The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-10-06 00:00:00

IWITTIIOI77II.
IlLotontat Wiwoow.—A beautiful stained ipians window
has been placed in St. John's Church. It
.15 in the north
transept ; the subject is Our Saviour rammg the widow's
son at Nein, the disciples being on the left, Our Lord in
the centre, and on the right the indow, with her s
liana from the dead. It was the lAA ,11tu1 the latot'apt.
Bess:ids% and is in memory of his wife, and uf his may
gm, tiroWtivi at ..est
Stott t:tosi NG. —We remind those who have maiatants
in their lenitive* that the time ha. arrived for setting
them free at an early hour. The public will do wall to
get their shoonng done early ill the tlay, no that if thu
proprietor. if he keep ,men, may IV ahle to do all the,
uneas himself. without temptation to keep the young
people at work.
Sari ILDAT NtOttlll —Mere has been little for the
mechanic lately but the pleussures of "washing night" at
home, or the public-house, on Saturday nights, on the
Weymouth side. The Working Men's Club is not far to
some to; but free readings, recitations, and singing are
given In old Weymouth Itself, by "Flower of the Wmit"
Good Templar Lodge.

THANKSGIVING gEIiVICES.
lii gratitude to JUniighty God for the abundant
harvest, which has had so marked an effect upon the
price of the staff id life, so, ices were belt' by the
Churchmen and Dissenters of Weymouth, on Wtslma-
day last, and special sermons were preached.
motifs mil ken.
The special service at this church was hell at II o'clock
a.m. when • tolerably large rongreostion assembled, the
church being about three-quarters full There was no
attempt at any "decoration." Morning service was per-
formed, the Rector, Rev. T. A. Creases, taking the latter
r r..of the service. The prtnclier was the Rev. Mr.
Faringdon, oh, took for hie text
Roman Mi., I and 2. The preacher remarked upon the
gratitude due for the abundant harvest, and then
showed how much more we shoal.' rejoice in the great
eiritual blessings the Lord has bisdowed upon us.
First, we are to present ,itir bodies into God, which is our
reasonable service second, we are not to be confonuedto
this world, hut to be trausformesl by the renewing of our
mind. The rev, gentleman very eloquently enforced
these great trutlut A. to the offerings to the Royal
Hospital and to the Eye Infirmary, it is but very
little to give our gold and silver to the Lord,
When we consider what He has given us. And
yet, when we think of the work of the llNpital and
the Eye Infirmary, and of Jesus opening the eyes of the
blind, and healing every manner of disease, we may feel
and see that even in supporting these institutione, we are
doing • Christ-like work, doing as regards the body what
Christ Himself did. The preacher then concludwa with An
earnest appwd in the spirit of the text The collection
amounted to Lb 2d.

