The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-06-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

MOM. He also batenoed Greenthod. To that country some 150 years aso 11111 Danish people emit Hens Itiede, who isommenced with endeavouring to make the people yield to the charms of covilizatoso, °Doddering they were not yet ripe to rompi the gospel, but after 16 weary yeses he returned disheartened, and without having made one convert. A Moravian missiocary erect there the year liens Egede returned, and for a time acted on the Ire civilise theory, but one day lodine several Oresslandeall around him as he was trandatiag ioto their Weigel*, *banters of the New Testament, deelaratory of God's love fag sinners, he read portions to them, which they liatened to with the deepest interest and antheament, had one of them, • ompthstha and • murderer, esellainesd 'UR EDO that again, for I too, would be saved," testifying by Ista counteuseee and gestures to dm reality of his feelings. Thus commeneed the weak of God in that dark plus. At length that Greenlandee bourne a fervent preacher of the word of God, and after a time died rejoining in Jima as his Saviour. The Indian, the Guileless, the bleak African, the  red New Zealanders, and the wild North Angerigan Indian. were all of one blood with them, and the word of God Ira calculated to reach their hearts .Ik., convince them of sin and lead them to the Saviour. With fegerd do the operations it this'll .clety, they had been in the Lord's way, and he lied red them. The Bev. J. R. Cotter orped upon them that ehristians were to be an leaven in the wOrld. He then spoke of military uMeers whom he had head my there Is no each thing as a convert from heathenism to christisoity, and remarked that one at Dorchester mid to him the heathen ate as Orm in their raligion as you otareaion eyro.u..ra....Ai.e.i.a.pr.yoofaiofths6uocessB wohuootedmantyheyeca:. ago in Central Africa wea met when lic preached to the people lei, h the remark, " we are ho ogre give os bread," and be wes only supported in his work by tin thought that ebristiam in England were praying for him, yet now In that dletrict there were six missioo stations, on. native clargynivti, El native lay teachers, 1,125 own. moon:lank, 2,198 oath,' ebristians, 14 schools, and 668 echolars. He then reietred to New Zealand, minting cot how chrhoianity had made Diem booourable foes in war and humane. He related the Mori of M. Volkneee massacre. attributing it to huntica, sad iomn• tained that the guesses which bad attended foreign missions was most encouraging. The Rev. S. Mehl,' spoke at moms length of the remarkably gratifying results which had attended the missions in Tionevelly sod Ceylon, respecting which we reported his speech at Um Dorchester meths( at considerable length. —The Rev. C. W. Bingham impressed upon the meeting the obligation meting upon christlana to do what they could to support the Chrireh Missiooary Society. He referred to the wart field over which its operations extend, yet Joked what were they doing comparing the wealth of the el.riatians of thia eosintry with the wants of the sorld ! In ledia they were told that the missionaries of all denominations there were only tooching one three. hundredth part of the land, and it was the *mooted that there was not no moeh as one christian there to every thouomd of the inhabitants, after their long labours amongst them. He then quote I a calculation which had been made, as an encouragement to chriatians in missiooary efforts. If at Olio time a man became the first ebristian in the world, and in one year led soother to • knowledge of Christ, they the next yearlbrought two, and the four the following year four, and so the work went on in geometric pmeremion. in 31 years the population of the world would be cons erted, the number being 173,741,824. He spoke finally of the want which prevail, of men to go forth to presch to the heathen, and Baked their prayers that more labourers might be mot forth into the harvest, sod for the stemma of the asbole minden work. The Chairman pronounced the benediction, At the close the collection amounted to nil and Mrs. Reginald Smith had received the following donations : £3 each from Mrs. Fa:gunmen and FF. Cl, from Mrs. Wingfield Digby ;El each. from J. Player, lip., iar.,