The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-05-28 00:00:00

FORDING CON BENSFIT SOOIZTY.

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The anneal festival In commotion with the above
"hasty was oolobrated on Tuaiday, The utombers mot at the
school-room at half-pit tsar o cloak, and having fanned •
village, end
AlliPr'9"°atetilas, :nc.crwahi ifdaottsiwth.t. w6"enhan "da
nadosi;lrurtab"ile"..r!
takamlng".fol""d"dr hie taxbtythth
ee war'. 11;.Tit: prudent tr.oanny, Vmfoiremetlem%
the evil and hidoth himself.' was a zoos! attendance.
to Ms school-room whore tea hadlabeen ""mprobr marcheddesl. nos room
m
wU very teetotally ilociirsted, lowers and evergreens being
mod with lavish prof mioci. At 6.31 about 300 parsons eat
down to UM, sad the scene wee of an animated dossiption.
Dining the tee, the choir of lb.
church, under the dlrectlen of
Hr. 11. Normal ( who proldod et the harmonium) sang
winks. At the conclusion, gram having been sung.
The Rev. H. Nemo took the chair, sod, after a few appro-
priate marks and the singing of • hymn, called on the
Secretary to nod the mama matoment.
Mr. T. Peeing mid another twelve naonths had paged since
they loot bat the tame had flown ,so rapidly, lt oseined
ouircely poolhis to Win that each was the cis. The report
of tha Mit year was of • mingled character. During that Use.
7 Unalbers had resuived sick pay, which was loss than the
previous year, mid be thought it was • aILY.B of thankful*em
when they reessialind Q. the perish had during the Mitt
year boas Wes tines threatened with the ninth:in of so
ePidelsale The Min vest this year In reliving sictome had
been SIO lie. Od. Kinn Ail Ss. Od. laid out lest year for that
purpose. he thought they should be sun plowed with the
(set--sot only that It showed Hams bed been but little idi-
oms, bet that that shakos= had bus of short duration. They
bad, however, boss missal reminded at the @honors of life,
and one, who lied often y boss brought to death,. dear,
had this yser wen away. The proceeds of the last annual meet-
ing had been AI Oe Od but bo was sun this dld not miss
from the smile= of the aliteadasos on that °casein, or that
the triads wen unhappy, or lb. ..dog maple...l. 0. ma-
usual lions of expenditure he most manioc. No doobt Mom
primal had remarked that the room in which they won
@mumbled had been mooned @Woo they last mot, aad for this
purpose the soollegy bad voted AS, m • Night ackaowledgment
to the prodding for Ws @indium In lending theca the room.
Their foods in ths Swinge Rank at the pelmet time aro muted
to £147 Ils lid, sod ha hoped that amount would be increased.
Much of their inioneen wag doe to the hos. members, to whom
their us.ks mom be firleel. Ho trusted each orenbeir would
individually stein to Immoe their number. They bad now
41 nennisere on the books, end he hoped to be able to report
• much larger noinber nest year. Hs bellesed this society had
Mroady done min;lp.= and be trusted it may long live to do
Da good work-1
The Cumuli. then celled on the Rao. IL F. Evan, who
had e sne correwpoodenoo to road to them.
The Rev. W. F. Egg." said be wee very thankful to be
an..ings than ouzo min. For three years he bad been unable
to be with them, but although abosst In body, he had been
pr...et in eparit. Ile had rocisned Winn from Mount friends,
which he would road to thaw. Tho iinit we. from lirE. Haber,
oti of the hon. mamben, who, through Mince from bone,
was unavoidably absent. He sent them:Way his bent wialtigand
enclosed hi. usual subecription of 10, towarde the funds -(ap-
plause Thar medical man ( Good) was aleo oiled from home
silt-' ansient, or ho wsuisi have noes there. Mr Homo.
N. Mule, writing from Scotland, idler regrettiof his abegiace,
well on tiesy that 1( 511 the theists of the coo d only
come by telegraph, ha felt sure their room would be well filled,
and More would be a severe crush. Remy tune he visited
Fordington he found Improvement in sins shape; be trotted
the icily would continue to Improve, and may God speed
them In Ott. work. The next letter was from the R..
II C. O. Houle (the treasurer) who said that although 600 miles
away from them, nod in Scotland, he *maid to see them MI be.
him—the manbani and friends with smiling faces, the room
decorated, and to hoar the pmllng of the fine old bells in the
perish church. Ile beard the voice of the Dorset poet in those
idiey so much admired, and who hod been uch •
(send to the society. The rolety he was happy to say drew
one clue clover to another, and had prilueed much harmony
not concord In the villsts. No doubt they bad all heard of Its.
gardener
ti:tajwil,led..up his Manta to le,hiaeilw they were were groz
o'Lta; thlnge • but he felt sure the Fooospie we. mordingt: Bontit holly
was not at that character. He hoped they would hav• a
nising. (Antoine).
Another hymn having bona heartily sung,
The Ravi W. Masao proceeded to r.sd mom of hie most
Main minas la b. Dorsi dialect, sad wee heartily
A third hymn was then sung, after which Mr, ROUIST Ilion
road nosise pieasing linos of hi own composition, setting forth
the value of Misfit moieties In simeral, and at it. concluelon
was much •perleitt.
Mr. Join Laing ono of the stewards, this mad* • brief
speech;
Await hymn woo sang, aftsr whisk the Camelia" pro-
ceeded to reed mess poems, two of which were hi own com-
position, sod wee much applauded. The rev, gentleman than
said it Worded him much pleasure to make • kw remarks at
the does of We interesting gatheriag. Ho was gratified that
the society continued to prosper, and he trossal that much
bleming would sane from this society, and by It upon the
punkt at large. The hon. mambas had been slow to gain
lad but that once obtained they bad readily
formed, end gle•en It their countossmas sad support. Their
atrakhowever, chleily relied with the t members,
esch illelltbef try to get see. essiatir of the right
wt. They owed mach of the £147 they had In the bank to
the genermity of the boa- mombera hi occasion was to
his • most delightful messes. and he might my that two
gentlemen whom be had Invited to attend, had been so
Mewed with the proceedings, sad everything they had seen,
that beta., they had loft, ass bed premotel lam AI, and in,
other Hi toward, their funds, and bed enrolled thiamine so
bow rosenbars. It wee no littlottlit.r without
In Moos dap al
cosfuslos, they could thus mast , out distinction
of reek,ae brothers and Maim grant that every Hai
hieing of discomfort may be banished, and if they would have
It so, bo urged thin to prey—pre was the gift of God--and
they meat oak, asd they would have, seek, sod they would
tad, _knock, and It should ho opined unto Mom" 114 must
cordially thank the Rev. Mr. Barbie for his bolsi( readings ;
but he could not help remarking that some of the JuvouOm
had laughed when they should hese snail. Oras of the portal,
"Jenny away from Romig was • porticular favourite of his,
and he umod his Manes to Mask lorwerd to that net while*
there would be no more galas treat hoe.. Rio most aleo
thank Mr. Hunt for the yiga&bis advice glvea Is the Ramos he
had nod, sad he trusted hi Mann would sot up to the
there laid down. hoped for the future they
shouldprhave
would rally around Mom In trying to relieve temporal and
spiritual destitution. lie trusted that the result of the mess-
ing that night would be good for eternity. He had enjoyed
that anniversary moo& mon than any that had preceded it,
and be urged apes all present their duty to help each other
' to prom forward to that home which is in Mann, so that at
the last they may MI most around tho throes of God—
shisbas 01 "From all that dwell below the ekies," sod
the oncoming of this bosedlotion, brought the interseting
gathering to a cosolation.