The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-19 00:00:00

ftnd 10,4 was it they were looking for—they who had
berti baptia d uuto Christ, who we,e inembive of
'dr, ohiliiren ef (lot, and inherit the kingdom of
hesven ; who lad been privile teed to tome to God aa
hildnin and a k iii.. for • Father's 1.1“,•:og, fur the
Ake of tf.s.'ear Son, Jean, C;,rist ; thet,many of whose
ha I been eivn•tantly invited to strevictlict Ova, smile
with the ii•vi..ur's g.ncp,us body end blind—what
were they hs king for It ens written. 11. who hss begun
• itm.d work in you will perform it till the day of Jams
''hint, and wiat *hey were roast •ntly hoping and tray-
tot' for arms that G.al would ilay by dAy give them larger
stiorle •of his grace, th .t they to ght
inerea-ingly noun" every go.al with. and ho to,.r, and
r •taoriiie.l I, the image of viir Lela and Sseioor
,-i that their lives ur ight beciime, ais it
we. flans Ant of Ii •e. To attain to that blew a-
new., thee must he in the temple of the Lord in the
a trirw.le of *mei ills—they moat desire the ouipouring of
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nod.- Holy Spirit upon them. that His sill.midir be
written awn !SOS. But • varlet dedee for Ond's
blessing was not sufficient; hop mu.' hope for it; and
ti... who Lad luusn tomtit from ti. .ir chit -hood that
Je•us (hoist wa. the Lord, who hod all the sympathy of
000. all the lower of 0.4, had good grand for hope. Hot,
th y meet knew in whom they beloved. Another point
wa
ilp y mire wait patiently. They mkt also be in
the attittple of humdtty. The arrangements they now
had is ti -jr church.. lett r enablee then, to cherish
such • tpidt. it. but been in churl:his where, if one
I -oiled round when croons were repeating the Litany.--
'. 1 the met othetin part of the service—he would see
numher. sitting or lounging about. Could then be any
h ..... ility in the Ikon, when there were such outward
tokens of wmt of it? He stet:Melly mentioned it on
.uoh an n as the present and •ff, alienate',
nreed them when they creme Mtn God's boo-e to bear
then...lves humbly, and not use the words of the service
can I. mly, remeenhoring who they where and that they
were in the presehee of the eternal Gal. The plan in
which the Jews waited for the loving kindness of the
Lord was in Ida lentil... He did not eity that was the
ouly 'lace they were thus to wait, ha they knew that
herever they were that was to be their attitude. but
God's house was the plum pee-eminently caleulated to
, help the to wait for the loving kindness of the Lord, by
all its arrangements, by its hallowed emaciation; and by
all that was done there. When in the midst of their
worldly btkinens gnat grace was needed to remember
and be found in the attitude at waiting. bat they
were to nnelify all their doily employments by
the thoughts of Ool'a mercy toward.' them. But
if there wan any place whore the nosh-4 of
it was wholly Inexcusable, it was in the
temple ..f the Lord. Everything there reminded them
of God : the place was teed for no other purpose but
los service ; all 'kennel reutinded them of the means of
grace —there was the font ahem they were teptaed into
Christ, from that pleoe the word of (hod was premehed.
