The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-24 00:00:00

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Ti, Mann Awn Or PAUTZIE. —The in.maintens
sane of paupers In the caunty of Dorset for thi leet
half-year of 1881 amounts to £4.311, against £4 253 in
1881; and the out-relief to £18,401 against £18,301,
being an increase of £176.
CAPTAIN HODGES has resigned his pisition se ••^TO-
tsry of the Batt lion Shootin r Committee, and he ban
bisen eutoeed,cl by Lieut. Bamford, of the Wereham
Company. In • battalion order issued on the 10.6
Lisut-Colonel Matthews thianks Captain H Agee f
great pains he ha. shown during his tenure of fit a,
which 110 him held since the formation of the c m-
Cagier CHURCH (WKAT FORDISOPOI) VESTRY. —Ms
adj owned vestry ineetinr Ir the shore parish was
held on Mon lay in quint; last, but the a.,tendanos
was very limited indeed, in fact the intermit taken
la the annual Baster Vestry Is geuerally confined to
• very small number of ratepayers of the ab ,ve
parish. Thom present were the Vicar (Item. C. L.
Sanctuary) in the chair, Captain A. E. lalansel. Mr.
Lush, jno., Mr. H. Yeo, and Mr. Stephen D. Allen.
The latter placed the accounts for ibe past year
before the meeting, and dusted that after paying all
bills, • sum of about £6 would be Isft against the
churchwardeins,—a better state of things than
exhited this time laid year when they started with a
deficit of between £l5 and £l6. The small sum now
left, It is hoped, will be cleared off during the c oning
year. Ths Dolt business was the election of church,
wardens. The Vicar nominated ail his churchwarden.
Mr. H. Yen, and on the pr no,ili In of Captain A. E.
Mensal, moon led by Mr. Lush, jun., Mr. Stephen
D. Allen was re-elected churchwarden f the parish.
A vote of thanks t the churchwardens for their past
sweeties', haring been proposed and carried, Masan.
Yen and Allen bndly reepAaded f a the compli-
ment paid them. A hearty rote of thank. was
than accorded to Miss Osborn for her very great
kindemis in presiding at the organ, and also f ir the
untiring and indefatigable manner in attending to, sod
her utmost endeavours to make the musical
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mint the services as bright and joyful as p
After 'short discussion respecting the organ, , the
meeting was brought • close.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.
The annual matting in c innection with thi. noble
.misty wadi held in the Town Hall on Toes lay even.
lug last, when there was • go el att ',Wanes. T.ie
Rev. T. W. Knipe (President) took the chair, sup. '
ron the platform by the Rev. E. L allow
idertinstown), Rev. E. W. Collinsun (Woo Isla. I),
Rev. Mr. Perkin. (Deputation), Hof. T. Nem, hon.
sec. (Independent), the Rev. W. Allen (Wesleyan),
and the Rae. R. R. Albin (Baptist).
The Rev. W. Auca having offered an appropriate
prayer, and a hymn having been sung,
The Cilatutan briefly addressed the meeting.
Haring expressed the wish that they might introduce
• little new blood into the office of President, be said
@till he did not shrink from the duties of the office so
iss be should be spared to be amongst them.
Reliving to this general objects of the society, he said
the neesseity for its great work was stronger than ever
It wee. He always felt when he was speaking in its
behalf, whether sa chairman or one on the platform
of the society, he wee trying to support one of the
meet truly catholic causes in the world. They all
knew what • true catholic was—one who acted in the
irft of the litaster's parting message—" Go ye into
all the world and preach the Gomel to every creature."
The handmaid of all their tree mieslonary societies
was the Bible Society. There was not one of them,
whether connected with the Church of Eoglan I, or
any of the different Christian communities' amongst
Ibsen, that really desired to make known to the
heathen world the knowledge of the truth as
It is in Jesus, that could possibly do without the
Bible Societe. He believed there wens some
inembers of his own church who took a great interest
lathe Society for the Propegation of the Gospel, who
were Inclined to look slightingly upon the Bible 9 iciely.
Bat it could only be from sheer ignorant" and not
from want of charity—from igeorance of what the
=ls doing, or from ignorance of what the other
are not doing. He had himself heard from
the lips of missionaries that they could not go on with-
out the various editions of the Word in many tongues
which the Bible Society issued. It wars, as he had
said, the handmaid of all the missionary societies
abroad, and there was another sense in which it was of
such universal interest to all thee who desired the
extension of Christ'. kingdom. It wee not • missionary
society in the ordinary acceptance of the term, which
Implied that it laboured ext,nsively in distant lands,
but if It were true of any society, as it waa true of the
whole Church of Christ, then it was pre-eminently
Ircte of the Bible Society. Its 'abetting lay round about
them, at their own doors, as fir as the east was from
the west, and the north from the south—throughout
the whole length and breadth of this habitable globe,
there was the field of the Bible Society. (Hear, hear.)
And wherever human beings were found, and wherever
there was • need to tell of the blessed hope of everlast.
ing life given in the B oh of Go l's truth, there the
Bible Society re:, goised the 84Id .4 its labour.
