The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-22 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

Chri.tiana of all denominations ass nthled at the annual
twisting of thia t•uly too.' awl g-eat waciety, which was
held at the Matiotal Schoolroom, on Monday evening hut,
the deputation bung VIII Rov. flr. Craig, with whom
wcru ..n the platform the Rev. J. Watney (curate of Eit.
Mary.), Rev. K B Aims (o!comeater.stre U. R. or. W. I..wha
(flope), R3O. C. It. Rate's& (C4riat-hurch). and the nev.
W. Smith Toe mectin; was I irtcly atten led.
A hymn having been sung, and the Wm W. Lawn
having . &red pryer,
The bon. sicruary, Mr. O. ANDREWS. jun., road the
report of the a ',ciliary, from which we learnt that con-
tribution, hal amount -d to about /33, showing a felling
off ; but this had been in,re than mab.. up by LW. coll,r-
lions at Glouces.er-stteet Chapel and Rope Sunday.
Schools on Sunday, amounting to .C 2 8.. 81., an! 5..
4:SS I.Be. 91. bad been contri'.uted besidea exposes..
The Bet J. W . said if any of ty. hut receivel true
spiritual good from any book but the Bible, we ought to
support much a au-misty as thi,t. We all of U 4 learn m ire
about the Bible and understand it b itter from oher hooks,
and therefore we alt all say—Wu will support the
It lio,e Tra-I Soci. ti. Besides., if we wwit to do good
ti others we aro not alwaya able to take our Bible., but
we look not carefully and pravrfully • tract on a solid° tt
to suit the very te-rion whom we tire to boa-fit.
B•side that, the work of the soziety is ex ended over all

the worli.
The Rev. Dr. Cum said each peer the soldide Is bearing
the word of the Lard. like that which Moses beard when mr. woi. mobilises.
Pharaoh's army was behind the mount sins on each aide.
we have not space to give the eelowing
tto
do
rytHemt. &rotary, Oratorio Praqice 8- lichee Weymouth.
and the sea in front, "Sneak unto the Children of l•r set
letter in manse, lout we insert the principal pen's:—
bore: trio
titfo,rwLoarralii'n TohlediTrercactitnnSizebityki.s
atryre ipergo,
jut
on Kvidenee. and the lateat yearning are in such periode " Weymouth Orchestral Asiociatind
cals as the Bo'y's Own and Oirts Owls, • work which they
hheat.t
" %Vey moute, March 3, Heil.
undertook most unwillingly. But tn. literatere fqr youth s• mar 81r,—It is now two in inthis chic, I wag placed
lain onlluted sod pern,e 041 that. after applyteg to Revere
the unpleagant neceuity of having to apply tit your
publishers in L m eaden. none of who would undertake the seet lug/ for ano.l Pieeeii"u of white appeared to be an
Bois Own, they start 'ii it, and it hos gained the boy.' cm. under
unjustifiable slieht Upon our Orchestral hemociation it the
lidence so much that it,. reed by about one-thirli ~f the hands of roue newly.forened Oreerrio &misty ; hut sot
boys of Great Britsin. It centaing about as much relia us only is no excuse offer°, ter the o' jectionable coarse cents
teaching as the youth of thi.ceuntry will receive, and with plained of, or deters eeitioed to make a way to a better
all its ferrite awl faience it has done sore 'thing to help understendine, and to dal it ateightneet of hat frieodir
forward the work of Christ in our land. Lord Shatter.
co-operetion which I bees alLvoy s edvocated al 4 necessity
bury has said he had
publication, and considered it hat waited an advance of desired. tan, by many of your ewe members, and which is
the society's work. Then came the Gists Own, re.pmting
clearly in your own intemets tether than ours, for while
which they had sucks of letters from young Wink s'a..ng we are independent of a clews! adjunct, your vocal society
how great had been the help to them in their homes. 53t1 cannot do very well wither' a baud; but toe Keeled' of
new publication,. pH being tenets, had been published ties c =plaint are confirm el, and n .., to neve my peewee,
year. When the School Board was estalolished, earnest suscepebilities. I suer eso I ism eskee to accepts " oom-
hearts were trembling forth, ark of God, fearing the young plimentary ticket" of a buiseen to the Unmet. Oomph-
would become secularised. But an arrangement hes to en mentary truly!
