The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-20 00:00:00

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CHURCH PABTORAL AID SOCIETY.

Sauces in behalf of this invaluable Church Home
'Region Society were preached at S. Mary's Church on
Undo last, rad an Monday evening the public meeting
was held in the National Schoolroom, St. Mary's, where
the Rat or, Rev. J. H. 83.111. WOO la the choir, solo:sorted
by the Be.. J. Kennedy, sad the depot ation, Itu. R.
Foetal, deputation from the Pageot Societe. The weather
had been exceedingly ant avourabk, and the ettendanc
was competitively small.
Th• Kura& sad it was away. with foliage of
pleasure and gratitude he attended • mi eating of „.
Church Pastoral Lid Society. If we remember the state
of this coustry, when the posher commeneed its oper-
ations. or topsides the principles oa which it was formed,
sway true and loyal member of our R 'formed Church of
Itagisod must bis gooney ration. for its somas. The
am anti received from foliation. woe. ;'—St. maw.
412 19s. 61' Christchurch, £4 lils. 51.; Radipol_,e £1;
tote. £l6 17e. lid.; other c Zealous made up 464 19a
That was an intros+, of £lO on last year's report: but
he hoped it would still be legal? increased •hen in God's
providence. we meet Man neatrasr.
Rae J. Karanor thanked al those who took cards
and started posy subscription'. IL, had been ODOM than
gratified at the result, for though ha had only expected
Mem to be Sited with pennies, soma had put don two-
pences or theesrautes, and even sixpences ; he hoped it
woad not be a Ash in this pan. but go on and Increase.
Re lead read In" Uncle Tone's Cabin" that if you knock a
man to the dust, he was sure to have a great reshot for
you. When he was about to take • curacy, having been
at an ultra•Evanralietal College, he supposed he would be
accepted se • matter of mu,..; bet be society called on
him for more referents., and the result was he had
more respect for and •dsooe in the society that they
would only send men who preached Christ and Him
ogdy to the people. [trades. the society requires to be
strictly satisfied es to the pariah actoally requiting •
man to be sent there, so that the C.P.A.& is • "today
to help those who help therasaves In such a large pariah
et his late one in Birealneram, the motor by himself could
oaly have the stereotyped services on Sunday, weir hie
bad a curate But this parish had two carat's, two
readers, and • Bible woman, and to the AIN given by ths
society, the rector and the pariah had to guarantee £lOO
more, and besides that the perish makes • contribution
and ands £ll3 bah again. The voluatary contributions
la the perish were £1,9411 loose year; this was what they
were worked up to. ant which they would not have given
if they had not been worked up to it. Besides this, the
Parish subscribed CLUB for their own benefit; the clubs.
clothing claw, snl others, to help the poor people, who
have no rich men to help them. The a P.A-8. min are the
very nun to support such societies as the Church Mission
societies, and others dear t o Evangelical Churchmen.
There are also the Sunday echo de, which are thorough
worked,Lisou• hurassaftsicurditorey—Unighmethlinnethg...oingaao.nisfroare
about
Sundayil,ooo Sunday echolsra, yet the day schools, night
schools. and Soda" schools only cost the parish 4100 a
year; 26 strictly religious meetings are held weekly in
that pariah, so that they are not idle. He had just
received • letter from his old fellow-curet*, who was
enthusisstlc about the &NOP in this parish, and wrote
that ther would aureola. Mr. Aitken, and the Lord
would blres him. Mr. Dod,is part of the p wish included
a rood many Irish, and they were most difficult to deal
with, unless they want help, when they will ask all the
saints in heaven to bless you If you will only give t. 10.
Dodd used to be down on tra young prates like a sledge-
hammer with—" It gra love the Lord Jesus Christ come
and work for Him.' people are apt to sae even about
the coming mission—" Dose the work War If people are
resins on the Lord Jesus Christ the work will last; but
if they re,t on fiction, it will not last. Be asked those
who know how precious a thing It is to have Christ, to
have an • tenet desire that others may be saved, and t
lift up the hands of those who are engaged in the hand to.
band conflict against infidelity in our lags locus: and
he was quite sure that in Marine alone, we shall be
blessed owselveo. (Applause.)
Ito. R. FOWILL proposed to tell how the
easels affected by the religious undertakings and infi uences
of the pressat time. A mission meant that in a parish
certain strainers can., stay for • few woke, and ties
are gone, and behind them, if God has blessed them, they
leave proofs that fie lowl sent trans. But these
people are not always endow. i with full and esti,e
faith and knowledge. At the University of Cambridge
during Messrs. Moody and Sankey's work, 300 young men
come out and professed they wanted more t• teens and
more knowledge, and that in the presence of the
large congregation, who prayed for them. Amoira them
wo a yonagJ owners, who came here to learn the Western
civilisation for the Uolorsity of Tokio. who was not filly
convinced, but after Meagre. Moody and Sankey had gone,
a oloopary had the work of going to this Japan...,
enquiring shout his feeling., and he was able, by the
blisseins of 04. to solve his difficulties. and the Jep anew
came out fully, was baptised. and will go beck to Tokio •
Christian. This was the socistei work—to follow up the
mini ms, and to reap where other men have lahoured.
