The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-13 00:00:00

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Your correspondent " W. L. Barnes" has so completely
taken, titled, and worn the cap, that I must take for
granted he is the person referred to in your issue of the
2nd. as having called some dissenters "blasphemers," and
used "other opprobrious epithets." Chariniuster is
co •nt to a pretty pass. Its tithes are mostir diverted
from the objects for which Churchmen say they were
devoted, with a fat living mane of them by a person who
does not sinister to the people, who does not, I believe
even reside in the place. Souse remains seems to be given
to another who was supposed to he the minister, and as
ouch to set • ;prod example, among other things, to " Owe
no man anything," but whose rabbits are seised at home
for his debts, and who loses his watch when away, hut
who cannot gets Court to punish the girl who took it.
Then after these two specimens of the Apostolic Church,
conies a Mr. Bonzes, whose position I don't know whether
to define as curate, vicar, rector, incumbent, surrogate,
eaten, dean, archdeacon, or Lord Bishop, and who calls
another "Christian" obstinate because he would not
change the day of a tea-meeting. when that fixed was the
most convenient. This Mr. Borneo claims that it was he
who called other Christians "blasphemers," and yet he
wishes to do good to aIL When the dews called Him
who set aside their notions Li to one of their hulydays, a
"blasphemer," they at once consistently took up stones
to stone Him, and Mr. Barnes should remember that a
bad noise sloes harm and not good. After these three
rectors, vicars, or what else, in Charminster, Mr. Barnes
may thank those who don't go to church for moot of the
mg/wet shown to Christianity at all, in that place,
gaol certainly not his Apostolic church. As to him
tell' and his fasting, I hope that whatever aer-
waste he may have were forgiven their work on
Good Friday, and that he was engaged trying to
scio away with the oppressions that weigh down our poor
-countrymen, and drive them to lands where they can raise
themselves. I hope that it was a grief to him to attack
lsio Deighlonum and that no satisfaction at exposing them
+interest hil mint Otherwise, Mr. Barnes. listen to the
Word in Josiah—
" BehohL in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and
exact all your labours.
Behold, ye feat for strife and debate—and to smite with
the list of wickedness.
Ye shall not fast as ye do this day—to make your voice
to be heard on high.
is it such a fast that I have chosen--a day for • man to
afflict Isis soul I
Is it to bow down his head ass bulrush--and to spread
sackcloth and ashea under him
Wilt thou call Ibis& fast and an acceptable day unto the
• Lord
Is not this the fast that I have chosen!
To loose the lands of wickedness to utdo the heavy
burdena.
And to let the oppressed go free - and that ye break every
yoke /
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry.
And that thou brlng the ',sir that are cast out to thy
house!
When thou west the naked that Unto cover him,
mid that thou hide not thyself from thine own Ilesh."
heti se work for the benefit of mankind, active war with
rampant evils, —the drinking customs, the Social Abomi-
natien, the lionlens on the land for "lay rectors," for
wastsf iii canonries, for useless cathedrals, for Lord
itisloaes, with priestcralt, and with iniserY and gloom
-every, here, will make • better obeervance of a fast than
-denouncing religious love-feasts.
A FORMER PARISHIONER.

ARE DISSENTERS " I SMATICS I "
lo Ow Bailor.
When a:. Barnes can prove that the church to which he
belongsl %IA e Apostolic one, it wit; he time for Dissenters
to show %ohs tbey have separated (row her.
DocUTFUL.

Samuel Smith, • palsceman stationed Woolwich Arsenal. 1
waa convictolat the Central Criminal Court on Turalay
of stealing an ingot if tin. which he WY detected in
removing. He WU sentenced ta fire year's penal '
eery itude,
The death is reprted of the Rev. Charles Wedge, who
had hold the rectory of Burrough-greea, near Newmarket,
for the almost unexampled period of YU yrars. The
deceived was in his 95th year. The living is said to be
worth COO • rear,
Sir John I:ray, M.P., died at bath on Friday niornin‘
after *painful illness. He was tern in 11415, and in earli
life graduated as a doeter of medicine, belt he sulaequently
became connected with literature, and haa for many years
been principal proprietor of the Dublin Freeman's J"uraol.
In polities he was an admired Reformer and Home
Ruler.

lifio!ii DRMO!MTRATION.-112e foßewing remarks by an
eminent writer, A. K. H. 11, have s present interest In
r
the extraordinary Orton demonst ation with which the
country is threatened to be afflicted ...—" Thera are a
certain net of people who in case of strife between the
reputable and the disreputable will always take the Ada
of the disreputable simply because such By necessity of
their mature and position they will become the vehement
partizans of a man immediately on its being made plain
that he ie a drunkard, • forger, or a semiller. Not
necessarily because they feel that thus his character
approximates to theirs, though this consideration has IL
weight : bet hroly because they must needs
take the side that is opposed to law and order,
and to the way el thinking a the educated claw
He was a practical plbilawmhar. that American states-
man, who finding his popularity waning with • large
stratum of his constituents, retired it by stealing • sheen.
This, being made known, set the better class against him:
and instantly excited the warmest regard for in on the
part of the worst clue. 1111 MY MI (Owed 'nen, the
victim of calumny, the true cause of his restored populltritY
being the meant eonrktion in the hearts of his friends that
the embassy was quits Irmo.