The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-17 00:00:00

should moo wince inns moree but the nature of Ma sub Set
I limit lartilds my dolor lel At sll monk though I sos sot
animated at nzplbj. that I bars said to which I. would spoil
that tors (sildinuy so opprobrious In his opinion), yet I trust Yr. Mare will find noWng In this Letts" giving hie in osolidiso tit sum at such sputum on my pork ihout gonad
I. do is, 1 ma willing to boar this brunt, sad so Babson smolt
no loom " IL" but
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are 1,875 advertised for ferrite is the molded the people
bought sod sold at the metro, in r inditation which
Is the supposed mores of all our national gresdol end
our only safe wird against absolute ;
livings too which are advertised with ear reeseinsenda-
tioes as "good society with plenty of Idling, hunts'.
Ac." "good fishing In tee neighbourhood,"De
dtlaeatlag ohm*" auktity most b.althy, plauranuf
"prospect of early poserseloo." Truly • liate
be as aid insombeut in the:Chunk, " Early
The poor all Incumbent bermes inorsiugly
precious to advertisers with every moth of rowing age
and every symptom of increasing lalinsity. net
widish should accompany old age is in their melancholy
ere exchanged for eager rre to mar the stipulate'
sough and keen eyes to note the signs of prairie.
And this is the glorious institution which Kr. Hobbs
holds op to the admiration of Englishman al their
Wire' idol, ard which be oontrasta to the disparage-
ment of American voluntaryism. Let your readers
judge of the two thingeand I doubt not on whir side the
overwhelming odds will lie. "Those who dwell in glue
horse should not throw stones." But the beauty of the
whole business is that all these political evils of Aortic*,
all the abnormal plane of her religious life are
tracmahle to volitotaryism and the absesioe of • State
Church. Can Kr. Hobbs tell us where we can find the
' evidence of tbe arena* of all these evils where the
Btate Church exists? We look in vain to England;
for surely we have enough of opposing creeds and coon-
hooding religious factions, from Shakersand the Peouller
People "who are marching on to glory, bless the Lord,"
scoortgag to their own peaceful ooneeptions, up
through all ranks and varieties of religraiate ; and yet •
State Church is 'opposed the our* of all these evils. Is
II not lamentable that an Hain& Clergyman should be
found capable of perpetrating such absurdity
linisries be tells us is a great adios but she would be
greater dill if re were to riser at s Eional Sapped of the
tree worship of the living sad teas God. Whereupon it
Is barred that God is not reocepred by the American
nation. I weeder If Mr. Hobbs knows that the Bible
I. read in every Christian Churls in Anemia& that her
President and ruder are prayed for as earnestly as or
sovereign Victoria and our rulers are; that God's word
I. acknowledged as the opener done of the': constituttria,
and not Kerry as with President Davis. whir
had abs warm sympathy of not a tow of the
upholders of • State Church in this seentry • that
all her greeters springs from her moonlike' of
God? Does Mr. Hobbs know these fasts? Or has he
been dreamer of pore savages roaming the prairies as
painted Indians? No, Yr. Hobbs is no doubt, after
the fashion of the tailor, the most intelligent man of
his perish. But it is sad that • good and intelligent
man should so allow prejudice to blind hie eyes as eves
to prevent his acknowledging the resopitiou of Old by
the Anterior people, although they do eat do so by
state—aonelioned sad printed prayers, Thiele is. of
=same of • State Church. frees whir happUy
is free, and from whiob we ereently trail
England will soon be free akr must be free, that it
doer the mind agorae the acknowledgment ef any
good or exesellenos which grows elsewhere Num on the
sell of a Charlet Fetabilebossot Has Ireland I mak
berme heathen since the rungs was disestablished?
Is it likely to rear beetles.? Have our caries or
ate they likely lodged I knew nobody who Is ever
likely to suffer that injury through dieserldishment
road Kr. Hobbs himself and • few other notable', who
oat of sheer mite, and for more sonsistenoy, are likely
to proclaim themselves heathens so 100 a all dlesstatdish.
meat is oolahned. Mr. Hobbs may lay his morl' a
with this, that neither be nor his brethren in their
heathen condition are likely long to irk the services
of • " home missionary," only when that time
sums we boos he will remember the rim.
