The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-23 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

Sermons were preeebed at St. Peter'e *hatch. on
Smiley, on behalf of tine 'sachem, society, whim 0 (Ti
was oolleeted. Toe summit 0100ii11(.1 were held oa
Monday. Toe afternoon mestin4 wee hell at two
o'olook. The RSV. K. W. Nall. ft Mar of Dorchester
St. Peter's, presided, sad there were oo the platform—
The Nov. Garr J. Glyn, the See, S. Ludlow, the itf..
C. J. Sled. the Rev. T. Nesse, the K... H. .1. Deese,
and Mr. G. J. Sawarde (depotstioa). Tht etapo t 0....
was very small. There were preseat—Mrs. Stitches,
Mrs. &idiot,. Miss Pope, Ilt.. J. Laos, Mrs. Cooniag-
too, Mrs. Mies Veisey. Kiss ',Ain't me. Mies
Taylor, An. Mahlon, Mrs. Bird, ke. The meeting
wee opened with prayer by the Ito.. T. Meer..
The Sainsuar (Raw. T. Nears) Men read the report,
whleb showed total reeelpte ESIB 113 i. U., and that the
•ontributtons forwarded to the society and copses.
amounted to £lB3 Ti., leaving £33 11., 21. ia the
bank. _

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The Oitalanai remarked that the receipt' were £2l
mon thee lost year, which was so tcr satisfactory,
although there was still room for Improvement.
The Bar. Cur GitAg addreseed the meeting. Re said
that he found Dorset subseribed to the Bible flockety at
the rate 0110 per head, while turtle wools of Bagleod
the rate was only a lashing; Wales cmtribuiel
per head, and the Island of Anglesey.. coma as 3 I per
head. He referred to the work of the society an Frame
stating Om* it had simulated no lea moo 5.000,006
ea*. of the Scriptural; and also to the good done
by Bible solporteurs la various parts of Germany,
shris, and Austria. Is the past year the agents of
asty had *old 2,300,00 J Bibles or portions of
God's Word. Mexico ever moos 1821 had been striving
for religions liberty. The Bible agents of the *misty
net with much permeation bet good was done, and
list year in one of the chureime there were no lea than
400sominholosate. All parts of the world were beiog
opened to the soalety, sad it was been increasingly
supported and year alter year We number of seeoeiations
inerateed._ _

—Mr. G. J. EDWanim (the Deputation) referred to the
first traaelation of the Bible by Wickiiffe, ited said that
sines this society had been estahlielied (68 years age)
60 millions of staples of the Book he first trimalated
had been cdreulated, and la no less than 900 distant
btaguegea. Daring the pad two year* ties sooiety sent
out at the rate of six (moles a minute day and night.
The society met with oppositioh, for man mod that Is,
work disturbed men's minds; but the society 'peat
none of their fends in answering attests—they only
sought the more diligently to diitribute God's word.
He thought they would all agree with Dr. Pasey that
the best defence that could be written of the Bible was
I the Bible itself. He held that the biessiaga of the
! Reformation could hest be insiotaioel by the oirehlatioa
lor the Scriptures. The whols Bible was now sold for
61, and the New Testament for 21, and • Gospel,
Epistle, or the Psalms for ld. Then the society gave
free sepias for the elok poor. to prisoners In gao4 to
Sunday seltools, and ragged schools, to sailors and
' saltier', to emigrauts and convict., for the bedrooms
of hotels and the waiting-rooms of railway ststiona In
all directions the society endeavoured to spread the
Siriplaree. An interesting &vermeil of their Work
vs. supplying the Soapiness to the blind, of whom
there are many thousands in this country. At first
providing motes of the Bible in raised charm:tire so
that the blind *Quid read by the ail of their fingers
" feeling after (Jurist if haply they might dad him,"
was very expensive, but of late they had boea enallsti
mach to reduce it. He spoke of the areal seen of the
&rioters' in Austria Nino, the otmpaigo which wee
finished at 8 dove; and of the state of Spain jut before
the revolutooo. Hi found • Bible at au old ooeksia,d,
but the seller was very unoomfortable at his dissevering
it, and when he found that the speaker was resolved to
possess it, he begged bim to put it under his coat and
not tell any one where he pureamed it. Alter the
rseelatlen Marshal Prim farrowed religious liberty,
*ad in the year 1869 the satiety prietsd 300,000 eopies
of the deriptares to be poured into Spats, and no people
in Europe received the &bit more gledly than Cm
Spaniards. There vase gnat defineacy of education
amongst the people as in all &knee Catiaoilo ematries,
still they got some of the bleeenge ol God's word.
Oa oponing • preaching-room for the first time, 1830
people crowded in, and amongst the andierice wad •
Routish priest who iubseqhently breams a Yrotertaut
preacher. lie referred to toe remind est iblishatent of
so Italian Bible Society at home, when toe 'peahen
Included ilre Hyacinthe, 0 tvassi, and others, &laurel
Fishpmde (an Eaglishutsa) presiding. lie mentioned
lan interview with Pere Hyiscriathe after be had broken
with the Pope, when he attributed Resisted's happineas
and prosperity to the open Bible, arid said every other
country mast have • free country for the people too.
The speaker referred to toe stenos' lase° by Dr.
Doillager and °tiers in Germany, and to tie ddlloalties
of the papacy throughout Europe,for at tins time every
country in this ghetto of the wont is open to the
operations of the bilda Society. Finely he Nooks of
the aid aff ordeal to all the missionary societies by this
society. Never sines the Bible sal awn Wc4lll4a was
It doing saoh • work as now; and aaver moos the Bible
society had been formed had it sada • fiat before it.
The CHLI•Ma• said there were tea points of view
In which he wished to bring the work of the Bib!,
Safety before them : Ist, that the Buil* sold do what ,
man could oot and without men', help; 2nd, that the !
best organisation man wall dense was powerless ,
against error, and superstition, and Alt if for one
moment the Bible was loss sight of. In illustration of
the first point be mentioned that • chief of a tribe in
Asia who obtained a Bible In Alextadris became eon-
veiled hod his whole tribe, and their only guide as to
the ordinances of religion was the Bible Smolt. With
regard to the emend polathi said that a yeas( married
woman—whom he knew Wore she was married— :
OM* to hiss and asked him to speak to bee
about religion. Blte had been for many months
under deep religions eonvleldoia and lived Is a town
In We diocese where the Gospel ele never heard I
This woman with four or dye more net for sated
prayer that God would send the Gospel to them, narl
so He did, teaching them withoas toe toterveation
of any hataaa agent. Shortly after it wee anoonosed
that there wee going to ha a mission there: we were
very likely to have similar meetings in the pert of the
dames beton long, The gospel wee plalnly preaske4