The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-13 00:00:00

THE MARRIAGE "IMPEDIMENT" AT
DEICE ItNOIR.

Commenting on the refusal of the curate of Bore
Regis to marry Jooeph Brewer and Jane Payne Butler,
until the latter had enbmitted to • fortnight'• religious
Instruction and the ceremony of baptism, as recently
recorded in our columns, the bails, News observes :
" There is unquestionably among our own population
• strong reluctance to regard marriage as merely a civil
ceremony. The tradition of the times when it was
regarded as one of tho sacraments still survives among
the penple—espeeitlly among the rued population—and
make. them feel that the marriage is hardly a 111114 riagei
at all if it ims eot been blessed by a minister of religion
Nor eon there be any real objection to the prevalence o
this feeling, se long as it does not impose itrelf on those
who do not share it. AI the most xerious event in life, the
step moat full of weal or woe for the future of those who
unite their destinies, the majority of men and women
will probably always desire to associate It with a
religious service. They will naturally associate religions
obligation with their marriage vows, and will seek an
opportunity of publicly recognising not merely the legal
obligations but the moral responsibilities of their
marriage union. But this recognition of • moral and
religious obligation must be voluntary, or the word
element evaporates at once. Done under presaure from
without it becomes nothing more then • reluctant °em-
phasis) with • legal requirement The State has nothing
to do with this side of wedlock. It does not undertake
to enforce the moral obligations of the unions. It
I registers the contract as one made between two of Its
citixens, and it enforces upon them the legal obligations
the contrast involves. It watcher' over the civil inWrests
of the contracting partied in the ease if marriage in
exactly the same manner as that in whieh it protects
individual rights in all other contracts. All, therefore,
that the State has any necessity, right, or desire to do
Is to see that the civil contrast is duly made. It
dernande the observance of certain preliminaries as pre.
cautions against the too hasty formation of a contract
from which it recognises no honourable release, exults a
certain amount of publieiry, and provide, for its due
registration. These conditions being complied with, the
' marriage contract has all the force the State can give it.
In its legal aspects it is • completed contract, and all its
I obligations are lust the same whether it has been made
in the preeenee of a minister of relielon or of • civil
officer of the State. Indeed, the recognition by the
State of the part which the minister takes in it is merely
the result of tradition on the one side, and of a tense
of convenience on the other. The civil contract and the
religious ceremony goon together, because such has been
English custom, and because the necessity for a double
ceremony is therefore avoided. Ilut it is only the civil
side of the matter which the civil power recognise.; so
far ...the law is concerned the religious ceremony adds
nothing to the force or the obligation of the eon.
tract; it is a voluntary, beautiful, and deeireble
addition to the solemnities of the occasion ; but
whether made with it or without- it the marriage is
oqoany obligatory, equally secure, said equally plaited ,
ender all the sanction. law can give it. These very I
obvious facts seem to be lost sight of by many of the
clergy in the present day. With a laudable desire to
see the people invoking the sanctions of religion for the
most solemn act of social life, they are doing all they
can to set Church and State by the ears. The bitter
opposition to purely civil marriages and the rapidly in- '
creasing number of those marriages bate more relation
to each other than the clergy think. But even such
opposition is wisdom compered with the action of the
aerate at Here Regis. its' very unwise to attempt to '
drive the people into anv religious ceremony whatever;
but to put obstacles In their way when they voluntarily
seek it is folly of which none but haierrained enthusiasts I
could be guilty. The requirement of baptism as pre-
liminary to marriage Is, of course, both illegal and
absurd. A weak ignorant woman may be iodated to
submit to such • requirement, but the result of Pa
enforcement in other cases will simply be to dr.ve
rurbsptiend people to the Registrar's °Bloc and to
I intim/0 neglect of the religioos ceremony altogether.
When will these people recollect that the day of
priestly assumption has gone by for ever? When will
they leans that religion is ceasing to be an affair of
State, and that their function as its ministers is, not to
compel. but to persuade? The English people have
never been tolerant of ecclesiastical assumption, and
they are still less likely to he tolerant of it at • time
when even in Austria it is no longer borne with. It is
much to be desired that marriage should continue to be
regarded as a suitable otreasioo for seeking the public
sanctions of religion, but if anything can form the
people into complete contentment with its merely
civil performance, such set, as those which the curate
of Bere Regis has committed, and the Bishop of Salis-
bury has tacitly sanctioned, will quickly do it.",

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL TO A SUNDAY
_ECHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.

