The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-08 00:00:00

WITXOI7TII.
A.O.F.—Court Alexandra, 4729, Ancient Order of
Foresters, Wend having • demonstration on the 7th
July.

MILITIA RSATIBW.
The inhabitants of We mouth showed their appreciation 1
and admiration of the thoroughly good behaviour of the
militia, daring their mouths training here. by assembling
in litre to watch the inspection. which. 'Wetly
brings their training to • clam, although Um
man were not disarmed till Saturday. The ',Aim
sethorttir, the borough bench an 1, in fact, everybody.
facial and non-official, are loud in praise of their
ezemnlery conduit. The inspecting officer, too, highly
ted the regiment on their drill, but unfortun-
mrPraise was rather marred by his allusion to the
of some of the men on assembling at Dorchester.
WO OM 0% hog*, however, that this to-bealeplored
behaviour never again disgrace the struts of the
(runty town, and the name of the regiment. During the
whole of their stay not a single man has Awed in our
issolvicovourts, a fact which speaks volumes in their
About ten o'clock on Thursday morning the whole of
the regiment assembled in the square at the barracks, in
heavy marching order and Calomel Henning, C.B. (com-
manding MU Brigacie Dapot, at Drchester), closely
Inspected the kits and arms of the men.
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the regiment. headed by Re fine bind, to the
old cricket field, neer the Backwaserbri e, where there
was assembled • goodly number of spectators. We were
pleased to notice amongst those prevent the late colonel
of the regiment, C 'lomat Biogharn, an! Colonel Steward,
commanding the Dorset Ride Volunteers. About three
o'clock Crlonel Henning arrived on the round, score.
ward by Captain Kavanagh (ilso of the filth Brigade
Depot), who acted as his aide-de-oarop. Having been
drawn up in line, with the colours of the regiment in the
centre, the ranks were impacted, at the conclusion of
which • number of evolutions were proceeded, whirr were
carried out steadily and well. They were watched with
cousiderege interest by the spectators, especially the con-
cluding charge," which formed a very pretty spectacle.
At the dose of the mananivres Colusil Hen said:
Colonel Hall and Often of the Dorset Militia,— dare-
say you thought last year I found • great deal of fault,
but If fault then I certainly find praise now, for
I never saw • greater improvement tunny regiment in my
life glace last year. The men are clean, the kits are
clean, and the arms are clean—ro fact, gou are well turned
out, and you have had a moat steady drill, which has been
performed very well indeed. I am very pleased indeed
with you in making a (avowable report Having said
this, there is one thing, however, which I must find
fault with before I to, and that is the conduct of the men
at the assembly at Dorchester. I hope when you go up
on Saturday and disperse we shall not see men rolling
about intoxicated in the streets, for it is quite a disgrace
to the mere. Remember discipline Is one et the first
things to leere, and without it You will be useless in the
field. Whilst. however, I say this, Colonel Hall, lam
equally glad to find that since the regiment has been in
Weymouth I have heard that the inhabitants would not
have known there was • regiment here, but
for the pleasure of seeing the men walking about
the streets. Your conduct has been so good that I
shall be able to make • most favourable report. I hope
you will impress on the men when they reemble again to
dispense with drink, sal shall never be able to give you
the fullest praise until I find you assembling at the proper
1 hour in the morning to get your clothing. You can always
apply for a railway warrant by writing to the adjutant,
and therefore there is no excuse whatever for your 'topp-
ing about, I shall not be satisfied until I find You
mumbling like soldiers and taking your clothing without
getting drunk and riotous and getting • disgraceful name
In the country. With all the praise I have to give you
for what you have dose here, I thought I must mention
this, and hope you will bur it in mind. On the whole I
shell make a most favourable report.
Colonel Henning then enquired if any one hod any cows
plaints to make. To this enquiry there was no answer.
