The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

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Bre IVOI um —Many of the poor people of Swansea
here been sopp!ied frith liberal gifts of coals, and other
gifts from the rector and other chsritable persobe

SW AN AGZ CHUICH. - The collections durine the pant
ye..r Winn been :—For the Colonial and Continental
t hutch Society, £4 18.. 6d.; Morton Schools, FISSI.. 81.;
Rwanage School., £l3 Os. 104.; Church Motions:l
Society. £lB 14s. 10d.; Dorset C .unty Hospital,
£9 12 34.: Poor, on Communion Sundays, 02 1..11d.
The Clothing Club detonate amounted to £lO9 ; the
subscriptions to ditto. £26 3..; subscriptions and dona-
tions to schools, £64 8.. The day schools shoe clubs
and Sudsy schools dulling clubs about as in the
previous year. The average number of communicants
present at each administration ofthe Lord'. Sultrier was
90 An exhortation to greater spiritual devotion
made.
Tn. Annual Much Missionary tea we. held an the
Bth inc. Th.. Nati-m.l 'cahoot-room, wee crowded, as is
menu on those oociesions. After tea the rector openet
the meeting with prayer and read • pert of the Bth
•hapter of the Epistle to the Romans. The rev gen.
tient.n said that £B,OOO had been contributed to the ,
aocietv, in answer to an appeal for an additional
£lO,OOO required to meet the existing want.. of the
-various missions in consequence of the incressed prier.
in ;mei, kc. He was p:e.-etl to state that the sum of
• l‘sd been collected in Swsnage during the put year
fro in inotitu.ion, and this was the largest stim over
contrkis'esi to the society in Swanage in one year. The
or•tFi•ro rose very much in hi. estimation latterly from
the fast that one from among th. In who was to he
seen toang the mallet and tool only four yews
ago. was now just about landing as • missionary
to Tionevellev. His rnferenee was an allusion to
the R. v. F. Bower, of Worth Eau-avers, who before
his departure for India preached in his own pariah
church at Worth and also at Seramone church some
th ghly evangelical sermons. A Istter wu then
read from Archdeacon Cowley, dated" Indian Settle-
ment, Red River, Report's Land, Nov. 20. 11187." The
following is .n extract which speaks for itself —"Bet
year oon6 ts nor in the Protestant Elation. Mono doubt
be. 11 greatly shaken by resding Lord Mi'ton's book.
That nob'emsn appears to have passed through this
country. but I have, I think, as good reason to deny hi,
baying ,lone so as be had for ignoring our work. 11I-
did not eonp- upon soy of our mission stations in this
country that lean hoar of. When he oust the Cpper
Port. 27 miles from this, lie might have known what wao
go nig on here. if, like Earl S'isfteshory's ton, professor
Hine, and others, he had paid us a visit. APIs, if
he had chosen, he could have turned aside a little and
visited nor catechlat at Fort Polly, or Pratt at Touch-
wood hills, both of wl ich places lie near the route
his lordship took; but though he failed to ilo
this, he did not scruple to do worse. At Red River
the society had only two missionaries, Archdeacon
Hunter, at the Rapids, with a perish of some eight or
ten miles in length, and thickly, for the country,
peopli d, with • church.going people, and on. self with •
diatriet nearly or quite as I.rse and an oat station
sit...shed. And then am to travelling, I seldom go soy
where in the summer, preferring the winter, aa being
in lastly respects the better season for that purpose. As
to a outp.ri.on of results, no one need crises the
the Atlantic for that. Romanism is here very similar
ne what it is with you (in England) and I. Ireland and
Rome' Proteatentiant too. is not unlike here to what
It is wherever CUM is lifted up as the only way to
Gad. You have in your own perish evidences of what
mar. eat. lcm.w by looking to June The same act of
I.its in ihis ki..n of Oesi. is here folowed by' the saw.
blessed effects in kind if not in degree. We are quite
g tent Our labour" and their results should if
DP • ssary bronchi to tie light and tried by the
tenchatone of Out's law, our enemiya being judge..."
'The following hymn., tet ta SrPlol,i ate ton.., were
'll, artily sun:, viz., Keronle's 53. 472 and 473. The
Rey. O. Emile, missir nary Irmo China. was expected to
be present but was prevents., fr iniVnpnintiOn, and as
a substitute tl v Rev. S. ptimun Ilohlw, of West
Zoinpton. and 1,1. missionary from India and Ceylon,
was mesent •rel delivered avery interesting account of
his onn laboura iP Tinnenellen and Ceylon.