The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

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. in the very
h atatrOnege,..eshich ibis
elicietettbleitinglit. • '
W..-.--bpithnut-halari.-tha..
(mealy indicated to him that the object for which
.., Vito beaded- theawelves ktgetkat WIWI one which'
'received their hearty approval, and that those efforts
of the membere re - the Old Friends to meet twill
odi 1 , llghten the tontitseceleis of life Wire tjtose which
500.:...i, 'testy moot to support. (Cheers.). He had been
.yt '.. inkrasted that their society was making rapid pro-
•Ttlf.t.' greak and that their financial department was in •
INve, a week prosperous and healthy condition. These were
sgAW ~ two . very great things in a society which was an
•.., ',smug as their's ; but they all knew that the best of
Abut 1 titicess bad bttle beginnings.; if they began well, and
....am,: went on well they might be sore that suoiess would
attained at the end. Such • work as their
h,„i , tlicitiety was engaged in, he thought, all right think-
sa.,,..... ... Intuit Approve. (Hear, hear.) To hi mind
same was one of the signs of the times; it Was one
. of the features oi the age' in whioh they lived that
now etwilemen and artisans combined .
doing each other goocL Mew this moven.
j,.: Specially in this age, hed taken place he .
• lay, but they am itiP\ 4#0614 More at the pew-
; j., time than at any meioses age. They saw societteo3l
•of all kinds-they saw friendle societies, 114 clo'll
dr, operative acwietims,. ad men becoming intelligsals.l
and as A result they saw moral and social improves'
. meet. Wherever they might go they fonocl.mau i
, ~, thoughtful, and lamest, and beginning to think of 1
•••••• '.' • the responsibilities of life, and feeling thine re-
sponsibilities, they 'toned all their endeavours to carry,
thew net. f Applause.) It might be that to $ &eat'
Inkatit this improvement arose from the cheap pars-
edi-.'titili periodicals which abounded in the ••••
Ili le t taliliet. •,' (Cheers.) Men now read for
...,,,shoot and thought for themselves, and L.
t'll' ",''ll46ist this reading and this thinking thoron
n
sit, at . ,
'Yee:Ting themselves that some easoeiation
to ,
'combination was formed for their social and ni
.
et 4A od.
wail there
Ile liked combinations
.Ipn Lli
' wed there was life. When men read
o
t carefully, good was sore to flow in the,
• tion. Men, now is passing through life, began I
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to simi feel that they were exposed to accident, disease, '
.1, is): death, and feeling this they made due provision
.mg• Shelm. (Hear, hear.) Here, to-night, they saw the
id
--elndhref thoughtful men, men who saw
,Ewitzposed to all kind of evils, of .
i' •"' ' and death, and seeing thee* they .
~.., .
•:band ta the plough, they had not i.
Ot.
. ntitliera what they themselves could do; their mot.
8 "Was " not to leave till to-morrow what could be don*
8 ;00-41sy," and they bad combined together that they
8 ,titileht meet the evils of life and their consequences.
tr. Joilapylease.) He felt that this was a good work,
IL allied thee it was one which must commend itself to
h • them eii, and that it would not do for them to allow
2 • few to scale the ramparts and storm the citadel
•whist they stood idle. He believed the more
e
A 'the principle of this and kindred societies, which hair
ar the enlightenment of men at heart, were known, the
' e niore they would be supported and approved' of.
Li :(Cheers.) Again he believed the estatlishrnent.of
a ( ,these societies indicated that they were drawing
0 nearer to much better days; for when a people came
began to vie with each other in alleviating each other's
• ills, that people must grow great and happy, and
' • every institution which had this for its object
J'• vaunt commend itself to them as inhabitants of the
?or
t: bit MI). ( A plllllll6O He wished every prosperity
to the society of Old Friends. As they wets met
.. together as friends let them be so. Who was it
i, . that did not wish to see the face of an old friend?.
a., All ef them, he believed. They all remembered old
a- ' fame, and they warmed their hearts, and they
E brightened up at recitals of former friendehipe and.
former days. Who could forget a kind word spoken
.1, ether dark and heavy calamities were upon them?
they had new friends which they thought of, but;
they were not like old friends. An old friend stuck'
--wheel he was not c'- - . by winter's b44t,
_neither
when arin-W.Pat cold east
i them. Who then would
They most allow him to ,
of thew (ideate in the
(Loud cheers.) ' They
who watched around ,
er-he their watts;
i. the helping band
. who finding them
bound up their wounds,
d oaring for them. (Re-
-e they like the priest and
en puma . Jon the other side? No. This
,ppeagiliw claimed their patronage; first, because it was
Ilihn work of thoughtful men who oared for their
hearths and homes ; and secondly, because it was the
Ihmthsasd's mid father's last bequest to those he loved
beet upon earth. In this society the widow end
orphan found shelter, and here they had a mewed
memento which death could not quench in the
provision which that best earthly friend had left for
..... thew -Theo widows and theme orphans thought of
4;4d
' who was gone, and who had made this prevision.
them, and they asked God to bless the society of
Friends, and they, catching the spirit of that
~I‘,patayar, Whig weld they otherwise say than amen,
-lb belt. (Great applause.)
t‘wthb The CHAIRMA.N, after giving the usual loyal toasts,
- "The Army, Navy, and Dorchester Rifle

