The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-10-08 00:00:00

WARM WELL

lialteitgr FIIBrIV AL.--On Thersday, the 26th ult., •
special slid hearty service was held In the parish church.
as • thanksgiving for the lota harvest, the church being
beautifully end tel.-fully decorated with fl •were, oorn,
foliage, Ito, by the Rector's deughtere, Miss Church,
and others. The morel edifice was crowded by half-
peat two, when service was oenducted by the Rector,
the it,... E. P. (.mbti Ire ; it cringed of evensong,
looluding spook' priyers selected from those sanetione4
' by Convocation, proper psalms &no lessons from thews
issued by the Bishop of the Diocese in scoordanee with
the request of the Diocesan Balled, and spore/mint,
hymn• The sermon (preached by the Rector from St.
Mark, iv., 26-28. the perable of the seed growing
seeretly) wa• plain, stirring, practical, and forcible,
dwelling strongly on the duty of parento diligently
to coo the wet of 0 ere word in their children's hearts,
and then to await the bare, it in patient faith; not to
Idoubt the geod result beceuse the progress might be
slow, and the growth, as it were, secret like the seed
in the parable; for in mo-t children the progress of
religion was like that of the seed, "First the blade,
then the ear, end afterwards the full corn in the ear."
After the sermon • collection WM m•de on behalf of
the Society for the Propegation of the Gomel. Service
over, an adjournment took place to the village school-
room, where • show of vegetables, leaves of bread,
flowers, +teethe, and needlework, was displayed by the
oottagers, and their children. The exhibitions of
vegetables morels.. numerous than in former years, but
the greater part of those exhibited were of very good
quality. as may he concluded from the fact that prises
for either first, sewed, or third best, of some one or
more sorts were obtained by nearly all the exhibitors.
The omen", carrots, reed parsnips were remarkably fine;
potatoes also fine for the meson. The prospeets, bow•
ever, of the potato crop in this put of the county may
be gathered from tbe statament subsequently mad* by
the Rector, that he found that the !sank of Warmwell
1 aid not contain, out of the whole crop, suflielent sound
potatoes for six weeks' consumption. The wreaths, of
both garden and wild flowers, were very pretty and
tastily mule, aed thellimie loaree looked exao.ly like
what the staff of life ought to be—of a good barest
brown crusty chirai her. well mixed, well risen, and well
biked ; and spookier highly of the character of the
grist furbished to the labetincs of Warmwell by Mr.
Saunders sad other employer'. After the distribution
of the various prize (too numerons to mention
separately, and treluillug reward, for the best-conducted
Sunday • bolari in the cheroot es well silo the holy of
the church), an address en yerious co icomic, social, and
parochial matters warn &Bei red by the Rector, this
being the day for the overhaulicg and commenting on
all these topics in the parish of Warmwell ; the address,
plain and practical. was most attentively listened to,
and kindly reoellyed, though it contained some home
thrusts on the subject of the irregular and meet sabeol
attendance of labourers' children chitin)) the past vear,
a saint which will oertately Otter the 014(01 question
is • little settled) ht come tho first question in all country
villages; a question which, moreover, is el iestly coo-
nested with that of wages, and ean only be well settled
by the satisfactory beeline of ttos loiter. After the
address a good te• with &bandanas of cake, Am. pro-
vided by the Rector, lima done aniplejustice to by some
. 40 or 50 hungry children; this was sumeeded by •
j special tea table of school teach -re, choir, friends, &a.,
' the elder women of the pad -h being meanwhile enter.
1 Wiwi! with tea it the Mansion House by Miss roster.
jTea over, rustic games followed for a short interval,
I when dusk drawing on, all again saremblod in the
1 schoolroom ; loran hymns wi re then nioely sung in
j parts (without 'nudes' avompeniment) by several of
the children, under the conduct of Iliad Hawes (the
J uheelmietzses), and Mr. Tooter, of Pox cell, after
which "God save the Q leen " in verse siod chorus, with
many hearty cheers for the Rector, the Squire, and
Teetent, closed the day's proceeding", and al dispersal
to talk ovor or meditate upon the cloning of one MOTO
of these no leas useful than happy and (we may well
, say in some cues) holy days; days on which, at Warm-
well, all seem to be agreed in giving honour and thanks
Ito God for h s good gifts, slid trying to make them oon-
j dudes to each other's happiness.

ABBOTSBCRV.
8/JIVICE AND HARVINT THANES-
GIVING.—The third anniversary of the Congregational
chapel at Abbotsbury woe held on Wednesday. The
morning being wet aeveral of the Weymouth friends
who are accustomed to attend this :Anal treat were
afraid of disappintment, hut as the sky' cleared at
noon. • party of about forty set out in various aorta of
vehlelea early in the afternoon, and found this roada
and air pleasant, •nd the dry favourable. Frieuda
nun. from Broad vey, Burton, &a, and as Lard Ilcheetor
happened tote entertaining a large shooting party,
the village abd neighbourhood were all alive with
visitors. After retnaihg the hills and viewing &heroine,
the vultors repair.' to the chapel, which was tastefully
decorated with &Ayers and mottmw, appropriate tc •
thanksgiving servioe, and where, what was better still,
a bountiful tea was provided, of which about 180
partook. The chapel having been (geared of tables,
Ite., was soon filled to overfiairing for the evening
meeting, which Na. proAded over by the Rev. W.
Lewis, and appropriately addressed by the Revs. IL O.
Wheeler and W. IV. Bberren and by Mews. Bennett,
Dennis. and Gale, Isaiah span dwelling on the theme
of the goodness of God, and the fitness and duty of
gratitude OG the part of men.