The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-15 00:00:00

lIRMSII AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

The frieads of this truly Catholic Society met at Aling-
ton Hall, on Tuesday evening last, when the Rer. It G.
Houle had been announced to give • lemur. on "7*.
Bible at the Reformation.' The place was nearly filled,
and among thews on the platform were—The 11-v. T. W.
Knipe fehairmard,Rev. G•orge Buckler, Rev. 11. G. Mmile,
it.,. T. Near, and the Rev. Conan Smith.
"Holy Bible, Book Divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine,"
Was first sting, and the Rev. C. Buckler offered prayer.
Tbe Rev. H. G. Mouth, before Inlllll to the main subject
—" The Bible at the Itsformation," gem • short account
of the Bible Society work in Trans-Caucria, the region
between the Black Sea and the Caspian, where, in an
outlandish region. colportacr and other Bible works are
going on. 2031 coma bare been sold there, in six
Mouths, in fifteen different languages, the work
principally among Russians and in the Governmelir
Retro, where Russians of peculiar nets are banished by
the Government, which considers them dangerous, Some
eery Armee and eccentric beliefs have free coune in that
faraway district: but error is bromism reduced, and true
religion is adiraneint. Other oolportours ars working in
the districts of Kars. Preen, Alex sndrop 4, de. Mr. Houle
pointed to this as one of the newest and Pert hopeful
districts for missionary work. Paolo( on to the peculiar
subject of the @mane, he &fined its. "The Bible of the
English Reformation, remarking that the whole subject
of the Reformation and the Bible is too vast for the even-
ing lie evoke of the time of the beginning of the Refer-
roar. se the dawning of • day, of which perhaps the
was the best part, yet we have to
tr‘ins=ful. in comparison with the Reformation
of France, the day of which, so hopeful, soon descended I
In great darkness, or that of Germany, where it is said
the Gospel so Luther understood it, is almost unknown.
Still there is • good deal of darknese about
the hills, the Papery &bows very little out-
ward and visible signs of dying out, and, utters he was
misinformed, the Roman Catholic chapel in Dorchester '
is not 111-attended every Sunday afternoon, by people who
were not originally Roman Catholiat—whether they
Intended to end by becoming so, he could not tell After
paring through the times of Alfred, who translated parte
of the Bible himself, be come in the time when the
Roman Church awoke to find the Bible most be kept out
of the bends of the people, or the on-Scriptund claims of
the Roman Church be given up. Irmo hundred years ago.
Wycliffe's Bible was published—even before the invention
of printing in England. Wycliffe, in tbe latter pert of
hie life, retired to his rectory in Lutterworth, Leicester-
shire, and brought out the first English Bible. At find it
err roily copied by the jpen, and the whole Bible coot as
much so was considered a fair remuneration for • minister
of Christ for • year. He read • specimen of Wycliffe's
Bible,
_giving an idea of the ancient English tongue.
VEZcliffe Pried away: some dO years after his death
ta in g was introduced into Germany, and 100 years sitar
death printing was brought into England; but the
Bible was not yet printed. First the New Tarawa:it was
brought into England in Latin by Errant in such an
elegant style that It was sought by the learned and did a
sew were among the higher claw This New Testantent
aid • week which Erasmus scarcely intended it lo do, for
be wished to do away with the rooter abuses of monkery,
but WI/ not in favour of a thorough reformation of
reslilisol religion; but this was the very work, by the
nm. of God. it did. A scholar of Cauthridge, Miry,
heerZooght the dew Testament for its elegant Win,
area impressed by the text " Christ Jeans erne into the
world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.' Bilney, with
sort of boo guile, centered to Latimer, a very bigoted
rapists and Latimer afterwards bran» converted. 'Riney
was burnt II years lathe, seven persons were burnt at
&weary for teaching their children the Lard's Prayer and
the Ten Commandments, and the work and martyrdom
of Latimer is well-known. Next the lecturer dealt with
Trade' to whoa • monument is shout to be erected on
the Thames Embankment Tyndel's version is the
foundation on which our present authored wanton was
built. Tyndal's convendon took place at Oxford, and be
began to lecture on Scripture doctrine, but he found
Oxford an unsafe place. and went across to Cambridge, to
&they and other Scripturally religious men.
afterwards went to Sudbury, where was an hosiitt:re
gentleman. andin the frequent discussloas with the priests,
Tradel was always ready with his little Erasmus Testa-
ment, which wee not a pleasant way for the primate.
