The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-01-21 00:00:00

THE DORSET couNry EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1873.

the Fellows, to whom la given the supervisdon of cer-
tain parte of the morel end religious discipline of the
students; and it Is fair to Mate that the eater, at least
Is this nue, I. one of smell income. Circummaitoo,
however, a• Mr. Houle explained from the pulpit,
appeared to make the step of depsitere a matter of
duty. Tbe preacher took aa his t•xt part of Si. John
xx., 19, "Jesus canoe% and stood In the midst of them,
and math unto them, peano ho unto you." After
briefly stating the ooantation of the eerie, he spoke of
the peeuliar form with wlaieh its words earns to himself
that evening. It was, for the present at lout, his last
Sunday of ministry in that mo-t belnyed and how wed
place, where for five years and a had ho het been poi.-
mlttod to scrre in his father'. pulpit. lie explained
the nature of the oall which removed hint. Ito Corm
depended on two things; amt, on his having made •
formal promise on election as a Follow of the College
to perform, if possible, what delis, might be laid on
him; soooodly, as the foot that just at prawn: there is
• peculiar need in the Univerinty of the premium of
ordalood Yellows Who will eodeathar to exert • religious
influence. Indeed, it wee the difficulty of finding snob
an ordained Fellow to undertake the Aloe which had
so:lapelled the College to summon Mr. Houle from his
home. Thos the qsestion was one of moral and religious
ditty. He might truly say that nothing lase than Mot
maid ht.* drawn him from • b. lowed and holy home,
• home fib dearer than words maid espies.; and from
• plus, a church, and • pulpit, to which he was
atteobed with that affection whilth the memories of •
whole life oan alone create. Hal the question been one
of honour, or of profit, it would not—he might quietly
and truly eay—beve occupied his thoughts at ell. To
decide on removal, even as the matter stood, had coat
many an hour of bitter pain and deepest anxiety. 11.
was thankful, however, to reflect on many themes for
hope and comfort; alleviations of the trial of departure.
In the Pet plan it wee but • partial removal; the
vacations of the University would permit him to return
home for • considerable portion of each year, and this
liberty would be gladly embrseed indeed. Further, he
rejoiced to think that his parents, at their aivaneed
age, afar 43 years of faithful labour I. ?ordinate°,
were still in singular health and strength, and "dwelt
sznongst their Own peOpla,'. the objects ofireverenee awl
love. Hs left • dear and trusted brother (Kr. Evans)
as his father's faithful and willing helper ; keeping op a
suomesion of citrate SODS which had lasted moth than
21 yams. He left also en honoured Chrietian friend—
s yelped friend of hie own College life—(Mr. Vines, of
Agra, in India), who we. stile to spend the period of
his absence from missionary work (which faller* of
health obliged him to intermit), in iivioe help in the
pulpit of Feeding-ton; • Christian end • minister
who would hadeed more than All the blank.
And not only so; but be looked on the many
IFlters of his parents in the schools, and in the
h, and in the management of the Marsh-worship—
&per' who were also friend.; and he could not but
bleu the mercy and providence which had provided
them. With what loving recollection should be, in his
new residence, be ever turning homewards—to home,
and village, and school, and thumb ! Peek Sebbeth
evening he would still, in heart and affection, be one of
the thronging csongregation ; joining in the well-loved
prayer and probe; listening to that 111040—evaiier
then any other to him—the sound of the hymn swelling
from ths iatele congrtvetion, snob as had just sounded
before the mthoon began. These were thoughts of
relief and comfort. Bat the time was nevertheless a
deeply marching and solemn one, as he Mood in that
pulpit. To look beck on hit ministry—with its num-
berless sins of omission and coommission—ociald bring
him little but remotes and grief with regard to himsel'f.
it wee in painful sincerity that be must my this.
Indeed, the one reflection width weld bring him any
happiness with regard to it, was thie—that he had tried
during the yews now past, following In Mae little
011114IIT• In his father's reps, to preach oar truth, est
Name—the Name of the Lord Jesus; "first, last, and
midst." His first sermon, in 1867. had been of Christ
Jena, and of "hope in Him r and he had tried—
because he could not help it—to preach that suns
Saviour, in his glorious person and in his redeeming
Work, all his one great subject ever sinee. It was this
thought which had led him to the *holm of that text—
that the voice of the Lord Jesus himself, through His
word, might on this cloning ocasalon still sound (roan
his lips in the beloved pulpit of Fordington. The
preacher then proceeded to the exposition of the text ;
aa the voice of peace from the Pim* Saviour; the
'Mooing Lamb raised in culler life. It was pease for
the past—in holy pardon through Nis blood to the
believer for all the peat ; it wee pesos for the
present-1n the uraninite a the life, and love, and
care, that My hour, of Him who "loved us and (are
himself for us." It was posse for the future—ln the
same eseuranoe even to the end ; in the near future,
and the more distant, and the eternal. It was a poem
to be found in and from the Lard clone; but it was to
he found there. The sermon °enfiladed with an entre.ty
to each individual to seek that peace, or to Kok the
increase of it, in the knowledge of Jones Christ the
Lord of Peace himself. After the sermon Kelly's hymn
was thug, "We're no abiding oity hare?