The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

REMOVAL OF THE HAYMARKET.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Toxteth-park, con-
vened by requisition, was held in the Public•oflice yesterday,
fur the purpose of petitioning the Common Council relative
to the proposed removal of the Haymarket; Mr. Henry
Lucas in the chair. The following resolutions were unani-
mously agreed to, and a memorial prepared for presentation:—
" That it is the opinion of this meeting that, in conse-
quence of the removal of the Haymarket from its present
site to the northern section of the borough, it is become es-
sentially necessary, for the wants and conveniences of the
densely populated districts of Toxteth-park, and the whole of
the central and southern parts of the town, that the Hay-
market should be established in the immediate neighbour-
hood of this township.
It was unanimously resolved,—That the memorial now
read be signed by the chairman, on behalf of the meeting,
and presented to the council at their next meeting, by W.
Wallace Currie, Esq., and that the aldermen, and other
members of the council, be respectfully requested to support
its prayer.

" 7'o the Mayor, Aldermen, and Members of the Common
Council, in Council assembled.
. .

" The memorial of the inhabitants of the extra parochial
place of Toxteth-park,
" Humbly showetli,
" That your memorialists have learned that the Haymarket
is to be removed from its present site to the northern par
of the town.

"That your memorialists most respectfully represent that
while the wants and conveniences of the inhabitants of the
northern district of the borough would be greatly facilitated
by such an arrangement, the absence of a havnaarket in the
neighbourhood of St. James's Market will be severely felt.
" That your memorialists, trusting to the spirit of your
Honourable Council, which has invariably been employeol in
favouring the real wants and conveniences of the inhabitants
of the borough, respectfully solicit your worshipful body to
appoint a site for a new haymarket in the immediate vicinity
of this township. And your memorialists will ever pray.
" ( Signed on behalf of the Meeting.)
" HENRY LUCAS, Chairman."
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the chair-
m an, and the meeting separated.

CEREMONY OF LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION
STONE OF CHRIST CHURCH NATIONAL
SCHOOL.

Yesterday the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of
the intended national school in connection with Christ Church,
was gone through at twelve o'clock. The site of the intended
building is in ehristian-street, near to Christ Church, where
an old house has been pulled down for the purpose. In the
foundation a platform was erected for the accommodation of
the ladies, about 200 of whom were assembled to witness the
ceremony; the rest of the ground was occupied by about 250
children, belonging to Christ Church Sunday School, and by
several hundred spectators. Over the foundation stone a
banner was erected with the inscription—" Christ Church
Sunday School, March 4th, 1838." Several Union Jacks
and other flags floated in the breeze over the heads of the
spectators. In the centre,of the ladies' platform a table was
placed, from which the Rev. Fielding Ould, the respected
minister of Christ Church, read a portion of the communion
service, the children responding. After offering up an ap-
propriate prayer, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile read several pas-
sages from the book of Proverbs, after which he addressed
those assembled as follows:—Men and brethren, friends and

