The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-13 00:00:00

To Ike Editor.

DISILVIER.

The Vicar of Gliarminster seems to condemn "rejoicing
on that solemn day when all nature was darkened with
gloom." Does he forget Who sail Mit before the
great day " L.t nut your heart be troubled,- awl who
gently reproved his disciples when they were sleeping for
sorrow f Does the vicar forget that He fur our sakes
became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich I
Hut if Mr. thirties means that the reflection ought to
make us sail—that our sins were the occasion of II is grief,
I cordially agree with him. Good Friday is and should
be a sole anniversary, a day of serious thought and
humiliation of heart. I fail to see that is meeting with a
decided religious tone throughout, with incelerate and
kindly speeclies.and with no extravagance us food, drink,or
mirtlnis iisconsistent withsuch humiliationiur I remember
Who has said "timid your heart, and not your garments."
<Zurek people often find fault with the demonstrations
of passionate grief at penitents meetings when they are
flea, convinced of sin. and so it Welisu we are to show saa-
nous only on certain days. The inissionery Paul mass!
Appropriately to such as condemn " t cuss of raiarof you,"
whets he heart of their observing days and seasons. They
way be useful reminders ; but if we are to be bound by
them, and our religious feelings are to be swayed only
.aecuraing to the ecclesiastical year, I fear there is danger
of our being deficient in the necessary "shunt and truth "
whi. Is are indepeselent of tissue and place. Above all, let
the vicar of Clsanninster remember what Our Lycl sabl
au the very day and at the very time of his adorahle
eacrilice. Ile del not call even thaw who iusulted Ilium
" blasphetuers "; but Ile acid—' lather, forgive them ;
they know not what they do." If Mr. Barnes is a disciple
and servant, he should remember "The disciple is not
above Isis Master, nor the servant above his Lora. List
him read the Vs (ma. W. T.

A STRANGE CORNISH VICAR.
The Easter vestry for I.lndulph, near Seßash, was
singularly lively through the conduct of the vicar, the
Rev. S. Smith. The parish warden, Mr. Richards had
received • letter from the vicar warning him against
spending any money without the concurrence of his
warden, tersely putting it—' the law allows the same
power to the parson's fool as to the parish rogue." Read-
ing this created "a scene," and the parson left, locking
the door on the ve+try, but they consoled themselves—
there was the window. In another letter the vicar had
objected to the vestry being hold in the magistrates' room
of meeting, but said if it were he should be there with a
policeman '' not only as a parishioner, but in his official
capacity, the Landulphers being such uncivilised animals
as to be incapable of restraining a disgraceful exhibition
of malice even in a court of justice, which, nczt to a
church, ought to be held most sacred. I have no iodina-
tion, moreover, to submit (with impunity at least) to the
insults of a noisy clique, headed by the son of an old rogue
and incestuous harlot." The following lines had also been
circulated G. S. and It. It. being two of the most respected
inhabitants.

TAR LAMM.
By the Landulph Rimer." Potßeate:al to Chief Grunters
U. S. and It. K.

0 who did'at send me
These roving h 06•5 to food;
WhO one and all do rend me—
Pray li.ten and • a.a heed.

With nasty bor id features
Around me tasking din.
Fite hundred bristly en:wives
Will not be ustherul in.

Five hundred swine unheed•ng
The swineherd's doleful cry,
With ',Jon last receding,
To ItiaClA steep do hie.

Oh. Bishop, master drover,
Like pruiliea
Tii csk over
rus sick of Curni•is mins.

We are not surprised to hear the Vicar has been horse-
whipped twice, or that it is commonly believed any man
in the parish would give L 5 for an opportunity to legally
horsewhip him.