The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

THE SERVICE

The church, as might be expected, was crowded to excess,
many parties—including not a few of those who had joined
the procession—being unable to obtain admittance. A con-
siderable number, in consequence, went to St. George's
Church, where an excellent sermon was preached by the
Rev. Mr. Monk, and Handel's coronation anthem was sung
in corn memmoration of the birth of the infant Prince.
After prayers (at St. Peter's) the Rev. Jonathan Brooks,
senior Rector, ascended the pulpit, and delivered the follow-

SERMON.
144th Psalm, verse 12

"'That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after
the similitude of a palace,"—
Or as it is expressed in the version of our Prayer Book—
" That our sons may grow up as the young plants : and
that our daughters may be as the polished corners, of the
temple."
There is no part of the sacred writings better calculated to
minister to the improvement and to the edification of mankind,
than the book of Psalms. It abounds with those instructions
which are of so much value to man, for securing his improve-
ment in virtue and knowledge, for the advancement of his
piety, and for the confirming of his faith. Do we wish to
discern the difference between wisdom and folly, between
holiness and sin ; would we be alive to the consequences to
which they respectively and inevitably lead, would we have
our joy and gratitude awakened by a lively display of the
goodness of God, and the wonders which he is continually
doing for the children of men ; and would we have our sor-
rows soothed amidst the vicissitudes and clouds of life, by
the contemplation of his mercy, would we trace the redemp-
tion of man from the first advent of the glorious Redeemer
to the scene of his last sufferings, and carry our view forward
to his final triumph at the great consummation of all things
—we can find these circumstances presented to us in a form
so perspicuous and so attractive, that they cannot fail, when
diligently studied and rightly understood, to interest the
affections, and to reach the heart. They present an inex-
haustible variety of the noblest matters that can engage our
attention. " Calculated" says one of their ablest commen-
tators " alike to profit and to bless, they inform the under.
standing, and they elevate the heart. Indited under the
influence of Him to whom all hearts are open, and all events
foreknown, they suit all kinds in all stations, grateful as the
manna which decended from above, and conformed itself to

every palate. The first prodUctions of hunan writ, after a
few perusals, like gathered flowers, wither n our hands and
lose tbeir progrance ; but these unfaded pants of Paradise
become, as we are more accustomed to thea, still more and
more beautiful, and their bloom appeas to be deeply
heightened. He who has once tasted thlir excellence will
desire to taste them yet again, and he whotasteithena often-
est will relish them best.'

Tiough these compositions are styled tie Psalms of David,
yet, he was not the writer of the whole of them. Of a great
proportion however, he was undoubted), the author, and
among others, of the one immediately tefore us. It seems
to have been composed upon the occasion of some national
deliverance, and opens with an expression of pious gratitude
to God for the protection which He had vouchsafed to him,
for having ", taught his hands to war, andhis fingers to fight,"
and thereby enabled him to subdue ris enemies. After
having ascribed to God the honour of :he victory, he con-
fesses his own unworthiness, and acknovledges that man can
have no claims to such an exhibition o' divine goodness—
" Lord what is man that thou halt stroll respect unto him,
and the son of man that thou so regardest him ? Man is
like a thing of nought." . He then prcceeds to invoke his
future assistance. that He would once gore lay hare his arm,
and to go forth in the strength of his mght with the army of
Israel, to conquer their remaining enenies and to gain to
them so complete a victory that the) might return home
in triumph, lay aside the garrnerts of the warrior
which had so long been dyed in blood, and have leisure
to resume the pursuits of agriculture, and to cultivate
the arts of peace. Transported by the anticipation of
so pleasing a prospect. he pourtrays in glowing colours the
happy consequences which would ensue from it, when plenty
should return to the land, and the grararies sboula be full of
corn, when every herd and every flock should be increased
without limit, when they should enjoy freedom from foreign
invasion and domestic com plaints, and when, amidst the first
and choicest of their blessings, their children should be no
longer neglected, but " their sons should grow up as the
young plants, and their daughters as the polished corners of
the temple," and they no longer be left uncultivated and un-
improved, like the wild flower or the uuhewn marble, but
that now, when the din of arms was over, they should be
nurtured with the tenderest care and increasing solicitude,
that they might grow up the future strength and ornaments
of their country.

