The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-11 00:00:00

owiy." What He bid them do, they zoo.. _
out hesitivion to I wi..hout failing. A Klog ot kianoe
mud a courtier were once about to sitar the canoe
vehicle ; the king mule way for his courtier to get is
first, which he at ono. did. That was an example of
true obedience. If they were called to high pleases,
thy must work well to discharge the data .• att rodent
oh as high places; bat still in all humility,
out which no man tionid truly fib either • high or •
low position. At dm same time, they should take an
septet pride read feel an equal ambition even In tit*
lowest places. Massy • bumble ale I bad been planted
in darkness and misery and death, of which no one but
those who had sown them would kuow until the King
hirimelf came lato the vineyerd. They bed given up
the old figment that the well-cultivated, the oast-
mind, the firm will, and Lone heroic spirit were
jr tee high sad illetieguiened p leili,llll of the Uhuroh ;
and toat anybody, with brains or without, with apti-
tude or without, would do to be sent into the
slums. In these days the vote of danger were
the poets of honour. In their brave Hoglish
Army and Navy no man, no matter what hi. shanty,
his position, or his name, would hesit it. for a moineut
if • stall were made for • volunteer for a Nauru bop
or some dazing deed which, in all human probability,
would involve slaughter and death; no, the biAber
and the MOM noble the man the more ram ly to ui
be tile response. Having referred to the trai-iiiig
',wig men went through with a laudable amiltlo.n
ti wio • bicycle or a toot race or • competitive
exediaruation, he asked them wouid they not also use
the seine effort to queldy themselves to discharge toe
uobiest. WOrk to *bleb lb be Obeid 401,14 bin •aurgiei
aod hie talents, auil then, if they lived t be 70, end
bad their thiliren ant taste gran 1-ohildren gatnerA
around them, what oatidacti mi avoid I they not have
In being able to say—" At such stud *nub • period I
gave myself to God ; I gave my Al." That was an
am oition •U •tooult cultivate. P•ocos.ling ton to
refer to the " iudignation " of the dieciplee at the
'a writer, the preacher iutroduci,d the subject
of charity. This, ho said, was not Use retailing of
every HUI@ bit oi tittle-Leta, tor soaa ai floatiog about.
Bar more power can be brought to bear upon
evil by that lithe "huh " of t;hrietian charity,
than by battening to all the gossip turd is eirnutated
amongst them. If they heard people cauvaacog the
character of eo-andro, te bug Chia, that, sad the Aber,
would their listoning to them. ena thereby euuuusaglog
their repetition, in,ral matter.? For from it. For
better would it be to soy, "Let nothing more be sail;
leave him to God. It may be true, or it may nut oe
trim. As isle not his I. speak tor himself, we have
only heard one ale. Perhaps .f we hear both washed
get the truth. Harslet" Wouid to God that little word
was tours frequently used than it is. It would be •
terrible day for the devil end all the dirties works if it
only became as papidu an that other little word—
" Liatea." Let Lbiloa each woe of them take it home to
their Wade, and then they would uoderatand the
meaning of the word Charity, whioh " believeth all
things, bopetia all things, endureth all things." An
then with the sermon on the idount in the one hand,
and the 13th c. of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corintbiaus
in the other, let them kaiel at the feet of Jellal auti
pray to Him to make them all that was contained in
those two reoords—good even as He Himself wee
geol. Mr. curnock, as will be Hen from the
above, is an e sreerst preacher, and one who can
lift • subjeot out of the ordinary groove.
He is • comparatively young man, end his beard and
moustache had never apparently bee • desecrated by
the barber's shears. His voice is not • powerful ohs,
and be tam rather an irritating manner of dropping it
at the end of a sentence, which although to those near
may lend pathos to the argument, c impels more
remote hearers to fill up blanks for Cremonese. In
portions of his disc ,uree be follows the example set by
the lit. Goorge Dawson of folding hie arms upon the
cushioa in front of him a;kl limning forward, talking, an
It were, confid,ntially to his hearers. It oenuot be
denied that he is • s mud and earnest preacher, and
although, perhaps, not eloquent, yct hie uttsrances are
well rounded, aud be does not hesitate for want of
words.