troy principle. Whet folly is all this that Yr.
Hobbs is guilty of, sad bow impossible fur me
adequately to express my surprise at his utterrese. In-
deed I feel se if It were simply insulting to the WWll-
gear of your readers to spend so much time la
saswertnfi his letter. Well that is the manner In which
to his entire satiefeetion be has rant to dispose of my
arguments for volontardsm as derived from Scotland
and America. And with a sense of victory which must
have bees delirious be passe* to other fads sal
soda( ter the manor of old Roman ocsagoerre draper
all along the One of triumph. Let us meekly follow
this hero of the fight, He takes as book eves to Clon.
smalls& and bids us look at the glories of Star Charism
from his day onwards. It must be very amesing to
your readers to know that this Constantine, who was a
sendleatheo when he patronised (Admiralty, never
established the church at all, ali I shall preetiatly show
yen • and the quiet assumptioa of the far by Kr.
Hobbs, Indicates rat through pressor of parochial Or
other dense he has simply forgotten what chards history
be may have learned, although I have a shrewd sue-
pidoo that his attainments in this department must
always have been somewhat meagre, For example, be
wood lead your readers to suppose that the real if not
only triumphs of Christianity date from the edicts of
Constentine in favour of religious liberty ; in blissful
ignorance of the feet that the grandest triumphs of the
chetah were gained when, so far from being favoured
or patronised by States and Emperors, she was pores-
surd, downtroddso, suppressed, arid her noblest
adherents martyred; the grandest page of the chorale's
history, that which records her noble's triumphs, her
largest succors* is the history of her self-sustained
efforts and resources, and her resolute dependence not
on the *ruler arm, but on the arm of her Lord, and her
greatest triumphs in our age and time are in reserve for
her when abe le freed from all specular Interference and
when she depends upon the love and service of her ter
adherent& Never was the °burr stronger, purer,
nobler, than when she had to elude the grasp and gig
of earthly rulers, by retreating to dens and caves of the
earth, when she refused to peer out into the breed light
ef day. So soon as earthly rulers began to patrooles
bar; to show her feoutr, to mats her work and per
fru easy, so pr... 41.1 bee power brio to wane, and
chat was true of the age of Constantine, has been true
ever winos : for the oburob to beak in the sunshine
of State favour and blandishment is to expose her to
some of the deadliest daragers that can befall bee;
melee such drcurnstanose Mr strength end robustness
relax ; her purenees and her dependence on Christ yield
to dependence on earthly powers, and • general wreck
of her strength and resource. ensues. This is the his-
tory of all State Munches, and if Ur. Hobbs has not
yet learned this feat, we must politely refer him to his
studies in coolearatioal history, in whir meentisse he
betrays a remarkable deficiency. And not to speak of
periods remote from ourselves, is It not true that the
saddest prod in the history of English Christianity is
that when the ohurotee power was most absolute, sod
that religious life has never been greater than sire the
existence of the Free Churehes in England; and but
for the Weelerys and the Whiteside, would not
Evangelical life have perished Wisely in the land?
Who does not know these facts, and who does not
believe that even now what is needed to the destine
and absolute perishing of religious life in the land, is
lust to make the State Church supreme and to destroy
all the agendas of the Free Clinrehas An event
Waggly which needs not to be freed. With regard to
Constantine let me offer a few remarks in proof of
. what I have jest armed. The best thing which Om-
, strains did for Christianity was to give it freedom to
' breaths; to roll away the stone from the sepulchre
which oonfird it. and prevented its adios on the
world, and to allow is. unmolested, to pumas its
heavenly mission. At first be did nothing bat esta-
blish religious liberty and equality, as I shall *bow you,
and never did establish religion with the State as we
understood that word. So far from his patronage of
Obriatienity helping to rata heathenism as oar writer
anode. Christianity had already destroyed heathenism by
Its unaided poser. Now, he proclaimed a priesiple • Wr
even at this late hour we are still Striving to user in