made whereby the Annotated Paragraph Bible anal New However disposed I might lion to accept the excuses of
Testament are given as prisea to those B flrd ocher in some of your outside mime re fur the inexperience of
moat sacceutul in studying the Bible. And we find scheiers your secretary in the dirties of his "dice, thee, can he no
staying after school hours to study the Serinturee, and excites for a delPe rote breach of that ordinary civility
teachers 'Wins to teach them. ad of 125,000 children gaud polite usage which sue, -es that a c innounication
In the London School Board*, 123.000 have been preparing from ,one gentleman to another should sleeve an acknowe
to compete at the exemineeen in the Bible, and all this I. dieruent, and I c annot help v. • sing such c onduct in its
I. voluntary. When the pries* are liven, the Crystal
Palace Company genes deem train. to bring up the prize general monde re —rieuy of whom are our
entirety al very bad form. White, however, bound to
a.muit the e,
children, and they are feted there free for the day, and for friendo and support. re—of p .rt imp aim in a policy so M-
ona taken free live go up payees', en that tee share- edvited, and calculated to auehate where yeu might vete
holders lose nothinr. Fire thousand children trite prises,
: more advantage and better cr Lc! ..are conciliated. I must
and only the prize book hag been the Mean, of converting confess there is a (debug that you are cot blameless in
very godless parent.. The Religious Tract Society his bringing about an es•reue-userit and division of tee
largely contributed to the Nee, whence geee a year is musical forces of the place, wir.re it was desireble there
devoted for these prime and largely are the children should have been harmony set unity ef action. As the
benefitted. Tracts in all langueges are distributed to the c inductor of the society, You lune: be heart mainly (*.Vie'
sailors who come to our ports, and if a ship comes in, table for it. nautical arrangements, why net then, may I
where are sailors in whose lenguage they have not trace.. enquire hove treated tan in tier in a straightrorware
at once messages aro emit ste to get tracts translated into manner llf our band was core i i-red too. small, and it Lan
this language. How many of the eublishera bringing out averaged 15 performers—amele fir ordinary pureeing—it
beautiful magazines would have done a' until ihe Tract was easy to enlarge it. And es to its capacity, you ere
Society ha, proved that it would pay? Great Britain fully ever. Teet It inductee t...e bout amateur, in the
gives £24,000 • year to the society, and they give £23 000 pace, and, afar shot, they here dome Handele se-com-
bed( to be expended under the eye of the donors, for peniments might well he censtiered child's play.
carrying on Christian work. All they aim at is to make But then it is said, "Oh lwe must have • profeesioeel
the Bible more precious, and procure it to be read more hand, and above all a profersionel leader." By all meanie
earnestly and Intelligently. Grants; are made to everyone if you can afford such hexed... ; but you will scarcely
who &pelisse and there only remains £l,OOO • year pretend that high art is to be edvancel key such an indite
for the foreign mission work. people down here are mental milky of inconiruous seundo as was provided for
very pleased with tbe compliments paid by them to the the delectation of intent d eau on this nccasion. Truly, it
society, but sometimes be was reminded of • lady was a ease of " ernbarrais le rebeeee" and one scarcely
that can 1111•11411 Y told of. She used to make • knew which to admire mut—the military clangour of the
very low courtesy to the offic a-bearer. with the plater, gallant 56th on the borne (o a dilemma); the Lydian
but put no money in them, till one day sine of them measures, softly sweet (of Italiani in Waymuntuise or the
followed her with the plate and said, "I wish, madam. general she cheeped* (to what end 'Lis Innne'lluows to sei )
you'd leee no more of your money au'l he's of Icrer of the unique centingent of Messrs. G melts and c.,
manners.' The mime n 5 ocieties abroad cannot get on (Limits de Well; we shoeld be thankful fur " small
without the Tract Societe. but all of them multiply their mercies," aad douieless many are. . . .
work very much by distributing its work,. The Annotated Awl now, sir, touching the leadership. I confute lam
paragraph Bible haa been translated into most . f the vain enough to imagine that in Me you had • man elneett i.e
languages of Inela, and eatables the rarely untrained fit to lead as Mr. Thorne may be to cenduceand while I may
evangelist to end-mean] the text, ani leops him close to lay chum to professional teaching as high as your own, it
the truth. In India there were two years ax' halt-a- him been my leetdr fortune to p ~,,,. the ,eteeetegee of
million of adberenta who had joined the Christians: hut t iwn training anal experience. S.nce, however,l Ite many
after the famine that number was advancee by one-fifth, others, you fellow tee fashion of the age, which reeks
for they seed the Gad who had saved them from dying was to encourage emcees' ael at the expanse of native
better than their own who left them to perish. And VI. se talent, we must not complain, pat remeuililring that " •
required teaching, which was g eatly &seated by the rose may atuell ex genet by any ether name.'
