The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

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WIMBORN&
WIMBORNR MINS iuth ii.ESTiVAL

AND lIILEVEST fIOME.

In things eoolesiastical, grammatical, and locomotive,
regard must be had to points. Alas! for a Roman nose,
and, perhaps, something more, if the point on the line
is not properly adjusted. What wanton mischief neglect
to points in grammar may do, Ude] has told us, when
he maVes the incorrigible wag, Matthew tderrygrekei
Utterly subvert the meaning of the dotArd Ralph's lord-
ditty, dd.!, prepared bir the "terivenerth Instead of
feeding thus to fair "Dame Constance"—
" Sweet ndstresse, whereas I love you; nothing at all
Regarding yonr richeese and substance; chief of all
For your personage, beautie, demeanour, and witta
I commend me unto you; never a whitte,"
he renders the scrivener's billet•doux, perhaps more
honestly, thus :

"Sereei ;Marone, whereas I Itlve yott hothifvg at all j
ogardine "'Md rikiheele and Mil:Akita) 61110 tit Mfl
For your personage, &may, demeanour, and witte,
I commend me unto you never a whites," &o.

So in the life ecclesiastical we have to watch against
blunders as well as sins. Ascetecism, on the one hand,
is to be deprecated as well as levity on the other; and
an aspearious demeanour towards others should be as
squally guarded against it an utter indifferent* lb
regard tO thole present happineis and fitturk OA But
this I hot an age of iodifferentialiani, but of earlieat
thought, high aspirations, and ardent desires. There
are many who would do good if they knew where and
how. Now, every one of us is familiar with the story
of the bu,oher, who, after ransacking every corner of
his premises in search of his knife, at last discovered
that he was holding it between his teeth. The lllustra•
don, to be sure, it hottlely one, but it will,
nevertheles% not ineptly deildit thelitnation of
a lira% hember ot ixersolls, whb, pervaded with a
desire of being useful,. are looking apxiodily drotind
eitiongst various asedolatiops to diser yer in ,nOttle one of
them 1 iphere iii whickthey thigh be able to ect, all
OA, while ere eterletoking the tact that a word
ppokehi Ot a kind act performed, however insignificant,
in due season, how good is it I A popular preacher
may crowd a church, and may attract a multitude of
persons who are attached, and, with reason, to himself,
, but it is equally desirable that the people should be
attached to the church as well as to the preacher, and
how Gan this be seeured no effeetually as by *friendly,
free, warmhearted iheitationtind itelotime: Thoiciandi
of nothitthilditilik hod beftrert are lost to the
ablirch for want of a word of kindly welcome—a word of
friendly notice on the part of the regular attendants.
With thousands of people the surest way of winning
the heart is through the senses. Men will allow them-
selves to be drawn by the silken cords of love, when
they would refuse to be driven by the iron rod of duty.
moat certain way to get then to yield to the force
of bird argurnituti is by talkilig to 0011 With it heart
-Orihning treedotit and geniality: The most stern slid
anapproachible will of tea be the filet to yield to Stich
intinenoes: To show that I'M seek their tettiperal
good, that you desire to prhmote theirldretint happiness,
to joy With thiise that joy, as well as to sympathise with
thtise that weep, if the Surest road to their affection
and en'eem. Alas! how °hen are the edorts of the
phlpit netitralised froth non,attetititin tti these thing*.
Ili offering these remarkit; Hoirtyer, it§ trust that °tit
ittadltni will pot deohne lit tt stakilig Id tistiro the theolie
Of the tentrief. We have no Stich desire, our object
being simply to second tbe efforts of those who do
follow the example of one of old who said to his kins-
men, "Niue thou with us and we will do thee good."
Among the means devised for the promotion of such an
object, not the least insignificant, is the establishment
of the parish Harvest fiottie festival, where, after Assent-
bling in the sacred temPle to offer tirilise and iluthks-
steles for harvest tickling* lielaises at the
festite laid join in riencily conversation and
initocent recreations. We know there are those who
conscientiously are opposed to such gatherings, and far
be it from us to quarrel with them for entertaining their
conscientious convictions; but such prejodioea, if we
may so term them are fast dying out, and are destined,
we believe, to beociale still more rare,
The Wimborne Minster wound anneal Chrifeh esti-
val and Harvest Blithe eras held On Friday bet,tin's
ti Miehaers day: The usual morning servitte Was held
In the line old Waiter Church; which win deeprated
with vaidoui kinds of grain and finite of the earth itt
the afternoon the Serviceman ehhral, hetilistint ef the
Litany Icily. Shortler be,toie the Vie tot 6oinifilecin
he li li
the betel& arrived, the imborne brass band
met a portion of the farmers with their mon at the Half-
moon Inn, on ti;ianarord.roi.d, while the Volanissr
arum end ille band met another portion at the
Walford-bridge, and played to the church.—lt
was a pleasing sight to see the masters, each heading
his own band of labourers, with their wives and families,
'Point out the road and lead the w y,"

, to the house of prayer.
The Church wee filled, and the Bervioe was deeply im-
pressive. The preacher on the occasion was the Bev. 1
R. H. Baynes, incumbent of Trinity Church, Maidstop ,e
who selected for hie text, Isaiah ix., and part of the ard
verse,—" They joy before Thee aceording to the joy ill
harvest," Never did a preacher have • more attentive ,
andletiee. v. rev: gentleman said they were met %o-
Ither that day, in Godli house, at a time of rvionting.
hey ware some there to thank the I‘trd their God Ilhei
answered the prayers of the uhurch, and that it
4 Famed Hire to give us the fruit' of be e earth in its
4am. 'rho time of harvest, when the fruits of the ,
I*
birth were gathered in, was a time of joy and gladness, ,
lind it was well that we should meet together in the old
chdroh, the holy end beautiful house, where our fore-
fathers so °fres and so devoutly bad worshipped, to offer
up.nnto the giver of all our mercies, our harvest thanks-
givings. Now, be wished to show that there was • .
speciat fitness in this—first of all, before they rejoiced
and u.sade merry in feastins, to come to the House of
God. It was bemuse the harvest was the gift of God.
Belied heard *eine ark, why go to Murcia upon this
day, seeiug that you are afterwards going to have •
gladsome relmet, and joie in intnienst usirth? Why go
to church? Because it ems right and proper to reiPt
before God 'seceding to the joy of harvest, and lieu.
1 there could by.tte true joy, so gladioluses's ofkiessk, up
1 Pleorani wnvtli the Pane of pkoseve cm which visedW.
I not ask the bleating $ God. If we would fully rett!il
our debt of greeted& to God, our Cause sçieY,
praise to HIM, let gs eek vahgt it the lujevert wera
withheld? It well epee, the isnetandmanipikst till the
round end saw Mier grain, tut =kw ilei'lllve the
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