England—re priosipl• of religious equality—Here are
his edicts, from We, the AegusU, Coustentime,
and Ueinloa, having come to Klima under happy
merges and baring taken Into residention all affairs
that pertained to the public interest and welfare,
mooed other thinp which we judged to bets the
advantage of all, or rather before all other things, we
have deemed it meet to make such ordieares as abould
mitre the due reverses and worship of the divinity;
that is to say, We to Christier and all others triers
shoed be grated by us the free choice at following
whatever religion they may desire; to the Wept that
'retards divinity and °sierra powers there may be,
may show themselves propitious both to ua and to all
who dwell hearth our rule. Therefore we have
declared, out of • Watery and most upright design,
that no one whatsoever shall be dried the liberty of
following or *hoodoo the Oluistdan religion sad
worship; but thet all sod enrooe shall be snowed to
glee his mind to that rellgloo whisk be may deem more
suitable to him, so that it may be parade for the Deity
In all things t 3 show to us his sosustomed favor and
kindness. For It La manifestly clatters to the
tranquility of these times, that It should be free to
every me to choose and observe whatever method of
worripping the Deity he may prefer." Although
there were other idiots In which Constoutias rowed a
decided preform* for and leaning to the Christian
religion, still he never by violent memos sought to
destroy the pagaa worship, and indeed the emblems of
pages deities on the coins of his ream, thew UM far on
in his reign the worship of paganism was dill protteri
and permitted. Is it not to our dinhenosu that • little
better than peps Emperor, for there is no proof that
, at this time he was a °bridle* at all, or at say future
time, should yet have so dearly diemented the
'province of the maestri* Is matters of religion,
and should have acearded liberty sad equality
to all, without Injuring the rights of the one, by surely
extendlog them of the other? With all the seeming
good which carne to the church through the favour of
Constantine, it is yet a one* qesetion, whir the best
historians have answered in the affirmative, whether
the injury dm' to Christianity, In degrading it to a
courtly favour, in presenting • pathway to earthly
honour and distinetion—for under Cretonne* it was .
as difiloult to boa pagan as it bad been difficult to boa
Christian under heathen emperors; the road to favour,
and poslUon, and power, Van lay by the dough ; as
Indeed it has ever been with the eternise of • State
Choral—whitlow the Injury whieh waa Infikted upon the
church by the blast of popularity which then greeted
It did not far outweigh the good which it may have
°Crewe* conferred upon it, Bat to show that Cre-
, rutin* never established the church, as that is under-
stood lot me quote from a trustworthy historian of our
own day, who tas lately left this world for • better, I
mean Dr. lea, Barns the distinguished professor of
Church History In tbe Free Charehreallege of falsagow.
He says,—" It would be an error to suppose that
Constantine, in any atrial err of the tones, as we
now understand than, 'established' the Mural& He
neither legislatively ratified her octostitAltiall, Dar pro-
vided for the maintemme ef her minister. He grated
no
endowments ,• be eared so terms of Chunk and
State alliance. He first tolerated the Christian moiety •
then mognised,prorated, boomired,belperilher ; pstro:
"Med her bishops, prodded in her oroolls (not. how-
ever, until her bishops invited him), secured her
Pr y, framed the general laws laws the empire more
oriet Is hare:May with her principles, interfered
variously In her Oaks less as an °Oriel authority than
as a powerful Meal, now and then eves greed her with
special and isolated gifts of royal tanalfieree, but
that was all" So mush for the establishosest
of religion by (kcictcoisc,
which your readers will now
sae la • mere dream of Kr. Hobbs'. imaginethro and it
simply of a pies, with the loformatioa whir he has
been good rough to furiatt;on the geseral gametic.° at
issue. And the evils, the disastrous commaries slash
resulted even from what patronage Cossesothie showed
to the Church, but deeeribe the rib whir, in every
age, have resulted from the favours of Kings and
Emperors to the religion of Christ Jesus. Hia religion
was not sagigarld to live sad proper In the favour of
earthly polaatsbek but In um affeation and love of

