The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-11 00:00:00

R EPORT.

After reciting the two principal resolutions that were passed at the
meeting in October, last year, the report proceeded as follows
Such is the origin of our association, and your committee, in the
review of the year which has since elapsed, desire humbly and cor-
dially to think God, and to take courage. They desire, also, to pre-
sent to their constituents, and to the nation, a brief vindication of their
design, s.nd description of their orrations.
The living and true G9d. the ma of heaven and earth, has re-
vealed to men his will concerning men. The Bible contains that re-
velation. No man is ex;:epted, whatever be:his station—high or low.
All are commanded to love and speak thetruth ; to confess Jesus
Christ the Lord ; to let their light sline before men; and whatsoever
th,y do, in word or deed, to do all to the glory of God. As touching
eternity, all are proclaimed on a level. 6' l'here is no difference, for
all Lave sinned:" As 'touching human society in this world, 'the
greatest differences are described. The powers that he are ordained
of God. By llim kings reign, and princes decree justice. By Him
they are remind Al whose ministers they are. . By Him they are com-
manded to rule in his fear, and for the temporal and eternal benefit
of his people, subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord'h sake,
esteeming loyalty a Christian duty, not only fur wrath, but also fur
conscience sake.

Upon these high truths, as they progressively became practically
undo stood, and nationally recognised, the British constitution was
erected; and made progress towards perfection ; and whatever minor
measures of alteration io detail may from time to time be found salu-
tary,—with the national recognition of these great truths that consti-
tution must stand or fill. 'file treat principle is—that the will of
God; as revealed in the Bible; is the o .ly sore and safe standard of
right mid wrong and there ore cnistitutes the fundamental basis of
al; Chriatian legislation. No Inters, acting on this principle, can
arraign their own charter, by propagating falsehood, or exercising
tyratiny. -And no people, actin:; oil this principle, eau fail to possess
aid
11;11.'hjiS3-t;l°,,toltryL,uatihl tav'ticibldi)liTitn3:;st dear gs christians and as Euglish-
men is assailed : soil it i, in nacom?rtinaising hostiiity to this theory
that our wotestant tissuetattoo is fonne,l. It is called int,i exist.,..oce
by ianoerative arlf.defeltic-, .1,1, il,eisirsatou.iteiihersite :1.1,1 elder
eu, is this—That the authority or (hot must out be set aside; that
there is revealed truth; that both rulers and people may and Might to
know it; that both rulers and people are bound to give it practical
' preference in the council chamber, in the setiat,-house, in the school,
in the family, as well as in the close; ; that if may of our fellow-
countrymen be ignorant of this high pri,iciple, and the duties conse-
quent thereon, they should be instructed; if any have forgotten. they
should be reminded; if any be h, sitating, they -should be decided ;
if any be tonal, they should be eocouraged ; it any be' snoine, they
should be stimulated ; so that our Niers may know, and the nation
may know, and the whole civilized world may know, that England
and the Bible are so linked together that no infidel philosophy, no
unnatural coalitionbetween the disciples of liberality and the disciples
of intolerance ran dissolve the iudisSolu,de bond ; and that when
liberalism shall have succeeded in extinguishing the voice of con-
science—when popery shall have succeeded in enthroning the dog-
mas of her apostacy in the chair of unquestioned infailhility—when
infidelity shall have succeded in burning up the last copy of the Bible
as a scroll—when atheism shall have succeeded in expelling the living
God from his own creation, then. but not before, shall England be de-
prived of her constitution, the palladium of civil and religious liberty
amongst mankind.
The W ~,ect then:Of our protestant association is not to misrepre-
sent, not to calumniate, as we•are slanderoualy reported, and as sonic
affirm that we do, tut to give needful publicity to fundamental truth.
In furtherance of this ohjeet, 7,614 traets, controversial and others,
have been put into circulation. Of these, 4,61.1 have been .qu/d/. Also
a course of controversial. sermons iris preached in St. Andrew's
Church, and of these 1:),414 copies have !woo sari. Your committee
have mach satisfaction in calling the attention of their coosCturnts
and friends to the circomstance of so very large a proportion of their
puldteatimis having been purchased.
This supplies a strung indication of the desire of the people to pro-
cure sound instruction. And if any stronger indication were required,
it is ii build:dal V supplied itia fact for which your *coin iniitve desire to
express tii dot: fulness to Almighty Goa, aril eurdial cO,,grahlktimis to
