The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-03 00:00:00

THE ADDITIONAL CURATES' SOCIETY AND

1112 BIBIIOP.

The Right Bev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury his
visited Weymouth at the commearament of this week,
and took pert in the efforts on behalf of the Boreety
for Providing Additional Curate" in Populous Plasma
Sermons on behalf of this society wen preached at SR
John's and Holy Trinity churobee, the Bwhop himself
preaching in the evening at St. John's, from the
tart Bt. Matthew, it., 38, 37,, 88. In the won*
of his sermon his lordship made the following
reforenoe to the subject of the employment of
lay agency, in (evangelisation work. "If, I may,
there is 0114 1111.1011 whicti everything oorabines to
impress upon us, it le due that wo must honor despair
of Our people. Ihtfloulties may be ever so great,
appearances may be ever so uoprondsiog, disecturegs-
moon may be ever so numer•us, or disappointing; but
rumour la ociwardne, it is want of faith, its. brash of
duty, it I. dialoyaliy and an. The harvest le God's
Ii t. The fields are mail, the toil I. vinous, the
labour required very gnat, the improvement small, or
perhaps nous, at least to us; the produce insignificant.
But the labourer, ere few, ooinpared in soon coon with
the crowded populations, and in others with the wide
scattering of the people in the country pens; they are
very few, and SI the numbers have increased. and OM
inorrasuig, they have not increased proportiorally. We
went miny more clergy, and I will plainly say not
ordained clergy only. We wrat working laymen; we
went men who will work scracrlion to their powers and
opportunities with the clergy in the pariahs'. Some,
we liar.; good raruest moo, who give tune aid tool,
and skill to teaching to Sunday school", and other suoh
works as ore oompatiole •ith their own regular esoular
occupations, All honour be given to aura as them
But I think we want, not only more of tram, bet we
wait men who will make It taw regular, and, so to my,
their profeselonal week, to help In those gnat things;
trained, skilled, licensed laymen ; man worthy of then
num, who not designing or admiring so Miriam* demean or
praises themselves, are ready to devote their time aid
seal to aura mural work as is abundantly open to them
I for my part, am reedy to license such persona at the
request or the clergy, to give help in the perishes I
have been requested to do so by the unanimous wish of
the Synod inuch met lest April in Salisbury. I only
wait for applications, and deLghted I shall be to receive
them from these pariah's and their nesghbournood.
Whoa I °insider that thera parishes, wbien form what
in popularly known as Weymouth, with the additioa of
Portland, oontran not loot th&CI 20,000 inhabitants, and
when I count up the number ol dap at the most
who are mianteruig among them, I orauot doubt that
there is great attuuranoti of work for earnest loymee to
do, sad that not in lodependeurn and pasrabie anta-
gonism to the action and plane of the ordaised sad
commissioned clergy, but in active eo-operamen with
them. And I fully believe that there ere such penmen,
Plenty of them. At first, and while such things are
new, they may be difficult to rind. Men wig shrink
bask to modesty from Aortae themselves, and timorous
people may hesitate about euriourogiug a novelty,
winch may lead, they Mar, Milner than tura approve.
Thome things may Mora such a ILICITSIIIIIIIS pintail, and
for a time. But, spading as an old num, aid as the
Bishop of the Diocese, and to this L1U1141104 speaking
with the additional support of the 1113111,11/1141111 voles of
the representative clergy and laity of the Moostra—l
confidently say that those is no way by wrath the work
at liod can be elf rieturay helped on, the people rerabod,
the °burin strengthesed, the harvest of God brought to
it. ripening, art by a general groom which shall arias
the lay sera, the lay inteldgeara aid the lay devotioa
to bear actively, in combination with the ordained
ministry, up= tra wort of enagelling the people of
this oountry."
'rho colnetioni at Si. Joha's amorated to .C 47 Bs. 6u,
and at Holy ?natty to elusion £l6.
Public moorage were held on Monday of tisrnoon end
evening. That as St Joha's sehoolr,xun to the at
• was probably attended by the most select audio'. e,