The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

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The Rev. W. A. Mearorie, BeherDeeilede of
Natal, pointed out that the thumb in Neal is at
preseet thei weakest brands of the Colooiel Church, and
be said what they eked the people of England to do
was to help these to build up • strong Church there—
(beer hear). No doubt he was speaking to the mre-
senatives of many parishes, and whet they were dred
to doves to form an aseorriation, however small it might
be, of earnest prayerful persons who would give their
Prayer" and their alms aceording to their means, for
this greet work. They were anxious to get subarip-
Coos promised for Ave years, to resist the old and
provide now clew, to undertake missionary work in
MD] places front which • cry came, and to build
churches, schools, and parsonage houses.
Mr. C. Haiku, CS.!., next addressed the meeting,
He referred to this Abyssinian expedites, and said be
thought the character of Berland as a missionary
reentry had been sustained there He hoped the time
would come when missionaries might be sent to that
country again.
• The Bishop of Oxford, after congratulatioce on the
enooreatel meeting, said he thought on looking back
upon the past year, there were dins for encourage-
ment. No man whatever who believed that Christ did
institute • church with • certain Axed system, and com-
mitted to that church the work of converting the
believed—so—tionbncilicbovpoLonmande.w,cituoilliitibgehilehioliworyd
ththrlal.eacesh7ll..aidi"beactomEnsunab.plirice.e.dhmdtanhase.
with what it was • few years back, without feeling that
great ground bad, through God's grace, been
made. Why, he perfectly well remembered the
' time when it was considered almost • ridi-
=lons thing to talk of sending cut • bishop with
any widen. "Why," it woe said, "he would have
tat • few clergymen to keep in order, sod what is the
use of • bishop if ills not to keep the dery in order r
—(a leugli). Now that was the led chime, according to
his notion, of -the whole work of a bishop. A Whep
was not • pollee sonstable—(Legistee). lie was not •
magistrate, wise hod those erodes& Uleonduoted
clergymen always before him to try and keep them in
order— (laughter). Not • bit of it. If he hid thy*
thing particularly to do with the clergy and laity
of the diocese, and understood his poritiou, be
ought to be the mainspring of selfalesying exertion—
(beer, bear). He =tight to show himself • men of
work, a men of truth, and • men of love, knowing
that God having put him iato that position, there
would sensed. throegh God's grace, from him to others,
useful iIIaINDOIS far above his deserts, if only
he set himself to do the will of God in that
pwition—(trear, bettouief
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was to be the fellow
helper of every man for Christ, e darer of
his joys, the deeper starer his sorrows ,• snd hr such
a man as that they had not far to look Is this diocese of
Salisbury —(loud cheers which were again and again
renewed). Well, if that was the troth of the matter,in
what part of the whole Arid of the Chureh's work were
bishops se maeh needed as in heading mi•aions? Where
were the dangers greeter? Where was promptitude
more nquired,or unity deed= more important! Where
were trials greeter, and where more should bathe sun of
eonsolation ministering teinfort to every down-cmt
spirit? If bishops were not to be polies-magistrates or
empty figureheads, no mission could proposer unless it
had a bishop to conduct it. Such a thing was thought
almost medium a few years ago, but now it was almost
=million admitted principle. Even if we took, what
what re always most be, the divisions of the Church
upon ea n matters—meet, the natural Wawa of whose
mind led them one way and some another—High Church
and Low Church—both sides were agreed upon this;
and in this very year there had been two, at Luise if not
three, applications from the great sister society, the
Char= Missionary Society, for bishops to head their
wilasions—thear, hear). Did nett that mark a wonder-
ful and great 10(111111011 in the right principles on which
minions should be sondnieed from what they were a few
years ago? It all involve I thiathat the work of missions
was not • taste to be cultivated in Individuals, but • work
lir be done by the Ohara of Christ ; aed therefore they
might, if they could thus these things, take comfort,
believing that God would,as our system was made more
His system, gives us sewer in good time—(hear, hear).
