The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

COLONIAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL
SOCIETY.

A public meeting was held last night in the Collegiate
Institution, in aid of the funds of the Colonial Church and

School Society.

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The meeting was numerously and respectably attended.
Among the gentlemen on the platform we noticed the
Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the Ven. the Archdeacon Davies, of

Melbourne, the Rev. T. R Birks, and the Rev. M. 'lll.
Dillon, the deputation • also the Revs. W. Rawson, W.
M.Falloon, H. Jones, W.Pollock, H. Hampton, F. Ould,
W. Brewster, D. Barry, W. H. Wright, S. Minton, F.
Parry, W. 0. Powell, W. Wallace, J. Bardsley, H. Car.
penter, W. Read, and Messrs. T. D. Anderson, W. Jones,
M. C. Jones, J. Eden, &c., &c.
On the motion of the Rev. FIELDING OULD, the Rev.
Dr. M`Neile was unanimously called to the chair.
The meeting having been opened with prayer,
_The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting as follows

My Christian friends, you are aware that the object of this
meeting is to commend to your favourable consideration,
and thereupon to your cordial and liberal support, the
Colonial Church and School Society. The object of that
society, as stated in their printed prospectus, is " to make
known the Gospel of Christ by sending clergymen, cate-
chists, and schoolmasters to our fellow-subjects in the
colonies and foreign lands. If there be a place in the
United Kingdom, where the Colonial Church Society
might fairly urge a claim, and expect to excite a peculiar
interest, that place is Liverpool. The progress and pros-
perity of our colonies act in a direct and peculiar manner
on the progress and prosperity of our great and growing
town. The trade of Liverpool, now co-extensive with, I
believe I might say more extensive than, that of even
London itself, brings us into immediate connexion with
our colonies, not only by the perpetual passing to and fro
of our ships, but also by the establishment of branch
houses of business, correspondence, and by the resi-
dence at the larger colonial ports of the junior con-
nexions of some of our most extensive and longest
established firms. If England be with propriety
called the mother country with reference to our colonies,
Liverpool may be called the eldest son engaged in the
home busines, while the younger sons are gone all over
the world. It is a very hopeful family altogether, stamp-
ing the impress of its nationality on a large portion of
the globe. iHear, hear.) In this we glory. For this
we are thankful to our heavenly Father. But let this be
done fairly ; and while the industry, the activity, the
skill, the perseverance, the indomitable determination
to overcome all difficulties, which characterise the mother
are transferred to all the junior branches of the Anglo-
Saxon family, lot it not be forgotten how largely those
characteristics have depended upon the Mother Church.
To whatever extent our ancestors of the 16th century
may have been indebted to the national character for
The accomplishment, under God's blessing, of the Re-
formation of the Church. we are in a still greater de-
gree indebted to the Reformation for the develop-
ment
and stability of the national character. (Cheers.)
Let these which have grown together at home be kept
to-,ether in the colonies. It is an apostolical principle
that the parents should lay up for their children, and
now, while worldly parents in England are laying up places
and partnerships with all their wordly advantages and
emoluments for their colonial children ; let it be seen that
England possesses Christian parents also, anxious to pro-
vide a richer inheritance, and conferring upon their chil-
dren in the colonies the same enduring blessing of sound
and saving religion. (Hear, hear.) The rev. chairman
briefly alluded to the meeting to be held in the Amphi-
theatre on Thursday next. Before the meeting was ad-
dressed by other gentlemen present, who would go into
details, he would call upon their friend, the Rev. Mr.
Minton, the secretary, to read what had been done in
this town already.

