The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

BLA NDFORD.

TRADESMEN'S FIMINDLY Soot's's. —The thirty-
...mond annual gateau-tit of the amounts of this Sourish-
ins society boa just been issued, Iron which it appears
that the pa.t sot?. income was £134 10.. siel., and the
eat enditurc 1.169 3s. 2.1. of which £76 8, was to
superannuated member., leaving a balsam of 125 70.
Of d. in hood on the yeau's account. The total wealth
of the tticiety now amounts to £1.362 4s. 31., of which
112307 ss. Si. is invested with the Commissionero fot
the Reduction of the National Debt. The number of
benefit members is 124.

LOCAL BOAIRD. —The usual monthly meeting of
Ibis Board was held on Wednesday. There wee a
fall attendanos of members. The estimate for a
general district rata at la in the pound was produced
and pared, the rate being ordered to be prepared
accordingly. The lighting committee reported that
the alterations made to the large fire engine had
proved most satisfactory. The question of borrowing
money on the security of the rates was agsin intro-
daud, and • priposition was made that .C6OO be
borrowed. An amendment was proposed to the
effect that £l,OOO be borrowed, but on being pot to
the Board, it was lost by a large majority, and the
original proposition was carried. The surveyor was
ordered to prepare plans to accompany the applies.
tion for powers to borrow. The question of the pro-
jecting window blinds was also again diacuseed, and
it was ultimately resolved that in future no blinds
be snowed to project over the foot-way but those
that are made in accordance with the regulations of
the Act,

CONSECRATION OF WI ?ITER BO URNE
Z ELSTON E CHURCH.

