The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

BT. PETEffB AND ALL
_BAINTff BRANCH OF

THE C.E.T.B.

The annul mestlag of this branch of the Church
of England 'Fenn' ranee Sr rty waa held on Friday
, evociog at the Alog-ton 11.11, and war fairly well
'attended. Rev. T. W. Knipe (preadult) occupied
the chair, and it is lateresting to notion the rev.
preside:it wee supp.red on the right by Mrs. Everett
(ulster of the gallant Sir Hebert Stewart), and on the
left by Mr. Rathmell G. Wilson (brother of Sir Charles
Wilson), whose hairbreadth escape wets • few days ago
the subject of u ilversal attention. The hon. sec. and
trearuser (Rev. C. F. Peep.) was alto on the
platform.
Prayer having be'm offers 4, the Paceingst said he
, felt highly honoured In 'hop eition be occupied at that
time I be did not mean simply en president of the
All Salete' and St. Peter's Branch of the Society, but
at the present time when do what they would their
thoughts, their prayers, tooir hopes, and their Vars
were far away beneath tt e burning suns of Africa,
few p:rsons were so far honour...l as to stand up f.r a
good canes supported on either aide sos he was—on the
! one heed the sister of Sir Herbert Stewart, end on the
I other the brother of Sir ()hula Wilaoo, names that
when the olrcumateooss of our time. pa sad by, will
be bawled down to future generations ise Illustriore
' for what they had done on behalf of oar beloved
country. (Loud applause.) A Ildle while aro we
were ell deeply anxione, not merely deans' we hid
the happiness of having Mr.. Everett amongst us, but
simply se Engliahmen and Englishwomen, when a
was bend that Sir Herbert Stewart had been
wounded whilst bravely leading on hi. men; and we
were also deeply interested in the marvellous wey In
which Sir Charles Wilson earned rowed his little
battle-Webers craft eel eaceind from the guns of the
enemy at Khartoum, when he had gone there hoping
foe the weloom• of • friend, and that, friend the
friend of all Englishmen and Ertglishwomen—the
trussed of the brave, the good, and the true the whole
world over—of course he meant General Gordon. If
hews. diverging for one moment Iron. theisubject that
brought them together, t speak on a dope on wtiolt
their hearts were so fell, he mast toy in reference to
Sir Charles Wilson, he could not hrlp thinking there
wee something to be said of the p suggeeted
Is a letter in the nate He &gilt say it was not his
thought, if they thought it was somewbst wild. It
was abia_ig was oroven positively that Khartoum
bed fallen, or thst General G..ndon wee deed, sod the
writer laid down that when Sr Charles Wilson came
within sight ..f Khartoum, end we, then received
with a heavy cannonsie from she ode, it .lid not look
like the probstda course that w ould have been taken
by the Mahal ; but that if he had it In hie possession,
and knowing es be did thst English troops were
coming in a little body, simply • tney ho;s9 Ito j In
G moral 0 ord .19. be would hay. 9 ni-opt- I • to ore crafty
corps.. For whetever the biandi in Oat on in thee
resteots he we • sly fellow, and no. waotior lo croft,
I and )30 Wont I hove Imagined he w ould have
' silecorsil every gun, sod have hidden every soldier,
and so used Si. Claris. Wilson and his
few men to !sod, and then, when they I .l landed, to
treanberously Flay them Instead of tr .os, the little
stainer wee met with a terrific cannoned and so
allowed towel». Of 00•1••• he did not wlsh obe in
any way Instrument.' In raising false h -pee, hit even
acoordlog I' Lord Woleelev the fall of Khaot ottaa was
not fully established, and what w wthia the range
of human possibilitlee miaLt coin. within the range
of Christian prayers. They who were tnot together
In • greet carte, founded no Christian principles,
might not menet' therasel.r. ft it
were possible to be so, scod if in the 14 OQ I providence
of God there was 41701) the oemotest ohooos of General
Gordon being alive, that I. Knight still he reot wed to
his county, who would be ready to meet with
acclamation the feet of his deli .uoarioe. It was open
to them to hope end do pray. In this, as in other
matte... thy had latent, not for the first time, English
71•0 and English ocolddrs were true heart., and were
not deterred by greet difficult .s., and by what some
, would° all impossibilities. lie remembered 11-arlng a
story of the Crimean WIV, on very troci authority,
In 000neelon with • well-known officer, Sir John
Ad;., will whom he was personally famill sr when
they were boys together. At the battle of L.ltersien,
the aussians ha I planted s .me gate where they did
the Eligible very great berm, and rendered the
position of our soldiers very perilous. Lord Hagler'
We must have a gun on this height, and silence
thaw rpm' Tn. greeter pait of the soil about
83'anl•••• wit*. oo• tro•p• ••••• •••• ••••••flogir
heavy clay, eat the ofiseir replied It was tameable
to get • gun oseri rye up there. Lri Haglau turned
round and raid, " Aire, I don't like to hear that word
Impoesible from an 'Coolish officer ;" in five minutes
there WWI a gun LID 111•1".., and in Li.* Infolltfll more
the Ft miens had doublet up all their gun., and
removed them from the ape. (Appl ow.) The
poe,lent applie I this to th ,le own war o :Most the
enemy strong drink, which wee to be found in all
the street. and lane. of tho cities and v. tinges of the
land, There were people who looked on teetotalism
soornfully, and said it was Impositibbi; boot he urge!
them not to be put down by that ward. They did nut
like it any more than Lou I H.glan did, Let them
work and prey, trusting in the strong arta and help of
their God, and they wool I accomplish pos.ibilitices of
which the world little dreamt. (Applause.)
After • hymn had been swig, the CUniax.ni sub-
mitted to the meeting the officer, for the ensulog
you :—Presideat, Her. T. W. Kn'pe ; vice-preeldant,
Rev. la. F. 1...n0a ; bon. ago. ml treasurer, Rev. 0. F.
Powys i committee, Mr. H. Baisoombe, Mr. W.
Digo*, tin. Knipe, Mrs. K. Sam nubs, W. H,
Durdeo„Mise E. A. tlalpin.

