The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

Eccissimitical Intelligent.

BUIIIIOPL —Ths Archbishop 01 1.411000010117
aenonnoed to the directors of the Church Miesionsry
Society that he is prepared to proceed with the con.
sesraMon of • bishop for North China and Japan, the
emeent of the Foreign-office bowing hems obtained. The
gentleman who la designated for the post is the Re,
W. A. Russell, Trinity College, bublin, who kee
been for some time. mireiosary at Ningpo. moiety
for the Propagation of the Gospel have peeled a ?stole-
Mon affirming the neesesity which exist. for the supply
of episcopal ministrations in the north of &trope, and
recommendleg to the Colonial Bishoprics Council the
appointment of an Angiken Bishopric at Heligoland. A
Bishopric of New Westminster, to be taken out of the
diocese of British Columbia, is to be formed, and the
Rev. John Poetiethweite, LA., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, late Incumbent of Conduits, near Redoa,.
haa been nominated the Orel hiahop, but no time ham
yet been died for his oonseerntion.
MIIPZIWICIII Samos II Wagnerians Linn.—
The special Nerviest in Westminster Abbey were very
largely attended on Sunday evening, it having bloom
known that, in compliance with the desire of the very
Rev. Dean Stanley, the Rev. Robert Maguire, LA.,
ineumbent of Clerkenwell, wag to deliver a week'
sermon on the temperance question aa a testimony
mama the deep and terrible reproach whim has fides
on the otherwise fair ematelmon of Yeeland's grestaem.
A eoesideeald• number of distinguished individuals
were present. Taking for his text the fifth chapter of
Joshua, ninth verse, the primeher dimoribed now Eng-
land had a bygone history ever to be mindful ,of a
present greatness to be careful of, and • future destiny
be be always driving attic If ever there was. nation,
lines the days of Israel of old, that had God Po near to
her, it it England, and the religion of England, being
that God'. revealed Word, is yet to oover all Wide.
This, for the honour she enjoys, for the work she has
to do, and for the true love we bear her in our heart
of hearts, we desire to or. whether, like Israel
of old, this England of oars is under any r
whether any national wrong impedes and hi=ahhei
progress; and whether, at the riot of this noble tree,
any worm la lurking that may owe it one day to wither
like the gourd of Jonah. If England is, beyond any
other land, pat in trust of the why luta not that
Gospel made further progima dhesli.fl
of swath, why doss poverty en greatly abound? If
England is the seat of justice and equity, why inthere
so much wrong-doing in the Land. llEngland is
natural, social, and domestie bisadege
L=th of
oe• of other coun.i v rhy are there es maay
modal and domestic evils lingering in her midst. which,
notwithstanding al the and philanthropie efforts
of the day, we cannot subdue? Controverting the
sommos reply of "human nature," he pointed out that
it was no exams for tolerating evils which were
Inteniperitnee widens of these. It formed
the• dark blot on oar national greatness. To interim Ir.
ante we mast &UMW* many of the diseases of the bod 7.
most of the &ewes of the mind, mush of the poverty
of the people, the deetiltution of the poor, the orbs* of
the eoantry, and the raia of fortunes and repetitious. It
hindered the spread of the Gospel, and by its haw'
banana prestiaelly Placed Luis maim
beyond the Mame of ministers of lemele
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Mg els. Is their arthrenee they avoided no spirit
or presides of aseetickwo, mewled no carrier virtue,
and woo disdained that which is smortimes platted to
their credit—a spirit of aelf-denial—erties that ado
abstinence of theirs had loci siert bestrew bt cad
eortom an uneourtious state of life to meet ef them.
Pointing oat the eaters, t..d.nclr. and eartalive sham-
ter of Arran drink, the r,vec.4 Mower preseeded te
declare that nothing short of total artilleries would
meet tbe neescoltise of the ease. Noteention was no safe-
guard, wither wire improved dwellings ter the labouring
poor, although boa had much to de with the proper
tartar, of dm peopla. It would not do that thaw
addicted to drink should alone become artalesre. I.
sach at... the very tact of abstaining from drink would
=a stigma, a bread of shame, a coafieskie of
nes. We must bae sea at... both by our
example and oor frcrodshlp. He spoke to ocrib man's
noontime.; he aeited that each geoid be • law to him-
self. He was there to plead Um ranee of slaves, awl be
addressed his plea to ,men. He pointed out • pith
for doing good, and humbly bade them maim promisNg
them that before they had gone far they would overtake
some man, some life, some soul that might be swot
The sermon, whisk was eloquently delivered, was li..
toned to with atteation by tie vest imenpegaikm, and
evidently made a deep impressing.