Indeed, there is nothing of such vital importance to man,
whether we consider him collectively or individually, as the
formation of early habits. As the plant is trained, so is the
beauty or the deformity of its maturer growth. According
to the skill and ingenuity and patience displayed in the mould-
ings of the marble, is the polish and symmetry of the future
column when it comes from the artist's hands. If the ground-
work be not well laid, if the cultivation of the soil be neg-
lected, if the plant be left to grow wild in rank luxuriance, in
vain shall we look forward to the fruit; if the stone be not
reduced to its harmonious proportions, in vain may we ex-
pect It will add to the stability or to the symmetry of the
future building. So it is with man : he is born like a wild
ass's cold; if left to himself, and allowed to take his own
course without controul, he must fall the victim of his head-
strong passions and of his unrestrained appetites. Atten-
tion, and industry, and perseverance, must form the disci-
pline of the youthful mind ; it must be early taught to know
the power and the practice of self-government; it must not
be left to the fearful chances of accidental impressions, much
less to the positive contagion of evil associations ; but " what-
soever things are pure, whatsoever things are honest, what-
soever things are lovely, must be inculcated and rooted in
the growing habits of the child, must be taught to ' grow
with his growth and to strengthen with his strength.' From
infancy proceeds the growth of men. They are placed here
in a state of probation for an immortal existence ; and upon
the early direction given to their opening faculties, upon the
early inculcation of right religious principles, depends not
only the colour and the complexion of their life upon earth,
but also their prospects in an eternal world. There is a
restless and a busy principle of action within us, which will
not he satisfied without being called into exertion, and if it
be not guided at first aright, will soon find for itself another
direction. Can any reflecting man doubt the vigilance of
the great enemy of souls, who is continually walking about
seeking whoni he may devour? Can there be a doubt of his
eagerly seizing every opportunity of sowing his tares in so
fruitful a soil, if it be left open and unguarded? Now, as
the tendency to evil and sinful habits is much more easily
prevented than cured, as the teachableness and the docility
of childhood are proverbial, as the mind at that tender age
is susceptible of any impressions, capable, like the plant, of
being bent to any form, and like the marble moulded to any
shape, it is most important to preoccupy it with sentiments
of piety and of virtue, and to instil good principles and good
thoughts into it as soon as ever there is a capability to re-
ceive them.
Our Saviour has taught us how acceptable is such an offer-
ing, when he applied the words of the Psalmist to the hosannahs
of the children of Jerusalem " out of the mouths of babes
and sucklings bast thou perfected praise." It is the advice
of the wise king of Israel " remember thy creator in the days
of thy youth" ; and if this was inculcated, and necessary to
be inculcated under the imperfect ministntions of the law,
how much more necessary is it that a Christian child should
be taught to know that God is his creator, and that of all
mankind—that he is an all wise and a perfect being, and as
he at first made the world by his power, so he continues to
govern and to preserve it by his providence !
_ .

- To these truths, which are the foundation of all religion,
must be gradually added, as his faculties expand, and his
powers of apprehension unfold themselves, the knowledge of
the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, of the universal
corruption and degeneracy of mankind, the causes which led
to it, the hopeless condition to which we were reduced by the
fall of our first parents, the mercy of God in providing the
remedy, the atonement made for sin upon the cross. He
should be informed that " as in Adam all have died, so in
Christ shall all be made alive"; he should be instructed in
the history of his Saviour's life ; in the efficacy of his
Saviour's death, in the necessity of repentance and newness
of life, in order that the benefits of that death may be ap-
plied to himself, in the certainty of another state of existence
after he shall have passed through this probationary scene,
and of a great day of account when the living and the dead,
both small and great shall stand before God, and be judged
and dealt with out of those things which are written in the
book, according to their works ; in the means by which he
may be enabled to obtain the grace of God here, and the
foundation upon which he may build his hope of glory here-
after.

