The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-19 00:00:00

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,when,aernnnsa
, at Sb. Mary'i ehttrag, by
• missionary from China, in

noon, and by the Rev. A. Menzies, a m
from Sierra Leone. in the evening. On Monday
Meeting" Mary'. national aohoob
rootn, one was fairly attended.
The Rev. W. Cooper, in the absence of the rector,
occupied the door, and after explaining the reason
why he eectipied the present position, said the
rector bad desired him to assure the meeting of the
interest he took in the society, whose oanse they
were met to plead that afternoon. The object of
the society was to bring before heathen nations the
knowledge of the one true God, the knowledge of
Christ the Saviour, and of the Holy Spirit Who
sanctified men's heart*. This moiety brought
before them the Means by which the heathen could
obtain "that place whibli pastel all understand.
ing.7 It wished to give them comfoit in life,
happineris in death, and eternal blessings beyond the
grave. After a few further remarks, he called upon
Mn Eliot, the treasurer' to read the financial report,
from which it appeared that the receipts amounted
to £483 Jl*. 4d., and the expenses to £l9 14e. 3d.,
the balance of £463 17s. 4d. being remitted to the
parent society. He c.ingratulated them upon the
satisfactory nature of the report, remarking that it
was £2O in tomes of the collection of list year. The
Rev. A. Menem§ said that, sonnected with the
history of missionary work, he avail Mire there was no
spot which wee more interesting as a colony than
that of Sierra Leone, situate on the west coast of
Oita. Ichad been his great privilege to labonr in
this place for four years and al. TIM tolony
was about 3,500 miles disiael from uglaud, but by
a aleamahip the abyage weld be,aecompliehed by a
everelts' journey. It was a COWS interesting
because it was broken by touching at them
t places —Maileria, Teueriffe, and Gambia
He had been to many parts of the world, hut in
point of beauty none could compare with that of
Siena Leone. This bolony was first taken
up by the Church Missionary Society, in 1816.
Masi/gm/Ws wt•re first sent to a place
hundred miles north Pr the
they laboured for 11 years, but their
it attended with much lemma& The
became jealous of the Olialli0111168•1
t and expelled Matti, to that they
to meek reflige In Sierra Leone. He
in friend's of the mission in England
is as moat adverse to the spread of
under the providence of God, snob
for no aminer had they rhablied the
coltiroenued.laboutinir atticingst the
who came to Sierra Leone in. great
.4, 1816 the missionary Johnson went
labours it pleased God to Ideas to such
that in a few years a great change for the
It place. He contrasted the spiritual
of the people' then to what was now the
.erving that a Mighty change had borne over
that once benighted land, and native preachers and
missionaries now took the place of Europeann After
speaking of Freotoa n, be said that he represented
the Mild missionary sebt onh Sierra teope had
been called "the white neatt's grave," and.as a proof
of the Unhealthiness of the etiolate to Ententans,
said that be went out in 1808 with sit ethers. Before
the next year three out of the bomber were in their
graves, and two were to ill as to be compelled to
return to England never to come hack again. He
alluded to the hearty manner in which Africans
joule,' in Divine worship, after Whir& he aditerteil to
the attending_ the itlherant travelling in
soked Christians to pray fur the
and that their labouramight be crowned
The Africans seemed to be happy
.heir happiness was in their ignorance.
he again asked Ohristhitte to pray for
distant part* of the earth, and not
bet for the native Chdreh, that God
proclaim the gospel in those dark
yet had never heard the none of
v. Birt, of Newfoundland, after
a why he appeared on the platform,
th he was a stranger to them
so to the mom of Missionary work,
ime and abroad. lt had been men•
this chairman that be '(Mr. Hirt) hid
ter some time ia Anter.klia •b Was
weer, • amongst that clam ""people
known as heathens, but inoelrrying the
ti of the church to our brethren and their
there; so, that the change was only
sentlart of the brotherhood to another. Nearly
bad stow pealed by sines his name was
missioaary in the Chetah Missionary
which fame belted been permitted
//vides lAttik,lt to time,
" what hila God wrought ?
loi.en accomplished, and the Lord
'us of' this society. Reviewing
followed the preaching of the
,nd he said what a change had
heathen land; the people were
and in their right minds at the
t'aitaelierw He etpreaSed binned
with the retocens Which had followed
goapetitt Mina and. lad* thh
164 00 Pitietians to more aptive
multi gla Master.
Fleminingl raid that be laboured in
• contained a population of
dished to the effect which
upon the people, and said that
I meow of teaching them that
, she ought now to deal she could
. its evils, Now the effect of opium
*that altlithit medicinal aid it was
'for a man to withdraw from it, whereas
grtatelei. shy morel reeolution could leave
Off beconting intoxicated. The missionaries In
I,ringpo determined upon haring an epitim
hespital. One man waled G milea in eider to
begf4l.lo an lutpate, and asoprentad to abide by the
inaletof the ii.a.detioo. After ft few days, however,
letting down some money to boys who
window to pnrobase opiam, so great
it. This was, however, pre.
to prevent a repetition of the
had been there a month he wet
Whiles there the Inmates had
read and preached tO thein, and
his man was baptited and betlame
of the orate of Obr. Alluding
childreu its (Ibiza, he said that
for both boys and girls, but they
half.penny or penny saeeek
argued that the girls did not
bnt If they had to earn their
as well do it by being, paid to
y other way. The boyawere very
their reflective powcre were
tiling they that not know the
• few further remarks, the
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