On Friday evening last the Chapel in Charlton
Marshall was filled with • very attentive assembly
chiefly composed of children and young people attend.
lag the Sunday School, who were gathered together
to witness and join in the testimonial to their beloved
and mush esteemed friend, Ur. H. Hodges, of Bland-
ford. For nearly twenty-five years Mr. Hodges has
zealously and cheerfully laboured among the people of
the place, as Superintendent of the Sunday School, and
assisted in medal:ties the public) services both on
Sundays and week-dsy evenings. To mark their
appreciation of the value of such kindness, the young
people very cordially joined in contributing from their
little store • sunlaient sum towards the purchase) of •
timepiece, which, with an address, was presented to
him previous to the ordinary weekly meeting on Friday
evening.
The proceedings were commas's:l by Mr. HUNT
HATOL, one of the teachers, expressing in the name of
the contributors, their respect, esteem, and Christian
love to Mr. Hodges, In the practical manifestation of
which be heartily Joined, and atatod that he believed
be only expressed the thoughts of many present when
he said It had been good to be there on many previous
oressions, and it had been a source of great pleasure to
hint to moot with the young friends and confer with

them reepeciting Ilse a:premien of their esteem to Mr.
Hodges which they were now about to present. This
they did with au their hearta le a faint and triffing
acknowledgment of their appreciation of his in ie-
fatigable and unceasing efforts among them. and
prayed that God would Islas lent enntinnally in basket
and store, and spare him msny years to labour in toe
service 01 11, Lord and Master.

The adress, to which was added 120 signatures, was
theo read :

° We, the mulersigned +choler., teacher., and friend. ef
Charlton Chapel Sunday Sch.sd have thought how deeply we
are ittdet.telt. yen for your constant and unremitting atten-
tion to us f, so many years no Superintendent ~f eimriton
(hspel Sunday School. !limy time., have we naked about
)our punctuality and unceasing efforts to endeavour to make
the service, dear and precious to to, and this we bent stnow-
lotige boo,
heun fully realised in our Inglivl.ll al experiment,
and I. highly valued by no. We are unanimous In the wish to
make ..00te stuall expresalon ..f our hive to you, for the
apiritual go.si we base felt, wake God's blessing, through
your persevering manner and very kind attention to us. We
therefore feel very meat pleasure and delight in making you
to accept this small present, an a mark of our sincere and
heartfelt thanks for the great good we have received under
God's blowing through your instrumentality and untiring
seal, hoping and praying that ne.l's blessing will rest upon
you contittunity, voi Out 300 Ve I I i.e M rIA to UN run, many
yeses t. atTonl no thaws Invaluable religious services you have
so long rendered to us."

Jklite MAYOR, of Charlton, In the name of the
contributor, then presented the time-piece to Mr.
Hodges. It was u 'try baadvotne one svt in white
marble, with hares of hor.e and serpent on the top,
and bore the following inscription, neatly engraved:—

" Pmeented to Mr. Henry Hodge., of Mendlord, by the
..-holang, teacher., and friends of Charlton Clo•pel Sunday
(ktobwr (HI,

