The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-14 00:00:00

MS MOTTLE KIMORIAL COFFEE

TAVERN.

LIMUS ST MI UV. CANON SMITH.

A Setae was delivered at the Town Hall, on Tuesday
evieeing lad, by the Rev. Oman Reginald Smith, in
aid el the Building Fund of the Coffee Tavern. which is
proposed to be emoted laths parish of 7
a memoriel to the late vicar and Mrs. Moo:
Tao leeriest taken by the inhabitents of Dor
cheater in inch a good work, and the respect and
seneration is which the late vicar wee held were fully
evinced by the Urge and influential autism*, among
those present being the Re v.T. W. Knipe aad Mrs. Knipe
(Rector of St. Peter's). Hoe. Rm, Bpring-Rioe,
Nev. A. A. Leonard of Tomlinson), Rev. C.
Z.tdPikweilizilev. T. save (Congregational), Colonel
. sad Mrs Pearce, Mr. T. F. Hodges, De.
Vaisirey Loeb, Mn. Everett, Mrs. and Mir Osborne,
Kra. and Miss Pantos, Miss Hodges, Mr. and Mn. M.
Devesisa, Ur. George PouVes Williams, Mn.
Shaw, Mr. sod Mn. B. A. , Mr. and Mrs. C.
Keels, the Mimes Look, Mr. , Mies Lancaster,
Mrs. Arthur Groves,
Mks Osborn kindly presided at the harmonium.
The seating arreegemeats were earefully attended to
by Kr. Ling.
Ma hymn, "Th. year bewifty waning," having been
▪ Die Rev. Onaimun said The Chairman on these
ocoaskies has • NOX duty to perform, because he well
knows that though he is expected to say a few words, he
Nor be quiee are his audience wishes them to he few.
OM
It is euebsnery just to say • few words, first,
Is lairodeoe the object for which we meet together,
Um laths owe of • hectare of this kind, to make some
ended Weeded:ion of the subject, and then in many
eager, intrednee last, but not less, the lecturer himself.
Now, au the preset works, I will say very little on
tie tree heed. You tee+ our kind and Rood neigh.
bar has come to give this lecture which will, I am
sere, greatly istesst us, and also that the ooatribtr
time which you have already ma& at the door, are to
go to the good oases of erect/as • coffee tavern to the
neaseery of one who, had it ewes before hie life wee
takes away, would ham considered it to be the most
acceptable must that this memorial oould have taken.
(Near, hear.) This coffee tavern movement is one of
like imbues of the present day. sad I look upon it as
fraught with immenes promises of good in many
respects; sod how papule, this movement has become,
speaking generally, may he shown from an announce-
meat mode in the papers within theme last few days.
If there is one name above all others that is upon every
Englishmen's lips with • feeling of something like
pe.id, se well as gratitude, it is the name of the great
general who has lately met with such unrivalled
income with our troops, both British sod native, in
that noble march from Cabal to Candahar. (Applause.)
Mir Francis Roberts has within the last NW days
that his name might be put on the committee
elf"Cittny doffs, Tavern movement. (Appleme.)
Bo we me this good cause has became a water of
booms in higher quarters as well se here. Many
may ask—what oossection has temperance with this
Isaias', and te my salad there is no immediate maser
tlee between the subject of autumn and our coffee
tavern on reediaglea-kill. Spesidag on the subject
of the imbue the rev. geedenten went on to say. There
imon.ritzeduelmArnsio in the very word of autumn,
all les pstimtio and instructive
aseseletiona sad I knew of aeon. more likely to touch
the elm& at that most hiteseding sad supgaithe
Sepia hater then the leonine whom we bare been so
iertanate to obtain to-night. (Hew, bear.) There Is
mule to tie Idea of an. whether we adopt that
two, or the term lint oar Amariesa ansehin meet Wm
—the " ter—ead that ward Ina been endeared to at
ler amp reams, and I think one of the most popular
of the poems of our hod poet, at whom we are all so
Barn.,le that of the "SlantingLightof
yoar'spleas, hear.) I remember ea iaddent which
a good many yams ago, when our friend Kr.
was premat—he was aot canes In tame
rieye—ead way friend Caws limitth occupied the
ritte_Aa et Chairman here. Mr. Biailrua nes a MU
le made a hanoroas aLlasien MB the chair—
tilral chair I refer to—which is traditiosay said
fish, en the hp Jed. Jamie' dar the
lihmkt hatht.b=leilad, anti aid tray, that'?, did
net here my two immure that UM must
a eleseper etabset than JeNedse and Caw Begissid

