The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

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Cusrant Hogsg.—The newly appointed collec•
tor at this port. Isaac Walker, Esq., has entered
upon his duties. Mr. H. liochford, the landing
waiter at this pert, has been appointed landing
waiter at Colehester.
LONLIFLEICT NATIONAL SeIIOOL. —This school,
under the able management if Mr. Kennedy, is now
a most efficient state. The average daily atten-
dance is risen to more than sn, and a second pupil
teacher has been apprenticed, in accordance with
the regulations of the Privy Council. The following
is an abstract of the report, mile by Her Nlajesty's
inspector at the recent annual examination :—••• The
irlionl is doing creditably. The children enswer
, with life awl iiitelli.:,lCe• mast.T is pal:tab:h.
inc and in earnest in his work."
RErIV A I. M r.TiNi:s.-1 tr. awl Mm. Palmer, of
America, have been holding revival services during the
in three weeks in the Wesleyan piace of wiirship in
this two. We copy from a contemporary the follow
ing :—Tlie congregation's have lie. n mainly rOlll ."Sfsti of
persona usually attending the ministry of the Word in
that chapel, though not entirely so, as manr connected
with other churches in the tow el have also been present,
besides scores who nightly come from the villages six or
eight miles round. The mode adopted by Dr. and Mrs.
Pahuer of conducting these services is most reverential,
and anything approaching extravagance either in lan-
guage or manners seems most strenuously avoided hy
them. Of course the nature of their discouises lbS
of an " awakening "character. as the only object
the Dr. and his lady seems to have before them is Mow-
ing the members oif the church to action, and the c in-
version of sinners. That there has been a degree of ex-
citement attending these meetings cannot he but
not re than niight be anticipated in mectines of
this kind where numbers of men and women become
deeply impressed with a view of their real " state by
nature," and anxious to lay hold of the only hope held
out in the Scriptures for their eternal salvation. We
have not however seen anything on the part 1 Dr. and
Mrs. Palmer either in their writings or discourses that
the most fastiuiona could find foul: with. Tim /AWN
Northern Express in not icing their late visit to Sunilerland
says The exertions of these eminent revivalists seem
to be purely a " labour of love." At their own expense,
and at a great mcrifice of ease awl domestic comfort,
they are trovellink, from place to place, daily exhorting
all men tu believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

TIIE REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY AT
WAR3IINSTER
The opening lecture of the Wartninsto•r Athol:elm
was olelivered on Wednesday last, by the Rev. C.
Kingsley, F.S.A., F.1..5., Regina Professor of Modern
History in the University of Cambridge, Chaplain in
Ordinary to the queen. The subject selected was " The
Days of the 'A eek." There was • very numerous
attendance, comprising a great number of the neighbourMg gentry awl the majority of the visitors to the
nteetinge od the Southern Counties Adult Education
Society. The Rev. Prebendary Fine presided.
The Chairman briefly introduced the leetnrer, and in
so doing expreesed his thanks to him for having listened
to the cry " Westward, Oli !” and for coming from tl.e
cad to the west to give them a lecture.
The Ike. C. Kingoley eaid he slid not know whether
the subject he had selected would intere4 the audience,
but it was tine in which he was most deeply interested.
'Mere was • great amount of most interesting infor-
mation conveyed in the names tof the seven days of the
week. He thought it was of exceeding use to bring
people to a sense of the mystery ant wonder belonging
to the corn t things they did, the cot 111111 l nest
objects they beheld, and the comnioneet words they
us el. It humbled people to look back and tee what
other generations hal dime, how by habit. euetoie,
lb tught, and language, they bad made a platform on
winch we could stand and get our life's work ..... re ton its I
way. The names of the days of the week taught much
of ancient history and .4 those WWII who had gone before
us. The institution of the week itself was alluded to in
this book of Genesis as being coevel with the Creation.
Throughout the whole law of Moses the week
was woken of as being well known to the ancestors
of those among whom Moses lived. As far as was
known it was from the Jews the institution of the week
had spreaol over the whole of the known world, and
would finally spread over the whole of the human nice.
Whether any other branches of the Semetic race besides
the Jewe held the institution of the week was not
known. The Itabylouiens and Chableens might have
done so. The extraordinary discoveries of Aesyrian
litetature which were now being made woul•I, peritape.
settle this question. But if the Jeweowed the Chaldeans
nothing with reelect to the week itself, they owed them
• very curious debt with regard to the names of the slays
of the week. After the liabylonish captivity the Jews
returned to Jerusals in with the olaye of the 'seek named
after the Mull and Moon (which were then considered as
planets), and the five planets, Mare, alenatry, Jupiter.
Venue, and Saturn. The ancients had but very rude
conceptions of the heavenly bushes ; but it has been well
i observed that the first Chaldean who, on the plains of
i the Euphrates, discovered tlw lion of the sun and
moon and the five planete, was equal if not superior in
' intellect to our own Newton. If we thought of the
enormous trouble which mutt have boson taken in those
times to diecover those things, and that withoout the aiol
of a telescope, we should come to the concludoon that
there had lived many wise men before thute whom we
collol wise, and we :should learn a leesolo whidi he (the
lecturer) always taught and preached—not too despise
oar forefathere, and not to olespko antiquity. and we
should be kept from being dazzled by the sudden and
brilliant progress which a part of the human race had
made in certain things during the past century. There
always had been wise, and good, and brave men, and
the generation which looked hack on the past with con-
ceited contempt, was most likely to c ..... mit some act of
suicidal folly, and to discover that after pride there cause
a fall.
