The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

CHURCH MISSIONARY SoCIETY.

The I meetings were held nn Tuesday last the
saleroom. sleeting in the Tr.wnhall, under the presidency
of Sir John D'Otly. Barr. The room was filled in every
pare Among these present we noticed the Reeds. R.
Parry, J. Hunger (the depstatinn), R. Harting% It.
Parqubareen. C. J. reboil. H. B. Vizor% IL Welts,
D. Evans. J. R. Quirk, W. J. E. Percy, J. Snow:J. C.
Man*. Eu.. Lady Mitchel, Lady D Oyly, Mrs. J. C.
Mammal and family. ke., It.. The messing baying been
opened with pager by the Rev. J. R. Quirk, the Chides
mg called upon that rentleman to read the annual
atatenient of the Blandford Auxiliary. from which it
appeared that the total amount collected last year in
Blandford em £872. lid.; (b-ide. IN 3.. 64 Child
Ott-ford, £4 10 .; Cri•ehell, 116 7.. 114.; Derweaten. IN;
Fifelioad Neville. £6 IL. ed.; Homages. CIT 12s, 1044
Milberg, 1.1 13s. 71.; Ok.ford Fireprig. El 7asi
Pireeeree. 18 2..; Rtnahtnn, £4 15e. 91.; figepkton,
CI 104; Sticklanit LB Ile 94.1.; Iwerne Courtney. It;
Stoke Wake. 4:3 12e. 61.: Sutton Weldron, CIO l7a. 61.; ,
making a total of £196 15.. Ild. Di•hureencents.
£5 15a. 51; leaving • ba'ance of £l9l Os. 614. tram.
milled to the Parent Society. Mr. Qiiirk particularly
alluded to the interest taken by severel young persons in
the town an the mission cause, and expreesed a hope
that many more would assist in so gnedaworL He was
most happy to say that increseed interest wan shown.
and that though they exceeded last year by • few pounds
former eralleetions. the sum subscribed on Sunday was
even more. The Chairman then called upon the itev.
Harkness, reet.r of St. Oiks, to address the mee i.e.
The rev, gentleman said that though be had come pre-
pared to make a speech, yet there were two or three
great facts ever present to his mind. The first
was that the great heal of the Church !ad been ,
pleased most emphatically to make his Church
a miasion church. " Go ye into I the world ,
to preach the GospeL" Second the Church of I
of ngland wa, by pretension • mi.sionary church, and
he believed that only those were It, role members who ,
had • miasionary aprrit. The third thing was that he
had a strong oonsiction that the Church Missionary
Society we. doing its work well, and one great proof of
this he might mention was that wherever they had
established • mission church, in the co inns of ifs.
years that church had become •elf supporting and throe
missionaries who had been sent out were enabled to
extend their aphere of operation,. and go into regions
growl. Snob was the ease with the miuion in Sierra
Leone, which was now entirely carried on by native
ministers. The rev, gentleman then read a letter from
a young person named Joseph who bad been educated
in the native school of Tionevelly, and was now pre-
mixing for the mirostry, at the same tier, stating that •
h could be educated there at the rata of £3 per year.
Previoro to the speech of the deputation Heber's
Misaionary Hymn Ca. acing, Sr. Halyards leading on the
harmonium.- The Rev. James Hunter, in his opening
remarks, said it was not his intention to take his hes...re
over the wide 6e3.1 of missionary enterpris., but to give
them as full and cerfecn an idea of what he had seen,
heard, and felt in that distant part of the *mid called
Report's Lind. It was only within the last few years
th.t anything era known of such a country, though it
actually was larger than Um whole of Europe. He
had indeed beard of • gentleman who marched
the meg of Australia and Lelia to find it. I
was abed Ropert• Laud beguile it was given
by Prince Cl glee to his 0008111 and was made
over by charter to the Hudson's May Company.
The first misaionsry who went out there, 40 years ago,
gme from their own county, from the village of
Chettle. His name was the 1t... John West. His
first . Bort was to get two of the native boys and
instruct them. One of them was now their senior
migooary, Henry Rudd. The reverend gentleman
then gave a very full and interesting &geoid of the
country. The southern portion consisted of vast
plains or prairies over chick • person might travel two
months without seeing • single tree or human being.
Tee nhabitants were the various tribes of Red Ina
diens, whose tiuie was employed in hunting the wild
buffalo, and in which dangerous and exalting chaae
several English noblemen had joined, or in making
war upon one another. He then gave • harrowing
dgeription of their procedure in war, the scalping of
their enemies, and the cruelties practised by them.
On one occasion a war party, beaded by one of the
principal braves, entered the Red River settlement and
came Into his house. To these Le preached the gos-
pel. the message of peace and goodwill. The reverend
gent'encen then dgeribed the vas into hardships both he
and his wife widen d whilst travelling over thou vast
plains, and also whilst prooreding some hundreds of
miles in a canoe on one of the rivers. He also stated
that be had translated into the Cave language, spoken
one. 3000 miles of that country, the Gospel of St.
Mark, and (Aber portions of Scripture. The Owning of
the languages took up ten years of his missionary life.
In translating the Scriptures lie Intd been greatly
assisted lay his wife, who had translated the tat
Epistle of St. John. The northern portion of the
country canal-led of Immense formits, mountains,
rivers, and lake.. In the woods the red Indians lived,
they employed their lint in hunting and &bin( daring
the summer months, and in winter in trapping martins
and foxes. Of the latter one the silver fox was the
most valuable, Its for bring worh from £2O to £3O.
T1.,er..,s Bay Company(erathepolndians exchanged with the
H
for common necessaries of
life, The climate of the country was exereasieely hot
In summer and severely cold in winter. Daring the
former even up to northerlythe most
dogs a
pert.,,,
sun flies and barge flies elm
and were • constant wares of misery. Often he had
been obliged in radiates to wearing a veil over his fag
to sit amid.t smoke en as to bomb!' to eat his ding/.
Vegetation wee very rapid. Wheat sown at the end of
Nay VIM ripe ia July. Tb. winters were ea 'otiosely
old VW .ebirmorseter wool down to le sad 30

