The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-01 00:00:00

Vistrict ilebass.

DORCEICSTILL

Cotoirici. hirsinous.-0a Sunday, the
Grahame. an preached in the nionicag' RaietVel
Trinity Church, sad in the nada; at that- of 81
Peter's, On behalf of his own di.nee. The smile°. tin at Holy Trinity amounted to £7 6.., wale at
Si. Peter's the sum of £6 wee contributed. On
eys'ai'M tb• Tien Tn. prelate delivered as
AA at the rownhali to a fair auditory, as "it.
Mate of the Perch and *a. dordtutics Ii
his own ditamln., •
=pied the chair,Lb. lJ• 41r,
Pears, beim( 111110 Ink Lb. sad their were ale;
Mtill i %rate Meel, C. J. Bird, T. A.
, I.t ltMena, B. L. Wean,
and T.. H. Mathew. The Rev. IL Moak opened its
Tbe Bishep, in order to illustrate his
madras, exhibited two nmps—ooe the sontlisra
portion of A Ina, and the ot.r the Pastern Frontier. ,
The rev. prams spoke Orst of Use colonial work ,
going as in bit diocese, which he said was of meek
the same ehareater se in this country. He them
rderrsd So the physical dilleultise with whin they I
hod to emitted, mob as five years of drought, wad •
pme of lonia these appeanng in soca number@ as !
S. eat up every thing in the lead, and when he left
Lb. country in 1865, the whole country was severed,
In fact tbe ground nas literally alive with them It !
was a very difilcalt thing to struggle spina them
trials, for they were fighting • hatilkit WsMi salere.
They bad now anti 30 clergymen smitimml ever
thio vast district, emitaining • popedotioa of front
6.000 to 7,000 white, sod shout as many waned ,
inbahi WILL Speaking of tbe language of the natives
be said it was a sisals/. thing, that although it
was orie of complicated armature, and extremely
&Ankh, the mast gnomon people would speak so .
aocerately sa those of the higher orders.' dada.
The ceentry I. eorepoesd ef villages neelsMiwof 14
sell buts, ever whin there is a elni, it. ie
subject te a subordinate ilia, end over
thin is the minutia nt chief. Speak ing of the ,
mission week, the dillieeltise were not of the seam '
sort ea those in India, fa so idolatry was visible
among the people, there WU not a tams of image
worehip, ao fetish, or anything of the kind. On
difficulty was that of the inistom they ham, of marry-
ing„which linualits to nothing leer than bevies ,
sad selling, for, intend of /aim the bride a dowry
iii. usually the case, the bridegroom hes to pay a
orrtain am to the father. In fact, the as. who
gives most get the wife. Insane Manor a partner
wis obtained for 8 0,9 nen, and Is others, 1100 or
400 were sive. is exchange. The main ins
h son in 1865, and the Ilia cleavers was *Maid is
1'49. The Bishop thee grated several pampa from
• compilation of essays written by the bops, ft.&
from (11. 19 years, who were losing educated at
their abode, which showed a clesnase_ of percept..
and felicity of illmitratioe very remarksha So, suet
children. They have now 1,100 baptised person
and about 400 p. In itenolimion, the
rim prelate appealed to the meeting to said se-
manna to this ins/reamg field of liagell learnt,
Tb collection amounted to £3 10s.

