The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-27 00:00:00

CHURCH PABTORAL AID 80CIETY.

Among the many church organizations in our
midst there is, perhaps, not one that so claims and
receives the unanignom support of Protestant Church-
men as the Church Pastoral Aid Society. Its work
Is hued on woe Protestant principles, the only gospel
by d
eaunt.e is the pure doctrine of the
C7ob.d ienation, and It drives by all means in Its power
to counteract the baneful teachings and 1211" m" of
the Ranalktio party. It is on this account, therefor& it is so warmly supported by the Emus Sal
party in this aunty. At St. Peter's and All Saints'
110huroltes on Sunday collectioni were made in old of
it. foods, amounting at the former to Sffi 3e. lid., and
at the latter to El OD 101
Oa Monday afternoon the anniversary meeting was
held in the Cora Exchange, presided over by J.
Flom, Esq., M.P. There were also present the Rev.
T. W. Knipe, Rev. W. Sodt (Honorary Canon of
Dushans), Rev, R. G. Powell (Deputation) Rev. O. F.
Powys, and G. Floyer, Req.
Prayer having been offered, dm ROT. C. F. Pours
read the following report :
" TO• Church Postoral Aid Society maintains the Posi-
tion of being the beet supported sad, therefore, the most
nodal of our home missionary eticiettee. The receipts
this year amounted to £16,650 including sums locally
coatributed to meet its manta. Of this Dom% remittal
4:617 13.. 101. The Dimwit amcciation contributed
£33 13a, oar Dorchester and lordlagtoo branch .000 1..61.
15ateeriptioes an sow due for the carnet year, which
closes at the ead 01 March. By the aid et this &wide the
enviess of no Ism than 6eo additional clergy ODD 133 lay
teachers are secured to our Church in the populous
added, EINDO especially In the °entry districts. Six
mate ere made la this diocese, three of them la this
ounty—amady„ cc. for Poole one for IBlandforh and
on. for Shoehorn& It Is hoped that the num and obvious
daises of this wieldy will ensure its continued suport
this year in Dondthige. end in its various branches. The
used auhocatpticias paid to Decimeter and Yordingtoe
branch dodu tha peat year emulate! be Mies.; hue,
nee. 44.; odlleetions often sermosa—fit. Peter's Oburoh.
7d. ; &date% .C 3 Os. 31. ; lordington, 6.. 64.;
smoases inflected at essetinge—mcwiti.s. All 7s. 31 ;
reeDiagis a 3s. ; Chanainder be .1:3 10s. hi. ;
reeking • Web km expense. of SW 4s- seat to the
parest gosiety.-
Tie Rev. T. W. Kinn explaised,the absence of Mr.
R. if. Eliot who had been announced to take the
shah. ilk abuse* was due to the very great interest
he had taken in the mission which was now going on
In Weymodth, and he wag afraid that also aocountal
for the thin atteadanos that afternoon. Ho ale
mentioned that the collections at St. Peter's on the
previous day were • little below the mark—about El
less than last year. A lady had sent him which
he had intended to put in the plate that afternoon ;
but am tie lady said he could do just am he liked, and
when be saw how things were Kolas against them at
131. Peter's, he put it into the plate last night.
(Laughter.) He was happy to immune.> some friends
of the mum for many years had not forgotten them.
Mr. Robert Williams (Brideliesl), had seat ES Lady
E:7llllatne El, and the Mkese Churchill £2.
(Appian...)
• Rey. W. Scott next addressed the meeting.
It gave him very great pleasure to stand up there la
support of this good cane. He might be permitted to
give • little personal explanation. He bad been roper
noted, with Mr. Fayed, ea • deputation from the
permit society. Now he did not claim the honour or
the distinction of being • deputation. He was there
simply as an ordinary pariah clergyman. He had
never had any official connection with the society, but
was there simply as the rememmtative of ose who was
highly respected and justly beloved in the neighbour-
hood aqd town of Dorchester, the Rev. Reginald Smith
and when he came there and expressed his own hearty
sympathies with this society and his own desire by
every means in his power to advance its interests and
promote its cause, he was sure he was only represent-
ing his (8.. Smith's) feeling. on the subject. In order
to beet interest the meeting and to more effectually
promote the came of the society, he would direct their
attention to other places besides their own neighbour-
hood In which the work of the society was very greatly
needed, and where, when its aid had been received,
very great blamably had followed. lie first of all con-
gratulated the meeting upon the fact, ao announced in
the report, that it was the beet supported of all the
Church home missionary societies. He proceeded to
draw comparisons between the nature of the work in
country towns like Dorchester and that among the bu re
populations of the north. For instance, there were in
his own neighbourhood the following towns :—Darling.
ton' with a population of 55,000; lifiddiroboro', • place
but of yesterday, with • population of 55300; Sunder-
land, 116,262 ; and Newcastle-on-Tyre, 116.228. This
represented • very great bulk of population, • huge mass
of people, and • great number of Immortal souls,
for whom they were in a great measure responsible;
built by no MORO represented the full amount of the
vast and rapid growth of the population throughout
that port of the c eintry, and other parte similarly
situated. He then proceeded to relate, in • moat
Interesting manner, his own work among the pitmen
and other clean of labouriag men in those district., as
an example of what might be done by men raised up
under the auspices of the good Pastoral Aid Society.
There was very great room for the work of such •
society in many • populous part of his neighbourhood,
with its teeming muses of people still sitting in dark-
ness and In the shadow of death, and with its many
souls perishing for lack of knowledge. There was
something in the circumstances of the time that called
for ell to come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
There were med. of anarchy sown and bear-
ing fruit in the neighbouring nations, and the flood
of infid.lity and den. ,cracy rising up against them ,•
they must, therefore, raise up their bulwarks and
embankments wallet them. He believed there never
was greater enlightenment in the Churchill= at the
present time, when its ministrations were more readily
received by the people, and produced, by God's blam-
ing, greater fruit among them. He urged them to go on
with the good work, for it was working for God, for
deer old England, and for precious soul.; it was work-
lag for the honour and the glory of God, who loved us,
and gave Mosul' for us. (Applause.)
The Dirt:rano' next addressed the meeting at
coadderahlie length. illustrating the various branches
of the society's work.
The Cithixtux propped a vote of thanks to the
Rev. W. Scott and the deputation for the very
intending information they had given the meeting,.
The work of the soolayaleutzt knew, was carried
on chiedy by the a who were sent by
It. agency to different parte of the kingdom, and also
t eyeelaT agemin—a different department. but still • very
the. The information whisk had been given
them wee thinly cameos:id with two very important
porticos of this busy working world of England, the
neighbourhood of Durham and that of Liverpool. It
Oddly related to thou potions who, in a humble
sphere of life, had been brought to instruct their poor
neighbours in the great truths of Christaaity. But
they should remember that those who thus taught
°then were themselves brought to Gad, and bowed
=lris such awful end valuable members of
by wane of pastoral aid to clergymen and
other chewy of the Church who had been stationed le
the various parts of the country. The foundation of
the work DWI DO doubt laid by the Welder, of the
Gag* The great neremity for the work of the
society had been fully brought before them that day.
It was a week in which he was sure they all took •
tut.diereet, and he hoped to me It weeper. He
from the amounts of the past year that the
finances, although upon the whole they had been
fairly lic‘,hyaa not been in some departments
0r
quite so as in former years, and that if it
had not been for a considerable amount in the shape
oilnlaid, than would bays boon • diminution to tho
receipts applicable to the general work of the society.
of course legacies were rather an tmoertain entree of
hums& but they ehould be thankful that, from what-
ever source the funds mme, they wore forthcoming.
But it was very important that the loads should be
kept up both In London and the country, because
without them the work could not be carried on with
the same ooeftdence and certainty as when fle Node
were kept up, at lead to their ordinary amount Re
taught tau all, by their pramoos, showed their anxiety
for the encore and prosperity of the society, and though
that was but a small meeting. the information which
had been given to them would be spread through the
medium of the public paper., and might have its effect
in inducing fresh subscrlbsra to come forward, so that
the work of the society in the county, and generally
throughout England, might be curled on with the
sumer which they all believe I It moat thoroughly
deserved. (Appian'.).
The evening meeting was not largely attended. The
Rev. T. W. Knipe took the chair, supported by the
Rev. E. Ludlow, the Rev. E. W. C Ilinson, and the
Deputation. The Rev. E. Ludlow having offered