This concluded the review and the regiment, having
owe more formed in marching order, marched back
to the Notate
At an early hour on Saturday morning the men were astir.
and many of them lett before breakfast The greater
portion of them, however, bade farewell to Weymouth
about ten o'clock. Headed by their band, playing • merry
tune, and with many of their caps adorned with dowers,
no doubt the parting gift of scrielWeymouth lass, they
paraded the streets, making • gallant show. Their leaving
was quite as quiet and orderly as has been their stay, which
has been to the inhabitants rather • source of pleasure
than shame as is too often the CaO3 with Militia regi-
ments. Colonel Hall accsinunied the regiment, and we
are sure the gallant °Mon has ample reason to be proud
of the men under his command.

WEYMOUTH, PORTLAND, AND UPWICY
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.
The annual meetings of this union took place
on Tuesday and Wednesday last, at Gloucester-
street. On Tuesday evening a service was held in the
chapel, the principal feature being an eloquent and
Impressive sermon by the Rev. Archibald Brown, of
the East London Tabernacle, selecting for his text,
Galatians IL, SO—" I am crucified with Christ, never-
theless I live, yet not I, but Christ," especially the
lad four word& The congregation was very large, and
the sermon created a marked impression.
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The preacher Wald :---1717—nigh 1117.ve ash these
words apart from their context, we repudiate in any way
any idea of wrenching them from their legitimate meaning
or violatint their teaching. Although we take them apart
from their surroundings, I think if you look Into them itter
carefully you will me they are faz from being taken front their
original meaning, but rather really constitute the germ of
thought of the whole of the verse. And this verse le but
the expansion of the thought contained in these four
words—" Not I, but Christ." If, then, these words, con-
stitute the germ of thought of the verse we will go further
endsay the Tenurially istheoentrisof the wboleof thelCpistle
to the Galatians, which is simply an elevation of this thought
—"
Not I, but Christ." For them churches in Galatia had
sadly drifted from the truth after having commenced in
the spirit, they were trying to perfect thenisalees in the
dash, and the whole object of the apostle in writing to
them was to bring them back to the simplicity of the
Gospel. The epistle wee simply • reiteration of this truth
—self trthing. Christ everything. It is simply • meat
negation before the "I"—it is not I, but Christ. Them
really constitut) the sum and substance of all Paul's
writings. The whole of his epistles are only the expansion
of the one great thought—" Not I, but Mriat" When
the strong hand of Divine gran hurled Saul, el Tarsus, off
his bores just outside Damascus, he learned a lesson he
never forgot; it was burnt and branded Into the man's
soul—" ?Cot I, but Christ." I can imagine some saying—
" Has this any bearing on Sunday school work!" I think ,
so, for there are one or two grand requisites for • true I
Sunday school teacher. He should be a saved man, and
he should be • Christian man with trim, deep,
full experience of Christ I am persuaded he must
be • holy man, or elm he can never bi • true servant.
These four srwits are really the epitome of the whole
Christian • life and exp•rienee. lii them you have • sum-
marised 'mount of ihe Coristian as • man and as •
worker. "N it I, but Christ," Is the epitome of God's plan
of salvation, and of the Christian's experience ; it la the
very essence of samtlfication, and is the epitome of all
true service. The teachers of schools in this union will be
teachers full of power, fu'd of unction and blessing only in
proportion se every child in their dame is led to feel that
with the teacher it is " not I, but Christ.' Let a few
years roll by, and when the workers drop the sickle, and
when the harvest home is sung up in glory, the rum of
heaven's great anthem is only an expansion of to-night's
text. Dp there it is not I. but Christ, for the song that
I. rolling and echoing through heaven is this "Now unto
Him that loved us and washed us from our eine in His
own blood, mud made us kings and priests unto God, unto
Him be glory for ever" Whole volumes might be
written, and whole libraries have been written to describe
God's plan of eso. inn man, but after all it comes down to
this—man is saved the very moment he believes the
truth. If there Is 0110 thing absolutely Tapja. for a
Sunday school teacher it is this—to to certain on the
doctrine of atonement It is when the Spirit of God opens
• man's eyes to be able to s is, It Is not I bet Chrbst,"
who burs the sin, then the man learns to look upon
Calvary as • different place eltogetkar. He saes the great
Sufferer there, and he • lys ' He is them for me, and in
my place." He watches the amnia% of the sufferer, sad
pee "Yes, all the grist and the heartbretakingtelong to
me." He SOU that same form sold and still as amide and
says " yes, I am there, formn the eye of the law the sub.