there the prayers were I'd by their latish priest, and
beyond thet was the holy table, where, if the, tame
with penitent, believing, lowing hearts, tb.ir souls
would he etreegth. owl and refreshed by the eletviour's
• and blood ; therefore, be repented, if there was any
hlace wherein not eo wait fur the loving kindness of the
lord was inexcusable, it we. the house of nod. lu-re
teemed to him the proper place to remind them of 'he
obj. ct of their sen.bling together that day. He was
.ure by what they had done in the church they were
eenaible that it wan really the place where they were
thus to reek for the outpouring of God's grace in so
elnlng they had nnly performed what be was thankful to
any Ina the practice now amongst the members of the
church. Wherever he went, in whatever dimes* in
England—and he was thankful to say that thie diocese
wee second to none in this goat work —he fonud the
110.110 of God being restored, enlarged, and beautified,
and it seemed to him but the natural espreesion of a
religious life. Once let a man erase the thought that
the house of God was the eltee above all others where
be was to wait for the loving kindness of the Lord, and
he was quite sure that be would consider there was no
ear. and no eipenditure of meane which was not
fitting for the adornment, and for the extension
and restoration of that house In Ids parish. He
treetild there give a caution. He noire. admitted
1 thet pet-nuns might approach the subject front
very different pointe and be quite admitted,
if lie might so events it, that people had different
t•stes and feelings with regard to those things. One
man might have a severe taste—a very simple taste—
an I might like very little adornment In the house of
Goel, where be vieited for the loyingtklndoto of the
Lord. He might.., that the aimpler the building the
has his thought. were dietraned from the one great
object of Ids going there, i e.. to prostrate his soul be-
fore the Father of all mercies, his loving Saviour, and
the Holy Ghost the Comforter. On the other hand,
there might heathers who felt that everything lovely and
beautiful, whether in nature or art, afforded so many
helps to them to offer up theme. saving:tee their brother
'leaked to ~fl.-r, who found such things bindranore.
Therefore, as to the extent of such adornments, they
should judge one another charitably. He hoped there
was no difference amonget them as to this—that the
tion-e of GM should betoken reverence and care,
and the love they owed to Him who was their Creator
sod Preserver. He r. joioed to No such ears had been
shown in regard to this parish church. Hut there was
another Once beddes the house of God where they
should wait for the loeing•kindnees of the Lord. When
they died their souls went into the plate of departed
spirits, to wait for the teaming judgment, and their 1
babes were committed to the ground in the churchyard,
elan to wait for that judgment. and tinders it was per-
featly true that Christians after death were, in the
trust wmar, waiting for the loving•kindnese of the
Lord. Next to the church there was no place where the
living nett wait so earnestly. so humbly, with such 1
ditere, and so patiently, as in the te urehyard. He
imeant by that, there were eesoeiati- an cenneeted with
their churchyards which were epeatally calculated to
help them to live in elope communion with God, and ti
i.ok b. yond this life to judgment and to elory. Those 1
churchyards held the bodies of those dearest to them,
and who mold pnwebly stand he the paves of those
they loved here and not he. 1 their liter's dnwn away
from the world throneh th. valley of the shadow of death
to that joyous day when the bloused word. should he
eddremeel abke to Ineband and wife " Well done, good
and faithful servant+, oeter ye into the joy of
your Lord." It was to him a contradiction of the
profemion of a Chrietian to me the state in which some
of their chitreleysrd• were left •nened for, and 110 must
he 'metalled, for if they were visited none could beer to
n.e then, no neglected. He thanked God such was not
the ease now in this parish. He was thankful that they
would now hey. • place set apart for the burial of the dead
whore they mightstand by thegrayeeof three w hods
the. life, and be in close communion with them FrO:ilir
Lord and Manner Jens Gitlin, and look forward with-
out any feeling of pain or ti.ef to their meetoting at the
house odlayGed for thuen:igli purPray for :Tied it wu use t
nded to be used—to wait for the loring-kindese of the
Lord, and to use their churchyard for the same purpose,
and to stir up in their hearts thoughts of the vanity of
this life, of its shortness, of their separation from these
they lowed moot dearly here, and of that eternal life,
where they ahould be re-united to them, and be in the
pretence of their Lord, receiving together an sterns,'
ontpouring of hi. loving•kindoese. God grant that so it
might be with all of the.; God grant that that m ght
ever be enabl. d when visiting the churchyard to offer
up the prayer of the Psalmist, "So teach mete number
my days that I may apply mine heart unto wisdom t"
God pant that they might learn snob lemons there, and
receive in steamer to their prayers such an outpouring of
God's loving.kindnese, that amid all the temptation
and cares of their dailv life tbe truth which underlies
the statement of the Psalmist might Veer animate their
daily walk and conversation, "Man walketh in a vain
shadow, and diequieteth himself in vain; he beeped) up
Ashes, and cannot tell who shall gather them; and
now, Lord, what is my hope, truly my hope is eVeO is
thee."