A 101111311•0011• L allidienia
Banctnery held his viol rim at St. Pere's Ohereh, lest
Toads', when these was • good attestdmet 44..4
laity. Homing pryers, followed by tbe Glemmaion
se...ce, were reed by the Bey. 1. W. Penee,,Jesise. Ths
roll having berm sailed. the arehdrese delivered Ws
charge. He trat spoke of Ms distribseisse or sinless la
print- oharebee sad after owning at leset the law ell
the enhjest, ,amened no he swim that The parish
church is for Hee use of the parishioners, sad it is re-
quired of the elanteltwardem to ewe that the pariebiesirre
Sr. not deprived of their rights by any assigreent,
proprieties, or reseratim of the drifts He et-
'gawked apse Me irk of hassocks for kerbing Iron In
casy disrobes. and *smeared • hope that shards-
would take ewe soot provides was made. and
that ilte sleety might direr streetios from Ms pelpit
to their nee for triehee during the eerier
matter of "extreme Arnim' was mot 'mewl urea.
The Arohdesire observed that • eixamittes of Caesar-
Hoe had bees appolroi to report on the subjete, sod
exorcised hie war that each • sooreasios emit be
iveir a. ea meld ensure the resperiel obedierace of all
Mao ebarehmen. He rem irked on the high oharroter of
m•oy .4 these who observe more ritual than has of tat.
yore bre orioles/7 to the Marsh, and imuleased a
.spirit of Christian Marity in masking of thee. He
proceeded to notice the efforts of those who desire to re-
oon•truct the Book of Commas Prayer. He admitted
tMt there were rem thirty of greater or is. im-
portance labia nrght be emended rad 'hat eerier
-other thine— such as • harvest Muskiest'. service, ha,
might adrateyously he added. The avowed object of
those who desired the mision was to remove from the
Prayer Book certain terms of primitive sad Cabello
Si re, by which Ur Church's doctrine was &deed, with
U. eh.. Bahr view of makers way foe perms who ere
a vneonformiste to some into tile Cbaret• Roe this greet
.ject they must all strive and pray, lent he 11•14 that it
w.. not to he achieved by the samillos of any of those
great soriptai at and Catholie prineipl.s upon widish the
Church had no lees takes' her Mead He urged an sn•
• ."•I°K "rind to the whole truth of Goik and the
re•adestation of • true Christina ehirit beanie those
who stead without the pale of the March's cow
menial, as Ur tor means to attain the end sought.
The importan, of the °Moe of churchwarden was mitt
1,1 rivet to, and the Areletesooe desired that those ap-
pealed should be the beet mea in the perishes—atm of
tr wisdnm. and seal for the glory of CM,
end the churchwardens he *attested to ecesider
• ir responsibilities, and pointed out bow by sir
irx.mple and inflaenes they might do meeh for the
moral and spiritual good of their perishes. He myriad
b.. d. sire for closer intercourse and more ezte.drd so-
uperstion between Lb* clergy and laity, and observed
thst the laity ehould he minuted r men. as preens-
able arab the secular inter-Me of the ehereb, mil the
matters appertains the relating* of tbe Marsh to the
world. Al Etherborne and Shaftesbury Le bad premed
for consideration after dieser a eabjen Is which the laity
h .d • medal Interest,vie , the maitre of theehareb-rre
location ; is it poen and, if poreible, desirshie, to
maintain the present leer! if the preset law be not
maintained, what is the beet possible settlement of the
quest:foe ? He intermit* aware of the dialeulty of the
subject, aid did cot an•Wpate • ready potation of it.
He wee very far from thinking that the abolltio• of
Church rater me desired by saything like • majority of
the people of the ociaatay. At the rate time, he
thoneht it worth elele to emideler whetter bysz
concession with a good of an errpmo
rain of privilege, they might not rear greater lade.
'Madmen in th• maurentemt of their own exiorres. He
reearded the proposition of a feline este se a great
mistake. He would retire nailer aletber Mom who
o .jected to pay, sad be free from Mint interferers la
the election of Muria alien and the menagament of
their services. But, be betel it to be thoroughly La
areordancie with the spirit of the conditution for the
m‘jority is the perish to hems the power to make
church-rate. Mat if ahuroterres were abolis
he is. slue that the Mane would not he p 150.4
1 any dillies*. The sanest and Barret al mesas of
▪ ipporting the Ohara and ita pervlear which basso long
been disused would he revived-4e Church would dare
from her members overtly free-will °Corley. If the
siipport of the law were tab-a awsy. the Church would
fall hack upon the faith of her children. It might be
that was the direction Is which they were teet
there eight he • day twining when the inherent ,44,4
of Me Church would be tried by Um removal all some
of her external sappers. Bat the prissnt orris in Me
Booth African Ohara eared to loitlat, their t
Possibly that Chnreh might have to reign hier=l
logs and her sedowesents, and fall beck upon her own
Divim mew and her Lord's promos. The Church
there would be innetedeed withoat fear of temporal
meringues, rid he believed that the March at home
would wroolve good from what wi. tar, place in
toot direct deems What an earn" did it give
tn those who dared to steer that the Chatedt
. _ .

Of 14.1-a-nd lb. 81.1., .14 hot
bishops the aresteres of the law The °harsh had
some epeeist privileges, but they rested upon a Div's'
foundation, and if they were faithful to nod sad Hie
truth, end did Elia work in the appointed way, 14.
would make their path dear. The arciwbeeoe MXI
urged that lbs elserellyards 'honid b. weed Or sad
honoured, sad sot let wet to hire for tattle He also
poited out that In lone 'loom for lark of proper
drainsge, the walls of the eiarehee mere hijareSaTil
the interiors reedited damp. Ile expressed than -
new that Dorset bas so far bees almost enthely free
from the minion/ague and intimated hit want approval
of the day of humiliation r.met held. He meow
inen&cl the observance of harvest tbisiylni ourdese
In every parish, upon some week=sz that arm found
convenient. Lost he spoke m
and detailed at coarrable leinslej tb_L_i_sbeae:
position of the Dorset County Is the
clergy for their interest and 1' flu.see La=sehalf. I.
eonolusiou, In inhaled Ms brethren to prove thentnelvell
worthy of the great work entreated to timn. After-
wards the Holy Oetniaaakek was asisbrated.