Its adhereote, and In the glorious power of Its divine
author. So soon therefore as religion bee boner
Identified with the State and patronised by it, se soon
has It deigned, sad no sadder (sot does history reeor4
than Use torpedo touch of State rOl ioy, and who would
see
must seelikrt iruliegdamPaaasaill taintladtrolliagginningeoretitigniuYiu""ii didvia°rlam:g
Us. first three ertnides of It, existent*. when It went
for Into the world in Its divine Waist, and by the
robes of • few Galilean Asherres Ailed the wolid with
Its trohnphe, and law sill melbas sad sapontitione par
from before It, like &rimer Ware she light of day.
These were the days of the ahnreh's glory, and we who
believe in Its divine origin and power have no misgiving
as loon, present policy,. politry which is in harmony
with the beet epoch of the ohurch's history and which
whim It arrives will witness the beginning of a °brinier
glory which has not been MOO SIPCO earthly powers
retrained sod bound by their golden fetters the
mighty force of our holy religion. Sorry lam to have
dwelt thin long on this part of Mr. Hobbe's letter,
which however was rendered nronsery by his
very positive vet groundless arertiona There
are other points in We letter whir call for
a word of reply, and it will simply be •
weed. For example he tells no that established
churches have been the honoured agencies of Gad for
banishing heathenism from many nations and effec-
tually protecting them from it, and thie cannot be said
of voluntaryism. All lOW sly lethat our own country
hes been brought as near to hestheulem with e State
°buret) as it oould possibly be, and but for the kb 'ore
of Wesley and Whitfield in the peat, and the continued
I labourn of the Fos* Churebee now, I should not like to
think what Ragland with her law church would hare
been. But speaking of nations being saved from
heathenism by State Marches, and by such a 150..!
wonder If Mr. Hobbs has ever heard of the labours of
John Williams, of Robert Moffitt, of William Elle
And will he tell no what kind of churehee obrinianleed
the Smith Sea Islands, Aides, and Medagrear ? Then
he toils us that England has needled her true ;restates
through the Slate thatch, and hal sho enured her
erusEbettybyber. All lean may is that I know a
good many names. wry worthy names too, and chief
among them the immortal Ewan, who managed to
lose their liberty by the geld glorious State ellureb,while
others were driven by it to seek a bane on • foreign
land, and to found the great Republic of Antrim.
But our estimate of Mr. Hobbs'e bisterkal lore is some-
what low and therefore we shell not wore farther
time in pointing out his trey blunders. But I some
to notion some very extraordinary statements whir
poably your readers may her overlooked. He tells
us that there is • amorous party who are seeking to
laden us to Oat off oar national aeknowledement of the
Saviour who has dose so meets for on" It is not pelts
clear whet is hare insaat. hit meant that if the °burets
were dientabUshed the nation would no longer
have a religion or asinsowledge God If so, what
rear of more than the half of the nation who
have already distended the State °hutch. and
worship beyond her precincts! And how can
there be then hundreds and thousands of Hoot:ton-
feradete in whose piety even Mr. Hobbs believe., and
whom he summers together with rurehmen to save
the nation from the frightful ealeadty which I sod
others who think with me are attiring to bring upon
it by roluding the Blida from our State whoa.; but
these are'small discrepancies I dare my in Mr. Hobba's
ealthation sompared with the metal force of his
argument. Bet thee what °ems, of Ireland and her
free olsureh ? I have not yet beard that God ie sot
worshipped therm Indeed I am told that worship in
every parish retinues as before; the prayers are read
r near, and the Bible reed, sad there Is really an
aoknowledgment of God, although the Stale no longer
appoints her bishops or pied' to minister at her sitars.
I am afraid Mr. Hobbs must have bre labouring under
some rentsl depreedon when he wrote this astounding
letter of his, and probably • easier of relaxation from
mental toil might be useful in helping him to return to
this imbject with some Garr prospect of 'aeons; mean-
time your readers will agree with me that he is shear
lest in the geared's. Bat to grown all, he clinobes him
argument by the astounding snertion that it ham been
proved boyar doubt that the Rituallets are Honer-
'ermine and or Obarelimen ; so that already heathenism
Is Wenn upon us, for whoa you dinette% the Ritualists
sad Nooraformiste from the State Marsh, you have
left It smell, sad growing beautifully Ire • until really
little or nothing of It remains. Poor Mi. Hobbs, he
has out but • sorry Agora Really I would semen to
the friends of the church whether no better &deride
can be found to plead her eau, ; Wes SW be said
safely on her behalf then these gestlemen have yet
managed to my, and It Is • thousand piths that the
hest which eon be said should net be said, so that the
prelim) may be fairly argued on both sides. Really!
shun feel sorry for the church, whose rase under
the creel treatment of Its present friend; has suffered
gush Injury ; but of °ours' lam not in a position to
✓ent Prelbly If churchmen eould even yet lay their
rade together something might meantime be dor
to ran the earnest of moors which le undoubtedly
running somewhat strongly In the direction of
Voluntaryism as opposed to State eharchiam.
_