Religious Tract Society's works. God is blessing misaione Shame Colldtti might loek as well upon your bills as 11.
In our day such as He has never blessed them before. and Busied and, for that mate r, I should have thought our
Great Britain ought to give mom than Ll 000 to advance friend Webb. as permit's' oseineci, milkiest attraction, all
the foreign mission work. Althougb the spoken languages no doubt it was, to i neve a crowded audience. But if I
of China are so different, yet the printed tract can be read have given up a profession for a calling Ices ureentieue I
In any of the provinces. Tracts are never torn up in am too much weeded to the "Divine art" ni tto Want it
GbitlS., for they suppose the name of somebody's God ii a privilege and a plc inure tot he • stand in compauy with
printed on it, therefore they reed and carefully set aside so accomplished an great is hi. Bustler, an I our I:ttle
every printed leaf. it. ieeen, • c entry as large as Great bane, with prorer treatineuf, would gladly have alfordrd
Britain. 2.000 or 1.000 Auesnese eaves been converted in that assistance which experience showed your society so
one year. The teacher is obliged to teach a sequoia number sorely needed en the eve of the leq pinanci —joine-
d children English, and to pees them, Of he Rota no lee practice —and, • Ire% I Vert red to point out lung ago, as
mane Beas on evidences had teen mot out te th" , a neeeseary emeilii n of au, CO.. t but no, like others, you
Imperial library, and he thanks of tee Eeperor of Jaten
avnaid".l}Svilimirec'eni;'ilolgh '.'vidury'ne";ewli°t4svidbac4ereoimtpits6dhuatellyLohuthwgilli•
t
had been feet them for the be-k,. The Japanese Lase
resolved-" Seeing that no country can "epee with suit • scarcely pretend as ft nue i :Ma— and that is the wen to
saltheth, we decree that the Christian esthete shall ler look
4. . it—hi soy th .t .t wen a Sleeted, Of that Welfi•Ord
kept in Jepson," therefore wd must and out books for tie in the l'r if vs iors did make': sale, as you put it, and yeituraY
to read on eunday. Already there are 100 converts suite take mg worel for it,ttensech venteres are as meat iiiacury
Metier advanced je send to parts where English and from a neencei point re view, a, thy are unsafe, Tie.. a
Amer can missionaries cannot come, and though they may question suggests itself—are you alwaye palm! to have a
not be sure of their teaching, tber are very Sure ni rfOlealiOnal hand, or when fume' fail, as they have dote
tire Religious Tract le ociety's books which they eistribute. 61,
n ...I past, •nd wi I .k. again, why are you going t „I „ ?
In Canada libraries are lent out among the lumber men, Are you deluding yourself with the elle& that our who ace are snowed up every winter. In Mexico there are mouth Bend, honing been insult-el, wall now couseut to
three mission printeeit-oreases at work; but the tract dm- he, made a convesience or I 16411 know Pendia advice to
trieution is required to leaven Goa piece. The Roman thee. sheet to marry_mea., t . . . .
Catholics did not know how to use their Babies; but - y
tracts have been distributed, Byle's among them, and the ou,l truly,• • • • • •
power of the priest has been oompletely broken. This .LP. Cat.usrr.
society is the servant of all the others In the loader of the Weymouth Orcbe,teal 41.mol1at1on.
work of the Lord. Edward Whymeer wrote from I lie. le, Thorne, Clueductor oi Oratorio Practices Society.
some of the highest mountain. in South Alllefien, "Tract
society, what are you about! Here are • number of
Roman Catholics who can road, and have nothing to reed
.. i.
that will do them any good." On receipt of this letter, the
Tract Society wrote at one. to Madrid in soul off a, many Sia.—Will you alto. tue to cerreet a statement which
ens.e as they could of the best Spanish books to Sautes appear, in your rem. ! the 4th net and which has no
America. That wee how they answered seek acoleing as doubt been made On ler luirapprelemsiou. It is stated that
that His own parish included about efiu mine,na of mo,t se the best aiiiiteur inittemdatalists of the town
people, the society holding bim responsible for books pub- took Joliet in the porforniance. As a fact, the beet, luny
naked and distributed by
_their friends in every part el e•F that Om only Enntuer instrumentalists who can lay
Ramps, In rade the Prefect of Polio* had toN Mr, claim to any perfection, to ability and a:variant., to ping

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