Mr. Hoosiret, in reply, said : My dear frienda—Of ten
as I have spoken to you, and on sotto occasions with
considerable diflitrulty to myself, yet I most acknowledge
that the nee:motel and unlooked-for act of kindness
that you have thia night met together to show ruse-awes
me to feel at • greater loss than ever so to what I should
say, for the value of yoer gift in itself roust be con-
siderable, but that is little compared with the value of
that feeling towanls me of which it is the expression.
Some among you are alresily aware of the origin of my
connection with you, bat as many may not be, I may
he allowed t, advert to it. Mr. henry Brown, who by
the advice of a friend at Poole, on hie leaving that town
for Blandford, sought work in fhb village on it Sunday.
(.Irni
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dt o icys hh foundation
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front that time by his invltetion I attouded him on the
fir.t Sabbath in 1914, to SU up a vacancy for the day.
My ebb so impressed use that I wee indaced to repeat
I it the next Sunday, :Lod from that time I became •
I labourer among you. Haring the past 24 years and
nine months that I have been engaged here I have been
most kindly supported and encouraged by many kind
friends who have stood by me. We have had our
reasons of joy and seasons of trial, and often a dark
cl iud, and especially on one omission • very dark cloud
rested upon our propects ; but I was always matained
by the thought that the work was God's work. The
dark cloud had • silver edge of light, and by and by it
passed away, and we have cause to be thankful to God
that he made the day dear for as. With regard to the
special purpose that h el given rite to this meeting and
the address which hex jest been read. I am Out at all
aware what name. way be on the list for! have not had the
opportunity of seeing it, but Ida merit ebteerely and car-
neatly thank everyone who have either by word or deed
contributed to this special act of kindnem It would be
wrong of me to say that I shall not value it very highly.
To produce it there must have been very earnest effert.
but there will be to WO in this present a much deeper
value, distinct from the money value, and thet is, that
whether the contribution was a penny or any larger
BOW, I shall look uton it as being air.. act coming from
you as expressive of your love and kind feeling to me,
and the experience of the past 24 years nail nine months
that I have been with you, has been that of uniform
kindness. and that out of about 80 young persons who
have received instruction in this school, finding front
only one have I ever received either by letter or by
word of month, anything that I could find the least
fault with, and the kindness I have experienced as the
superintendent of the Sunday school, has also been
equally shown by the congregation generally who
attend this place of worship. Permit me now publicly
to thank those friends who have no ably assieted toe in
carrying on the work here; bad it not been for their lid
it would have been impossible for me to have gone on.
After alluding to the liberty given in the school and
mistreating it with others more stictly managed, Mr.
1 Hodges continued : It is pleasant and stitisfactory to
us to know that from year to year we are gathering our
young people among us to listen to our teaching, and
we have emsl cause to believe that that teaching has
been in many instances the instrument, by the blessing
of God, ti titer everleating well-being and happiness.
You will snow me now to touch upon more serious
ground. My motto hes always been with regard to you
I meek not yours but you" and I desire with deep and
heartfelt thankfulness to Almighty God to look bock
1 upon the put and to praise Him that he has caused
the influence of His Holy Spirit to rest upon oar meet-
ngs here. Seine now in the realms of bliss, others
in our midst have listened to the wi ris of salvation
within these walls ; and whilst you have felt PO deep a
pleasure in presenting this token of your etc-eta and
love to me quite as much, I fully believe, as I have in
receiving it. I would earnestly entreat you not to forget
that there is as presentment which all of you era required
Ito make to Almighty God. Some have by God's mercy
done so, and I earnestly hope and pray that if even the
tensembranoe of what you have joined in thin evening
should pees awey from your minds, you will from this
time seek to consecrate your life, your soul, your all t 3
God by accepting the offers of mercy and ulvation
through Jesus Christ. Mr. Hodges concluded by
earnestly praying that the holy Spirit might be given to
each one present.
After singing an hymn, Mr. SAUNDERS, of Longfiect,
engaged in prayer, and delivereed an earnest and
afieetionate address to the children.
The timepiece was famished by Mr. W. Wyatt, of
Blandforil, anil was lunch admired-
WAREHAM ANNUAL SESSIONS.

