The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

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A CHBATiNG BeMilt.

To the Nditor.

Allow me to thnok yen for republishing the portion of
Dr. Pigmy's address whi.ll appeari-d in your last.
Whrn any man gen monpare Memel( and his party
with a cheating baker, the very point of corn
&in; tio cheat, it is not diffleadt for others to Vit:
the umilarity is real. But ills • mama tiro of the times
when sooh an honeet avowal is loot • tth approval hy a
large portion of the oommunity, indifferesto by others,
and but feeble remonstrating by the net It may be
allowed that the doefor end his fellow traitors are like lb.-
oheatiog hater, but It is not so clear that they reeenible
the nejest steward in the parable of our Lord. Why
do.. Dr. Pooy Armee that view of the parade whiril.
makes the wisdom for whisda the steward was tom
mended to 00014111 is triekery, instead of that interpre
tation, far more estiefsetory in every way, wide*
attributes his wisdom to hie repentance and timely
amendment of life. Ti,. rich man is not represented in
the parable as • merchant soiling nor, end oil, bet • lesee
landed proprietor-a nobleman. The debtor% were no.
necessarily parchment but realer renters. raying their
r.nt in kind—a certain portion of th• mottoes, whieh
Is • mat common custom in eastern ounntries. Home
of tio r. titers 'mad be very wealthy non requiring
silewssda in their own bonobokis. (Abraham had rot
lort enough to set his foot upon • but the steward et
h0b0... was nests. of Determent') The "bill" may
not hays been an invoice, but rights. • bond or
contrast for rent, which is by far the move usuel
aisnific tion of the word translated "MIL* Ti..
Initiating of the toward may have ocosisted In lit
having demanded more than he ought to have done
from the renters. H. had doubled one man's rest,
added a fifth part to another, and so on. The most
usual and 'Mod certain consequence f mei • p.O-
- in *Morn eountrim could be eoomh4aa±js of
the :velars to make some aeconatina true or false easiest
the steward with the now of getting him out of aka.
The steward was accused and removed nodes to quit.
His condition was mo t forlorn. He had offended the
lord of the manor and all the tense{ far-Dere in the
country. He Gould not expeot to era employment as a
steward where he was known, and it would be hopeless
to seek it whore be was sot biome. De Sad the goad
MIMS to see that the return to the path of rightemmess
VIM his only hope So be called his lord's debtors
to but and in each on. oorreeted the amessor nt
to the amount it had oriainally biota, whit*
was the jest sum. Hs may than bane goeis to
his master to delver the scooont demanded and We
an ingestions cronlymion of his concoct His lord emir
moiled his arnsinci in arming to montane* in Hem
and may hay. retained him in his stewardship. His
tort doubtless, as. through t'. whole isirometanor.
from tlie,b-ginnine, and may have mid seesetitine to this
effete 'I do obi with my *mania to b• fw•Prmd•
If you are not faithful to them you will sot be so to
; end If you are not faithful to me vOll see Rut
odtitlod does to y.mr own salary. Is returning In
righl.4.11111•11 and truth you have dee. *ell. B. /eigh-
tsl in future.*

Allow LO onmearnd this Interpretation of the
pereble (• tech is no IN. {nteresetetion of wins) to the
tionabberatioe of the Profesens ; and the "...,.J' that a
"p. 1.1.. to Ow praetioe of limaclf nod all whom it stay
' toweern. Whams, r may be the eorrvet intespretetioo
11. emelt that In bolding op this parcbk of Cur
as I/ it eanieeeded di.honeet trickery, the Profewer
hes dishonoured the Eleanor .ad eommitteel a grievous
asses sommt public morality.
110, I. It that such • system ea tbet of which the
resommended by the Professor meal to 1...
putt, sin promord with with a mareellou Baccmc
motwithetandirog the anbloohing &vowels that is
sakes? It now della the British Parlikusost. 644 yet
Paelloome Mot to it, glom ft.nalagtel*Wei tie

"
orialiss of um Bishops to be se by funds that
MIA to be employed la providing the apiritual
wreM of deiditate plsoss, and thug. 'strengthens the
air aoll formidable coospiraca. 'low is th••
children iif thiii world are wirier in their generation than
dui children of light " The promotern of thi. stem
are active, and thew hare the reali d of their &Weer,
in suooess. They are working w.iiist th, adv ca.ea of
truth are waiting. The Church Aroonition and the
Uiy Aasoci•tion have Imes wai lag for the Riahoo of
Selobery to putilish ht. charge. d.ime ffeclisi, gen.
airmen in India went out tiger sho ding. It is an
etching sport, and people who take part in it are safer,
In • boll wane than to • timid one. The parties earns
10 the jousts, where Om tier. was, bed the bib. drove
him out, and shot him. On •ni.ther oc-naion a par, y
..f natives erne out in • similar io•nner, but when th y
come wl.rr, thr ti,pr was, they sat down w.i.ing for
him to co,„e out in order that Orgy might shoot him
He did some out, but it wan beliind them ;be spraiia
upon the lead-r of the party. seized biut by the poll •nd
serried him off; the re.t all ran for their lives lan •
thorough skedaddle.
In reply to so *Menu lately presented to the Fart of
abet laehary, that nobleman very truly said "Of the
&errs many are nntroe, mons indifferent, and thaw
who are sound are mattered for and eide without any
, miens of oinoentratrd action." The Church and Liit
dioicroistiona may supply the wraps of ren.entveted
motion, by appointing It persons se honorary &airier
iieerret•ries, ro keep all the brunches sepiaintel with
rho • ft-trim of men, and to moldy the forms, ks, of
essalonala to (leG verninent.