PraC'o HAIIIMAII made a few opening remarks, sod
celled on the Rev. K. W. COLLIIBO7, who addressed
the meeting. It was, he said, enomusging to know
that there had been 33 new grants given by the
society, which lecerred an expense of some £2,700.
He loped the moiety would be supported to allow it
to mastitis these additional grants as well as others.
BO was sorry to beer that the contributions on the
prevkrne day were not quite so large, as, wham, air
bad been la former years. They never liked to hear of
egsare.
bsok, but rather to go forward; they most,
try sad interest themselves and others in the
gond work, aid try and get others to contribute as
well as themesives. Ose of the great rearms why
they should partkolarly support We society wee the
sommoos anneal increase in the population. Between
the years 18116 and an there had beun the enormous
lemmas of no Is.. than nine millions—an Increase
whkh meant no less than • 1,000 • day. In order to
mesa that with the pastoral work they most (suppos-
ing they allotted 4,000 people to • single clergymen)
have an Menthe ot ordained olergymen to the number
of 80 and 90 *very year, In addition to those who were
°idolised in the previous year. As an instance of the
enormous Moresim of the 1,0000 naculation, the rev.
pathless mentioned the cam of 13auseies, pi.,
where as • boy he first learned to Man Wha. hi
was I boy it was nothlLlkbut pas Gelds but rail-
ways had bees tit, green aside had
and the Loomis In the pope's-
taltell=4 berm something enormous. in the
11611841 the popela,toe was 6.000; 1861, 10,000;
1000 1811, 33,000 ; 1881, 107,0011 Lad It is
oseaktedthat tf km population onatintlel to Weems