Why the days of the week were named after the sun,
moon, and five planets nobody knew. Of course, they
would not pass over in the form in which the
Roulette had received them. Tiny were introduced
into Rome in the Chaldean unmet of the seven planets,
which names were now lost. The Humane knew them
after the names of the sun and moon, Sol and Luna. and
the five planets, whom they named after their tire gods
—Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. Why
this was done was not known, excepting that the
Chaldean gods, who were mutual after those planets,
were most like the Roman deities. Thus Dies Solis was
the Sun's day ; Dies Laser, the Moun'a olay ; hies
Merearii, Mercury's day; Dies Marin, Mara'
Dies Jervis, Jupiter's day; Dies Ye-seen, Volta day ;
and Dies Sal meal, Saturn's day.
The next thing lie woulsluboerve would be the wind—
the mysterious, awful force of the wind, blowing where
it listed, breaking down the pinetreet in the forest,
drifting the snow, and overwhelming him and his cattle;
apparently subject to no conceivable law or rule. It
was a mysterious, capricious power which he did not
know whether to adsuire or fear. It possessed an ex-
citing, and exulting power. The savage man felt the
exhilirating influence of the breeze, and so with him as
with many other nations, wind and inspiration were the
same thing. This he called Woden—the mover, the
goer—and when he WSW speaking of it, he did nut know
whether he was speaking of the actual wind, or the
spirit that was him, which inspired him, and gave him
courage, eloquence, and power. his could not distin-
guish between the two. Very few nations could. The
wind was sometimes silent, and why should it not die
for ever? Sun and moon were always inoviug with
vigour, but why ebould they not wear out and die?
And than what was there for his mind to rest upon?
He shrank, like ourselves, front the horrible conjecture.
He wanted *one:thing to rest upon; something that
would satisfy his conscience and his heart. He could
not find it in the tun or moon, nor in the fitful wind,
nor in the treacherous fire, nor in the rolling thunder,
nor in the spring or it •t, but he looked up in the in-
finite blue sky and saw it there. Above the sun, and
anoun and stars, and the chances and changes of this
world, was the blue sky. The wind passed between it,
and the thunder rolled far beneath it, and it was always
there. Surely he thought the Eternal, Immovable
tieing must dwell there. Mere WAS charm, but up
there lived the I 'able Father of gods, and he called
Wet Thu—clear, blue sky—the All-father. the Father of
gods. That word 'feu was the oldest word in the
world. It was the name for God among all nations—
Greek, Roman, Saxon, Scandinavian, and
had that word for God in one shape or another. It was
the most venerable word in existence, and would pro-
bably last till the end of the world as the one perfect
mune found by the greatest race in the world, for God
their Father. From this Tuesday was named. The
next thing to be considered was, how the names of the
:seven Roman gods would be turned into the
names of the German gods. The German had
no means of computing time except by his lingers
and the changes of the moon. During his intercourse
with the Roman lie would naturally enquire concerning
the days oof the week. The Roman would begin with
the day of the Sun, from which would come Sunday at
once, and 60 with Dies LUiltr, the Day of the Moon,
which would become Monday. Then the neat would be
Dies Mart is. Mars was the God of war. AA time rolled
on the idea of the " All-father" both in the mind of the
German and the R an was entirely swallowed up in
the idea oft, god of brute force—a god who WWI stronger
than all others—and thus Mars would suggest to the
German the idea of Tee, the " All-father"- --he must be
Mars. After him Tuesday would be named. Then the
ior next
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and the German would at once call I Woolen, after
onic
uld be that the
Lw:ohieuos:JMkor:iisedow,nJeousfapairy.rwp's day. All that the Rumen soldier
thunder-bolts on his standard belonged to Jupiter, and
thus the German wtould think at once that he was Thor,
and thus would c ~,,, e Thursday. The next day was
Deis Verseris, Venus's day. She was the Goddess of
beauty and love. The German would think at once of
Freya, and thus Friday would be named. Thus the days
of the week got named—names which would probably
endure till the end of time. In concluding, Mr.
Kingsley said this subject would teach what hard
work hall been done by those who had gone before us
to put us in our present paeition. There bad been
difficulty, and labour, and struggling upward, and fail'
Mg, abd terrible iniatakee ; and etanding still, and going
on again. The world had always been making progress.
'f hat was • great age of jorogreas when the wild man first
discovered that by putting a stone into • notch in his
stick lie could throw it harder than he could by his
hand. Ile was a clever man who discovered that a
hollow twat would float and sustain him in the water.
He was a wonderfully clever man who first yoked oxen
or horses to the plotsglt. Great progress could never be
made without as touch labour end thought and scorn of
public opinion as there WICW had to endure. 'flue men
who did that were as great men as the Arkwrighta and
Stephenvons of modern times. The true great Inventor
and thinker was the loan who reverenced the progress
and the won of genial§ of the pant. Thu ufau who had