Smith. (Laughter.) I ass thinking what purges
from the posts I should oder V I had bens
calked upon te make this lectors. sad thare arose to
my mind some Sees from our Peg dressi4o Pet
singularly Is sopeopetate to the subject as it Is to be
bridled to night; therefore. I am not 'stretching
upon anything Mr. Smith may say ; but still in what
It tier, the poet peresented that broad oostreat which
ledge Jellabas did to the character of our lecturer. I
allude to the phew. ta which with the perfect por-
traiture of human character that so dirlnguithes the
great Shakespeare is depicted the horrors of the con-
sothem-stricken Macbeth, in his War hours, and lie
ram him say
" I have lived I,mg Mouth my why id Ille
Is Lan into the sear. Ile yellow lest;
AM that which should eceospeey old
ste Honour. Lwe. Ottedieam boor of =de.
I tuna not look t hare hut, in then stead,
Cense, ma loud, but deep—
And I think you will agree with me that as these were
the experiences of that great traitor to all truth and
honour, and that cruel murderer, and these the or&
manta pat into his lips by our great poet, they form r
strong a contrast as does the character of Jodp
Jeffease, to the surrmediap of our honoured friend
In his old age, and in spite of thous years widelt are
looger than many of tie could wish—for I believe I
betray no secret in asyMe he is past the glirowoons
years and ten—surrounded by the very cootrild to that
which we have jut been saying, and he hes corns,
though not in strong health, to give to on what I have
no doubt will be • most interesting lectura (dtpplause.)
Tke Rev. Lemma them said : I feel a great desire
to express my thankfulness to your chairmen for the
very kind and flattering way In which he am bre
rotor to speak of my unworthy self, and to you all
for the very kind way in which you have retained his
remark.. There is scarcely any purer pleasing which
we can feel in this life them to feel we enjoy to some
degree the kindly feelioge and the respect of those
amongst whom it I. our lot to dwell.
The rev. gentlegnea then CANntarnomi Ilia lettere—
" Mame ; Its beauty, its gloving seouletions with this
lonian lif,, of mu", estodelly ee illustrated b., the poet..
some of them well, bet others MM. Mown. Bede was
the subject which he te.,amst to ley before them. An
apology wee due for Adhering • lecture oe Algoma in
December. When Vet hi thee.ht, of it, he but *weed
It would fall within the groan Mann but Monflnnw
oecorri, with ore el which be and trouble them,
except that by aa alter-thought it carhi b enunected
with the Fordingtoe C if.. 'revere. That inentetios Is
in retroepect the discharge of • great duty, sad in future
It promises to be • %sting Moat to the workbag alarm
of Fordlegtos, sad to some extent of Dorcheiter also.
The operatives of • large km Ineedry Momeele I for so
=year, with the mete-respeoled named el Kr. John
) belonged, he supposed, to their Dorset a
rather time tie the great and increasieg popeittrbtebb
Ifeedingtos ; but thecae Worn (be the free gift of • sike
from ff.R.H. the Priam of Wales) will be conveniently
near to them as well as to the &retrainees' tribalism. It
will save many from thole multiplied temptaticies which
bee bronOt upon our ?inherited the reproach of being
the most drunk= salon on the face of the earth. Where
sheaki the ease tavern be placed,but war to law helm in
which lived sad laboured fur the good of than fellow.
ereathree, those devoted servants of Obrier, the Rim
Duary Houle and his admirable wife. The memory of
mei persons should sot be allowed to die out, II wee the
Divine will that the righteous theald be Mid Wavelet.
leg remembrastor. Was It not their duty to do what they
