The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

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iidered, and reflected upon the mii), comprehensive plans
for the furtherance of the gospel which that great and
good divine originated for the spiritual improvement of
the district committed to his charge, they would feel that
this society was brought into existence under the especial
Providence of God, to be instrumental in emancipating
the poor man from the bondage of Satan. (Applause.)
He might refer them to many other plans for the benefit
of the poor ; for the benefit of the Church ; which ema-
nated not only from the same divine, but from other
benevolent persons ; (hear) but at the same time he
must tell them that all these schemes would have proved
inefficacious had it not been for the establishment of
the society whose claims were then before them. He

:ed upon it t

dence of God , and he believed that if the ch

h was to

be maint

ought to

ought to be

—a blessing to

the communi

assistance of the Pastoral Aid Society that these things
were to be accomplished. (Hear, bear.) He confessed
that if the Society proceeded in its course of beneficent
usefulness, posterity would owe it a deep debt of grati-
tude—a debt which never could be :repaid by them. He
said so, taking into consideration the nature of what had
been done, and he had no hesitation in saying that although
much had been done which it would be necessary to follow
up, it ought to be remembered that they had laid the
foundation, and worked to a successful issue, much sub-
stantial good, winch never could be fully appreciated.
The funds otsociety were devoted to the purposes
of providing Uml4terial aid for the over populated dis-
tricts of the kingdom. Many pastors were no doubt pro-
vided for, in an humble way, from the funds of the
society ; but whilst such might he the case, the popula-
tion of the country was still increasing, and every
year added some 20,000 or 25,000 souls to the population
of their diocese, all whose spiritual and eternal interests
were to be provided for.—(Cheers.) To do so would be
impossible, were it not for the encouragement which the
efforts of that society received from the public. He
would therefore beg of them to remember, by all they
had already done, that they stood pledged to go on in the
good work--meeting the call of increased and increasing
population by increasing efforts on their parts to provide
the funds requisite to enable the friends of the poor man

in the 1

to provide him Christian ministratio,. . of his need.
—(Applause.) But independently of all there was one
other thing which they should do—which they should espe-
cially do. It was inherent in the very nature of institutions of
this kind that there should be no casual jealousies or preju-
dices to distract the harmony which otherwise should reign
amongst them. It did sometimes happen, that in the work-
ing of such an institution, casual and unavoidable offences

would be taken when perhaps none were meant. He would
not say, " Woe unto them by whom offence came ;" but he
would say, that while they took into consideration the pecu-
liarity of the circumstances to which he alluded, they should
be guarded by great watchfulness; and that the jealous efforts
of their friends should prevent the springing up of any jea-
lousies whatever. On this occasion he was thankful to re-
flect that the jealousies to which he alluded had occurred in
other places than Liverpool.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He would
implore the friends of the society to remember that the
church confided in them —to remember that their every
proceeding should be guarded and careful; that their obsery
Lions should all be made in a kind and conciliatory spirit
that there should be, at all ti

. ,
determination'on their part
so that their society should

to explain ever
stand unimpea

I and u

it had hitherto don,

In that case there
to receive from tt

vas no doubt but that they would continue
public that support which was necessary to

their future welfar

lade these observation; to

stir up the minds of the Liverpool people to the benefits which
the soziety conferred upon the Christian community, and
without any further observations he would cqll upon the Rev
Mr. Pollock, one of their secretaries
The Rev. WM. PoLLocK then r(
letter from our respected Bisho

and read the

following

" Chester, 23d Jannary, 1850,

MY DEAR STR,—It could have given me great pleasure to
attend the proposed meeting of the Pastoral Aid Association at
Liverpool, on the evening of the 11th of February, but I have
already promised to attend that same evening (if well, and not
called away by other duty) the meeting of the Jewish Society,
at Chester.

