The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-02 00:00:00

THR DORCHRSTIR VOLUNTRIRS AT
CHURCH.

There woe • Marsh pared* ot the 3rd D.R.V. ea
Esadsy saorshig, the nissang plaits being, as usual
the loath tWallo at 10.30, whim Uwe was • good
masher. Cereals °omits was Is sem imand with Lieut.
B there were preseat—ltittallea Quitter.
ssjsr.Smqssos IMPIWISIABiesZ. Durdec, Rummy,
and Case. t or, 40 risk and file,
mid the hand anderaern p Mr. Wellspring.
A geod Easy drills.. asmeabled to see the mutter of
the asps, sad the streets were Used with spectator, m
the sampan, marehird aleag headed by to. band, to
Rib 'Malty Mara. the Resew ot that parish—the
Rev. B. Everett —being Me boo. elaplain or the corps.
There was • large oonaregaMos. The prayeri ewe
read sod the sermon preached by Um Rm. EL Everett
The rev. geatlemaa took for hie test, Iphosians vi, 11
—"Pot as the whole miaow .1 0.4."

5;1174-tielt—men--are,--saidi-h&-ine-itgr, to Gnash war.
WlO sotlies I let the mire rumour of war pan oTsr (Is
egeatry te-aterrow, aid what • ShTIII of fooling would
pees through every bean I Bo It was at Sphasuaaad
Pawl, apt at 001Wica:0 hie Diene master, and that
feeling for the t sod good of Clubbing. lie
understood the warfare thoroughly, aid would
, hare all Cludellea soldient se knowing es Manolf. So,
, after &lag pradigal lastragtioa to all sorts sad eon-
, dation. of raga, he winds up his *nine by an
&ppml that mania ardour thould fortify every
an of God. "/hall,, my brethren, be inroad in
I the Lord, and ii Mei power of his might. Put on
the whole 0110011 r of 0•1." What, then I. this armour
of God, of which he opens? What does the language
mesa in reopen to • penal* or nail..: with what
armoar of God ma then be Wend f In the ant wens
gre Sad gaumeratid worst piens of ale armour
riiitthoulanato, fain love, troth. Timm are, ea the
Annie says, the smear of God, sad Ones are not
manors whioh portals to as manly singly In our rela-
tion to God, but in the 'hob ending of tam to moo,
all the relations of ana to aim the high to the low,the
rich with the poor, the huabsad with the wife, chit
child with the parent, the master with the servant, On
buyer with the seller, the ruler with the ruled, the
with e subjeet, the sabjest with the (peon.
ran' th
is not one of those relations In which oe may
sot if en will "pet on the ohole armour at God,'
nowise that we fear Lad honour Gad by int., true,
and oteitimate dealing with our might:non. This,.
the annear of God--this is that righteottgassi whisb
we are told mallet\ a &Ono, whits ton ti am it were,
CM rift is that armour eating out the moral heart of •
maim and Mythg II asked aid defonoelees. To-day
I have to address especially ths ni/untoon. We redder
to welcome you bare; and you will not I am sing take
me Iloilo word I Lan sold a• depredating Lb* import
arc, of that natioan movement in whin you are bear-
ing year part Bo far, lodged, from underrating it, I
look call as one of tin most hopeful token. of good
&monist as-the aboanee of such a national muster
would surely b• • fatal endear* that Waleson,
elletalany, and love of eon, moreover an ocotillo'.
nos to endure hardline, and undergo any sort of
danger, had loft no poor and ooateroptible Wood -a
people without valour, and therefore without worth.
But by Um animal gathering of you and your fellow.
you have dinned that them are things dearer to you
than life, than sass aid safety, the omit orta an luxuries
of life, buying and sailing and rotting pia-that this
land of oar. whin (so km ben so Way said,) 'ho.
Learnt to moon* the prerogatives of an masa line
of Kings with the rights mad liberties of • pro-
"-this nada of freedom, this
=tall or l'ilrehpare sad Moron faith of Christ,
I. a land dear hi you. dearer if need be the.
life ilealf. And 0100100ber this-at all then blessings
and brevet we cf rho present pairstim are
Mina) the pardian aid trust...; sad, as we have
resolved than from cess forefathen, ao we are bound by
lin greatest obligating to hood them down unimparod
and enquired to our children. Tell me, Is not that
the Imo law of animal life And indeed, I know not
what autakl hem not what dispose would aot rightly
be their parties who would betray • trust os aollmo as
thio-the paeratioa of whom In after times it should
ban to be written: they fogad Bagload great and loft
