The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

•itICU MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

atterunor. the annual meeting in support
wa. bele. at the R-ral Hotel. The Rector
K. IT. Igliot, Etai_, read the report, from
posred VA., in the Weymouth district, the
j t 177 19, 10J. was collrcted lad year. from
to he drdaoled for printing. &a, ES 19s, 64,
n remitted CIO for the Tinny vellv schools,
. . . .

1.. the pores% society, being aboilt 1:4 lees tfiria

, .11ng year.
11. t. Airtime Ariliciair, Mbeirmary to India,
the ting at oonsidersble length on the
Ilintlooign to C'•rlrtianity. The part in
),.1.4 laboured Western India, and the dial.
11 ,t beset the work of evangelisation are very great.
~.„ onari-s bad inch large districts wider their
ii.-, could pleoe but very seldom.
n o plant ed Christianity in its social aspects,
1 0.5 of ma ny of the Europeans were stumbling
at iin. way of making converts. The system of
:.1.0 a r eat obstacle. The levelling tendency

0pp0.e..1 to all their preen;eeived no.
The .I..rttine which tenehra, "One ie your
."n Chriat, end au ye are brothren" find.
fivor.r among them Another ob.taelengainat
the gospel in the Grin conviotion of the
tehsioletq lie paid ...nivel) of the
1.,' emmatit. end that their real otifiiet is a
I a* king to induce them to lea* esi.te
, a:. ot be brought to believe that Rogliahnien

, . .... .
. .• • r .o er ;runt (..r their souks. t.. tii,. love
of tr oney requisite to tend ont 141/11.1%
• • tii• or to the (Rah. Another thing it 11.4,
I. for the lowett oarce, aml above all. of
Ilion of the eommunity. TM.
r. r one gold ineature of newels in mitaimmey
- i.r.•1.41 art r roitirntly calculated to break down

the et r•wmv POCCeII• to misaionary labour.
Own. One& ~,, an 4 ennveittently up.rioi int.4ll.
Itro rated to positions even abrovo

'lle V

. •
I • 41.. r .ho field it to be an abomination for
on!, rwr to rise above • their original

o.
t•,.„. Archdeacon Hewrin neat addremed the
awl gave en interesting and graphie sketch of
among lb, red 'nihilism( Ruport's
I'lvv a.. o large tract of land in British North.
,Xcee.ling in extent the continent of Europa,
nz 1. oil.. hundreds of miles across, and timers
miles in extant. t'umberland, the place
I. I.e oss appointed by the Chuech Itimionary
liti first went out as a missionary, and
os been made an aeadeasonry, was shunted
'1.%1 miles from Hudson's Kay, and took him anti
:n.lsys in travelling to reach it. Travelling in
t•y, how. ear, was no child's play—they had
i..••ohle hostelries at which they could rest every
thin country, the houses bang often from 100
- 1100 milvs apart. Chi their arrival at the
t they were not by half nsked Indians,
• . ,4 the men and women being painted red.
I diffment colours, and the children running
i• a. and as loiter was • stranger to their flesh
os Might be imagined, exceedingly filthy.
n,•• a very cheering prospect that was before
:• 1..• snide up his mind to make the best of it.
t. • v lived in • tent, hut after a little while
I.:r-vemes as erected and be had the pleasure
. wife to her new monition. And soak
y •• ! The. who's suite of rooms that served
411: parlour. sitting room, dining mom and
14,-1 only too, lammed by the putting toyether
.!. I. of the forest, the interstices being
1. or), nin.l from the raver. Shortly after the
. . .

• •.1 it new parsonage, he recollected that it
ru• . • nn to rain one sight, and washed the mad out
s • V7r, I. V+. aid he hail con rpiently to get to,
: r it. it first Le pr.-ached to the Indians of
t• it 'one an interpreter ; he had since
• f•s .1 •• Gi.pels and other portions of the
, • •• •I :. W. 7. 'all.ent. and also the whole of the book
1 c •:r.tuot. I r.iTer into the native lassoes*. Their Brat
•:•,:'• „•. a•.• shn s'rnetnre, now they bad built one
if ••.iue, ult Lima Innaldtanta et ilia village, his
• •:4t. gni,rt al d regularly of 700 or
s• awl I. had :MO on, munirsanta. There were
tun utl,ur cirnrdiS in that district, and
•••• lad been inlntlarla nuareanftd. It would
: • he se. n that tl.ry had not laboured
intO nor spent tleir strength for nought. Nor was
AI; among 51 Indians, who but a few roan ago
nntutor.fl images, there were now
• it! •ni toilfatly • clergymen. The Indians were
. . . .

uneat worshipper& The rujuired DO clerk to
• • n nono.. but the congregations. one end ell
u sith one voice. joined in them. And then, es for
r. n ,mo n.r.l ever fear of tireing then,
sermon an hour long or even an hour and
licvntly one gentlemen connected with
Itipl-oti tiny Company had riven ElO,OOO
,l, endowment of the bishoprick, while
.r hnlyieen • munificent sum for the endowroont
mimionery and neaive clergy. Thus had God
the ...liter, place to rejoice, and the desert to
I,lce the rose.
low reniarks from the Vicar, the doxology was
tho benediction pronounced and the meeting

I if.

vni rnertinp took plaer at the national school
. tie vveftr soin presided, and addresses were
:A.,1 by the deputation.

PORTLAND.

Tilt LONG•PlinallsED FOOTPATH from the Rail•
eiy station to Fortune's Well bee been commenced.
W, agitated this question a long time before any
t• •• was taken of it, but we now rejoice that our
ur has not been in vain.

1,% Sunday week aermene in aid of the Church
' ay Society were preached intim pariah church,
Leforna, in the morning by the Rev. D.
an 1 in the evening by the N'en.. Archdeacon
of Rupert's Ipland. On Monday afternoon

t :• juv'enile miesionary meeting wan held, when

r,.1 j...taeGnneeted with munionary labour were dies
U tt.l by cliteolving views. In the evening s public
to, ting was h. Id at the pariah !school-room, and was
attended. The colhctiona were good.