The annual sessions of the peace for the borough of
Wareham were held yesterday (Monday). At twelve
1 o'clock the Reeerder (O. W. Ferrer, Eel.), with the
I Mayor (C. Willcox, Ease). Antrum: J. Penton, W.
I Daniel, T. Randall, and re Bennett. and the Town
I Clerk (Freeland lilliter, E..' ), wearing thcir officiel
I robes and attended by the conotebles of the Court and
I the borough beadle, walked in preemies from the
residence of the Mayor to the Town-hall.
The followicg gentlemen were sworn on the grand
jury 1-11 r. C. Veenley (foreman), Mr. J. H. Baggs, '
1 Mr' R. J. Karelialimy, Mr. E. Davis, Mr. A. Bouncy,
[ Mr' .1. Shepherd, Mr. P. Nicol. Mr. S. Sansom, Mr. W. ,
I
1 Spioer, Mr. J. C. Elmes, Mr. W. H. flardiman, Mr. W.
I llarehman, Mr. J. Davis, Mr. H. Best, Mr. G. Best,
I Mr. T. W. Badman, Mr. F. Begin, Mr. C. Beale. Mr.
1
1 Jijoblo. d Mr. llainnghain,
jffi pirs.lcie.r.l.leer, Mr. G. Hibbs, Mr. G.
The Town Clerk havin; read the proclamation against '
vice and inimorality, the Recommit delivered his charge.
Mr. 0. W. F sail: Gentlemen of the grand
[ jury- I have great ;demure in meeting you again on our
I anneal caremioa of assembling, and as we so seldom do
meet, perhaps I shell not weary you by recalling to
your recollection what in my view is the greet advantage
of our doing so. It Is, of comae, to you trouble to leave
and it
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come from • distance ; but we have an object in coming,
which I take to be this—to show that so far as in us lies
we are ready as good subjects .4 her Majesty to do our
best towards the establishment end maintenance of the
laws of Great Britain and Ireland. One cannot but feel
I think, tbe mores. the well gom on, that it is in the
thorough maintenance of our laws and in the babite of
obedience to the laws SA enacted in OM kingdom that
we and our children most look for prosperity and well-
being. Wherever one looks around, in any country where
law is not respected, we find very clearly there is
no such thing whatever as liberty—that all liberty is
degraded into license, and that there only, and in that
country alone, can real liberty, freedom, and prosperity
be found, where law is thoroughly and willingly obeyed
and respected; and I think that our attendance here to-
day is to show that we, as far as we can. will give our
sdhesion to that principle, and we will take the
trouble to skyey out the law and to midst in the
maintenance of It as far as we can. As we are all per-
fectly well aware, the political exigencies of the past
session have at any rate produced one good effort, that
in the exercise of my anneal habit of drawing your
attention to the enters that have been pared daring
the last melon, I shall not have to detain you at any
greet length in this my 'huge, because there have
been necessarily very few opportunities of passing
statues this year. I have often remarked to you that
the future historian of the nation will naturally look to
the etetuter which are passed ea the great element of his
writing, for therein will be recorded what is passing
from yepr to year. These Is one semen which every
Englishman will regard with the utmost satideation, i.e,.
the instate which notices the fact of the mamas granted
by Providence, we may ahead say no far as we are con-
sented, bloodless success of the British arms in
Abyainnia. The etente bean the record of the honours
and pension conferred on Sir Robert Napier, now Lord
Keeler of linden ; and I do not think, if we carry
back our thoughts to this time last year. any one of us
can turn from that without feeling how deeply grateful
we oughht..ktoob7lalanthoiheaaitumPoaromtviuhindenthu:ooo:::nulwarettiOCeitilfnredtlashwiap.ammiutpord i I::
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enterprise to be carried out with such complete success,
with absolutely Delos. to ourselves, with so very much
moral prestige and credit, and. conaiderieg what was to
' be done, with so very little injury comparatively to the
, oi intonate people against whom the forces of Her
Majesty were obliged to be directed. Going on in the
statutes we notice the abolition of ompulsory church
rates--• very important measure, and one which I believe
is already bearing good fruits, and tending to justify
the preamble of the Act, which says that in many
parishes where church rates have been made and levied
hitherto, it has given rise to litigation and ill-feeling.
The Act has been in operation but a short time, yet from
what I hear, I ani very greatly in hopes, that the objects
stated in the preamble of the Act—the removal of such
litigation and ill-feeling—will be effected with no smell
amount of name in the United Kingdom. There are
few Acts hewing upon what wtheabtotepeiegnin fvuhtincrewsmessminonnai.