Rev. U. F. POWYS in eubmittlug the report for the
ysar„. said it wee a great a Ivanture to them to hove
m-. Wilson owning ono* 010111 401 DE them, and having
him Brerett girth, her sloop°, t to their branch es
well se her own. (Applause.) They wished always
to work hand In bawl, for they could do at much
Tlri: if they advanced should*, to shoulder, than if
were oblit• In their ranks. He hoped the
teetotalers of Er =heeler would show theism* plot*,
bravery, and determination, se did their gailant
soldiers. (Applause.) Tnelz finance* were fairly
satisfactory; they started with a balance, of £3 6.. ;
their subscriptions reached a total of £l2 61. 61.;
and their expatiate £3 7.. 41. ; which left
• balanos In baud of £3 19r, 21. He pro-
posed, with the approbation of the oommittee. to use
ihat balsam by and by, In giving a teat* the Band of
Hops, which he wee sure would be sccept•ble to the
children. Having spoken on the Important element
that the Band of Hope formed in the temperanos
work, the rev. reatlentha said be should like to roe
more of the regular working members come forward
Ma and women who were willing not only to support
them by not drinking thenuelves but to do something
to help others, especially Woes who had been ensnared
by thie terrible and fascinat,og soars of drunkenuess.
He urged on the 'onto/ men to join Vie a ,ciety, and
try to win others With rega dto tho progress of
the brooch, daring the year, hi mentioned the moderate
eection had decreased, but be belie ye I they had goal
Into the other section. (A Voice: I don't believe In
them.) He (the iv,. potion:tan) believed the
m dente motion bad bien toe miens of doing • great
deal of good. (A Voter: They get mode.,:telyclrook,
I suppose.) (Lsughter.) They, aupportvi the society
not only by their sympathy, but by their money.
Ifs further menUoned the total abstinence section
bed paced by 10 members ( Applause.) Tee children
bad gained by 2h, althouth a good many had left them
or telt tee town. Altogether, their nombors had
reached at tal of 949, which he considered was • voiy
fair society for the two parishes. He hoped another
year to revirt that they hod • rnemberthip of 300,
ant be abould the° be • riaty proud secretary. Their
net polo this year bad been 2200 w mauls s.
hear.) . .

Tb PRESIDIUM wished to mike • slight oorrectioe.
It was not called the "moderate," but the " general"
notion. (A Voice: I suppose they get generally
tipsy.) (Lsaghter.) The Prclident expressed his
strong sympathy with that soution, for it warn very
infeotione. Teetotalism was a very (retching cots,
pliant it they associated with teetotalers. (Laughter.)
If. began by signing the general or moderate pledge,
but he found himself carted by a very strong impu!se
towards the other side., and he might ray be bad never
regretted it. (Appian...) He approved of what be
termed the eliding path," for as the pith of the
drunkard was a sliding one, going down deeper and
deeper into perdition, so be beitsvel there was • slid-
ing path in the sight direction. Ile believed the good
side was 'walled by converts; from the moderate side
(Hear. Mel. i
Mr. Bandett. O. Withori 4.dd:before be alluded to
the subject of the evening, he mu.t thank the chair-
man for the very kind words in which be had refened
to his brother in Egypt, and he snort alai thank them
for their kind sympathy, widths kind reception they
had given hie brother's name. It bad been a morn
gaging+ time for many, but his anxiety bed been
14,011411 Y on ac.:oun of his brother befog a, long
isolated on that Weed. Me felt now that auxiety wee
to • great extent allayed, ma he was book coos more
with moms of hie brave soldiers, who had tinily shown
how well they they could do their duty, and who he
believed would bold their own througbqut the world,
so long as they had fighting to do. With regard to
the question whether gliertoum bad fallen or not, and
a. to the fate of Genera Gordon he could not say,
but the moment he read the amount of his brother
going to Khartoum, be exclaimed "Oh I how thankful
I am that the Mabdi did not entice him on shore,
booacse a course he would have bent massacred," and
he had ',win to-day's &cad red stetter hewing on th.t
very p dot. When he remembered his brother's
accuracy, and that bel had sent home and sold
distinctly he was fired on front Khartoum, be could
Dot doubt that it was In the Mandi's head. Still be
thought there wet agleam of hope, and he was thank-
ful to llod for it, that G rslon might giallo, safe some. fn Khartoum, There wee agleam of hope that
that brave man, end that Ohriatian hero might be
spared ono* more to return from that couutry, in
which he was ready to risk everything if needs be.
He thanked them for their kind sympathy, and
when he told his brother, as he certainly should
do, how kindly his name had been received at that
and other meellito of the C.8.T.111, be was we 46

