The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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ante of his everlasting love, 0 ! this is indeed eternal lifethis
is heaven begun on earth : for he that dwelleth in love dWelleth
in. God. This is the interior °lour scriptural palace; for the de-
fence of whose outworks it behoves every man now earuestly to
contend. Let Scotland, then, show her 'tilers that political
power has been placed in the hands of men who value religious
principle--,that christianity is a. vital reality front God, not to be
crushed by the power of its enemies, nor. smothered under the
carelessness or covetousness of its professors. Let Scotland
say to her rulers, you have lodged power in our hands, and we
will use it in defence of our dearest treasure, and commit no
part of it to any who would wrest from us the Word of our God,
and the blessing of our national church. (Applause.) If you
will help our institutions, scriptural as they are, we shall receive
it with respectful thankfulness ; but if von exact any unscrip-
tonal conditions, we are happy to be elite to say, we want no
help at all, and least of all such help as you would infict upon
us. Our scriptural system is what must be inculcated in every-
house—in every cottagein every school—in every factory—on
every Juan, from John o'Groat's to the Land's-end. (Cheers.)
To conclude—if you would have an efficient system of education
in your country, you must have efficient Normal Seminaries for
masters. So important is this, that let inn appoint the master,
and you appoint the books, the rules, the hours,—the ichools.
shall work for me,• mid not for you. A PopiSh priest may tell
you,--Gentlemen, prepare your rules and yeur books, fix your
hours, make all your arrangements,. only give me the appoint-
ment of the master, and the school shall be a Popish school.
(Cheers.) And if you would have these seminaries really use-
ful, because fundamentally scriptural, you must have theist in
connection with and subordinate to your National Church;
and if, under existing circumstances, You wou!d- achieve- this
great consummation, you must instantly make' pecuniary sacri-
fices. Why, sir, if even this meeting.—if the- ministers and
their coadjutors on this platform, and the men in this house,
-were combined in such a determination as shone in the coun-
tenance of your own Knox, when he stood in the presence of his
poWerful euemies,—if even so ulauy, were as one tnan'in making
self-denying sacrifices for the truth, you would, I say, turn the
tide of the whole question, and proclaim to Scotland, to guglaio,
to Ireland, to the educated world, that there remains such an
unconquerable spirit of Christianty in Great Britain, as to set
even anti-Scriptural rulers at defiance to break down the estab-•
lisped institutions of our country. Apply to Christian principle
what Barns says of worldly honour--

•• Its slightest touches, instant pause,
Debar a' side pretences ;
And resolutely keep its laws,
Um:A*llN° CON SN.OI: UM!,

Apply this, I say, to Christian principle—act upon it—and the
thing is dune. (Tremendous cheering.) The rev'. gentleman
having proposed the resolution, rusinned hiS seat amid the en-
thusiastic and protracted applause of the meeting.
After a; few words from the Hey. Mr. M`Naughtan of Paisley,
and the Chairman, the Bev. Dr. Muir, of St. James's, pro-
nounced the closing benediction, and the meeting brute