The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1883-02-13 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WORLDLY TE4OIIERS. To tAt Editor.  Bir,—l am grieved at reading a letter which I appeared in your lest issue, reopen. ins the encourage- i meat given to the young men of Dorchester and others, who may be residing in the town, as to how they may employ their leisure hours during the dreary winter evenings, being enoouragedtojoin the Amateur Minst,els. Now, sir, lam not surprised in my visite round the town that so many people are worldly minded, and make such bad work of it in • dying hour, when they are encouraged to live contrary to God's Word. Some who are professedly Christian teachers will have something to answer for at the her of God, who stand and point our young people to the world, and as it were saying "ml. is the way, walk ye in It," whereas they ought to point to Christ and rehearse the Master's words in John sir. 0.6. v., "I am the Way the Truth and the Life." New, sir, some of your readers may wish to know what we cell the world, and we would refer them to passages like this:—" If any man love the world, the lore of the Father is not in him." lam not surprised that three who nit at the helm of all such things as minstrels, Guy Fawkes procession., should be so loved by the world, because our Master said "The world loves its own," that is everything where God and prayer is excluded. I would not say a word against music of any kind, for I love it with all my heart when it is played for the aim of God. Let any Christian teacher read Camdens iii, 16 aad 17 mew and decide the matter without controversy; and, if they feel this to be a rebuke for their wordltetzindedness, let them blame the Word of G d for It. written. I entered • reading•room last evening in • lags near Dorchester, and there were cards and dominoes on the tables, and after that place claim up at night the publican says he gets more lads and boys into his home smoking and drinkint than ever he did before it was open. What is the moron f Because it proves to be • nursery for the publichouse, and one man said "that reading-room is • curse to our village." Why? Because it wee ~persed upon this ground that prayer should never be offered there, What I am speaking through your 'columns against is worldliness, and It ought to be fought against by every one who names the name of Christ. I am prepared to meet any worldling on this Oct with an open Bible, to show them II they want red life it must be found in Christ. I as. from the War Ors of the 3rd February a remark from the Earl of Shaftesbury, stating that the chaplain of one of the Wesel London prisons informed him that the three principal games that brought girls and women there were drink, trashy novel reading, and tawdry favhionabli dress. This is a part of what I condemn as worldly, and her helped to ruin multitudes. I see, I according to your lad issue. that a poor boy has ann. gamed suicide, at the age of 15 rears. through iamb. Hug and card playing, at Sheflidd. Parente look well after your children In thole evil days, ad i from all I worldliness, false teachers, black hase„_ and every thing wrong, "Good Lord deliver ne."—Yours truly, Won's'.