their folio ,v-citizens—the fact hid forth to, tine encouragement of the
friends of,genuine protestantism, and to the admiration and i,.itation
or the u,iitea hlh,r,t,, in the history of the Liverpool Church of
England Schools. 'Protostant parent.; among fhe Door have felt the
justice of the aodeal of t.,..ir elerical iastructors. and luive refused to
send ti e,r children to .4,11,01;4(room whose hours of aurhoritstive teach-
ing the uninutihded Word of God is excluded. The children of Ro-
man Catholic parents have naturally enouh stoppe in.tof friend Scriptural
education have nobly responded, to the' i,.tioe appal. Donations
amounting to 1:11.0014 and annual subscriptions exceeding 4:300, pro-
claim the enc,idirwin,, assurance that the Protestant pour are not for-
goit,u, soul shalt not hi) neglected.
' .I"°!"'h.As u,,, your committee hare coal phoisure in recording their
`:'''''"tu"t, that the anathy which so long prevailed among the friends
of our mitt...tian institutions is fast givile, war and a fixed determina-
tion iminin.Aiig itself throughout 'the cou:tir,v, to distinguish wisely
t'...l:(rlelsat(i.itiii&da.itlial.);'ttZeiinicrriOfauc.rhan't'tt' it:tnsm (T-'l‘'lattiti:lstl.jr'';'itt!itii t°t tr! 'aanTiti irtoeslt(!il•auititeleY.
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duty to introduce Mr. M.(llit, to the meeting, but he grieved
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purpose in
yet! his euuse, he is yet universai!v es- ,
he s.tlength and suhttance of
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creoit:iiiressel
onlyw•110 evadetto
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teemed as one
to have necessarl'illeitittiee't.ra
tided to his protection. I
(Cheers.) That reputation however,
n„ot...ive..r
acquittal, and if to free his hoOOur also from suspicion was ha: d''
d 1 the more imperious duty, 'I, :I-i
incompatible with due regar... or
I • contladictort is
void of blame. because, fvhen asSatied ry y Claims,.
these ' which he was espectan,
he gave ills chief attention to t • .
bound to acknowledge. 'the indulgence }'fielded as of right to
anted to Loin who
the advocate ir ii a court of justice is not ITT!.
public opium). At that II I-
defends a cause arraigned before
.fame was never won
bunal reputation is the award, and good . .
proved to be
where the arts and el-Pitts which songht
it
were
ks Ili • own
disingenuous. (Cheers.) Let tin individual who see • • ,
~..
• nd ls I • : It! 11 per-
renown' be convicted of any equivocation, a he
unscrupulous
per-
sonally dishonoured, *Who will believe that on a
hilly
valise can Promote the interests of what he terms 1;
valise by adopting, practices which would he held unworthy and
.. ,
nolo-coming, if considered only iu reference to 11110,0 W and
whisk receive a character of deeper eviminaiily when minister-
ing to the advancement of what is termed religion ? - l Loud
-cheers.) No. It is not the devices ot mammon by which the
cause of rioditemisness can be served, ( Hear, hear.) No sane
into; who thought tuj:4 cause ;good Oink] hetet' 1'00:0 rSisi to then,.
1n the controversy. then, which has of late years been condoet"
on the part dif the Church of [tome, and I hose who complained
against her, it scents of moment to examine i-
the arcM atents by
, ,
wthch she has .ought to defend !tensed', tint on tv ror the purpose
of exposing I heir in conclusiveuess, but also with a view to ex-
hibit in the principle of their selection the character of the cause
they protect—to traee out the secret coummiusness of the advo-
vocate I hrotigh the al titices which it has led to his adoothig—to
show that he has turned aside from the charges it hick were
gravest and most (beget—.that he lets eagerlv explored and
•
shaped out smite matter of trivial moment through ti hich to ef-
fect 3 brief and unprotitatile diversion, and thus to ' soggest the
natural infetence that he would not have descended to suet,
oon orthy arts if any hope remained et defending his cause in
sincerity, ( Londl. diced s.) The letter, sir, which you hutve just
now read, and v.lich has been bear.l tit 11)13 gr..at assembly
Whim t,,,e;i„,,, of regret still more stulable•tidao et the disaPpoint-
went )epoch the commit') lea, ion paint:Oh caused, will have sng-
Kes:ed ahundatit proofs digit theso remarks are net irrelevant to
the m•casidin on which we arc assemdled. When we name
Hobert A.l.‘Ghee. we name one who has brooght forivard char es
of the gravest character against the Church of 1?otoe; who rras
sustained them •by irreiragahle evidence, and enforced them
with an eloquence which has compelled even a heedless gene-
ration to give them attentive audience. (Cheers.) We name
Otte who summoned to the controversy with that church her
.own acknowlkleed instruments—her Inrmularies of -worsbi, --
the cperees of Wer councils—the decisions of her Ho.s—tter
annotations on Holy - Scripture— her approved suirmanes. of
itociine and nzurals, aid who hi every insta nee SU o.iti V iiii:-