The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-07 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1874.

off their inner subinveness, and boldly strike for liberty?
No, "they hearkenol not unto Moses." There was never a
more MOW:tad people ; no mange was ever kinder, no kind
message was ever better authenticated ; yet they simply let it
alone, "they hearketiol not unto Moses for anguish of spirit,
seniors bondage." It is just so still; we are sent to preach
deliverance to the captives, the of.C.UIII 01 the prison to them
that are bound, to tell them of deliverance effected by the blued
of the Son of God • but they heed no not, their broken hearts
have lost thole spring, they cannot bound upfront the depths at
the call of the Deliverer. 'There are tbouiands upon thousands
oppnased by care, by daily want that they gannet stretch
forth their hands for the Dread of Life. It seems as
If whole districts are flooded by those broad
streams of paupeiisin which flow from the sprinipt
of intemperance and vioe, that the whole moral man Is
drowned in their wretched depths. The state of our great
cities is dreadful; there are thousands who for anguish of
spirit listen not to the offer of joy. No doubt, cruweloil dwell.
logs, imp, and raga, the want 'in bed for rest at night, of a
chair for rest by ilay, ford unwholosome, air oppressive, these
and a thousand kindred evils an deeply press upon and oppress
the multitudes that they boar the gospel as though they beard
it not, we cannot get them to lift there host* from the dust
tel cast One look towanls heaven " oppression," the
Scriptures say, " make a wive man mad," and what will it do
for those who are not wise? It makes them madder still; they
are destitute of notw awl fear, they fear no wirer, they expect
no better, they are sullen awl snout, end one half of the
Epicurean's creed might suffice for hundreds —" Let U. hunger
and starve, for to-morrow we tile." We want hopeful hearts,
laborous bands, corporate action, the entire united energy Si
all Christian ineu awl women, if we are to raise the fallen mass,
isolated efforts can do but little. In the brie. I pure lake that
sleeps alining the hills, there i. water enough, if channel* be
; opened, to wash away the accumulated filth of the city below,
! and if our Christian organisations were let into the original
spring of Diem lime, they would be poured forth, and the
Ivery overflow would wa..4i away the ioduratol 111th of long
neglect If only the titans of Christians could he liftol up from
; their miserable selllshimes, and previpitated upon the popula-
tion 11. without home on earth, without hope in heaven,
! they might be raised. Mere driblets Penn to be bat in the
gn but a gnat gash of spiritual life would tell upon the
down-tn.... Wen population. We should multiply
; agencies, pastors, awl scripture reader*, and not talk about the
I clergy being unpractical men ; do vee not know why they are
I unioactiewl men? It is bevause their charges are utterly
! Impraeteable. There is nothing Ito hotelier/1i as despair ; when
a wan has hopelessly bat the race, lie runs no lore; when a
man has a ta-k which he feels altogether beyond his posers,
be becomes listless and indifferent; but reline the domande
i within the reunions of possible performance, and then we find
the listlasneas of lielifference will pan away If we want to
make pastors practical men, we must give them a hopeful
feeling that their charges are practicable. We most not
supinee that a spigle pester Lan isoorin all the duties of
;of pastor in a parish of 10.000, or 15,000, or 21,000
people. Let. US ninitiply DC' il.Ure ravine ; those who
k something of a pastor's feeling for his people, of his
utter hopelessness of ratching the people committed to
his care, ran conceive what a comfort it Is to have an onlerl ,
, disciplined Scripture reader with him. But while we multh
; all these agencies, we are not to atop there; we want eter
! man who hae ley! ti the 1.,14 Jones Christ at heart, to be
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to go I rth and real the Sniptures to 'their fellow workmen.
I And we need, as It were with a burning lens to gather sllm .41
; the scattered rays of light In one convergiw focus, and pine
thon Ulan WO.s dark mamas, where physical distress and long
habitat of mieery and irreligion completely stifle all spiritual
life. Lot no earnestly pray then, that we nay have a vast
Inertia@ in the number of Christian workers, and let us pray
that we nay have, better still, a larger outpouring of the
Spirit of God. If you could make all the clergy of the Chunk
of England what they ought to be—Proteetants in heart,
boldly preaching the pure gospel 4.1 salvation by Jona Christ
a ,I,vne if we could place a diligent Scripture reader in every
f wish, If we could place • Christian w .rler in every home, we
should not convert or Dave a single soul. What we need is
that jntshnedusooleyereSlici
,I.7.lltorneabdieapaplatoral)ald, the outpour-
initgollosedtfixtly.
asetasthsuo :;trthe benediction pronouneed, and •
The collections on Sunday amounted to £I6 104 ed, and at
the Monday night meeting to El 15a. Id., total £lll ha