The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-10 00:00:00

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Henri Moule,
Born 27th January, 1801,
1)1e4 3rd Feb. 1880. •
On the coffin were two very handsome wreaths of
flowers, and others had been acdtered thereon by lol-
ling bands. It was long before the puishioners could
be induced to disperse.
During the funeral the blinda were drawn in many
mess in Dorchester and Fordington. The Rev. C.
'. Bingham and Rev. Reginald Smith would have
- present and paid the last t Ace°s of respect to
valued colleagnA, but were prevented by illammes
...I by the severe weather.
Among the clergymen present besides those we have
"were-the -Revd.. Powys, H. B. Baikal, Jones,
. -i, and W. Barium
Sunday following the funeral was so bright and clew
-a it might almost have bees taken as the drstfruits of
3i. The congregation gathered early at the clat
o which the bells had been pealing in their usual
'Wul manner, as if to teach that we sorrow not as
I without hope. Besides the ordinary worshippers at
aigton church came very many from other •
, so that the ancient Mike was densely pareffsioad
m enough could not be found for those who arrived less
rig than the main body. The g Ileries and pulpit were
-1 draped in black the congregation was almost
.. in mourning, and there was unusual solemnity in
• service.
The *Meet of the Vicar's missionary sons, Rev. George
wile, wooed the service, which commenced with the
hymn (appendix t o Fordington hymn-book):-
Sing we the song of those who stand
Around the eternal throne."
• proper Psalms (38, 30 and 40), especially perhaps
4th, seemed most appropriate to the solemn occasion;
It was like a voice of cheer from the glorified cl-
' •, the assembly sang his hymn (41st) :-
" Lord God! in Thee confiding
Our faith ow fear dispels."
the sermon the hymn sung was (28th) :-
- Blest be the everlasting God,
The Father of our Lord.
, There were signs of pleased expectation when the Rev.
IR/adios, Youle gave out his text from-
Timothy, Hi, 10-" But thou haat fully known my
dee rine."
(Pressure on our spare and time compel OA briefly to
ammarise the preachers eloquent and weighty remarks.)
lie commenced-Yon will perhaps to surprised, dear
.ethreo, to me this pulpit occupied this morning by one
my father's sons. It would have been more usual by
r, and cart dilly to us a deep relief and rest in the strain
sorrow, if some friend or friends of many years of my
- father's could have take occasion from his death to
spoken of him and of his blessed Lord. But this
A not be ; the friends of my father's youth and Prima
friends who walked beside ham in his youthful morn.
and noontide, are either gone before him to the
• above, or, alas, are kept from us by ill.
The preacher continued that so his Odle
lwere resolved to seek the help of God in speak-
ep of him. Though there Is much that sons can
• best, yet there is also mach that they cannot say
, all, but they were resolved with the help of God's linos
, cast themselves upon the a4ectionate kindness of his
- to speak this day, morning, afternoon, and night,
Anion% One eon/Adoration might excuse them-if
seemed to be out of plate, they shouldbesofsrth -
:a sons in not sitting down in the dark hour 1
mg nothing to show light by bearing some little witoeis
• the glory of our Lord. lie sought then to speak of his
father's ducts me and teaching. That teaching was over:
- would no longer hear the voice which, as an a,-
often said, would make the old church ring; ,
no longer see him open that book which warn.
_astable treasury of truth and life; they would no.
/ him tell of the sinner's peril, and the believer's hope'
i hear his unwearied entreaty to search the Scriptures,
. study them, and then live by them, and die by therm
;re eery loot the sons and the others who have heard that
iatbaea yoke may be far seParated, and new voices will
heard; but new voices of course cannot do what his
AM still may, to remind them personally a( what their
ether taught. So he poised this precious occasion to hold
op before them the memory of his teaching, 'foe (said
he) "we have fully known his doctrine." His father
l:eme a man of many wa. Its and interest; but the
cud point of them all was his doctrine, the teaching
his people. God gave him the power to grasp much.
and to energise many schemes for good. He organised a
atol
parish anew, built church and school, laboured for -
-, fought many a trying battle in the cause of the
And injured, and devoted much of what would have.
whole power of • feebler mind to make dwell/age I
•v, stardom profitable, and every man's life MOW
. But dearer to 'him than the wish to get I.
othropic views accepted, area the *kb to get -
souls to whom he stoke to soap& and live upon his
,trine. Why was he so earnest about Ida doctrine I Was
of a hard and opinionated nature! Was be lli.terwmed
I analldnindedfDid he shut his eyes to what was taking
re in the church and the world I All knew how opposed
was to him,. is was the very opposite to his true and
int soul. To the very last be was in the --`'
ring of the word-liberal, liberal-hesined. and,
tied. As to his doctrine be never faltered,
ed ; his convictions of divine truth which
Sr reed in his aortic:et sermons (over which he lind
d been looking with renewed latices% were, he
ow, his profoundest convictions when he lay that day
week on a dying bed. What then was Baia doctrine
held so fast, and counted so dear I Bo well as be could,
the preacher tried to give an account of the matter. n--
in his precious father's mind there lay two ocoacioasnee-
wound into one another: one was the truth of the Bible,
the other the reality of Jesus Christ He was sure, &ham
Italy sure that the Bible, the whole Bible, waa the word
' the Eternal God, In early life he had fought hard with
Jobb, had questioned evidences, and had worked out
ifilculties : but the result of all was at last
te conviction, the consciousness of the divine truth
' the Bible; quite as strongly as the conviction of his own
iatannw Ho took the whole book on the elltheritf of
e who said "The Scripture can4ot be broken.' 20 him
Billie was not • "grand old boo" as some people are
rtronisingly to call it. The Bible waii to him
and all it taught he believed. It was no super-
tit him 'it animated him to blooms/int efforts. hr
as it were, gave it no reek bat did so r
who was in the oracle a .
And in this Bible be was quite sure he found a doctrine ,
, found there the mighty truth from Gnd to man. Bet
did the utter ruin of Inatell date by liee that the Bookl
clght, and meant it too, that man's life is then from"
• of God, and justly deserving of the endless dispiseem
be Eternal. He believed in it_parloteally and took it
-at in him-the preaches'a blessed father and their
...ad pastor-there dwelt no good thing. And thee he
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Ahmed the Book taught • way, • strange unimmikiehio
I osy,.foc the soul's on, and final glory •he honeyed ie
t precious trutb,-though, alas! at it durables many -
1 utilisation_ by faith. Ile believed that hi wait% as
-a:: justined only by tbe righteous/an Of iMri,
n tto. AS& bow he
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not for our ow deserVi
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, fo-Y of his 'wort on tißial that be bed last
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Am it plain one of their old neighbours la ir.0..6..
at for Christ's sake the Sod of the sinner who - vi. ;
absolutely just Wore God. Than again, he wan sure
at the Bonk taught the necessity of personal hollnera,
t to procure pardon, butes the eyeshot pardiew-that
lever must be holy, saved by dam and dead to lel 1.
Is are his workmanship, created unto Christ Jesus in
t worka, which God bath before ordained that he should
'in them." Aye land now his father was =let
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