The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

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BOMB MISSIONARY SOCITIT.
On Ttieedae evening a pahlie meeting was bald in
the Afeeml.ly-rocen uf tbe King's Anne Hotel. for
the pareopo of hearing a lecture nn the state of our
hem. p000lati• n, and twisting the ne_boms of
th. Aiditjnnal Curates' Aj.l Sof-kW ere Mil
full ethnologic,. The chat, was taken by Trofbli
Rulhwk. ni Prnme House. senl there ware Ilen
psewbt the Rees. Rkinner, of London;
Watson, chaplain of Dorehoeter Owd ; Deviderin,
ennite of All Stints'; and Miotaw. Read klraefsr of
els Dorchester Oretomar Schad ; and Ulmer,
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Fem., of COMO Rouse, ita
Tbe perimativem went rimmed IY, prayer by the
Dee. J. P. F. Davi,lane. who afterwards stated that
the meeting was milled to enlist the sympathy of
Anew wrest urn behalf of the Additional Curates'
Aid goriete. be ohjeete of which might rtghtly be
teemed 'Home Missions; as its alio, mid was to
sepply ministeri. sad teselhem to those who were
hiioir Is this Christian land without the
mean, of cram. In the year 1869 the sem
of rut 19e. bd., his expenses. was collected
ht this tows on behalf of the society, and
last rear, with the ..me dednetii n. ZIA 1211.
remitted to the society ; a small sum, be considered.
for mich a town as Dnrchester. The society had
especial claims on cherchmen—it was doing the
church's work with the recommitted and duly quail.
lied agents of the church. It did not prams to ild
theakei. or rive away latilee, hat to resist in fur-
tilehiag ministers to these places where ignorance
and eke en nisch prevailed. Many thought that
the H..MIS Missionary work interfered with
Foreign Missinna, 140 they ought to remember that
the command was given to preach the Geso to
every createre, beniewirse at Jerusalem' home
&Mims lint, then foreign—sad it was by asking
to make our owls onuntryinen Medians that we
almuld in a great measure &mist in spreading Chris-
tigniti (Hear, heir.)
The Miami/IN. afar II few remarks, width he
*Whim medial aciptieseenre in the Abele of the
eletiaty hitroduced the lecturer te the wastissie
-"a Hay. C. B. Pse ma the depeletien, that
he appeamel helms them tet edam:Meths datum of •
ETety, of which male* they had up to triads the
Ire or titres yams heard little or nothing ahem*,
It was one which especially merseeended
Itself to their warmest sepperk On this, however,
bit Armlet not my mech, hot turn at once to the
immediate siolii-etrif his lector.. The bill advertising
the meeting aas beaded " Missions to the Heathen
at levee." Tee, M troth there were three in this
• Christian Insiel. where the refill:in* of Cbrist bad hessi
Itenewe mere thee lAN eesm—mee and mimes
Beth( in theermiliest ignersnes. miser•
y. sad ede. And
an. or the cilia ressnat was that for many no
addifielad elleredint Were emoted. and me aMitiousl
ministers set apart for the week, though tho
taken had aerie" that tine doubled itself. LI::
time of Queen Inaniketh the redolent of Inglaed
Ives only between fear and Ave millirem, and there
nee than ample aemenennelatinn in the churches of
the landior all. Bet frit ft het, period ant a single
chnech was nude anti we had, tint only the shore
comings of oar forefathers to make tip. bet Mae,
Omagh the incresee of the population, hundreds,
yes then mutes, were left to perish in Ma and inleary
threit,ly the inadeqnsite suppli of the amens elvers.
Tee lecturer thee alluded to • very leer ohms in this
country be whore DO prevision was made to 'apply
their nitrites! wants—eiz.. thenavvies—men mostly
from the errantry districts, Nit who frost their
oceupetein were necessarily Incited at different
plays at various times. A short time ago he was
at Portsmiattb, where the Oovernment were cote
emoting earthworks and other fortifications, and be
enticed that many havens:de of this ohms wen
einidnyed there. Al that place they had five
ailditinsal cuestas employed by the Society, but
these heel enough to do to attend their own flocks.
and he therefiim made inithiry if thyme ministered
pith. men working at the government works, and
we. glad to And that a gentleman. in whose
dierict they were, having means of his own,
bail employed an additional citrate to assist Into.
