The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-17 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Missions appear to he prospering. Among them all
no one 1. 01 treater interest than that to Honolulu, the
future seat of the new bishopric in the Pacific, at the
H...iisto or Sandwich Islands. Europeans first visited
these Winds in 1793; but little hu as yet been done to
raise the islanders to an• real knowledge of Christian
truth anti iotrity. Th. ICl's. an indepenchnt sovereign,
invites no to end eiliesionsiiis to his peoi le, and to
lint the Church at Honolulu. Engl.nd has res.
minded to his call, and Slot Rev. T. N. Staley goes out
ai the first bishop to this remote capital—to make it.
let us hope, a future New Zealcid to the Archipelago
in the we.t of the Northern Pscille. The climate is
Raid to be most healthy, and the harvest waits, for
labourers. . . . . .

The American minion on the island of Corium°,
which u.y be regarded as one of the kt ye to the wart
reg. of Equatorial Africa, has met with signal 800001111.
A Church, numbering fio natives, ha* been tonne.' ;
the lam/nage hos b en reduced to writing. ant portion.
of the Scripture litre been translated into it. &hook
have been estsblished, and the elder youth. trained to
service. M. Chaillu. in his recent work. gives us pine
amount of this interesting nowelon. The Bishop of
Yu:torts resembarke for his distant diomme early it.
Oatobar ; while tl.e Bev. Mr. Smith hva been sent out
by on. gentlemen in Olsegow and Edinboreh to the
iso f 11ries, to irquire what Nellie; there
r ii.. 1 Bt.sl4l.l.iliet.t of olis•iou. in the trek of Dr.
.I...%:egvi,•ee, great ace traveller, and no leas great as •
lait•eieearv.
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Nor are aigna of active life wanting in the home
wok of the English clergy. H I home,' and
harveNt services have been condneted in many
omits of England during thia elonima weather, ip which
fariiirra, lahourere, end the parenne. rich and Nair. bare
alike joined with hearty god-will that is pleasant to
reed of. The drunken not of former dare him hem.
turned into prier, m nly enjoyment, hi which tlo
Giver of the haricot h.di not been forgotten, •iid the
h,aztot the labouring man hes been tirade glad with•
out ahem..

But among all the il'eus of life sad seal at home 11011.
• more relsafastory than the mare* of people dm WM
to our cathedrals by welhkr.own able preachers, who
have devoted theiuselver spolially to the work. At
Chester the concourse of temple attracted by the
*armed vloqueoce of Dr. Whleile, ope of the recentlr•
appointed anima, Imo been very. great. Thousand•
ate oda to have been touched by bin words. Awl Tor
haps rem. d to new thought and more eaniest
incl. preachers Sc Dr. M'Neile Are just the right in u
be chosen fur this apecial work—men who tea Iv have
oimething to say, and know how to my it. One greet
want of the Church is • greater division of labour Met,
err not in their right piece. They who eau address
rge body of people with power cod eloquence ghoul.'
to en—but only thew. Every twin has hie o.a modal
..ifts ' • sod be will do word good with them by putties
his strength into that chansel where Ids talent lies
Soule mon are hettea fitted to work among thePo3r end
gnotaut ; some to deal with the educated and relined :
wine to address thousands, norm to speak to • few ;
-owe to talon, in the scattered hamlet, others in the
,rowded city. Thom who have not the gift of preacbieg
wdli real power 'amnia not he allowed to preach at all :
otber work awaits them in the Church of an abundant
RIO varied 'dor'. Nothing can be worse than milkeind•
watery hobble ahotie 'mood things.
Tug 81811.. F OF NoDIFICH AND THR HAgerme.—The
Bishop of Norwich holaddreweed the following letter to
Inc clergy.—" Rev. and Dear Brother—A h reset sires
sad preserved to our use is always a suhl,ct of grateful
mknomidolginent. The circumstances of other nation.
ae ••11 as the state of our land make this great boned'
of peculiar mho to to in the protent year. Moreover.
4 I an. rightly informed, the counties to ethieh the
.tiormse extend. have been favoured loth ae to C o wope
anti the weather fur their in gathering more then
I aoine other parte of our land. I fear we have ton much
reason to acknowledge that our iniquities might justly
have turned &say these Kraal thing., from us last.
then,„the long.suffering mercy and otiodderate bounty
of God lead us in our heart and live. to say. 'bet es
now fear the Lord oor G,sl, who rwercvtli unto D.
..pointed week. Of herrest.' The cirmisietanese
...ell parish will be.t sunspot an appropriate day. an..
ii,. 0041suitalde method for 'riving& real expression to
the gratelul feeling. with which, I trust, all elease.
osiong us will acktmelolge the rodeos. of God. I
refrain, therefore, fmna naming any particular iii•••.
-ervioe, or objet .4 thankoffering ; hut will out,
expreas an earneet hope th•t von will, by the Word of
instruct the edible amid stir um. the hearts of your
oarialmioneni to ',mi.' and practical thanksgiving to
lOW gives ue peace in our borders. and Alla ea
sit', the fineet of the wheat.— I remain your faithful
brother owl aervant J. T. Noltertcit."

