The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-03 00:00:00

SELECTION OF A CANDIDATE YOR DJR.

CHESTER DIVISION.

O Watossiday at • nowt representative meeting
a Libroral Divisional Ass. (dation was formrd, sod Mr.
H. Edwards was unanimously nominated m Liberal
oandidate for this division. A second molting fr hla
adoption la iirrangsd for.

COLONIAL AND CONTINENTAL CHURCH SOCIETY.

On Sunday last the annual sermons on behalf ti thLi
society wen preached at All Saint'', and at Martina-
town by the Rev. G. C. Barlow (deputation.)
The annual meeting was held on the following even.
beg at the Town Hall, when the Her. T. W. Knipe
presided. then being alao on the platform. Rev. R.
Ludlow, Rey. C. F. Powys, Rev. R. Joni, the depute.
tint, sad Mr. W. Dixon (local noretary). Than was
• nay mown attendance. After prayer by the Rev,
Ludlow,

The Caetages Wowed the meeting. They were
mat, be said, in troubled times and time" filled with
very peat and serious intere,t, times of great anxiety,
peril, and danger to their country ; and one of the
demoralising inlioences of war which wee greatly felt
In the French revolutionary wars of the esrly part of
tbe present oentory, was that people were apt to be
absorbed in the (literate of the hour, that other duties
were neglected and other work was left undone. While
they kept their hearts fully alive to all that was
poplar, watchful of opportunities to praise G
where Win wee a call for praise ; to trust him where
there was a call for fear—which all their country
and natural affections demanded of Utica—was fully
felt and recognised with regari to their thoughts and
Interests at this critical period la the nation's history,
It wee well for them still to have their hearts arid
heads coonpled in the Lord's work, ter, come what
would, they would be sorry they had been thus
employed. Referring to the work of the society, he
continued, the Continential churches were oo the whole,
what, in a commercial sense, was called self-paying.
He hod himself ministered to oongregations connected
with this society both to Freon and Swinsrland. and
as the close of the seniors there wee a collection which
was invariably for the Colonial sad Continental
Church Society. Although be had been in connection
with the society in "owe vary remote plaoss—in the
Alps sad elsewhere —be had always found there was
no
demand to be mad* on the woke,'" &moose, and
very 016110, even in small 000gregations, there was
some aorta, to be handed over to the parent society.
It we. very important the Church of England should
be represented-and well represented—on the Coati-
neat There wee • time when the French and Germans
were apt to say the English pimple came in large
numbers but left their religion bettiod them, and there
was therefore • strong call and necessity that then
should be English churches on the Continent Forty
or 50 years ago. if there were oburchse at all, they
were Dot nadir the direction or guidance of any bishop
or home authority, and it Olant happened that the
=Pwho ministered to these flocks in Conti-
AL were there, for some very good reason whyl
they should not be at home : there were many clergy-
men in debt and difficulties at home who went abroadl
and get up a church on their own authority, and
gathered a congregation from such English people as
were there. That system had beers wiped out, and
nearly all the Coutineatal churches were now in the
bends of the 'octet', and the venerable &Matt for the
of the Go= also haves few. The men
=re sika
were sent out by society were selected with
every precaution god care that they should be boned
npreseetativea of the old Protestant March of Eng-
land. In introducing the deputation. who, he paid,
canoe from Queensland, the Chairman said he would
not touch upon the most important work of the society
In the Colonies. Then Colonies had lately shown •
filial love and • noble patriotism In their anxiety to vie
one with another In seeding troops to fight Ade by
side with those that had gone from the old Mother
Lead. Those slangs drew heart to heart and mind to
attract amongst them. (Applause.)
The Hon. Locat. SlCkaTtni personally expressed
his Indebtedness to the society for providing an
Eaglish church is Dieppe, where he had to spend
four or five weeks last year for the sake of his health.
The amount of private subscriptions received
amounted to £l3 16r. •, public subscriptions from
collections in All astute Church, 1.1 16s. 7d. ; Mar-
tintown. £3 • and Alington Hall, Li 18.. ;
£914.. Id. •, °phoned by Mr.. Ludlow Et ; Mr. butt,ss. • Ms. Lambert, 51. • collected by Mrs. Dixon.
£3 15s. Mies Jaanill Voss, LI 9.. 31. ; boxes,
Se. 6.i. ; ma;king • total of £34 7a. 10.1. Deducting
£1 0.. 6.1. for expiates, he bad remitted to the parent
society, C 33 is. 4d. (AppLuor.)
The Rev. C. CI. Barlow then gave • deeply
interesting address on the work of the society in
Queensland. In him capacity am bishop's chaplain
be had travelled over every corner of this giant
Dolan, and be dared to say that, from the resources
It presented, front Use elements it had within it of
becoming a great country it was a colony for whigh
every Englishman should "otology, solemnly, and
devoutly thank his Lord. Alludieg to the need of
the @orderly's work, he said he had been implored by
thew people to obtain for them the ministration. of
•
, but he could do no more than bring
the°ll=tbe diocesan council who went to this
etemblrlit and asked its help. He appealed to them
it be that they who enjoyed those spiritual
n4vileges, who had them at every season of their
riss at their eery &on—should it be that they
would deny them as far as God had given them the
mesas, their substantial sympathy? In conclusion,
the deputation made an earnest appeal for aiditirmal
support, bad asked them to double their subecrip-
Mona
Te. Rev. C. F. Pow!, proposed a vote of thanks to
the deputation and chairmen, mod the meet* oloeed
with tU Bestisdictiocs.