It mint be a source of hallowed joy to every '
true son of the Church of England to see en '
every hand unmittakeable proofs of increased interest ;
In the welfare of that church to which he belongs ; in I
no Ivey is this so strikingly shown as in the number of I
churches which have within ..he le4 fen years bee. I
erected or enlarged in this diocese. In our last im- i
premien we had the gratification of detailing the in- ,
teresting eervicee connected with the rearming of ,
Bo...eat:myna Church, and now in another pert of the 1
canoe county we have to chronicle • similar interesting i
event, which took place no Wednesday.
The old parish church of Winterhouree, • portion I
of which was erected in the 12th and the renthinder in '
the 13th century, having become so tooth dilapidated '
that it wth found imprnible to restore the greater I
portion of it. the lord of the manor, J. J. Ferquharera, I
Esq .of Langton Hoene. determined to have • new one i
erected. This has been done at his sole teat and I
charge, from plans presared by Dieby Wy sr, Esq.. ;
the eminent church architect, of Greet ilumoll.lniti. I
London. The work was entrusted to Mr. A. Green, ;
builder, of Blandford, and was summated about nine ;
months ago by the pulling down of the ol 1 church,
under the supervision of Mr. F. Meader. With the '
exception of the tower all is Dew, and even that part ef I :
the church, in whielt hangs four bells, has been I i
strengthened, the parapet taken off and rebuilt, and the :
whole re-pointed. The tower and nano of the old
choreal, which wee in • very ruinous condition, were in
the Perpendicular style, end the chancel was Early
English; and in the erection of the new edifice the original
character hex been, as far as rmasible, preserved. The
new church stands on the site of the old edifice, bat the
chancel has beer extend, d nine free end • vestry be.
been added on the @anthem side, in which an Early
English priest's door ban been restored and inserted. :
Much effect is given to the wells by handing wanes of
brown heath stone. The dressings of the •indown and
arches are of Bath stone, the exterior wailla being of dint
pointed with cement. In the ohaneel, which is paned
with Mew's eneaustie tiles, • handsome stained glass
window, by Lavers and Berthed, of London, has been.
inserted. The ceiling of the chancel is panelled, with
earned bone., and the roof of the nave and aisle is of
open wood work, stained end varnished. The church is
warmed with Haden'• heating separates, •nd the venti•
lation han been well provided for. The edifice is entered
by • neat little porch.
The Bishop •nd Clergy met at the house of Mr.
Bargees, mid having robed, walked in procession to the
church, repeating as they entered the 24th Psalm. The
clergy present were: Vett. Archdeacon Seutuary, Rev.
Prebendary Farquhanon, rector of Langton- Rena C.
K. Paul, Sterminster Marshall; G. L Nash, Tolpurldle ;
C. Onslow, Wiinhorne ; F. Ramp, Stnrminater Mar-
shall ; H. B. Vixen'', Spettisbure ; J. Mansfield, Bland.
ford St. Mary ; M. Heath, Lytebett Matrathrs ,• I'.
Pearce, Morden ; A. Wilkinson, Puob ; Talbot Baker, .
Preston cues-Sutton Points; G. P. Cembriders, Blot-
worth ; J. 1100/11, Wintatrbourne; F. Davin, Newport,
Metuseeth, fornterly curate of Charlton Memball; and H.
Morris Adams, the newly appointed rector of Trio«
Ileryart, Wilta. The clergy haring taken their erste in
the chancel the conateration service commenced by the
Von. Archdeacon Sanctuary, in the absence of the
Bishop's Chaplain, reading the deed of eonseeration.
Thn othal prayer were then read by the Bishop, after
which the Rev. H. Home, rector of the parish, cort.
meneed the service for the day. The first lemon was
reed by the Rev. R. Farquharson, the sewed by the
Rev. A. Wilkinson, of Poole. The musical portion of
the service wes eery itheallently sang by a portion of
the Blandford ehoir, Mrs. Edwards leading on the
hernonium. The service wee an follows: Vitiate,
Dupuis, single in B dot ; T• NUM, four chant.; Rene-
diotin ; Goes, single in A ; Kyrie, Redhead; consecra-
tion hymn, "Christ Inner corner stone," Hudel's 145th
The Communiol ferries and Ckepel was reed by the
Bishop. the Si ;sae by the Rev. Talbot Bther. The
Rev. H. Morris Adam. was then licensed by the bishop to
to the reetoryfuf Teffont Eery«, Wilts, and took the
required oaths and dularstioae
1 The Bishop preached the sermon, taking as his'
' teat Galatianii let chap part of 3rd veer. "Peace
from God the Father, and frees our Lord Jesus Christ."
In the course of his r. marks the rev. prelate said that
the deans of peace and rest was one of the strongest
impulus of the bombe heart. Tbe state of constant
irritation and disquiet in which man wits planed only
tended to deepen this denim for pesos. For this crevice
sifter peace and rest we musk however, look to the
source from whence man same. It showed hie intimate
connection with God, who, after the tic days work of
creation was secoreplished, rested from his work. Not-
withstanding that men bail fallen from his pejo:inv.'
state of holiness and happiness. notwithstanding be bad
lost the nfleetion of the Divine image in which he was
created, there could yet be traced in this printing after
peace sad rest his connection with Gorl. The subject
divided Bull into two beads. First: What Gad bed
done to restore inns to the enjoyment of pesos and rest;
and secondly, the ceases which hindered man from en-
joying rest and pester. With respect to the first let
them picture to themselves the case of • man ernbeed
with Christian hops • and Christian prineipl« szpoised to
the •arioas trials, temptetiona, sod disappointments of
this life. The worldly man probably Pees no difference
Is his state from that of another, but God falsifies what
appears the necessary events of his life to mum him
sorrow and grief. and by the aid of his Holy Spirit the
they trials he endures are med• the chief groundwork of
his happiness, as he looks up to God and frels that It is
his father who seeds thew trials. In this he hail both
met and peace. But the most enduring peace is that
which flows from end through the niediatoriel work of
our Lord Jesus Christ. The root of bitterness, the dis-
qeieting sue to man's peace Is sin, and as it is by the
Math of Christ the Christian is again raised from the .
bondage and corruption of sin to a newness of life, en
also it is and through Christ true peace alone could
be enjo ;
al
It was the MOO glorious being se pro. ;
noun the irrevocable decree, "The soul that sinneth '
it shall die." who gave not only the promise, bat
also had fulfilled the promise, "That through
Christ all that believed should be mad* alive."
God bee come from his uses and rest to bring peace to '
his people, and the mind of the Christian when entailed
by temptation could find rest and paws only in the con•
templatioo of God, his perfestion. Isis omnipotence, his
fatherly love and compassioo, and his over-ruling pro-
•ldence. As regarded the triah and •Mietioes of life,
the bel ever and the unbeliever might stand in souse
reapers no the same ground, but to the former the
reyelatioo of God in Christ, the love of the Redeemer,
the glorious doctriort of the Trinity, and the hope of
. veriest:Ogg pates and rest would being comfort and •
holy reel and peals even here. The Christian wu •
part of Christ, sad was simpered by Christ himself to •
be Och. "I am the vine, ye are the lirsixibes." By
this he was brought into intimate relation with God es
big father. This wee the pentad on which his hopes
rested and his uses *retaliated. The rev, prelate
thetmrt various reuses why this holy, sells, sad
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