-f-Nakvs,

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AN() AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1872

Au lOW ea I am I shell rupee* end *Rem the rmllleh
labourer for hls many noble and excellent [ltalie.. but doll
equally Menke Unionism, and what is more shall et any and
every coat oppose It. If the Union 'Jemmies believe in tear
01111 cense, let them meet me m fair discueelon before an liss-
audi ledn ence, and not one which, ir inter re
mted. Is p.
Illdranl Iced, I have thrown down my gag.; lot Mem pick it up,
or the public will thaw Its own inference.
kinnaeit Cows&

/MT LULWORTH.
TRI GAL on Sunday evening raged with Writ"'
violence uprooting trees, and uncovering and resttering
the ricks of oorn. -

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There was & large quantity el strew la Outdebate burst.
The Dorchester ere hrlinWe were lelorowl al Orlaatese
Mat their Foram weekl he r.qslk. By Wee
o'clock the donna were thoroughly It utast. A deg
that (iodated a geed Seal of mike awebred earl sena
out amid the sews ot us 'platelet*. res that aware
stone well" are all that wear. of lite trull4lll4o &Milked
by the fire. Mr. Ora Is fully Nerital Nii..trapottal
Dela, the owner, Mr. Ilhertgas, hates Wawa" wasted
In the West a Ragland.

FltAlli-rute,
A PROLIFIC COW. —DUFIRF Ptirsitel elett II eow
belooglog to Mr. CMorge Yos, Molder, dropped three
fine calves Next morales the trio were diamivered,
but one had died; the other two ere 'Meg en well.

SHER BORN
Tat 870111( blew out a quantity 0 gillle le the
conservatories of Mr. Midmoth, Mr. (Aaadier, and Mr.
Longman, moving a portion of the last named's green
Imam bodily into an adjoining garden.