To these doctrines should be added, that he should be taught
those precepts which contain the great rules of practise, those
unquestionable duties, founded on those doctrines, which he

ones to God, his neighbour, and himself : towards God, faith,
reverance, submission, resignation, worship, gratitude, and
love; towards man, truth, justice, mercy, and charity ; to-
wards himself, temperance, sobriety, humility, and self-
denial. In short the whole gospel of that Jesus, in whom,
as a Christian, he professes to believe, should be laid before
him, and he should be made familiar with those sublime
doctrines, and those golden rules, which it is the glorious and
admirable previlege of Christianity to have fully revealed,
and brought within the reach of all.
Such are the heads of that instruction which should be
taught to all as the basis of their present and future happi-
ness. God has never left himself without a witness ; but
we have a peculiar revelation. Ile has placed us under the
covenant of grace, and surely if there be any one branch of
knowledge more important than the rest, it is that a Christian
should be instructed as early and as carefully as possible, in

the terms of that covenant into which he lias-beer.i admitted
For this blessed purpose it has been the wisdom of our na-
tional church to provide her excellent catechism—a produc-
tion which the wisest and the best has for ages regarded with
the highest estimation, and which they will continue so to
regard as long as purity of doctrine and unaffected piety
shall be dear to Englishmen. It has been well said of it that
it is a production upon _which the philosopher when he peruses
it pauses with admiration, and the religionist is enraptured
with its piety. The young should be encouraged to learn it
with the most serious attention, and happy is it for the hoary
headed if he continues to read witn growing conviction, grow-
ing delight, and growing improvement. It may well be
called the key of Christian knowledge, for it opens the way
to further improvement. Would to God that every parent
throughout the land would put a true value upon that inesti-
mable blessing, and avail themselves, as they ought, of its
help and of its assistance. From the earliest dawnings of
reason and of conscience, the tenderness of a mother's affec-
tions cannot possibly be a worthier object, nor one which
will more effectually secure the favour and affection of
Almighty God, than in thus training up the soul of her child
in the nurture and admonition of its Saviour ? To every
parent whose pious care thus sows the seed of religious truth
in the mind of her child, it will through every future stage
of her life, and more especially when life closes, be a source
of lasting comfort, to reflect that she has not in this instance
been unmindful of her duty. " Whom," says the prophet,
" shall he teach knowledge, and whom shall he make to un-
derstand doctrine ? Even them that are weaned from the
milk and drawn from the breast." In that important inter-
val from the first unfolding of the soul, to the maturity of
riper years, what can parents do more useful to their children,
and if they think rightly, is more satisfactorily to themselves
than to see that those children be taught so soon as they
shall be able to learn " what a solemn vow, promise, and
profession" have been made for them in their baptism ?
It must be a subject of sincere congratulation to every de-
vout and benevolent mind, that the vital principles of the
institution, for which I have this day the privilege of plead-
ing, is to perform in this most essential point the duty of an
anxious and affectionate parent. Your Blue-coat Hospital
receives into her maternal arms those whom it has pleased
God to deprive of their natural protectors. Out of 350
children now under its roof, 344 are either wholly or in part,
orphans. Can we conceive of a charity more calculated to
interest the best feelings of the human heart, one which
snatches these helpless and unprotected children from the
dangers with which they are surrounded, supplies them with
food and raiment, shelters them from the pressing evils of
poverty and destitution, and not content with providing for
their temporal wants, teaches them to look forward beyond
the transitory concerns of this world, and educates them for
an immortal existence? Aware that moral duties lose their
energy and their strength, and moral virtues their animation,
and their consistency when unsupported by religious motives,
it is the care of those who are entrusted with its manage-
ment, to bind the strong distinction between good and evil
upon the heart and the conscience, by the solemn sanction of
religious belief. Is not this in strict conformity with the
will of Him who commended that little children should be
brought unto him, and blamed those that would be kept thus
from him ? Is it not in compliance with the injunctions of
Him who declared, " whoever shall receive one such little
child in my name, receiveth me ;" who when he laid'his hand
upon them and blessed them, openly proclaimed that of such
was the kingdom of God ? May we not confidently hope
and trust that the blessings of God will not be wanting to
further the efforts of those who thus endeavour to promote
his glory, and the everlasting happiness of their fellow-
creatures ?
But it is not mere instruction which is given in this school.
Knowledge is of but little use without practice. To profess
to know God, and yet to deny him in works, the Apostle
brands with the stigma of being " abominable and disobedi-
ent." Whilst, then, their memories are stored with the
facts and the promises of the gospel, whilst they are occupied
with things concerning salvation, they are at the same time
accustomed to acts of devotion. They attend the Lord's
house, they join in congregational worship, they show their
respect for the ordinances of religion by their practical at-
tention to its duties. Religion becomes a habit to them, and
in the little world in which they live they are required to
bring forth the fruits of the spirit. When they enter thus
armed upon a wider sphere of action, they are better pre-
pared to struggle with the temptations which they must meet
with. It does not indeed follow as a matter of course, that
all of them shall escape the pollutions of the world, that
passion, or interest, or evil communications may not lead
some of them astray ; yet even should this be the case, we
may fairly hope that conscience will be more easily awakened,
and that the recollection of early instruction and early
top roduce repentance and amendment.
habits may recur
Happily, however, as far as regards this charity, we are not
left merely to conjecture. The experience of many years has
assured us that a very large proportion of those whom it has
laboured to guide in the paths of holiness and piety. have re-
solutely continued to walk in them, and that it has sent forth
into the world many honest and' useful citisens, intelligent
and upright merchants, many loyal and industrious subjects,
many pious and sincere Christians.
If such, then, be the wisdom of this institution, and such
the effects which have flowed from it, go on, I beseech you,
with one heart and with one spirit to promote its future use-
fulness. Animated by Christian 'faith, mighty in its energy,
and grateful to the giver of all good, join in contributing to
lead these children to industry, to virtue, and to God.
But it is unnecessary for me to exhort you. Your own
hearts will be your best councillors. I will not believe that
there is a single individual here present in whom the desti-
tute situations of these children has not raised a feeling of
generous sympathy ; nor will I believe that there is one who
will not consider it a happiness and a delight to give vent to

