The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-26 00:00:00

PRIMITIVE METHODIST NEW SCHOOL.

Our Primitive Methodist friends seem determined to
have whatever is wanted for their eervices and school., no !
matter bow foemldahle-'ooking the cost, for, while their
pro tty chapel is yet almost new, they have undertaken to
rect another building for their school, and to that end
bare utilised very economically a small piece of groun.l
in the rear, or at the side of their ettspa, between which
end P.rn y-place the new school will just MI the gap. Kr.
S. Jackson dr w the plans, which are well adapted for
the requirement% and Mr. lanes I. the builder; and we
are ratisfied will carry out the work in that ratiefettore
style which marks his buildings. The room is built emit
end west, the entrance being opposite Pr o-pec-plaoe. It
will accommodate about 80 crildren on the ground floor,
while the upper portion will te used either al anther
schoolroom or as a gallery for the chapel, the present end
▪ which win be is noved down to within about 8
fi t of the floor, and this 8 feet will remain between the
chapel and the new sch 001, while the upper at wry will he
open ro the chaos', and will accommodate &Ire, shout 80
cbikben. In the front vii he only one fixed wet, the
remand:r hang no mania Ones, SO as to l• used for either
purities. Toe new beating is strict y in hormone, as to
style with the chapele be rig bunt of brick with stone
dressings and slated rout. Facag Pro spect-pl-ce will be •
three-light window in the upp r park and • similar
window 'a the west side, which will alsd be ightad with
a circular cusp light at tra top. Toe gallery front will MI
partly open, atop-tnamfered, and panelled ; and the prin.
c•pals will match with those in the chap.!. The wi.rk to
too st nearly MOO, and ate tit MOO is, we are informed,
already in ban having been giv,n and collected, aid the
goaday school children having bag, of cash, which they
b.rrmight to lay on the foundation stones.
Monday last was appointed for the stone-laying. the
Worshipful the M.yor (R. N. Howard, Esq.,l and Alder.
man J. Londis, Req.' baying kindly consented to take
part on the occasion, betides various ladies of the society,
vie., Mrs. Emmanuel Vincent. Mrs. J. Carter. Mrs. J.
Knipe, and Mrs. R. Vincent, who seek undertook to lay a
rose, aid friends were also allowed to lay "bricks." For
embedding in the stone were prepared—a bill of the
service., a circuit plan, the Priaisilieg IstAodise nee spaper,
the Trig/nue, and other local papers, and silver coin of the
year, and the chapel and ground were decorated with
almndsot flags.

-161-clf-In-teWst was shown by the good folks of Wey-
mlutb Wad, who 'tethered numerously around the place,
and ogre:billy flume one were the children for whom the
schools were intended. Shortly after font the Mayor
arrived, with oth-r frknds, and was paired in front of a
ready-prepsred stone, an the foos of sshich was cll.—
This stone was laid by It N. II ...ord. Req., J.P.,
Ka"' of 1114 Borough, July 18, 1881." Other stones were
similerly engraved, to. Denies on them baton those of
Alderman .J. Lundm,J.P.,lllrs. J. Knipe. Mrs. R. Vincent,
Mrs. J. Carter, and Km. E. Vinoent. These friends were
prt sent, besides the Rev. J. Koine, circuit minister, 1t.,.
W. Smith, M.. lhuocillor Wallis, Rev. R. Wangle, Rev.
W. Lewis, hi. " Bleat is the soul whom love expends"
was suns. Mr. Watt& offered prayer, Mr. Lewis read
P-overbe li., and they sang "Eternal Lord of Earth sod
H-avext:'_

