The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-20 00:00:00

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Efforts on behalf of this society were made at the
beginning of this week, sermons being preached on Sun-
day at the Malcombe Regis churches, and Sr. John's, and
the annual public meeting was held on Monday at the
St. Mary's National Schoolroom. when there were
present :—The rector, Rev. T. A. Greaves, Rev. John
Stephenson (incumbent of St. John's), Rev. B. Radcliffe
(Christchurch), and the deputation, the Rey. W. I.
&hetet' sad the Rev. T. Y. Darling (late missionaries in
South India).
The eItAIIUIAN, Rev. T. Grieves, said as both their
treasurer and secretary were unavoidably absent this
evening, it devolved on him to reed the statement of
their home branch of this society :—Collected by Kim
Arden. £lO lii. lid. ; Miss Kellewa_,v. Ils. • ' Mr. G. Eliot,
£l2; Mrs. Moorhead. ,L 7 lii 6d.; Mrs. R. W. Reynolds,
£2 fle. 64. ; Mrs. 1,. Thurman, Li: Miss Reynold.,
£lO 14s. 44. ; sermon at St. Mary's, SW ii. 3d.: Christ.
church. LlB 5. 54 St. Paul'. CI 10e. 91 • Si. Mary's
meeting, £6 12.. 10d. Imam, '„ca 19e. ted. • Juvenile
Association , .C5O 3a. 24d, • St. John's Association,
C 125 7s. ed. • Branch Assocdstlons. L 63 17s. ; Mrs.
Radcliffe's class, .C 3 3.. Id.: total. £361 19s. 41. Remitted
to Parent Society, .0311 12s. 44. Toe general report of the
society is very cheering, the total income hae amounted to
an. m, and the expenditure to about £2OO 000. and the
result is that the debt is being paid off, and the money
restored to the capital fund, not wily so, through the
exercise of warmer devotion a fund has been rased to send
out almost the whole of those missions:les who were
waiting. Seventeen or 18 had been preparing; but there
were no funds: now there are very few who are not gone,
and this has been accomplished at a period of extreme
depression, causing us to gay, " Truly God la good to
Israel.* (Applause.)
Cum Starneimots was very glad to stand there and
hear that bright rePort, for it is most delightful to we
what is being done, both at home and at our mission
stations, lie was at Exeter RAIL and was rejoiced to bear
that very large sums had been given ; this is s thing to be
thankfu I, f or DIMON liberality is a contagions thing, and be
hoped some of that spirit might reach Weymouth. Many
foal most warmly about this work; but the 'pied needs
growtb, and we need to see more missionary seal; not
merely to give, but to feel an interest in the work. Be
trusted we shall be more earnest—giving, doing, feeling.
and praying more. We must sot let such an opportunity
as this pees over. Last year the donations from Weymouth
did not show much of an Lomas§ ,• but yesterday they
made a start, and he hoped it would be a spreading one,
and they be enabled to rend op • very much larger rum
than ever before. God is working by Hie Spirit in distant
lands, and this is the time for fresh efforts, fresh seal, and
to be found fellow-helpers with Ged in this missionary
work. (Applause.)
The Rev. W. P. Sower= then 'poke. Since he had
returned to England, he bad found great increase of
missionary interest everywhere; but in the North reports
are spread that missionary with is a sham; he should.
therefore, have to prove it is a reality, and that God is
blessing the work in India. These reports were to be
served just like the pins which had "sand the lives of
thaweas6o." amseifing to the schoolboy," ha not swallow.

leg them." His father had shown him they had, in
Tlnnev.lly, to ride for many, metal miles without seeing •
Christian In 18ffl there were very few, and instead of
the gongs calling Chraidans to worship, the tom-tome
were heard calling the people to devil-dancin hut now
100,000 are native Christians in Tinnedlly. Now the
gong is rung early, the congregation comes early, an
expontion of-the 2nd lesson given, and then he would ride
off to another village. Numbers of Christiana had to came
10 to 15 miles to the Lord's Supper, yet he had over 500
communicaats. And they are liberal too, for although
the Hindoo is very fond of his rupee, yet when the Church
Missionary Society called on them to take an intereat in
their church, the natives rose to the occasion and collected
£3,000 for their church. Mesa two, are very poor, only
earning Si, to 10d. a day. Now, that. is not • single
European missionary in the place, except four engaged in
school work; but instead there are scores of native
teachers, who have passed the college, and even beaten
the European. Sharp oxen are they, and one wee asked
by three Brahmins whin was that animal on whom the
Lord rode! Now, if you west to do for a man or a
woman in India, all you have to do is to put them on an
ass, ride them through she village, and you have done for
that man or woman. Had the native minister answered
" Our Lord rode an am," the crowd would have burst out
laughing, and gone away. But the native minister
reminded the Brahmins that Us wayfaring man starts on
• journey and meets three Brahmins, it is the worst
omen he can have; but if ha meets au ass it tithe best
omen he can have, he at once clops hands and goes on.