an latter repeated eppliattioos te the gown's's*,
was in fortunate RA to have granted him the use of
OPO athe atermented nortiora of the befalls:alines
In POI•lia a °estop. Of this dem of men there WIIIII
many thonseneta in the land, and he referred to this
met to ebow how awful snob a society was. The
err. gentleman then a ent On to teitice the data PC
our large toe me where the chief evil existed, and
where mieerv. institution. and 'ice, prevailed tomb
an alarming extent. His hearers, he had no died*
had reel, or at Mast heard of. a work called
Littelon Lithour awl L melon Pwir**—thia was
written by a repartee of one of the morning papers.
who was sent out to iniptire ieto the eay by whit*
the masses of the people in Leedom lived, sad from
the plynteernehi he took es/ venom. persona sea
seen., he hal witneseed. he (the lecturer) had, ley
the kind aeristaece of a lady. some larger copies in
weter•ooliiiirie The first shown **NI that of a
wailing in the mud of the Thames in search of 2,
hits of iron. wood, r an. thing also he could And.
Of Ibis clam there were. the lecturer said, away
ihonnaniie. Another clams was the aister-mongern,
who weotetant withilotikey.carts. hamidencire, and
lbs like, and liy whew 'bitchier( portion (little poorer
elvers were supplied. They nouthered 10.000
twelve tsars a ii; and, lieseleetheese there were also
thousands wise got their living hy picking up the
refine of the armee, each as cinder women, ka One
family eked oat a li' lug 17 c. illecting, during the
eight, all the *trey paper they could find and selling
it the nest morning ;mil indeed it was wonderful the
many strange treys thepoorer chases in L miloo oh-
taillMltheir lovelihwel. Now. alinostell them hardly
ever entered a phice of worship—their minds were, as
anger. led role; tea a tidal Wan k —they were the
bestlem at home. But to show that such adage— if
speeded to in the right way—were not beyond the
infinence of religion, be might state that in
Bethnal Omen, wheni a great many resided,
a place re worship had Memred
especially for them, and the minister intory:him
that be had now shove 70 wounaunicanta The
lecturer Mated he was present at a meeting there,
is It a the claims of the Pastoral Aid Society • ere
advocated. and more than ell was given in towards
the knits hy them present. A rem and good week
was also being aimed on in the Deighbourbood of
Clare Market hy the amiserwe afforded by this
society, and it. most affectionately urged on those
present to *mist to the almost of their power in
supporting It.
The Kiev. Sgpixae, of Loudon, next addressed
the meeting. sod spoke in very string condemastory
terms of the way many of the churches of the
country "had been built. especially al regarded she
pew system. In the hour eof God all should be
alike, hot the evatam of the world —the pride the
eel fishnese,and the class legislation of the world—had
entered the house of OA, aid this was seen by
the poor being thrust in such places as under the
galleries. and Indeed where lint, where they
might hear beet, and the rich and the great occupied
pee a in the most eligilde parts of the Meknes.
Until what was called vested rights, respectability,
an.l the, class destinction WAG done away —could
we wonder that many of our churches ware
empte. and that thousands stayed away. The hems
of Gist thould be a. the grave; all were equal there,
and before our Maker all should I.e equal—the poor
and the rich meeting together in .we area as one
fluid y. He trusted the 'octet., whom clams they
hail met that evening to advocate, would go to the
root of the matter, and seek to abolish this
unrigliteenoi system id exulusiventoa in the house of
God. seil make the church of England, as it epght
to la Ole poor man's church. After a vote of
thatiks hid teen sec riled to the chairman and to
the I .CtU, er, the doxology was oink coil the meeting
etiperated.— The amount collated at the door was
upwards of Al.

VoLuxtraus. —The drat meeting of the
Don't County Mee Assoidation will twine off at
Maiden castle on the 17th wri I•th of septeuilww.
We itider*tand th*re tte 17 little, and that the
nortting is vitiweted to attract • Law number of
ei it le The Boroush prize *bo tittii is exported
to coo.. off on the 11th. but the °sat .late is not
yet de,i.Led on. It is not yet koo*n *hen the
resi...w 'afore the Lor.l•Lientenattt sill take Oboe.
but it is not expectid to wuie off before the Iv,Uow
end of the tuonth.