The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

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manner to the pursuits of peace and industry—but a
population coexisting of the very dregs of the whole
earth, men who have crowded torether %site no
American interests, bet in order that, like the vultures
of the air, they may have their share in feedieg upon
the dead bodies that war sprewle everywhere about. and
who now, left without this mderable food, are looking
wildly and eagerly around for some other car in which
they can at once expend their energies And meietein
their 11... Looking at those people, and peeing how
likely it is, in the contingenciee and trophies of net-ions,
that the time rev net be far distent when or account
shall be closed, PS the great derailment power in
Blitish North America, when the account shell he
collect for at our hands, of what we have done in all
these center les for those poor Indian people, I see in the
w.iiting moment, in the hush of the present, in the con•
tinteihce to is, 3et for a little season, of the tower of
noriclimg for them and ter God, a cry to us to be up and
doing, before the night ..ete in upon he, which, upon my
ear at least, works with almost • startling empliesis.
And if I look to other parts of the world, really it is
just the same. There have been Allusions made shoed,
to the Queen of the Sandwich Islands, who for • little
time is tarrying amongst on. I think the state of
things there is really a loud cell to us to do some.
thing for God, Many, perhaps, in the room know that
one of the epeciel motives of that royal visit to
this count is to sir up einong.t the NegliPb I eople a
r solution do sons-thing at once for the population of
those isle da, tind th er e conviction th it if the not
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thirty years do not tree some total mend change wrought
in that people, they will be exterminated front the face
of the . sale Ie not that a call? If you know that, in
another half century, miler., you from England seed nut
the 'Deane of training the young females.? those blonds
in Wet.' different from those which visits from English
ratite, calling without any ohjeet ' aye that of Immediate
i leasure and gain, have balioted upon a docile and
thoughtless race—if you know that another fifty years
may make your vices. in great maniere° transplanted in
thoed 'elands the means of eradicating that people from
the free of the earth —if you know that at this moment
there is everything to help you - the throne filled by a
monarch determined to do all he Can to carry out your
emiaionx- a people craving for them, wearied out with
the uslittimagetuent and maltreatment of American
puritanism, shrinking exceedingly from the Marioletry
of Smith worehip, ant turning to the Church of Eng-
and and saying, '' Will you glee us the faith? Will
you give us the morels of true Christianity. without
these terrible alloys?" Is not that a call, I *Pk, to
every one to be doing something more? (Hear, hear )
It is very easy for people to say that the population if
the Sandwich Islands should be doing what is necessary
for altimeters& I was talking, the day before yesterday,
to the Queen, who said, "We are so poor a people that
we cannot do it. Our people are not like yours, gr at
manufacturers end agriculturists, having a large stored-up
capital, and able to do anything they will. We have little
more than sufficient to give us the merest clotting, and
the barest elements of food, and the effort must be made
from your country, if Christianity is indeed to
pervade my people." I think that that is as loud
a call aa can be. Shall Britain send out, in
One of the highest offices of its Churoh, me to
teach the heathen 'man to distrust ti e Word of God?
Shall not Christian England drown that miserable voice
by a universal declaration of the truths of Christ's ever-
lasting Gospel? (Applause.) And if we turn further
tem the islands of the sea which lie Sc the north of New
Zealand we find a like tell. How long shall we keep
. Bishop Paterson? How lung will God continue to us
that gift? How long will our mission there be directed
by the wonderful intelligence of that most remarkable
manil man to whom God has given the power of
acquiring language almost as it was given by the super-
natural afflatus of the day of Pentecost—bow long shall
we have such a man going to the savage people upon
those different islando, winning their hearts and gaining
their cenfider.ce? Then come back to the Wands of
New Zealand thenvelve., I see in the cessation of
the war there a mighty call to an Christian people.
/ think of all calls in foreign parts, India is, at this
moment; the fondest I think the hush and the pause
there, are calls to lIS to do God's work such as no other
nation under heaven, eter yet received from Him. Only
think if, when you rise to-morroW, the telegraph should
have flashed across the news of another universal up.
rising in India ! How many hearts would it wake sad,
even to the very dregs of sadnees I And only think,
next, how easily such Bees might be flashed across,
upon mere rumour—one of those unknown things which,
like the breath of an infection, spread over the minds of
men suddenly come in the Oen& of the night, and
settle down in the dews of the morning. Putting, then,
the two things together, the greatness of our recent
peril, and the c mpleteness of the present calm, does
got the uncertainty of the continuance of our power in
India, constitete &claim upon us not to trifle with what
God has given us an opportunity of doing there—an
opportunity. I repeat, such as I bdieve, has never yet
been given to any Christian people upon the face of the
earth. It seems to me that there are many things
which at this moment ought to warn us, that though
they may be turned aside by his mercy upon our re-
penting and turning to Him, this is • season when the
judgments of the Lord are abroad. Who can doubt
that it is so f when ere read only to-day in the Cathedral
of God, "I will send plagues upon men and upon
beasts," could any of you help thinking of the signs of
the present time? Is not the mysterions disease which
has entered amongst our cattle at this moment—is not
that, if the Bible be true' one ~` God's writings upon
the nation's wall, warning them tic turn to Him? Look,
at the columns of your newspapers—you will there see
that men who have studied the matter cannot agree,
even upon the first principle as to whether it is an im•
ported or indigenous disease—where the seat of it is, or
what its treatment ought to be. They seem to think
that the greatest tribelom lies in killing infested animals
at once, burying them out of the way, and hoping for
the best. Surely, such a tudgment as this will reach
everywhere if it proceeds in this land, Think of the
price of meat, which has now become such a necessity.
Think of the effect it must necessarily have upon the
health of men. If numbers of the poorer sort, through
the cupidity of rollers or the watchlessness of buyers,
art fed turn diseased meat, there is • certainty of
disease falling ripen them sooner or later. (Hear, hear.)
Then remember the whisper rising now almost into a
voice, of the onward march of the Old pestilence of
cholera, which I remember so well in this city at its
great maitation. It is again rustling upon the breeze of
the evening; and is this not another of God's writings
upon time wall, warning you that you do His work, and
torn to Him with a new zeal whilst yet the opportunity
tit turning is left to you. Oh I my friends, may God
give us inch a spirit. And if He does, above all
things' let me say to you, beware of small endeavourv.
It is the feeblest of all feeble things to send out a weak
Christianity to convert a strong heathenism. (Hear,
bear.) I know of nothing more dreadful than the
thought of sending out a minister of Christ to Zulu
land, who shall have so weak • bold upon Christianity,
that the Zulu man's stronger grasp of heathen doubtful.
sans shall wrest from the hand of the Christian man the
Bble that God has put into it. (Hear, hear.)
The 01 iMS JEN then me to prompt a vote of awake
to the gentlemen who had attended at that meeting and
had spoken, and also to other gentlemen who were
engaged upon the 'moiety. Heincladed in this Tote one
of his 'earliest friends, Canon Claughton, Archdeacon
Harrie,Mr. Walpole, Mr. Limitable, Mr. Hubbard, and
the Bishop Of Oxford. He also included in the vote of
thanks the name of Prehendare Smart, their Neoretary,
for his useful services daring the many rare be baa
held that office.
The hymn "From Greenland's icy 11101111edlie
having been sung, the benediction was pronounced, and
the audience then dispersed.'
A collection amounting-Ur= 12s. 4d. was made at
the doors,