The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-06-12 00:00:00

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whore them jok for lastaws, a large number of factor,
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mise th alllngslty of that kind is immense ; but it boot
• Ms be fled from, but to be met; it is one of
them that God intended them to meet. This is
Wiese things which are ininiensely difficult to
kUS• Wilillitli Not quite earnest: but it is not difficult if •
person Is determined to perserve in the good course, not
to be afraid; then midi iliffieulty so this falls to pieces.
Then, an to joining in Holy Communion, being a profes-
sion ; it is • profession, arid what they bad done to-day
was a great profession. He supposed that every One Of
them stood op to-day and answered to his solemn questien
—" I do." Wm not that a profession f They said that they
did undertake aU these things, and that was a profession.
And so coining to Communion is • great profession; but it
Ii one which is due to God, ant due to those who some-
times by their unkind folly make it bard—it is due even
to them. Because these people admire all the more those
who have the courage to make a good profession, and to
Maintain It. The Bishop went on to speak a word which he
had beard had been blessed in other places. Some there
were very much acquainted with them —sisters or brothers,
or friends or companions in employment, who were mak-
ing Gls same profeseion as they. Ile wiehed them to
understand what a wonderful help they might be to each
other. They should remember the words of the Psalmist
—"Vie took sweet counsel together; we walked to the
house of God in company." Let them promise to go to
church together if they could. It did not always follow
that they could go together,butat any rate, let them promise
to go to church. And let them go to Communion together;
that was • great help. They were in some sense strong,
and in another weak, and would be able to support each
other. And always, when they mine to the altar rail, let
each pray for the other, that they might be kept stelfast
before God. Let them also write to each other; lie knew
some who did so not only each week but every merniug of
their lives. So he said to them "Write to each other." They
might lie scattered ; one might, in God's Providence go on
in the orderly ways of home, while the other may be on
the other side of the wield, equally celled on in God's
Providence to spend harder days, it may lie in Canada or
Australia; but then they are thus mindful of each other
no one else in the world ,rents half sit near. He hoped
that when they were invited to Holy Commenion there
would be • goodly company of young Christian people
drawing near to that place where the Lord has promised
to meet them, and so to strengthen their mule that they
may continue awl persevere in what they promised. awl
grow in grace until by God'u mercy they meet in that ever-
lasting kingdom of which we have all been made biers,
and we hope we have not lost our heirship. They ha,(
proclaimed their claim to it to-day, but it IA still before
us, and the same evil is before us that is to be met and
eenquered by the IMMO evasive, the WIMP pains., Is
concha-len the Bishop said "tied lili,i you all, awl iiiiike
this day • day of increase of all that is good to you. God's
blessing be upon you all. Amen."
It matter, not whether I am a metn'ier of the Itiehop"s
section of the Church ihr not; I felt that here spoke a
fatherly old man, whom not even Teufelelreckh of Sarter
Itesartus could call a clothes screen, for all the billow lug'
out of the superabundant lawn-sleeve, As I remember
the oil genUeinan sitting under that chancel window,
itself almost telling of the good E irl Shaftesbury, and as
he chatted SO persistently to the white-capped, sweet-
faced middens, and life-restless boys, I feel the force of
Gentleness, and look again with out-stretching, forth'
peering eyea, with almost dee-by-straining ears, to the
time when " I hear once more the voice of Christ gay
'Peace."