BEI DPORT.
PUTIIIIS were offered in Bridport ohareh on Sunday
for fair vraether.
A CaNTINAZIAN.—There 1150 W living at Laymore,
hamlet a few miles from Bridport, an old lady who
Is now In her 101st year. She was born on the lit of
May, 1772, and marled a man named Stanton In 1797,
who died about 16 years ago. Mrs Stanton has a =4l
army of ohlidron, grandebildren, and great•grand•
okildrem, and gmat-greatgraedehildren mattered more
or lon throughout the globe. tibe retalas her
Isoultim, with the exeeption of being rather deal. She
is also a great smoker ; even in bed the pips la bar emit.
pardon. Mrs Stanton is so old servant of one of the
oldest families in Dorm.. Prom the age of eine until
her marriage alto belonged to the household of Mr.
Hugh treoahard, of Maudlin, a dose...nasal of Sir
Thaws Trenoltard.
TB' fluanloawn Or BI7NDAT.-81nas lb. storm of
1824 the wind has not been snore violent than from 11 to
11 p.m. on Sunday. On Monday morale( the 'Moots
were stoma with sham, brioks, Ito. A obiranoy at the
workshops of Mr. John Gals fell smashing tbo roof to
*sem The hones of Yr. Samuel Baker. 1111111 f the
eboreb, was partially anroolod, and Immediately
opposite, the hones of Mr. Jobe Mandan was eompleiely
laid ban. The Molten &lane, at Mr. Job Hanford's,
butcher, in Mait-strest, fell through the roof and aging.
Semen of Mtn and other trees uprooted. Om Ins old dm
at " The Hyde," the sea of .7. Grodry. Eta..
on. of them, and another cow Ow Baitlllll.beti
Milton • valuable risk of seed slaw was mattered far
and wide, to the greet lam of Kr. Idward Millet*. At
Loden and other irißeim mace damage was deo& In
Um town mine eopluf from the aura was blown down;
and during the mecum swam the earagregationa at
the ladopondent and Unitarian shop& were in • state
of alarm from the falling of slam and the shaking of
the buildings.
80101:1011 Pawn, Priday.—Before tho Mayor and
Mr. ZINO
WiUsan Lager. oharged with steam a brash from
his labs employers, Winn Barrett sad Boa, area
menteened to ow month's imprieeement with hard
Labour. Daring the inaminadoe prinooer had as
bysterkal At, and Dr. Batt was met for, who, when
said sheet the =Ka reminsanded the pollee, as •
"aerials are," to throw • basica of water over his
had and fiwie. Prisoner 11th. man whe MOO maths
Mae Ivrea In our alumna am • olstmaat to sem
party, and duped not oely a highly reepeeted
Missolin of Um town, but also • lawyer, Wia-
oheeter, out of a imadderable Nun of mosey.

LYlo_lllolBt

Yam 1a.[..-o;i•Ja IL J. SKlllagtoa.
down stairs as be wail ram up to bed, at his
Mom Clottago, on Taseday nlgh tradariag7t=
sad dying mbar* atter.

W/RIHAIL

Leo:IAL floocrens.—ir—. Cleade—W. Limy, woad son
if Mr. W. C. Lastly, solicitor, has suciessefoUy passed
the latermediste so is. of the lasorpotstod Law
Booker el 'Ragland.
Tan GALL—Doris' evening service on Sunday at
Elt. Mary's, one of the high windows to the west sod
was Metre to. A cotter was unroofed it fitoboroust,
sad several deka were partially unthatebed. The
swollen river doodad the tooth sauseway. • ooasider-
abie potties of the lead was to,. from the roof of MN
Union heeler, soars of which woe tarried to $ eoosider
able distance. and a steak of ettlesneys blows down at
Mr. Crookwes new drapery establlehmeat, the shutters
were taken fres the shop windows, sad tarried dimity
some the read by the violates et Ae triad.

00111,11 C.ASTLI. •
damn 01 BACIIIII llose.—“ Ennysa's Holy War"
was °vitally olnsulated la an Wesleyan chapel, King.
Han, on Thereday evening by readinp by Raw. T. Dabs,
and me& by Uwe *bob. About 500 were prensat.