The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-10 00:00:00

THE PLIBLICHOUSE PREACHER.
Tu At Editor.

Sir,—Will you allow me thr..ugh your valuable
columns to call the attention of the inhabitants of
Diretheater to a pamphlet written by the Bev. 11.
Motile, and printed iu 1661, eniitled '' The liueiio
home Preacher." 'This pamphlet chews ua that Mr.
Mould's mind, epirit, and thought were In the some
direction as those who are now wotking its the Blue
Ribbon movement in the town, and it title devoted
God's honoured servant were still alive, he would n
for a moment hesitate to open the rchooltoom mu hio
parish, and give the Blue Ribbon Army a hearty %ra-
ceme. Still, we are glad to see that the Band of
Hope and the new Coffee TAVVILI are clourg a nolile
work, and we can only pray wet it blessing
nay rest upon it. I will now give place to Mr. Mottle,
teouJl he being dead yet speakeil...—Yours, dtc.,
A ‘Vogiiiii.
My friends and fellow-countrymen of all class whose
'hearts are not hardened molest the simple doctrinal and
the toy precepts of the tiory,l, just Inc at till foilowing
imterice of what may he, aud I (ear in many caocs will be,
an at of worship not "in spirit and in truta," and of a
partial and hypocritical service on the put t.t this profess-
edly Chri.tian nation. And let tarla of uo judge for him-
self sh.t may be his owe share iu f-uth.
" We, the minishas C.inst, nay to ou at this happy
ha'vs. seas-n. as worshippers of Him 'who ~rdereith all
tuinge itt h.tirea mut e.rth: to emit puLlmi thank.' to
al for :he abundant harvest ehich Its ham gNen um.
But what will he tip, conduct which sill lallow these acts
of woritip I 113 w will a great portion .3l that c irn wit c
ti 3-1 has given us be twill It it were used aright, and if
• great portion of the ground on which it grew we: e mod
sight, end if such vest nunabe:e of young illUlUshl Were
Ilut slaughtered, but wete reared aud fed as then Vey
might ie, the meat arid with that, in spite of all this
abundance, are now slur-oat den ed to vast numbers • f our
agricultural labourers and poor, might be cheaply and
ebulliently supplied to them.
" Yet as a nation we turn sway from this right and
natural use of (.1., is gifts, and we tzulid or compel the
farmers t 3 .ell it) mai dis of bushels of bart y to the
welzoter, and we this o. t only w.thltolil vat qualautles •
of nutritious ..n.lneees,ary fo.l from the pier, hut by this
perversion of a.,d'e g iod creatures, in the milt liquor awl
the spirits matiufarriired Irmo them. we deal out miser?.
run, and death, • hi shell I add t—ilamnetlon, throughout
this Mg oly.f svoured land. By every IWO bushels si Used
a hum in Lein.: is killed—his soul too probably list.
'amide, are thus reduced t want crime and lur.act
increased. and ymt, wicking classes, an kept in a ataL•
of degradation. Chris lee noblemen, geetiemen. and
farmer., and traeleamee. Christian ministers, Ch.ist.an
spirit merchant', Chris:len brewers, is this commie:At with
Gad'. Holy 1.1 mist? Ought theta things to be got
"But who c •,ar this t meat of evil? Every
one, ml only (3.4 give him the will, may do something.
Every art of the ma'am is the remit of the effects of
individual.. Bit you seeking mem can do the moat.
Deliverance fiom this net aril eel I, If effected at all, must
la eft cted mainly by )(EL Awake them all of you. Let
Vie ,oxiness of 04 lead you to repentance. Believe RIM
-..hp• Lore whet Ile has rev,alsei. Act accordingly.—
ilEgat Milets. Meet 10.11e4"