The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-28 00:00:00

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now £4 11.. is just the &amid cost of a pint of beer,
so he had 2n 9 I. • year left out of the price of his ,•11ii
of beer, and at 50 years old he applied for and ec:i ed
the money, an.l there were handed overt, iii.. £lO9.
( tpplause.) The working man ought to iive h • own
house to live in, and he may hive i ii i.e ch /04611;
there is not au li meat working lIIVI WllO is eteetoialer,
but may have his own hones in 21 ye &rd. in Mood ty
morning aft.. tue Temper ince Mission, the ma , i,t r dee
had a inieekrig, and all the live c ta.re ea isea by
intoxicating drink ; 005 was for threatening to murder
with a knife, two for stealing; then thero was hus-
band fouud drunk on the Eapieuade. on i the wife drunk
with a',lack eye against the Methodist chapel, and
by her side was a poor child crying. lie said t her—
.. Can you look at that child crying there, and not be
moved?" liut ehe *add, f rdr,uk brutelises awl takes
away all hinuani,y from father or mother. Clan a
woman forget hrr sucking spiky" Yes ! it is drink
that makes tlioto do it; it is the greet brutaliser, the
gre .1 thinuinsideer. Mr. tiobens then spoke of the
influence ex &triple, and urged upon them that of
Ch.. it; for if 'or, amidst these evils stand aloof,
asking—" Am I my brother's keeper r we shall not
be guiltless of our brother's blood, we are responsible
if our @sample leads him astray. (Hear, hear.) de
asked all Christian friends to unite on this subject ;
the blue ribb oi would, he fruited, bind all togetner ;
but if any Lad dole goat service to the cosine, the lin, xl
reuniters had. (Applause.) lie then asked them to
come and throw in their lot with them, and with God's
blessing, they woul I stocumplidi greater things stilL
(Applause.)-11.C. Templar tiolmwood expressed his
surprise that a geutkmait for whom they had so unidi
respect as I/r. Lam should have written to protest
againit what the Dortor tn. fanatical utter-
anti and the excitement of the pat week." 'rho
speaker knew that 1,000 people had sighed the pledge
Weymouth, and that unsay families in good positious
in this town bad put the diink out of their houses'
they bad been tea by the excitement and the so-called
fanatical utterances" to think seriously over the
, matter, and father, mother, and children had all
donned the blue &mon. The Doctor found especial
fault with Canon Wilberforoe,—that he should make
such statements about the brewer, because the great
Wilberforce had been assisted in emancipatiog the
slave by dir 1 homaa Fowell Buxton. its wunoered
what the ancestors of these pietism= bad to do
with the present movement; but he would tell them
what Mr. Buxton, himaelf a brewer, said—" the war
of the tempaeuce someues, the schools, and thsi
churches, against the beer shop* and the gin P&IACOas
one development of the wag between heaven and
hell." (Applau-e.) Another Mr. Buxton wad he I
should vote for loocal Option; this snowed that the !
people are ripe for s,me strong 01(liatirell. tie believed '
nearly 50 parsess hied been Initiated into the (rood
remoter lodges thi, week. (Applause.) As to their
meetings being private, why every family held such a
private meeting every sight; they would sot let people
In by their firesides without knocking at the door and
ascertaining whether they wen lit to come. In con-
clesion he spoke of Canon dirphenson in dose. veily
high terms eliciting great applause—liro. ktendall,
the first W.C. of tiope of Weymouth, said he, when
a young man, Leisured himself for £lOO, to have it when
he was 60, and he expected to receive £125. But not
only from seituti motives he urged them to become
total abstainers; their thought would rue from tine
life to that which is to come, fur it was a stepping
stems to religiou.—Bro. Wept* and Mr. White also
addressed the meeting.