The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-15 00:00:00

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Leopold

'ledg
aautp-tti L
a tiaket wlellTroVtit

-entitling the Bearer to a. retum -ticket at
silo& fare available for return gther on
August 17th or August 18th. And ea respects
the duty of going, it is this :—The counte-
nance bestowed at this moment on our
missions, and the demonstrations made in
their favour are of the last importance—in
some cases matter of life And death to
struggling missions; retrogression would be
damaging to the position and prospects of
the church. itself, whereas increased efforts
such. as are demanded by the state of the
world and of the Church abroad, would lend
a triumphant 'impulse 'to our missions which
are everywhere proving themselves the most
acceptable of all that are advancing under the
banner of the cross. It is felt that without
erecting a spiritual thraldom, the Church of
England establishes, in the most uncivilised
lands, instilutions which are the type and
model of Christian amelioration. The earnest
unassuming simplicity, and ardent labours of
our missionaries, the subordinations of our
bishops, priests, and deacons, the beau-ideal.,of a trained and consecrated priesthood, the
ready help and cordial sympathy offered to
the poorest and Most outcast people ii
their necessities, these are the things that
attach rude tribes and natiims to the English
Church, and teach them to believe it to be of
God. At Salisbury, on Thursday next, able
and eloquent expositions will be made on
these points; but we have just been reading
the Propagation Society's annual volunte
of reports, and defy any one to realiie
without emotion its interesting details.'
Whether we turn to the grand and noble
exertions of our, Canadian dependencies,
their missions fast becoming self-supporting,
leaving the Society's grants within a few
years free for fresher enterprise; or whether
we read of the distressed condition of Nova
Scotia-and Newfoundland, with, nevertheless,
their sacrificial efforts for self•support by
means of the offertory atur otherwise, stands
ing out magnaniniottsly in front or all—
help thinking that it would be a
reproach tons at home to with-hold the help-
ing hand from these our co-religionists, wad
positively a disgrace to our Communion to
know of such sufferings and let them pass un-
heeded. More interesting still the West
India missions; referring to which our young
Sherborne friends, at least, are conversnO,
with the deadly African mission field of
Pongas, develop points of strange and even
startling importance. Not least amongst
these is the remarkable movement amongst
the Acawoioa Indians? the most terrible
nboriglmil tribe In Guiana-men who, under
that devoted missionary, M. Brett, hate been
seen for the Mt time to submit thamseites
to the yoke of -eitilisatiott. The story of the
Pontos niission audits four English martyrs,
hod of its faithfal missionary Mr. Duport,
cannot be passed over. - It is gratiflyiug to
think that, for its head quarters, the healthy
island of De Los, in the Atlantic,,ia abont to
ba exchanged foithe fatal china* of Aitifra
Leone. We only mention these as Matra-
Lionel. Time and spare would- fail us to' tell
of the Cape missions, of Madagascar, India,
Borneo, Australia, and the vast Pacific, even
some parts of Europe itself pervaded by mis-
sionary influence.. No doubt the diocesan
meeting will derive additional interest and
excitement frere the obserVatinna •tliat may
be made, not alone on these missionary
operations, in which, althongh the Propaga-
tion Society is chief, the Promotion Society
everywhere plays also its part in supplying
versions of the Scriptures, but likewise upon
the ecabarassing position of the Colonial
Bishoprics brought about by the conduct of
an unfaithful shepherd. All this only fur-
nishes aciditiotuil elided for rendering the de.
monstrations of Thursday and Friday the
ntore imposinr, and signiircant,
.and might to
iodM edefy d;itilt or teal Within the Wltidd
or the diocese.

111. —CONSTERNATION would be a faint word
to express the apprehension created by the
cattle plague. The Scottish Farmer, a journal
whose singular improvement we could not help
noticing in connection with the Plymouth Show,
and which now more nearly realises to its thcle
handsome illustrated American journals devoted
to agriclilture than anything, to be seen in t 2
farmers' papertl or this cotintry, girlie sold° touch
of its quality by drawing a picture of the disease
whieh it is even agonising to read, much more tti
behold: If this discriptess; in which of course
we recognise the due Holten • hand th Prtiftssof
Ciaufgeo, be anything like literal, there ah bit
no mistake about the cattle plague--none what-
ever that it is the most terrible visitation of the
kind this country has ever known—uone that it
behoves every man and mother'. son connected
with the agrthiltimal interqsta to rouse at ono*
to asetlle •Of the inirroitnding peril, After rid/
dnelivg proofir•O? its presenter not only in Loncion4;
but in Plymouth, BMA', Norfolk, Leneeellit‘
Leicestershire, Yorkshire and Northumberland,
tha writer proceeds to state that wherever 44014
true Rinderpear has mized a lurd and run its
course it has left no more than 20 or SO per
cent, alive. Although the disease is so frightful
In its itlipoets as to. Isatil aMOVntly little room
for mistakiarrt *here ft 110' brolten out it may
be duty tip 'o* btliffltt3
to the ettiense
°ten Of 110Xti011ill ettraet our Scottish
einnempasiris graphic sketch of its diagnosis "The disease- —tobe a ' with a ten-
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