The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-13 00:00:00

WANAOII._

).IILV SERVICE. —The " Lord Elgin" Company have
announced a reguLar daily aervice between Swanage
and Bournemouth. which will be a great accommoda-
tion bu- visitor.. She will leave Swanage at 3.15 lam.,
12.15 I, M., and in, returning from Bournemouth
at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and Ii p.m. The new steamship,
named "Bournemouth," is expected on the atation
next week.

TzerritaNce Mincriii:o.—On Monday fart a meeting
WSdl held in connection with the Blue Ribbon :Mission.
A good number attended, although not no many an on
sine occanionn. The Rev, T. R.. Steer presided. The
meeting Will opened by singing the by , "There in
beauty all around, when there's love at home." After
a prayer, the Chairman raid he rhould not take up
any .sf their time, but would call on Mr. Howell, from
Langton, to addrenn the meeting. He gave three Iva.
run, why he wan a teetotaler; no was fur his own
sake. He said there was a little self in that, but the
most of us think of self firnt. He said he had found
in his short history that he had been obligepl to look
after self. He raid he should not care to drink the
stuff that Mr. Daniel Ballam called " swipes,- and if
do re Wato a worn name for it, it ought to have it, and
how 'maple could afford to buy it Ito did not know—
he could not, and he oftentimes noticed the carters.,
stc., "top at the publichouses, and buy anddrink what he
would not wash his boots with if they were dirty.
Then, again, if he had not signed the pledge he should
not have been there that night, and AS he wan very
hind of amusements and rociety, God only knew where
and what be should have been, but he signed to be on
the right ride, and it was not necenrary for him to tell
them that drink had done more evil than anything else
he could think of. If they wanted to save others, they
'aunt sign themselves first, and that was another
reason why he signed—for the sake of others; and
another reason wan fir Christ. When he signed he
Ve his heart to Christ, whose love in no amazing, so
divine, so that if there were any that had not signed,
let them, and do it for Christ. He concluded with an
anecdote of the man who could not give up the drink,
although him wife remonstrated with him. If. said he
munt leave it off by degrees, but hist wife -aid he had
better leave it off all at once. She raid to him, "I shall
yet find you in a hole," and one day when he came
home drank he fell into the well, and ht. crier brought
her to his aid. She let down the bucket for him, and
when she had him nearly up Kite let hiin back again—
ilatighterl--and -he followed that up until he promised
her iu the w.-II that he would sign the pledge
if 4es w.sold hnn right out, when up
came the bucket, and her 11U,4111,1 found that he
could do it right If better than by degrees.
Another hymn, and the Chairman called upon Mr.
Choules, wh.s spoke of the homer he had v aitad and the
misery he had seen, and raid that while be had been
there his 0114111 had gone hack to • young man he
knew, who wan very respectable, and was also a local
preacher, sk.c. His prospects promised well, but, un.
fortunately, he took to the glass. He would thus
frequent the publichouser, and stay there for hours
together. He got so Ind that !kin marter turned him
away, and he wan separated from his wife, as she
would wit live with hiin through hiss drunken habits
and ill wage. After a time his brother induced him
to 'bin awl wii he thought he had settled
matters he left them, but had not been gone long
before the MAD cut his wife's throat and hia own with
a razor before he could stopped. Thin had come
tinder his own observation. He then spoke 11 another
that wan brought ro low through the drink that he:
wan going ti destroy his life Ise placing his head before
an engine, lint he war rescuerl and got ti sign the
pledge. He hoped all who were there that night were
teetotaler., and then they could, in a meeting like
thi-, ray a word forth., Master. !din Filmundm then
gave a recitation, "Horrible Lond.'n's Curse," which
RT.{ well received. Mr. Howell rang a solo, and the
Secretary ann owed Mr. Matom for next Week, and
that the week after would be the lent of the neremn,
when Sir M. Wrascall, Bart-, had promised tosive
week's Olin, and to finis+ up with a Blue Ribbon
Tea. The 'mating then broke up after singing a
hymn.