Mr. 81.011010 N IN Bit Iltrh r. Spurgeon wa-
rm Wedeeedee the great attraction of • large portion of
the citizens of Briwtol. H. was annonneed to preach at
the opening of City-road Baptiet Chapel, and for several
ii-ys previous titer* was an i ...... en.* demand for
tickets of ad in isaion • bleb were diMrjlutvdptratitoucly.
to the fn.! extent of tlw lina.te of the chapel. Th.•
aternoon Perviee .1.1 announced to commence at half
pa-t 2 o'clock, hut long before that time th • chapel WS.
CrOW,ird to eames. For the oonvenienos of sleeve
untidier of hearers. to • evening meeting was announced
to he held at the ninon, The service was C0ni.11411,004

in the usual way, hot had not long orooemiml when tla
crowd outride, us,hie to get in, cause.) great onnfmtion
Al length the rev. gentleman got an far as the giving out
of hi* teat, when the (ablution out. de Mayhems, pea.
vented the preaeher from going oil with the veruton
They wanted him to mooch in the open air, hut he wee
too ill tad° on. It would mem, however, that as they w lio
wee °Maids could not, they determined that those who
were within thetminlingehoultl not bear,and the sermon
one bronght to an abrupt termination hefure it we* half
finish...l. The proceed* of the collection.' were daring
the day (140.
MIL SPURGEON OW SUNDAE ACCIDINTS. —AI the
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Metropolitan rabersaale ou Bauder Mr. Spurgeon took
(evasion to rebate those alergymon who attributed the
Brighton accident to the " profanation of the Sabbath
—He observed that the newspapers 'nring the past fort.
night li.cl hese Ailed, hot merely rith aconinte of these
accident., hot also with tleoor 44 in unionally Imrg.-
i.e
her of minor oecorrenova of a fatal no.tore whioli

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had taken place in various parted theemintry. The year
1861 would he reckoned as about the most calamitara
which hal occurred within the memory of the prevent
generation. and it was particularly at that thane oil/
when the eickle lad done it., work. and our tarns were
filled with plenty. that death lad been reaping his
i,arvest. I, was worthy, be thought, of remark. that it.
age of the world accidents of on, kind or another
hal tale, n plane, quite in numerous and as calamitous es
throve which were now having deplored; and his ow,.
n wax that those which w..re reconiai in the news,
pap is as be, pea ng in the days of the old stage athelte-
+ere just so man• •nd as fatal as throw which ha !
followed door the invention .4 the stem-engine. He
repudiated the notion that the oolliaire. in the Clayton
tunnel was a judgment hour Heaven because of Hondas
travelling, and oath it was as likely to have no urred
mein any other drry of the week as upon the &Math
In fact, the catastrophe on the Hampatead Jorction
had occurred open a Monday, and when the clear
Won's!' were going upon an errand of openly, 4,
contended that it was both foolish and unacriptaral to
attempt to unravel the mysteries of Perwidenee. As
inirht a man who entered the theatre in the
middle of the thinl act, and only stopped a few minute,.
to look at one of the performers, pretend that he could
understand the whole pdot of the drama from beginning
to end, as for anyone who, for a period of thirty or
forty year., looked at the greet drama which for coon
year• ban been in course of repreeentstion in this world,
and which would continue to go on until the consuls-
nut. on of all suldonary things—to fancy that lie count
comprehend the inscrntahle working. of God's provi•
-Pence throughout the whole of that lengthened period.
It had been stated in PORI. quarter. that Pb. people
killed in Clayton tunnel and on the Hampstead June.
time, mud have been gresSer sinners that thoee who
ramped. He denied this •saumption to very arras
terms, asking whether the unamationa bah., who was
ernalied to &Nth in the tunnel could be supposed for a
moment to be • greater sinner than thane of thou who
were occupying the dens of London, who were yet
alive. He did not believe there was one a g the
whole congregation who would have the hrutality to
go and tell the female who had ham ten hared a weem
ing wi.law by these calamities that her littph.nd had
been killed became he was a greeter Pinner than other
people. The rev. gentleman havoir enlarge I upon the
dreolful scene in the tunnel at tbe moment of t e
rolliahm—of the crnabieig weight of the engine, of t
one train upon the hinder earriages of the other—of the
tweaking timbers. the shrieks of the won,,-n, and the
gm no .4 the wounded proceeded to remark upon the
variety of too If.—in the etraet, In the domestic circle
and in the pulpit—in whirh death might overtake na it
a nent,referring particularly to Monteath of the cele-
Orated Dr. Reeueniet,, who -lied after he had riven out
From the pulpit the fiat verse of . hymn; and al-.o to
that of an American divine, who finished his earthly
coon* whilst in the act of delivering a sermon. The
latter p.ri of Mr. 6 arsine's dithoerso was of . practical
character. miring out .4 the melancholy cataamolteP of
the last fortnight. He was listened to throughout with
tuarked attention.