The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

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work of the Church—it told to the people what the
Church really was, instead of using hard words they did
not understand. The people did not understand what
Apostolical Succession meant, but they could understand
that Apostolical Succession that brought the clergyman

to the poor man's sick bed—that brought him to sirt'Clowzl
on the three-legged stool in the cottage, and took the
cottager by the hand as a brother. (Cheers.) They did
not understand the past, but could reason on the present

and the Church whose clergy were to be found
cellar and the garret of the poor—who would
the injured and vindicate his cause, was sure to be et

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shrined in t

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le_ people

Loud c

Nay more, the Church of England went forth to search
for the lost of Christ's fold in the highways and hedges.
Time was when this was done almost alone by our dis-
senting brethren, but he thanked God the Church had
now outstripped them in the good work. Did he ro.proacl
them for it. No, but he hoped they would go on
ing each other in love. The people however
—(the Church's)—they were given

were t

by the State, and by the country, and therefore the
clergy were bound to look after them, and the way to do
it was not by reviling dissenters, but by out-loving

them—

by out-tE

king t

out-workirig them—

out-preaching them;:by out-teaching them: (Cheers,)
If they would do this the people. would not leave the
church, and they might depend upon it, with all its f

they would not find such another. (Loud cheers
was on board a fine old vessel, though some of her tin_
bers might be shivered, he should look out well before he
left her whether the one he was about to enter was safe
and sound or not. They might depend upon it, before he
became a Dissenter, he should see his way clear. (Loud
cheers.) The Church of England had sto
centuries, and though at one time she ha

oven boarded
Popish pirates, who impeded her progress, yet they had

thrown them all overboard, and her destiny was onward
—onward. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He had known
many communities leave her and become Dissenters,
hoping to erect a more pure church, but he never knew
any who did not in the end suffer by their separation.
There never could be a pure church until man himself was
perfect. It was a useless attempt to root up the tares,
when our Saviour had said, " Let them alone until the
harvest." Their duty was to try to do them good. It
was, however, said they were enemies to reform. He de-
nied it. He said, let every abuae be inquired into, and,
where discovered, done away with, The church had no,
thing to fear from inquiry. It would only be the means

of renderine her more pu're. Let every thing be brought
to the full blaze of Gospel light, and that which could not
stand that test let it be done away with. It tens PIIIIPTV

which dreaded the light, and not the Church of England.
The Church Pastoral Aid Society had done more to reform
than anything else. By calling attention to the large pa-
rishes some had already been divided—others must
be. (Hear, hear and loud cheers.) The narishes had

its vested rights as well as the clergy, and though he
would not do injustice to any man, he would least of all

do injustice

o parishioners

He would

not left to enrich the clergy, but to ev.ang-eli'se the people.
(Applause.) The rev. gentleman then eloquently advo-
cated the sub-division of large parishes as a hundred times
more important than dividing the dioceses. (Loud cheers.)
After observing, that in his opinion the revolutions of the
continent were nothing in comparison with what was

cominz,.and urging on England to imitate the conduct of
the Ninevites, by repentance, the rev. gentleman con-
cluded with an eloquent appeal in behalf of the society
as a means of spreading the Gospel of Christ -
serving order in the land, and resumed hi
cheers

seat amid

During the singing of a hymn a collection was made in
behalf of the society. The Rev. W. Pollock then, in an
impressive manner, pronounced the Apostolic benediction,
after which the meeting separated.

THE EVENING MEETING

Another meeting in furtherance of the same object was
held at the same place in the evening, the worshipful the
Mayor in the chair (who had immediately before presided
at the District Provident Society). Prayer was offered up
by the Rev. W. Pollock, after which

His Worship the

MAYOR addressed the meeting, ex-

pressing the pleasure he had in presiding that occasion.
The institution they had met to support was one capable
of accomplishing more good perhaps than any other in the

kingdom

The Rev. C. W. LAWRENCE, secretary to the society
read the report.

The Rev. Taos. COWAN, incumbent of St. Thomas',
Toxteth-park, moved the first resolution. lie described
the Church Pastoral Aid Society as supplying tne defects
of the regular machinery, which had been found quite in-
adequate to the altered state of society arising from in-
creased population and other causes. The rev. gentle-
man deprecated the practice of Sunday duty in the Post-
office, but trusted this scandal would be wiped away
shortly, there being at the present time an order on the
books of the Town Council proposing a petition to be
forwarded to government, praying for the discontinuance
of this evil practice. He designated the national church
as the one and only mediator between the poor and the
rich, and the Pastoral Aid Society had multiplied the
voices which advocated the cause of the poor.
The Rev. JOHN HARDING, Rector of Blackfriars, Lon-
.

don, seconded the resolution: He referred to the twelve
grants in Liverpool and the two in Birkenhead received
from the society, and which he showed had been instru-
mental in working an immense amount of good. The
society had been the means of gaining to the service of
the church many pious men. He was sorry that the state
of the funds of the society compelled them to refuse
many applications which lay at present before the society.
There were at present seventy of such applications before
them, four of which were from Liverpool. He trusted
his hearers would determine whether these applications
were to he rejected or riot. He alluded to the fact of
Liverpool having forwarded a sum of money in aid of the
society's operations in Southwark, which is described as
one of the most neglected districts about London, until
the Bishop of Winchester took steps to extend the bene-
fits of scriptural instruction to its benighted inhabitants.
This good work was carried out by grants from the Society,
by the appointment of a clergyman. He next referred
to the exertions being made by the Rev. Mr. Champneys,
in Whitechapel, London, where a church bad been built,
every seat in which was free ; the Society are also main-

taming a clergyman

T. Nolan followed by Mr. Harding, and the
Ming Ould, E. Tottenham, and George Dover
wards in succession, the particulars of which
speeches we are prevented giving from want of space.
The hall of the lecture-room was crowded, a

The Rev

Revds.
spoke of

ho were most respectable, listened to the different
speeches with an attention betokening the interest they
felt in the proceedings.

The following were the sums collected at the respective

churches on Sunday last

ONDO
ire mar
afuirin

SHARI
et is scat

mint of business is doir

morning,

Westerns

and have been sold at a discount, owing, it is said,
.pect of the dividend being only 6 per cent. Tkly
to-day 3 dis. to par, having been 5 prem. he Mlll-
ment is out this
.znorniug, and although showing a
f £202,3,19 19s -
tions have rec
tug Ili s*. North Staff
to have been bought It
and a disposition to carry over for
the rate of continuation being

not looked upo
1 to 8(.., to 91. lii

3 _6 favonratily

..xkwalls are sell-
shire shares for this account are said
•gely by the pubic, but not taken up,

LONDON MONEY MARKEL—YESTERDAY.
The funds have not been so brisk this morning, nor ha%
full prices of Saturday been maintained. We have bad
sots down to 921 to 31, and they are now a shade better
at 93 to I for present transfer and to-morrow. There i
much business doing, however, as the membp,- - -
are chiefly occupied with makin- --
books. Reduced Threes are
per Cents- to ' I?.xche

)ver their

-
Premium.moo. -
Ban--, 3. Exc,
Bank Stock, 194
LONDON
CORN

he supply of English Wi

nevertbelesii, a reduction of Is. to 2s.
quotations had to be sub►nitted to before
effected; a similar reduction inns
Barley was a slow sale, but can
maintained last week's prices. 1
Peas, fit for seed, were inquired fo
Peas next to unsaleabl
Quotable reduction in v

SMITHFIELD CATTE

We have a considerable i

, and fully as dear
Is a dull sale, witl

YESTEOAY
iupply of beast.

te that

). There are
about 2d. per