The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-11 00:00:00

SIIIIABORNE.

czslip was poked M hilddlemarsh this week—a
circumstance, we are told, almost unparalleled in
October.
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ekIUKOH FINANOSIL—The attention of church people
is drawn to the unsatisfactory c mdition of the finances
f the Abbey. The churchwardens have accounts due
at Michaelmas amounting to more than ElOO, and not
more than £7O with which to pay them. In this are
include I the sum due for winding the clock, and two
quarterly paymenta for the evening service, nothing
haviag been received by the Vicar since Lady-day. It
can scarcely be pleasant to the congregation t, hear
that the church is now ettituairei volesi fire, there
being no fund, to meet the premium • that when the
cold weather comes there wilt be no fins In the stoves,
ast the churchwardens cannot pay for coal, and that
the evening service must cease as they cannot afford
gem.
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Ar the annual meeting of the Football Club, the
Captain (Mr. L. Go Amen), the deputy- captain ()&r.
H. S. Chick), and Bpi hon. secretary and treasurer
(Nit. L. H. Rusts, jun.) were re-elected. The
committee will consist of Mmes. M. Pars .ne, Tuttle,
Bradford, Whittle, Adams, Amens, Florence, Hill,
Dennis, and French. It was decided to appoint •
preeident and four vice-presidents of the club, and
names were mentioned to whom the secretary was
asked to write. Seven new members were proposed and
elected. A contest will take place on the New Ground,
on the 2942 lust., between the Susrborne club and St.
Andrew's College, Chardstock.
THI evening service in the Abbey Church on
Sunday wee quite of a inner..l character, the anthem
being—
"l heard • voice from Heaven "—(Pierson),
the first hymn— . .. . .

N the labourer's task is o'er,
Now the battle day I. past,
Now noon the farthest shore,
Lands the votater at last
and the hymn after the sermon-
-0 Pared Se, 0 Paradise,
Wh idoth not crave for rest!
The Vicar was the preacher, and took for his text the
words "Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the
great waters, an I thy footsteps are not known. floe
leadeat thy people like a flock by the hand of MONS
and Aaron" The preacher said these words sugg.sead
•• myetery " and guidance "—mystery in the dealings
of idim whoa' way is in the sea, and whose footsteps
are not known, yet all the while real guidance of His
people, whom he led like • fi .ck by the hand of Moses
and Aaron. This was illustrated first by the way in
which G I had dealt with Israel—giving a promise—
then apparently making al circumstances to combine
again it. fulfilment, and yet. after all, bringing every
•.rd he bad tie gad to pass. After further itluetre-
tion of this truth by a reference to the history of religion
In England, the preacher affirmed that when the ways
of Go I were mysterious, an I his purposes as yet not
seen, "Ills ways in the sea, and His paths in tne
deep waters" we might a same that all the while
He was gui ling His people well. A deep shadow
has, the re .cher went on to say, now fallen on •grest
nation closely akin t ourselves,. t )ne raised up from
bumble station, and papered by hardship and trial,
was called to be the bead f the nation. He gave
promise of contrite, honesty, an I patriotism. He was
breaking through abuses, and seemed likely to lead his
nation to honour and greatness. In • moment the
cowardly shot of an assassin laid him low. The whole
worl I watched his bed of sickness, where with
courage he fought the het enemy, sod with faith
eubluitted bionelf to the will f Go I. And when he
succumbed our own I,el .ved Siivereign wee the first to
lay a wreath upon hie hier. Truly God's way bore is
Is the sea, and His path in the deep waters, but we
believe that he is lesedinz the people like a Bock. And
may n d one happy result at once be the drawing
closer together in bonds of sympathy, and in common
work f,.r the glory Il God and the gnat of mankind,
two great na.ions which are now mingling their tears
over his untimely grave? Tne subject was further
applied to the nrce-sity of docility on the part of G, d's
people, and ,he congregation were urged to see to it,
that they wets individually members of that flock
which Ghoul I never perish, but be guided to eternal
safety by Hi ri whose way is in these and whose path
is in the deep waters, and whore footsteps are un-
known. At she chi.s of the service Mr. Lyle, the
oraandt, played ith great effect "The head March,"
during whi h the choristers and the congregation
remained in their seats.