The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-10-17 00:00:00

BUCKLAND liEw rox.

SUDDIif MATH. —Oa Monday evening the
Thomas Cue, a gentleman well known in the parish
for his charity and genial humour, woe soddenly imisod
with apop!exy, and in spite of all Ltio:te expired.
On Sunday sermons were proud:el in the parish
church and in that of Plash in ail of the Dorset
County Hospital. In the former the ,uin of IN 110 I
was collected, and in the lattur I:2 100 31, making a
tel of ES lii Hid.
WINTERBOR MR. MON KTON.

HARVEST TR ANKSGIVING Sattvier.-1 harvest service
was held on Thursday week in the church of this village,
which has lately been no admirably restored. In sp.te
of the unoertainty of the weather and the Isteness of
the hour (seven o'clock) a goodly congregation assembled
of vil,agera and of sna,ons and otLers employed on the
rebuilding of the parish church. Eveideg prayer was
said by the Rev. W. Miles Barnes, and special lesions
from Ruth It, an 1 Revelations :iv. v. 13 to end,
read by the lay reader. The harvest hymns selected
for the occasion were taken up with great him-Claes+ by
the congregation. A plain and earned sermon, from
Ruth I. 14, was adireare 1 by the rector to l,is parlsh-
Maori, in the course of whioh—all tding to th large
gleanings which had been Lit upon the fields for the
labouring people—he said: Another poiut in tho char-
acter of Boaz to which I wish to direct y,cour atteution
I. 114 kindness of beer t and his lile.rality. Boaz was •
kind farmer and • liberal man; he thought of his work.
people as well as of himself. Ile was gathering In the
harvest which God had given Lim, but he gave his
labourers some share in it —ho left a good gleaning upon
his fields (Ruth IL), and no doubt this kind and
generous act helped to attract many of tie Ina:P.
dispoird amongst his workpeople to him • tiny were,
doubtless, ready to look well after the iriterests of 10
good a master, ready to render firn mob serviee as
money cannot purchase—the service which a willing
hand and • thankful heart ciao aloe* prompt. The
salutation or Boas to hie reapers and their reply—a
salutation which bag had a phase in the cervical of the
Chore!, from early ages, and will be pre erved in them
to the end of tnne—abows that this kindly feeling
did exist between the men and their masters; and
Boaz said unto the reapers, "The Lord be with you ;
and they answered hiru,the Lord Weis you." Brethren,
• like liberality has been shown to you ; this harvest
has not been to you • harvest, "whereof the mower
filleth not his band, neither he that bindeth up the
sheaves his bosom ;" your hands and your bosoms have
been 611e1 with • plentiful gleaning, and it is open to
you to make a like return for it. But will your duty
end there? No; turn your thoughts fur • moment to
Rath, who has left her own land, where plenty abounds,
to struggle with poverty in a foreign lands She teils
hour by hoar, day by day, under a urning eastern sun.
abs labours, never wearying, from in.,ries to sunset,
gleaning over the parched fields; 1.. does aho labour
' for herself alone? lilt to satisfy her own needs only
that she gathers the seattered corn? No ; she has an
aged mother•in-lew at bocce, and she labours for hers.
well as for herself. "Her moth, r-indau saw what alto
had o,ned,and .he brought forth and gave to her that
she had reserved." A odony frieuda,are there not amonget
you hands too feeble, through age or infirmity,
mu to ptbeg Into their bowels the ootu which tbe