Gadd to carry out that will and to do solos way dot
should 130 In harmony with the purpose at which thor
aimed. An. the ltsprouement of the physical, mai
Intellectual, end spiritual windiness of the working clews
He considered a coffee tavern, which should beer in per-
petuity the horionred name of Koala, would Pro-
mete those objects ; sad he should laavirerirt to
their meth • respected intension, Colonel Oldlield,
and the pressed Vicar of Findiagtos, to give
further imformation at the ekes of the Mame. The
circling wheels of the rolling year have carried us met
autumn into winter, and his apology for this was that
the delay arose from • wish to make the object of the
lecture more fully knows. Some valued Idea& of his
had • great disHins to autumn they admired tM stern
feature of winter, and they looked with plangent out the
skelek a forms of the leafless trees, but they could not
hear the mores by which they were stripped of their
toile's. Nevertheless autumn is the favourite seism for
pests sad painters, sad not without good reason In an
met of the year urn the clouds "So volumisously poured'
fee Dr. Young says). throughout the air—
" Clouds, In Heavea's loom
Wrought, throuith embalm of *bode and shape,
In ample Nide et drapery Myths,"
as in solemn. Os this amount eyes which have bean
specially exercised in celtivatieut • taste (or the beautiful
In nature prefer &etyma to the other ressoas. Kehl*
emits of subsumes the season of "calm dice." sad there
Is something in this which spirals to the tender feelings
of the heart, and wools the mind to meditatios. Caa we
afford to crush thoes tender feelings in obedience to the
stern cell of business t He thought not ; for if they WM
embed we should Mom. • set of meagre. In every
mime, the heart of flesh is better that thi heart of stone.
One of the ireful leesoes of autumn is that it mesh& on
of sir own mortality. "We all do fade Si • lad." TM
great poet of the booth/a fade I not te notice the swim-
sandman, brtesen man'e teenager, state med the falling
leaf. Thne it Is said by Homer, in the 6th bunk of the
116th line (em versified by Pope, and somewhat
enlarged m was hie custom, but wanting the tameness of
the original):
Like leavea on trees, the rat • of atm is foetid,
Now green in youth now withering on the ground.
Another mos the following sprint suppliers,
They fall anoceasive and smoseeive nee,
80, eminatioas in their course decay,
So flourish them, when that are passed away."
Between God's fairest works sad God Himself bow vest
I. the interval I How immeasurable the space between
'he Creator and the thing crest-d I Not only between
Rim who I. Light, Life. sad Live, and the material
worlds of inanimate matter, but between Him and those
living beings whom he formed alter his own image, and
to whom after they had lost it by gin. He graciously
restored if, creating them anew by his regeneratieg *Wit
God in nature speaks by the falling le-f as well as by the
decay of thows we love, an Iby the tollint hell Some of
Him voices are terrible • they lacerate the heart, they seem
to eat it asunder se with • sharp sward of army. Pale
deal canal as His meagenger, with impartial foot; it
knacks at the palaces of kings, and the cottages of the
neer. None can stay His hand or say unto Hun—What
dont Moo f What a horryiee to and fro. what aerie/tag
of hands and of heats, what signs of enguish, what cries
of distress, what bitter team are in the dwelling which
Math has made demist*. It waii a tome, now 'tie only •
haw I Were they not reminded of those fest sweet
'rm.'s by the RSV. Randier More when his mach-loved
hones was rendered &eoliths :

