The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-24 00:00:00

rake /73 its trss the WWI al of Sib deficersor ; the
friends set to week, sad raised £7 1k N. Mated of the
(MOUND The Sunday school had contributed
Ine lea 3d., —°.r'-. had produced CIO 10r. 4d., and
the tots! for the year up to lima 26, M. was
AM La bd., being all more than had been contributed
by them la say year Wore. Then bad been also special
collections for the Chins fund. But the collections on
Sunday fell rather short of the venal amount, sad b•
asked the audience to make up the ddciency to-tight.
(Ueer. hear.)
The Rev J. &Gil, late missionary to Orissa redwood
the greatest evils ia the world to be war and idolatry.
Idolatry I. something greater, more far-reaching, than
I the worship of I
images • it gave the sculptor themes foe
the finest touches of la clad, the philosopher subjects
for kis theorising, and the warrior impetus for hie
mulles on the battle field. He was appalled at its
antiquity—Wm reached to kat before the Mood.
Ike fathers of some of the patriarchs were worship-
ers of We sun and moon. The history of Idolatry
disproves the theory of Darwin and Co.' for man,
instead of developing upwards, has fsllen from truth
and right Hindiaism Is. strange mixture of truth and
falsehood, the leading men in it believe that, " Whatso-
ever a man doetb, that be shall also gee.;' they believe
that incarnation of God is necessary, or He cannot be the
&incur of mankind they heave in secrlfiCe end OM
Brahmins defend eating the secrifice (which seems opposed
to their teaching) on the ground that masa they isO the
flesh and drink the blood of the morlike there I. no life is
them. Think of its imposing ritualism, of the rock
-
carved temples. In ono 14401, Is • temple that cost
millions sterling, in another are 700 temples. People ask
sonsetimes—" Are the Christman concerti sincere r He
had heard the mothers of camera execrate their sone,
curse the very day they were bore; had seen men loss
rrerrtlans they had ; had known • convert to be separated
from his wife and children for years, sad to oak whether
such men were sincere he considered an impertinence.
(Applema) They had abundant evidence of the success
of their work and the sincerity of their converts, for the
letter had, some of theca gives up mother and father,
wife ami children, houses and lands, for Christ. aOII
Christ Himself did hot say men as • teat of sincerity.
(Applause.) He told some accounts of work anions
mountaineer, in India, among whom with itrus, 81711 call ,
he established • school, but after • few years the
was kept by one of the native boys, who had become an
efficient schoolmaster, and three more had been estab-
lished. (Applause.) So it only required the missionaries
to lay the foundatioa, and the work would vastly Prosper
and increase. He would, if he had his will, sand ball the
ministers is Ragland out to India, and they would dad a
wide and gleams, field for their energies. A greet gators
I. in store for ladle, and be believed that frosts her would
go out by and by nilealsoacies to other parts of Asia. and
India would become another and a greater Pa/amine. A
short time ago India was moved by the reception of the
Prime at Wales ; the Waken ,sll of awahor had • golden
bedstead sods silver bed made for Wm. built • palace
and laid the capitals of imps tindsrthiaion for the
costliest furniture ; bat the paseent meet faded. Some
84 years ago Carey landed at liet Ilkaile Of India with no
atteridaats but the senses wise mass to Abraham on the
Mans of Martin • bid the mak he did los lasted and
continually increased, sail alias a pap of the world's
history will seam for the eisit of him who was of the
house of Hanover, the week of the other sill lest whoa
the sunvtwearied with the emturke, shall have sunk to
rest. Wanes.)
Mr. AILZT, the other member of the deputation,
of whet he had himself seen in India, during •
of 40 years. The inimianazies were often the means of
doing greet 011.17 by premising to the natives, but
also the resideate there. Om, in partforaar,he
mentioned w Is scarcely known to the churches—Mr.
Lester, of :on wee the meaner/ farming he intadt
aof • yw stationed near, who rem to be
Lieut. Governor ot the Punienb, and who governed
11000,000 (twenty-two million') in such a way as to win
the love and admiration of the people, and even the native
officials regarded Wm as their friend. If it were not for
the missioneries, infanticide. se and other abominable
would not have been when they were.
C:tik
speaker also referred to the opium trifle of which
Patna is the centre, and which is fostered by the Govern-
=ls hi order that A 6.000.000, (al nrillkar) may be
but the sooner we get rid or that traffic the better
loThglarrl (Lpplinei.) Pairing on to the other
statics; he came to the famous dr/ of Beware, considered
holy by Radom, and he was not very sanguine of stood
being soon effected at Sesseres, because the people there
are at wedded to their supersation. Next Mr. Parry told
of Allababed, Agra Ifut and De/hi, in the latter of
which be had spent the larger portion of his We. Telling
of the losses in Delhi daring the mutiny. he 'woke of the
anemia, of one of the native Christians whom he himself
personally knew, and who was killed, sit, being over
sari over again fused to recent At the Mutiny all
mission work gamed to be broken up and destroyed, bat
now the little one had become. thousand. Since the Mutiny
several came forward am Christians who had been taught
by • odmionary who, before the Mutiny, never saw much
remelt There is now a church of over MO there, and the
oaly expense the friends at home are put to is to support •
schoolmate: to educate their children. He urged them
to show their sympathy for the native Christians by
bearing them on their hearts, and contributing to We
society's fund/.
The Rev. M. Auks, newly-appointed Weeleyan
minister, uttered words of sympathy for Ma work, not
only in connection with Bank buildings chapel and schools,
but the whole work of the Baptiste, and especially for
their mustiest
.work airoad. _ . .

The coilectiZZirOitioni sufficient to make op for the
deficiency of the nada, collections