And we might take comfort, too, in believing that • body
was not going to be thrown said", which, through His
gram had been waked up to • perception of what its
duke; were. In the wares of this year. not only had
• this. encouraging symptoms increased amongst us, but
they had also seen that to which allusion had already
been made, via, the courage with which in the Syird
of this province error had been condemned, and the
edam of error east bode. Teat be also held to be •
ground of comfort. Then, &omega the important
events whioh had occurred since be last had the honour
of speaking in that hail, was the bolting at L•mbeth of
• council of the bishops of the reformed communions in
unity with our own beloved Church. It was impossible
to over estimat whet the effete of that pth, ring had
been in every way. Only four days back, the Amid, shep
of Canterbury showed him • letter, of which, he thought,
he could give pretty nearly the words, containing an
account of the effect produced in America. It was •
letter from • very imagined men in New York. and
ea to this do= .—"I am unable to sisy what the
effect of that gathering at Lambeth hes been In your
own Church in England, but I can till you what it
has been upon the Church in Amore+. It ban woke
us up to • wholly new condition of things. In the
dioisese in which I live the (raid of it are to be men on
every side, I. increased seal, in new churches, in
multiplied missions, in sisterhood. beginning to spring
Up—in aU works of spiritual life beginning to tigrish
, sad abound"—(opplaue). nose were the legitimate
, sensequenoes of bringthe together, into visible and
tensible union, those scattered units, so that =eh
could realise what his poeition was, and return to his
own separate sphere of labour not as • unit, because it
was the real ecoodition of labour in the Church of
Christ that no man was • unit, het ever one of • body
indivisible, of which all faithful people, living or deed,
were members, and of which Christ amended was the
bead—(hear, hoar). All these things, be thought,
might give us hope, and sonfideoce, and spirit in this
holy work of ours. The one thing, perhapa in which
we were meet deficient was that, in the partiWar depart-
ment of giving money, there had been less amendment
in principle on which the money was given. He held
that contributions in aid of the missionary work should
not be the result of the excitement of such meetings as
the present, or of sulk sermons as many of them bad
had the gratification of hearing at the Cathedral that
morning. What they wanted thoroughly to leaven the
mind of the Church of England with was this —that it
was an essential part of the Church's liz. that she
should be spreading hermit, and, therefore, that in every
separate perish there should be • special organisation
for the spread of the Chureli—that it was as impossible
fee • parish to be in a good =edition when it was con-
tributing nothing habitually to this good week, as it
was for • (Weenie battery to be in a living state when
it was not giving out sheath—these, hear). The first
Ltic4i thing to be done was this— every parish should ri:oaasociation for the Gospel Propegatiou Society.
The times in which we lived premed Ms upon our
minds. If it were as Archdeacon Denison had told
them, that =rain poison drops had been infused, and
were being hauled, lute the old constitution of this
'sentry, that was all the more mien for work. When,
In certain =entries, a man was bitten by • deadly
serpent, en old Indian had told him that the first thing
to do was to make the men run up and down in the
sun as hard as be eould—(langhter). "Don't let
the blood stagnate," he said, "- or the man would
die : feed him with Eats de de and las de lace,
but keep him running, and if you can keep him
running over twelve horns, he will do."—(leughter). If,
then, drops of poison hadou the Archdeacon had stated.
boon hawed into the heart of the =entry, let them
get up and run; let them be more actin than they bad
been yet.—(hear, hear.) Let them take the good spins
—(langhter)—let them have • good deal of the assistance
of the Eau is vie with" East de lust—(lulghter)—thet
was to say, let them be more waive than they had ever
been in the work of Christ—let not the blood trice cold,
and "media and creep, led if there he poison east into
the great system it should work Its work of ill, and
make this land and this death a mark of God's Jude.
meths, indeed of • beacon light of God's blessings.—
(hear' hest, and applease). .ftt supposing it to be the
other way. There might be some who thought that our
being thus poisoned wes the bed thing in the world—
that we had been too much asleep, and too much given
to the old Tory babite—and that at length we were
getting meob more alive than we tad beat dive yd.
Very well. He was not there as a politidan.—fhear,
hear). He did net way which made he thought right,
but whichever side was right, it 11,111 11114 the same
(tear, bear). If on the etherhand, we were springing
tato • new life, it was the time beyond •11 others to do
something quite new in this missionary work. For this
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to the normal proportions which in the mind of Him who
crested us existed before the world was—that we might
grow in all thlizmusseordiog to the nieseare of the
Astaire of the f of Christ—(hear, hear). Which.
ever way it was, he mane to the mane oesolusion. If,
God helping him, be could minister to one brother
clergyman, to one lay Christian, male or female, this
sndmetion, that in this next you they should do some-
, thing that they had not done in the lest, that they
should pray one prayer more earnestly, and practice
some one self deniW more diligently and esersely ; grow
in some one growth of love towards the swab af them
' around them, and the souls they eonld help at • distance
' —then indeed he should feel his right rev, brother's
kindness in letting hies speak one. more there had been
' over paid, if but one Rush amber drop weld be wrung
' out of one heart to distil its sweets.= and its heady to
our deer Redeemer's praise—(mneb applause).
The Chairman then expressed his sordid and deep
thanks to those gentlemen who had =me there that
day, endeavouring to do what they weld to stir them up
in the diocese to more zeal and love for their Lord and
their Master —(applause).
Bishop Heber', Missionary Hymen, "prom Green.
Istul's icy mountains," was then may, and the benedic-
tion having been pronounced by the Lord BLit= vi
Cseeteen, the proceedings terminated, a coileciid
being made at the doore. The collodion at the
Cathedral amounted to £26 7a. AL, sad that at the
public meeting in the Coanal HOW I. £57 181.
making • total of £B4 Se. 4d.

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