He himself recognised In the aos in which
they now lived, when many opinio .s were shifting,
when new doubts were arising, when 8 Inlity to old
truths was being seri rusty weaken. I, that the tints
was nearer than they thought w-eo it would be
necessary for all who hell that creel to which .11 other
creeds were subservient. when he wh , believed lo hie
heart and c otfessed with hie tongue that Jesus Christ
is the L orl shall be saved—chat this broad and
universal acceptance of Christianity w ,u'd m alre it
necessary for all of them to forget minor &tiffanies'
that necessarily separated one denomination from
another in the 'no great desire, huoi in hand and
heart to heart, to lab ore for the extension of their
Redeemer', kingdom. Might they not he nearer then
they thought when those who followed the Master
and valued His Word wool I have to draw near in
serried ranks, shoulder ti shoulder and hand I, hand,
to labour for their dear R.d-emer'e cause. The
differences that has' neparated m any bodies.", Christians
too long would all In forgotten in the universal need
of standing together for the defence of the faith which
their fathers ha I handed down to them. If such
necessity were reco;nise I he knew no field of labour
where it could be more suocessfully begun than on
the lines of the British an! Foreign Bible 8 'cod,
whose interests they had met there to advocate
that night, and concerning which he trus'ei they all
(*hibernates ant ever-increasing interest. (Applause.)
The Rev. 'l'. Nevis (hon. sec.) expressed the deep
regret which he felt when he listened to some states
moots made that day at their county meeting by tbe
Rev. Can Glyn, who t 41 them that the funds ,4 the
'society for the last year hat declined considerably
over the county of D ooet. An explanat'on. however,
wee given by the depotation, which somewhat took rl
the edge of disappointment which some of them might
have felt on the matt 'r. He was very happy biased
to be in • positi,n t , • sy that this was now the 13th
report he had had the pleasure—and ha might say the
real pleasure—to read at th.ir soutud meeting, and,
with the exception of list year, it was, perhaps, the
most encouroging report which he had read. Last
year they had an excessively I arg i ace 'loot to render
through the goodness of their friend Mr. Ludlow, in •
large measure, who gave them a large subscription in
ooneection with Mattinstown. But taking the
ordinary years, he was very pleased to say there had
been no decline, with the exception of one or two
places, which had, however, been compensated by
others. He said this the more willingly because none
ot the honour belsoged to him. He was simply
responsible for the accounts from the different neigh.
bowlsoods. He was not very much of a business man,
and be was sorry to say that some of the people he
had to deal with in the county did not seem much more
basiaervlllte than himself. (Laughter.) He thought
if they bad a new secretary with • little more
Vogt his veins, he might do something to stimulate
the interests of the society. He cotifeseed he should
lay down his honours with • good will—but he did
not say he should like to give them up after all.
(Much laughter.) Ile expressed his appreciation of the
sentiment. expressed by the chairman, that the (mess
Boos which divided them were very minor, and he
believed they had unwittingly exaggerated their
importance all along. Now they would be face to face
with grand essentials, and when the day came to which
the chairman had spoken they would have to stand
side by lode and shoulder to shoulier, and be was sure
those who were frien le of the British snd Foreign
Bible Society would forgot all distinctions, and
would fight together in defence of that which mode
this country so great an I so good. (Applause.)
The financial statement read by the rev. gentleman
&owed there had been a free contribution to the
parent society of £175, and a remaining balance In
the bank of £l5 6s.

—The it.;.-11.--PERICIN3 moved, and the Rev. E.
LUDLOW seconded, the appointment of the following
officers of the society for the ensuing yew :—President,
Rev. T. W. Kul" rooter of St. Peter's ; secretary,
Bev. T. Nosy. ; depository, Mr. Base unbe ; minute
secretary. Mr. W. Ponocy ; members of committee,
Rev. C. F. Powys, Rev. W. E. ColUnsoe, Rev. W.
Allen, Rev. J. Hartle, Rev. R. It Albin, RI,.
Fortes% Kr. George curing, M. Matthew Devenish,
Mr. Hearse Potency, Mr. Ga n
gsCrocker, jun., and
Mr. W. Dime.
Tbe Rev. It FIRKINS (deputation) then delivered •
mod instructive an I intending address. Speaking
of the work of the society, be said they had been
etteblsi during its existence to trans'••• the Scriptural
Into 250 languages, and of these 200 were the work of
the present century-56 were entire trawled ,os and
56 New Testaments. The speaker r.ferred with deep
regret to the loot of god Bishop Steer, sod he urged
the friend. of the society to earn-stly pray that
sotneose wo 11,1 be rake I up to take his pine.
Speaking of the general work of the society the c ,m-
-puttee bad taken advantage of the Vat, of things in
Egypt to double the number of their colporteurs.
There were DO lase than 300 of these agents on the
continent, and 200 in other lett of the world. The
deputation referred at some length to the work smug
the Jews, and remarked they had just completed •
large stereotype I edition of the New Testament in
tie Hebrew, which wa acknowledged by 'cholera
to be the very beet translation of the :4cripturee in
OM language. It was computed there were tan
millions Of Jews In the world, and they estimated
that their s,clety had distributed no lees than •
million copies of the Scripturee amongst them. There
Dever WY such a call for the work a. at the premed
time, am), t • show how it less growing, he mentioned
the society had expended L'17.000 more than lb year
before. Before concluding his address, which was full
of Interesting details. the rev. gentleman made an
teemed personal appeal, not only f .r support, but that
each ahmld learn to value the Bible more and more,
ea they helped to make It known to others.
The Rev. E. LUDLOW propoted, and the Rev. E.
W. Oot.ussos 'ascended, a vote of thanks to the
Depetation, and the meeting term' .s'ead with • hymn
and the benediction.