The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-01 00:00:00

pallid factory handl.. preload a re-action and set the
str..anno of popular sentiment into the other channel.
It lo rite as if it w mid run too far in the nrw came.
El one are unconsciously sakind for the revival of
section of the sumptuary laws. Whenever a d faculty
arises we run to the Government, clamour for pew
i.SP4StOrS. MOH police, and (reefs restrictions. Wilma
the }Dodoes experienced the g 01 remit. of the pbrugh
they made it; not it. originator or its result., but the
inanima•e pieceof woo I and iron, an object ..f wore ip.
, any }:nglishun •n seem ralolred to i 101,.e lir like
manner State tu.chincs. B .arri of T.sde imp-•ction
may be necernary, but would not the bas at ries be
le-senal if society put its ban upon the ro.n who
gambled in human life for their own gain? Our
liquor regulatioos are defective, but if the IMMO
en-rgy that is expended on the endeavour to get
new laws was expended In creating new habits.
would we not sooner Nicola • sober population?
LA U. have fewer law*, more men—valiant self-
centred men—lees machinery, and more steam, and
the progresa will be as rapid and much more
reliable. We cannot foretell the future. They are
untrammelled with obi habit. an I aystsms, and they
have a progressive spirit and broad arupathiein They
should lift politics out of the ideals., level of
hucksters and drill sergeants. They should mire at
time, not in the beaten tracks, brit upon new ground.
They should be aomething more than a link in the
chain of the machine poli,icians. They should be
the propagandists of noble principles— should seek the
victory of reason over force, enlightenment over super-
stition, juetice over crime, morality over vice. Philo-
sophers tell us that life consists in the effort, to assert
itself, but it cannot assert itself if it II to be • bald
copy of some one else's life, whose ju Igments are ti
be unquestione r, and whose Wheat, are to be o'.eyed.
Let every man Use his own faculties, inquire for him-
self, and, when he has arrival at • con .ftprion, let him
speak it—act it regardless ~t any mystifying despotism
that may have temporarily got astride the popular
breath. Do not let him duck under it, nor mo about
to circumvent it or pinch it to suit an audience, or
water it with honeydrope to suit the preju rice, of his
friends. Out with it bravely, and take the conse-
quences, whether they be anathema or ostracism.
A man may get notoriety—the juggler's reward—by
preteens. But nothing more, nut even as much an
belief.

PARKSTONE.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH.

Trier. was the usual 4i501.7 of hothouse plant i at St.
Peter's Church at the Christmai Festival in the way of
decoration: hot awns ol • better etst• of tiiings were not
wahttng. The screen was deosrat -4 with urns ses.on-
able gab, in the shape of holly and ivy; and in the nave
windows plate designs and texts, In wool, on • red
Sr rund. were oleo ei,nspicuous. The foot was alsi
appropristsly decked, the chief value of which con.isted
in the mnitunt of trisectsl handwork imports!' in o it.
Notwithstanding the beauty of to- dc !ratios, uau.l .t
thia church, there is seoerally an alreenc• of that whicg
alone relldrlid decorrti in eiri etive an I appropria.e, viz.,
the 'pedal labour socrold be ad 1.-d t-i the us .tarial
used. .11,114-nce of derriso, as roil,. ...that labour, to
the mutt •r of Christmas dee rrathros, i, remark ible at We
church, where, of all others, it *mad b • matt natural to
expect it Ss mina in t.. way of crlti•hon. The ed. et
of th•• decorati 'no in the chanc,l, c...bin,.1 oils the
beautiful service at the fli_h Cireleat on on Cort.t•ha,
m r ang, was ry marker ; the m. 4 ti 'tic -able p-rtod
was p.-rtia,s during th • irngtors of the Creed at the
Incarnation. Ti.. I.ncet lishts, at the east and of tie
church, with th-ir beautifully hsrur stirred csloara in
•tair.e I alas.; the altar lights, VI, CUOMO the& ierltr ; the
erublematic.al as... lamp and tie too golden r aridl •
sticks. together with the rich 1111211111111, *lib their et Wei.:
! needlework ; the three private in their our, wait, vest-
' manta, who, together with the servers (specially robed In
aibe and srArlin cs-socto for the occasion) benilins in
a tor•iion arounl toe sold-n .it ,r, trite the burnlng
censer, Were ft ere ,urpeoiturnti at • Vole when the
wor.hiph•rs, throu.rhour lit- I.3.lurch, 'sere laying th ir
"hes to homes* at VI- feat of Him rhos, Irr.e .me
they were steles on • he Great Birthday of the "True God
and True Man. —Coausitaiesstad.