The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

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LONDON CITY MISSIONII.—The annual meeting of the
Whytnoutih blunt% of this •ociety ,took place at St.
Mary's National Alihoolrotiiii On Wednesday tivetiing.
The Rev. T. A °reeves oompied the chair, but the
attendance was not very numerous, the inclement
weather no doubt pteventing many persons from attend-
ing.—From the financial statem, nt read by R. if. Eliot,
Esq., the n-oeipta amounted to £75 17s. 7d., out of
which £74 2. id, had been remitted to the parent
society,, showing an ineresse of .0 upon the previous
year.—The deptitatinn, the Set. F. Tyrtell, deliverarl a
most interesting speech relative to the working of this
society, commencing his address by say ing that the Society
cared for about a million of people, who, although
residing in London, were as ninoh heathens as if they
lived either in China or Japan. Such meetings as the
present were to make those, wild as yet were in
urnoranee of the lanientabls oonditicin of 1144 fegOw
countrymen, accidainted with their oondition. The
rev. gentlemen then entered into the deplorable con-
dition of people residing in various parts of London, and
asked for all cl.ases of Christians to Animist the society in
carrying on its work.

hlliffrll4l.—'llle Parishitipere of 8t Mary all
enabled in vestrY on Thiirtiday Mr the purpose ,
granting a church rate to meet the expenses for the I
ensuing year. The meeting was presided over by the !
rector. From the estimate submitted by Mr. Church- '
warden Vincent, it appeared that the expense would be
about £2OO, in order to meet which he asked the vestry
to grant a rate of 2d, itx the L—Mr. Potheoary re-
marked that he did not see ant item in the estimate for
repairing the stairs leading tp the north gallery
Vincent said he had not enotiel: td do
ledge proposed the adoption of the report, and 11l doing
so said he thought every one must agree with hint in
saying that the estimate was very moderate, and be
could not understand how the churchwardens intended
to defray the expenses with so small a rate —Mr.
Pothetary seconded the propositiou. He expressed a
hope that during the nertil genii of t'arliament onto
tri ett.dirle *ORM he itttrildliciid rth ilh wotild length
settle the moth vexed qttestion o church rated.—Thd
Rev. R. S. Ashton (Independent) thought that every
form of worship should support itself, unless it was
really too poor, which was not the case with the con-
' gregation worshipping at St. Mary's Church.. Ho be-
lieved that tleVeral of the Rattle mentioned in the report
would not trtand the stirtitiny tif a ecanretent tribunal,
and even supposing they did, they onght_td be berrite.by
those fdr *hale be eat thei *ere inbnivgd: He mo4,d
as Elio atnendthent ' That the ifestry decline to grant ithe
rate, and that the Churchwardens be requested to
furnish the means for defraying the expenses connected
with the church in some other way." - Mr A. Dennis,
in seconding the amendment was of opinion that the
congregation of St. Mary's Chnieb were rich enough to
support think plebe of wdrship withont.calling in the aid
of thrise peritins ehp had to tluprairt their OWR.
and contended that it WRA derogetory to their Christian
principles so to do.—The amendment and. propobition
were then submitted to the meeting by the rector,
when for the former eleven hands were held up, and for
the latter twenty-three, upon which the rector de.
clared the resolation carried. The rector in alluding
to an observation which fell frrini Mr. Aehtrin, said that
in Sti dhurch there were about TM free seats, a
number which could not be equalled by ally other
church in the county. A vote of thanks was accorded
to the rector for presiding over the meeting.