iVhat joys ars lost, what promises are given.
As through thit death•strock earth we ms;
Awhile w• think that earth le boom
At last we find that home is Rearm.
The letter. r than quoted those brautiful tines of Tennyson.
sack line of which is • wail. is it were, over the dying
yrar .

A spirits beanie the year's last hours,
If welling amid Its yellowing bower.,
To himself he talks.
Pont eventide Homing earnestly
At hie work you may hear him sigh
In the wells.
Earthward be howeth the heavy stalks
Of tho mouldering flower".
Heavily hangs the bread MIAOW,"
Over his mars In the earth so chilly
Heavily banns the holly-hock,
Heavily beam the tiger MY.
The air is damp, and hushed and close,
Like a Milt mane room when he %Muth repose
An hour hams death.
My vary bun faints, and my whole soul grimes
At the moist rich emell of the rotting lames.
And the fading Agee of box beneath;
And the yeses last row.
Heart bangs the broad sunflower.
over gram in the earth so chilly;
Heavily heap tha holly-hook,
Heavily hangs the tiger lily.
By mob pathetic song' as them ws may begins the ties.,
read lad precious treasures eves in the falling leaf. They
abed a softening initienoe, and prepare us for limaalag to
that voice which said to the son of Amon "Ory," sad
when the astonished prophet answered " What shall I
cr,r The voice replied' All dish is grim, all the glory
of man as the flower of the field; the pees witherith, the
flower Week, bat the Word of our tied shall stand for
ever." But small, excieudingly wall, and poor, armed-
hasty poor, would be the bowel of communion with
nets" la nothing ties correspond's°, between the falling
leaf and tallier human life, if that were all. Well might
we envy the cattle In the field, or the leaves which lie rot-
ting In west* oblivion were it not for the vision at that
brighter world, in which every Memel hops will be more
than realised. They are not dead, those blessed ones; ihW
reign in the pewee of an iodises life. They ars will
Christ. and He to In them
The Mist November day, with its red and sore leaf, he
den sky sad bowling storm will yet be extaangsd for
summer without mit Thy sun shall no more go down,
wither shall thy moon withdraw itself : the Lard shall be
thin* everlasting Ills, and the daye of thy mourning shall
be ended.

we at male to give mere than the briefest sumnsory
of the lama whia was all written to as most waned
sad twastifel Manage, sad the rev. Cams was loudly
an=frequently la the coons of its delivery.
Otortrut said: I have been asked to ex plain
to this misting the objects for which Canon Reginakl
Smith has so Madly given us the dame of listening
to his eloquent and impel:rive lecture at "Autumn
sad igs Lemons." I do so very willingly, but, m I
cannot trust to my memory, I must ask your Ind
to allow me to rend what I have to say. w0....V7,«
• of you know the newt nod esteem la what Mr.
and Mrs. Kale wem held by all who came nudes their
Influence, continually strengthened se this esteem was
during their 50 years' Inbar in the parish of Fording.
ton. No wonder, then, that those who bad watched
their lives should desire to perpetuate their memory on
the scenes of their labour,. The only question wag—
Whist asps this wish should tabs? It was felt by
Essay that the desired memorial should be ma which
would do good t, those whole interests were so deer to
them. And all who know bow devoted both Mr. and
Mn. Morale were to the cause of tempraance son have
little doubt but that • parish building fitted fat the
purposes of • coffee tavern and working meek club
would hays been much valued by them. (Kr. sod
Mn. Moule were abstainers when to be so was to
court social excommunication.) Such • building it is
hoped may be now erected and vested in the Vicar and
chtuchwardens of Fordington in perpetuity. It might,
therefore, as • ntorial, to be built subegintiallz,
though we sumo% hope, in addition, to make it
ornamental. The value of coffee taverns, all a means
of promoting tempsranos, is not now disputed,
their tendon:lt Is to change hurtful habits by gradually
f= others that are innocent. All men, an
e d
y thaw whose toll le reertent and uninteresting,
require reareatios, and in this anal it is raison that
mimed= pee be 'awed without the shelter of a roof;
and what mats, may / ash, haveStbere hitherto been
under which laboudugtoes con recreate threrivee,
1 except those of puhilobowes, wherein temptations to
I excess are usavoidabin whilst oase-howas slew
recreation and refreshment without remorse to intoxi-
cating stimulants? The way to lessen the number of
publiobousse is to lessen the oraviag for drink. Whilst
this craving remains the supply will equal the demand,
even were we to seppr by lugislailos half the peiblio.
boars in the kl.gdaen I have now to announce to
you Our a sum of about £3lO ham boa paid or
towards the bending fund of the Motile
kUnorW Coffee Terra, that the promoters of the
Oo.llllllooi WO in treaty with the mermen of the Duke
of OornwsWe setae in Tordisgton for • site, and they
are at peeeeat limiting their rideovottre to the erection
of a smitable which it is roughly calculated
whey oset /IN obliuto masa soils, that would be
fairly maul also that sosno saleroom person has
offered £2O on the condition that sine other persons
give or Mee MO each la addition. I have only to add
Uri perms wWier te rolled mosey in large or small
mos smy seerg cords by application to the
elmerelary (Kiss Smell ClempbeU), whose enthusiastic
labour, 1. this mme already beyoed praise. My
earnest desire is that all the persons I now see before
will, when they set home, think over the scheme,
and, if they approve of it, will give it their Marty
purport foe' the glory of God. (Appian's.)

