The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-02-24 00:00:00

CHARMINdTER PAROCHIAL AFFAIR 3.
To the Editor.

Boeing • paragraph In your paper last week in reference to
the parochial affairs of this place, I beg to sty it Is misleading
the public. I cannot think but it is done by some person who
does not pay a farthing to the mkt, end is ignorant of sil
pariah business. In the first place, the petition was signed by
ail the principal ratepayers of Channinster, for the Bishop to
appoint a cleritytuan who was willing to do the duty for the
sum mentioned, which could not be done for six months after
the sequattration without one. You aumot call that demeaning
themselves, and hafpaying a tlergyman. Considering a few
of the inhabitants of here and Stratton, which place is not
mentioned, pay close upon 8800 • year tithes, can you ask
them to do morel " Happy thought: the new schoolmaster
should have been in orders, thus killing two birds with the
same stone." What ignorance of parish business ! can he know
any thing of the Education Act Having a new school built
to contain 160 children according to the Act, and expecting a
daily attendanee of IW, if the law allowed it, could you take
their pence and let the schoolmaster run away two or three
Wye some weeks to bury • person from the Asylum, besides
the other duties to be performed in the two parishes, for how
would it be possible he could teach them? I should advise
the person who says what • muddle the parish is fast drifting
Into, to enlighten himgelf before he attempts to say any more
about Chanduster parish alairs.
Charminglet, February IS, 1874.

Comm Born

PIDDLIC [MI MI DI.

LO.O.T.—The Good Tempters of 24;.-701 Lodge were
on Moaday favoured with a visit from Mr. if4thews, of
the Western Temperance League The juveniles
assembled in the Hall at 6 p.m. when two were initiated,
and the other business quickly dispatched. Mr.
Matthews then addressed tbe young Template on neat-
ness and oleaolinees of person, punotuality in all their
duties and *averments In life, p-reeveranoe In every
good work and object (espeelely in the cause of total
abstinenee), Illustrating and enforcing it by many
incidents that had cause under his noise, and, Ludy,
on piety and prayer, showing them that nothing would
summed unless they looked to God their Heaven y
Father for help and direction. Mr. Matthews spoke
very highly of the behaviour of the juveniles, sod of the
way In whieh the Temple is eonduated by the superin-
tendent (Mr. U. Payne) and the BUS of aaelatautt The
Temple wee Instituted by the Superintendent in Oetob-r
hmt, with eighteen charter members. The present
Bamboo Is thirty four. There hoe been one withdrawal,
no violation. A.verage attendance twenty eight. A
publle meeting waa held et 7 p.m., under the preeideaoy
of the Lodge Deputy, Mr. H. Payne. It was announced
by bills, At, that Mr. Matthews would lecture on the
burins of the Temperance reformation on the Christian
Church. The lecturer handled his anbjeet In a muterly
style, exposing the traffics in mil its bearings, giving it
no quarter under any oircurnstances, at the urns
time, so charitably making allowance for other peoples'
oonseienees, as not to give °gum to the lltUe or
moderate drinkers of (or in) the Christina Church.
There was a good attendance including some we never
saw at such meetings before, bet hope to see again,
belag rroaddent that ealm reasoolop each as Mr.
Matthews employed is much more oeloalated to win over
those who now stood aloof from us, then the wild rant
and inveative that we sometimes get at oar meeting..
This was Mr. Matthews drat visit to Piddletrenthide but
we hope not his last, he has left his mark. Mr. Matthaei
preached In the Templars' Hall on Sunday afternoon on
" the Prodigals eon," and in the Wesleyan Chapel in
the evening on "the Judgment to oome."—Commeti-
rated.