The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL TOWN MISSION.
TT is a melancholy fact, too little known and lamented,
that the vast majority of the poor in Liverpool very rarely
enter a place of public worship. From a statistical account
of niueteen streets, published in the last report of the Town
Mission, it appears that out of 9454 individuals residing in
those streets. only 941 regularly attend any public worship.
Equally lamentable is the destitution of the private, means
of religious improvement, as among 2127 families in these
streets, there were only 744 copies of the Scriptures. Under
these circumstances, so disgraceful to a country professedly
Christian, The Liverpool Town Mission was established, that
the ignorant and the destitute might enjoy the blessings of
ieligious instruction. With this view pious and devoted men
are employed to visit the poor in their own houses, to read
and lend to them the Holy Scriptures, to circulate among
them religious books and tracts, to visit their sick, to exhort
all who are able to attend public worship, and to send their
children to school, and in the evening to hold small meetings
for prayer and expounding the Scriptures. Those simple
means have been greatly blessed, and it is the testimony of
all who hare visited the districts of the Missionaries, that the
public are not at all aware of the moral destitution and
wretchedness of the lower orders in the town, or of the good
that is doing by this Society.
The object of the Mission is not to promote the interest of
any sect or party, but to spread abroad the blessings of our
common Christianity. In accordance with this fundamental
principle, the Missionaries employed belong to the following
religious bodies :—The Established Church, the 'Wesleyan
Methodists, the Independents, the Baptists, and the Associa-
tion; and the managetnent is vested in a Committee similarly
composed. Many proofs have lately been' afforded that the
Christian public are beginning to feel a greater interest in
this Society, and the Committee are convinced that it requires.
only to be known to ensure the cordial and liberal support of
alt who desire the religious improvement of the poor. • The
present number
.of stipendiary, Missionaries employed is
fifteen, but so great is the amount of ignorance and vice to
be combatted, the Committee are anxious to increase the
number to twenty. This would require about £l2OO per
annum. The annual income of the Mission has hitherto
been considerably under £40(1 ; the subscriptions only
amounting to about £l5O. In Manchester the sum of one
thousand eiuht hundred pounds was raised last year for the
Town Mission established there, and that society now em-
ploys twenty-nine agents. It is honed that the time has now
arrived when greater efforts will be made for the poor in
Liverpool. The following sums have been received for the
Liverpool Town Mission during the present year, and further
contributions are earnestly requested. •

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

William Kay
Edward Ciopper
John Cropper
Robert Benson

£lOO 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0

George Pennell
L. P. Knowles
Thomas Alm ecroft
John Tomkinson
Alderman Bulky
J. 11. Butler
John Crosfield.
Crosfield
James C. Duncan
Barton Haigh
A Samuel ,per Mr. Kay
Job
I. Oliver Jones
Matthew Roberts
William Rushton
Thomas Sands
James Steel
Mrs. N. Waterhouse
DONATIONS.

20 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
5 5 0
5 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 o'o
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0

James Cropper 5O 0 0
The late Samuel Hope, Esq , legacy of
£25, less duty
Mrs. S. Ilope
Isaac Crewdson, of Manchester
Sums under £5
29 17 0
Subscriptions will be received at the BOrough Bank;_ by
the Treasurer, JOHN JoNEs, Esq.. Everton-crescent; WIL-
LIAM KAY, Esq., Toxteth-pack; Messrs. MAIIN.Es and Cu.,
Lord-street; or by the Collector, Mr. R A DCTA FFII, from whom
the last Report may be obtained, at the Charitable Institu-
tion.house, Slater-street.