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go Ire
--Volunteer& " They ~ ... not do without their army
sAriztektak..‘iii ' - arttlf"were sa°llodble tir Rhemni r
and Dorchesturpeopie respected them very mush,
obi in lunjoisthey, were defended by ouch inep he
1811M' .--- eight etersidet' • themselves -irate.
illter.) ounnotkar with the toast he coupled
the name of -their Ifoluiirmaii.- „
Co . ': . eant : OltY, Ate thanking the
co , • ..• or the.. pliqunt ppfd htuk, said the
v. ' .' • . iptisituttent had 'low beggar, due of the
un%)
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ni
. Anstibitions of thwoonlikrY. .4t. a cow-
',.._/* '414• cold Wit& was; thrown-40n it,o dit
iti . sdientbey became tired 6/ r,
if • A• . eat would moon t die out. ere was,
I be • 7.,_aftioi five years' standing, itl,eee vtadooli
-7, •at men, and the movemeit win at flourishing
ewer. 'There might Save been a few slits gem-
.
t who joined it fee the **ea potting on
the uniform, but these had long since been weeded
oat. (Applause.) Ile believed the volunteer
. movement was one Of the test which hed ever taken
pieces. .(or it had enabled the governiatitt to speak
out ploilLy their minds on at fore*. queetions.
Skoad 'emotion ever require the formes of the
voliefokrii. .he we sere there wosbe sufficient
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talk o-lngle.faues blood in- r veins, and
they videild ear lie found deficient when wanted.
The nett Vast given from the chair was " The
Grand Alfred Order of Old Friends." In submitting
CAI - the CIAIIIMIGAN read a' portion of • speech
width the Hon. C. Adderley delivered in addreedng
is tweeting similar to the peeve. after which he
r essepted the niime of Brother Afifrog in ocrenvion
~ ,11reakier aloass'r, in retPoneeS tetaibiatiiitibAdry
• kat frierid, huts young friend, two years old; yet he
kid belonged to the Order long enough to know what
good it accomplished. (Hear. hear.) He was very
to think that he was one et to parents of this
lOr4l°gt, and he wasionly too glad that there was each a
dos Add, in foe. it had outgrown its persons.
aciughtur.) He believed he could my of the Old
Friends' tioeisty, that they oadiloopepars their roles
sodeipliiiiete el tweassetingbodusetWithaay modiki
fooxiorocits, and for the pport which it had re-
ceived for the last few years. It was the first
society which petitioned Parliament to get friendly
societies enrolled, sad that was a feather in their
cap. (Rear, bear.) He then explained that there
were three great benefit societies in existence, in
which the Oddfellows ' first, the Poresters
second, Old third. There were
other : as and Shepherds,

,000 peol• ytho
Wou.ld that