Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-03 00:00:00

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Livingstone is an example of such men as
our ideas, of the age in which we live—that supe-
riority to all worldly calls and engagements, that
rapid and keen intelligence, ~17hat power of
governing men, are the very qualities in great
men which commend themselves with resistless
young by whom We see this build-
(Cheers.) Whei
this noble -structure I cannot stay for a moment
to admire its majestic proportions; it is not the
gold but the temple which sanctifies, so it is not
the senate house of Cambridge, distinguished and
beautiful as that place is, but it is the minds and
hearts of those by whom it is filled which can alone
draw attention for a moment. (Cheers.) Let us
render to Dr. Livingstone the full tribute of what
we feel towards him. He is not merely a Christian,
&missionary, a traveller, a great traveller, but he
is a hero, corresponding in every particular to
that great formation which the admiration of all
ages has consecrated—he is a hero. (Cheers.)
Even our greatest living poet, the great poet of
his age, Tennyson (loud. and prolonged cheering),
in his latest work, the ." Idylls," which has taken
its place in the deathless literature of the world,
has carried us back to a time of heroic men, of
'heroic deeds, and of heroic character : but if the
power which he possesses could have gone beyond
what it has'effected, in giving almost 'living re-
presentatives of those characters, and if he could
actually have evoked them from their tombs, there
is not one among them, not a man whom he has
ever represented in song, who, if he, could have
been raised from the dead, brought forth, and
walked among us, who would not have been ready
to recognise as a brother the great traveller, Dr.
Livingstone, and to acknowledge him as among
his 'worthiest companions. (Great cheering.) I
know.there is much before you, and I will be
faithful to what I said at the commencement,
that I would confine myself, as far as I was able,
to rendering the testimony, as becomes me as a
member of the sister University,, to the satisfac-
tion and lively delight which is felt in that
University at" the sacred co-operation—for so I
may well call it—the sacred partnership in which,
upon this special occasion, they find themselves
with the University of Cambridge. (Cheers.) I
have stated that which is my deepest conviction
=--that this is the place, that these are the
places, in which to find the human material
—not merely the silver and gold, but the human
material by which, under God, this great
work is to be pressed forward. I close what I
have to say by simply and solemnly commending
to each one of us, in his own mind and con-
science' to ask himself whether this special and
particular undertaking does not in itsel icombine
the presentation of every good, of every hopeful
prospect, and of every solid advantage which can
possibly be required in any civilising and Chris-
tian scheme ? If that be so, let us not shrink,
but by earnest endeavours strive to support in
acts that which we have commended in spirit,
using our own acts as if by virtue of them we could
prevail, by remembering at the same time their
insufficiency, and commending the prosecution of
the.cause to the sole favour and protection of Al-
mighty God. (The right hon. gentleman resumed
his seat amidst loud and protracted cheering.)
Dr. Plumptre, of University College, Oxford,
supported the resolution, which was carried una-
nimously.
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