The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-15 00:00:00

ecclesiastical Enielligract.

Tax Government bill for the abolition of compulsory
church rates, while aholishing all power to enforce the
payment of church mkt., it mom the entry gediongy
to WV* M a voluntary rate, and limita the regulation
of tha &dein of the church and the election of its
team to those who pay the awainasent agreed upon by
the vestry.

LOnDolif 11111111011•ItY SOCTSTT.-011 Tlthrsday raorn•
lag the anniversery meeting of this ••klincoiary enterprise
was held at Faster 11• IL Ti.. Bid of Shaft. thery
occupied the chair The number of missionaries 1. 86,
of whom 27 are connected with 'hi, minim.j pniy.
nesia, 23 in the West Indies, 41 in South Africa, 20 In
China, 62 in India, and 12 in bladagaiscar. The number
of students 1, 37, ten of whom are eompleting the hot
year of their triining at the society's institute, Highgate.
In corneae of • few montis nine additional missionaries
will proceed to India, two to China, and one to South
A fries. The inennm for ordinary purposes for the year
186.-6 is £58,506 N.. 7d. ; for special rbjecte, 413.141
7.. 7,1. ; expenditu,s, £106.788 15s. 11d. Towanis
meeting the defier) cc in tke income as compared with
expenditure, £25,170 12,.. 9.1. The director. are now
carrying out impottaat extensions in IndM, China, and
Madagascar. From tke additions already made and
ooatemplated in the number of misionaries, tbe expel,
diture of tio coming year will be he exams of the put,
and lb* directors entreat the motors of the churches
and the friends of the society to pey increased attention
to the efilciency of the orgastisetion, an addition of
£lO,OOO pile minim to the priciest income of the society
being necessary to sustain it. present operatioes.
A WOAD roe THI Pallioiril —My Radial reader—
my libertepolitical-secularoducetion reader, who plebe.
as the forma ea a stiff prim hindresce to the spread of
lueenerating almighty knowledge—my reader of min sort
(wonetinies forgetting that there is • knowledge .1 .011
as well as of good, and that the heart bolds • high orom-
mewl in the army of the woild's forces) says, "Aye, yore
fine, otpdal theory ; but in face these parsons . . ."
Stop • bit; {bees pennon have done more to promote
education than any close. Who grinds at It. dull toil
like the parson? Who begs the money for build rig the
schoolroom and papas the master? Aye, Ibe wheelies,
and moot •uspoione opponent of ',fleetly Wineries owes
U.. priest more than he would Ilk, to he compelled to
confess, for Om intelligence and trustworthiness of the
lad who has coins to kis , Moe or nthoufsetnry from the
National School. Nay, Boglish priests, directly or in-
directly, hays dons more to invite and accelerate re-
ligions inquiry than any sea of men in the land la not
the Bible need in every school? Does not the earnest
and anxious parson, who day after day takes the
Scripture lesson in the elass, strive to saltiest," intalli.
rpm amine the children? How °ben dose be panes to
say, "Don't answer without thinkiogr Whatever
their individual theories thin is the general penalise of
English priest.. Nil, the Groot promoter of free die-
mustoo wield hardly rrovide materials more Stied for •
theological explosion than those which, the innocent
person who drills and examisei the children in the
minutest details of Old Teetameot history and inexorable
arithmetic, places in ominous Contact. Prseer's
Magazine.