will have more scope for attention—the general social
improvement of the nation. Amongpl.e oathtehrsep.l wtililnismotaincey
the Act giving power to the Puositymaasterab.slelemnteheraitltththe:
acquire possession of the different telegraphs in the
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in every station in a oettspicion piece.
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" noxious weed," and of those who especially dislike its-
ene-11, am is the misfortune of 10:000 people. All railways
worpt the metropoliten. have now to provide in every
train in which there is more than one carriage of each
class, smoking carriages. Again by the 22ed seeion ills
smelted that after the first of April neat every ' which
runs more than twenty miles without stopping shell be
provided with commnnication between the !weenie es
and the etz.r.l. It seemed very wonderful that ibis
ehotild not have boen adopted long ego. Being inails
compulsory, I cannot doubt that simple Deans of meet-
ing the nquirements of the Act will be found. It
cannot be that theailstay
science
and of nineteenthtteligrheaphin
übcentury,
to
which has ui.de r
find easy means of oommanication between the puma-
gees and guard of • train. There are other sections for
et'thesuiientilwtihlle be noel ladite
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successfully
carriedl c totatt
There is an amendment of the Poor Law Act, but I
do not think 'there is anything very pirtiettlar in it
to whit= I need direct your attention • but overseer.and those engaged immediately in carryng out the A, t
will do well to refer to It. There is another Act, which
I bore will not affect num% In this town, i.e., the Act
regulating the sale of poiaons. Extra precautions are
put upon the sale of poieons, and hereafter no one will
be allowed to sell poisons who has not passed an
exieminstion under the Pharmaceutical Society. Some
of you will remember the ludicrous same in the Pickwick
Peeers, where a gentleman serving on the jury tries to
get off by anf intimation that hie apprentice laid a strong
idea that a black draught meant oxalic add, and r.fe
reria—(laughter). There will now no longer be any
denier of such a result, if the peacribed
examination be carried out with moderate see-
ms.. There is one Act which may be of cowed, reble
Importance in the lamer town., but dem not apply to
this, viz., the Act for the purpose of improving the
dwellings of artisans and labourer, where the owner,
neglect to do so, which gives power to the health officer
in the tows or borough to carry out the necessary
improvement, or the destruction of the property if srr
required. There is another Act, what), bolding the
opinions I have always expressed here, I consider
of great importance, and a rtep in the right direction
the Sanitary Act of 1843 e. The preamble sets forth
that it is to mike further province) for the removal of
rause matter from dwelling-houses and mend the
Sanitary Act of 1866. It gives further powere to the
sewer authority and nuisances authority in districts.
and, 60 far as be could see, very proper powers and not
at all extravagane ; but the special point (or which.
...lag to my view of sanitary matters, I look upon
the Act as leirtioularly valuable, is that for the lime
time in sanitary legislation, the existents of what I
believe to he the greatest sanitary improvement the
me, namely, the earth system, is recognised. There
are powers by this Act recognising the substitution of
earth for water, in particulaa arrangements • and, not
onlyl recognising the right of indiyidoeis so to
use earth instead of water, but giving power
to the sanitary autborites to use in their discretion
earth instead of water. When we remember how very
long it always must take—and very properly so—to
introduce new ideas and new practiaes, I think that
those who believe 11111 I do most strongly, and as I have
often told you, in the exceeding value of earth as epplied
to sanitary purposes, it is a matter of congratulation
that within about fifteen years the use of that very
simple and convenient material should have boon
recognised by the legislature, and have found its way
into the statute book. There is another act, the subject.
of which, thank Gad, seldom some before us in this
county, I mean an alteration in the mode of carrying
out capital punishment, by which criminal, are executed
eitein the prison walls, and the dreadfal scene whicl.
used to take dam will be avoided. The law I,aa been
so 'tarried nut on two or three different octanes , and
scams to promise •inply to fulfil its purpose. I think
think those are ;thew all tbe Acts to which it is nom*.
nary for me to call your attention with the exception of
one which will be in the mouths and in the thoughts