" I beg you will assure the friends of the Pastoral Aid Asso-

Gladly have I taken every opportunity to expreis my sense of
the benefits which the Parent Society has conferred on the
Diocese of Chester.
" Believe me, with true respect, my dear Sir,
" Your faithful servant, " J. CHESTER.
" Rev. W. Pollock."

lhe rev. gentleman continued to observe that before he sat
down he could not help expressing to the meeting, that they
had great cause for thankfulness for the increase which their
exertions in Live. Tool during the past year presented. The
number of sermons preached. and the funds accruing to the
society, had increased considerably, he was glad to inform
them. _ _ . .

The Rev. C. W. LAWRENCE, senior and r
then read the report :

.etiting secretary,

That document stated that the receipts

he Liverpool

Auxiliary, for the 3
The sum received 1

during the pr.evi,
town and neigh!
supplied to incumbents and cures now rt
'1.330. The report, while acknowledging and appreciating the At Worship-street (London) Police-court, on Wednes-
aid, shews that the recipients in many instances are donors to day, a gentleman, whose name did not transpire, but who
the funds yet it points out the desirableness of the district
providing from its own means the demands made upon it, and described himself as a surgeon, residing at Ixworth, in
even of furnishing aid to other districts still more destitute of Suffolk, applied to Mr. Hanani for his advice and assist-
pastoral care than theirs ; the committee express a wish that ance under the following remarkable circumstances :
• •11 1_ al

ROMANTIC AND MYSTERIOUS INCIDENTS.

the time i
sermons
of any for
ciety, clerical and lay, that t
quarterly papers issued by the
direction of the secretaries,
The committee express their
ciety, which they honour, because by
first obtained into the immorality anti
and suffering of living masses of immortal
coal-pits and the factory, th
crowded town ; schools, clothi

'he number of
.y exceeds that

The applicant stated,-th
passenger in one of the trains

at about a month since he was
from Bury, upon the East-

perusal and circulation of the
gent of the society, under the
)uld have a very useful effect.

ern Counties Railway, accompanied by Captain Lloyd, a
friend of his, when, upon reaching Mark's Tay, the next
station beyond Colchester, an elegantly dressed woman,
who had an infant with her, entered the carriage with a
tottering step, and apparently in a state of extreme illness
and debility, and explained to them that she had been
previously travelling in a first-class carriage, where she
was quite alone, but that, feeling greatly indisposed, she
bad been induced to change her place for one in another
carriage where there were other passengers. He (the ap-
plicant) introduced himself to her as a surgeon, and ten-
dered his professional services, if she required them, but
the lady declined the offer on the ground that her illness
was solely attributable to her being unaccustomed to the
fatigue of travelling, and she appeared to have rallied con-
siderably by the time the train reached the Shoreditch
station, where he again offered his services, but she told
him that they were quite unnecessary, as her carriage and
servant ought to be waiting for her outside, and requested
him to take charge of the child for a few minutes while
she ascertained whether they had arrived. The lady then
hastily descended the steps of the platform, leaving with
him and the captain her child and a small trunk, which he
at the time supposed contained her luggage; but after wait-
for more than an hour, the lady did not again make her
appearance, and from that time to the present he had
neither seen nor herrd anything of her. After making
numerous enquiries in the hope of gaining some trace of
her, but unavailingly, he conveyed the infant, which was
a female, two months old, to the house of a private friend
of his in town, and on taking off its clothes they dis-
covered attached to the inside of its dress a letter con-
taining two £lO notes, and conveying a brief intimation
that the infant was the offspring of persons of the high-
est respectability, who would continue to contribute all
that was requisite to insure its comfort and proper main-
tenance upon being addressed by adveri isement in the
public papers to that effect, and that the little charge
would be ultimately reclaimed by its parents. The infant
had ever since remained under the care of the friends with
whom he had at first placed it ; but he bad since received
several letters upon the subject, one of which was from
another private friend of his, who was most anxious to
adopt the child, and, in proof of his being actuated by
anything but a mercenary feeling, he was desirous that
the mor.ey which had been left on its account should be
deposited in some savings' bank for its future benefit.
This benevolent proposal, however, he was restrained
from acceding to, in consequence of a second communi-
cation having reached bim from some gentleman in Devon-
shire, who made a peremptory claim of the child and the
property attached to it, alleging that he was empowered
to do so by its own mother, although he produced nothing
satisfactory in authentication of his assumed authority,
and threatened him, in the event of his refusal to accede
to the demand, to adopt legal proceedings against him for
'ts ham- to reo-4ion. thpce circumstance—

