Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

last year ftom ordinary sources, amounted to f:,1,4;r950•
17s 10d, and the aggregate receipts amounted ti.:),l'ild
The Rev. Mr. Petitt moved the first resoluvons A nte4
was to the effect, 44 That the report just read be sutN, c
printed, and circulated, and that a number of gellseue
named be appointed officers of the society for the en
year." a 5Y
The Rev. Hugh Stowell was called upon tc serg-
resolution. He said he thought perhaps. the Illeat,tlete!
and important point in missionary enterprises wasu tbP
should have young men in abundance to enter arm
missionary work, for he believed, if they had theseke re
would not be wanting in wealth to support theni• 0
Collefed
ferred to the students of their own Missionary
Islington, and bore high testimony to the zeal end devoted
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ness of Mr. Green, the president of that institution? 010
msssiesrary cause; one point which he would 1:a1 p a 5111
stress upon, and he hoped their worthy chainttaa,. e9llOO of
representative of the people;• would reflect the 361;t1:1:isti0;
the meeting, and of the entire body or toe
of whatever orthodox denomination, in the -"*"ycou
Commons,. and he trusted he, the Chairraacl,
the} inland
igl
let her Mojesty's Ministers, whoeNer y,0„1.0',
be, understand that the Christian people u: s°'
were profoundly impressed with the cenc;c,`:-, 0311
they shouldi almost better have lost I°"'-'Fibi6
; have kept India without giving her the oir
*He was not a prophet of evil,. -but he sc3, Evg;
jug them that they might guard against cc".
slO5ll
rand should sit as- the arbitrar of nations. tll
sit by while this fearful war was- now raging °% ,
"
Continent. • And any ministry who would bi
embarrass England in that war would. deserve do,
impeached. She should stand in dignified peace', 5
peace if she could -,. and her people,- getting rid
anxiety about this bloody war, should pursue that u'l9
warfare of truth and peace, whose tendency Wasa.tc'ho(
spears into ploughshares and swords into prunwo
(Applhuse.)

oral res I'rep,
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tor the blessings 3 f tbe
recorded the conviction ° net
of the necessity for increased exertions (:,11,1;tobe tit?,

The Rei. Mr. Lenpolt proposed the s
_
which,while expressing

conferred upon the soci,

of members of the society, in order that the-facliw-of tr'
offerino. in India and elsewhere for the P rearbir,"4oso
Gospel be made subservient to the endi "-
od
divine truth among the heathen.
The Rev. Dr. M‘Neile, who was received* v. :to tll,l
cheers, seconded the resolution, and called attent;7„
solemn responsibilities which the increased ,-,collo,
for the preaching of the Gospel voof'
The last fastnesses of Satan had lietilters
opened. There was a Pategonian mission—the l'ori
the Niger and the Zambesi had been made triu6" cl4l,
Christ - Madagascar had been as it were born ja
China and Japan had been opened. For the euterlwtr,-, in"
devolving up, them they repaired means and llovio
while he rejoiced at the prompt reply made by 66; pahl,irb
Colleges, the Universities of Cambridge,. and c"ted
and other public educational institutions, he retaar-t 10",
much emphasis the absence of such a contingeiblogete
Oxford. If they would maintain their missionarY to
true, their missionary power strong, their inissi°l33ii,lllP
mony distinct, they must take care f their Protetellreios:
home. (Hear, hear) He feared there had been solo"
tion in that respect, through the diluting of the.tn'tt gh°o'
differences between the two systems of Chris" -d t",,1
Romanism. an elaborate argument he conte,nrceing y
as State necessity was held to justify the ear to
taxes from Quakers, portions of which 119 i net C°:l4
spent in war, of which members of that
scientiously disapproved, christian duty, as fcge:od
the Bible, must more than counterbalance 10
ing unfairness of raising taxes from Mahan," iciq
Hindoos, part of which would be, spent in the, dill
of a religion contrary to their national belief. d
ask that government should become a missienar.:holo.4,
force scripture upOn
-b any, but that the Bible efer?
placed within the reach of every school in whjcLed'itt.t
a Christian teacher. Dr. M'Neill concluded
with an elegant tribute to the f the
memory o
Mortimer O'Sullivan

The proceedings did not close until conga'
ten o'clock.