of many denim the next few weeks, I mean the
Parliamentary Elections Act of 1504. The preamble
states that whereas it is expedient to amend the laws
relating to election petitiens, and to provide more
effectually for the prevention of corrupt practices at
Parliamentary elections, this statute is p.m. Holding
as all doubtlets do, that the great moral fortes and
power of thi empire depend largely on oar representa-
tive institutions, it cannot but be, whatever shade of
opinion we are, that we unite in the wish that our
representative institutions should be as efficient sad as
smnd, as the nature of bomb° affairs will permit.
It is logically clear that if the sources elf
thesis representative institutions 160 impure, the
great prob•bility is that the institutions themselves
will partake of that impurity ; and therefore it must
be the object of every !statesman to secure the purity of
those sourer' as much no possible. I must say—although
of course people take different views of this, a. of every-
thing else— I entertain the greatest hope that the
principle of this Act is thoroughly and comp!. tely cor-
rect, and that the practice of enquiring into c,rrujit
praztices an i anything connected with election petitions
by the heal authorities, and not by the members of the
Howe of Commons, is the way to get at the machinery
for effecting that upon which all will theoretically agree.
It is to be tried, for it is an Act to Imit only three
years ; if it does not succeed it can be Amendel, and if
it answers it can be extended. The principle is that
corrupt practices, which is • terns having a
full and wide meaning, when made the subject
of an election petition shall have a fair, real,
local investigation and be not left as has
hitherto been the case, to tribunals differently coo-
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.rutih.eicdit;
of the realm. The subject of this Act has brought to
my mind another matter. and you won't take amiss
what I say to you here. Here we are in this borough
of IVarebein ; personally I do not reside in the
borough, and I have no pars is the amens( elwtioo,
but, of course, many of you are voters, and whether
such or not, mast unijoestionably exercise very great
influence heron your neighbours and those about you.
Whet I would say is just this, and you may put my.
self with you, for I do not wish to make any invidious
dietinceions in the matter—let us in this coming time
tty to exercise upon the subject of politics just the SUDO
amount of goodwill, and good temper, and 'charity, which
weexereise upon the ordinary subjectedlife—(applause).
I do not =ippon that any two of us in this room agree
completely on any one subject, people differ in opinion
ripen everything, but, because we differ, we do not bit
each other in the face; we can differ upon ordinary
matters with goodwill and charity. I would suggest
that charity oftentimes, and especially it such tin,., is
the present, consists not only in not blaekguarding each
other—in avoiding the use of ill language or ill thoughts
t 'want each other, but also in exercising comn.err.
charity I will say, and in not believing of each other
things either because they are said or because Gay
appear in print. It is • very wise rule which I hay,.
tried to ect on, to believe only half of what I see when
it involves an evil imputation on somebody else, and
absolutely and positively to believe nothing I beer.
In conclusion he asked the jury to make their usual
inspection of the town, and °leaned that although they
did not resort to legal compulsion in carrying out the
presentments they made, he held those presentaients
bad considerable mend influence in inducing the sub-
jeeta of them to attend to the matters therein noticed
without having recourse to the stricter and more un-
pleasant means of legal procedure.
The Court then adjourned, and the jury inspected
the town. On resuming the following presentment was
made :—"The Grand Jury are very much obliged to the
Retarder for his able and tied address to them this
morning. Respecting the military state of the town we
are much pleased to say there are great improvement.
arising no doubt from the efficient manner in which the
sanitary officer performs his duties, and the jury are
happy to say they have no indictments to make."
The Recorder expressed his satisfaction that they
found the town in so satisfy:eery • state, thanked the
jury for their attendance, and discharged them.
The smart then adjourned to 4th November next.
The annual dinner was held at the Red Lion Hotel,
under the presidency of the foreman of the /mod jury
Mr. C. Yearsley. The Itworder, with the Mayor.
Alderman, and Town Clerk of tbo borough, emoted
the invitation of the jury to dine with them.