaries who might be expected Out don't always) tell
us 'so many curious thing. we never knew before,' I h,el
to divide the time as heat I could, and juds,ed the )(ape
would not begin & meeting. nor the Rectr clo,e one, with.
out saying something worth hearing. First, then, for

THE LONDON lIISSIONART DOCIETI MEETING.

What a Ilitfervilce there is in modern, frodiniecoratad,
' comfortable, well-to-do Gioueester-ntrvet chapel, faun
the old chapel hiding it'd( away in Nichols.-
'
street, and telling of the timen of bointeroun awl
intolerant mobs, who wouldir't let a meting-bonne be
safe in a front street? laousetheretreet chapel with
its earrings inaide i.nd wit. it. L.—won-able n.stued au- i
varinthed pews. its paint nod gilding, to vari-coloured
text. and its well-dre.sed eur. ter; and with the Mayor in
the chair, told of • differeut .hi., of things from what e x •
?it'd in the times of the old Corporation for who than
ever saw a Mayor of the borough In the chair it a
, Dissenter. miseionary gum tine ? Outward eircumetthms
I bees improved, yet did 1 mein to WWI in the solemn,
I almost immunised, singing of "Oh Spirit of the living
God f" somewhat of the old victorious shout of " Blow ye
the trumpet, blow r that used to make old Nicholas-
. Street plleria ring. An,?, v riting of those gallerien.
which I have so often peel, crowded, where are the
Pillery people at Gioucester-street mi- sionary meetings
Why' they men shot them up. and a poor soul who
wawa to hear • little, and can't .toy to rho end, is obliged
to be thrust in among the door congregatiou or to stet!
away. The old missionary hymns and tunes—where are
they? On Sunday, at another chapel, I heard that
glorious hymn of Bishop If eber's—ilught 1 to say "Lord
- From Greenland's Icy Mountains," fall dead,
Ins where it used to sound like a trumpet call. But
it was good to airs the old times and the new represented
on the platform at Gioucesteretreet for Kr. Lundie and
the Rev. W. Smith have not lost their lint love shown
many /ears tho, and the R 4,11. Mr. Dolton, Mr. Botcher,
and Yr. Saville. mai on the pueoresion, while the con-
tributions, taken all round, show still an increase. And
so, though the old spot to given over to "}lnk Domino.,"
we may rejoice that anew chapel and church too, in Park.
street, are scenes of good work.
The 1t.,, & BOL MN read the particulars of the contribu.
Nona for this district which includes Weymouth, Portland,
Dewey, Abbotsbury, and Chickerel, the total being
ils. 5c1., an increase of /.2 14i. 4.1. over last year's, and
£l9 St 4d. had been collected for times who suffered by
Lb. terrible famine in Southern India,
The Marna had been invited and had accepted with •
groat deal of piessure the invitation to preside to-night at
She annual meeting in connection with the Loudon
Missionary Society. Having read with •greet deal of care
the valuable report of the society, furnished him by Mr.
Bolton, he thought it gave • distinct atom& to any
suspicion or any respecting the value and moons
of its operations. When he looked at the aggregate
amount contributed last year to the society C138,00D,
Including about 4110,000 for the Indian Famine Rath(
Fend, and considered the very extraordinary depression of
trade, unprecedented in his memory, which hare prevailed
In this country, and the Colltait between capital and
labour, the result showed • very magnificent contribetion,
and that no diminution appears in the interest of those
who are usually subscribers. The very catholic
principles on which it is founded lay claim to the
sympathy of Christiana of all denominations, Myriad say
other inlesionary moiety he knew of at the present day.
Under the heed of fundamental principles, be reed that
Union of Christians is • most desirable object, and there-
fore it waa declared to be a fundamental principle of the
society, that ita design is not to rend Fresh, terithisrn, or
Independency. or Episcopacy abroad but the glorious
gospel of the blessed Gad. Thaw lines should be written
In letters of gold, so written and so reed as to be
impressed upon the hearth of all Christians to whatever
denomination they may belong. Two or three days ago,
the statement of • clergyman well known to them was—
"lt is a gloriouu inatitu un ; it has done, in the establish-
ment of the gospel, a. much as, or more than, any other
society that has ever sent miasiocuuiee into any part of
the world." That was the t-stimony from one without
their pale, but who had had the opportunity of judging of
their week, (Applause.! When he oonsidered the grasp
of country they had—that in China WO converts during
the past year had been bruight Li the Saviour, to her he
considered the efforts made in India from the Himalayas
In the north to Cape Guriorin in the south, this 11111,1
indeed a grand worik. Again, he looked to that Wand
where especially the labours of Ellis were blessed —the
island of Medaniscar, the gem of the ocean sa far as the
labours of the London Missionary Society are concerned,
and although lately the results, may not have bmn
exactly what could be wished, still last year the entire
abolition of slavery there had been a great and glorious
result. Again, he came to the Southern Islands, where
Mr. Seville had been at work, and where Gill and the
sainted Williams had laboured, bromine men out of dark.
nee. and introducing them to the light of the empel.
the east and the west, end wherever they had the door
opened, they had entered In and left their impress for
God wherever they had gone. The admirable report is
therefore • great testimony not simply to the labours of
the society for one year, but during many years. In this
0000rrr obeys le much ta separate men; we are gent up
Into swede= rind partite, and much is done because
it is "for our church;" but such institutions as this t.
minds. that the Great Heed of the Church owns-all faith-
ful labourers for Him, whether they he such as Morrison,
Williams, and Moffatt, from the London Missionary
. Societe, Bishop Fattieun. Selwyn, and Heber from the
Church of England, (roan the Baptiats, Maralunan, Carey,
and Ward, or from our Wesleyan brethren, others who
have gone out with their lives in their hands. We must
madder what will be the result of all the movements
now going on; we have had an effete nation like Turkey,
warring not only with Luis ro, but with Western Europe,
and we learn that when God's judgments are *bread then
men will learn righteousnem And surely His judgments
are abroad now ; the prevailing differences of opinion, the
infidelity of some, the carelesnuess of others—those
terrible thins passing in &wive should awaken in us
questions aa to whet is the meaning of it all The answer
Is—go forth with the Gospel; proclaim freedom not only
from vice and immorality, but freedom from anxiety
show the world that hers is • greater than any earthly
Binn, and bring before thane who are trodden down, a
power
resrester than the world can glee—that Film who
and seastatheth by the word cl His
mine. It was a grog Mom= to most tkomthis MM.