ET. JOHN'S eweacn.
A number of ladies wad gentlemen had adorned this
Church with abundant de...rations, notable to the harvest
time, and setting forth not only the bounty of (led, but
His love and grace, by the combination of fruitful grain,
beauteous flowers, and graceful plants. The effect we.
exceeding', good. the elegant lines of this building being
adorned with what heightened their beauty,
On entering the church, one saw at once that great
labour and taste had been lavished on the adornments.
The memorial tablet under the window to the memory
of the late Mrs. Stephenson was bordered with alternate
bunches of wheat, barley, and oats, relieved with dahlias,
chrysanthemums, rhododendrons, and a tasteful backing
of green leaves. The font looked very pretty indeed It.
base was surrounded with a broad border of ferns, on
which reposed white dahlias, passion flowers, fuchsia',
and other beautiful blown,; the moulding was wreathed
with novel ornaments, consieting of wild autumn fruit,
sloes, hawthorn berries and bladbwries, set in foliage ;
round the edge of the bowl hung ears of wheat and the
grateful oat, and inside were maiden blush rout
geraniums, chrrsanthemunis, ars, set caf by fern leaves
and cypress, while some fine plants of the graceful
maiden-hair fern made • beautiful finish above. The
capitals of the pillars which support the arches all bore
crossed bunches of wheat, with bouquete of dahlias and
rosee and some with fruit. The base of the lectern was
surrounded with dark c7preat and ferns in which
were eat geraniums and dahlias, scarlet and white gladioli sent their coloured spikes up the Item
pot" containing ferns were hidden in tree foliage, and the
appearance was made more attractive by apples, tomatoes,
and bunches of currant tornatosis at the base of some
feathery Unman grass, and honeysuckles were among the
flowers in a garland above. The gas staudards wwe all
spirally wreathed with oats and barley, and in those in the chancel branches of futhelaii improved the effect
The organ had crossed bunches of wheat and a border of pampas grass relieved with bouquets, hamath the
The chancel rails were buried in roses, chrysanthemum,
leaves and grain; in eatcanel of the reredos was •
bunch
double bun of grain, looped with Bowers, and finished
with fern leaves, and on e sill of the chancel window
were two aheaves of wheat with dishes of beautiful fruit,
bunches of grapes hanging down, in the centre being a
crow with ears (dentin splinting from it and adorned with
crimson and white rues. The pulpit was • lovely sight,
the base ornamented with a brad wreath of wheat, oats,
barley, interspersed with rbod.slendrone, snowballs, and
varied foliage, the panels lose beautiful groups of dowers
with also myrtle, was mond the moulding, and above,
round the edge were bar)erriex, oleander, fuchsias, rows,
with luscious bunches of purple grapes. A g those
Who worked on the decorations were Mia Tounghusland,
Mies YOUtetheslaUld,thy, INV, Mi. Powell, Vim Wilmal,
Moses Smith, Miss Weathersione, /dim Frampton, Miss
Mien, Miss Cotterell, Mrs. Oakley, Mr. T. Vaudrey, and
Mr. R. Oakley, and their efforts deserve great praise.
Service, were hell in the church both morning and
erasing, the morning sermon being preached bY the Rev.
./. Vaudrey, In the es cuing a numerous congregation
mumbled. The service was short, and was most
pleasingly varied with singing, the cheir, led by the
:Cr_t Mr. Avant, acquitting themseleee most agree-
'The anthem was "Give unto the Lord glory and
strength," before serumn the hymn—
"We idoeudi the Adds, mul scatter
The good seed o'er the laud."
The Rev. J. Stephenson preach.' from Luke xii, and
following vents, including the parable of the "Rich
Fuel."
The offertory was for the Eye Infirmary, and amounted
to .C 3.1 too
The service coucludal with the singing of the Te Duna,
HOLT TRINITY,
At Holy Trinity Chun b there was au early celebra-
tion of the Lord's Supper, at 11 o'clock prayers,
and in the evening at eight a full floral Rerviee.
The Church was ds;corate.l for the Fed ival with aut 1111 l nal
fruits, flowers and grain, on the front of the pulpit Wall
a crow of scarletgeranuins, and wheat u variegated leaves
with a white rue in the centre :011 Ow pulpit gas brackets
were bunches of rich black grapes, ve.udet gurrititilas
white clematis very tastefully arranged. The ler tent ars
decorated %Rh bunches .4 dahlias, f rn haves, rye, and
autumn berries over the Coalleilidoll Tddl. OM a line f,f
evergreens from which bunche,, ef grapes, apples fuol Iconl
were suspended. In the ceetre of the altar was a small
shad of wheat encircled by dahlias of bssrloiusrolour,u. The
choir stalls, the pews within the chaueel wet different
parts of the middle aisle were Aeries' with bun. lies of
fern leaveos, clematis, bright dahlias, scarlet terries and
corn and the gaudier* Were decorate.' with lutrtle,
and flowers. In the ne. 11l i l the ne, F. 1. itabseolne
OffiCiated; the muei.al eerviee ties aA -Veuite---
G.te in A, Psalms lit di.% To Deuin—Oaklee's,
Denedictus--thsolomin C, Hymn 28. 11/ the everting
the service commenced with the Lynn
"Come ye thaukfUl people eme,
Hata: the *ear of flar.ot Remy
The Psalm selected was the 194th, Marley in E. Cantata
Domino—Hayes in C. Deus Ilisereatur—Goes in K:
Anthem "Thou 0 Lord id the greatness and the power."
hymn before sermon tl4, hymn after sermon ro.
The sermon it, the evening waa preached by the Rev. V.
F. RaIUODIO from Deutemuotuy xii. 13, on the Fend of
Tabernacles. The collections were for the Royal
Infirmary and the Eye Infirmary.
ST. swir's carscs.
The service was held in the assailer, the Rev. H. Berne.
of Faringdon, the preacher, from 'John ill. le The
Collection for the Royal Hoepital and the Eye Infirmary,
mounted to LI2 fe

GLIM:MILL CH4llrl.
• similar service wee conducted at Gloucester Street
by the Rev. E. Bolton. After the devotional Part
Shati service, consisting of hymns, scripture 'tediums,
and prayer, suitable for such an itcession. The preacher
took his text from Mark iv. 28, "The full corn in the ear."
Before dealing with the text, the preacher remarked upin
the character of the service, in which they were taking
kart, and the special occasion there was for thanksgiving
at such a season and with such • harvest se God had freely
given ; men Lai euccessfully gathered and sve
may well be glad.. He then spoke of Christ's
teaching from the material to the spiritual, an
Instance of which was given in the iambi° in the text
before us. Regarding the full corn lntheearurepeien,ins advanced, matured, ripened life in the soul, The
points a the subsequent discourse were: First, "Full
corn" is an object of earnest dmire; wound'' "full corn"
is the result of human effort and lhvine blessing; thirdly,
"full corn " is the reward of patience, and the end of
growth; fourthly, "full corn is the occasion of great
rejoicing. Each point was urged in its bearing upon
Christian life and work; 11111 d the discourse concluded
with an earnest appeal in anticipation of the great harvest
The collections were for the Minister's special fund for
giving to the pour.
_lt was Al es. ted.

The congregation here met in the evening and were
numerous. The Her. W. C. lkstall proac.hed from "The
harvest is_past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved." The collection produced £2
norm CHAPEL.
•
At Hope Congregational Chapel—there was a small
attendance. The Pastor gave an address from the word.
"They ahout for Joy, they also A collection was
made on behalf of the Royal Infirmary and the Eye
Infirmary.