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men ; and w

which they were engaged was to succeed, it must be in the
hands of their successors, and not in their own ; then it was
with no ordinary satisfaction that they perceived the young and
ardent in the work—young and vigourous heads—starting into
the places which they had in their dax endeavoured to occupy.

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Rev. R. Davis,) who had also been tlied• in his service. He
said they were engaged in a noble enterprise—the noblest that
could occupy the mind of man. That was the enterprise in
which the Son of Man sent forth his followers to gather his
children together, whO had been about in the midst of a naughty

,vorld, by Pioclaiming to them his promise
unto him heavy laden should be relieved
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(Cheers.)

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viler of coming together for the purpose of carrying out the
objects of some of the greatest and best-known societies in the
kingdom. One of them was of old standing, and was,
therefore, the best known, and was, perhaps, the most

useful; one of them was but a few years in operation, and
another of them had but just started to its work. (Cheers.)
They were all, however, well constructed for carrying out the
enterprise which they had in view : they were all well adapted
for carrying out all the works they had in hand. (Cheers.)
The great principle of all these instrumentalities was to secure
the purity and simplicity of evangelical truth, without doing
violence to any of the ordinances of true Christian piety. This,
like all other ways approaching to truth and piety, was a nar-
row way. It was impossible to be easy and lax in, their regard
for order, without doing an injury to some of the essentials of
truth ; and it was quite possible to have the most proper ob-
servance of order, but but with the preservation of it they might
inflict the greatest injury to the doctrine of truth. The gua-
rantee which they had for the principle which was involved in
that Society of
.young men was to be found' in the fact that they
proposed to assist from different institutions, all of which had
done the most effective service to the cause of Christian truth
—they were the Society to which he had before alluded—(cheers)
The Church Missionary Society had been long and well known,
and the Jewish Missionary Society had also been long and well
and he would add, deservedly known to the Christian public of
the kingdom. It engaged an instrumentality not so extensive
and universal as the Church Missionary Society, but yet
perhaps it was as effective in its own sphere. (Hear, hear.)
Then they were engaged in the production of the Pastoral Aid
Society, whose operations were more at home than the other
two. It was a society whose difficulties had been greater than
any other; but which he was happy to say had weakened the
storm which had been threatened against it. (Cheers.) It had
commended itself to the kingdom at large ; and it had succeeded in

beating down the calumnies by which ft had, in its infancy,

through which it had been forced, he thanked God, unscathed;
and it had, therefore, commended itself to all lovers of truth,
and order, and piety in the kingdom. (Cheers.) It was a so-
ciety which, while it supported in the State all that was con-
sistent with the spread and welfare of true and evangelical
Christianity, boldly opposed all that was vacilating and trac-
tarian in both the State and some of the ministers of the
Church. (Loud cheers.) Then came their youngest society,
and he regarded it as a happy circumstance connected with ,
that it had scarcely started into extstence, when the young
men of England came to its assistance. Then came the
Colonial Society, and, although some might speak to the con-
trary, in his opinion that society was much needed. The rev-
gentleman then proceeded to argue for the necessity which
existed for the establishment of that society. in consequence of
the neutral course pursued by the British and Eoreign Society,
with reference to the tractarian movement in the Church. After
which, he said, that he had always been accustomed to speak
the truth as lie believed it—(hear, hear, and cheers) and
they all knew that lie hated Popery,—(hear, and enthusiastic
applause,)—and they also knew that , whilst he hated the
Romish Church as an establishment, that no man would be
more willing to befriend a papist individually. (Cheers.) Rut

a mere forbearing neutrality to that halfway-house io popery—
tractarianistn—was called for from all the societies of the
church. It would not do for the British and Foreign Society to
say that they would not absolutely countenance that erro-
neous and pernicious system : it was not enough for them
to say so, but it was the duty—the bounden duty—of
all true friends of Protestant truth to declare in terms

the most unequivocal, their opposition to it. (Cheers.)
As regarded the work without, they were engaged in the great
and vasty enterprise which was inculcated by the Christian
dispensation—that of drawing all men together, from the east
and the west, the north and the south, in one vast migtitude,
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one common family, of which no man could he a member wno
would not stand before the throne and the Lamb and praise
him for ever and ever. (Cheers.) And as regarded their
wnrks within_ they were enzaxed. as expressed in the report,

in the cultivation) of moral aiid 'sound "Christian principles,
combined with the pleasing pursuits of literature, amongst
the young men of England—(hear, hear.) That was a noble
object ; and one which was in every way worthy of their most
strenuous efforts to accomplish.—(hear. hear, and cheers.)—He
considered that as certain instruments were strengthened by
use, so would the Christiantitlissionary institutions of their
religion be strengthened, and made more and more useful the
more they were used.—(Hear, hear,)—He believed so because
he believed that they drew their strength from God, and he as
a great source—a heavenly fountain of grace—could never fail ;
and, therefore, the more they drew upon him, the snore they
would receive from him; (cheers) and the more vigilantly they
drew on the energies of the young men of England themselves
for missionary enterprises, the more useful they would become
for those purposes. if instead of frequenting those haunts,
which had been so delicately,land sensitively, and touchingly
alluded to in what partook more of the nature of a statement
than a report, they could be banded together for the purpose of
cultivating of literary, scientific subjects, not to speak of the
knowledge which they would acquire relative to their own im-
mortal souls ;—if they could be brought to speak of and assist
the missionary enterprise of the church, for the spread of the
Gospel and the promotion of true religion,—if their minds
could be brought into the atmosphere of intellectual cultiva-
tion ;—they would be supplied with the elements for the enjoy-
ment of the highest aspirations man could possibly be blessed
with;
.and the elements for capability of usefulness, the extent
of which it was impossible for any living man to calculate.
After some further observations, the rev. gentleman concluded
an eloquent speech, of which the above is but a mere outline,
by observing that, as he had now complied with the request of
the valuq.ble secretary, who was the life and soul of their se-
ciety—(cheeks)—by giving them a fair launch, and he hoped
he would get young men to man the vessel on her voyage-
(Applause.) He would, before sitting down, beg leave, in the
most cordial manner, to. propose the followine resolution :
"That this meeting rejoices at the formation of such a so-
ciety, which cantipt rail (under Qtod's blessing) of raising the