The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

)ver you again

I.:Tamils goodness shortly to accomplish'the number of thine
elect, and to hasten thy kingdom : that we, with all those
who have departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may
have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body anti
soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory." Amen and amen.

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Tae Rev. Hoot' WNEILE, on rising to second the reso-
lution, was received with enthusiastic applause. It is no
easy matter, the rev. gentleman said, for me now to deter-
mine what to do. The meeting is fairly finished. You have
had what you always have from our dear friend Mr. Stewart,
a devotional speech : then you had a speech of information
concerning the society ; then you had a speech of information
concerning Palestine ; then you had a prophetical speech ; I
still might have found somewhere to tread, but then came a
Protestant speech ; and now, sir, the whole ground has been
fairly travelled over. It is very late, and if I were any one
else but who I am, and this were any other place but what it
is, I should stop, and leave you to go to your beds, but I
protest I will not stop now. (Hear, hear.) It is difficult
after all this to be serious ; yet, unless we are serious on this
question, we shall really lose our object. It is with devout
thankfulness for the past, and animating anticipations for
the future, that we may contemplate our present. position.
Our labours during the last twenty years have been merci-
fully crowned with a degree of success beyond our most san-
guine expectations. There was a time when a lively interest
in the Jewish cause—and a time in the remembrance ot many
present—was thought little:less than a combination of heresy
and fanaticism. The politicians of that day despised, or
affected to despise, our labours ; but through the blessing of
the Lord God of Israel, our labours have been crowned with
a degree of success; they have so pervaded the community,
and are, at this very time, making such steady progress, that
the'most secular of our politicians are compelled to notice
them, not only with respect, but with deference. One of,
the most influential of the organs of the secular politicians
of this country has, within the last few days, printed the
following statement:—" The tokens of this movement"—that
is the religious movement ; for, sir, in the midst of a politi-
cal movement which has agitated the country to. its centre,
that has been in steady progress, a religious movement—
"The tokens of this movement are visible on every side.
Those great voluntary and popular associations for religious
purposes which are almost peculiar to this'country, or which
have sprung up on the Continent chiefly from sympathy or
imitation, are now raising an annual sum of £1,000,000.
sterling. Eighty years back their collective receipts were
below £lOO,OOO per annum." Another feature :—" Up to
1816, there were not, on an average, ten new churches built
in England in a year. At the present moment, after having
raised in the last 25 years considerably more than one thous-
and churches, the people are still augmenting their number
by a yearly addition of at least a hundred new ones. It is
impossible to overlook these things ; nor need politicians be
surprised that one effect of such a change in the national
temper is, to force the legislature to give more of its attention
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Whilst one of our friends was addressing the meeting just
now, the secretary of the parent society whispered most sig-
nificantly to me—" Do you not remember the time when you
would have been turned out for saying so much ?" Sir, 1 do
not remember when I should have been turned out : that was
never easily done ; but I do remember when it would have
caused a great uproar of opposition, as if I was introducing
!natters of dispute. Mr. Cartwright remembers perfectly
well the time when a very small reference to prophetic scrip.
ture was deemed a very great offence at Freeniason's Hall.
It is not so now. I remember when the question was very
frequently and very insultingly asked—What have we to do
with the Jews—that wretched and degraded people, whose
forefathers denied and crucified our blessed Saviour, and who
arc themselves under judicial blindness? What connexion
can there be between them and our christian character and
duty ? And why then should they ever form the subject of
christian interest, or the theme of christian discourse ? Sir,
there were various gcriptural replies given to this line of ob-
jection. One of them is so far from being obsolete, that un-
less I greatly mistake, it will prove interesting even now, to
every real christian in this vast assembly. We invited
the objectors to consider what Christian character is,—to ask
themselves what it is to be a Christian indeed. We reminded
them that St. John describes it as fellowship with the Father
and with his Son Jesus Christ,—that St. Paul describes it as
having the mind that was in Christ,—that our Lord himself
describes it as friendship with him, upon the ground of his
free communication of his mind to his friends. 1 call you,"
he says, " no longer servants, for the servant knoweth not
what his lord doeth, but I have called you friends, for all
things delivered to me of my Father I have made known
unto you." Thus it appears that true Christian character
consists in conformity to the divine character, as it is reveal-
ed in Jesus Christ,—that is, in effect, to have the same views
and feelings, the same likings and dislikings, the same de-
signs, and plans, and prospects that Christ himself has. If,
therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ be deeply interested about
the Jews, it follows that no man can have true Christian
character, no man can have conformity to his mind, no man
can have sympathy in his feelings, no man can have fellow-