One at lest said it were better to have the Popes
laws without the word of God than the Word of
God without the Pope's laws, "I defy the Pope and his
laws," said Tywiel. and I will take care that the boys at
the plough shall know—know more of the Word of God than
thou dor." Ty oda' left Sir John Walsh's, and went toothier
parts of England, and by-and-by found all England was
unsafe for him, ha had the help of Humphrey Monmouth,
and went abroad with only S.lO for his whole subsistence,
lived r nearly as possible on nothing, and worked hard at
the Gospels. Bearing many hardships, Its went through
many dangers, ravelling even to Worms, to avoid the
part of his work being seised. At last 3,000 Testaments
were printed and embarked, and
_they arrived at • time
when them was a fatal sickness in Lm.don, the King. who
was in the height of his Papal seal, was away, Cardinal
warty wee intensely °coupled about politico and the
Teetamenta were landed unnoticed, and taken in by the
Rev. Mr. Yarrick, the clergyman of Allhallows, London,
who stored them in the dark corners of Ida bonen and
afterwards condone', became a Bible miler. Cardinal
Wormy founded the college then called Cardinal College,
and transplanted to it some of the brightest writers from
oneitetator ; but they were Scripture men, and,
ties broiling out, 36. Of these scholars w =saserri
ermined near • salt-Ash store, • mart loathsome du sew
where they sickened, and only met the mercy of ufsetai
allowed to go to their rooms to die, which they did.
Tyndars work went on, his principal achievement being
the publication of the New Testament Persecution at
last overtook him. he was finally seised and strangled
his last words being "God open the eywe of the
England," and hie body was burnt The; horrible form al
s execution was, we should be thankful to regarn-
bee only in vogue in England for about • century and a-
had--musely, _from 1,101 to 1,568. The lecturer went on
to tell of the dread: ul times of persecution. Traders New
Testament was in octavo, beautifully clear type, and
could be bought for fin,, then a good week's wages for a
lobourer. From the very year of Tyndall death, by strange
Providence more than by conversion, Henry VDTs eyes
=to be opened, and Tyndar prayer s pray to be answers&
ale king allowed the whole Bible to he distributed
ansoag the people. Archbishop Creamer dietributed pieces
of the Bible among learned men to be revised; but
the Bishop of London returned • short answer
that he marrelled " ray lord of Canterbury "
teeapted tha people to harry. be had Dever bestowed an
hew on his portion, and never would. Archbishop
Cramer. marvelled " my lord of London was ao forward.'
But • Et explained it—for that it was the Ars of the
!trellis_ ;
el now the Apostles were poor simple miekkand
my l
biled Loudon- was so great a person fie would have
to do with them. The Bible was sore published
reen,lout dr people were not encouraged to read It
RnYstete. The woo mortyrdom came again, Anne
Aaa". • highborn lady, was burnt for maintaining Bible
tribe. Henry died, sad the bright reign of Edward JI.
shone for • sheet time, then came the dark reign of Philip
and ta, • but e'rthi thro the Bible does not seem behave
""""" • arilthi.rxtheugh Philip and Mary issued • terrible
elle against agent books • it seems to have teen
admitted that en widely had the'Plible become distributed
that it was imperible to suppler it The 811.1 e soon had
become triumphant ; but the lecturer read an eloquent
farewell of Bishop Ridley to his collage, in which he
iisaead magiy books of Holy Scripture by heart Hs con-
abided by reading Armor from the Book of Homilies,
nnithrting tb° 9."". to mad, them, and march Hal
&down, and these wee et perished only tweati-tiel
=7 alter the Printing of the Bibh• was own
Bor. T. Naive bad the vary pleaseht thrt,
plus Ur beet thanks at the Imams be iligaNd se Wig.'

Houle for the eery able address be headless. Yr. Meal°
seemed to fear there was danger at the 'mirth of Roman-
lam in Dorchester; but one of the hest antidotes to it is
the prevents of such own as Mr. Houle is the gellelta
oar land. Mr. Heave did not believe In the ptolr of
Rol:Lenient there is mach of that which la like Itßltaal-
; but that he did not believe the psodas of England
like. (Applause).
The It.. Coro. Serra supported the vote of thanks.
He did not know any way in which • permit of the highest
talents and cultivation could bettor employ them am in
in a brief spun of time, a clear stateramit at the
history of the Bible, and Mr. Handley Hollis bad ably Anne
this. We have the Bible, but we must look to that Great
Umber, whose teaching was en esceedinall satiable that
the Saviour said it was expedient for Hinz that He should go
ay that that mod valuable Teacher should coine—the
Lord the Holy Spirit The Doraioire .es ma& Ina •
collection mads which arnonnted to gl 4 li.