Many of those who appear to be sincere converts fall
away ; but it is not the fault of God's work, not the fault
of the minimum but of the people, who have deluded
themselves. In Livonool 85 out of 340 ministate are
supplied by the C.P.A.S. A mission was decided on there,
for a large brick church there was only half full ; amongst
the taudon choir tiro a moo who had • very Roe vace,
who came to show off his vole*, but who remained to be
distressed at whet he saw wee the vice and celery of his
own life. Re had spent his summers in singing ungodly
songs and bovine, and his winters In brutal amusements;
but he was oravertsi, and set to work, and he and hia
wife started a rural school, picked the boys out of the
Meseta and taught th-m in the very district where he had
formerly hese the leader of dote. Cabmen be also had
thought for, and fon I the most degraded. drunks.,
cheating restrain in the town congregated errant the
Liverpool Docks, to get bolt of Jack Tart returning from
their cruise. Other people gays him the mousy,
and he started • room with • daily prayer meeting.
A clergyman going to the stetlon had occasion to take
his family sod luggage, and bad two cabbie.. The first one
he gave half-a-crown to, and received a torrent of abuse
for pa giving more; but aft-rwards the other came up to
hies, and told him he had only la. 61 to pay, and restored
the shilling. The clergyman gave it htm back. being told
that the rabmra No, 2 did not want to show off before
the other. Rs told the story of the honest Viennel
oho.s l.a meeting ; this papers published it, and the
sae with the Sae voice told it before his cabmen. found
the Hosest Cabman, and set him to work among his
doe. The C.P.A.S. it also Interested Is the work of the
Selvatiou Army, and TOUIT of them are engaged in
teaching those who were first aroused by the Salvation
Army. The Blue Ribbon Army, and other temperance
Wendel, they are deeply interested is, and one man who
only had • few to Oath In a cellar, has now 1,100
teetotalers in his pariah. (Applause.) Their clergymen
are at work teaching temp-rano people not to depend on
their temperance for salvation, but to give themselves to
Gel sad be saved through the atonement of Jesus Christ,
New great risatres of population are springing up through
the stoner of railway comosnlie, such as 0 ordie with
6.000 people 10 years ago to 63 000 people now: Barrow An.
Furness with figures squally cutting ; Ririe tale with
1,000 people 10 years are and 57,000 now, for whom there
los no church provision except through tte :
Middlesborough has grown from five little cottages, 60
years ago, with M people, and which in 30 years only
increased from M to 110, but sow has MOM People
engage I In iron industry. At 111441eshororah a
treat deal of dredging has been done, twenty miles
of tralning wall erected to guide the river, awl now
60 MO people are there. Amongst them are large numbers
of hlraly.tratrad and skilled men, who are in danger of
falling tato infidelity, boom of truokag on their own
reason; but among these live struts of the OP. A S. work
teaching thew the lovohlenets 01 th" Lori Jeans Christ:
The s ciety has been on the losing side very long, grasping
at halfpence, and petit never seemed truant. to anythi or
bottle. • had cut themselves up u the Lor I, and last March
had £7OO more than the year before, manly owing to
Isocies. It was a melancholy way to get moue bat the
money sboold lo the means of resin' to trots memorials
more durable than marble, and if they want eacourate-
mint in Us...a, rarely it will b. gained from those who
are cowl bv means of the CP.A S. It is the most un-
likely people who in thv mod for (lod', work; a servant
girl In Wiltshire rot 4212.. 64. in her box by persiver.
SIVA in cooing abot the box with her when she visited
tthweopefannucimb*Shmesh“avuldngtittehms 'pnilin
ntonle hin"a"c'manintry't a plad'ace,"isei
wo .1.1 otherwise all go is o Bridgewater to be shaved.
Let us do all we ton for the ankh tanment of our country.
men who have not the um. Writhe, a %vantages. (Ap.
piton's.)
The Rscroa stated that the parish where he had
p-olous'y laboured locrused at the rate of 1,000 male
every rid for 10 year., and were it not for the C.P.A.S.
he should have twin the only clergyman of the Church of
Rogiand among 27,000 poop's. Hums claims are mid to
ire presslog. so they are; but the work of throe lactating
*right not to be deferred even for home claim., and these
were t,e Ohur•b Missionary Society the C P.AS , and
the Bible Society. fAepleerwl
The doxology, benediction. and • collection, concluded
this meeting.