The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

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the people were beginning to se(
longer be the slaves of the priests.
breaking the manacles by which they had been so long
bound, and were thinking and acting f
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the reason he did not conic to the chapel. " Oh, your re-
verence," was the answer, " I have left the Church of
Rome." " How dare you say so ? You leave the church of
your fathers—. Why so ?" " Oh, because she is all wrong."
6, How is she. wrong ?" " Why, your reverence, there is

not one word in all the scriptures about the ma
priest paused for some moments and t 1
lie, sir, (laughter), did you not read i

$t Paul's Epistle,
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that " a little lea'ven lea-vens the whole mas

laughter.) That was the Douay translation, they transl
the word as " lump." It varied little, or nothing at al

meaning, but the want announced the purpose, arid the
piest said " a little leaven leavens the whole mass." " Ah,
then, your reverence," said the boy, who was acquainted
with the context, " that is a very. bad mass, for
it is a leaven of malice and wickedness." (Loud
applause.) Tho priest was obliged to walk o
allow the little "jumper" to go to the clinic-

plause.) He heard of another instance of two boys going
to school with bibles under their arms, and they met the
priest upon the road, who stopped them, and got into a con-
troversy about the church and the Protestant schools. One
of the boys opened the Bible, and the priest said, "
pat
away that book, it' is a bad book." The smaller boy, who

was standing behind, nudged his companion, an said
"Jim, say to him, get thee behind me Satan." (Cheer.,

The public mind had awakened. Let them persevere in
sending forth that Book which diffused a blessing wherever
it went, and let. them all experience the high privilege of
taking a share in • the good work. Let that be indeed a
..rand That word was a sound of triumph, and of
jubilee
joy, and let thanks and praise be given to God, who had
permitted them to join in such a work, and let every
one do something towards it. (Hear, lgar, and cheers.)
I feel, my lord, (continued the Rev. Doctor) that I must
draw to a close. I have already trespassed to a most
unreasonable length (no, no), but I would say to the- young
and to the old, to the labouring classes here present, to
children and to servants, and I know no class that ought to
be more impressed with their responsibility in a cause of
this kind, than domestic servants of the gentry of such a
town as this—you have everything found for you ; at this
time when prices are getting high, you don't find it at your
own cost, you don't feel it, everything is found you, and
your wages paid.. Consecrate a portion of it then to God's
service, who has given you such a privilege, as to live in a
land like this (hear). The little children of all, of every
one, if they can give but little, let them cheerfully do their
diligence to give their little. Every particle of ice and
snow, that melts on the Alpine summit, adds to the drippin
from the rock below, and every drop from the roc

k swells

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the torrent that rushes down to the valley, and every such
torrent enlarges the river that moves in its majesty and
greatness, yet, irresisteble force into the bosom of the

ocean (hear; hear). It is in the hottest weather, when the
strongest beams of the summer sun rest on the Alpine sum-
mits, that the snow and the frost are most fully melted ; and
it is, when under the genial warmth of the Sun of Righteous-
ness, the snows and frosts of. the hard selfish heart of limn
give way, and the melting influence of the grace of God is
felt, then it is, that the hands pour forth that tributary
stream, the drops becpme little rivulets, the riVulets becomes
torrents, the torrents rivers, another ocean feels the influence,
and earth is gladdened. (Hear, hear). Oh, then give
unto this, put forth your hands and open the little
rivulets, let forth your streams, and let each one say, " I
must have a hand in it, I oannot allow this torrent to flow
without throwing my drop at least into. it ; I must have a
hand in it ; it is a glorious cause, the cause of God Himself."
(Hear, hear). His promise is in it ; success is in it. Rome
cannot stop it (cheers) ; the deVil:cannot stop it (applause),
and do not let it go without a heart, without a hand,
without a contribution from even poor and humble means.
(Prolonged applause).
A hymn was then sung, while the collection was being
made, and on its conclusion,
The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE announced that on Friday even-
ing, a public meeting would be held in the Clayton Hall, at
which a deputation from the hundred English and Scotch
ministers, who were recently ea gaged in preaching the Gos-
pel in Ireland, would attend. He regretted, that other du-
ties would prevent him from being present.
The Rev. Dr. COOPER next came .forward, and was re-
ceived with loud applause. The rev. gentleman dwelt with
much eloquence upon the progress which that society had
made in the diffusion of Scriptural knowledge. A grand
total of 45,624,503 copies of the Scriptures had been issued in
connexion with that society. He would not ask the meeting
if they understood what a million was, but perhaps he might
be permitted to tell them what a countryman once said when
asked that perplexing question—J.' lam no scholar," said he,
" but I always reckoned a million as something above a
thousand." (Laughter.) Now, let him give an homely
illustration of the number of Bibles. He would take an illus-
tration from what he saw some time ago in the Times. A
gentleman, to satisfy his curiosity, measured the shelves of the
new part of the British Museum Library, in which were 260,000
volumes. I found, that if there was one continued shelf, it
would be just eight miles in length to contain these volumes.
The library in Munich contained 500,000 volumes, which
wouldrequire a shelf of 15 miles in length : the library in Paris
contained 650,000 volumes, which would requira a shelf
about 20 miles long. It occurred to him then to consider
what shelf would hold • the Bibles which that society had
issued, and he found it would be 1400 miles in length.
(Applause.) The rev. speaker alluded to the number of lan-
guages into which the Scriptures had been translated under
the auspices of that society, and quoted the saying of George
Buchanan that he would rather be the means of translating
the Holy Scriptures into a language in which they were not
known before than be the founder of an empire. (Applause.)
The reason was obvious—by every translation souls might
be saved, and the world would outlast the empire. (Ap-
plause.) The speaker • declared the Bible SeciAy to be the
trmgth and the glory of England, and pros: eded to say that
within the past year 1967 public meetings (~f that descrip-
tion having been held throughout the country. • He knew
that a great deal had been said about their meetings, and he
allowed that things were said at them which had better be