The Rev. A. A. LODIARD said he need
se vicar of the parish, he Gordian, atermdb"ZM
scheme and visoneed It gladly, not ally oa amenat of
It. heists memorfal to the late vicar, but also because
he ftered it wee au institution which wes likely to
be pendentive of very great good in the future. No
dolibt they would all agree with kim—lordiagtem
people would, at any rate—that Mr. Mode% nmenety
would mot die in Fordingtou for • very long thee be
come, even if no building were to be emceed Is
memory. (Hear, hoar.) Hs lad left • voided mon
than • name behind him, and that wee just the very
reams why they should put up • memorial to him ; I
the them time be thought it meth thee likely if Mr.
Moule—he did not know him, but he had hosed • peed
deal about him—had been asked what farms • memorial
should take, he was quite sere be would ham; &el
just the same answer, which Canon Smith and others
of his friends had gives fee Wes. (Hoar, boa.) Be
trusted all those who respected his memoey, and their
name was legion, would pee up • memorial worthy of
him—a thorough good one, not on. to cost only A6OO,
but • " thoemmd Emotive V' (APPlamm.)
The Hoe. and Bev. Spento-Rice then proposed •
vote of thanks to the legitinr sad the &drama. He
gave the schemeirle entire gapped, and be trusted it
would pepper. (Applause.)
The RIM. T. Nuns was thee asked by the chairman
to address the meeting, aid is response he made an
able epoch. Ile must be exceed, he said, at this
late boor from utheriag say lengthy remarks. He had
the very greatest possible pleasure in seconding the
rots of thanks from the audience to the Rev. Canon I
Smith hif his kindness in owning to Dorchester as
such an armed, and such as admirable lecture se be
had delivered. He did not mesa now to testify to its
mat Its, for they had ell thoroughly shows their appro.
obigioo of It. He should therefore simply ask them Sr.
express their thanks for the lecture. His main °bleat
Inislug present was to show that in • movement so
thoroughly uosecterlao and so thoroughly in harmony
with the spread of the phyMad and temporal wall-
being of the people of Dmthes or an I Fordington he
bad pest sympathy and great Intend in the ;neve.
meat, which was so worthy ad to commendable.
(Appian,...) They would never make their way to the
great masses of their kilo • time., who he'd little
respect for the Gospel, became they did not uoderstead
It, and, es Cdsttan =integers, they would never make
their way to the heart. of men, Instil they endeavoured
In improve their physical surrooadthp. (Hear, hear.)
This was the whole *lrk of Kr. Moule's life, and he
(lir. Heave), as • Nonoosfennlet minister, deeply
withrstslidea of the late Vicar of
Is in the spiritual wed temporal
wellbeing those by be bad so lose and so
nobly laboured. (Applause.)
The mestiag them mooleded with the Benediction.