The Rev. S. MINTON then stated that, during the
last 20 years, the subscriptions in Liverpool to the Colonial
Church and School Society, and the Newfoundland School
Society, amounted only to the sum of £1,532 ; but yes-
terday there were eleven churches which opened their
pulpits in aid of the societv, when the sum of £212 was
collected. (Loud cheers.)
The Rev. T. R BIRKS proposed the first resolution,
which was as follows :
"That the duty of the members of the Church of England
to employ all suitable means for alleviating the spiritual wants
cf British subjects resident in the colonies and foreign parts,
is peculiarly incumbent upon the merchants and people of
Liverpool; in that the Colonial Church and School Society
affords the most satisfactory instrumentality for the discharge
of that duty."
He said that the resolution he had read was peculiarly
applicable to a town like Liverpool. It appeared from
the statement which had been read, that during the last
20 years Liverpool had only contributed to this society
the sum of £1,500. The speaker proceeded to show the
peculiar claims which the society now had an the true
friends of the Church in its present state. The efforts of
the Anglo-Catholic societies had not given it that support
which was desired. Indeed, the former secretary of
one of these societies was now the secretary of what was
called the Catholic Defence Society, in Ireland. (Hear.)
In consequence of the -spread of Tractarianism in the
Church of England at home, which bad had the effect of
mystifying, in the colonies, the real principles of the
Anglo-Saxon Church, the society now demanded the sup-
port of all true and earnest Protestants and Churchmen.
The society's objectwas to send to-the colonies clergymen
who would preach the-true principles of the Reformation,
unmixed with the reserve and uncertainty which was in-
volved in the Tracterian heresy. (Hear, hear.) The
speaker, in continuation, defendedthe plain Protestantism
and evangelical character of the Church of England as
contrasted with the objections urged by its avowed op-
ponents, and covertly participated in by its unfaithful
friends. The rev, gentleman concluded by an eloquent
and thrilling appeal on behalf of the society.
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The Revs M. M. Drt:ox seconded the 'resolution. The
rev. gentleman entered at considerable length into the
experience which he-had had in the colonies during the
last seventeen years, and showed that, during that time,
he had been compelled, on many occasions, to be present
in churches in the colonies where the friends of evangeli-
cal principles had actrally been denounced as canting
hypocrites and modern Puritans. (Hear, hear.) He also
stated, that the Church society within the colony of
Newfoundland was emphatically a Tractarian society, and
the great hulk of the clergymen were avowed Tractarians.
After dwelling for some time on the unsatisfactory condi-
tion of the church in Canada, the rev. gentleman stated
that he was persuaded, from what he had seen, that the
Clergyeßeserve -Bill, which had recently passed, as the
meeting knew, the Imperial Parliament, was calculated to
advance the interests of Popery, and prejudice the cause
of Protestantism). He had been an eye-witness in many
parts of the colonies (all in consequence of the unfaithful-
ness of the ministers of the Church of .England), to Pro-
testant congregations being reduced from hundreds to a
mere handful ; and, in numerous instances, he had seen
the places of worship of the Moravians, the Wesleyans,
and the Presbyterians, partially set apart for those true
members of the Church of England who could no longer
attend their own places of worship, in consequence of the
semi-popish practices of the ministers of the church.
(Hear, hear.) He stromely urged on the meeting to
extend a liberal support to the society for -the purpose
of sending out evangelical ministers to the colonies, for
if the youth of the colonies was to remain in its present
state without any efforts being made to introduce a more
evangelical spirit into it, on the part of the church at
home, there would he no hope for Protestantism in
Canada. (Hear, hear.) The resolution, on being put by
the chairman, was carried uneeimously. A collection
was then made on behalf of the society, during which a
hymn was sung by the audience.
The Venerable the Archdeacon of MELBOURNE pro.
posed the next resolution, appointing a committee of the
Liverpool Association in connection with the society.
The speaker more particularly alluded to the state of the
colony of Victoria, which he described as being in an
immoral state, but he could say, from his own experi-
ence, that it was not in the condition in which it was
represented to be by the public newspapers, and he
would state further, that, in his opinion, there was not
more .crime in Victoria than in any other part of the
world. According to its population. The vens archdeacon
proceeded to give an encouraging account of the diocese
of Melbourne, where, he said, the clergy and the
laity acted harmoniously together, and where evange-
lical principles were carried out. He regretted it
was not so in many other districts in Australia, where
it was to be lamented that tractarianisea prevailed.
The archdeacon's account of the manner in which the
Lord's Day is kept at Bendigo and in other pates of the
goldfields was not only most gratifying but somewhat
amusing—the primitive state of the country driving the
inhabitants to many strange shifts. His experience, on the
whole, indicated -that there were many religious and devout
men at the diggings ; that they were most willing to sup-
port the ministry ; And that there was a great call for mis-
sionaries proceeding from the mother country to the anti-
podes. He struck out a new Idea, which is very hopeful to
the Christian, viz., that Australia will be made the happy
means of spreading the 'Word of God among many nations
of the earth, to whom the Gospel has hitherto been an
unopened book,—it being a singular fact that the Chinese
and other distant nations were sending emigrants to Aus-
tralia as well as England._

The Rev. J. C. I(yLE, Rector of Heltningharn, sedccoanmlldied
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boldly and zealously in behalf of the Colonial Society—
enforcing enforcing its claims upon all true churchmen, as it jil7,
in his estimation, a true help to the good old Church of
England, in sincere love to which he yielded to no high
churchman whatever. (Cheers.) And here he took
occasion to remark that he knew high churchmen who
were no churchmen at all, and who ended by going over
to the Church of Rome. (Laughter.) As the English
people felt for the unevangelized masses of the great
cities of our own country, he argued that they were surely
equally called upon to support such a society as the
nresent, and thus add to the agencies which they had
already at work among our white brethren in the distant
colonies. He denied that the society was not a Church
of England Institution, and, in disproof of this taunt
—so often urged against them by a certain class—he
quoted the fact that the chief patron was the Queen,the
and that those brightest stars of the bench were its
chief supporters, viz., the Archbishop of Canterbury
and the Archbishop of York. (Cheers.) It was a purely
Protestant and a true evangelical society ; those two
words had always stood in front of the society, and they
would still be maintained. (Cheers.) These, he main-
tained, were the only true grounds on which a society
could stand or could be maintained. Alluding, in
course of his address, to the Rev. Dr. M'Neile and the
notorious &v. Mr. Bennett, vicar of Frome, being both
clergymen of the Church of England, he quoted a story
which he had once beard of an English and an Irish
servant who were one day conversing as to what, they had
had for dinner and supper. The Englishman, after telling
his companion that be was wont to have beef and pota_
toes to dinner, asked the Hibernian what he had. " Ah,
faith," replied Pat, "jist the very same, barrin' the
beef." (Loud laughter.) He (Mr. Ryle) left them to
decide which of the two had the beef and potatoes, and
who had the potatoes alone ! (Continued laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to close the proceed-
ings, by counselling those present to do their duty in
connexion with the society, and expressing the hope that
the public press of Liverpool might place the speeches of
that night before the merchants and wealthy inhabitants
who were not present ; but who, he felt convinced, would
pay more attention and devote more of their wealth to the
aid of such a society, if it were introduced at suitable
length to their notice. _ _ _ -

Win meeting-
shortly after belf•pg§t nine (Alga