The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

On Tuesday the second meeting of the Liverpool Auxi-
liary to this Society was held at the Amphitheatre, Adam
Hodgson, Esq., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN commenced the proceedings by rp-

aws y pre.s. g
his hearty approval of the society, which, he said, was a
living, untainted witness of evangelical truth. In these
times of trouble and rebuke it was essentially necessary
that so valuable a society should be nobly sustained in
Liverpool and throughout the country. He then alluded
to the embarassments by which we are surrounded—to
the monetary depression, and to the apprehended famine ;
and said that now we were made acquainted with the im-
portant fact, that our trust ought not to be reposed in
man—but on the Most High. It was a question of serious
'-^flier we had used our prosperity in corn-
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Christian truth ? He recommended the society to the
notice and consideration of the young men of the Church
of England ; and in conclusion he passed a glowing eulo-
gium upon the memory of the late Dr. Tattershall, the sa-
-simplicity of mind

hose character were

The Rev. W. W. EWBANK read extracts from the un-
published report of the Parent Society, and mentioned,
that Mr. Tuton had sent his annual thank-offering of £25
to the funds of the society.

The Rev. Mr. LAWRENCE moved the first resolution,
which alluded particularly to the great opening China now
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The Rev. HENRY POWELL, church missionary from
Ceylon, seconded it.

The CIIAIRMAN said the next speaker would be the
.Mde`Nd etiole.
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Rev. Hugh M`Neile.
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Mr. EWBANK said the next speaker would be the Rev.
The CHAIRMAN 1 f 11hoped 1
for having called Mr.
p ay u y t tat no reflection was
M•Neile, the Rev. Hugh M`Nelle. He had little rever-
ence for new-fangled names •
be before he could sink thelionaonudrelgnng, indeed, should it
a
to them all, of his revered and
valueniseonldontghle7ewvn.
Hugh MtisTeile, in canon, or doctor, or, as he was going to
add, bishop. (Great cheers and laughter.)
The Rev. Dr. WNEILE, or rising, was hailed with loud
applause. He proposed the next resolution, which was
one of thanks to God that the principles of the society
were unchanged. One of the fundamental principles of
the society was, confidence in divine truth as contained in
the scripture. It contended that the fundamentals of
Christianity were plain and true. Influential men in the
state had no confidence in revealed truth. They hesi-
tated to say that bowing down to images was wrong. It
was of all things necessary that a man should be sure of
his message. The saving fact of Christ's atonement was
to be preached ; and the more there was of confidence in
these fundamental principles of Christianity the more there
would be of missionary exertion. There would be more
of the young men of the land reared up and sent out to
preach the gospel. Missionaries were looked down upon.
They were supposed to be a rhapsodical set of beings. But
what was comparable to the work of Christian missiona-
ries ? It was the noblest, the most glorious to which man
could he called, and compared with which everything else
sank into insignificance. This society, he contended, was
doing a great work for the Church of England. An at-
tempt had been made to make her a clergy-church—to se-
parate her from the sympathies of the people. (Applause.)
A popular element must be infused into her ; and this so-
ciety Infused it and rallied thousands round the church.
If the people became infected with the prevailing poison
of doubtfulness about truth, how should we have a strong
spring of missionary effect in the land ? Englishmen must
know that if the Church of England be true, the Church
of Rome must be false, and that Romanists were idolators.
(Applause.) True Protestantism was not a mere nega-
t on. There was a time coming when hereditary notions
about truth would not answer. All the seminaries in the
universe could not make a Christian ; they might make
doctors of divinity, but they could not make a single
Christian. The Church Missionary Society was honest,
and faithful, for it believed that the heathen world, and
the Romish world, and the Mahommedan world, were in
the hands of " the wicked one." He commended the
Churchman's Penny Magazine to the notice of the pub-
lic, and said that that excellent publication had a circula-
tion of 110,000 a month. He said the attacks on the
Church had not ceased, for a Dissenting publication had
lately made a libellous attack upon her, and a reply had
been sent by Mr. Seely, and insertion to it as a whole had
been refused,

The Rev. Dr. BYRTH seconded the resolution in brief
but forcible terms.

The last resolution was moved by the Rev. FIELDING
OULD, and seconded by the Rev. Mr. DALLAS. It ex-
pressed regret that the meal subscriptions in Liverpool
had fallen off..