KNIPP had now Co perform • ver7 Pl•coinft duty;
but before doings° stated, as the rooms were to be erected
for the purpose of training the rising generation, that Ito
Prituitive Methodists have 4,044 echoolr, 58,371 Sondes
School teachers and 372,570 Sunday ach lars. The:e
statisticsi were published at the Conference 12 months ago;
since than they bare batten increase of aboutlo,oooecholare.
Newborns, the founder of their Coosa:ion, unlmettomely
died a bachelor ; but be used to talk to little children in
the street, and preach little wrmons to them, and gather-
ing up hie feet at the age of 82, he Whatever you
d-, tab-rare of lasi e•niciren." They had tried to follow
'ha' "Frio', sib nigh nit overlooking the adults, they
rind to take care of the children. On the last occa-ion of
laying a sehonl Unindat:on stone, he had to mod for •
C-nfl-inn livint 150 mil a trim tort spot; but now an old
and tried friend to the loan of Wes mouth and Melesenbe
i(ears—his Wordily hr. Mayor, R N. Howard, IN., had
k [idly crusented tot sip perform this pleasing duty, and
he Lad now veir,Fre at ',leisure in handing the trowel to
Ufa Karol% (A cur,)
The hf•roa d wi. great pleasure be took this
trowel from the Rev. W. Knipe toMY the foundation stone
of this boil line, and be did so, not only in his private
pisition, but aleo in the p iblic noway which the town
bad honourei hint with for some time. Those in pu ic
position, ought to do all they could, not only to adv •nee
Um bodily wallas* of thosv around, brit also se-rrthuot
peaelble for edocutloo. Lo -king abroad, they f nid every
re•ion or town is raised be ennui,' in, and ac o dig to
wheth ', it continues to main'ain that ed an ,ti urn
either beconi,s great or skins back again to s a original
state. These buildings were to promote education
mooed the young; when • number of children are seen
togetb-r, noon. can foretell the intense( coi-.—w he. her 1,
wUI ad•.nos the national welters or be a disr,,o h, those
with whim he a brouttit into °octal ; by whet en adult
had done you may form an opinion ea to his mind; but of
the child yen cannot, end the mon such schools there a-e
erected, the trAtee to) us in this town. But they
are Punts.' not ugly for ths ;Nieuwe of educ,..ng the
children ; but of evil& hem a religious tone and religious
tralnina. it,cl Iglu they are edivated -ts that wvy, nthyr
educat is Wlt a of no U 4. Woes the steals 1,44 i its
cintrol, temple brings damage all the way canal,ant
they mist seen in various banes the boy or am
he. ant been preperly trained, ban bp:night th-jr friends
aad relatives down, and their earwax grey ba,rti with
sorrow to the grave. wham if properly educat d, they hate
been as honour to their declining are. Let them thee--
fore do their utco-,t o t-ain up tits children to be a lile•s-
ing at h.,me, and to he world aileron. He now with ve• great Pt- acne was going to p-rform the duty of 1-.llaft th
foundation atone, and hope this building may ton out at tatty wished—!rat it may be conveni-n, in every way, and
alter it is built, they may have the plenum of swing the
children sr Uacl enjoying it. us..
The M yor then with inane, level, and trowel, went
through the buildeee work ; ipreading the molar, and
hammering and terming the Skala when be d. eland it
pc...ogle and carefully laid,
Mr. Couocillos WALLIS then lal off three cheers for the
Mayor, which were he rdly given.
Rao J. Mutts bad equal pleasure in bandine the trowel
to • townsman who bad held impprainS othees In the
borough, and is an ex MAyme -a- A,ldermatt Lund',.
(Appleum.)
Mr. Alderman WINS said with Vinegars equal to 'hat
stated to them by their worthy Mayor. be and ',took the
Very Pleating duty of assisting at this ceremony, This
was not hi. Ant visit to their sl-llghtful chapel, for be
as wat Its mania& and had the pleasure of ming present
on one of thr most deligblial coos-ions ha could remember.
lb. Landis then expressed Pleasure they were adding to
that building atic an
fitted for educating d instructing ! the young and race ;he had heard, and believed it
to be strictly true, tat the thermometer of a church—by which it spirituality is judged—is very moth the elate
of the school. If he saw regular attendance, if it is
blessed with oonscientious teachers, he felt spiritual life
Is in that church. (Hear.) R fixation is at the present
day the theme of all who speak of the advancing Proctor*
of the Country; in Luidon are to be seen murn,ficent
building, for the education of the young, and ha did not
believe that one penny has been expended more than our
rich and wealthy country can afford under the circum-
stances. But if this was oely for secular education, he
agreed with what the Mayor had advancad—that the mind
untrained by moral and spiritual inffoences is more
calculated to spread desolation with only secular edoc .tion
Ulm without Those with minds only intellectually
trained may ROW UP to be II repetition of such ohmmeters
aa thaw, who have offered Umumeless to the House of
Commons, and are now giving such trouble in this
country. But we have a right to consider the complete-
... of a man, and lotellectual moral and Spiritual train-
ing is tbe most useful in life and the moat durable, since
It is for all eternity. (APLIISAISe.) It was with great
pleasure be felt they had present their worthy Mayor,
who Is always ready to give • proper toss to a rimming,
who hae come to wish tltem "God vow.. me
Itrstuisted %tun, and honed that this place win by and by
be filled with young =grout whom AA prow up
Mtn, young mall and to bar those saving worde
without which life is all a deeerf, and even woom le
offered his sincere megmbsktioas apes
di whke the tortlerele=4
sad most thteeed=tula the ammo 411
their oxin. )

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Mr. LORD'S then laid the Orme with the
toren:tooter, sod wu sirested with three cheers end • one
nure for Mrs. Lundie.
Rae. .1 Yams then introduced one whom he b dise.d
" the hest la ly on the ground." Km gelya—(taughter
aoyieuel—wso also leid a stone with the solemn form—
" lo till name of the Father. 5.,11. and Holy Glyot "
"The cool Isay of ihg excellent circuit steward.- Mrs.
It dewl Ysocu, t of Ahhotab iry, aloo laid a stone, and the
was followed by Mr. Carter ion WIP. Immanuel Vogeont
for each of wh .m eeperete and beerty 'three ch,e. re 4
wife ((v.v.. Brick, gm. • 111110 laid by leas prominent
friend., and the Rev. B. Yorm, of Beriodotoke, dolly, red
on rottro S. congratulatiog the Muds. ansolu o kor
sahjuts. on tse preemie* of His Woesip the Mayor.
A public tee meeting wee held in the chapel, and is is
even'.'