" So," said the native minister, Our Lord rode on an
an animal worth three Bralunios to • wayfaring man.'
The Brshmine saw the force of the kit, and wade the best
of their way off. A headman of a village had received a
tract announcing the advent of • great conqueror, who
was by a curtain time to sweep the English into the sea;
this tract be worshipped in • shrine; but the eased, are
took the c nqueror for hie text, and declared the Lord
Jesus Christ would be supreme in the world. The time
haying passed when the tract said the cotter', roc was to
appear, the headmen tore down the shrine, and with many
others studied Christianity. Shortly after two schools were
burnt down; but the natives IWO so much wood that he
was able to sell put and rebuild the echoole, without help
from England. (Applause) A young man who had
embraced Christianity IMO persecuted in many war, and
a vile accusation brought against him. He asked to have
it made • matter of prayer, although advised to have a
lawyer. His own brothie begged him to come back to the
old religion, and than he would do his best to have It
disproved; but if not he would prom item hard am he could.
But when they came to the court, the witnesses
contradicted each other so grossly, that even the heathen
magistrate said it was a got-up case, and the defendant
odd not answer it. dining •SU MMOIIII for perjury against
the wilnee.ee, which the Christian declined. He told of
two death : one was of • young man in the cholera.
The father and mother thought a demon had seised their
sou because they were so toad of him and he was their
support, so to &delve the demon, they earned hint out
Into the drissling night, and left ham, that the demon
might think ha was =Waken, and leave the young man.
But oh I their giief when be died. In contrast he told of
• mother who lost all her three children in the cholera, but
who after pending the tint agony of des, was ebbe to say
"The Lord gave, and the Lord bath token away. Blessed
be the name of the Lord." He concluded with a forcible
trro assuring them that God Is indeed in India baring
The Rev. T. Y. DiIUNO acknowledged what joy it gave
him to hear what is being done here, for there are not only
the clergy of the parish, but the lady collectors, taking
hawed in the Church Missionary Society. lie encouraged
the poor to subscribe, even if It be only of a small amount,
and they should also collect by boxes and collecting cards.
More than .C 16,000 are railed in a year from missionary
boxes. He had laboured in the Teloostoo Country, North
of Madre"; the mance commenced in 1211, Hoary FoX
and Robert Noble WIN• the pioneers, having 15,000,000 of
population before them, and they chose the country
between the rivers Kiruna* to the south and
Gadder), to the north,
_where is a teeming population.
Some of the col:Leeds did run well, but were hindered.
But some follow after righteousness, faith, peados,
ineeknees. Robert Noble laboured for eleven years with-
oat seeing • single convert, but his first convect was •
Brahmin, who has for many years been preaching the
gospel of the Load. The speaker himself bad baptised •
Brahmin; such a Brahmin is a valuable agent, and this
one was appointed to the charge of the station, without
a single European missionary there. From this Brahruie
a letter was written, showing that he was not only •
good English scholar, but a good Christian man. He
deo told several details of the wort, and life in those
parts. He bad the cake of 54 villages, in each of which
was • small Christian congregation, some of them baying
• church or schoolroom, but some neither, yet In each
village he would stay • while to build up the Christians,
as wall as preach to the heathen. They were called to-
gether by the sound of the gong, rung in the style of the
church-going bell, and they sing hymns perhaps to the
tune of "There is • happy land," which is an old Indian
air, and they soon hide it there. The speaker gars •
specimen of the Teloogoo, in which he sang • verse of
this hymn, and the meeting meg the hymn in English.