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During the reading of the offertory 'entente.. the
almi of the congregation were collect•d, whieb amounted
to M. AfUr a brief interval the Holy COMMUIIOIII wee
celebrated.

The churchyard is filled with graves, sod there ire
many old headstones therein; the oldest we dimovered
eas ...dated 1678. A piece of ground to the east of
the old gr.veysrd bad been net apart and enclosed with
• low stone wall, stwomounhad by neat iron palisades,
and at the conclusion of the Communion the Bishop and
Clergy repaired to the ground. and, with some of the
people. proceeded mound it in procession, saying the
episiinted service. Die sentence of consecration was
then read by the Von. Archdeacon Sanctuary, acting
for the Chancellor of the Diocese. From this we learn
that the new burial ground contain@ 31 perches, and
was conveyed by deed, dated Bth December, 1865, as to
a portion thereof by the Rev. W. Urqnhart, and is to
the residue by the ehurcheardens and overseers of the
parish, to the Reoclesiastical COMMiISkII3OIII for a saw
burial ground for the parish of Broadmayue. The
Bishop, having signed the dead, it wan handed by his
lordship to the Registrar, sad ordered by him to be
preeerved amongst the muniments in the registry.
After the imeeinsion of the service, some of the
VilitOlNl went in to inspect the church, and the manner
in which the restoration and enlarimment has been
effected elicited the highest approvsk We observed
that there remained from the old etruciture no less than
four holyiwater stoops in differeet pert, of the building.
There was one in the porch of the principal entrance,
but this, unfortunately, hail been cut in twain to make
the doorway more commodious, and the,. was one at
the west door, whilst inside the church one stoup was
plaited in the pulpit, and another within the sacrarium.
A luncheon for the visitors was provided by the
Rector in the excellent school-room, near the church,
In which for the omission there was much decoration in
the way of greenery, mottoes. i.e. Amongst those
present, in addition to the Bishop and Clergy, whose
' names sre elsewhere mentioned, we noticed Mrs.
Urquhart, Dr. end Mrs. Bissett Hawkins, Mrs.
Sanctuary. Mrs, Reeinsld Smith, Major and Mrs.
Wood, Mr. and Mrs. E. Burnett, Mies Smith. Miss
Barnes, Mr. H. Cocksram, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs Snips,
Miss Grisnwood, Mr. and Mrs. J. Groves, Mr. Fur-
wedge, Mr. and Mrs. Duke, Mrs. Simpson. Mrs T.
M
Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Boyce, r. sad Mrs. Hicks, Mrs.
Headband, Mrs. Cunbridge, Mr. F. W. Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. Boyton Smith, Mr. Wellspring, he—The Bishop
expressed his sincere congratulations with the rector
and shissultwardens fcr having brought to a successful
issue so good a work as the church restoration and
esteesioa in that perish bad bees. As the Bishop of
the Diocese, having a deep interest and grave reeponsi•
bill', regarding it, he begged to tender timm his hearty
thanks far the work which had been dope, believing
sincerely that it would tend to build up the pen*
committed to his 'barge in the knowledge and love of
God. He 'herders desired to propose the health of the
rector and the churchwardens. Hs really was un-
aequainted with the details of the work but he knew
that both parties bad been exceeding elisions, and
unless they had run some such race. be did not think
they would have been there that day to witness its
cogent. tion. But, energetic as they had bien, he did
not Wiens the work would bare been somorophshed
had not the ladies of the parish taken • part. He shen
paid • graceful compliment to Mts. Urquhart.
who, in addition to getting sabsismotioca, Vent slosh
time in doing wool-work for the cushions for use at the
Communion table and at the font, and also to the wives
of the churchwardens, who have worked devotedly in
the souse. His lordship especially mentioned the
"Y'riti out forth by Mrs. Dec.. He also coupled with
this toast the names of Mr. Hicks, the at... Oiliest, and
W.ll4winu, the builder. He ezpresesd the pleasure
he felt at sming Mr. Hicks present, sad hoped that ins
life would Long spited; and he remarked that wher•
leer he sent he was sore to see tins good holiest face of
Mr. Wellspring, whose work he wee quite sure tallied
with his couatanane•--(sppleswe and laegister). —The