The Parish Magazine

917th S. after Trinity* 18.45 10.45 3 6.30 Pamphill Ser 6.

10 M [Mor. Eze. 14-S Mark 12

11T [Eve. Eze. 18-2 Cor. 8.

Mission Service 7.

24 M

[Mor. Dan. 3-S Luke 9

19th S. after Trinity [8.45 10.45 36.30 Pamphill Ser 6.

S. School Meet. 7.
Mission Service 7.

S. P. G. Meeting 71.

30 20th S. after Trinity 8.45|10.45|3|6.30 Pamphill Ser. 6.

The Members of the Coal Comittee will attend this month as follows,
October 3. REV. S. S KEDDLE and MR. WHITEHEAD.

10. GENERAL MACLEAN and CAPTAIN BARRETT.
17. MR. BOOR and MR. G. CHISLETT.

24. REV. LESTER LESTER and MR. LLOYD-Jones.
31. REV. S. S. KEDDLE and MR. WHITEHEAD.

Harvest Thanksgiving Service was held, as last year, in the Minster on the festival of S. Michael and all Angels, the commemoration day of the re-opening of the building in 1857. Service commenced at 3 o'clock; Rev. L. Dawson Damer of Canford Magna preached from S. Matthew XIII. 29. (a text which well joined together the two subjects of the day) a powerful Sermon on the reality of spiritual agencies, as against the rationalistic tendencies of the present day. After the service a collection, in behalf of the Dorset County Hospital, amounted to £13 15s. 10d.

ADDITIONAL CURATES AID SOCIETY.

OCTOBER 6th Sermons were preached in the Minster in behalf of this Society. The day before the Rev. H. Everett, the new Vicar of Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Local Sec. to the Association, sent word that he was prevented from coming; his place was supplied in the morning by Rev. W. Fletcher, D.D. who took his text from Revelations XXI. 22. and in the evening by Rev. Lester Lester whose subject was S. Luke x. 31-33. The two Collections amounted to £10 15s. 4d.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.

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ON Tuesday, October 25th, the annual Meeting of this Society was held in the Corn Exchange; Lieutenant-Colonel L. Paget in the chair. After a short statement of the local accounts by Rev. Lester Lester, and a few words from Rev. C. Onslow, Rev. H. Rowley, the Deputation, formerly of the central African Mission under Bishop Mackenzie, gave a most interesting account of his own experience, lamenting that the sphere of that Mission has been changed. Meeting clearly shewed their appreciation of his address, following him as he passed from anecdote to description of scenery, and thence to an earnest appeal that they should shew their zeal in upholding Mission work. The collection at the doors was £7; in the Minster, September the 11th, when Sermons were preached by Rev. Wharton B. Marriott, the sum of £13 58. 24d. was collected in behalf of the Society, both collections are an advance on last year's.

THE Annual Meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, will be held, on Wednesday, November the 16th, at half-past Two, p.m.

BAPTISMS.

September 30. Jane, daughter of Charles and Sarah Allen.

30. Ellen, Jesse, Edward, children of Frederick and Frances Eliza Shiner,

19.

October 2. Austin George, son of Thomas and Emma Joy.
Walter Bayly, son of William and Maria Short.
MARRIAGE.

October 2. Marsden Yeatman to Henrietta Eaton, both of Wimborne.

HOLT.

UNDAY, September 4th was set apart as a day of Thanksgiving for the bountiful Harvest. The Church was very beautifully decorated, especially the Eastern end, where the Chancel ought to be. A fine collection of choice plants in pots were arranged inside the Altar rails, and on the steps outside. Sheaves of Wheat and Barley rested on the Holy Table encircled with chaplets of flowers. The text "the Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof" worked in yellow and white Immortells extended the whole length of the Eastern wall, above in the sill of the Eastern window the word "Alleluia" formed of white Immortells gave a good finish to the whole. Around the vase of the Font on the floor, on a carpet of moss was displayed a collection of the Fruits of the Earth of various sorts, the greater portion of them being presented by the Villagers who took much interest in the arrangements.

The whole of the Decorations were executed with great taste, and many thanks are due to all who so kindly aided in the work.

The singing and chanting was very good, the Services throughout being heartily joined in by a large and attentive Congregation.

The sum of £6 13s. was collected at the Offertory and at the Evening Service, £4 of which was sent to the Dorset County Hospital. £2 138. to the Eye Infirmary at Weymouth.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.

September 30th at 7 o'clock in the evening, the annual Missionary Meeting for the Propagation of the Gospel was held in the National School Room at Holt. The Room was well filled, and the sum of £3 4s. 2d. was collected.

The Revs. C. Onslow, Lester Lester, J. M. Truman, and the Rev. G. L. Towers (the Deputation.) addressed the Meeting.

ENTERTAINMENT.

ON October 6th, The Evening Entertainment at Holt which had been unavoidably postponed took place under the most favourable auspices, and the programme was carried out to the letter. The "Amateur performers" vocally and instrumentally executed their parts so effectively that they must be "celebrated" henceforth, if they were not so before. The room really was "brilliantly lighted," the Audience were highly pleased, which was manifest by the rapturous encores which arose from every part of the large but crowded room. The Holt people declared they never saw the like before, and the more fastidious part of the Company, who arrived in various Carriages from the Metropolis of Wimborne bore testimony to the skill and taste which pervaded the whole of the performance; where everybody did their best, it would be invidious to particularize.

The sum of £5 2s. 6d. was taken at the Doors, which defrayed the expenses, paid the debt due on the Harmonium and left a balance of £1 178. 4. to be laid by for some other good object.