The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

BEAMINSTER.

CHURCH FOREIGN MISSION& —On Thursday week
the annual meeting of the Beaminster arsociation of the
Society for the Propagation a the Gospel was held in the
National Schoolroom at seven o'clock. the Rev. A. Codd,
vicar, in the choir. The meeting. which was • crowded
one, was attended be some one or more of nearly all the
influential families both from the town and neighbour.
hood. Among the clergy preeeet were —Prebendaries
Bredley and Rooke, Revs. Ts T. Codd, FL C. Hu:table,
.1. H. Chown*, W. H. West, P. Compton, 11. Lee, A.
Lush, It. Noddle, Brown, and F.Williams; and
among the laity were—Colonel Marriott and family, Mrs.
Codd, Miss Codd. and Miss C. Cold,
_Capt. and Mrs.
Sanctuary. P. Cox, Esq., and tantEy, W. Cox, Esq., and
Mrs. Cox, G. Cox, Esq., and family, Mks G. Cox, Misses
}Coddle Mimics Pinney, E. B. giteon, Req., and Mrs.
Kitson, the. W. J. Daniel, T. Daniel, E.m.. and family,
Jae. Rawlins, Req.' J. Gilbert, Esq., and Mrs. Gilbert,
Messrs. E. Coombs, D. Spites, D. Akerman, J. B. Dunn,
kcs After prayer and the singing of • hymn, the Chair.
man opened the meeting with • few remarks, setting
the immense extent of our church's foreign Ws-
ary field, including 50 eolooial sees end more than
.100 clergy in all parts of the world; also the special
11.iras of the Society for the Propagation of tLe Gospel.
Lot only on account of the soundness of her principles
and organisation, but also as the most efficient instru-
ment for providing our annual 60,000 emigrants with
spiritual help in the days of their poverty and distress.
The meeting was thee addreesed at considerable length
by Canon Genres, from Newcastle, in Auatrslia. The
rev, speaker detailed his own experience of missionary
life, and the great blessings bestowed on the colonies
through the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
lab great simplicity and earnestnees. He further urged
on the meeting the absolute necessity of every one present
being animated by a truly missionary spisit, as they
would fulfil the calls of christen love. Tbe interest of
the meeting was then riveted tor more than three.
quarters of an hour by the earnest and straightforward
coMinonsense eloquence of the Bishop of Ontario. Canada
West. He urged the claims of the society, in strong
and forcible language by ninny sound reasons, butespeei.
ally in imosideraten of the opprobrium which she, by
her unwearied endeavours in behalf of the colonies—
when during the last century both the Church and the
Government long continued to turn • deaf ear to their
entreaties for the sending forth of the episoopate among
them—bad at length been the means of blotting out
from our church's history. The right rev, prelate con-
cluded by urging the importance of systematically
suptiottiaag seieeiona. The coin of his remarks was that,
as miss is stamped on all the works of God, as also
upon all the noblest efforts of man, we should do well
to see that it is equally impressed on every exercise of
Christian charity. After a few practical remark. from
the chairman, a hymn was then sung and the trimming
pronounced by the Bishop. The collection amounted
to £7 10a, making, with the Sundae collections, • total
of more than El 5.

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