The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-12-21 00:00:00

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RecQit c.l froin cont.:tors
10 tressurces lusids
Lt.dssice still Jut; .. •

They would agree that this was not a very Large Malls to lie
expended on such a building. They had been informed •
by BID. Bennett that the contract sniu would cover the
(MPCII.Ci. if the Marring awl sleepers could be toed in the •
new building ; but they found that the flooring and
simpers eiould not be used. They wore resolved that none
but the best work should he put in the building, and he
trusted that the committee had wit gene too far in their
expenditure —(applause). lie returned thanks to the
collectors, and acknewledgod the earnimtness and cheer-
fulness manifested in all the work connected with Puttim
~Igo4)1. On one wall be read "Gel is our helper," and
„ie.:, they hid Lib ewe.' in this village, every time they
hat come and gone, they had felt that was their
helper." They bail IJU children on the books. and an
average attendance of ;of, taught by It or LI teachers. They
hail ha I to aueet for in nails circumstances ;
but hal hail friends on all sides, they hail a ..lass in the
public-house near, the use of a bakehouse for the infante
and a claw in an outhouse, and he thanked the friends at
Patton for what they had done. On the other wall, he
reset "God shall bless us," and he felt that the work under
Ili, blessing would prosper mire and lucre, and that more
still would he brought to here. It might lie a trite
oliservatien, but this was the happiest moment of his
life, and he felt sure that the blessing of tired would be
with them in the future as is it had been in the past
(applause).
the CRainites congratulated the friends on the favour-
able nature of the balance-sheet, and upon having as good
a building for as small a sum of money. Ile did not even
know that they should complain of the delay; it had even,
Ise thouglit, been somewhat of an advantage that the
teachers had been turned out of doors For nine months.
ohm so it had called out the kindness of the Patton frienda
lie thought they at Bank-buildings should be congratu-
lated on having • place so near Weymouth where they
could have Divine worship, and especially the trim' is who
had for II years come out and laboured here, lie also
congratulated the friends at Putton who came here to
worship on having such a beautiful chapel iii their village,
which they might consider their own. Ekeim years a,O
he came out to the opening of the old Place; there was a
sadly neglected popubition, rind he spoke from the words
"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ." They
were now in their children receiving an education which
would lit them for this life, and, if the good news of the
gospel were received, for the life to come. Referring to
the loss of the Lhiutchsland, he said it was causal by the
want of lights and lighthouses at that part of the coast •
these chapels are lighthouses for the population, ant
lilacs
his
nswer
he
thu people would fall into ignorance. Every
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proof that as long as the influences of voluntaryism were
!msemelow
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and
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shown liy (hors children they would not in diseshiblish-
of the church leave Bie population in ignorance and dark-
' hope for the future—tapplainae).