ship with him, who is not interested about the Jews. This
appeal to all who wish to imbibe their Lord's mind has not
been without its effect. Again, sir. we asked, What is true
Christian prayer? is it not, to desire the Lord's glory, that
his name may be hallowed, that his will may be done on earth
as it is in heaven? Are not these the highest branches of

prayer? Do they not take precedence of any petition for the
supply of our personal wants ? Well, then, if the glory of
God be ir►s•parably connected with the Jewish nation,—if
the manifestation of his glory upon earth, and the doing of
his will upon earth, be inseparably connected with his deal-
ings with the Jewish nation, we come to the conclusion
that Christian prayer cannot be complete without refer-
ence to the Jewish nation. This line of argumentation
transferred the question to its true ground, viz., the ground
of Scriptural inquiry. The Bible was appealed to by
many who said, " Does the Lord indeed take an interest
in the Jews ? If so, then I desire to do so too." The
reply was, " Search and read the Scripture for what the
Lord has said; open your eyes and see what the Lord has

done :" this brought, its to scriptural inquiry. As you
remarked yourself, sir, in proportion as scriptural inquiry
prospers the Jewish cause gains ground. But after all some
of the old objections still remain, some of the old differences
have still possession of men's minds; and although we have
en increased anxiety to favour this cause, we must not be
blind to the fact, that we have still lingering objections with
regard to the purposes of God concerning the Jewish people,
as interpreted in the unfulfilled prophesies of the Scripture.
How does it appear, as some men say—and we ought
to desire to take thinking men with us—that those parts
concerning the restoration of the Jews to their own land
were not ftitlfilled when they were not brought back from
Babylon; or how does it appear they were not spiritual in
their import as some respectable expositors have made them,
and that these promised spiritual blessings to spiritual Israel;
what hold have we upon the present prophesies relating to
Israel and the Jews? I fear in attempting a scriptural ar-
gument at this time of the evening I shall be able to do jus-
tice to it. It is a question it is utterly impossible to enter
upon and investigate with any value to ourselves in a
saort time. I. could now. change my strain, and make
you clap your hands, but I fear I should not do you much
good. But I will try to prove, by a reference to a single pro-
phecy, the ground we have for our anticipations ; and I would
rather do it, because it will introduce what I rather regret has
not been so plainly and prominently introduced, viz., the
King of the Jews. I read of the remarkable vision given
to the prophet Zechariah, in which he beheld four horns,
and after the horns be beheld four carpenters, and he in-
quired of the angel who was revealing the truth to him,
" What be these ?" and he was told, " These are the horns
which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his
head ;"
.and that these carpenters " are come to fray them,
to cast out the horns of the Gentiles which lifted up their
horns over the land of Judah to scatter it." Here are four
powers represented by horns. You will find the passage in
the last few verses of the first chapter of Zachariah—the
horns of the Gentiles scattering the people of Israel, scatter-
ing Judah. •It is' some-What remarkable that this number
occurred with the division of the great image seen by Nebu-
chadnezzar, arid with the beasts seen in the vision by the
prophet Daniel. In either case the number is four. The
image was divided into four parts, and the exposition given
identifies it with Babylon. The king of labylon was told
that he was the head of gold ; after him was to come a king
inferior to him ; then a third, and then a fourth. In the vision
of Daniel there was the number four. The first was the
kingdom of Babylon ; the second was the kingdom of Persia ;
the third of Greece; the fourth of Rome; then was the division
of Rome into a number of Princes. But the great horns are four.
There appeared in this vision four carpenters to fray them.
The horns had scattered Judah ; four great empires had
scattered Judah, viz., Babylon, Persia, Grecia, Rome. This
brings us down to the subdivision of the Roman empire—to

