The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-11 00:00:00

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AS YOU WERE!

Rather but not by any means too quickly
for the of Melcombe parish, has the Rector of it.
Mary's n induced to mistrust Ida own in piration,
and to ao.ept the sox popali oar Dei, for although, on
Tuesday fortnight, after much prayer anii waiting, he
felt bound to send in his resignation,—the piebiecite.
whereby 1.236 householders asked him to remain, has
reversed his former decision, and, happily, he consents.
Some may doubt what the GUAM" and meaning of a
suintuder by so rums and determined • man as Mr.
°reeves may be; but there can be no doubt that this
rare example o yi 'ding has been serviceable, perhaps
as serviceable se some of the instances of Mr. Greaves's
onyield.tagnese. Si. Mary's perish was exercised with
fear, not simply whether it would get so eloquent a
preacher am the Rector, but also whether so dear and
pure • G,epel would be preached, while Dissenters who
remember the peat might be anxious as to whether the
new Rector would be first • Christian, who would say
and mean—" Grace be with all those who love our
Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity," or a mere Churchman,
who would class the free churches
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" F.g}pt, Lion. Babylon.
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For a time seme were checked at Mr. Greaves's
complicity with the rule compelling the Head master
of the Collegiate School to pem not only free places of
wonhip—(to have expected otherwise might have been
Utopian)—but also two churches of the Established
Church, and both Evangelically preached in. But it
was scarcely the province of Dissenters to take up the
case of Mr. Ellis, and they did not see it theireicer:
examine into such niceties of Church of land
etiquette as to whether it wee for one
man to draw a body of Churchmen and boys out of
their own parish, Of whether the Rector of Holcombe
Regis was right in living so far from his own cure.
They knew that Mr. Greaves treated them generally
as brethren, that he himself. when they visited his
church, preached a pure Gospel, and that he was the
foe of the common enemy—call it Romani= or
ROISIIAISEI—in the Church of England. They knew
that he had a good curate who visited the sick
and poor, and made that h ,is fork and that the
Rector's kindly lady was indefatigable in her efforts
for the material and spiritual goof of the people, in the
varied ways which, even more than good preaching,
make • Clanrch•going people. These reasons no doubt
weighed with Churchmen of the real stock, as well as
with Dissenters, in causing them earnestly to wish the
Rector to stay, while all reasonable persons must feel
• deep debt of gratitude to him for the good work
continuously done at St. Mary's National schools, and
the U regulations adopted there, whereby
religious freedom is secured, while Dissenters have
another advantage they cannot expect always to
retain,—that is, they are actually relieved of an
toormone burden in the education of the young poor.
Whether the benefits bestowed by Mr. and Mrs.
Greases, and by Mr. Falkner, upon the parish, could
well be squalled by another Rector, would be open
to much doubt. Mr. Hollond would no doubt have
done his beet, as "the Simeon trustees" will after
him, to get a really Evangelical Rector' but few if
any, clergymen who might swotted to this " living "
would be rich enough to maintain such a division
of labour as is elected by the Rector and his co-
workers. • now Rector would, probably, be obliged
to alanapi all the work hlsseell, and could saannly