ealtute is one with the person for whom he 'tends. Then
after having seen the sin atoned and removed, there
should be period holiness ; for how can there be Mailed=
into the glory unless there be righteousness, not eicapara-
ties, but superlative I The text is the soul's response to
the demand for perfect righteousness. The sinner says
justice asks of his hands perfect holiness, but be mowers
Not I but Ct-•rist" provides the righteousness. How dear
are those lines—

" When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies;
Ken then shall this be all my plea,
Jesus hash lived and died for MIL"
Although there is no fling Utopia than believing there is
nothing more difilcult to describe. Its very simplicity is
ite difficulty. You say to your children "Believe, believe,
.
believe," but they say Yee, tangs ,r but what is believ-
ing r I think the best answer to the question was that
given by the Irish girl, when asked what was faith. Her
face brightened up and she said "Please teacher, I know;
lift just doing what God toll, you, and axing no questions
about it" Yee. that is it In trim, saving faith there is a
doable action, it renounces and it appropriate.. True
faith lays" Not I." It casts overboard every depot:idea*,
on self with one Mini, and it lays hold of all God offers in
Christ with the otbor. Coless a meals right on this point
he is bound to be wrong on °them If he is right on this
doctrine at atonement, he Is not very far astray. We
have watched the man until we have seen him saved, and
he is now resting on Christ's finished work. He is a sawed
man, but can he dispense with the words of the text, can
he say I have done with that nowt Oh I no. He cannot
My in • stock of grace; be bee no capital. If a tom is
gay d, be begins to learn that all the way from the arose to
the crown it Is a continuation of "Not I, but Moist."
You will learn this by experience. I have no reservoir of
✓race of my own independent of mr master's. Ilk not I
but Christ within toe. and only as Melia dwells within us
have we power to bring forth fruit at all. There I, no
physician in the kingdom or in the world, who
can say what life is. You may say your hand is
alive, because it is warm. and is sinews obey the
diztates of your will' tut if that hand could speak
It would OM lam alive and yet! a= not. Ills not
but the brain life that is in me. And so with our spiritual
life; we have no power out of Christ He is Um head, the
brain life, and we are the members. Yellow workers I
Da we know much &lout this I How Isis we are so sterile,
so barren. end so profitless I How Is it our 'armour' and
addressee have the dry rot in them, and our Sunday
School lemons seem to lack all power I Is not the secret
bars, like the churches of Galatia, we begin in the Spirit
and then tettetin the neib. It racist be nut I but Christ
who shall be the power of my life. The teacher must not
only be a sawed man, and have persona experleene, but
must have personal holiness of life What is holiness of life I
There Is a great deal of artificial hollows in this dal sad
Christians are too often slaves to artificial rules, It:stead
of possessing the beautiful and natural holiness of
Inst.. True holiness is self-dying, and Christ coming
forth respiendene and magnitlieni Some of you may
have heard of that marvellous Trench tweecher—Theodore
Monad, who described his own experience in some beauti-
ful lines. Hawing described the dyed his unregeneracs
be said, "It was all of self and none of Christ." Then
describing his conversion, he says," It was gems of self
and some of Christ." Then in sanctificatiou it wee "Less
of self and more of Christ." And, lastly, the glory
when "there will be none of self and all Christ.' Mercy
man COllllllllllOOll life with a very big 'I," but is hie
spiritual lUe grows the "I" becomes minimised and the
Crbecome magnieed, coati at list the "r &vane
ag& his tke 'PLUM* of trne Christi's' genies sod
Is the ammo a pod Cbristiso work, non to the groat
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