The converts wh,n last counted were nearly 5,000—
(applause')—and our cause is a winning one. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN remembered a French author, now
gone to his eternal rest, who wrote a very striking
volume, entitled "The Regret" of a Dying Man." He
felt himself, not exactly • dying man but he was closing
vary shortly a long ministry of nearly • quarter of • cen-
tury among them, and among many very bitter regrets
was ens that he might have done so much more in pro-
moting ^Loosest them the missionary spirit. In the
large and important sphere he waa going to, he should
have to succeed a missionary bishop, and earnestly hoped
the gloat Bishop of the Church may send arnonen them
a man thoroughly imbued with the missionary spirit, for
Inasmuch as the ministers at home are imbued with that
spirit, they are earnest and successful in their work at
home. He waa too much wearied with sod leave-takings
to make • set speech; but he urged on them the duty of
increased missionary effort. The duty of sending the
Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the heathen is as urgent
as it is obvious; but some persons seem to have drunk
into the false philosophy of the day, and think the heathen,
If left ti themselves', will gradually improve. But Pro-
fedor Mac Muller conclusively shows that the religious of
the heathen degrade, they are constantly sinking into
deeper darkness and degradation, and the answer to those
who talk about the saleability of the heathen is that they
are unholy, and must necessarily pad into an unholy, and
therefore unhappy eternity. Lot us seek to realise the
great truth that man dying without the blood of the Lord
Jesus Cheat dies unholy. Unless he is renewed and
sanctified by the Spirit of God. man will continue to be to
all eternity unholy, and therefore unhappy. Mr. Oradea
then told of a gentleman who appears to have synapathiast
with the doctrine of the non-eternity of punishment, but
who when pressed on it, especially on the word, of the
Lord Jesus Christ, said—" If tilde words do not admit of
being received as a figure of speech, then there is no alter-
native but for • thoughtful man to th mod." That was
the expression of strong benevolence without • knowledge
of Christ. Mr. Grimes' did not say we, knowing the Lord
Jesus Christ, are logo mad; but be said if we know and
believe that men dying without the knowledge of Christ
are lost—passing into an unholy, and therefore an unhappy
eternity—we moat pray, we meat give, we must work, for
the extension of the knowledge of the Lord Jean Christ,
In the spirit of Him, baptised with the love of Him who
came to seek and to save that which wee lost He con-
cluded ; May the Lord pour into all our hearts more of
the love of Christ, more tender pity for perishing souls at
home and abroad, enable us more and more, SI OW own
life passes rapidly onwards towards eternity, to spend and
be spent in making known the known Saviour to those
who know hint not.
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wined.

PAWNING AN OUTFITTER'S CLOTHES.
On Tuesday, before the Borough magistrates, •
charwoman named Ann Scriven was brought up 'gide
for stealing a quantity of articles from Mr. Lewis
Phillips. outfitter.—Mr. George prosecuted, and Mr.
Hanna defended.—The prisoner has been chasing at
Mr. Phillip's, who, from time to time, has missed
sew oral articles; he put the case in the hands of the
polioe, and several articles were found to be pawned.
—Mr. Lewis Phillips, outfitter, 47, St. Mary.strest,
said prisoner had come to his house as charwoman for
several months past, and he had mired various articles
of clothing, and asked the prisoner for certain article',
when she replied she knew nothing about them. Lest
Wednesday he had a customer for a *r of trousers,
went to the shelf, and missed three pair. Sent for the
Klemm who was washing next door, and asked her
if she knew anything about them, when she denied
knowing anything about them, and he put the matter
In the hands of Mr. Vickery. The articles produced
he had examined, and they were all his, including
some of his own wearing apparel, even his own flannel
shirt and drawen, which she took home to wash.
Had many times mined things, and she had brought
them wain after he charged her with taking them.—
By Mr. Hann.: Had missed things for years, no
doubt he had been • very shay good-hearted fellow.
Prisoner had been there chairing almost every day;
but he did not pay her anything; the housekeeper was
to pay her, but he did not know how much.—Q.: How
much do you pay your housekeeper ?—Mr. George
objected; but prose3utor said he agreed at 3.. a week,
and paid her when she wanted money; but had not
for some time; could not tell the last time; had paid
her even this year in small sums, ls. or 2s. Had
promised these articles many times, but did not charge
prisoner before, because she wanted to ecreen her. She
never went to the pawnshop for him; the machine
she pawned did not belong to him, but to his house-
keeper, who wanted some money, andt she sent the
machine to pawn. Did not know what she wanted
on the machine Did not send her to ?sorrow £2 on
the machine; but knew she was going.—Q : When the
machine got up to Mr. Sergeant's, you couldn't prove it
was paid for?—A.: What has that to do with me? It
is no business of mine. She came back and said Mr.