would feel deeply the kind sympathy shown tower Is
him. Passing on to speak of the work of the soolety !
he remarked that it sa, an animal meeting, and he '
regarded meetings of tbat kind as opportunities of
wising what had been dots-, and to .klng forward to '
see what more could be done In the future. He was I
glad to hear of in. progress they had mods, and he
oould tell them the society bad elsewhere made
gratifying progress. The returns would not be made :
up till the sod of March, but be thought there moat I
be nearly 600.000 meinben of the s deity, and in this
diocese 111,00) from 191 branch... He me Moue 1• '
new brooch had been carted at Sherborne, and
referred with satief.ction to the progress temp:ranee
had made among the Cheshire Regiment, who were
about to heave England. With regar Ito the general
escti not the society he p toted out that members of
it generally passed from that section to faction 8., and
It. mentioned Archderec.in Ferrer, C .non Rroset
Wilber faros, and Canon Basil Withal forces as Inetancres.
tie thee dealt at some length with the legislative Pro.
peesla of the society, and strongly adv.:. ate I the pro-
posed measure for the for motion of Boards of Control
who would hays the entire supervision of the licensing
business of the ditrict. Among the advantages of
these boards over Loral Option he pointed out by the
latter propose!, if the majority of the ratepayers
decided against the publiohoesem, all would be cl• sr!,
whereas, with the Boer's of Cooly 1, they might he
gradually abolieleed, as oircurnst•noa rwmuued. iftt.O.
planaLL
lire. Karam said she cams there with the Intention
of saying • low words to the moderate drinks ro.
(laughter) Ut °ours* they knew she was rod hot on
tostotallem, but at Om same Lim se she belonged to
the Cl'S.. she believed In both sections. All she
would my to the moderate Jrinkros was, if they wanted
to mike the people and the nation sober, they meet go
in for total abetinence. (Appian/) Of canine 'here
were millions of persons who drank moderately, and did
not become drunkards, but maderatt drinking sac, very
indefinite thing, sad she could not quite make out what
It was. One man might drink 10 times as much as wood
make *nether %lint'. In th• sixteenth century a temper-
ance moiety wad started in Chummy. and one of 'ti
rules woe that nose of it/ me oboes lii uti drink morra
Ult." glass.. of win, • dill• (L wetter.) In Om r dais
we thou think that more thin moderation. Mal ,ra-
Oen bad been said to b. monethlng hetwrm
thilofds-
full and a booktt-foll—asughteri—and theireteie it wee
• difilsult thing to define. If th,y wanted to do •wey
with this enure of intemperance, tsey most to In for the
total abstinence section. She believed total abstainers sem
better petriots of tAsir couttry, boils( cit4ent, en/
more consistent Christ:am for entirely doles with .ut
Ude simple luxury. ?hire were poop's who snit they
Gould not do without it, but eh. had weer yet met a total
arstalner, who had given tits thing an honest trial o:sag
1111 months, or two yssre, who did not any he was bitter
and healthier for it Ii deer anti they took it malioinal
she would merely reply "1 you require medlerise •rory
day for luncheon and for dinner, i tuna be very hal
ineduoUts if it doss not cure you roamer. (Langht.r.)
fibs believed there we. not ono in a hundred who WU
competent to Judge whether they required it or not, and
she urged them to give total abstinsnoe • trial, but not
to give hp the drink without provldiog milk, or some-
thing of that Mad to take its plac, She ventured to My
not one in 500, at ths end of I.e years, would leek her In
the tees and say they required Meabolm drinks. To show
there was no woozily for the drink, and the; awn were
hotter without It, she oiled Mu asc, an I other stati.tios.
Concluding an excellent address, 11-4. &rarest made an
aernest appeal to parents to set an example of temperance
to their &Urea. rae children awe sleeve watching
what older people wort doing. Fathers and mothers
should be earoful they did no est their eon, and
dimhsers • had exempla so that they might feel they had
started tams fairly in life, and that it was not they who
hod taught them to walk In the p.th that lest to mieery
and wret:liedsew. (Appleuee.)
The mooting closed with the Ilene lioUon.