that feeling—hp throwing in his mite in so holy a cause.
Were any additional inducement required, it is to be

found in the circumstances of the present period ; in the
occurrences of the past week. The birth of an heir to the
British throne is a subject of congratulation and rejoicing,
which should excite in every loyal breast the warmest feelings
of thankfulness to that gracious Being by whom, kings reign,
and princes decree justice. And how can our gratitude be
more acceptably displayed than in consecrating it, by acts
of charity and benevolence to our fellow-creatures ? How
can we better show our sense of the value of the gift he has
bestowed than by making it the means of conferring benefits
upon those who, though born to a humbler lot in this world,
are yet cast in the same mould, and are equally dear to him,
who, as the common Father of all, is no respecter of per-
sons?

Follow, then, I beseech you, upon this occasion, the
Christian rule of charity. Let each give according to what
be has. You who have much, give liberally ; you who have
little, do your diligence gladly to give of that little. Remem-
ber it was the praise of Mary of Bethany " She has done
what she can." And if, at the great day of account, the joy-
ful sentence shall be addressed to you " Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
beginning of the wo'ld, for I was a-hungered, and ye gave
me meat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink, I was a stran-
ger, and ye took me in, naked, and ye clothed me ; for inas-
much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me ",—if, I say, it shall be
your happy lot to have this sentence pronounced upon you,
then will you look back with consolation, and with joy upon
this day, having found that its z'eward is in heaven, and its
reward is on high.
Now to God the Father, &c.

At the close of the service, owing to the croweded state of
the church, the collections were made at the doors from the
parties as they retired, and the total amount was £195 4s 4d,
—a sum nearly six times larger than that collected for the
same charity last year.

Long before the conclusion of the service, the surrounding
streets, also Lord-street and Castle-street, and the church-
yard, again became densely crowded by parties of all grades,
anxious to witness the return of the procession to the Town-
ball, which it was generally expected would form in the
same order as before. In this, however, they were disap-
pointed, as the mayor, the town-clerk, and a few friends,
alone returned to the hall, preceded by the regalia, the re-
mainder of the company (after a prolonged attendance,) hav-
ing taken their way to their respective homes.
The crowds in the neighbourhood soon afterwards dis-
persed, and the town assumed its usual quiet Sunday appear-
ance.