fellow-townsmen, I congratulate you this morning. Here is
a scene cheering to every eye, animating to every heart ;
but especially a scene well calculated to touch the best feel-
ings of every parent, and to minister the most quickening
encouragement to the Christian pastor. My reverend
brother, (turning to the Rev. Fielding Ould,) I congratulate
you. When you first entered upon the enterprise of procur-
ing a school in the immediate neighbourhood of your church,
many were the obstacles which stood in your way. It seemed
difficult to procure the necessary funds; it seemed impossible
to obtain a suitable site or piece of ground. Many persons
would have desponded under the difficulty : their heads would
have hung down ; their spirits would have drooped, and
driven by their forebodings into despondency and supine-
ness, their fears, their inactivity, would have accomplished
the failure which their apprehensions indicated. Very dif-
ferent has your case been. You saw the difficulties, but you
were determined not to yield to them. You had no notion
of being overcome, if I understand you aright (hear, hear).
You grappled with them; you saw your high duty, and you
entered upon it trusting in God. God has prospered your
zeal; the funds have been obtained, the piece of ground has
been procured, we are all witnesses to that, (a laugh) and
now you are able to step there (to the foundation) and lay
the foundation stone of a scriptural school house (cheers).
Thanks be to God. You have requested me to address your
assembled friends on this occasion ; and how can I better
do it than by reminding them, especially the parents of the
children of this district, who may be here present, that your
work is for their good, and the good of their dear children in
time and for eternity. You desire to teach their children
the word of God. Now "in the beginning was the word,
and the word was with God, and the word was God." The
word of God is Jesus Christ—the living word. The bible,
the written word, is the testimony of Jesus Christ. The tes-
timony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit; that is the true mean-
ing of every prophecy, every type, every narrative, every
parable. Jesus Christ is the only way to God; the way of
communication with God which man had when he was first
created, and which I suppose all men would have had if no
man had ever sinned. That way is shut up; sin caused a
breach in it; no man can pass it; the communication is
broken. Compare it to a chain. There was a chain in the
hands of the Creator, and in the links of this golden chain,
man, amongst other creatures was caught, and held in con-
nection with God. Sin snapped the chain, and down fell the
man. The holy links in the hand of the holy God, are up as
high as holiness; and the fallen links that clung around the
heart of man are down as low as corruption. Who shall re-
link the chain ? Who shall re-bind man to his Maker? Sin
broke it ; who shall mend it ? To what forge can the chain
be brought that it may be re-linked together? The dead
weight falls from the living hand and there it is. Down it is,
and down it must remain, unless the living hand follows it to
lift it up. Now the living hand followed it to lift it up
in the Incarnation of the word of God. God came down
and laid hold of man in the womb of the living Mary.
The incarnation is the re-linking of the chain ; the
way, the only way for fallen man to come to God. Nature
cannot bring him, for nature is fallen along with him. The
external world cannot teach hint ; the external world is
blotted along with hint. The planet he inhabits cannot re-
store him to his Maker, for the planet is fallen with him that
had the charge of it. All that it contains was entrusted to
Adam: " Have thou dominion over all, said the Lord."
And God dealt with the world on this head—when Adam
fell, his kingdom fell. The world is fallen; nature is fallen;
the beasts are fallen, and tear one another, instead of living
in harmony, as they did in the garden of Eden. Their in-
stincts are against one another; some made now—or rather
unmade—so as to tear others; one creature living upon the
torture of others; the food of one being the flesh of another.
We ourselves have become carniverous animals, through the
sin of our first father; and the poor sheep and the poor cow
must bleed in anguish unto death, that man, the head of the
fallen creation, may gratify his appetites, and live. The
world, then, cannot bring us back to God. Philosophy in
all its branches must let it alone for ever. Jesus Christ is
the way. Therefore, in our scriptural schools, we give Jesus
Christ the precedence; we don't have him for one hour after
we have spent our day at philosophy (cheers), but we have
him first. lie is the Alpha, that is the first letter in the
alphabet, and he is the Omega, that is the last letter of the
alphabet; and the Bible calls him " the Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end, that was, and is, and,is to come,''
the Almighty, the glorious Saviour of fallen sinners,
(Cheers.) This, then, is the way of God, and this is what
we teach children in scriptural schools. But mark, it is not
only the way, and the only way, but Jesus Christ is the per-
fect way to Cod. He needs no help, no brother man to guide.
For mark what he did. How far did the living hand descend
in order to seize upon the fallen links? Did he descend only
to a certain distance, and from thence call upon the dead
chain to rise and meet him? Did he descend only within a
certain range, and elevate some fellow creature to come, and
