The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-19 00:00:00

JUVENILE MISSIONARY
_MEETING AT

EAST FORDINGTON.

ADTMSII3 BY THII M. G. MOULS, U.D.

The annual meeting of the juvenile branch of the
Dorchester and Fordington Church Missionary Asso-
ciation was held in Pordington Schoolroom at three
o'clock in the afternoon. The Vicar, Rev. A. A.
Leonard, opened the proceedings with prayer, and a
brief address., in which he alluded to the enthusiasm in
the missionary cause called forth, by the labours of
his predecessor, and which, be believed, would be
lasting, 1111 it wag the result of true ;and deep
work. - . .

...Ii; called upon the Rev. C. F. Powys, the local
secretary, to read the report. This had been alrea ly
presented in past at the general annual mooting, last
April. It was a very one wing one, inasmitch as it
recnicied an increase in the collections of nearly £2O,
as compared with last year. Mr. Powys a Wed that
the printed statement of some further details regarding
the progress in the Sunday School coliecti .111.. Both
boys and girls bad done well doting the twelvemonth
past; the girls contributed considerably more than in
the previous year, and the boys, who formsrly gave
little more than half their due share of the total,
having nearly doubled this proportion.
The Rev. G. E. Momm, 10.1)., acted as deputation
on the occasion, and addressed the meeting at some
length In answer to the (positions—What are the
missionaries? and Where are they? The latter (linea-
tion took him and his audience to Western, Eastern,
and Central Africa, to North-West America, and the
North Pacific Coast, to India, North, West. Southern,
and the Punjab, to New Zeeland, to Mauritius, to the
Holy Land, and Persia, to Japan, and lastly to Chins,
where the speaker expected, Clod willing, very soon to
find himself once more. He mentioned one or two
tokens of the reality of Gospel work amongst the
people of the Chakeang province, in which his principal
duty will probably lie, as it has been in past years.
The eagerness of a Chinese girl in seeking baptism, and
the patient courage of a Christian woman under bitter
persecution were his Inatanoes. Ile showed the children
a rough sketch of his missionary "cathedral," • very
unpretending building, of which be had had to be the
architect and in part the builder. It stands in the
heart of the huge city of flangchow.
The children, who behaved very well throughout,
answered several questions in • way that showed
attention and interest and a fair knowledge of
geography.
Upwards of 300 children was believed t ) have been
present, including the National Schools and some
young ladles' schools. There were, besides, many
older friends, grouped as usual on the wings of the
dense mass of young people. Amongst these were—
Rev. Canon Smith, Rev. Mr. Knipe and Mrs. Knipe,
Rev. E. W. Collinson and Mrs. Collinson, Bey. Mr.
Johnston, Mrs. Powys, Mrs. Henry Smith, Mies
S Blanche mith, Miss Campbell, Mies B. Campbell,
Kim Wynyard, and many kind and faithful friends
of the Juvenile Association.

-p-litiOr-n;:—Z:i-Oik; parts of the room were
adorned with a palm and other plants, kindly lent by
Mr. S. Harris ; and sundry Chinese suites, and other
articles, Including models of a Sedan chair, of a
buffalo, and of agricultural pumps and implements,
wtris also exhibited.

if-ymn; -;e-. snug during the meeting, Mr.
Norman leading them on the organ. The proceedings
ended soon after four o'clock with the benediction,
and a collection of between £4 and £5 was made at the
dean