Sergeant would not advance more than 10e. on it, and
she brought it back.—Witnees continued it was no
business of his if his housekeeper hadn't enough to pay
for the machine.—Q.: You Red gentlemen's things, I
'appose ?—A.: I don't sell ladies.—Q.: The nightgown
and shawl are ant yours, are they?—A,: I did
not say they were mine, I only swore to my
articles. I identified the thinn as my property;
•
but the marks were taken off. Still he would
swear the things (taking over some trousers, &c.) pro-
duced were his property. One flannel shirt, pair of
drawers, two waistcoats, and two coats, were his own.
also an overcoat. Besides, there were a pair of pilot
trousers and a pair of woollen drawers were his shop
goods, the drawers his housekeeper made.—Mr.
Hanoi: And made them td., big? (Laughter.)—
Witness had not sren the name Lewis Phillips hun-
dreds of times, as belonging to other people. Had not
told his housekeeper he could not let her have money;
always let her have money when she wanted it. and
had not consented to her pawning any things. When
he left the shop his housekeeper kept his shop; but
she would not touch a thing belonging to him. The
articles were worth more than £l2 or £l4.—Q. : Is
your housekeeper fond of a glass of gin ?—A.: I don't
know, you had better ask her. I stippoile she does;
most women like a drop of gin.—Witness said: To his
own knowledge the housekeeper did not send out
several times a-day for beer and spirits. He had been
easy; he ought to have had prisoner taken up a
twelvemonth ago, for she had been robbirg him two
years and whalf. lilt hadn't been for the trousers,
perhaps he shouldn't have had her taken up then.
First discovered about the trousers last Wednesday.
The housekeeper had told him the prisoner came to
her, saying ahe had the brokers in house, and she let
,1 her have some articles to pawn. Last Thursday the
II Prisoner was taken up and swore that she knew
nothingabout it. Had not been to the pawnshop
about it. —Re-examined : The housekeeper had lived
with him for years, and he hal perfect confidence in
her—By Mr. Hanna : I don't ta.k, stock at all; I did
not know I had thieves about me. Had sent watches
and glans, to pawn for ft and sent his housekeeper
with them. Believed the signature—" Mary Phillips"
—was hers; but she had no right to do so. Her name
was "Mary Bramble."—By Mr. George: Wanted
money sometimes, like other people.—Mr. Hanna
submitted that, as far as the shop goods were non.
aimed, there was no case; but the Bench decided to
proond.—Mary Bramble, the housekeeper, identified
some of the things as her own. property, viz., a bed.
gown, jacket, shawl, and a piece of cloth ; also two
scarves. Had not given prisoner rminion to pawn
these thing,; but on 006 omi• don she had sent to
Dawn two pairs of trousers. Mrs. &riven had the
6niws in, asked her to lend her some money, arid
witnees let her have two pairs of treasons belonging to

Mr. Phillips, she promisin_g to return then. Had not
given her any of Mr. Phillips's person* clothee.—
Cross-exemand : Thought she had been It the pawn-
shop twice, by Mr. PhiUips's knowledge once with
some watches, and again with some coats. It might
be a twelvemonth ago; the watches went first, and two
coats after.—ln answer to Mr. Hann': I tont% know
when, and I won't know, Did not know vbather she
took off the shop tickets; simply took then. Knew
her handwriting, but it was not her nano; she put
" Phillips" bemuse the goods were the made. Perhaps
she thought she had as reach right to Mt Phillips's
name as be had; but it was not bit lianne'e
bowl:leas. Had been with Mr. Phillips 2 yews, and
believed she was • native of Weymouth. Vent there
at £lO a-year, from the Chapelry. Mr. Pffillips paid
her his* wages, after the ran of £lO a-year, she had the
aloofly any when and anyhow. If air. Phillip had sworn
that she entered his service at three shillings &week, it
was false. But the witness, on thinking, said she had
made a mistake, it was I.'B a year she was paid. liar
wages were 3s. a week, but in reckoning up by the
year, she made • mistake. Had no set Smote be Paid.
—Q. Sometimes not at all 7—A. That is entirely 507
business.—Bad some money of him yesterday : but it
had nothing to do with the case.—On • suggestion
from the Bench, Mr. Hann, said—" Veil well, if you
stifle my cross-examination you stifle my defence.—Q.
How much does he owe you at the present time ?
Witness objected to answer.—ln answer to another
question, the witness said—l have nothing to do with
the house-keeping, Mr. Phillips buys everything for
the hots, • I buy nothing.—Did not believe that Mr.
Phillips said she was fond of • drop of gin.—Mr. Hanna
putting other questions, Mr. George objected to the
cross-examination, when Mr. Hamm said his defence
was that his unfortunate client was the tool of the other
woman.—The witness couldn't tell what it had to do
with the unfortunate " climate." (Laughter.)—Mr.
