The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-03 00:00:00

LONDON CITY MISSION.

tiLllngton Hall vu about two-thirds full on Tuesday
night, when the friends of the above toluion gathered to
beer an addrese by Yr. Griminetta, nassionary to the
London cabmen. In the galleries were a number of the
militia, and somebody seemed to have a good etoek of
little missiles which they threw on the heads of those
below. Alington Hall is not such a generally well-filled
place that the gallery should be opened t the misconduct
whlzh so of ten goes on there.

Col-Clime 'eked bleesinp on the mission, when

The Chairman, Rev. T. W. Knit% remarked on the
interest which those who had cone through the wet streets
and tuder the rainy skim, must feel in that great and
somewhat dirty city of which we are rather proud. He
had found cabmen, like other people, are very civil to
them. The worst of them those who are civil are
the night ashram, the low promising of the men. He
introduced Kr. Grimmette as being descended from the
free& iinguenots, who were driven here because they
walla not, give up their faith ; as his own ancestors were
likewise driven from their own land from • similar cause,
that gen him common sympathy with Mr. Grimmette.
The Oity Missionary Ind been among the Londoners for
30 years, having ant corm from the country, where he
was mad to rid* over • ;Debarred gate. This gave him
an advantage with some men, and he found the missionary
is the better for knowing a ensiling of how the world
goes, instead of Wag some "noodle who eves away trade
ma pound • week." London. with its four million and a
quarter of pools, has only about 10,000 places of worship,
or oniddith in proportion to those in Scotlsod. The cab
and omnibus men are about tans times as numerous in
London as the whole population of Ipswich. When the
On/ Mission work began, some of the cabs were used
/manly for moving booty from endplate to another, and
the numbers were repeatedly forge one number would
be painted out one night, another added on & following
Meat, too that if anything went wrong and the suuilitir
was taken, and the driver summoned, some unhappy cab-
man who might have been M home and abed, had to prove
an Mai in order to escape • conviction. When he went
end. the cabmen tided to my " It is &stem to come to us ;
we cannot go to• place of worallip,for we aredrivingpoople
to church, and cannot go ourselves" He persevered in
the same old round, like • horse in • mill, and once rave
• tract to a gooddiaturediooking young man, who
first made fun of it ; but being treated with, by common
sans talk, first raid the tract, by and by was brought
to • place of worship, and at length became actually •
city missionary and a colleague of the speaker for many
=As men began to get influenced by God's grace,
would ask for their Sunday, when the employers
often answer—" Rest when you are dead,' and he had
barna men pay £4 or £5 to their employer to get him to
let the bore, roe on Sunday. When the Cabmen's Lord's
may Rost Assoclation we, formed by the Bishop of London
and the lices. Arthur Klima/rd, prises were offered for the
best essay on "bond'. Day Rest foe Man and Hone,' and
the &et sad lowest prime were won by cabmen. Pre-
vioselp the tate used to be tamed whether they
warted or sot; but the Belem brought the measure into
Parliament, be the success of which the Sunday duty was
taken off those calls which should not work on &ude
.ad they hod to pay only Gs. a week, while the Sunda.
working cabs had to Pay 71. • week. over ups cal, sea
hew gunday.resting oast By the maistaaes of the Illgh
Mon. Karl of Mialte•bury, ILO.. cabmen's clubs had be..
founded—one in • place where was one of the wont ,;„
erl in London, and where • -.swell," if he- w";;;,'
the thoroughfare, would be robbed of his watch
and chain •• in • jiffy," and it would he in • mentehon
Wen he could look round. Out of them clubs they tua
paid .540 • week in allowances at lls. • weak to cabmen ,
who, before the formation of the club, would have been
.esit al victuals any night that lie was out of work, for
Sim cabman agrees with his employer fore. much • week,
• only that which he gains afterwards dose he get for
hima•elf, and if he doss not min it one day, he has to make
it up the sett Mr. Grimmette told of a cabman who
bed regOted all kis advances for twelve long years ; but
Ide and Madams moved him at List He went
kr. orbeneette's Bible clads, and he made him come
how th am. At his house he had 35 tame rabbits, for
which hh swept up the oats that ware shaken out by the
;tut he had killed the fattest of them for
the a must over and called it •
mhbit ia tlWltocse was the Windsor chat, which
had bees often mended with fain& for the cab.. had
often kicked it limb (TOM limb, and he had kicked his
Ishle with hie supper on It to am Ceiling, though his wife
bed got for him the best she could. That man teams one
of kis Armes* friends. Piesdag on to the founding or the
Midnight Westing Movement, he told bow Macy of the
poor Woes gil, had come from this county aad from every
01011. yr sane of them &tighten of wealthy
lemmas. wear of than had been lent back to loving
MCI were to institutions, where they had been
belied as servants, and got good places. After telling of
the werk among the cabmen, Mr. Grimmette Pointed out
Os. had Malted 2,010 ddstisdied& Toe great city of London
Os MS in nolen =wale by the religions influence brought
go boar upon i and Lord shartashury had Way been the
wens of • city unreal in Paris, remarking
at first meeting tif such had been astablithed 35
=a ago, nothing would have been heard of the Reran-

Rev. T. W. Kinn slated that In tie Michaelmas
quota.. Mi. Harem Nall .111 cocas sad OM US some
omega% of tbe ottialos la Paris. Brotherly love mad
'witty la Parts had dam bees the watchword for deeds
damilair. trae PrlatiPis mut laaleart lore. aad 11 the
rive efOlishit amstrolas as. we si.kall suren,„63, vita
sil sfilmilsc#l mks.