The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-16 00:00:00

Doasia lIILITIL ROOM.

On Thursday evening leak Kn. Bingboin mom.
toomped tar kind and Ohriation work in bohilf of the
men of the Dorset Militia. About 150 remelts arrived
in the town on the previous llooday, but owing to one
or two pervious arrangements, the Old earn lisaliang•
wm not avoilable until l'Ouneday. TO* rosineastal bend
Oared in the room natil about half-poet ms, end then
Min. Bingham opened bar savings' beak and vs aro
glad to boor that she took on that Int night above £7.
At seven o'clock she took her plus at tho harmonium,
and the men having boon called up and supplied with
hymn books, the hymn "Ott in duper, eft In woe."
was sung with poet Wartime, sad spirit. It is
rammluble bow many of tho men. wherevor they oome
from, oaa ling, and this hal ever been one of tbe
moat popular attrnotione of the room. Theo tho Rev.
F. W. Peers vu salmi upon to give the opening
&dame. He mid

yo;ing—ilia,--:You are come to Dorchester for a
very honourable purpose, to do your duty as moo, and
Englishmen; and the more honourable t* Cleille that
brings you here, the more *mini you should be not to
bring discredit upon it. lime you are ezpoeed to greet
temptations, without that restraint of home infinence
. whieh you have heretofore had. 'There are pleoty of
! men and women on the look out for you to load you
! astray, that they may get hold of you slender pay and
tkee leash at you when you hay* nothing left. It Is
to meet this difficulty that bind friends have prepared
and forehead this room, where you sun nooks your.
solves somfortable after the day', work; bent are
emusements of Tatou/ kinds fee those that like theta ;
copy-books for those who will be wise enough to La.
prove their leisure dins; paper, **lopes, sad peas for
writing letters to your !Maids ; and as them things
are (noel, provided, I trust that you will sot make •
foolish or bad use of them. You have already tastol
Mr. Greening's tea and coffee, and bread and butter,
and rake, so I newt soy nothing about tout; bet lot me
readad you that Mr. Davis is bore, whom some of you
know alsoady, aid if you will attend to his instructions
and take his advice, you will never regret your visit to
Dorobeeter. List of all there is Mrs. Buagham's
*Tinge' beak, where you eta deposit you spore *ash,
ineesed of wasting or losing it, sad when this *silting
I. or you will get it back, with the addition of ons
many for every shilling deposited, and surely It will be
better for you to go home with your pocket fall of
money, or a good bundle of cloth* at your bask, than
with an empty parse, a guilty sonseamee, and very
likely • bad sick headache. But this room will not do
the good it is iotendo4 to do if you fall to observe
the mama why II is provided. All regiments are
not so well of; tho artistes of war oay nothing about
theme things, it Is amply began* the toy. or °brim
always leak to the love of mist This is true religion
there ix a great deol of false religion which comas* is
talk, in self-iighteouanses, in despising others; and that
seta young men against all religion; but when you
leave Doreheiter you moot remember that there is wino
true Christianity in the worl I, and pothole' you will
moreover think that it would be better for owl classes
If there Mil • little more of it. But now let use speak
to you a few words ;moo a higher metier. The wind
man ways "Remember now thy Creator in the days of
thy youth, while the evil days wens not, and the pars
draw nigh in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure
Ii them." Now you ean'tiemenaber what you don't
, know: so you mutt first know that your Creator, as
sash, hat • perfect right to your entire obeditnee ; that
he is a Holy and Almighty God, and therefore the
proper obit,* of your fear. Bet tie is also your
Redeemer who died for you, to deliver you from eternal
death, and give you a place Mills kingdom in Wave°,
therefore He is a proper obi*h for your love. This,
, Solomon says, you are to remember, not to do you
harm, but to do you good ; not to make you sad, bet to
, make you happy. Aid you are to remember Rim in
your youth. Why in your youth? Ramose it is the
beet and *skit time to do so, and He is most pistoled
with them who do so. "I love them," HI my., that
love ma; arid they that seek Me early enah lied Me."
! Rut you mast remember lian in your youth, Imam
llf you forget Ulm then, it wall be terrible to have to
remember Him when " the evil days tame," as some
they surely will. The thonght of Him then as an angry
God whom you hero forgotten, will only drive you to
despair. Once more you muss remember him in your
youth, bemuse It is the semen of teroptotioa ; end we
require that remetabranoo to keep us ; then
when tho evil days some, whoa you have no more
plaiimre in life, He will be your joy and oomforS It
won't auk* you worse soldiers,or worse man, if you sadist
under His banner now, and I know full well that
nothing woold give year kind friend Mn, Bingham
pester pleasure; nothing ropey lam so well for all her I
; nothing make has thick so huts of all her !
labour, as to hear and see some ef you brought from
the paths of sin and death, lato the ways of happiness
and glom. SDI3IO have beet so broueht in this room ;
may Cod grant that this year Bra. Bingham may not
he left without her reward.

At the ooi;intionlltToZeddrese, the II) " Jeans
lover of my soul" was sang, end they rttorned to their
amusements and to the enjoyment of the irreproleible
pipe. We bays never seen CO lalp eu eta:toucans on
the first night in any previous feu. And d this should
be tbe last year of their training in Dorchester, we
Indis that the beaell of the &We Boon viii stet so
Nit pole meg.