The following is a statement of the respective amounts
collected for the Blue Coat School, by the respective new
mayors, within the last seven years
1835 Mr. W. W. Currie,
1836. Mr. W. Earle.....
1837 Mr. W. Rathbone.
1838. Mr. H. Hornby...
1839 Sir J. Walmsley...
1840 Mr. T. 801t0n....
1831 Mr. J. Shaw Leigh

£54 4 0
35 12 6
30 14 4k
42 7 6
45 3 6
33 17 3
195 4 4

liontn DISPENSARY.—On Sunday evening last a sermon
was preached at St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, by the Rev.

D. James, incumbent, after which a collection was made in
aid of the funds of the above charity, amounting to £lsls. 3d.
We hope the example set by the rev. gentleman will be forth-
with followed by the clergy of the town, in order to relieve

the Dispensarie; from the& present state'of financial embar-

rassment

LIST OF PASSENGERS BY THE STEAM-SKIP COLUMBIA.
—From Boston—Hon. Washington Barrow, lady, and son;
Hon. George
_Cathcart,_Lieut.-Col. Belfour, Capt. Forbes,

Capt. John'Marshall, Messrs. W. Blake, W. Walton, A. H.
Haddan, W. E. Lewis, J. Emerie, J. J. Lyons, Klancke,

S. Hopkins, F. Aleny; C. F. Shav, A. H. H. Bernard, C

F. Adams, --Kinnard, Fritz, J. Freeman and lady, J.
P. Stephens, W. B. Huggins and man-servant, T. Soublet,

nintizar;thut, A. Gillespie, J. Wrigley, J._kobinson, J

Gourd, BullOck, and -1 Bush. FrO?iz Halifax—Capt.
Broughton and man-servant, and Messrs. M`Queen, Miller,
Powell, Curzon, Russell, Hollingsworth, and Robinson.
DEAFNESS.—Mrs. Gardner, we perceive, has been com-

pelled by the pressure of buiiness to remain in Liverpool

Those who have been under her care speak very highly of her
abilities, attention, and mode of operation. Mrs. Gardner

may be termed a benefactress to her race—and those who

need her assistance will not repent applying for it.
PROPERTY.—Those who are in want of a good house,

may suit themselves by a reference to

Mr. Williams' ad-

vertisement

CANDLE SPRINGS.—A very useful and handy little article

has just been brought out by Mr. Healey, for the purpose of
keeping candles upright in the socket of the stick. It quite
supersedes the use of paper in wrapping round the candle,

and quite prevents accidents occurring

The application of Captain Taylor's floating breakwater,
for the formation of refuge harbours on the coast of the
United Kingdom, appears likely to be carried out with great
advantage to our maritime commerce, and its practicability
is almost universally admitted. To show the vast import-
ance attached to the invention, it is only necessary to refer

to the names of the patrons, the directors, and others con-
nected with the formation of the company, by means of
which it is to be put into immediate operation, which com-
prising as they do, those of the first eminence in nautical
service and knowledge, cannot fail to impress upon the pub-
lic mind its high utility.

HOAX OF THE ALBION.—Poor Thomas Bolton! never did
any great man descend from his tripod to mingle with the
denizens of this " worky-day world," with less flourishing
of trumpets and showering of bays than the forlorn and ne-
glected EX-MAYOR of Liverpool. Not a line to grace his
retirement or to soften his fall—not a line even of Mercury—
not a word from Chronicle or Journal; whilst the Albion—
more cruel than any—"damns with faint praise," and
" shuffles off the coil," from the object of his worship for
twelve long months, in the space of a shabby paragraph, no
longer than would serve to record the decease of a favourite

hound, or to record the praises of a_ spavined hackney

Alas for Thomas Bolton! when the only commendation to
posterity accorded to him by his sole panegyrist is confined
to his " hospitality at the Town-hall, and the cosmopolitan
character of his invitations! Happier far would it have been
for him to have been unsung and unwept—happier had his
" liberal" compatriots been able to say of his obscuration—