The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-01 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.

The Rev. Thomas Hubend Gregg, A. 8., oat.
curate of Portland,) being about to le-eve the curacy
of St. Peel's, Wolverhamptoo, has been presented
with three testimonials, namely :—(1.) By a few of
the poor. (1) By the members of his Bible olaga.
And (3) by the members of the congregation, as
special tokens " of their high appreciation of his
tidehty and earnestness in the discharge of his
sacred ditties." Tbe presentations having been
made, Mr. Gregg replied, respectively, as Follow..

My Dna Faaraas,—lo ozpresonc U 37 siarochnk and
great pleame a* rimetivieg your very hoodoo's. ries
let me nay iii, partamelarly grat.(ying to me sr two
reittona First. beet.* of It. being the gift of theme
with very few of whom I am personally saquaisted,
owing to their not rending in my district ) and thereinto
shown to me that you valu.. the truth for Its Orb oska
And eroondlv, se having Inen parehased with the
soutributione of such et ere, with .1111047 as. itieeption,
poor indeed in thlt world*" good", "hough Ash, I trait,
In them nide), abide foe ewer.

regret emeeniagly, *wing to the short UM* during
whioh I have been connected with Bt. Peals parish, ma
well am Do aocosat of my other duties Gime been, that I
ham not had greater opportanitim of hemming More
intimately acquainted with you. I regard your sifs se
a pledge that the Word of Goa, through my antra-
tonatelity, has been made • blooming to your soul,, and
although the Lord, in US* trite &asp of His
Provliente, has seen It to remove me, an earthen
vemel," from smonpt you, yet remember that the
" treasure" of 'the everlasting Gospel" of Jams, when
onoe pleoed in the toel by lebovelt, shall , and
sea be finally taken away from theses. He who
manameeirs the work will "finish" It, and the objects
of His choice, love, mercy, redemption and revilers.
Hon shell be pre.erred onto His e er:sal kiag tom—
" Kept" by Hie power, and guided by His spirt unto
Met hams of neverendleg bins •here " Ike wicked
seems from troublfog, and where the weary are at rest."
Mem me to remain, my dear Friends.
_ . . .

Yours moat faithfully,
TIMM HOPAID 011,00:
81 Pies, Wolverhampton, April 188&

To the limbers of toy Bible Cleo.

MT DRAB thaok yea Mort ',taboret, for
your valuable gift, &sale, for the vi-ry beautiful addreol
with shish It has bees thoompenteri. Truly min I say
that to hon. of our little meetings, for the study of
God'. truth, been atteeded with 1110111pleathre or profit
than to myself. The portion of Seripture which has
been under our othatheration (the Epistle to the
Ephimisna) is one whieh le particularly precious to every
Spirit-taught soul, and nowhere are more easily
reveals.' the outgoings of Jehovah's love towards His
own people. Their person. "chosen" sod "accepted
in the Beloved" from " before the foundation of the
world"—their " redemptine* by "the precious blood
of Cbriet"—tbeir onenthe with Jesus in His thethera-
tints, life, death, rethrreerion, and glorilication—their
new birth at "the set Beni." of favour—th• opening.
out, to their experience. of 'the deep things of ,Cho
and of " the lola of Christ which pacieth knowledge"
—their preservation amidst the dangers which are
" within mad " without' their separation in life sod
walk from • doomed world—the whole glory of their
salvation attributed "to the riollea of God's grace,"
anti to " the eternal purpose," of "Rim who worketh
all things after the counsel of His own will" -Father,
Soo, and Holy Ghost, the Triune Jehovah, exalted in
all His sovereignty as causing "all things to work
together" for Fits own glory, and His people's goed—
Those are some of the truth'. which we have etudied
together, and we have felt, at our little gatherings, the
Lord's preemies, and the Lord's blessing. In His
wisdom He now malls us to part, In body though in
that spirit, end knowing at "the ways of theo rd art
right," therefore we seat bow, subgeimeire, to is will.
To Suomi of lon who are engaged in God'. wow*, as
Sunday School 'hashers, or in thy other way, 10 up:
repeat, what you bethafteo hearl from nay lips
Chris;; lay man in the dust; and never be isfrei• to
drialtho boldly to every creature" wbateuver you Sod
clearly revealed in the Scripture, knowing that the
lord's "word shall not return void, but it shall
aceomplish" His ermisatins purpose, sod "shall
prosper in firstling whereto he hag sent it." Believe
me, my deer Prised., to remain,
Yourn mint faithfully,