The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-10-21 00:00:00

Licrtraz BY THE RIV. J. ASHWORTH.

Yr. Freak Mille presided at Alingtou Hall last Monday
when the Primitive Methodists and their friends
mimibled to hear • lecture by the Rey. J. Ash worth,
" The Hero of the Cradle, the Mouninin, and Um Wave.'
Soaker' hymn" There's • cry from MaosdoMa—Corati and
kelp us," wee sung with more spirit than we have per-
ceived at some of the Alington Hall religious meetings.
The Immesh had been walking round the beautiful
avenue, and considered that Dorchester is more sur-
rounded with such avenues than any other town he knew.
He coagratulated himself on being in this beautiful Hall,
which woe time-Impound ari • plane of worship, aad Mao
honoured eo late is last Monday in being the same of the
advocacy of the Bible Society. He praised the new sun-
light. which cast so brilliant an Illumination on all there,
and would want no soutane. Announcing his lecture's
title, he said he had asked some one who be thought was
the subject of the lecture, and he answered—Out
Lord Jesus Christ, who was really the hero of the cradle of
Bethlehem, of the mountains of Palatine, and of the
grave, for He rose and bunt the bonds of death. But the
subject of his lecture was Mose& and be Bret sketched
the babe orphaned in early babyhood, foe it does not
regain the death of parents to make an orphan—it
Deeds not to repeat the narrative, which of course was
founded 011 the Bible story, but was gernisbed with many
additions of imagination, traced oily strung kuether, and
the whole fluently delta wd.—Referrlne to the study of
the b ierog It ob ice ./ the b curer wonden-d whether
that tileoystra'• N mrl le, by which he stood ou tholhonnis
ibeekaient tbs other d.y, hid bon I uk..l mein by
M...., when it et eel Ii ; the temple of tie Pmeing
through the life of Moen a. an exile, he pneed in ti him
as an crnalletp•tor, ne•lling the won.lers of Ow ten
plague*, and in powerful words picturing the Exodus.
Speak ang of the Hero of We Mountain, the lecturer
sketched the scenes on and round Stool A com-
mittee is a very good thing; but the Pilgrim's
Progress was written by one man, and the Children
of lerml were not led by a committtu but by
one man, who pleaded for them, brought laws to them,
and eared for then In serest vannty of ways, showing what
may hidone by one men until he came to be Gut Hero of
the Gran. He had seen every &sager, but had escaped
them all, and now, within sight of Canaan, he had to go
up to the mountain mid die. Perhaps he had showed •
spirit of egotiun at Merihab, and attributed the coming
out of the water to his on doings—for there is • great
deal of " I" and 'we" about our speaking—hut at all
moats the death of Moses before he entered the Pi maimed
Land shows the deadly power of one sin. Yet the death
of a man of God is, as was the death of Mom& "getting
up," not going down into the grave. Summing up the
krona be learnt what on. man can do when inspired be
the Divine Spirit, animated by faith, and that • life of
chequered experiences, disappointments, and trials, may
be crowned by a glorious nen.uand—" Get thee up into the
mountain," and he hoped that would be the portion of
Mims here, said that we may join in the song of Noon and
the Lamb. (Applause.)
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—fire CLiggarr bad heard • sermon shoot the liberstkm
of the alarm ebortly after it happened. in the Independent
Mafia Wirystouth,_ when the Ray. John Smith °molted
from the StiEL—" Whom haring not sern,ye lore and
making whether the alarm did not lave Wllberfoio• he
oohed—Should not a. love Cbri•t

—A—oolireri7M; Tree-Mei; e-c-i-i;eitalf at the Primitive
Methodist Careuit Fund. sod votes of thanks dosed the

smistilm
la acknowledging the vote of thanks. Mr. Ilius said he
stood there an Independent Diemen ter : he considered it an
honour to be • trite Diseenter in the borough of Dorches-
ter, there ought to be more union, and he hoped to seethe
union among them incresawl.
The collection amounted to £l4s.