be the intermediate link between him and the fallen ones?
Why, how could any fallen creature rise above the fallen
creature, so as to be the intermediate link? No; the Lord
God descended, and laid hold of the substance of a woman,
the seed of Abraham, the seed of David—" he was made of
a woman, made under the law,"—that is, He came down the
whole way, and laid hold of the fallen flesh of fallen man.
He took it, indeed, without sin • but he took it. He did not
stand where fallen man was, and call on him to come up and
meet Him. He must come down all the way. But still
there was a gap between them. He did come down all the
way, and was incarnate of the Holy Ghost by the Virgin
Mary. The power of the Holy Ghost came upon her; the
Lord God overshadowed her; and therefore the holy thing
born of her was called the Son of God. Here is the perfect
le-linking of the Son of God with fallen man. He took our
nature with all its frailties, sin only excepted. We want not
his mother to stand between him and us: we want not an
angel to stand between him and us: we want not a sinner
to stand between him and us. Nothing can be nearer to us
than he is; our brother, flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone,
while at the same time very God of very God; so near to
God, that none can be nearer; so near to man, that none
can be nearer. He is the perfect, as well as the only way to
God. Thus, while on the one side we exclude philosophy in
bringing us to God, on the other side we exclude Popery
from helping Jesus Christ to bring us to God. This is what
we teach. I am bold and honest to tell you, because I
would not lS is h any one to bring any child under a mistake
to our schools; and if I understand your minister aright,
I speak his sentiments when I tell you plainly and freely that
we are open, decided, bold, uncompromising enemies of both
unitarianism and popery. (Cheers.) Now, there is no mis-
take.- (A laugh.) If von send your childern, you know
what you send them to be taught—the Lord. Jesus Christ.
Further, in teaching the Lord Jesus Christ, we are teaching
them first of all the love of God, who first loved them. We
love him because he first loved us, and the proof of his love is
the giving of his son. Therefore, in teaching them Jesus,
the way to God, we are teaching them the love of God, and
therein all that belongs to the devotional part of a christian's
character, particularly prayers, reading the scriptures, with
all the tenderness that marks the man who walks with
God. And, secondly, in teaching them Jesus, we teach them
the love of men, for whom Christ died, and therein we teach
them truth, that they speak the truth one to another, be-
cause they are brethren for whom Christ died. We teach
them honesty, that none of them shall go beyond and de-
fraud another, because that the Lord Jesus Christ is the
avenger of all; and we teach them purity, delicacy, that no
evil communication shall proceed out of their mouths. We
want no further motive than the love of Jesus for teaching
all this, because it inspires the love of man. We teach them
also sobriety—sobriety to put a check upon their evil pas-
sions, upon their appetites, upon their desires of sensual in-
dulgence. Here is the true source of sobriety and love of
man, derived from the love of Christ. We teach them
purity in all their conduct ; we teach them gentleness in all
their tempers; here are the operations of the Christian cha-
racter, which show themselves amongst men. Thus, in
teaching Jesus, we are teachin the way to God—the only and
the perfect way. We are teaching the love of God with all
the devotional virtues; we are teaching the love of man,
with all the moral virtues—morality and sobriety, because it
emanates from the love of Jesus Christ, the only morality
that is acceptable to God. This is what we teach the
children entrusted to our school. We originate no inferior
motives; we bind them by no pledge to any duty, except the
pledge of love to Jesus. We do not make ourselves ac-
countable to any secondary motives; we invite them to be
under the influence of the highest motives of all. And now,
what do we want ? We want just the cordial co-operation of
their parents; we want you to take care of them at borne as
we do at school; we want you to show them a good example,
to be sober in their presence—to be chaste in your conversa-
tion before them. To be watchful iu your conduct, to act as
an example to your children; we want you to second us.
We want you to be your best friends in forming the charac-
ters of your children. And men and brethren, let me en-
treat you to give us your interest for your own children.
Who are your best friends ? The ministers of God. Help
us then. We condescend to be beggars at your door, in or-
der to do you good; it is not to do ourselves a portion of
good that we take the ease from yourselves to form the cha-
racters of your children, it is to do you good. We rise
early, and strive in our secret chambers, in prayers and rea-
soning in our pulpits, and all to do von good. It is for your
own sakes that we beseech you by the mercy of God, to at-
tend and do
...yourselves good.—After expressing his ,grati-
fication at witnessing the scene before him, and that he had
attended, the Rev. Gentleman concluded amidst loud ap-
plause.
The ceremony of covering and laying the foundation-
stone was then gone through. As soon as it reached its final
destination, the crowd gave three hearty cheers. After this
a hymn was sung, and then the National Anthem " God
save our gracious Queen." The assembled crowd then
quietly dispersed.