the raising of another horn—to the springing op out of the
ten horns a little horn. The carpenters followed the horns
to fray the horns, and cast them out. Now, we
was it, in point of fact, that frayed the Babylonish horn-
what was the instrument to cast out the Babylonish king-
dom, that they should no longer scatter Judah? It was the
rising Persian kingdom., which it appears is the first carpen-
ter. Having frayed Babylon, she became a horn, and was
herself frayed by Grecia, rising in the character of a car-
penter, and then it became itself- a horn, to scatter Judah.
It stood till another carpenter arose ; and what was the divine
instrument for fraying the Grecian kingdom? The rising
Roman ; and so the Roman appears as the third carpenter,
fraying the Grecian to scatter Judah ; and then the Roman
became a horn. The scattering of the Roman horn has been
long and diversified. It became broken into ten, and all
have persecuted Judah. In the midst of them arose a little
horn, different from the others, having eyes like a man; and
speaking blasphemous things against God. It appears among
the tell horns, after the breaking up of the Roman empire,
rising up, just at the place in the vision, where history repre-
sents to us the rising power of the Romish bishop, assum-
ing the aspect of temporal power—a horn different from the
others, for his temporal authority was small, yet his real authori-
ty by his eyes, and speaking great things, became great. He usurped
three of the ten horns, and spoke great things against the most
high. Ile scattered the saints, he abrogated God's laws, and made
his own laws. The coming kingdom of the Messiah is, I believe,
the fourth carpenter. The rev. gentleman then proceeded at great
length to show that this little horn represented the Church of !tome,
and to express his conviction that that church had been the cause
of the persecution of the Jews; but, at this late hour, we have not

space to follow him in the argument. The t rophesy represented,
he contended, the history f the nations until the kingdom of the
Messiah should he established, to reign for ever. This would be
the grand finale cf the world. Proceeding further, the rev. gentle-
man said he could not, because he had no evidence of the fact him-
self, assent with the resolution as it stood at present. that he had a
full conviction that the charges brought against the Jews were
altogether unfounded. They had recently been shown that what
was perfectly true of a system might not be true of an individual ;
in like manner, what was false of a system might be true of an
".,.1: and therefore he would suggest that the resolution be
...—" That this 'meeting has a full conviction
sri religioq affords no ground for such charges, and

altered to this e'er
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pledges themselves to use all the means in their power to zscertain
the truth in the cases 01 the alleged accusation." The proposed
alteration having hen acceded to, the reverend gentleman seconded
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the resolution, and it was unanimously carried.
The Rev. Mr. DRIFFIELv, vicar of Prescot, 'loved the next reso-
lution, thanking the officers of the society tot their past services,
and re-appointing them for the ensuing year.
The Rev. P. 13Axxxa. seconded the motion, and it was unani-

The Doxology, " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," was
then sang, and at about a quarter to eleven the vast assembly
dispersed, highly gratified with the proceedings.

STEAM-SHIP ACADIA

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE PASSENGERS OF THE

ABOVE STEAM-STAY AND CAPT. EDWARD C. MILLEF

The undersigned, being-a committee appointed by their
fellow passengers on board the Acadia, British and North
American Royal Mail Steam Packet, desire to express to
Ctptain Miller their acknowledgements for the attention and
urbanity they have received from him, and those under his
command.

And having been favoured by crossing the Atlantic, from
England to America, in the shortest time ever recorded, they
would express their gratification, and, in so doing, congratu-
late hint on the fact ; and in parting, at the termination of
so pleasant and prosperous a trip, would express the interest
they feel in his welfare, and that in his future voyages the
same pleasure, accompanied by similar results, may attend
him. As a further proof of attachment and regard, they so-
licit his acceptance of the small tribute of plate which accom-

lnies this communication.
JAMES C. FULLER,
PETER RICHINGS,
JOHN HENRY,
GEO. DOUGLASS, Captain Committee
14th Regt.,
AUGUSTUS CLEVELAND, •
To Captain Miller, Steam-packet Acadia.
Boston, 17th August, 1840.

Acadia, Boston, Aug. 17, 1840

Gentlemen,—lf, in acknowledging v,ith deep gratitude the
handsome token of regard which my late esteemed messmates
have been pleased to bestow on me, I may fail to use Inn-

guage adequate to the occasion, I trust you will do me the
justice to believe it proceeds, not from any want of feeling.
but an excess of it, paralyzing my faculties at a moment I
most want their aid. I commenced this voyage too diffident
of success to permit me for a moment to arrogate to myself,
on the score of merit, any claim to this liberal mark of your
approbation. I accept it, therefore, as a proof of your gene-
rous inclination to encourage an anxious wish to do right,
and rather to stimulate me to the future than reward me for
the past. Permit me, then, gentlemen, to offer to my kind
friends, through you, my poor but deep-felt thanks, and to
assure them that I shall ever prize this gift as a proud me-
mento of the few happy days I have spent amongst them ;
for although at all times fully confiding in the gentlemanly
feeling of those around me, I confess I was not prepared for
ement of so much social and considerate kindness.