degrees below sego. The reverend patienten than pee
a detailed account of the mission work, which began in
1822 by Mr. West, and had hien carded on with snob
mamma that when Le arrived there, ho found twee,
Rudd, ih.• native toiminnary, had gathered a ekerak of
300 mender.. and he Ind privilege of htreiei,
large number of Wit old and young. TI,. ilssjsnnry
an well .11 elrewlere had to work for his ewe
living. make hie own elothee build his own boom, and
paddi. Lig own MHO!" (lAng.hter.) He then gams
a homoorsomc dracription of his first inirtion•home,
ho lust mole. b.ers of tioler and plmtere.l with black
moil, whit. ram, dish ii, 1.12 NM o .•111 lii, bet the
ght to 3%1.1 throe. T. I. w note lovr.v:r all
charr,e I *...1 Le tad en • a comfortatt:e mi•sion station
eod spot, Lucke. with th. it 4-.i.e• ti•mor to broren, lint
be was not ea i.gol with ilia.. The It ..... an Catholics
irno.•er.b.l many nil PS f•lilser north than the
EnZli.44 111'-... way, and I e felt it enogroied
h ....tr on a mintier of the Enlist. Pr..t st,e•
elanrch..nnt to be outdone b. them. Ile therefore Eft
Itia station, and travelling I erond tie Cheat Wave LA*
en I the Culla Ilear Lake, awl past the Roman C.itbolic
st.tions took povn mitt^ of Il.e region b. Y.. 11.1 in
the some of Christ. Many at the pr...ent, day „pot,
ageitod .... a. but though 1.• con'd not bring any
lining wttneve• in their (Avon, he would call two dead
on. it—one a Mr. Te-ill., chief factor of te e flu Isom Buy
Company hod left them • leguY if I:10.000. cod another
pe.son who had ...minted • fortune of 140,11110 had left it
to tl.e Church U asionary Society, hi• widow having
a libe intereet in it. The le.. gentleman concluded
he esetiet that be WWI pi/MI.IM Vie Church
Mi-sionary S-ciety wag loal to the h.eab„ee t„ the
Church of England. Vote* of thank, were then unani-
mously naawd to the Chairman and deputatn.... The
ev, sing toppling was held in the Corn. geloange, which
we. well Ailed. The sollection was £l6 24 , melting
with flund., LIT 17e.