als, of the
and the

g and benefit clubs have risen
ith the Society, each conducing
under which the poor labour. Not
the least merit claimed by the society is that of having
awakened the energies of the time-honoured church of this
countt y

into existence in
to alleviate the

Attention is drawn to the number of churches
erected of late years, and to their character, viz., that of places
for the poor to worship in. The Iteport, in conclusion, an-
nmineea a chance in the

nior sec

T. Lawrince,
The Rev. W.
It, will be the

Brewster, minister
junior secretary.
cretary.
__

St. Matthew's, Toxteth-1

as senior se

ADAM HODGSON, Esq., in moving the first resolution, said
that the question had often presented itself to his mind, "V hat
need was there for holding anniversary meetings at all ?''

Some people might explain iie nel
by the desire which committees fe
stewardship, and others might as
in the desire which the people felt

t account of their
necessity existed

:la they had undergone
own part he felt as-
aeetings existed in the
ppeared to him that if

cured that the n
inertness of the _
they were not bro
time of the misery an
beings suffered, that]
were all striving for
He regretted in a► gre
nition which they had
venerable Chairman, beca
ther custom and pri
anent, not only from h
AIM He felt that the ado

ch their fe

Teat end which they
hed. (Hear, hear.)
language of admo-

a degree to hea

n to words of encourage-
heir beloved late Diocesan
..hich they had just heard
conveyed a kind of censure upon them ; and he regretted that
it should be so, inasmuch sa he-(Mr. Hodgson) was not aware
that such censure was merited by them. In conclusion, he
begged leave to move the first resolution, which was to the
effect that the Report be adopted, and that the officers for the
,fisuing year, named in the Report, be appointed.
lbe itev. CHAIRMAN explained that the purport of the few
words which had been taken as admonitory. were only intended
to stimulate them to greater and renewed exertions.

The Rev. A. In
of the deputation,

to the society, and one
►e adoption of the reso-

lution just prof
speeches of the Very R
the rzsolution. He he
with the report, would
He felt considerably er
yoeate the merits of t

[e commenced by eulogising the
r. Chairman and the proposer of
ed that these speeches, together
e given fully in the newspapers.
)arrassed in coming there to ad-
Church Pastoral Aid Society,
certain things

inasmuch as there we,. o plain in their
goodness that they became an axiom, and, therefore,
needed only enunciation, not advocacy. This society had
answered the end for which it was established, in so far
God had blemspa

- Lucir enorts to tne 11E11109L uegree.
(Hear, hear.) He was glad to assure the meeting that
the committee was most anxious to be guided in all its
affairs by the pure Spirit of God in all .their pro-
ceedings. The meeting might not be aware that
the committee of the society had recently had the misfor-
tune to differ from a prelate of the neighbouring diocese
The committee were unwilling to bring this matter for-
ward; they were slow in appealing to the public, because
they were desirous that nothing should be said till the
whole of the correspondence was in a position to be
placed before the public, when the people would have an
opportunity of seeing that the_ committee had in no way

.estoraL., nuer these circumstances he
was totally at a loss how to act, as his only object was to
relieve himself of the responsibility so singularly imposed
upon him in a manner which would be jointly conducive
to his own safety and the interests of the infant; and he
was, therefore, induced to come to this court to obtain the
opinion of the magistrate as to the most advisable course
to be pursued. The applicant described the contents of the
box, which accompanied the infant, as exclusively con-
sisting of wearing apparel of a tasty and expensive de-
scription, and adapted for a female child, and having ex-
pressed his conviction that the infant's mother was a
married woman, from the circumstance of noticing a