Hanna said hie object was to show that his client was
the go-between between the pawnshop and this
woman, who received the money.—There had been
something like 45 pawning', and it hid been going on
three months.—The Bench considered Mr. lianas had
proceeded long enough in the line of cross-examina-
tion sa to the relations between Mr. Phillips and the
witness, and desired him to confine hiinself to the
relations between the witness and prisoner. —The cross-
examination was continued, and witness, in answer,
said :—lt was about six months after she came to Mr.
Phillips' service that the prisoner casne as charwoman.
Some time in the winter she gave the troween to pawn.
Kept no amount. —Q. Not even of your own misdeed..
—A. They are written down against me; I have no
need to put them down. Can not swear to the troween
produced, or any of the shop goods. She also stand
the woman was there most days; but not in constant
*corky, and witness paid her filtaenpeanos a day either
out of her own pocket or she asked Mr. Phillips.
lint caine out of her own, and the woman was always
paid before she left. Sometimes Mr. Phillips was
annoyed when she asked him for money. She ciii not
understand why he "kept battling through those
things again and again."—Mr. Haase: Perhaps you
will leave to understand before you leave the box.—ln
answer to Mr. Banns, witness said prisoner came
almost every day, but aot to work. What the prisoner
had taken of witness's own, she had brought back the
money for. Had children of her own and gave her
an overcoat of her son's to pawn; this Lae had bought
of Mr. Phillips and paid for; also gave her • bedgown
and vest, and the piece of cloth; but not the
shawl, and had not mimed it. Prisoner had
not fetched drink for witness—(in a most indignant
manner)—certalnly not. Site had not had any drink
with her ; the woman had two half-pint' of beer a day.
Had not said to the woman—" What shall we do for
money? It won't do to aak Mr. Phillips. lou must
go up along again ;'' such words had never and
the woman had not said 'lam afraid to r am
afraid I shall get into trouble." Last Wednesday the
woman was sent for to Mr. Phillips but witness did
not see:her about it first, to see what was to be done
about the two pair of trainers. The sewing machine
pawned we' her own, bat she did not send it—(af ter
long hceitatio .)—Mr. Phillips sent it. Thought the
sewing machine was back, without anything being
raised on it. (To Mr. Arden): Mr. Hanne thinks he
knows eomething.—Mr. Arden: But he doesn't know
what I do. (Laughter.)-51r. Hanna had no doubt of
it, but he wanted to know all about this affair,—
Witness said the money she took in the shop she did
not put into her own pocket, there was no till, and she
generally put it on the table, and never missed •
farthing. On the reading over of the deposition,
witness said she knew about the reet.—P.C. Bartlett
received the goods (produced) of Mr. Sergeant, and
apprehended the prisoner near the pawn office, with
twelve tickets in her hand, and she gave thew to him,
saying the tickets reined to her own goods. She said
she was sent to Ur. Sargeant'a, Mrs. Perry, the
woman searcher' gave him 43 tickets last Thursday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, the female searcher, spoke to
finding 43 tickets on prisoner, who wanted her to
destroy them, saying three bel •nged to herself.—Mr.
A. Sergeant, pawnbroker, St. Mary-strost, said
prisoner had often been at his shop, ever since ho Ind
the business. The majority of the things were taken
in by his assistant, who bad left him, and the pawn
tickets related to the goods, which he handed to P.C.
Bartlett.—Mr. George said if the Bench decided to
send the case for trial, he would ask for • remand in
order to produce the assistant—Mr. Hann, said if the
Etuich were disposed to deal with the cans summarily,
he would advise his client to plead guilty to illegally
pawning the portion of the goods belonging to Mr.
Phillips. There was a wide field for remark, which he
should be very lotto to make • but he would leave the
case in the magistrates' bends, with the remark that
the prisoner was the dupe of Mrs. Bramble.— After
the Bench had consulted together privately. the
prisoner was fined £5; and in default, sent for 28
days' hard labour.—Mr. George asked that the property
be returned to Mr. Phillips.—Mr. Hanna interposed
that of course only those he had identified should be
returned to Mr. Phillips.—Mr. Sergeant pointed out
the Bench that he had used every caution, and it
would be unjust to him to have the goods returned to
Mr. Phillips without any allowance.—lt was ordered
that Mr. Phillips's property should be returned to
him; but he should pay Mr. Sergeant hall the amount
for which they had been pawned.