The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

DT 141. INNIL

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CONGRATULATORY MEETING

OP Till
FRIENDS OF TIIE REV. J. SIIORE.

(THIS DAY.)

A public breakfast took place at ltadley's Hotel,
Bridge-street, this yawning, for the purpose of affording the
seetrop•litan friends of the lit e. Junes Shore an oppor-
tunity of congratulating that gentleman penneally upla his
Meese has nugget gaol. The chair was occupied by
&lewd Swain., K.q. The line. Mr. Shore sat upon the
Whainnan's right, anti at the principal table we enticed the
Rev. Mr. Hinton, the Rev. Mr. Blaney, the Rev. Mr. Weir,
the Rev. Mr. Craig, the Its,. Samuel Green, the Rev. Dr.
Cow, the Rev. Dr. Massie, the Rev Andrew Reid, and
several other ministers belonging to various tensions de.

nominations.
When the cloth bad been removed and grim aid,
The CHAIRMAN roes and eapr• mod his regret that Earl
Dacia h-d Wen prevented by easy Adable circumstances
nom presiding on the interesting occasion. He then con-
gratulated the Rev. Mr. Shore, in then roe of the emitting,
on his rviteaw from prison and his re•appearanos in the me-
trepans. The Christian public believed him to have been
made the sunject of persecution, and they rejoiced at the
spirit with which ►e had sustained himself dawn( the trying
wigs through which he had plowed. He bad long and nobly
endured incarceration fur the simple crime of having preached
the gospel. The public rejoiced at his release on account of
hie tamily, who must have suffered greatly daring his impri•
sionment, and they trusted that he would now proceed in his
eacellant work of converting souls to Christ. hindered by
sous, and supported by all who Lived the truth in sincerity.
(Hear.)
The Rev. Mr. SHORE, on rising, was hailed with loud
cheers. He said he telt deeply indebted to the company for
the kindness they had shown him, and esrecially for the
manifestation of feelings elicited by the MUM he had pur-
sued in lay.ar of religious freedom. As an individual, it
was not a matter of much moment to him whether he was

b rimer gibed's, be had his libeety, bat as it regarded
the gemesuoity generally it certainly was a suljeet of very
paw esseideration whether the preaching of the Gospel
mei to be I 'Bowed by imprisonment, er whether religion
sberaid be entirely free. (Hear, hear.) It was on this
mead he had always endeavoured to fix the atten-
tion of the public to the charge against him. It was
simply for preaching and praying with his congregation
without the content of the Bishop of Exeter, after he had
dome everything in his power legally to take the status of •
non-coulormist minister—it wee on this ground, and this
alone, that he found himself eventually in gaol ; and it was
upon the self-Mme ground that he had said he would be no
party to the payment of the oats of the suit. (Hear, hear.)
But let him not be minsidentood. He was by no means
insensible of the hinders of his friends in this matter. He
believed all had been done for the beet ; but, so far es the
principle was immersed, if the preaching were right the
mete must be wreag, and the consequent imprison-
Wit kw these cat., r it seemed to him, must be
wrong ales. (Load elvers.) Besides—and this had
Cweight in his mud—the bishop, by putting
hi prison, had placed Wised( in • wrong potties ; and
he (Mr. Shore) esabseed that he was not inclined to free
him from that peettiN. (Hear, and laughter.) He stood
upon his right 118•Niisimer of Zion, and he was amine to
declare, " Let the bishop liberate Ise from that prison, or lot
the spasm of which he is the instrument bear the sandal
and tb disgrace." (Laid sheers.) But, it might be asked,
how wee it that he was not sow is prison, instead of feriae
the pleasure of meeting so many kind friends Om the preens
essasima ? Every time ha preached in the archdiocese of ,
Ceaterbory he was guilty 01 contempt of court, and for that
gegfaiggs he wee liable to be incarcerated is • gaol.
How thou was it that prelatie vastness could tolerate
hle preaching the gospel ? The Her. Mr. Binney had solved
this problem at Easter, when he mid " The Bishops fear the
ople"— (greet chers)—mad he (Mr. Shore) believed that
'wowed his present liberty to the salutary dread has created.
Bat, although the MINNS it the people were sew en the
side of Christian freedom, it did not follow that they would
always remain so; and therefore the law ought to be
In a more setitfactory stets than It was at present. trenif,
bear.) Now this redderation of the influence at the people
ied him to make • remark or two on a port of great
. He bad little denbt—be might say be
heel ao doubt that more than three-fourths of
the pulpits in the diocese of Exeter were now
filled with clergymen more or lees of the Pump
its wihool. This ought to be a matter of deep regret
to all those who held evangelical sentiments, and were anx-
ious tar the salvation of the st,uls of their fellow men. (Her,
bear.) If than clergymen supported themselves, or were
supprted by their envier/Ration% he woes iced that the
evangelical public would have no right to interfere except by
their prayers and ministerial efforts to overcome error by
exhibiting the truth. But, when these ministen of the to-
taliliehment are supported by national funds, and were
employed to diffuse error and to prevent the preaching of
the truth so much to that in some uses it was
difficult and impossible for a non-conformist to obtain
a room in ehich to preach—be felt that a weighty
n 'possibility rested upon us to upset by every constitutional
means suck • sal-appropriation of the national funds. (Loud
cheers.) Of course it might be difficult to k ow how to act
in • one of the kind, but it was incumbent 110211 us at all
'Testate eowiikr seriously what could be done to alter such
a state of things. (Hear.) Time was nothing which the
l'eseyites were more an roe to than agitation. They wished
to keep *them quilt and salmi while they were busy sowing
be tone. Feeble as IN efforts had been, he was greatly
censured on recant of being as agitator. He had been told