her small; tk.y fouod hew crowned and goopired, and
loft km molls aid ditinced ; they found her the
Weed how of Um boa, and left leer palatal with tho
foot of the Invader; they fond her among tka natant
and the first, and left her &imagist the least aid the
lowest My him& end volutions, -it la Wenn you
have dotarimined to do your part to avert even the
(*mat paigibility of such • dishonour that you are in
arms now. Kea of pone, addicted to the ionic( pone,
habituated to the penults of pone, it is probably your
dearest with to lead pegetablo Breland Bye In all Godly
quietism& But it is our glory, and always hat bon, to
hate °opining and last of gamin • bat shall It be our
glory to 1.e..a1l chivalry of natbaeat, all reopibility
of honour? It., Liablnd may laded pow deb, sot
bar riches will be garnered for her onemles ; and her
bolatioa may oaly toad to make her sink hereator to
a great sad mantled fall. Oh, mond= it not jot you
will have "passe at any
man
inos." The thoory of non-
iatornotioa may ha t, aid y, and unolfith,
bat do not strollek it it crane. Hide It as yet tram
the anion of Baron, the& we prober the gilded realty
of our width to that old.faationed eathasiasm for
Ingland's homer. lilt be our policy to stand aloof
from alt fosetqi disseasime, if the laterests of our vest
0001410 whelk • aeogeaty that Inglani now aboald no
Wier be tits inglaad of Iliuboth and the George.;
yet, at lent, 1.1 11 be understood tho day may yet come
agmia,when Inn riad righteous nue being shown, Bag.
had will light with tin bribable manity of hor earlier
and bottler day& Not yet suway will ne learn to stand
end stare without • blow at the drag& of the holplogs
or the Weary of the oppressed. Net yet, sorely, will
eke erne from bar Maser the lies, nor pat away the
Indira of Judah. "a lim's whelp," with ttio blosang of
Judah, "to han his band on the nook of his eriendes;"
an yet will she name tho baliffie sod the meta
labiglig of Isenhar-4 hiesslag mom lik. • cane-to
be " • semi an aroma/ad between two lourdeas," who
saw tho rest was good sad the land plowman; sad ho
bowed kb shoulder to the yoke and Meow • eirnat I.
tribute. If Inland's moral Warne, is inevitably
wetland by lamina, Is, as at my ran prove by our
dens that inaction Is not paly &Donor name for 'elfish-
meal ; and if any pregame en It too far,the day may note
wind On heart of &gland shall nolo be roused ag In the
dap of our fathom and In the old time beton them.
Cariatimity ham always reeopind the virtue of
pablotiom, and patriotism may sometimes demand, and
demand imperiously, the marlin of war. gad no ono
000 doily that ono agonise of pain and bloodshed in
riven aro leg onto than the goal spotted and bewildered
with of.; and, rather than • °lrrupt, • rotten, and •
100101000-Iroeshipplog pas" far better have "war
with • thousand nubs- ited the nakiag • handired
throne That lo an fooling; and, like all
the inter, and nobler' and hinny feelings of our
nature, boo the sinctionof Christianity. Al the saw
time we all know that nem medless and emaciationa
war, aadortakea for peed, pills, forego or ambition,
mast be darker and donor and more fAtilfal of wee
*La any ether ia the king onalogos of human avian
La gash guilt tho volunteers ISO sever ahana By year
eganitatioa you me rooted to your native soil. You
lan year feet plastid on British land, maid the grans
of year fornathers aid swag your own hearths and
h 0...; sad, If over means shall min, you will give
proof of your norm% not nialllieting wrong on others,
but oily as them who would avert an intolorable
wrong from ai and yeoman.. "Put on," says the
apostle. "lb. wilds armour of God." That la, lot as
oberin, every oue of as, la our inane, that righteous-
ness whin non maltoth • nation, and we shall never
ham to fear, for that will be • breastpin* of adamant
tavelaereble by any fn. Bic, after all, is the true
darner that throstang so, and dress every other ciao's,
I. Ile Iran. Loa us humble °wooly°, In God's aght,
goefessing those dos which do ails% among no, and
soaking for ninon from thim through the precious
blood of OlirW our Lord ; pat on ourselves, and help
others to dose likewise, the whole armour of God-tko
armour of rightemeang, troth, and love. And than,
God being our helper, and being for us and on our Id.,
sem. what say-emene weal or esa• wee, we may bir
able is awed is Sae day, bowls% Wooed an